World-News

By Alan Bjerga

A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24163.htm



"Quit Feeding Stray Animals"

By Amanda Terkel

SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov't help to 'Stray Animals' who 'breed' because they don't know better.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24499.htm

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More Families Using Food Stamps to Feed Kids

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group."

http://www.truthout.org/109109foodstamps

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Once stigmatized, food stamps find acceptance

MSNBC

02/10/10

A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day and return the next just to get an application. The welfare commissioner said the program caused dependency and the poor were ‘better off’ without it. Now the city urges the needy to seek aid (in languages from Albanian to Yiddish). Neighborhood groups recruit clients at churches and grocery stores, with materials that all but proclaim a civic duty to apply — to ‘help New York farmers, grocers, and businesses’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Tom Burghardt

That the American people have been kept in the dark when it comes to this and other affairs of state, remain among the most closely-guarded open secrets of what has euphemistically been called the "NSA spying scandal."

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By Carl Herman

WMD treaty violations and inspection refusal for biological, nuclear, chemical weapons. Iran? No, US.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24158.htm



Sound Familiar? US Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs

By Agence France-Presse

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24160.htm



US refuses to allow UN inspectors to investigate its WMDs

The United States said Wednesday that it remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites, even though it stressed its commitment to a UN treaty covering such arms and invaded Iraq in part over its alleged stalling of -- UN weapons inspectors.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/refuses-inspectors-investigate-wmds/



Anthrax War

Video Documentary

In tracing the 2001 bio-terror attacks in the U.S. to the heart of the U.S. bio-defense program, this film raises an alarm. These attacks that helped prepare a country for war have also spawned a multi-billion dollar bio-defense boom. The line between bio-offense and bio-defense is becoming extremely thin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24159.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Looternomics: Make that Obamanomics
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/tcarney4.1.1.html

For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/boom-time-for-feds.html

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Barack promised change and sure enough, things changed for the worse

By Joe Bageant

Many who voted for Obama out of disgust for the Bush regime are now listening to the Republicans again on their car radios as they drive around looking for a suitable place to hide their vehicles from the repo man.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24161.htm



Turley: Obama bags Peace Prize while his lawyers are 'gutting' Nuremberg

Turley pointed out that several legal advisors to Germany's Ministry of Justice were convicted during the Nuremberg trials held after World War II for providing the legal advice that justified Nazi war crimes. Now the Obama administration, in its desire to uphold executive privilege at any cost, is willing to toss that principle aside.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/turley-obama-ignores-nuremberg/



President Obama 'creating torture impunity'

Director of ACLU's National Security Project Jameel Jaffer said "the Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture and now the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity."

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113436&sectionid=3510203


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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Many people are troubled that Barack Obama flew to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize so soon after escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is now more than doubling the number of troops there when George W. Bush left office."

http://www.truthout.org/12110902



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The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/11-9

Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/11

Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/11-7

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Rep. Kucinich: "These Wars Are Corrupting...our Nation! ...



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Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

12/10/09

She’s smart. She speaks her mind. A lot of people love her and think she should be president. Sarah Palin? No, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Secretary of State Clinton, Washington’s No. 1 diplomatic salesperson, is fast becoming the foreign-policy hawk in a Democratic administration, while President Obama seems to be slow moving. Both believe in engagement with foreign adversaries, but Clinton believes in engaging from a position of strength. By contrast, Mr. Obama is now being faulted for engaging from a platform of weakness, if not appeasement. Clinton seems to be replicating as secretary of State the technique she employed when she became a senator...

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The American Conservative
by Robert P. Murphy

12/10/09

First under the Bush Administration and even more so under President Obama, the federal government has been seizing power and spending money as it hasn’t done since World War II. But as bold as the Executive Branch has been during this financial crisis, the innovations of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke have been literally unprecedented. Indeed, it is entirely plausible that before Obama leaves office, Americans will be using a new currency...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/killing-the-currency/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bernanke's Faux Recovery

By Mike Whitney

By usurping powers not granted under its charter, the Fed has resuscitated insolvent institutions and helped them continue the transfer of wealth from one class to another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24162.htm



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Raw Story

12/10/09

A Washington political watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint with the Senate over robo-calls Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made, urging voters to pressure their senators into supporting a McCain-led amendment to the Senate healthcare bill. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed the complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee on Wednesday, saying the Arizona senator and former presidential candidate violated Senate ethics rule 38, which prohibits senators from using political money to fund official Senate business. CREW says when McCain used money from the National Republican Senatorial Committee to fund the robo-calls, he broke rule 38...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Double Doom Deflected: McCainiac & Sarah Sycophant

By Robert S. Becker

As McCain devolved into Joe the Plumber, the poised, educated Obama was cleaning his clock, proving few president hopefuls match him as orator or cheerleader. When brains and know-how mattered, McCain went dumb and dumber.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24643.htm



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