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Strike the Root
by Michael Kleen

11/12/09

If the United States came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, when many of us harbor fears that some time in the near future ideas such as freedom, liberty, and privacy will be alien to our society. But as we witness the regular passage of legislation designed to restrict and regulate, and the tendency of the Federal government to increase rather than decrease its power (with a handful of exceptions), we are struck by the uninterrupted routine of life in the USA. As the central government brings more and more of private society under its control, we continue to watch cable TV, shop at supermarkets overflowing with products, and eat at our favorite restaurants. Could it be that we have already passed that dreaded threshold and missed it?

http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/kleen/kleen5.html



What’s wrong with patriotism?

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

And certainly do not attempt to create the false doctrine that it is some how unpatriotic to oppose such despicable actions just because they are perpetrated by the government of one’s own homeland. And don’t you dare tell me that I must follow any president blindly in order to prove my patriotism. I am a free-thinking, independent patriot BECAUSE I stand in opposition to a government corrupted thoroughly by a flawed foreign policy...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3372


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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ABC News

11/15/09

The U.S. military is starting over in Afghanistan. ‘It’s a new world — a new war,’ one senior officer told ABC News, yelling over the sound of jet engines and helicopter rotors. There’s no better example than the prison at Bagram, once a secret facility that housed the most hard-core al Qaeda fighters. Over the past eight years, a veil of mystery nurtured its reputation. It grew from a stifling series of steel shipping containers to a place of sophisticated torture...

http://tinyurl.com/ylr3o5r



The trial of the century and the long shadow of 9/11

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/16/09

The upcoming trial in New York of KSM and his confreres promises to be a media circus unparalleled in the history of this nation: think of the Lindbergh kidnapping case and the O. J. Simpson trial, and then imagine if Lee Harvey Oswald had lived to be tried — and then multiply that by 10. This promises to be more than a show trial; it is going to be high drama in the courtroom, not a stylized Kabuki theater ritual, in which control of the narrative will be fiercely fought over as both sides try to dominate the proceedings and imprint their own ’spin’ on the drama as it unfolds. What fascinates me, however, is not the prospect of the trial itself, but the reasons behind the Bush administration’s refusal to get this over with as soon as they got their hands on the defendants...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/11/15/the-trial-of-the-century/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Unveils Extended Bagram Prison
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/16



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Wall Street Journal

11/16/09

China’s top banking regulator issued a sharp critique of U.S. financial management only hours before President Barack Obama commenced his first visit to the Asian giant, highlighting economic and trade tensions that threaten to overshadow the trip. Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said that a weak U.S. dollar and low U.S. interest rates had led to ‘massive speculation’ that was inflating asset bubbles around the world. It has created ‘unavoidable risks for the recovery of the global economy, especially emerging economies,’ Mr. Liu said. … His comments signaled that Mr. Obama — on the third leg of a four-country Asian tour — can expect blunt talk from Chinese leaders on the economy...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125826103009548975.html



The dollar dips

The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer

11/14/09

It seems that investors, or at least many of them, have decided that the Obama administration and the Bernanke Fed are combining to depreciate the dollar, the former willingly to encourage exports and create jobs, the latter warily. Talk of the devaluing of other nations’ paper currencies at one time produced a flight to the dollar, deemed safe from the depredations of rulers trying to shore up their struggling economies by printing money. But times have changed. There is now so little faith in the value of the dollar, which has dropped to about a 15-month low against a basket of currencies, that investors are fleeing to Brazilian reals and Russian rubles — or so it seems. Of course, with interest rates in America close to zero, some investors are borrowing dollars at virtually no cost, and using them to buy assets in nations in which interest rates are high enough to make such a trade profitable. The influx of these funds drives up the value of assets in other countries, creating the danger of ‘bubbles,’ which might burst if this footloose, ‘hot money’ is suddenly withdrawn. Which has the recipient countries more than a little nervous, and Brazil has adopted a tax to discourage an inflow of dollars...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad rec­ords to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that "fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney."

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From Information Clearing House



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By Barry Kissin

No, the anthrax letters were not the work of a "lone nut." They were the work of our military-industrial-intelligence complex, a complex of revolving participants that manufactures weapons and war for power and profits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23969.htm
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9151/

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Those Anthrax Attacks
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald51.html

The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/anthrax-attacks-unsolved.html

The Wrong Man
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/anthrax-the-wrong-man.html



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Open Letter From the Peace Movement to President Obama on His Upcoming Decision Regarding the Afghan War

By Cynthia McKinney

We urge you to end the policy of using Predator drones to assassinate Pakistani civilians on the territory of their own country, in defiance of all concepts of international law. We also call upon you to cease all covert CIA and Pentagon operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23972.htm



The general is right. Liam Fox is wrong

Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan, the American envoy to Kabul has warned him not to do so.

http://snipurl.com/t95kw



Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children

By David Michael Green

There is an era of bad feeling in America, long in the making, but hardly at its nadir. The United States has been on a southward glide path for three decades now, an act of political physics as natural and inevitable as gravity itself, but also deeply exacerbated by the predatory political movement pioneered by Reagan and Thatcher, and continued by Bushes, Blairs, Clintons and Obamas alike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23970.htm



Poverty, Global Trade Justice, and the Roots of Terrorism

By John Perkins

Our narrow-minded attitudes and the policies that result from them foment violence, rebellions, and wars. In the long run, almost no one benefits from attacking the people we label as "terrorists." With one glaring exception: the corporatocracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23971.htm



The Audacity of Failure

The 4-year presidency of Barack Hoover Obama

By Mike Whitney

The administration's announcement is tantamount to a stealth-attack on Social Security in the name of "fiscal responsibility". It's another public relations ploy intended to enrich the parasite class by stealing crusts of bread from penniless retirees.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23976.htm



How the Servant Became a Predator

Finance's Five Fatal Flaws

By William K. Black

The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23967.htm


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Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-0



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, invoking new powers just granted to him by Congress that allows him to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and keep the images under wraps on national security grounds."

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Congressional Report on a Vaccine Mercury-Autism Link Ignored for Six Years

By Richard Gale and Dr Gary Null
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16061

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Gary Null Speaking Out at the NYS Assembly Hearing



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http://www.cancertruth.net/newsletter_oct09.html/

An interesting side note concerning polio involves some "shady" behavior by the CDC. In in 1958, after the introduction of the live polio vaccine, the CDC changed the definition of "polio." Cases of inflammation of the membrane that protects the brain and spinal neuron cells, causing muscular weakness and pain (but not paralysis) were no longer classified as “polio.” They were now to be referred to as aseptic meningitis, even if the polio virus was present. Reported cases of aseptic meningitis went from near zero to thousands, and polio cases dropped the same amount. Then, later in 1958, the CDC changed the definition of “polio” again!! All cases with classic polio paralytic symptoms were to be called acute flaccid paralysis. In 1960, the CDC triumphantly declared large parts of the world as “polio free,” while the newly created acute flaccid paralysis “mysteriously” became quite common. In 1977, Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, testified before a Senate subcommittee that all polio outbreaks since 1961 were caused by the oral polio vaccine. In 1985, the CDC reported that 87% of the cases of polio in the USA between 1973 and 1983 were caused by the vaccine and most of the reported cases occurred in fully immunized individuals.


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Gary Null Speaking Out at the NYS Assembly Hearing
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/34dfebefdd256c2f?hl=de



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Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Eugene Robinson: "The most dreadful burden of the presidency -- the power to send men and women to die for their country -- seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these days. He went to Dover Air Force Base to salute the coffins of fallen troops. He gave a moving speech at the memorial service for victims of last week's killings at Fort Hood. On Veterans Day, after the traditional wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery, he took an unscheduled walk among the rows of marble headstones in Section 60, where the dead from our two ongoing wars are buried. As he decides whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan, Obama should keep these images in mind."

http://www.truthout.org/1113097



Welcome Home, War! How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

Alfred W. McCoy, Tom Dispatch.com: "In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could 'reverberate for generations,' warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on American soil."

http://www.truthout.org/1113096



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