World-News

Boston Globe
by Joshua Green

08/17/11

Amid all the clamor about entitlement reform during the struggle to raise the debt ceiling, one enormous cost - and potential source of future savings - largely escaped scrutiny: the billions of dollars the United States spends to support the mortgage market. ... Today, the government backs 95 percent of new loans, leaving taxpayers more exposed than ever...

http://tinyurl.com/3dmaswh



Central banking propagandists sell economic poison

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

08/16/11

The propaganda is coming on hot and heavy since the debt ceiling decision that sold our great grandchildren s future to the banking elite. It seems that someone wants you to think that adding more debt to the already over burdened national line of credit is a good thing. It seems that someone wants you to believe that an economic crisis has been averted, not merely postponed and eventually made worse...

http://bit.ly/ni9z5p



Crimes of the Federal Reserve

Scribd
by Olde Reb

08/11

There are only two ways for government to acquire funds. One is by 'taxes, duties, and imposts' and the other is by 'printing press' money. The current printing press money is by issuing government securities (as detailed above) and tends to cause less public outrage than raising taxes...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/62167283/CRIMES-OF-THE-FEDERAL-RESERVE


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+crisis
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elites
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman



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Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

08/18/11

Perry s advisers are all hawks and supporters of both the Iraq War and of a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan. They apparently believe, against the evidence, that military interventions produce good results. Doug Feith should be particularly noted, as it appears he might be resurfacing in government, a normal recycling that neocons go through as they move through the revolving door from high government office to the private sector and back again...

http://bit.ly/ruUCAS



Rick Perry s polluter cronies

The Nation
by Ben Adler

08/17/11

One of Texas Governor Rick Perry s oft-touted strengths in the Republican primary is his demonstrated prowess at fundraising. Less widely known is how he has raised that money and what he has done in return for it. According to Texas good government and environmental watchdogs, Perry has raised much of his campaign funds from business executives who have financial interests in state government decisions. Often Perry s supporters come from the energy sector and Perry s help for them has come at the expense of the environment...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162817/rick-perrys-polluter-cronies


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rick Perry s Deeply Flawed Brand of Texas Justice

Shani O. Hilton, Colorlines.com: 'To the surprise of no one, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he d be running for the Republican presidential nomination last weekend. As we have covered before, Perry has been getting his ideological ducks in a row for some time now, even becoming more draconian on immigration issues. Back in 2001, Perry signed the Texas DREAM act - the country's first law of that kind - and while he still supports it, he s now putting money toward more border security and pushing laws that would force towns to monitor undocumented immigrants.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rick-perrys-deeply-flawed-brand-texas-justice/1313678156

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Bank Of America Executive To Rick Perry: 'We'll Help You Out'

ZeroHedge identifies the Bank of America official offering his his company s support to Texas Governor Rick Perry s campaign as James Mahoney the Director of Public Policy for the bank.

http://read.bi/qT0JX2


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rick+Perry
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shani+O.+Hilton

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Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the 'tippy-top' of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_08-16.html



Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend?

And it s doing that while screwing average Americans who have been responsible and lived within their means.

http://www.businessinsider.com/government-paying-banks-not-to-lend-2011-8



US moral authority undercut by war on terror

With indefinite detentions, military trials and targeted killings of terror suspects, the Obama team has 'actually entrenched the global war framework,' Shamsi said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/17/us-moral-authority-undercut-by-war-on-terror/


From Information Clearing House

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Looting frenzy

CounterPunch
by Linh Dinh

08/17/11

Our banking system makes money out of nothing, lends us cash that it doesn t even have, and with Washington as its protector and enforcer, ensures that what we own is worth less and less, while we must work more and more to make payment after unending payment, with compounding interest, penalties, fees and whatever else it feels like tagging on at the end. The Federal Reserve, then, is not an institution with 'public purposes and private aspects,' but exactly the opposite. Like our federal government itself, it is a cartel with ruthless, private objectives hidden behind a public facade...

http://counterpunch.org/dinh08172011.html



Planet of the taxpayers

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Jeffrey A. Tucker

08/17/11

The whole system in a free market operates not on a master/slave relationship but on an exchange nexus. All parties have to agree. If anyone is enslaved in this system, it is the corporation, which must slavishly try to extract money from us by giving us goods and services that we want. If they fail, they die. If they live, it is we who give them life...

http://mises.org/daily/5555/Planet-of-the-Taxpayers


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+trial
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+A.+Tucker
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President Barack Obama won a pledge from NATO allies Saturday to send 5,000 more troops to help in Afghanistan, calling it a 'strong down payment' to securing coming national elections and the entire country.

http://arbiteronline.com/2011/08/17/nato-pledges-5000-troops-to-afghanistan/



$360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan

After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both.

http://bit.ly/nlvJLa



Afghanistan: The Worst Place to be a Mother

After 10 years of occupation by the United States, Afghanistan s maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world.

http://www.alternet.org/world/152018/afghanistan:_the_worst_place_to_be_a_mother_



Afghanistan: NATO Kills 4 Civilians Sparks Protest

Residents of southern Ghazni province protested on Saturday against the killing of four civilians during a nighttime operation by international troops.

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/20/isaf-operation-sparks-protest-ghazni


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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By Jon Stewart

Outstanding video clip that tells the truth about Paul's massive success in Iowa and beyond, and skewers the corporate media for ignoring the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28857.htm

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The impossible is possible

The American Conservative
by John Payne

08/16/11

When Ron Paul announced his 2012 campaign for president, I joked that his odds had improved from nil to slim since 2008. The odds are still stacked heavily against him, but there seems to be a path that could lead him to the Republican nomination and possible victory...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/08/16/the-impossible-is-possible/



Statist fear over Ron Paul

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/17/11

What s amazing is that the mainstream media doesn t even appear embarrassed at the way they have been treating Ron Paul. I suppose they think that since they have treated libertarians with such disdain for so long, no one will notice that they are doing it some more to Ron Paul. Not this time, MSM! As you no doubt know, people are noticing, especially on the Internet!

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-17.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Stewart
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Payne
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
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By Naomi Klein

We keep hearing England s riots weren t political - but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28868.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elites
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Naomi+Klein
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By Matt Taibbi

A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation s worst financial criminals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28869.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Securities+and+Exchange+Commission
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By Madison Ruppert

To some people, the concept of 'full spectrum dominance' is completely foreign. To the upper echelons of the government of the United States, it is a tactic utilized on a regular basis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28861.htm



Obama Looking Like Mussolini

By Sherwood Ross

Obama s plan is not a peace plan. It is a war plan. Ditto for his attacks on Libya, Pakistan and Yemen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28859.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sherwood+Ross
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By Kevin Baron

Pentagon officials often spin mass casualty terrorist bombing attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan into signs of progress. After multiple bombings killed more than 80 people across the warzones Sunday and Monday, here s an example of how the war is spun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28864.htm



We Will Lose in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Stephen M. Walt

One of the things that gets in the way of conducting good national security policy is a reluctance to call things by their right names and state plainly what is really happening.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28862.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+M.+Walt
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Staatliche Kontrollwut und Gen-Dateien.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35314/1.html




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USA: monatliche Kosten von durchschnittlich 9,7 Milliarden Dollar für das Militär in Afghanistan und Irak.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35320/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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