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Matthew Skomarovsky, LittleSis: "Larry Summers' path to the Obama administration, and his record within it, are symptomatic of a new American plutocracy, and his new job at Harvard will keep the gears of corruption greased. Summers rose to power under the protective wing of Wall Street and Democratic Party mogul Robert Rubin. He aggressively advanced Rubin's program of financial deregulation and faithfully rescued his cronies when deregulation went wrong. Despite the economic catastrophes these policies have contributed to, Summers and other Rubinites have continued their political ascendancy in recent years, filling top positions in the Obama administration."

http://www.truth-out.org/evidence-american-plutocracy-the-larry-summers-story67007



The Economy Is Awful and Larry Summers Should Not Be Fed Chair

Dean Baker, Truthout: Despite the fact that Larry Summers played a major part in the creation of the policies that pushed the US into an economic downturn, President Obama wants him as chairman of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful economic positions in the country.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17978-the-economy-is-awful-and-larry-summers-should-not-be-fed-chair



The Wall Street Ties of Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner

Zaid Jilani, Moyers & Company: Larry Summers is under no legal requirement to disclose his most recent payments from corporations until he is officially nominated, and if he s nominated, he ll most likely be confirmed.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17997-the-wall-street-ties-of-larry-summers-and-timothy-geithner



The Smart Boys: Larry Summers and Jeff Bezos

Dean Baker, Truthout: The press' praise of tentative Federal Chair nominee Larry Summers and business mogul Jeff Bezos reflects the backwards morals with which we view our society and our economy.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18119-dean-baker-the-smart-boys-larry-summers-and-jeff-bezos

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Larry Summers Is Out, but the Boys? Club Is as In as Ever
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/17-4

The Larry Summers Flop: More Proof Obama is Getting Bad Economic Advice
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/17-8



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Bill McKibben, YES! Magazine: "It was two years before the first Earth Day in 1970 when Garrett Hardin penned the famous essay 'Tragedy of the Commons,' and it fit a certain bleak and despairing mood of the time. Paul Ehrlich had just published The Population Bomb, a Malthusian account of a world overwhelmed by sheer numbers of people. Against the backdrop of that gloom, Hardin's theory came as another dose of bad news, 'proving' that we also had no hope of controlling our appetite for natural resources. Since no one owned the oceans or the atmosphere, we would inevitably fish and pollute them into oblivion. Hardin offered a few suggestions, but his title summed it up: we were witnessing a tragedy whose script could not be revised."

http://www.truth-out.org/rewriting-tragedy-commons66971



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Ryan Stock, Truthout: "'A fabulous Easter gift,' commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil. Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June 4, 2010, roughly 10,000 rural Haitian farmers gathered in Papaye to march seven kilometers to Hinche in celebration of this gift. Upon arrival, these rewarded farmers took their collective Easter baskets of more than 400 tons of vegetable seeds and burned them all. 'Long live the native maize seed!' they chanted in unison. 'Monsanto's GMO [genetically modified organism] and hybrid seed violate peasant agriculture!'"

http://www.truth-out.org/the-new-earthquake-manifest-haiti-monsantos-destiny66930



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- NFS et Antennes relais: Action opposable c/opérateur Bouygues Telecom

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CNN

01/19/11

The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that the number of suicides rose again last year to almost one a day, despite major efforts to identify and help at-risk soldiers. Suicides among active-duty soldiers actually declined for the first time in six years but the numbers increased among other soldiers, doubling in the Army National Guard...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "During the first two weeks of February, military bases and schools across the country will join dozens of other organizations is holding annual 'prayer breakfasts' and luncheons in coordination with the controversial National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. While military chaplains are expected to provide non-denominational options to those in uniform, critics charge that prayer breakfasts sometimes favor conservative and evangelical brands of Christianity that are intolerant of other faiths and perspectives."

http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-academy-taps-member-lords-army-speak-national-prayer-luncheon66983

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Why should God bless America?

by Al Duncan

For centuries hypocrites, professing to be Christians, have defamed God and Christianity by their lies, thievery, drunkenness, adultery, warmongering and all their ungodly ways. But the true Christian, whom Christ characterized as his disciples by their love one for another, were also commissioned to share his love and way of life with others, are now being marginalized and constrained to a state of fear. And so I conclude as.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Duncan/al100.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/19-7



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Austerity-driven policies will make the suffering even worse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/18/witch-inflation-food-prices-austerity-policies


From Information Clearing House



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About 31 percent of the Afghan population was identified as "food-insecure" by a 2007 report on national risks.

http://bit.ly/fCHWJ4


From Information Clearing House

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How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War

Ira Chernus, TomDispatch: "When I try to figure out why we are still in Afghanistan, though every ounce of logic says we ought to get out, an unexpected conversation I had last year haunts me. Doing neighborhood political canvassing, I knocked on the door of a cheerful man who was just about to tune in to his favorite radio show: Rush Limbaugh. He was kind enough to let me stay and we talked. Conservatives are often the nicest people - that's what I told him - the ones you'd like to have as neighbors. Then I said: I bet you're always willing to help your neighbors when they need it. Absolutely, he replied. So why, I asked, don't you to want to help out people across town who have the same needs, even if they're strangers?"

http://www.truth-out.org/ira-chernus-how-power-myth-keeps-us-mired-war66998



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Obama Pulls a Clinton

By Robert Scheer

This is a case of corporate blackmail pure and simple.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27298.htm



The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it News

By Prof. John Kozy

America's journalists are not "newshounds." They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27299.htm



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By Glenn Greenwald

These lies were told not only to distort public opinion and justify prosecuting WikiLeaks for doing nothing more than engaging in journalism, but also to coerce private corporations (MasterCard, Amazon, Visa, Paypal) to cut all services to the group.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27292.htm

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WikiLeaks: Human Decency and Transparency
https://groups.google.com/group/freepage-news/t/e00891a3ee86832d?hl=en



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By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

The punitive incarceration of alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is cruel, certainly, but far from unusual in the US.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27296.htm



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By Carol Grisanti and Fakhar ur Rehman

Saad Iqbal Madni looks decades older than his 33 years when he shuffles into the room, head down and eyes averted. "There are a lot of times I start to cry. I still feel like I am in Guantanamo," he says, his voice cracking and hands trembling. "I have memorized the torture. I wake up in the middle of the night screaming."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27294.htm



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Imperial shooting sprees

CounterPunch
by Joe Mowrey

01/19/11

It is tragic that six people lost their lives and many more were wounded by a fanatic in Arizona. Indiscriminate killing is a terrible thing. There is no way we can truly comprehend the motives behind this act, nor appreciate the full extent of the pain and heartache suffered by those affected. But behind the pathos surrounding this crime is an ugly truth. Though we profess indignant sorrow for those who died at the hands of a madman in Arizona, we willfully ignore the deaths of innocents which occur every day as a result of our own government's foreign policies...

http://counterpunch.org/mowrey01192011.html



The nanny state and baby cribs

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M. Vance

01/19/11

The federal government is routinely condemned for being cruel, inept, paternalistic, evil, inefficient, and intrusive ? except when it comes to the subject of child safety. Indeed, in the name of child safety the most flagrant violations of civil liberties, private property, and the Constitution are routinely accepted by those who might ordinarily have nothing but condemnation for the monstrosity that is our federal government...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101k.asp



The Machiavellian states of America?

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Daniel O'Connor

01/19/11

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was the preeminent political philosopher of his time, whose immeasurable influence still resonates today, perhaps even more so than ever. His book, The Prince, has remained as a very widely read book throughout the globe for the past century, and before. In fact, it was the advent of the printing press, which came to existence just before his time, which helped disseminate his political philosophy across Continental Europe into the hands of Kings, Queens and major philosophical figures...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1295



What you can do to detoxify political debate

Strike The Root Strike the Root
by Robert Kaercher

01/20/11

The Tucson massacre is now serving as the pretext for new Federal speech laws. Now I don?t want to come off like some kind of paranoid, anti-government nutjob, but there is much potential for governmental abuse in such legal language as 'to incite violence.' But that?s one of the many nifty perks of being a ruler. You?re in the unique position of simply asserting causal links between acts of violence and expressions of speech while never having to worry about being held accountable for the acts of violence carried out at your command on nearly a daily basis...

http://tinyurl.com/65cwar4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Energiewirtschaft bereitet die Politik darauf vor, das Energiekonzept der Bundesregierung nicht mittragen zu wollen

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Jeder achte Tea-Party-Anhänger findet Gewalt gegen gegenwärtige Regierung legitim.

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