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LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff

09/11/09

A number of major events in the past few years reinforce the notion that the U.S. is on a path of failure, not success. ‘Major’ means an event that involves near a trillion dollars or into the multi-trillions. A key variable in the success or failure of a nation and government like ours is the production of wealth. We the People produce this wealth. When our government selects strategies that impair the production of wealth and that destroy wealth, it causes failure. Let’s look at six major government strategies that are causing major failure. There are many more. In each case, there is a pattern of persistence. The government failures do not deter it from continuing the failed strategy. The government enlarges them. The end result of such behavior is the ruination of the country...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff311.html

 

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Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

09/10/09

Most people learn about the relation between the rise of big business and the growth of government in the form of what amounts to a morality play. In the most widely disseminated version, presented in nearly every American history textbook, the emergence of big business (playing the role of the devil) is said to have given rise to a variety of evils and abuses–monopoly power, pollution, exploitation of workers, and so forth. Matthew Josephson tells this story in rousing (if not scrupulously factual) style in his 1934 classic, The Robber Barons. The masses are said to have cried out for relief and to have pressed their political representatives to enact protective legislation. Thus emerged, most markedly during the Progressive, New Deal, and Great Society periods, a profusion of government programs, regulatory agencies, and direct government participation in economic life (divine intervention, as it were), which served to shield the public from the otherwise crushing weight of brutal laissez-faire capitalism. A competing tale, popular among many libertarians and some left-radicals, presents the rise of big business as leading directly to satanic endeavors. This version maintains that the big businessmen, however virtuous they might have been at the outset, ran into trouble because of rampant competition among the emergent big firms. To suppress this irksome, profit-sapping market phenomenon, they used their wealth diabolically to influence or bribe lawmakers to create government programs, regulatory agencies, and so forth that, in effect, allowed them to wield the government’s coercive power in the service of propping up their cartels, suppressing competition, and maintaining excessive profits...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2600


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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09/10/09

A year after Capt. Sam Brown was set ablaze when a bomb blew up his Humvee in Afghanistan, the 25-year-old West Point graduate endures a steady schedule of painful surgery and stretching to break up knotty burn scars. He also has another routine: checking a Web site that counts U.S. and coalition troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. For Brown, it’s one more regular reminder that the wars have not ended — something he says many Americans seem to have forgotten...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32782397/ns/us_news-military/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Failing to Curb Global Warming Could Cost the Nation Hundreds of Billions by the End of the Century, New Report Finds

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/10-9

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/10-6

Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/10-5

When We Allow Fear to Overcome Reason
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/10-6


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Seema Jilani, M.D., McClatchy Newspapers: "Seven months after his release from Guantanamo Bay, Mustafa Ait Idr cautiously sips coffee in a Sarajevo cafe. His face is still partially paralyzed and numb from when guards pinned him onto gravel and jumped on him. He is nursing a broken finger — punishment for refusing to strip naked in his cell. On another occasion, his head was held in a toilet for prolonged periods of time."

http://www.truthout.org/091009U?n

 

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The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Wednesday he is collecting information on possible war crimes by NATO forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/international-criminal-co_0_n_281385.html

 

Censorship American Style: Hide the US War Dead from the American People

The latest example of the hypocrisy of US authorities who claim to be concerned about the feelings of American military families, while really simply desiring to censor the war's horrors from the eyes of the American people.

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/380


From Information Clearing House

 

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Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech

By David Sirota

Not to be too much of a downer, but I found Obama's speech tonight a big O-bummer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23461.htm

 

Obama Tries On The Uniform

By David Michael Green

Tens of thousands of his campaign staff, volunteers and contributors had to resort to buying a full-page New York Times ad to let the guy know that they'll find somebody else, thank you very much, in the 2012 primaries if this clown continues to serve Wall Street while ignoring every other street in America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23459.htm

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Whose Economic Recovery?

Has The US Economy Really Been Pulled Back From The Brink?

By Danny Schechter

Look around Mr. Obama: the unemployment rate in real terms is over 16%. The consumer economy is shattered. The commercial real estate market is imploding, and, yes, more foreclosures are on the way according to the Washington Post:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23462.htm

 

If You Think Corporations Run The Government Now...

By Chris Bowers

Then just wait and see what happens after, as expected, the Supreme Court allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of their favored candidates:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23463.htm

 

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Eight years later there is more terrorism in the world and we are paying the price in Afghanistan

By Haroon Siddiqui

"If you wanted to be extreme, you'd say that the international community have shown, from the point of view of exaggerated fears, a kind of paranoia. And from the point of exaggerated response, a kind of megalomania."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23458.htm

 

Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: 9/11 and Beyond

By Alan Sabrosky.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23460.htm



UnPACking AIPAC's White House Slam

By Marsha B. Cohen
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25018.htm



US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent

By IRMEP

Espionage related FBI investigations in 1984 and 2005 reveal AIPAC's ongoing stealth foreign agency activities. Declassified FBI files released on the Internet last week reveal that in 1984 AIPAC and the Israeli Ministry of Economics were investigated for jointly obtaining and circulating classified US economic data to obtain favorable trade benefits for Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25019.htm

 

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Mit einem YouTube-Video will eine unzufriedene Bankkundin das US-Finanzsystem in die Knie zwingen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/145113

 

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