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https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/01-6

Iraq to Support Blackwater Lawsuit in US Courts
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/04-1

Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/06-9

Discerning the CIA's (and Blackwater/Xe's) Role in Afghanistan
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/06

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Murder For Hire: CIA Reportedly Ordered Blackwater To Murder 9/11 Suspect

By Diana Sweet

In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24334.htm

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Old Blackwater keeps on rollin’

AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber

01/07/10

You know about those five Blackwater guards who shot up 17 Iraqis in Sept. 2007 for no apparent reason and who recently got their case dismissed by a federal judge on a technicality? Well, the U.S, prosecutors knew their case would go down like the Hindenburg from the get go. (Blackwater has officially changed its name to ‘Xe’ but everybody still calls it ‘Blackwater,’ so we will too.) The prosecutors based their case on statements the Blackwater guards had made in an initial report on the massacre. As government contractors, the guards were required to make those statements. The Constitution protects defendants from having to testify against themselves, so the statements in the required report couldn’t be used in a prosecution. But the prosecution built its case around the statements anyway. … One can’t help but wonder if the prosecutors failed to apply common sense on purpose...

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By Peter Phillips

Free Market Capitalism remains the the dominant American ideological truth. The decline of communism opened the door for unrepentant free marketers to boldly espouse market competition as the final solution for global harmony. According to the American mantra, if given the opportunity to freely develop, the marketplace will solve all evils. We will enjoy economic expansion, individual freedom, and unlimited bliss by fully deregulating and privatizing society’s socio-economic institutions.

The selection of Obama as the U.S. President placed into power the party of the trilateralist wing of the American corporate elite. Obama’s business/government revolving-door cabinet is comprised of just as many corporate CEO’s and business elites as any presidency in recent history. This new government elite will continue the work to see that the American mantra remains safe, globalized, and unchallenged.

Pesky socialist or nationalist leaning governments will be undermined, pressured into compliance or even invaded if they dare to resist the American mantra. The full force of U.S. dominated global institutions: WTO, World Bank, IMF, NAFTA, will focus on maximizing free market circumstances and corporate access to every region of the world.

Economic safety nets, environmental regulations, labor unions, human rights, become second place to the free flow of capital and investments. Indigenous resisters face overt repression, disappearance, or imprisonment by governments fully armed and supported by the American dominated New World Order.

So what is the underlying rationale for this American mantra? Are its dogmatic beliefs based on specific socio-economic facts? Are free market forces clearly the best mechanism for human betterment? Do these mechanisms work cross-culturally and are they efficient under all circumstances?

A closer examination of the American mantra reveals that “free market” essentially means constant international U.S. government intervention on behalf of American corporations. A public-private partnership that utilizes U.S. embassies, the CIA, FBI, NSA, U.S. Military, Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, USAID, and every other U.S government institution to protect, sustain, and directly support our vital interest —U.S. business.

American mantra institutions push market deregulation that transforms foreign economies for the benefit of U.S. businesses. Post-NAFTA Mexicans are now importing U.S. grown corn for their tortillas, as millions of formally subsidized peasant farmers leave the land to seek minimum wage work in the cities of United States. Los Angeles has become the center for new American sweatshops, as “illegals” compete for poverty jobs, citizens cannot afford to accept.

Government-assisted foreign market penetration by U.S firms often results in the buying out of successful indigenous companies and the competitive overwhelm of others. This situation leaves U.S. multinationals in dominate positions in foreign domestic markets and creates win-fall profit taking opportunities.

The free market mantra carries with it shock treatment policies of lowering public expectations, forced austerity measures, and dismantled human services. A privately run water system is deemed superior to a public system because the profit motive will create maximum efficiency. Yet there is absolutely no research that systematically compares public verses private efficiency levels, only the dogmatic assertion that this is so.

The American mantra affects the U.S. population as well. Poverty and unemployment are rising, the working poor expanding and homelessness one pay check away for many.

It is time to re-examine the American mantra and speak for global humanity. We must establish business socio-economic accountability standards and reacquaint our government with its responsibility for maintaining the common good.

Peter Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and President of Media Freedom Foundation.

https://dailycensored.com/2009/12/31/american-mantra-free-market-capitalism-and-obama/



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Executive Order 12425
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Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears

Some warn order could lead to "end of United States as a Republic"

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations for martial law.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-executive-order-stokes-martial-law-fears.html

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Obama Signs Martial Law Executive Order
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WORLD DEPOPULATION IS TOP NSA AGENDA: CLUB OF ROME
https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/aa2cd18a1c587f53?hl=en

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All the Reich Moves
https://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w126.html

Obama and the Global Police: More Friendly Fascism?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitehead7.1.1.html

Obama's Garrison State
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/burghardt4.1.1.html

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New Obama Executive Order Angers US Constitutionalists

by NWV News

While the mainstream media covers most legislation being debated on the floors of both houses of the US Congress, it is the presidential executive orders that are implemented with enormous impact on the lives of American citizens that should be exposed. For example, this past week, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order thereby creating a Council of Governors to create a working relationship between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect the United States against all types......

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Obama Establishes "Council Of Governors"

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

We can survive hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, looters and thugs, blackouts, and even Muslim terrorists. What we cannot survive--at least not without great cost and effort--is tyranny at the hands of our own government. In this regard, our greatest threat is not foreign terrorists or natural disasters; our greatest threat is Washington, D.C.........

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Council Of Governors Takes Shape

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

As I have already written, the creation of a CG should be of serious concern to all liberty loving Americans. That more of us are not as concerned as we should be can be traced to the mistaken belief that the American people have nothing to fear from an overreaching federal government. This is pure folly! As I have said many times, we have far more to fear from Washington, D.C., than from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, or any other potential terrorist state.........

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By Patrick Coburn

There is ominous use by American politicians and commentators of the phrase "failed state" in relation to Yemen, as if this some how legitimised foreign intervention. It is extraordinary that the US political elite has never taken on board that its greatest defeats have been in just such "failed states".

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24292.htm



The Fear Decade

Since 9/11, We've Embraced Our Inner Coward

By Ted Rall

Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24293.htm



War on Terror or War on Disaffected Yemenis?

Interventions R Us

By Ron Jacobs

As if the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough to satiate the Empire's bloodlust, the calls are increasing for an all-out war on the nation of Yemen.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24304.htm



US behind the scenes of Yemen terrorism fight

The US is stepping up its efforts in Yemen quietly, giving the country tools and money to comabt terrorism without fanfare. The strategy is the result of lessons learned in Pakistan, in particular.

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UK to follow US intervention in Yemen

Upon the orders of Obama, the military warplanes on December 17 blanketed two camps in the North of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, claiming there were "an imminent attack against a US asset was being planned." The attacks killed scores of civilians, according to Yemeni opposition groups.

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Yemeni air attacks on al-Qaida fighters risk mobilising hostile tribes

Killing of tribal leader's wife and children sparks condemnation of Sanaa and the west.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/yemen-air-attacks-alqaida


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Obama Indicates Escalating US Military Involvement in Yemen

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "This morning, President Barack Obama for the first time attributed the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound plane to al-Qaeda. In his weekly radio address, Obama painted the bombing attempt as an act of war. He reiterated his intent to continue fighting the US's 'war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred,' indicating that Yemen could be the next major site of US military involvement."

https://www.truthout.org/topstories/010210ms1

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Here comes US involvement in Yemen another error inspired by a floating signifier
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Welcome, Americans, to Mysterious Yemen
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Wired

12/30/09

Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber. Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document...

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Wer kaufte eigentlich die 1,885 Billionen US-Dollar an US-amerikanischen Staatspapieren, die im Fiskaljahr 2009 emittiert wurden?

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31798/1.html



"Über die Identität der Gläubiger des Schuldners Staat wird nie gesprochen"

Gespräch mit dem Soziologen Hans Jürgen Krysmanski über globale und nationale Macht- und Funktionseliten.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31763/1.html



Sind wir alle Griechen?

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By John Pilger

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'.

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