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The American Spectator
by Peter Ferrara

06/02/10

Months ago, I predicted in this column that President Obama would so discredit himself in office that he wouldn’t even be on the ballot in 2012, let alone have a prayer of being reelected. Like President Johnson in 1968, who had won a much bigger victory four years previously than Obama did in 2008, President Obama will be so politically defunct by 2012 that he won’t even try to run for reelection. I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it that far. I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012...

http://tinyurl.com/3664v24


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Ferrara

Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

06/02/10

Advocates for the regulatory state are fond of complaining that things like the financial meltdown, the BP oil spill, and the like, are the result of an ‘unregulated marketplace.’ But it was federal loan guarantees that first made securitized mortgages into a marketable asset. And I wouldn’t consider a $75 million cap on liability to be exactly ‘laissez-faire’...

http://c4ss.org/content/2685


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+meltdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Carson

CNN

06/02/10

The United States was identified Wednesday as the world’s No. 1 user of targeted killings — largely as a result of its dependence on unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A report released by the United Nations called the drone attacks part of a ’strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability’ and warned that they are contributing to an erosion of longstanding international rules governing warfare...

http://tinyurl.com/28y27y3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Drone Operators Oppose Strikes as Helping al Qaeda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/03-3

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U.N. Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

He warned that the American example will lead to a chaotic world as the new weapons technology inevitably spreads.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25607.htm



UN condemns drone attacks, an act of extra-judicial killings

The United States was identified in a U.N.'s report as the world's No. 1 user of targeted killings, mainly because of its reliance on drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=11742


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
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http://act.commondreams.org/go/867?akid=72.124981.1aIcd8&t=42

 

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http://act.commondreams.org/go/860?akid=72.124981.1aIcd8&t=28

 

Http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Brollier
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http://act.commondreams.org/go/859?akid=72.124981.1aIcd8&t=26

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rajesh+Makwana

http://act.commondreams.org/go/852?akid=72.124981.1aIcd8&t=12



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/how-real-world-corruption-works.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corruption

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/unz7.1.1.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/unz

Several downtrodden cities are on the verge of defaulting on their debt, putting financially encumbered states and taxpayers on the hook to pick up the tab.

http://tinyurl.com/2wo9n4q



Senate Chooses Vacation Over Unemployment Extension Bill

Once again, the US Senate has chosen to ignore the plight of thousands of American citizens and put its own schedule of precious vacation time above the needs of the unemployed.

http://tinyurl.com/2b7ookx



Plenty of money for war, but far too little to help nation's jobless

No one I know is deliberately trying to stay out of work to collect the government's $450 per week unemployment subsidy when they are used to making comfortable salaries.

http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_15206171?nclick_check=1


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
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