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The Alarming Economic Future
http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo31.1.html



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Heartland Institute
by Benjamin Domenech

02/11/10

Right now White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel needs to do the first worthwhile thing since he came to Washington: He should lean over and whisper in President Barack Obama’s ear to remind him that he really is president of the United States — he’s not just playing that role on TV. The announcement over the weekend of Obama’s latest gambit to restart his stalled health care legislation came in a live interview with Katie Couric before the Super Bowl — a conversation full of forced informality, punctuated with tested lines repeated from his State of the Union address and stump speeches...

http://tinyurl.com/yla3zr9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Down With the Presidency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/down-presidency.html

A President's Day Message
http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem37.1.html



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

02/12/10

DOD Statement: ‘NCIS special agents who investigated this case found no evidence to suggest that the three detainees died by means other than suicide.’ NCIS considered no other way. Contrary indications were ignored, including not interviewing Tower Guards able to look directly into cells to monitor all movement throughout the facility. Several now contradict the official NCIS account. At least four witnesses have different views of what happened. Why weren’t they interviewed? Why were statements given of questionable value? How can they be considered trustworthy? The ’suspect statements are nowhere to be found in the investigative file.’ Leaving them out suggests whitewash...

http://tinyurl.com/ydydfvf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ruling Means Gitmo Detainees Have No Legal Protection: Rights Group
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/17-6

Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/17-19

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Urge Obama to support fair trials for Guantanamo detainees
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=hdJNLTMoF3JzEUK&s=bkLTK8OLLdIRIcPSKqE&m=jqLKIYNAL6JTF

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Gitmo 'suicides' torture gone wrong?

In an appearance Thursday on Fox News' Freedom Watch, Horton stated that the only real question in his mind is whether the men's deaths were deliberate murders or were "negligent homicides" resulting from "some sort of procedure that was performed on them."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0528/horton-discusses-gitmo-suicides/


From Information Clearing House



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Salon
by Jenn Kepka

02/11/10

Yes, friends, what we’ve known all along is finally be played out on the bigger screen: to believe in Sarah Palin, you must reject facts and rewrite history. Luckily, it looks like maybe only a small segment of the country is willing to do that. I’m getting around to making the very same point that TNC made in his post, which is this: Sarah Palin is not a major political force. She is the political equivalent to ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sarah Palin's Gun-Imagery Takes Aim at Political Targets

Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor: "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's use of gun-imagery like rifle cross-hairs to target politically vulnerable Democratic lawmakers won't surprise many Americans as she stumps for her former running mate, John McCain, this weekend."

http://www.truthout.org/sarah-palins-gun-imagery-takes-aim-political-targets58073



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The New Deal in Reverse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/11-6

An American Way of War for the Record Books
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/11-8

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Congress Must Stand Tall to Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/11-2

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One Free Market System for Wall Street, Another for Main Street

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org: "Washington is paralyzed by snow and partisanship. Nothing is getting done - even as the Great Recession pulls more Americans into its maw. In the midst of this paralysis, the President was asked about the giant pay packages of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co. ($17 mullion for 2009) and Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs ($9 million). First of all, I know both those guys, Obama said. 'They're very savvy businessmen. And I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That's part of the free market system.'"

http://www.truthout.org/one-free-market-system-wall-street-another-main-street56837

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Bash a fattie for freedom

Liberty & Power
by CJ Maloney

02/10/10

The Militarization of American continues apace: now Michelle Obama, wife to America’s president, claims an ‘epidemic’ of obesity imperils — you guessed it — our all-important National Security. At a recent White House ceremony Mrs. Obama intoned, ‘This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.’ I was unaware that sitting in some dimly lit room down in Florida, punching buttons to fly Predator drones on the other side of the globe, required a ripped set of abs...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/123196.html



Is this how democracy ends?

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/19/10

America faces a crisis of democracy. At its heart is a fiscal crisis. After the 2009 deficit of $1.4 trillion, we are running a 2010 deficit of $1.6 trillion. Trillion-dollar deficits are projected through the Obama years, be they four or eight. Long before 2016, however, holders of U.S. public debt will stop buying Treasury bills or start demanding higher interest rates to cover the growing risk of a default...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/19/is-this-how-democracy-ends/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission

The future of policing: Dissidents to be tortured into compliance by marauding unmanned vehicles

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 12, 2010

Illustrating once again that the prison planet being built around us far outstrips anything Aldous Huxley or George Orwell ever imagined, a Wired News report details how police forces worldwide are preparing to unveil drone aircraft that can not only conduct surveillance of protesters, but also zap them into submission with non-lethal weapons.

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Center for Responsive Politics: Federal Lobbying Climbs in 2009 as Lawmakers Execute Aggressive Congressional Agenda

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This era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a despair not seen for decades.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/jobless-america-future



Report: 1 in 5 U.S. homeowners underwater

Foreclosures across the country rose to a new high in December.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35335957/ns/business-real_estate/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Jobless claims rise unexpectedly

There were 473,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Feb. 13, up 31,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised 442,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

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Five US citizens held in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting attacks have alleged that US officials directed their torture to extract confessions.

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FBI Wants To Follow You Around The Internet

FBI chief Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track everything their customers do on the Internet, and keep those records for two years. The government plan would give the FBI access to "origin and destination information" for all users.

http://snipurl.com/uc8y0


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The largely mythical US success in Iraq is now to be replicated in Afghan towns like Marjah and skirmishes there will be heavily reported.

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The battle for Marjah

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

02/11/10

The message the US military wants to send is that in Afghanistan it is fighting a winnable war and not blundering deeper into a quagmire. The press likes short wars. Its audience is never so eager for news as during an armed conflict. The first newspapers date from the wars of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Television likes the melodrama of exploding shells and blazing tanks. And it is this very eagerness to report the fighting that makes it so easy to manipulate. The US army successfully sold the “surge” in Iraq as a military victory so that the American public scarcely noticed that US troops were withdrawing, leaving Iraq in the hands of a government closely allied to Iran...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick02112010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/12-6



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