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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Hubris? We're bigger than that! We've now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that Washington seems to have concluded?"

http://www.truthout.org/tom-engelhardt-premature-withdrawal-washingtons-cult-narcissism-and-iraq57538



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Unemployment rises in 30 states in January

Five states reported record-high joblessness in January: California, at 12.5 percent; South Carolina, 12.6 percent; Florida, 11.9 percent; North Carolina, 11.1 percent; and Georgia, 10.4 percent.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_state_unemployment



U.S. Monthly Budget Deficit Balloons to a Record

Even as government receipts posted a rare increase in February, soaring outlays pushed the country's year-to-date deficit up to a record $651.60 billion. The government's fiscal 2010 year-to-date deficit is up 10.5% from fiscal year 2009.

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J.P. Morgan: Foreclosure Sales Could Be Higher in Three Years

Efforts to modify loans and delay foreclosures may have helped hold down the stock of foreclosures for sale in the second half of 2009, fostering home-price stabilization. But that cure could require different medicine: an elevated level of foreclosures for sale over the next three years.

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U.S. Taxpayers on Hook for $5 Trillion of Fannie, Freddie Debt ... No Matter What Barney Frank Says

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Obama’s optimism

Fox Business News

by John Stossel

04/13/10

The Washington Post reports: ‘President’s team is optimistic on deficit.’ What? How can that be? The Post’s explanation: The federal deficit is running significantly lower than it did last year, with the budget gap for the first half of fiscal 2010 down 8 percent over the same period a year ago, senior Obama administration officials said Monday. … If the trend continues for the rest of the year, it would mean the annual deficit would be $1.3 trillion — about $300 billion less than the administration’s projection. … Assuming that Post reported that correctly, the Obama Administration is optimistic because … their estimates were wrong. The deficits may be $1.3 Trillion instead of $1.6 Trillion. Would that have been something to brag about when they made their initial estimates? … When the budget outlook over the next 10 years looks like this, a $1.3 Trillion annual deficit is not turning any corners...

http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/04/13/obamas-optimism/


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By Allison Kilkenny

Not only are people unsurprised by tasering these days, but they watch it for entertainment on Youtube. This normalizing goes beyond tasering, however. It's now normal for the state to monitor citizens, and for any kind of mass protest to be immediately restricted by the government.

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Welcome To The World's First Murdochracy

By John Pilger

What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of Murdoch's editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents, where even his competitors sing along and wise politicians heed the Murdochism: "What'll it be? A headline a day or a bucket of s... a day?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24955.htm



Nick Clegg's rise could lock Murdoch and the media elite out of UK politics

Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election - or held the balance of power - it would be the first time in decades that Murdoch was locked out of British politics. In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/clegg-media-elite-murdoch-lib-dem


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National ID cards? Try shutting down NAFTA instead

Hawaii Reporter
by Daniel de Gracia, II

03/12/10

Lately it seems like Washington D.C. just can’t go to sleep at night without introducing at least one new policy or bill to make life for Americans more unbearable. As if going to jail for not buying health insurance, declaring carbon dioxide a hazardous poison that must be taxed or the National Intelligence Director announcing that his people reserve the right to perform extra-judicial ‘hits’ on American citizens perceived to be terror threats wasn’t enough, the icing on the cake comes in the form of biometric ID cards as the so-called solution to America’s illegal immigration problem...

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by Patrick Wood

Having studied and written about the global elite for 33 years, and in particular the Trilateral Commission, I still may have been misled by an elaborate system of smoke and mirrors. 1n 1973, when the Trilateral Commission was founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller, they claimed as their goal to create a "New International Economic Order.".....

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CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

03/09/10

The politicians and the media continue to refer to the economic downturn as being the result of a financial crisis. This is wrong. We have 15 million people out of work because the housing bubble that drove the economy since the last recession finally burst. The financial crisis may have been good entertainment for those who like to see huge banks collapse, but it was a sidebar. The real story was the rise and demise of the housing bubble...

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Reason
by Matt Welch

Here’s how predictable the president’s slippery relationship with the truth has become: Hours before the State of the Union address, Washington Examiner reporter Timothy P. Carney posted a ‘pre-emptive fact check’ that, among other things, prebutted any presidential claim to have ’stopped the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying.’ As it happened, that night Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that ‘we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.’ In fact, more than 40 former lobbyists work in the administration, including such policy makers as Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn (who was lobbying for Raytheon as recently as 2008), Office of the First Lady Director of Policy and Projects Jocelyn Frye (National Partnership for Women and Families), White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz (National Council of La Raza), and Treasury Secretary Chief of Staff Mark Patterson (Goldman Sachs)... (for publication 04/10)

http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/09/obama-and-the-l-word



Cindy Sheehan back on the barricades

USA Today

03/15/10

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is restarting her campaign against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today, setting up tents and teaching protest seminars near the Washington Monument. Dubbed ‘Camp OUT NOW,’ the protest is geared to pressure President Obama and Democrats, whom Sheehan says have abandoned the anti-war cause now that they have control of the White House and Congress. ‘Obama said there’d be one combat battalion coming home per month, and that has not happened,’ Sheehan says. ‘We still have significant troops in Iraq, and he’s ramped up in Afghanistan. I don’t think this is what people understood they were voting for. I think they were voting for a change’...

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Sheehan turning attention to Obama, camping out at Washington Monument

Her new coalition, Peace of the Action, is launching the Camp OUT NOW! tent city at the base of the Washington Monument next week in an effort to get President Barack Obama to pull troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan immediately.

http://thehill.com/capital-living/cover-stories/86083-giving-peace-another-chance


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Sanders: Obama Has Tragically Lost the Youth, Antagonized Unions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-4



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Liberty For All
by Barry Fagin

03/09/10

First, you should apologize to your children. You should apologize to them because, if you’re my age, you came into the world when the national debt was about $100 billion. That was a lot of money back then, more than any generation had ever owed. But when your children came into the world, they inherited a national debt of around $3 trillion. That’s 30 times more, and it happened on your watch...

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