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Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: ''The idea of cutting the huge U.S. military budget seems to enjoy considerable popularity among Americans. In May 2012, a survey of U.S. public opinion by the Stimson Center, the Program for Public Consultation, and the Center for Public Integrity found that 76 percent of respondents favored slashing U.S. military expenditures. This included 80 percent of respondents in districts that elected Democrats and 74 percent in districts that elected Republicans.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10586-unlike-mitt-romney-most-americans-want-to-cut-us-military-spending



Romney Still Doubling Down on Failed Policies

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: ''There s a tone of incredulity to the writings of Romney apologists. It seems as if they can t believe that the magic words ''Capitalism! Free markets! Job creators!'' aren t silencing his critics. After all, they say, wasn t Mitt Romney just doing what has been standard for the past 30 years?''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10617-romney-still-doubling-down-on-failed-policies

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Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan256.html

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Romney s 20th-Century Worldview
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-10

Romney: Richer Means Superior
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-6

Romney and Ryan Push Bogus ?Tax Reform?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/02-7

Five Adjectives That Scream ''Don t Vote Republican!''
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/06-0

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Mitt Romney financed by drug money? Las Vegas Sands target of US money-laundering probe, WSJ says

The Los Angeles U.S. attorney s office is looking into the casino company s handling of the receipt of millions of dollars from a Mexican businessman, later indicted in the United States for drug trafficking, and a former California businessman, later convicted of taking illegal kickbacks, the Journal said.

http://is.gd/ZwYYCe



Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitless,' Could Top $100M

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney-and that s just the tip of the iceberg. A well-placed source in the Adelson camp with direct knowledge of the casino billionaire s thinking says that further donations will be ''limitless.''

http://is.gd/Np8FZI


From Information Clearing House

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Romney s incredible extremes

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

08/07/12

Mitt Romney s tax and spending plans are so irresponsible, so cruel, so extreme that they are literally incredible. Voters may find it hard to believe anyone would support such things, so they are likely to discount even factual descriptions as partisan distortion. The pro-Obama New Priorities PAC stumbled across this phenomena early in 2012 in its focus group testing. When they informed a focus group that Romney supported the budget plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and thus championed ending Medicare as we know it while also championing tax cuts for the wealthy, focus group participants simply didn t believe it. No politician could be so clueless...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169261/romneys-incredible-extremes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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