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Data published by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs shows that over 75,000 US military personnel could be homeless after they return from foreign wars.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=811969


From Information Clearing House

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Thank You for Your Service?
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.html



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By Mike Whitney

The firestorm in the UK is not really about phone hacking at all. It's about Corporate fiefdoms and unelected oligarchs who control the flow of information and use that power to their own advantage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28609.htm



Phone Hacking Crisis Shows News Corp Is No Ordinary News Company

By Jay Rosen

Rupert Murdoch s news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28634.htm



Its Do or Die-time for Rupert Murdoch

By Mike Whitney

'Rupert Murdoch has been operating what amounts to a private intelligence service.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28625.htm



10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch

By Robin Beste

What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to - ordering the country's armed forces to war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28624.htm



Amid the Murdoch Scandal, There s an Acrid Smell of Business as Usual

By John Pilger

Long before it was possible to hack phones, Murdoch was waging a war on journalism, truth, humanity, and succeeded because he knew how to exploit a system that welcomed his devotion to the 'free market'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28651.htm

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Fox News is ignoring Murdoch media scandal
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10447/

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Journalist: If 9/11 victims hacked, 'Fox News is finished'

The Raw Story

07/18/11

In a recent interview with Russia Today, Afshin Rattansi, a Middle Eastern affairs journalist who s appeared on the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg, said that he believes 'Fox News is finished' if U.S. authorities can prove that News Corporation employees attempted to hack into the voicemails of terror attack victims killed on Sept. 11, 2001. 'The Democrats have nothing much to do, but they all hate one influential cable channel: Fox News,' he said. 'I?m hearing, if the 9/11 victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of News Corp., then Fox News is finished'...

http://tinyurl.com/3gfqco9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rupert Murdoch s War on Journalism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/spin/outfoxed-rupert-murdochs-war-on-journalism.html

Key phone hacking witness dead
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/murdoch-and-fox-news/key-phone-hacking-witness-dead.html

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British Panel Says Murdochs Are Blocking Inquiries

Alan Cowell, The New York Times: 'A parliamentary panel investigating Britain s spreading phone hacking scandal accused the Murdoch empire on Wednesday of 'deliberate attempts' to thwart its investigations. The House of Commons home affairs select committee was one of two panels that questioned some of the main players in the scandal on Tuesday, interviewing senior police officers and releasing a scathing report on Wednesday that pointed to 'a catalog of failures' in handling the hacking investigations'.

http://www.truth-out.org/british-panel-says-murdochs-are-blocking-inquiries/1311184211



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Enemy-sponsored organisations threaten nation

By Tafataona Mahoso

The 'great democracies' of the West have been the most consistent and most persistent enemy of the African: during slavery, during the scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference, during colonialism, during apartheid and now during the current effort to recolonise Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28614.htm



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Dean Baker, Truthout: 'According to numerous reports in the media, President Obama wants a 'big deal' on the budget, which will involve cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. The last is especially ironic, since Social Security is financed by its own designated tax. Therefore, it does not contribute to the deficit. If there is no money in the Social Security trust fund, then benefits will not be paid. The plans to cut to Social Security also seem perverse since we know that the vast majority of retirees are not living especially well right now and the benefits already are not especially generous.'

http://www.truth-out.org/president-obamas-big-deal-cuts-social-security-no-taxes-wall-street/1311000131

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Letting Bankers Walk

By Paul Krugman

Why the kid-gloves treatment? Money and influence no doubt play their part; Wall Street is a huge source of campaign donations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28620.htm



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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'Tens of thousands of Americans are being held in super-maximum-security prisons where they are deprived of contact and psychologically destroyed. Undocumented workers are rounded up and vanish from their families for weeks or months. Militarized police units break down the doors of some 40,000 Americans a year and haul them away in the dead of night as if they were enemy combatants. Habeas corpus no longer exists. American citizens can 'legally' be assassinated.'

http://www.truth-out.org/americas-disappeared/1310995884



Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas

By RT

Graduates from the School of the Americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere - including the murder of six Jesuit priests and four American churchwomen in El Salvador.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28611.htm



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Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: 'Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and investigative journalists like Beau Hodai, we now know that ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), a front group for major corporations, the Koch brothers and right-wing lobbying groups, actively disseminated model bills promoting its agenda to state leaders. ALEC creates plausible deniability for state legislators by claiming it's not lobbying, of course, but merely making friendly suggestions and, in turn, the legislators ultimately reap the rewards of being extra nice to ALECs corporate clients.'

http://www.truth-out.org/koch-brothers-tentacles-your-state/1310997611



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Reason
by John Payne

Relatively few Americans question the morality or utility of their country s power, even if there is substantial disagreement about how and when that power should be used. Advocates of empire sometimes acknowledge that ruling the world through military might requires a great deal of violence, but they argue that this is the price of security and prosperity. Two recent histories of previous great empires argue instead that the imperial project is inherently unstable... (for publication 08/11)

http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/15/temptations-of-empire


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

07/15/11

When I saw that the House passed a $649 billion Defense spending bill, I became EVEN MORE convinced that Congress should REFUSE to raise the debt ceiling. This bill costs some $6,000 per family, and it doesn t even include all Defense-related funding. Estimates have the entire so-called 'national security' spending at $1-1.2 trillion, which ups the 'per family' cost to $10-12 thousand dollars!

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/is-the-warfare-state-worth-10000-to-you


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

07/16/11

As PolitiFact has noted, Obama has made false claims about whether Obamacare raises taxes (it does, on investment income, medical devices, cosmetic surgery, etc.) and about court rulings dealing with the health care law. Obama made other false claims about the new health care law, like whether you can keep your health insurance plan if you like it; whether people will be compelled to buy coverage under the new health care law; and whether some employee benefits will be taxed due to the new law...

http://tinyurl.com/65zj3wm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Supreme Bureaucrats? Decision on ObamaCare
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz41.1.html



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- No Comment AREVA - Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant / Centrale Nucléaire

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Tricastin.php#1



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Koch-Mehrin legt bei der Universität Heidelberg Widerspruch ein und fährt damit eine riskante Strategie.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/10/150157



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