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Liberty For All
by Rob Natelson

04/26/10

A constitutional republic that had endured for centuries was now breaking down. The signs were everywhere. Constitutional limits on political power were dissolving; politicians were increasingly demagogic and unrestrained. Magistrates secured the passage of sweeping laws by evading normal legislative procedures. Large portions of the citizenry now depended on plunder seized by those politicians and distributed to their supporters...

https://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4179


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

04/27/10

Members of the Army National Guard and Reserves have been rotating in and out of the two-front war with such regularity it’s become difficult to tell the difference between the ‘part timers’ and the active-duty force — with one major distinction. Guardsmen and reservists go back to civilian jobs in between their multiple tours. Many are police officers. In fact, police departments across the country are actively recruiting part-time soldiers and veterans because their acquired ’skill set’ apparently makes them a desired fit for this line of work. So what happens when they bring the war to work with them?

https://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/04/26/killer-cocktail/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "This is deficit-fest week with President Obama's deficit commission scheduled to have its big public kickoff on Tuesday, followed by an all-day affair sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Institute the next day. If the deficit hawks succeed, everyone should be really really scared about the deficit by the end of the week and just dying to cut Social Security and Medicare for the sake of our grandchildren."

https://www.truthout.org/the-deficit-and-our-children-just-facts58864



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Let me ask readers a question. What's more important: freedom and its undergirding principles, or the entity meant to protect it? A word of caution: be careful how you answer that question, because the way you answer marks your understanding (or lack thereof) of both freedom and the purpose of government.........

https://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin585.htm



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Socialism vs Corporatism
https://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul665.html

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Obama has ignored coalition that elected him

Fox News Forum
by Andrea Tantaros

04/26/10

As the country finds itself the most divided it’s been in years, the man who promised to unite us is trying to patch the same coalition that propelled him into office back together as the 2010 midterm elections approach. Obama released a video to supporters, specifically singling out ‘young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008.’ These are demographics that Obama, ever the serial campaigner, has largely ignored since taking office. … They are also groups that did not make a showing in the elections in Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey, forcing many of us in the punditry world to question whether or not Obama be an effective tool for anyone in his party, other than himself...

https://tinyurl.com/27d244x



Corporatism equally loved by left and right

Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed

05/11/10

In a free society every free marketeer is held accountable by every other participant in the market — shopper, buyer, user, investor, consumer, stockholder — because there is no coercive government protecting the marketeer’s profits and choking off competition. That’s the role of corporatists. Corporatism exists where government-created and subsidized corporate entities and politicians each have a hand in the other’s pocket...

https://tinyurl.com/28n5egc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The backlash begins

A new state law has galvanised Latinos nationwide, and others too.
https://snipurl.com/w2790


From Information Clearing House



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Imperial Crime and Complicity
https://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case42.1.html

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More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship

"Before, no one would dare mention to other Americans that they were even thinking of renouncing their U.S. nationality. Now, it is an openly discussed issue."

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/us/26expat.html?hp


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Somewhere above earth is America's latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7106714.ece



US moving towards 'high-altitude' weaponry era with Falcon, X-37B launches

One part of the program aims to develop a reusable, rapid-strike Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle (HCV), and the other is for the development of a launch system capable of accelerating a HCV to cruise speeds, as well as launching small satellites into Earth orbit.

https://snipurl.com/vswv6



Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon

The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/4203874


From Information Clearing House

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The Alien Menace
https://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo79.html



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The Shadow Banking System Blew Up

By Mike Whitney

Do you understand the root-cause of the financial crisis? Not many people do, which is why congress' attempt to regulate the system will probably fail and there will be another crisis in couple of years.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25321.htm



Studies Reveal Americans' Declining Living Standards and Increasing Anger

By Hiram Lee

The restructuring of society taking place, in the direct interests of the corporate-financial elite and at the expense of the working population, is not occurring unnoticed.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25312.htm



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Demand an Afghanistan Exit Strategy
https://act.commondreams.org/go/362?akid=33.124981.jnZ9sr&t=22

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Yes, We Could ... Get Out! Why We Won't Leave Afghanistan or Iraq

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Yes, we could. No kidding. We really could withdraw our massive armies, now close to 200,000 troops combined, from Afghanistan and Iraq (and that's not even counting our similarly large stealth army of private contractors, which helps keep the true size of our double occupations in the shadows). We could undoubtedly withdraw them all reasonably quickly and reasonably painlessly."

https://www.truthout.org/why-we-wont-leave-afghanistan-or-iraq58869



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The buy now-pay later generation flounders amidst recession realities.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/huge-debt-zero-savings.html



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