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Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture (BAAT)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/24-12



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Obama's Profile in Courage Moment
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-11

Taking Care of Business: How Big Business Has Hijacked Climate Talks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-3

Oil Giant Chevron Accused of 'Extortion' on Capitol Hill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-4

Bush-Style Military Spending Not Over Yet
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-5

Greg Craig and Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-6

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Obama's Fifth Category: The "Untriable"

William Fisher, Truthout: "In his talk at the National Archives in May, President Obama referred to five categories of prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay. First, there are those who have violated American criminal laws and will be tried in federal courts. There may be as many as a dozen men in this category, five of whose trials were announced last week, including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."

http://www.truthout.org/1124094



Obama and the Intelligence Community: An Interim Report Card

Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "President Obama has had nearly a year to make necessary changes in the intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While he has been successful in addressing the CIA's renditions, detentions and interrogations programs, he has failed to appoint leaders willing to address the culture of cover-up that exists at the CIA and to make the necessary strategic changes. Until President Obama is willing to address the militarization and centralization of the intelligence community, he will retain his grade of C+ in managing the community."

http://www.truthout.org/1124095



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Time to Quell Excessive Power of Credit Bureaus, Sometimes Ruling Life or Death

Peter Stern, Truthout: "During the past several decades in the US, three credit bureaus have become so powerful, they can make or break American lives. They are Equifax, Experian and Trans Union. Any one of them has the capability to cause many sleepless nights of worry for American citizens, and on many levels their power and control rival that exerted by the dreaded IRS."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/11250902



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The Gov't Will Make You Dirt Poor
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Massive Tax Increases Loom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi135.html

Gold, Freedom, and the Fed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger174.html

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Audit the Fed attached as an amendment

Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

11/24/09

I was pleased last week when we won a vote in the Financial Services Committee to include language from the Audit the Fed bill HR1207 in the upcoming financial regulatory reform bill. As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes, because of this action, the Federal Reserve’s entire balance sheet will be opened up to a GAO audit. We will at last have a chance to find out what happened to the trillions of dollars the Fed has been giving out. Finally, the blanket restrictions on GAO audits of the Fed that have existed since 1978 will be removed...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=387


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&hp


From Information Clearing House



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By Mike Whitney

The truth behind the headlines, shining a light on the negligent regulators, the colluding Fed, the unscrupulous ratings agencies, the mercenary banks, the venal mortgage lenders, and the long daisy-chain of opportunists and fraudsters who gorged themselves on the spoils from the biggest swindle in history. This is this generation's big story.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24038.htm



The Cost of Dying

By CBS 60 Minutes

Many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost. Steve Kroft reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24053.htm



Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World

By Anis Shivani

If you want to have a compliant populace, what could be better than to say that everyone has to think positively and accept that anything that goes wrong in their lives is their own fault because they haven't had a positive enough attitude?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24054.htm

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The Vicious Alliance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood40.1.html



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By Paul Craig Roberts

Republicans and American conservatives regard civil liberties as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists. They assume that police and prosecutors are morally pure and, in addition, never make mistakes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24040.htm



The Resistance Of The Oppressed

By Paul Balles

If I die while killing 20 of my enemies, doesn't that serve my people in their war against oppression? Hasn't this been the justification for all soldiers dying in all wars?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24039.htm



Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions

By Emily Spence

I will not discuss fatuous repugnant myths concerning Indians and Pilgrims when I sit down to my next Thanksgiving dinner with relatives who lives so many states away from mine. I will, instead, remember the suffering that transpired after the "New World" became seen as a land of opportunity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24044.htm



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By Stephen M. Walt

The bottom line is that you don't need to be a sociologist, political scientist, or a student of colonialism or foreign cultures to understand why military occupation is such a poisonous activity and why it usually fails. If you're an American, you just need to read a bit about Reconstruction and reflect on how its effects -- along with the effects of slavery itself -- have persisted across generations.

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Why They Hate Us

How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24092.htm



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