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Defense Systems

The push for development of aircraft that can conduct offensive operations of either an electromagnetic or cyber nature against enemy forces is being done ...

https://defensesystems.com/articles/2010/05/07/army-airborne-systems.aspx?admgar



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Frankfurter Rundschau

Einige Hochfrequenz-Zocker bestätigten, dass sie während des Absturzes automatisch mit dem Handel aussetzten. Das beschleunigte nach Ansicht von Analysten ...

https://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2620121_Rechner-uebernehmen-die-Wall-Street.html



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from Reason to Freedom
by Sandra Price

My personal mistake was to assume The United States of America was based on a Constitution barring the government from involvement in the lives of her Citizens. The 10th Amendment handed civilian laws to the States. Not believing in any supernatural ghost I believed the Separation of Church and State was covered by the First Amendment but has since been removed due to the influx of Christians living/voting in the nation. Now it seems that our Constitutional Republic is now a Democracy under Christian tenets i.e. a Theocracy...

https://www.reasontofreedom.com/humanism_american_politics.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/06/10

The Pentagon’s system, for example, encompasses the power to waterboard and otherwise torture people who the feds suspect are guilty of terrorism. The defendant is presumed guilty and treated as such. There is no right to a speedy trial, and defendants can be held forever without a trial. If a trial is ultimately held, the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by a kangaroo tribunal consisting of military officials, not by regular Americans from the community...

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-05-06.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Downward Slope of Empire

Talking With Chalmers Johnson

By HARRY KREISLER

"Blowback" is a CIA term that means retaliation, or payback. It was first used in the after-action report on our first clandestine overthrow of a foreign government, the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25397.htm



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Markets fluctuate wildly as Greek rescue effort fails to reassure anyone
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9578/

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Globalization Is the Contagion: On the Idiocy of Interdependency

Kent Welton, Op-Ed News: "Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value of its currency. But the stitching together of so many diverse countries and cultures into one unit, with one currency, has presented far more problems than it has solved and, worse, has removed national and cultural liberty, sovereignty, as well as necessary freedom for tariff-based re-balancing mechanisms."

https://www.truthout.org/globalization-the-idiocy-interdependency59258

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Euro-Bankers Demand of Greece

The wealthy won't pay their taxes, so labor must do so.

By Michael Hudson

Financial lobbyists are using the Greek crisis as an object lesson to warn about the need to cut back public spending on Social Security and Medicare.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25422.htm



"The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe"

By Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot

'People are asking, in Greece and elsewhere, "How come we are being victimized? All the cuts in public spending affect us; they don't affect the rich. And why are the bankers not being punished? Well, why is this system, the system created by neoliberalism, of deregulation, of actually legalizing financial speculation, why is this not being stopped?"

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25421.htm



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Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

05/04/10

Government’s typical answer to security threats is to respond with bigger bureaucracies (more people to share irresponsibility) and more repressive, stronger-looking enforcement. Organizations that exist because of, and in pursuit of, consensual association are generally more flexible, and do not waste time and cooperative potential trying to become the dominant bureaucracy in the power structure. When a bureaucratic mindset conflates the organization’s power with the safety of people it is assigned to protect, the incentive is to consolidate and expand power, not to work with people outside your tribe for mutual benefit...

https://c4ss.org/content/2383


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why the Left Has No Answer to the Right-Wing Lie Machine

Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers: "What if there were a great debate concerning the nature and future of American society, and only one side showed up? That approximately describes the condition of the US media today."

https://www.truthout.org/why-left-has-no-answer-right-wing-lie-machine59220



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Root for America
by Wayne Allyn Root

05/05/10

Greece’s problem is Europe’s problem … and following closely behind, America’s problem too. We’re all Greeks now. Quite simply, Greece’s problem starts and ends with government employee unions. There are too many government employees (1 in 3 Greek citizens works for government); their salaries are way too high; their bonuses can only be described as insane (2 months for each public employee); their pensions are ridiculous (retirement far too young and free healthcare for life); and their government jobs are guaranteed for life. Sounds crazy, right? Sounds like in Greece the inmates must be running the asylum. Except America has the exact same problem...

https://rootforamerica.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry100505-143902


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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UK budget deficit 'to surpass Greece's as worst in EU'

European commission's spring forecasts put UK budget deficit this year at 12% of GDP - the highest in the European Union and worse than Treasury estimates.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/05/uk-budget-deficit-worse-than-greece


From Information Clearing House

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Euro crash a surprise?
https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/840.html



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

In a press conference yesterday about Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who allegedly tried to blow up the car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder stated, ‘The reality that there is a constant threat from those who wish to do us harm simply because of our way of life.’ We haven’t yet heard any public statements from Shahzad himself. But my hunch is that the ‘way of life’ that allegedly motivated him has to do with what the U.S. government has been doing to people in the Middle East...

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-05-05.asp



Glenn Beck gets it right

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

05/05/10

The Times Square car bomb, while certainly capable of inflicting death on scores of innocents and destroying nearby structures, hardly qualifies for WMD designation and indeed would seem to mock our highly warranted concern over such threats. The case is also a reminder that the massive defense budgets for high-tech warfare that have pushed close to a trillion dollars a year since the 9/11 attack are beside the point in countering terrorists who turn firecrackers into bombs. This man was caught because of old-fashioned police work, after officers were alerted initially by a vigilant Times Square T-shirt peddler. And while some Republican politicians, led by Sen. John McCain, attempted to turn this into an occasion for attacking civil liberties and stoking the Miranda rights debate, it is clear that the investigation moved forward in an extremely effective and expeditious manner with full regard for constitutional protections. Credit Glenn Beck of Fox News for breaking with that sort of demagoguery and asserting that the rule of law is basic to our freedom and not just an inconvenient indulgence...

https://www.thenation.com/article/glenn-beck-gets-it-right


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Treatment of Muslims blamed for plot

Set in motion just two months ago, the plan to explode a sports utility vehicle in Times Square was born of Faisal Shahzad's anger about US treatment of Muslims, a law enforcement source has said.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/treatment-of-muslims-blamed-for-plot-20100506-uh32.html



Joe Lieberman bill would strip suspects' citizenship

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) thinks he's found a work-around on the whole Miranda rights debate for U.S. citizens accused of terrorism: Strip their citizenship and ship them to Guantanamo.

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36741.html



Here's how Joe Lieberman's citizenship-stripping bill would work

Two things you should know about this: First, it isn't just some paranoid liberal nightmare. It's actually moving forward.

https://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/how_liebermans_citizen-strippi.html



Shahzad on U.S. Travel Security List Since 1999

Would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a U.S government travel lookout list - Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) - between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the United States.

https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20004263-10391695.html



Terror Watch List Counter: A Million Plus

Why are there so many names on the U.S. government's terrorist list?
https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/terror-watch-list-counter-million-plus



Miran-Duhhhhh!

By Matt Taibbi

Memo to those Tea Party activists out there who've been howling about those liberal wusses in the Obama Justice Department who read Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights: congratulations. You've just opened the door for a major new expansion of government power.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25419.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Our First Line of Defense

Eugene Robinson: "The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could - proving, once again, that viewing terrorism exclusively in a military context is wrong. It's a police matter, too."

https://www.truthout.org/eugene-robinson-our-first-line-defense59253

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Softening Miranda Rights?
https://act.commondreams.org/go/572?akid=54.124981.GHcpQs&t=14

From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard
https://act.commondreams.org/go/771?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=32



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