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In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

06/09/09

A CNN headline, reporting Obama’s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, read ‘Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world.’ Perhaps that captures his intent, but more significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or more accurately, omitted. Keeping just to Israel-Palestine — there was nothing substantive about anything else — Obama called on Arabs and Israelis not to ‘point fingers’ at each other or to ’see this conflict only from one side or the other.’ There is, however, a third side, that of the United States, which has played a decisive role in sustaining the current conflict. Obama gave no indication that its role should change or even be considered. Those familiar with the history will rationally conclude, then, that Obama will continue in the path of unilateral U.S. rejectionism...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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LewRockwell.Com
by Bill Bonner

06/11/09

The dumb money is fairly easy to spot. It’s the money that always shows up late to the party, wearing yesterday’s fashions. It watches TV and thinks the reality shows show reality … it thinks Ben Bernanke is a great economist … that the SEC protects investors from fraud and misrepresentation … and that Tim Geithner makes sure the economy keeps running smoothly. It’s the dumb money that thinks you can correct a generation-long period of credit growth in 24 months … with less than 10% unemployment … Stocks have now been in a rally for three months. The longer this goes on, of course, the dumber money gets. People come to think the bounce is a permanent bull market...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner388.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Pro Libertate
by William Grigg

06/10/09

As a means of forcing non-violent citizens (’subjects’ is actually the proper word) to submit to police in which there is no legitimate suspicion of a criminal act, ‘pain compliance’ is nothing other than a species of torture: Submit, helot — instantaneously and without back-talk — or Officer Pavlov with get out the sizzle-stick and make you do the electron dance. With police regularly using Tasers to administer summary punishment to non-compliant civilians, it’s not surprising that their use has now been authorized as a means of extracting self-incriminating evidence from criminal suspects...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Raw Story

06/10/09

According to an analysis by a New Jersey law professor, the Pentagon’s recent survey alleging that one in seven Guantanamo Bay prisoners return to terrorism is deeply flawed. His analysis also reveals the Pentagon has refused to identify 60 percent of the men they claim have returned to terrorism, saying the information is classified. The latest Pentagon recidivism analysis documents 74 recidivists, but lacks 45 names, adding that of the 29 names given, only half are labeled ‘confirmed’ recidivists. Seton Hall University Professor Mark Denbeaux, who wrote the report, also alleges the analysis includes men who were never held at Guantanamo...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christine Kearney, Reuters: "Bigger-breasted chickens fattened artificially. New strains of deadly E. coli bacteria. A food supply controlled by a handful of corporations. The documentary 'Food, Inc.' opens in the United States on Friday and portrays these purported dangers and changes in the US food industry, asserting harmful effects on public health, the environment, and worker and animal rights."

http://www.truthout.org/061009HA



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At this rate, your share of the load will be $155,000 in a decade. How chronic deficits are putting the country on a path to fiscal collapse.

http://snipurl.com/jutak



Unemployment at 10% to Depress Consumer Spending, Survey Shows

Surging unemployment in the U.S. will delay a recovery in consumer spending and mute the rebound when it does materialize, according to a Bloomberg News survey.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aSqyoDA4ePbg



Median home prices drop below 1989 levels

Properties in several areas are selling for less than they did 20 years ago, and that's not including inflation. Some first-time buyers are nabbing houses for less than what their parents paid.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cheaphomes10-2009jun10,0,7772530,full.story


From Information Clearing House



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By Mikhail Gorbachev

America was the main architect, and America's elite the main beneficiary, of the current world economic model. That model is now cracking and will, sooner or later, be replaced. That will be a complex and painful process for everyone, including the United States.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22808.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are at ease with their country's aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, which has resulted in a million dead Muslim civilians and several million refugees, because the US government has filled Americans with fear of terrorists. "We have to kill them over there before they come over here."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22807.htm



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