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Law and order
The Partial Observer
by Discordian Pope Iacobus Rex

06/25/09

The preemptive, forceful imposition of ‘order’ only creates disorder. Instead, as individuals and as a people we would do well to change our mindset about how to treat each other. Instead of focusing on ‘order’ and the prosperity it’s supposed to create, our focus should be on justice...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3272



Obama: Honoring the dead and disrupting the living

Rebirth of Reason
by Alexandra York

06/25/09

Now then: while our possibly duly-elected President, Barack Obama, attempts to shackle the rest of us to his locomotive speeding Left very fast, we might at least shout ‘Halt!’ on the family outings that disrupt the world and pick more of our tax-payers’ pockets for personal entertainment. On the other hand, perhaps we should encourage this Imperial, ‘Get-out-of-my-way-I’m-having-fun’ behavior, because the more time Mr. Obama and brood are out ‘on the town,’ he’ll be away from Washington town, which might — dream on! — distract him from his arrogant, self-centered, it’s-all-about-Me-and-what-I-want absorptions and his all-too-obvious desire to move beyond being a mere Rock-star President and usurp the power of a King, with the total ability to dictate his subjective will to the rest of us, then, obedient ‘Subjects’...

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What’s the purpose of a correction?

The Daily Reckoning
by Bill Bonner

06/25/09

The whole world economy is underwater and the same economists who failed the critical test are manning the pumps. What makes anyone think they know what they are doing? On the surface of it their plan is absurd. Commerce, industry and households drown in a sea of debt; these fellows throw them a bucket of water. Asked to explain themselves, they resort to voodoo economics. ‘If we give Wall Street a lot of taxpayer money they will feel more like lending to households. That will bring a recovery,’ they say. ‘And oh yes, we’ll give money to automakers who couldn’t make it on their own, too.’ The feds are spending trillions — buying up trillions worth of Wall Street’s mistakes … bailing out failed banks, insurance firms and even automobile companies … subsidizing borrowers … and realizing their own boondoggle projects. If Ben Bernanke were a teenaged girl, his name would be written on every public bathroom wall in town...

http://dailyreckoning.com/whats-the-purpose-of-a-correction/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

06/25/09

While the Ayattolahs in Iran are intimidating people into ceasing their criticism of the government, U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are doing the same here in the United States, specifically in the trial of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which is currently taking place in Las Vegas. Upset with critical comments posted by American citizens regarding the prosecution of a man who used gold and silver coins issued by the U.S. mint as legal tender, the prosecutors have been abusing their power to issue grand-jury subpoenas...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-06-25.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The solution is not more politics
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Fawn Johnson, The Wall Street Journal: "Congressional investigators have discovered that large health insurers in every region of the country are relying on faulty databases to underpay millions of valid insurance claims."

http://www.truthout.org/062509HA?n



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Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor: "Americans got an in-depth peek inside the government's management of the financial crisis Thursday, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a Congressional panel he did not threaten the jobs of officials at Bank of America. At the hearing, Mr. Bernanke faced tough questioning about whether the Fed exerted inappropriate pressure on Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis to press forward with a planned merger with Merrill Lynch late last year. At that time, Mr. Lewis had learned about some $12 billion in unexpected losses at Merrill."

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Tara Lohan, AlterNet: "It turns out that figuring out the most simple thing - like what's on your dinner plate, and where it came from - is actually a pretty subversive act. That's what director Robert Kenner found out while spending six years putting together the amazing new documentary, 'Food Inc.,' which features prominent food writers Michael Pollan ('The Omnivore's Dilemma') and Eric Schlosser ('Fast Food Nation')."

http://www.truthout.org/062509R?n



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JOE CONASON

truthdig.com - If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year -l or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" - then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption. The excuses sound different, but all of these lawmakers have something in common - namely, their abject dependence on campaign contributions from the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations fighting against real reform.

http://caf.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VDXasyEFy2bMKvUJrwdDOvBmJXKUKpEB



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Louis Wolf, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "Today, Thursday June 25th Congress will to vote on an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act which would require the School of the Americas/WHINSEC to release to the public the names, ranks, countries of origin, courses taken and dates of attendance of all the students and instructors at the institute. The School of the America's, renamed WHINSEC, is an organization founded with the explicit purpose of teaching its students the science of torture and interrogation techniques. Its records have been concealed, and for the most part its dealings shrouded in mystery."

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