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The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith

10/18/09

Half of America holds ‘values’ which already have begun sucking them back into a festering Dark Age that they will never recover from. They’re grimly intent on dragging the rest of us down with them. ‘Everybody in! Nobody out!’ the demonstrators chant menacingly in support of medicalized Marxism. It’s perfectly consistent that there is no genuinely forward-looking science fiction left in mainstream America — which seems to have abandoned any curiosity ever had about the ’shape of things to come’ — and an ominously chilling warning that the future, apparently, now belongs to the Chinese, who appear to still believe that humankind can shape its own destiny, and to whom the cramped, narrow world of Star Trek must feel like a libertarian utopia...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle541-20091018-02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor

10/17/09

Begun as a loosely affiliated groundswell of Constitution-waving protesters in tri-cornered hats, the Tea Party movement is now starting to rock the political establishment in key arenas. The growing numbers of Americans coming out to the Tax Day Tea Party, the Fourth of July Tea Parties, and then the 9/12 Tea Party march on Washington are going back to their home districts and keeping up — even intensifying — the fight for smaller government and more transparency on spending and taxation. In places like New York, Florida, California, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, local, state, congressional and gubernatorial seats are suddenly being tugged to-and-fro by the new and unruly political force. The upshot? The street energy is welcome for an otherwise moribund Republican party looking for new moorings amid a tumultuous electorate...

http://tinyurl.com/yfkzsu8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Taking Tea with the Lizards

By Joe Bageant

The Tea Party is the latest neoconservative end run around the possibility of a real third party emerging to threaten the status quo. To be honest, it's a brilliant political move, absorbing any energies that might have propelled a real third party. And, in true neocon fashion, it capitalizes on the working class' inchoate anger at the ongoing screwjob they've been getting from both parties for thirty years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24371.htm



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A federal court upheld Friday the US government's decision to censor statements made by Guantanamo Bay detainees about their treatment at Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons.

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He can make war, spend, torture, occupy, spy without warrants, all in secret.
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America, Heal Thyself

By David Michael Green

America, alone among the developed democracies of the world, has a singular devotion to regressive ideas, no matter how much harm they cause. This patient is in grave condition nowadays, its body abused severely by three decades of regressive debauchery. Here's the unfortunate diagnosis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23747.htm



Corporate Supremacy and the Rape of a Human Girl

By Glenn W. Smith

This isn't science fiction. Just the other day 30 Republicans voted in the U.S. Senate to deny justice to a human victim of rape in order to protect the so-called sovereign rights of corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23745.htm

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MINISTERS OF EUTHANASIA
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By Agence France-Presse

Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23743.htm



Iran to completely drop dollar from foreign exchange

Iran's Trade Promotion Organization has announced a near future plan to completely exclude the US dollar from the country's foreign revenues and reserves.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108867&sectionid=351020102



'Iran and Russia propose oil trade without USD'

Venezuela's president has said that countries including Venezuela, Russia and Iran have proposed the US dollar should be replaced as the currency used for oil trade.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108972&sectionid=3510213



How China is Torpedoing the U.S. Dollar

The dollar's been struggling to retain its value - and now it's about to get worse thanks to China. This report shows you how China is undercutting the dollar and the two best ways for investors to turn this in their favor.

http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/10/18/china-u.s.-dollar/


From Information Clearing House

Stacy Bannerman, Truthout: "A seven-year-old second-grader attempted suicide while his father was serving yet another tour in Iraq. Seven years old. Seven. His mother was one of half a dozen military spouses I have spoken with about soldiers' kids who have attempted suicide during their fathers' deployments. She trembled when she told me."

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