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CounterPunch
by Barry Lando

02/04/10

It is amazing how Henry Kissinger has been able to retain his aura of invincible genius in international relations, continuing to counsel presidents, foreign governments and major global businesses, while occasionally writing lofty Op Ed pieces advising the U.S. on what it should or should not be doing next. This mind you, despite Kissinger’s own history of monumental cynicism and duplicity when he was guiding foreign policy for President’s Nixon and Ford. Indeed, it’s a tribute to the ability of mainstream American media to forgive and forget. The latest example is an Op Ed piece Kissinger just wrote for the New York Times warning American leaders that they are no longer giving Iraq the attention it deserves...

https://counterpunch.org/lando02042010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Kissinger's 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide

The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine.

https://community.marketwatch.com/groups/us-politics/topics/kissingers-1974-plan-food-control


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Portales News-Tribune

02/05/10

Job losses during the Great Recession have been huge and they’re about to get bigger. When the Labor Department releases the January unemployment report Friday, it will also update its estimate of jobs lost in the year that ended in March 2009. The number is expected to rise by roughly 800,000, raising the number of jobs shed during the recession to around 8 million...

https://tinyurl.com/yjdr4ds


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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More Government Equals Fewer Jobs
https://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff72.1.html

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A Nation in Decline

by Tom DeWeese

Many politicians are asking the question today: “Why are the American People so angry?” The following may lend a clue to the clueless. According to the annual “Index on Economic Freedom,” produced by the Heritage Foundation, the United States now ranks 8th, just behind Canada. That’s a drop of two full points since last year, and the largest drop of all nations in overall economic freedom.........

https://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom159.htm



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https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147012



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Nach dem Bericht von "Feeding in America" haben letztes Jahr 37 Millionen Menschen Hilfe von der Organisation angenommen, 46 Prozent mehr als 2005.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147018

US-Behörde gewährt bestimmten Verdächtigen auf den "Terrorlisten" absichtlich Zugang ins Land.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147019



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Most of us Americans have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for our country's fighting men who have served--and are serving--within the US Armed Forces. We appreciate their willingness to put themselves in harm's way for the preservation of our nation's liberty and independence. We honor their sacrifice. Indeed, many of us share that sacrifice with the deaths, dismemberments, and paralysis of our most cherished loved ones who were killed or injured in the line of duty. It is time, however, that we awaken to the reality of what our military is becoming and where it is heading. Suffice it to say, this is not your father's army.........

https://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin567.htm

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When the military serves as police

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

02/04/10

What happens when the military is used in a police capacity? You get a ‘war on terrorism,’ one in which people think that the laws of war now apply to the situation. But in actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. What you actually get is a criminal-justice problem that inevitably goes horribly awry, causing the problem to escalate into a deadly and destructive horror story...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com1002b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan128.html

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How to get our democracy back

The Nation
by Lawrence Lessig

02/04/10

We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy’s history. The feeling was palpable — to supporters and opponents alike — that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time. Yet a year into the presidency of Barack Obama, it is already clear that this administration is an opportunity missed. Not because it is too conservative. Not because it is too liberal. But because it is too conventional...

https://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig



He’s a yuppie

The New Republic
by John B. Judis

02/04/10

Here is a fact: Barack Obama has trouble generating enthusiasm among white working class voters. That’s not because they are white. He would have had trouble winning support among black working class voters if they had been unable to identify with him because he was black. He has trouble with working class voters because he appears to them as coming from a different world, a different realm of experience, a different class, if you like. And that’s because he does...

https://www.tnr.com/article/politics/hes-yuppie


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How to Get Our Democracy Back: Lawrence Lessig Says "If We Want to Change, We Have to Change Congress"

https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/05-0

Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-0

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Walk a Mile...

By Sheila Sample

It's time for Obama to put aside empty, soaring speeches and come to grips with who his enemies really are. It's time for him to step onto dry land and walk a mile in his own shoes -- while he still has a pair.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24606.htm



Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own

By Murray Polner

Barack Obama was going to be different, or so my fellow antiwar liberals- and a few antiwar conservatives- hoped. He was to herald the end of that uncompromising and unilateral era of preventive war.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24617.htm



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https://www.ufppc.org/ufppc-statements-mainmenu-29/9386/

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Explosive News

By Jennifer Harper

A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24856.htm



Liz Cheney Says Terrorists Have No Rights

Also, you're a terrorist

By Dahlia Lithwick

Ten years ago, an accused terrorist still had the right to a trial, for instance. But thanks to people like Liz Cheney and her dad, the Sixth Amendment right to a "speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury" is gone, once you've been branded a terrorist.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24930.htm



Proof that 9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous

By Washington's Blog

This is a list of people who question what our Government has said about 9/11. The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are dangerous.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24942.htm

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Flip Flop: White House Considering Military Trials for 9/11 Suspects
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/05-2

9/11 Families Urge Obama to Keep Promise To Prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Civilian Court
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/05-4

9/11 Suspects Should Face Civilian Court, UN Envoys Say
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/09-8

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Tell President Obama: Don't Betray Your Promise
https://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=VeaXlD35oWEazrdEQYGzmw..

Don't Let President Obama Flip Flop on Federal Trials
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Outrage Over Latest Round of Bonuses for AIG Employees

Grace Huang, Truthout: "AIG planned to pay out about $100 million in bonuses Wednesday to many of its employees who worked in a division of the firm that was largely responsible for the insurance giant's spectacular meltdown."

https://www.truthout.org/outrage-over-latest-round-bonuses-aig-employees56656

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Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein gets stock-based $9 million bonus:

The amount, although eye-popping by Main Street standards, is smaller than the stock-based bonuses his rivals received for 2009. On Friday, J.P. Morgan Chase said it would award $17 million to chief executive Jamie Dimon.

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Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs

By Richard Teitelbaum

The New York Fed, which secretly engineered the bailout, prevented the full publication of the document for more than a year.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24857.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Wall Street wants a refund

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

02/10/10

‘Buyer’s remorse’ is the way Senator John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans’ fundraiser, gleefully refers to Wall Street moguls’ current disenchantment with the US president they thought they had bought. They didn’t like it when Barack Obama, after a year of throwing trillions of American taxpayer dollars into the bailout sinkhole, dared remark that he had hoped there might be some return for ordinary folks trying to save their jobs and homes. Not just huge bonuses for the folks the president dared refer to as ‘fat cats.’ ‘That’s it!’ the moguls declared, and promptly shifted their political donations from Democrats to Republicans...

https://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/scheer


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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