World-News

Judy Lin, The Associated Press: "Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts. California failed to meet a midnight deadline and now may need to issue IOUs instead of paying bills."

http://www.truthout.org/070109LA?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget+choice

Nick Mathiason, The Guardian UK: "Serious allegations of human rights abuses caused by oil companies in the Niger Delta, the oil-producing region in southern Nigeria, [were published Wednesday]."

http://www.truthout.org/070109EA?n



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas19.html



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "On January 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon's top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. 'Establish a working group within the Department of Defense to assess the legal, policy and operational issues relating to the interrogations of detainees held by the US Armed Forces in the war on terrorism,' the directives said."

http://www.truthout.org/070109A?n



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John Hartigan laments how bloggers are not sent to jail like in China or Burma

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/murdoch-ceo-labels-bloggers-political-extremists.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murdoch

Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch.com: "On May 1st at Fort Hood in central Texas, Specialist Victor Agosto wrote on a counseling statement, which is actually a punitive US Army memo: 'There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite effect.'"

http://www.truthout.org/070109K?n



Afghanistan War Resister to "Put the War on Trial"

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "US Army Specialist Victor Agosto served a 13-month deployment in Iraq with the 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion ... His experience in Iraq, coupled with educating himself about US foreign policy and international law, has led Agosto to refuse to deploy to Afghanistan. 'It's a matter of what I'm willing to live with,' he said of his recent decision, 'I'm not willing to participate in this occupation, knowing it is completely wrong.'"

http://www.truthout.org/071409A?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Victor+Agosto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

As we approach Independence Day, it behooves us to recall the principles of America's founding, especially in light of the ongoing attempt by today's political and commercial leaders to merge the United States into a hemispheric government. In fact, the clarion call for independence is just as fundamental, just as revolutionary as it was 233 years ago.Regarding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams said.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin518.htm



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Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

06/30/09

The REAL ID Act may be on the verge of receiving its final coffin nails. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is pushing a replacement bill that poses many of the same threats as REAL ID. The history of REAL ID should inspire friends of freedom to once again vigorously oppose any and every federal grab for their personal information. The feds had sought legislation to create national ID cards in the 1990s but were rebuffed by a Republican Congress...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=125



Groupthink as a political mental illness, part 2

Last Free Voice
by Rhys M. Blavier

06/30/09

An awareness of what groupthink is, by political scientist, political analysts and commentators, and by ethical political leaders might help them to, if not prevent, then to make the public aware of occurrences of groupthink within political parties and ideologies, as well as in our various branches and levels of government. Those who actively work to prevent or publicize groupthink and groupthink tendencies within their spheres of influence, interest or study might also find our political world becoming more responsive to the average citizens, as a result...

http://tinyurl.com/l4qb3d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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