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Kyle Berlin, Truthout: "Two lawmakers introduced a bill this week aimed at adding an amendment to the US Constitution, which would allow Congress and the states to regulate political expenditures by corporations."

https://www.truthout.org/bill-introduced-calling-constitutional-amendment-tackle-campaign-finance-ruling56658

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Donna Edwards' No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/04

How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/04-3

GOP Chases Wall Street Donors
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/04-10

GOP to Filibuster Jobs Bill, Double-Down on Wall Street Banks
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/05

In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to GOP
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/08

Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Supreme Court's Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling on Corporate Money
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/09-0



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first-ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight years. An annotated version of the list is available here."

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Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "Here's a quick quiz: What do Ted Kennedy, Cat Stevens and Nelson Mandela have in common? Okay, so that's an easy one for you folks with attention spans longer than it takes to type out a tweet. Indeed, all of these luminaries have appeared on the 'No-Fly List,' also known as the 'Terrorist Watch List,' which is used to prevent suspect persons from being able to fly on commercial aircraft in or out of the United States. The list was established after 9/11, and is estimated to contain perhaps half a million names, although its precise workings are shrouded by the vicissitudes of 'national security.'"

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Bottom up resistance to the GOP’s attempted top down takeover of the tea party movement

Poli-Tea
by d.eris

02/08/10

Is it possible that the GOP’s public hijacking of the tea party movement could turn out to be a grave strategic error? Is it possible that the attempted coup will solidify resistance to the co-optation of the movement by the representatives of the establishment parties and their political apparatus? One thing is certain: if tea party activists do not fight to maintain their political independence, they will soon find themselves deprived of it...

https://tinyurl.com/yj8evvy



Sarah Palin’s storm at the tea party

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

02/08/10

At the Memphis party on Saturday, someone in the audience asked her about the prospects for what he called the ‘two words that scare liberals — President Palin.’ Let’s be clear on why those words should terrify anyone with a thinking brain. Palin is someone who has clearly never seriously thought through any issue of national importance on her own. She’s excellent at reciting a raucous speech, but she can’t improvise a coherent sentence, which usually reflects an inability to form a coherent idea. … She is deluded enough to believe (or at least to say Sunday morning on Fox News) that her brief, aborted stint as Alaska’s governor gave her more executive experience than President Obama has even now. She believes that the country should elect leaders, including presumably herself, who seek solutions in ‘divine intervention’...

https://www.slate.com/id/2244062/



To tea or not to tea

Nolan Chart
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
02/09/10

[I]t is heartening to see so many Americans with genuine anger, frustration and disgust about American politics and government. I share these feelings. Great motivation, but what it is producing seems little more than an avenue for racist views and desire to strengthen the Republican Party, which when it had considerable political power did far more to advance corporate interests and the wealthy than helping ordinary Americans. We need a populist Second American Revolution...

https://www.nolanchart.com/article7355.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER TEA PARTY: SAHRA PALIN
https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/e6cee3afe7a7e2f3?hl=en

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A Warning to the Tea Party Nation

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

And now I hear that there are some self-professed members of the Tea Party Nation who are actually running for Congressman Paul's US House seat in Texas. If this is not a sign that establishment Republicans are hijacking the Tea Party movement, I don't know what is. I say again, be careful, Tea Party Nation. You are being infiltrated. You are being compromised. You are being neutered. Stick to your principles. Stick with the Constitution.........

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Secession Is In the Air
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sale2.1.1.html

Nullification, Secession, and the Human Scale of Political Order
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/nullification-secession-human-scale.html

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Secession and economic collapse

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Russell D. Longcore

01/31/10

Economic collapse in the United States is inevitable. But because the dollar is currently the world’s reserve currency, when the US gets sick, so will the rest of the world. Tragically, the worst of the consequences for regular people will happen here in America.

https://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle555-20100131-05.html



Secession in the air

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/12/10

No, it is not 1860 again. But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession — following Gov. Rick Perry’s misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a right to secede — one might think so. Chalk up another one for those Tea Party activists who exploded in cheers when Sister Sarah brought up the dread word in endorsing Rick Perry in the primary. Looking back in American history, however, these ideas, these sentiments, decried as insane inside the Beltway, were once as American as ‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’...

https://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/12/secession-in-the-air/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court

https://act.commondreams.org/go/618?akid=56.124981.xQsU-n&t=38



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Global Insolvency

By: Bob Chapman

How can the US conceivably extricate itself from debt? That is $1 to $2 trillion deficits annually as far as the eye can see. It is already bogged down in an occupation in Iraq and a war in Afghanistan that stretches into Pakistan. That is all off budget, but it stretches already to more than $1 trillion. Then there is the phony, phantom war on terror the cost of which is unknown.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24584.htm



The Crisis Is Not Over

By Paul Craig Roberts

Readers ask if the financial crisis is over, if the recovery is for real and, if not, what are Americans' prospects. The short answer is that the financial crisis is not over, the recovery is not real, and the U.S. faces a far worse crisis than the financial one.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24576.htm



FHA Defaults Foreshadow A Crush Of Foreclosures

By Dina ElBoghdady and Dan Keating

February 02, 2010 "Washington Post" -- The share of borrowers who are falling seriously behind on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration jumped by more than a third in the past year, foreshadowing a crush of foreclosures that could further buffet an agency vital to the housing market's recovery.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24579.htm



Study: Hunger in America Jumps 'Unprecedented' 46 Percent

By Daniel Tencer

The study, Hunger in America 2010, found that 37 million people, or roughly one in eight US residents, received food aid in 2009. That's a 46 percent jump from a similar survey carried out in 2006.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24581.htm

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The Obama Budget and the Horse You Rode In On
https://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo30.1.html

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Deficit deja vu

Heartland Institute
by Steve Stanek

02/05/10

President Barack Obama Tuesday (Feb. 2, 2010) introduced his budget for next fiscal year. To put it into perspective, consider this: The estimated budget deficit — just the deficit — almost matches the entire federal budget when George W. Bush became president in 2001. A strong case could be made that Bush and Obama represent the most fiscally irresponsible back-to-back presidencies in national history...

https://tinyurl.com/ylxj83l



How government (mostly) created financial crisis

Orange Punch
by Alan Bock

02/05/10

Of course, there are reasons that the narrative survives and, in fact, dominates most conventional discourse — not surprising given that the president has the biggest megaphone in the country, and most of the media simply parrot him: The financial crisis was caused by private greed and unwarranted risk-taking, even ‘predatory lending.’ People in government want you to believe they saved us from all that and have the formula to prevent it ever happening again, if we’ll just cede them the power. So the role of government policies and institutions in creating the crisis is an inconvenient aspect that we don’t need to mention in polite society. That’s why a book like Johan Norberg’s ‘Financial Fiasco’ is so essential to understanding the recent past and charting a course for the future...

https://tinyurl.com/yb5ljd3



The wrong manhood test

Cato Institute
by Christopher Preble and Heather Hurlburt

02/04/10

In last week’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that he would freeze government spending for three years, excepting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and ’spending related to our national security.’ This week, we can see what that blanket exemption for the Pentagon will cost us. The base budget (which excludes war costs) weighs in at a whopping $548.9 billion, the largest since the end of World War II. Military spending advocates might note that this represents just a 3.4 percent increase over last year, but inflation-adjusted spending on national defense has ballooned by 60 percent over the past 10 years...

https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11199


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Budget Deficit Crisis Puzzle

Dean Baker, Truthout: "The country faces a serious crisis in the form of a manufactured crisis over the budget deficit. This is a crisis because concerns over the size of the budget deficit are preventing the government from taking the steps needed to reduce the unemployment rate. This creates the absurd situation where we have millions of people who are unemployed, not because of their own lack of skills or unwillingness to work, but because people like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke mismanaged the economy."

https://www.truthout.org/the-budget-deficit-crisis-crisis56749



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By Noam Chomsky

Now corporate managers can in effect buy elections directly, bypassing more complex indirect means.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24588.htm



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Amid Media Blackout

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

By Alex Lantier

The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24577.htm



UK: Army may patrol streets to confront "terror threat"

Britain's armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defence review announced yesterday.

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