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Der Seitenwechsel, auch Drehtür-Effekt (Revolving door) genannt, ist ein häufig auftretendes und typisches Phänomen in der Welt des Lobbyismus: Politiker oder hochrangige Mitarbeiter von Ministerien wechseln aus ihrem Amt oder Mandat zu Unternehmen oder Interessenverbänden, und übernehmen dort lukrative Lobbytätigkeiten. Das lobbykritische Online-Lexikon Lobbypedia hat nun eine aktualisierte Liste ehemaliger deutscher Politiker veröffentlicht.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=10535



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/the-surveillance-state.html

U.S. Army Wants To Give War Robots More Power To 'Make Their Own Decisions'
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/war-robots-more-power.html



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California, the ninth largest economy in the world, resorts to austerity

California, America's 'golden state', is slashing spending to avoid a Greek-style default.

http://ind.pn/JL8fHK


From Information Clearing House



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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''This is why the Occupy movement frightens the corporate elite. What fosters revolution is not misery, but the gap between what people expect from their lives and what is offered. This is especially acute among the educated and the talented. They feel, with much justification, that they have been denied what they deserve. They set out to rectify this injustice. And the longer the injustice festers, the more radical they become.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9112-why-the-occupy-movement-frightens-the-corporate-elite



New Documents Confirm Koch Was on NRA-Led Crime Task Force

Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy: ''It turns out that Koch was a member of that ALEC task force in recent years, and that it was on the task force when the NRA was the private sector co-chair. Moreover, Koch Industries had not one but two employees who were listed as 'members' present for ALECs 'Public Safety and Elections' Task Force at the last annual task force summit.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9126-new-documents-confirm-koch-was-on-nra-led-alec-crime-task-force



Uncovering the Other ALECs

Sarah Blaskey and Steve Horn, Truthout: ''ALEC has been described as a 'corporate bill mill.' ALEC, though, is not the only 'corporate bill mill' playing this game. 'Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists' have upped the ante and skillfully advanced their agendas through bipartisan 'trade associations' for state government officials - in particular, the Council of State Governments (CSG) whose multimillion-dollar budget is mostly funded by taxpayers. Through CSG and Friends, lobbyists exploit a well-tethered network of nonprofits representing state-level officials to advance the agenda of their corporate clientele.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9033-subverting-the-statehouse-uncovering-the-other-alecs



The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''We live at a time when the crisis of politics is inextricably connected to the crisis of education and agency.... Against such hard times for the promise of democracy, the Occupy movement offers an incisive language of analysis and hope, a renewed sense of political commitment, different democratic visions and a politics of possibility.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9237-the-occupy-movement-and-the-politics-of-educated-hope



Occupy Wall Street Librarians Strike Back

Melissa Gira Grant, Truthout: ''Thursday, members of Occupy Wall Street ... filed a federal lawsuit against the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, seeking to hold them accountable for violations of their constitutional rights, as well as subsequent smaller raids that targeted the People s Library. In the course of the suit, the city may have to admit who called the shots during the eviction on November 15, 2011.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9369-occupy-wall-street-librarians-strike-back



What Fires Young Progressives' Activism? A New Study Asks Them

Rinku Sen, Colorlines.com: ''The Applied Research Center released 'Millennials, Activism and Race,' a report on the motivations of young people who are active in progressive politics. Following up on last year s research, Don t Call Them Post-Racial, this report gives us more information about what draws 18 to 30 year olds to social justice work, and how people with progressive politics deal with race as part of a larger political worldview.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9367-what-fires-young-progressives-activism-a-new-study-asks-them



Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?

Arun Gupta, AlterNet: ''With the high-profile arrest of activists on terrorism charges in Cleveland on May Day and in Chicago during the NATO summit there, evidence is mounting that the FBI is unleashing the same methods of entrapment against the Occupy Wall Street movement that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans for the last decade. Will Potter, who analyzes FBI entrapment plots in his book Green is the New Red, says ? 'There have been many other cases like these in which the FBI had a role in manufacturing the plot itself.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9403-has-the-fbi-launched-a-war-of-entrapment-against-the-occupy-movement

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Wall Street Waging 'Guerrilla War' on Financial Regulations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/14-2

Pompous Prevaricators of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16-11

Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/25-2

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Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown

The new documents, only scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with 'anti-terrorism' funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement."

http://bit.ly/JCtOe9



Occupy Directory: Trying to find a local occupation?

The Occupation Directory is a public listing of all known Occupation sites built by and for the #Occupy movement.

http://directory.occupy.net/



Cleveland Occupy Arrests Are the Latest in FBI s Pattern of Manipulation

By Arun Gupta

The FBI fishes for dupes it can manipulate with informants and agents who stroke their marks, plant ideas, suggest the plans, provide money, weapons, vehicles and then heroically foil a terrorist act of the FBI s own design.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31455.htm



Occupy Movement Being Labeled As ''A Domestic Terror Organization'' By FBI

Video

From disorganised slackers to terrorists: Protesters now even face accusations that they pose a threat not just to Corporate America, but to the country as a whole. But activists say it s all just scaremongering to stifle the movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNsw8r196M


From Information Clearing House

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Interventionism and the elites

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/23/12

"The great gulf between the American public and the elites when it comes to foreign policy is a constant source of irritation for the latter. The mandarins of the foreign policy establishment have long bemoaned the 'isolationism' of the American people. It s the natural inclination of a free people to leave others alone, and the Founders exemplified this sentiment when they decried the impulse to 'go abroad in search of monsters to destroy'...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Tom Engelhardt

We have turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31312.htm



The dumbing down of America will accelerate

By Linh Dinh

The dumbing down of America will only accelerate as this cornered and bankrupt country becomes ever more vicious to its citizens and foreigners alike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31318.htm



Colonized by Corporations

By Chris Hedges

In Robert E. Gamer s book ''The Developing Nations'' is a chapter called ''Why Men Do Not Revolt.'' In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group or an apostate within their own political class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31320.htm



Five Facts That Put America to Shame

By Paul Buchheit

The golden door on the Statue of Liberty seems to have an invisible hand holding it shut.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31321.htm



The National Security State Wins (Again)

By William J. Astore

That candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the US military and our ever-surging national security state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31329.htm



Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary Measures

By Peter Phillips

Do we understand that habeas corpus is no longer a legal protection in the US or that the US president can torture and kill American citizens, let along anyone in the world?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31335.htm

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Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/15-1

Can one do good by doing bad?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16-1

Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create 'Assassination List'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/22-2

Obama Personally Oversees 'Secret Kill List'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/29

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Krauthammer On Drones Flying In US: ''Stop It Here, Stop It Now''
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/10599.html

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Torture and the innocent

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/17/12

One of the main arguments made by pro-torture Americans is that the information acquired by torture can lead to important information that can save the lives of innocent people. Their argument is a classic example of the old maxim, 'The end justifies the means.' But even if we were to accept that utilitarian argument for torture, doesn t it necessarily involve an important assumption?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-05-17.asp



An oracle of tyranny

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Bruce Fein

02/22/13

Krauthammer is unable to cite any provision in the Constitution or laws of the United States that crowns the president with the authority to decide unilaterally who is an 'enemy' to be exterminated. Proffering no definition of that term, Krauthammer champions authority in the president to designate any person he wishes as an 'enemy' with no review by Congress, the judiciary, or the American people...

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/an-oracle-of-tyranny/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Secret Kill List
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano56.1.html



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