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President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the main U.S. counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday. The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, expands the government’s ability to monitor Americans in the name of national security...

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Why the treasonous Patriot Act was renewed

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

03/06/10

On the 28th of February, on the very last day possible, Mr. Obama signed a bill that renewed the Patriot Act in full for another year. Had he waited a few more hours, many of the more intrusive and objectionable aspects of the law would have expired. Not only was this done at the eleventh hour without fanfare, but it was hidden in a bill which had nothing else to do with the Patriot Act. This suggests to me that the Democrat controlled congress and the Obama administration knew exactly what they were doing and consciously made an effort to ignore one of the mandates their constituents put on them when they were elected into office. They must have known they were doing something wrong to go to such lengths to be so sneaky and secretive. They must be worried about what their constituents would think should this action be subjected to the light of day. I think, more than this, they have even more nefarious reasons for extending this bill than they care to admit. The Patriot Act wasn’t renewed to protect you from terrorists. The Patriot Act was renewed to protect the power elite from you...

http://tinyurl.com/yevu3wk



Obama, Congress wink at massive surveillance abuses

Cato Institute
by Julian Sanchez

03/03/10

Here’s how it was supposed to be. Under his administration, candidate Barack Obama explained in 2007, America would abandon the ‘false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.’ There would be ‘no more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime’ because ‘that is not who we are, and it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists.’ Even after his disappointing vote for the execrable FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which expanded government surveillance power while retroactively immunizing telecoms for their role in George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping, civil libertarians held out hope that the erstwhile professor of constitutional law would begin to restore some of the checks on government surveillance power that had been demolished in the panicked aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The serial betrayal of that hope reached its culmination last week, when a Democratic-controlled Congress quietly voted to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act without implementing a single one of the additional safeguards that had been under consideration …

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11426


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Will the new "healthcare" bill "create 4 million jobs"?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston63.1.html

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Health Care Reform

After months of lobbying, grandstanding and political theater, Americans are wondering if there's any real reform left in the health reform bill. Bill Moyers sits down with former insurance executive turned public health advocate Wendell Potter, who argues that all is not lost in the health care bill and details what he likes about the legislation.

http://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-journal-health-care-reform57344

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The stimulus scam

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Antony P. Mueller

03/14/10

The recent improvement of the global economy, with particularly high economic-growth numbers for the United States, is just one more deception in a long series of deceptions that have plagued policy makers and investors. While official statistics register a rising gross domestic product, the long-term production potential of many economies around the world is actually contracting. The present economic expansion is brought about by massive stimulus policies. This kind of economic expansion does not constitute genuine economic growth...

http://mises.org/daily/4158


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Bright Side of Hyperinflation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/franklin-t1.1.1.html

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Hey, America: It's Time to Redefine the "Good Life"

By Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

Although economic growth has been the most important driver of human progress in the past and still has a crucial role to play in improving lives in developing countries, we in the developed world must now look elsewhere for further improvements in the real quality of life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24892.htm



What Kind Of World Do We Want?

Video

Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff tries to find answers to why we live the way we do and suggests possible alternatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24881.htm



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Nadya Williams, Truthout: "Josh Stieber and Conor Curran spoke to a gathering of Veterans For Peace and civilian peace activists in San Francisco, as part of their six months of walking and biking from the East Coast to the West to engage in dialogue about war and to become involved in community service along the way ... They spoke of their motivations for joining the Marines, their experiences in Iraq and the turning points that made them reject violence."

http://www.truthout.org/turning-point-when-soldiers-have-had-enough57257



The Other Victims of Battlefield Stress; Defense Contractors' Mental Health Neglected

T. Christian Miller, ProPublica: "While suicide among soldiers has been a focus of Congress and the public, relatively little attention has been paid to the mental health of tens of thousands of civilian contractors returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. When they make the news at all, contractors are usually in the middle of scandal, depicted as cowboys, wastrels or worse."

http://www.truthout.org/defense-contractors%E2%80%99-mental-health-neglected57255



Carrying a Backpack of Sorrow ... Soldiers on the Edge of Suicide

Nadya Williams, Truthout: "More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this article, but the following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells it all."

http://www.truthout.org/carrying-a-backpack-sorrow-soldiers-edge-suicide58208

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The Picture

By David Glenn Cox

I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your minds eye. This was a perfectly healthy twenty two-year-old young man who in the service of his country got half of his head blown off. I think that's important, I think that's newsworthy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24891.htm



Veteran commits suicide in front of Dayton VA center

Jesse C. Huff, address unknown, was wearing full military fatigues and was armed with a military-style rifle, which he used to shoot himself twice in the head about 5:45 a.m. Friday, April 16, according to police and the Montgomery County Coroner's Office.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/veteran-commits-suicide-in-front-of-dayton-va-center-656012.html



18 veterans commit suicide each day

Seven percent of the attempts are successful, and 11 percent of those who don't succeed on the first attempt try again within nine months.

http://snipurl.com/vs5r2



Feeling Warehoused in Army Trauma Care Units

Last August, Specialist Crawford attempted suicide with a bottle of whiskey and an overdose of painkillers. By the end of last year, he was begging to get out of the unit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/health/25warrior.html



Flags, Crosses & Circuses... And Apathy

Visit any church parking lot in my town, during Sunday services, and count the flags, yellow ribbons and bumper stickers that in reality support the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Would Jesus condone what our country is doing?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25313.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Shadow army, hidden casualties

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

03/02/10

We often talk about the ’shadow army’ fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, describing of course, the tens of thousands of civilian contractors hired by the U.S. military to do everything the regular Army once did — from guarding diplomats and training local police to driving supply trucks and serving chow on base. Then it makes perfect sense to talk about the ’shadow casualties,’ which, as of December 2009, totaled 1,757 deaths and more than 39,000 injuries among all contractors on the U.S. payroll since 2001. Add that to American military casualties so far (4,386 fatalities and at least 88,105 injuries), and you have a good picture of the ‘cakewalk’ these wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned out to be...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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As Afghanistan Contracting Surges, Who's Following the Money?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/04-5



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Informant: Kev Hall



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Der weltweite Kampf gegen Drogen macht die Welt nicht besser

Der "war on drugs" vermehrt Gewalt und Menschenrechtsverletzungen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147155



US-Immobilienmarkt bricht ein

Die Lage für die Regionalbanken verschärft sich auch wegen steigender Kreditausfälle bei Gewerbeimmobilien weiter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147153



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California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief

Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece's current debt woes.

http://tinyurl.com/ybvzcco



Kansas tax collections decline by 27 percent for February

The Department of Revenue reported Friday that Kansas collected $71 million less in tax revenues than expected this month, leading one lawmaker to call for additional cuts to the current state budget.

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From Information Clearing House

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How Goldman Sachs Wins No Matter What
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/02-5

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Why Should Greek Taxpayers Pay Off Government Debt?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber61.1.html

Stop Rewarding Excessive Consumption
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/faber-rogers-greek-bailout.html



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The House Friday morning at the last minute stripped language from a wide-ranging amendment that would have prohibited U.S. intelligence operatives from engaging in cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/02/26/house-strips-torture-prohibition-from-intelligence-bill/



Dems pull provision penalizing intel personnel

The House approved an intelligence agency bill Friday after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel using "cruel, inhuman and degrading" interrogation techniques.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022602930.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Porter Stansberry

Once this fact becomes common knowledge, it will probably mean jail time for several leading Goldman executives and the end of the firm.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24873.htm



Want to Fix Housing? Listen to the Gipper

By Mike Whitney

There is a remedy for the housing crisis. And it doesn't involve an agonizing decade of uncertainty while supply adjusts to demand. All Obama needs to do is to stop artificially propping up the market and let the chips fall where they may.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24871.htm



Wall Street's Bailout Hustle

By Matt Taibbi

Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24885.htm

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Banksters Behaving Badly
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/goldman-rehab.html

Start a Rothbardian Bank Run
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