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William Fisher, Truthout: "The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky US Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave law enforcement sweeping new powers, including broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent Americans. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial provisions should expire at the end of next month unless reapproved by lawmakers. And it appears that reapproval may be about to happen - evidently with a green light from the Obama administration and over strong objections from human rights and civil liberties groups."

http://www.truthout.org/1109092



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Jake Bernstein, ProPublica: "San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank has become the first recipient of TARP bailout money to be shut down by the FDIC. Last year, regulators approved a $299 million taxpayer funded injection into the bank. That money, which was supposed to go to only 'healthy banks,' is now gone. The FDIC estimates United Commercial's failure will cost the agency's deposit fund about $1.4 billion."

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "There is a major national ad campaign, funded by the oil industry and other usual suspects, to convince the public that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and slow global warming will result in massive job loss. This ad campaign warns of slower growth and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, possibly even millions of jobs, if some variation of the current proposals being debated by Congress get passed into law ... However, the oil industry's scare stories about job loss never put it in any context."

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Our national leaders (from both parties) seem to be shortsighted opportunists, possessing little regard for their oaths to the US Constitution, the principles of decency, or even plain, old-fashioned common sense. Both major parties in Washington, D.C., offer the American people varying degrees of socialism. Neither party demonstrates even tacit devotion to constitutional government. Federalism and limited government have all but disappeared under the oversight of both Republican and Democratic leaders.........

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American International Group Inc (AIG.N) tapped the U.S. government for another $2.1 billion to buy shares of its aircraft leasing arm, International Lease Finance Corp, or ILFC, the insurer said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN0620626420091106



U.S. Joblessness May Reach 13 Percent, Rosenberg Says

Rosenberg said the recession, the deepest since the Great Depression, "is truly secular in nature" and said the economy is "in a post-bubble credit collapse."

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"It's basically that the Army has an awesome way of getting you ready for war," he continued. "It gets you in that mindset to go over there and fight, but whenever you come back, they don't have a way of turning that switch off."

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Demonizing Islam: Top US lawmaker sees base attack as 'Islamist extremism'

The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism."

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Fort Hood & the Perversion of Language

"The Shooter Was a Soldier"

By Jason Adams

The inconvenient truth is the deplorable act committed by Major Hasan cannot be a shock because we knew it was coming; in fact, it was foreseeable, unavoidable, and inevitable to a moral certitude. It takes no leap of imagination to understand this act as a predictable outcome of criminal wars of aggression, torture, and indifference to the slaughter and displacement of foreign peoples under the guise of freedom, democracy, and the market.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23960.htm



Fort Hood Shootings a Shocker...

By Ted Rall

American lives are worth a lot. - The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24011.htm



Pat Robertson on Ft. Hood: Islam is 'not a religion'

On his 700 Club TV show yesterday, Pat Robertson claimed that Islam is "not a religion," but "a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination".

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/10/robertson-muslim-fascist/



We Are All War Criminals

By Dahlia Wasfi

If we ask the people who are living the horrors, then maybe what happened at Ft. Hood isn't so shocking at all. What is surprising is that we haven't seen more of the same.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24043.htm


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Fort Hood Mystery
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy72.1.html

Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger171.html

Ft. Hood: Official Story Full of Holes
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/ft-hood-story-full-of-holes.html

Ft. Hood: Just the Beginning
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/ft-hood-just-the-beginning.html

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Call Joe Lieberman’s bluff

The Nation
by Robert Kuttner

11/10/09

Following the horrific shootings at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, Connecticut Senator Lieberman pulled a thread from the right-wing blogosphere and called for a congressional inquiry into whether the incident was an act of ‘terrorism.’ Not domestic terrorism, but full-blown terrorism that is comparable to what is seen in the most unstable of warzones. ‘This was an attack on America troops,’ Lieberman chirped on Fox New Sunday. ‘You’ve got to see it as if 12 American troops were killed in Afghanistan.’ But wait! … Is Lieberman serious about making a comparison between what happened at Fort Hood and what happens in Kabul? Not really...

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Fear and Loathing in the Wake of Fort Hood

Raul Benoit, Diario La Prensa (Spanish Translation: Ryan Croken): "It should not come as a surprise to us that a US Army psychiatrist, stationed at a military base where soldiers come and go to fight in irrational and pointless wars, [allegedly] killed 13 people and left 30 others wounded, as happened Thursday, November 5, at Fort Hood, Texas. These wars themselves are insane, and the US military practice of plucking people from Hispanic, African-American, other minority and poor white communities to send them off to fight for 'freedom,' offering them the promise of a 'brighter future,' is abusive, offensive and harmful to the health of this nation and this world."

http://www.truthout.org/1112093



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By GRAIN

Corporate investors lead rush for control of poor countries' farmland.
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Free Market Flawed, Says Survey

By James Robbins

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. n the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well.

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La Via Campesina: Say 'No!' to Corporate Control of Agriculture and Food!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/23-6



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Bazooka Joe: Lieberman's Comic Health-Care Ploy

Jonathan Alter: "But Lieberman is wrong if he thinks it's only hard-core lefties who are mad at him. Everyone is tired of how the junior senator from Connecticut is giving acts of conscience a bad name."

http://www.truthout.org/1116092



Joe Lieberman and the Health Care Train Wreck

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "When last we heard from Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, he was throwing sand into the gears of the Democratic push for health care reform by declaring he would filibuster any legislation containing the so-called public option. 'I feel so strongly about the creation of another government health insurance entitlement,' said the senator back in November. 'The government going into the health insurance business - I think it's such a mistake that I would use the power I have as a single senator to stop a final vote.'"

http://www.truthout.org/1215098



Lieberman Was for a Medicare Buy-In Before He Was Against it

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Sen. Joe Lieberman, (I-Connecticut), has threatened to derail passage of a health care reform bill in the Senate if the legislation includes a measure to expand Medicare to individuals beginning at age 55, a proposal Lieberman says he has long opposed."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/121509jl01



The Democrats Blinked

Joe Conason, Truthout: "By bowing to Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his obstructive pals in both parties on health care reform, President Obama has confirmed what Republicans always say about Democrats: They simply aren't strong enough to govern. Or at least the Democrats elected last year -- and their colleagues in the Senate leadership -- don't seem to be."

http://www.truthout.org/1219096

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81% Of Dems Want Lieberman Punished For Health Care Filibuster

More than 80 percent of Democrats say they believe Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn) should be stripped of his powerful chairmanship in the Senate if he ends up supporting a Republican filibuster of health care reform, according to a new poll.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/81-of-dems-want-lieberman_n_390797.html



Prostitution in the US Government

By Paul J. Balles

January 03, 2010 "Redress" -- MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, in a special commentary, referred to Senator Joe Lieberman as a "senatorial prostitute" for selling himself to the US insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

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Lieberman Tells Reid To His Face: I'll Vote Against Current Health Care Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/14



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Fox News Forum
by John Tantillo

11/04/09

Folks, we’re at the one year mark. It’s been exactly a year since Barack Obama was elected president and the question must be asked: How is Brand Obama doing? Take a look through the marketing lens and you’ll see that there are really two brands that make up today’s Brand Obama: Obama the candidate and Obama the president. Even though the election is long over, Obama the candidate is still hanging around…. Meanwhile, Obama the president has not really arrived. Barack Obama has not transitioned into the White House. Even his staunchest supporters don’t really feel like the man in the oval office is the change they have been waiting for. After all, Obama the president is so unlike Obama the candidate. Where Obama the candidate was bold, fresh and new, Obama the president seems like a big helping of big-government Democratic leftovers served cold. This is a dish virtually none of the electorate wants to eat and no one voted for....

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Straits Times

11/07/09

THOUSANDS of residents of Japan’s southern island of Okinawa Saturday staged a protest against the presence of the US military on the eve of a major rally against a controversial airbase.Some 2,500 people living in Kadena town, which already hosts a large US Air Force base that frequently provokes complaints over the noise of jet planes flying day and night, protested a government proposal the city accept another US military installation.
The demonstration came a day before Okinawans were to stage a major rally against a 2006 Japan-US military agreement ahead of US President Barack Obama’s first visit to Tokyo...

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