Friday, December 31, 2010

NORAD Track Santa in 2009



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Have you made a New Year's resolution to learn a new language?
Well, if you have, how about learning the Thai language? If
you've ever thought of traveling to Thailand--an exotic country--
a country you may have wanted to visit in your golden years.
A.U.A. has a Thai course available that might interest you at:

http://tinyurl.com/36co4ff

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Justice Has Prevailed

Khodorkovsky's Trip to the Slammer: "Booyah, Putin"

By Mike Whitney

Khodorkovsky was convicted because he's a crook and
because the Russian justice system is less corrupt
than the one in the US. Continue

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America Has Gone Away

Paul Craig Roberts

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient
fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault
on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing
citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Continue

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Who was George Carlin? One heck of a great and revolutionary
comedian. His life in an autobiographical form written before
his death (that makes sense, huh?) at: http://tinyurl.com/2ayowkm

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YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS - George Carlin
George Carlin speaking the truth and poking some fun
at it. comedy bill hicks totalitarian government congress
cheney hillary clinton barack obama ...

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Political Essay by 93-year-old Tops Christmas
Bestseller List in France Resistance hero Stéphane
Hessel stuns publishing world with 30-page work
that calls on readers to be outraged about society

By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

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The TSA's State-mandated Molestation

The humiliations of the pat down policy, which
Janet Napolitano wants to expand, are an
Orwellian assault on American freedom

By Jennifer Abel


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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available
at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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The U.S. Descends Into Total Police State as 2012 "Solar
Chaos" Fears Grow

By Sorcha Faal


A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared
for President Medvedev by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
says that the United States, in 2010, continued its headlong
descent into becoming one of the most feared police states
our modern World has ever seen.

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Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez

By Mike Whitney

While Bush and Obama were expanding their
foreign wars and pushing through tax cuts
for the rich, Chavez was busy improving the
lives of the poor and needy while fending off
the latest wave of US aggression. Continue

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
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Tortured Until Proven Guilty: Bradley Manning & the Case
Against Solitary Confinement

By Lynn Parramore

"It's an awful thing, solitary," wrote John McCain.

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Fox News' Tucker Carlson thinks Michael Vick should be executed

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

2011: by Paul Craig Roberts

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2011: Information Clearing House: ICH


By Pau l Craig Roberts


The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and
more intrusive police state, more unemployment
and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more
disregard by the U.S. government of U.S. law,
international law, the Constitution, and truth, more
suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility
from the rest of the world, and new heights of

media sycophancy.

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The Audacity of Depression

Rage fatigue, plastic dirt and happy hour
in techno-totalitarian America

By Joe Bageant

One of the best things about the hundred or
so book festivals in America is that, with luck,
a writer can manage to get drunk with some
of his or her readers. And with more luck, the
readers pick up the tab. Bear in mind that 90%
of all real writers, people for whom writing is
their sole income, spend much of their time
counting their change in the rest room of the
hotels where they are being put up while on
tour. Believe me, there are better rackets than
writing.

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2011: Prospects for Humanity?

By Francis A. Boyle

Future, what future? I am extremely pessimistic.
In my opinion the world is moving ineluctably
towards a third world war—a strategic nuclear
war. I do not believe that anything can be done
to prevent it. Continue

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WikiLeaks May Spawn New Sedition Act

By Bob Barr

We can only hope Jefferson’s wisdom and
understanding will speak from across the
ages to shine the bright light of constitutional
truth on such dark plans. Continue

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The Working Poor

By EC Blog

As the middle class in America continues
to be slowly wiped out, the number of
working poor continues to increase.
Today, nearly one out of every three
families in the United States is considered
to be "low income". Continue

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Struggling for Peace in the Season of Christmas

By Tom Turnipseed

With over a trillion dollars budgeted for the
military and defense related expenditures
in 2011 we should emulate Gandhi, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Jesus who engaged in
civil disobedience and gave their all for peace
and poor people. Continue

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The Government's One-way Mirror

By Glenn Greenwald

One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian
government is its fixation on hiding everything
it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously
monitoring, invading and collecting files on
everything its citizenry does. Based on the Francis
Bacon aphorism that "knowledge is power,"
this is the extreme imbalance that renders the
ruling class omnipotent and citizens powerless.
Continue

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Avatar Story Was So True to Life

By Jonathan Glennie

Sadly, the violent displacement of indigenous
people by ruthless companies doesn't happen
just on screen. Continue

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The Making Of A War Criminal

Video Documentary

"A fascinating, bombshell documentary that
should shame Americans, regardless of
whether or not ultimate blame finally lies
with Kissinger. Should be required viewing
for civics classes and would-be public
servants alike." Continue

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest
published book"Political Instincts: A Novel of
Amazing Thailand" is available at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Chris Hedges' Columns: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia

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2011: A Brave New D;ystopia

By Chris Hedges'

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were
George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s
“Brave New World.” The debate, between those
who watched our descent towards corporate
totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be,
as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive
surveillance and security state that used crude and
violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley
envisioned, entranced by entertainment and
spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced
by profligate consumption to embrace our own
oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were
both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement.
Orwell saw the second. (more).

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available
at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

 The Next Financial Meltdown  :      Information Clearing House: ICH

The Next Financial Meltdown The Day of Reckoning

Must Watch Video

The day of reckoning is at hand. Steve Kroft tells
us what we need to know about the looming
financial crisis that almost no one is talking
about. Continue

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Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’

By Robert Scheer

Holbrooke’s life marks the propensity of our elite
institutions to turn out alpha leaders with simplistic
world-ordering ambitions unrestrained by moral
conscience or intellectual humility. Continue

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President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T
(and Comcast and Verizon)

By Amy Goodman

Obama is clearly in the back seat, being driven
by Internet giants like AT&T, Verizon and
Comcast. With him is his appointed chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission,
Julius Genachowski, his Harvard Law School
classmate and basketball pal who just pushed
through a rule on network neutrality that
Internet activists consider disastrous. Continue

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Gerald Celente - 2009 Outlook




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Monitoring America

By Dana Priest and SWilliam M. Arkin

The United States is assembling a vast domestic
intelligence apparatus to collect information about
Americans, using the FBI, local police, state
homeland security offices and military criminal
investigators. Continue

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Reaganomics

By Paul Craig Roberts

No one in the Reagan administration realized
that the demise of the Soviet Empire would
result in an American Empire whose annual
trillion dollar military budgets would be financed
by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and income
support programs for the poor. Continue

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Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail

By Chris Hedges

The sophisticated forms of industrial killing,
coupled with the amoral decisions of politicians
and military leaders who direct and fund war,
hide war’s reality from public view. Continue

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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7166293n


The Next Financial Meltdown State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning
Must Watch VideoThe day of reckoning is at hand. Steve Kroft
tells us what we need to know about the looming financial
crisis that almost no one is talking about. Continue

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Corporate America's Plan to Loot Our Pensions

Latest Battle in Decades-Long Assault on the
Middle Class

By Arun Gupta

While the safety net is being withered by attrition,
record corporate profits are deemed off-limits
for discussion about closing the budget gap. Continue

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Robert Reich The Year Washington Became
"Business Friendly"

Click here: http://t.co/Uh6AjrJ via @Truthout

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is
available at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Pentax K-5 vs Nikon D7000 vs Canon 7D - Specs Comparison Review

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Pentax K-5 vs Nikon D7000 vs Canon 7D - Specs Comparison Review

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(I, for some reason, love digital dslr's...and Pentax
got me into the mood when they introduced their
former flagship: the K10D. And I still love it with
all my heart because of all the bells and whistles.
Par excellence is my opinion with all the weather
sealing, the extremely high ISO sensitivity and low
noise ratio, including a 16.3 high resolution CMOS
sensor, full 1080p HD video capability, etc: what's
there not to like? So now, I'm proud to show you
the new aforementioned Pentax flagship: the K-5.
A real thing of beauty and function at your fingertips.
Have a look, you might just become enamored with
this latest jewel like I am. I guess I'll have to save
my money for the purchase, but it'll be worth it...!
Even if it takes me a year or so to get one. Anyway:
Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a Happy
and Prosperous New Year! Take care.)

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is
available at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Monday, December 20, 2010

  Exclusive: US Empire Could Collapse At Any Time, Pulitzer Winner Tells Raw Story By Nathan Diebenow

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US Empire Could Collapse At Any Time, Pulitzer Winner

By Nathan Diebenow

"We've undergone a corporate coup d'état in slow motion,"
he said. "Our public education system has been gutted.
Our infrastructure is corroding and collapsing. Unless we
begin to physically resist, they are going to solidify
neo-feudalism in this country." Continue

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Bernie Sanders Puts Barack Obama to Shame


By Matt Taibbi


In an era of Democratic waffling and compromise, the
Independent from Vermont actually stands up for
what he believes in. Continue

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available
at:http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Monday, December 13, 2010

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire :
Information Clearing House: ICH

By Alfred W. McCoy

"The Nation" - - A soft landing for America 40 years from now?
Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global
superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.
If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the
American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and
global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it
could all be over except for the shouting.

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Keith Olbermann: Obama Turned his Back on his Base

Video Special Comment

To paraphrase Churchill, again, let me begin by saying the
most unpopular and most unwelcome thing: "that we have
sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which
will travel far with us along our road. Continue

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Most Americans "Are Ignorant": Zbigniew Brzezinski

By Spiegel

I am very worried that most Americans are close to total
ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an
unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy
has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued.
Continue

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The Korean War, Part 2

By Mike Whitney

The Obama administration is moving closer to a
war with North Korea. Continue

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Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage
in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States


By Naomi Wolf

This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne
Feinstein engaged in acts of serious aggression
against their own constituents, and the American
people in general. Continue

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Op-Ed/Commentary by F. Scott Sinclair.

Copyright (C) 2010 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.

This truly is scary stuff..., believe me. What we should all
fear--or must be aware of--is the concept of Herd Mentality.
We'll act like Lemmings walking off a cliff if we're programmed
to do so. But it ain't over until the fat lady sings, and don't
forget that! You may not agree with Glenn Beck, but his
insights and foresights are uncanny, to the point of making
any normal person want to live in the mountains, store food
like a chipmuck, or a squirrel, bolting their doors and windows
shut, posting "No Trespassing" signs everywhere. I don't
believe sport shops have enough ammo in stock to pacify
their customers fears. What's happening to America?
Where is this all leading? I think, Glenn Beck, knows the
answer to that question, I'm afraid. But it's true... There's
one thing I know for sure: nobody else is addressing these
issues head-on like Glenn Beck. And I mean that: nobody!
Glenn is the Lone Ranger, and the only fellow on the block
with a lick of sense both "common" and "otherwise." Good
luck because we're all going to need it, my fellow Americans,
because America is in real dire straits: like never before.
Take care.

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Truth is the Greatest Enemy of the State.

By Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant
Secretary to the US Treasury, talk about
the WikiLeaks. Max asks Dr. Roberts about
what he thinks of what is happening to
WikiLeaks story. Click to view

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Post Mortem for the world's "Reserve Currency"

By Mike Whitney

The dollar's days as reserve currency
may be coming to an end, but it won't be
because China decided to jettison its pile
of US Treasuries. Continue

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/239anaa

I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand - Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

  AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM?

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AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM?: Information Clearing House: ICH

By Joe Bageant

A truly fascinating and provocative article that's simply
delicious and easily digestible. And that's saying something...

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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

 The Arrest of Julian Assange 

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 The Arrest of Julian Assange  :     
Information Clearing House: ICH

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book 
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available 
at: http://tinyurl.com/239anaa


I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand - Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF 
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

  Religion as a Tool of Repression    

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Information Clearing House: ICH


Religion as a Tool of Repression

By Charles Sullivan

Christian ministers teach their flock to reject the leftist ideology
of Christ by exchanging radicalism for obedience and principled
action for passivity. Continue

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Fabricating Terror

By Paul Craig Roberts

The United States of America, “the city upon the hill,”
“the light unto the world,” has become Nazi Germany.
Continue

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Take a sneak peek at:

A preview of Novelist F. Scott Sinclair's latest published book
"Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand" is available
at: http://tinyurl.com/239anaa


I sincerely hope you enjoy reading my latest published novel.

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Political Instincts: A Novel of Amazing Thailand - Bangkokbooks.com

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Semper Fi, Barack! Obamabush By Ralph "Hit the Nail on the Head" Nader

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Ralph Nader has done it again. Yup, he's hit the proverbial
nail on the head. Yes, he's called it as he see's it, and its
ugly for the recipients of his mighty pen. It's true..., the
pen is mightier than the sword, especially in the instant case.

Semper Fi, Barack! Obamabush

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Chris Hedges' Columns

Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

There is no hope left for achieving significant
reform or restoring our democracy through
established mechanisms of power. The electoral
process has been hijacked by corporations. The
judiciary has been corrupted and bought. The
press shuts out the most important voices in the
country and feeds us the banal and the absurd.
Universities prostitute themselves for corporate
dollars. Labor unions are marginal and ineffectual
forces. The economy is in the hands of.... (more)

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Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA_

TSA Responds to "Strip Search" Video of Boy

By Brian Montopoli

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Op-Ed

Cinderella Liberty: A Novel of America

By F. Scott Sinclair

If you'd like to experience the trauma of a
warrantless search (strip search, etc.),_
you might enjoy (or hate) reading the novel:
Cinderella Liberty: A Novel of America by
F. Scott Sinclair. Such novel was inspired by
and created as an outcome of a warrantless
search like the ones--but worse than--those
that TSA agents are conducting at this very
moment. Where was the outrage then...?! If
it doesn't happen to you, then it's okay. But
"what goes around, comes around." Isn't that
the way the old saw goes? Now, nearly all
Americans can enjoy "Cinderella Liberty:
A Novel of America" firsthand, at their local
airport...! So, you don't need to buy "Cinderella
Liberty: A Novel of America" to enjoy the book.
You can personally live the experience in
real-time: yes, a reality show in disguise,
with you as the leading lady or man--courtesy
of the TSA, et al. How does that sound?
Click here if you think you might be interested
in F. Scott's novel which some people might consider
a self-help book in disguise. It's the eyes of
the beholder, as always. Smooth sailing--or is
that: flying? Whatever... Take care.

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Memo to Ireland: "Tell the EU and the IMF to 'Shove It'"

By Mike Whitney

The Irish people didn't struggle through centuries
of famine and foreign occupation so they could
be debt-peons in the EU's corporate Uberstate.
Continue

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TSA Gestapo Empire

By Paul Craig Roberts

It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create
an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent
who took over the Transportation Security
Administration on July 1 told USA Today
16 days later that protecting trains and
subways from terrorist attacks will be as
high a priority for him as air travel. Continue

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Bernanke vs. Keynes

By Mike Whitney

Currently, businesses are sitting on nearly
$2 trillion, a record amount of cash. The
corporate coffers are full because business
leaders cannot find profitable outlets for
investment. Continue

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Technology Addiction and Virtual Reality

By Charles Sullivan

The pervasive addiction to complex technology
has led to the evolution of a passive consumer
culture that is incapable of acting in its own
self-interest. Continue

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/novelistfscott

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Monday, November 22, 2010

    The Stench of American Hypocrisy 

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The Stench of American Hypocrisy: Information Clearing House: ICH

By Paul Craig Roberts

The military regime that rules Burma just
released from house arrest the pro-democracy
leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The American media
used the occasion of her release to get on
Burma’s case for the absence of the rule of
law. I’m all for the brave lady, but if truth
be known, “freedom and democracy” America
needs her far worse than does Burma.

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The Stench of American Hypocrisy

By Paul Craig Roberts

How can the government put a person in jail
for torturing dogs but turn a blind eye to
members of the government who tortured
people? Continue

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Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA

TSA Responds to "Strip Search" Video of Boy

By Brian Montopoli


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Quote: Op-Ed

Cinderella Liberty: A Novel of America

By F. Scott Sinclair

If you'd like to experience the trauma of a
warrantless search (strip search, etc.),
you might enjoy (or hate) reading the novel:
Cinderella Liberty: A Novel of America by
F. Scott Sinclair. Such novel was inspired by
and created as an outcome of a warrantless
search like the ones (but worse) that TSA agents
are conducting at this very moment. Where
was the outrage then...?! If it doesn't happen
to you, then it's okay. But "what goes around,
comes around." Isn't that the old saw? Now,
nearly all Americans can enjoy "Cinderella Liberty:
A Novel of America" firsthand, at their local
airport...! So, you don't need to buy "Cinderella
Liberty: A Novel of America" to enjoy the book.
You can live the experience in real time: yes, a
reality show with you as the leading lady or
man--courtesy of the TSA, et al. How does
that sound? Click here if you think you might
be interested in F. Scott's novel.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

  The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum

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The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum: Information Clearing House: ICH

A backstory of intellectual stagnation and fossilization generated
by the elites most powerful tool in their bag of tricks: fear...


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The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means
for the Rest of Us

By MICHAEL HUDSON

The argument is made that “The rich create jobs.” After all,
somebody has to build the yachts. What is missing is the
more general principle: Wealth and income inequality
destroy job creation. Continue

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When Fascism Masquerades as Populism

By Charles Sullivan

With its reliance on corporate money and financial
contributions by the wealthy, the U.S. electoral system
provides movement in only one direction: to the right.
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The Stench of American Hypocrisy

By Paul Craig RobertsThe ignorant population of the
“Great American Superpower,” buried in fear propagated
by a Ministry of Truth, has acquiesced in the total
destruction of the US Constitution and their civil liberties.
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Saturday, November 06, 2010

Books: The Hermit of Lambertville

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Books: The Hermit of Lambertville

An engrossing article written for TIME
magazine in 1957 about a well-known
novelist of that time period.

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Monday, November 01, 2010

    The Lesser Of Two Evils       :      Information Clearing House: ICH

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The Lesser Of Two Evils

US: Myth Of The Two Party System

By Cindy Sheehan

Would America look much different if Republican John McCain
had beaten Democrat Barack Obama to become president?
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2-minute Video That Could Win the Election For The Dems

By Mike Whitney

You gotta see this. Continue

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Yes, Of Course They're Brownshirts. What The Hell Did You Expect?


By David Michael Green


You know, I hate like hell using the tired old Nazi analogy.
For one thing, everybody does it, and everybody does it all
the time. It hasn't exactly earned an A for originality in
about a half century now.For another thing, not only does
everybody do it, but now complete idiots who couldn't pour
piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel
are doing it too, and of course they're too dumb to even use
the term properly. You can't foam at the mouth about what
a freaking socialist Barack Obama is and then call him a Nazi
at the same time. Unless, of course, you happen not to mind
looking like a moron. Which, of course, all too many Americans
don't anymore. .

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American Job Loss Is Permanent

By Paul Craig Roberts


The major cause of the US trade deficit with China is
“globalism” or the practice, enforced by Wall Street and
Wal-Mart, of US corporations offshoring their production
for US markets to China in order to improve the bottom
line by lowering labor costs. Continue

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

SCENE 24 OF "THE WALLS HAVE EARS: A NOVEL OF AMERICA" SERIALIZED BY F. SCOTT SINCLAIR

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Warning: If you are easily shocked with regard to contrary
points of view, conspiracy theories, offensive language, political
correctness, sex, or anything else that may offend your
sensibilities or lack of open-mindedness, or if you're a minor
(but by no means limited to the aforementioned), please do
not read this novel. It's not for you...

Note: This is a work of fiction. The events described here are
imaginary: the settings, events and characters are fictitious,
and/or are the product of the author's imagination or used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events or locales
or persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.


Copyright (C) 2007 By F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.




Scene 24 of "The Walls Have Ears: A Novel of America"




Editor-in-Chief: Lora Cummings




I fidgeted in my office chair, the leather grained seat
felt hard for some reason. As I stared out the window,
I could almost feel the chill of the wind and the wetness
of the rain on my face. Seattle, Washington was a
perpetual rainforest, enveloped by modern man’s
obsession: a concrete jungle.

I sat upright, rather rigid, placing my naked elbows
firmly atop my glass adorned desktop. The strain of
secrecy, deception, manipulation, investigations, etc.
had taken there toll. I was enclosed in a world of my
own making. A soundproof room at that. And for good
reason. Being the Editor-in-Chief of a newly established
newspaper, The Seattle Herald Tribune, was getting on
my nerves. Why...? I kept thinking. Because Big Brother
was everywhere since 9/11 and the establishment of
Homeland Security. Being the new guy on the block, and
trying to outdo the “big boys” at the Seattle Times and
the Post Intelligencer, was no easy task. I was up against
a rock and a hard place.

As my thoughts rambled about, Ralph Donaldson, knocked
on my door, and says, “Someone’s here to see you, Chief.”

“Who?”

“Wouldn’t say...,” Ralph said, shrugging his shoulders.
“Your guess is as good as mine, kid.”

Not wanting to keep the mystery guest waiting, I said,
“Thanks. Let him in...”

“How’d you know it’s a guy?” he asked, perplexed.

“Lucky guess, I suppose.”

“Right.” With a stiff upper lip, Ralph turns around and
walks back to the lobby.

I couldn’t think for the life of me who’d want to see me
without an appointment. So, with as much alacrity and
paranoia as I could muster, I pulled the shades so the Feds
couldn’t see who I was talking to, or read our lips. Their
listening devices couldn’t penetrate my office, and I have
the office swept for electronic bugs twice a day. Who did I
have to thank for all this security shit? My paranoid husband:
a retired CIA analyst.

“Lora, I’d like you to meet—,” Ralph said, prompting
the mystery guest to fill-in the missing blank with an
outstretched hand, and a pregnant pause.

“Mr...?” I asked with a arched brow.

“Rick Olson’s, my name... A friend of your father’s.”

The remark jolted me, in more ways than one. I hadn’t
seen my dad in years. Ever since the divorce, my mother
had tainted his name, destroying any relationship we might
have been able to salvage and nurture. All I could say
was, “Really?”

He nodded his head, and says, “I’m a private detective
who’s known your father in good times and bad.”

“So. How is Jake...? I surely haven’t seen much of him,”
I said with a sore throat, and a distinct tightness in the belly.

“I know about the divorce.”

“And the estrangement?”

Again, Rick Olson nodded affirmatively, and countered
by saying, “He told me everything in his own way over time.
But I know you still love him dearly, even though you haven’t
been in touch with him in quite awhile.”

This time, I nodded slowly, trying to avoid eye contact.

He glanced at me, trying to make eye contact, and says,
“And to answer your initial question, your father has been
kidnapped...”

I shot forward in the chair, my elbows resting wobbly on
the desk, as I shouted, “What...?! What the hell are you
trying to say?”

“Just what I said: He’s been kidnapped by yours truly.”

“You’ve kidnapped him?”

“Not exactly. Uncle Sam has, I’m afraid.”

Our eyes locked onto one another like a missile tracking
a bogey.

“Homeland Security?”

“The FBI to be precise,” Rick replied, looking around
the room as though he was taking inventory. Seeing lots
of books and electronic monitoring equipment sitting on
shelves against the walls, drew his attentive eye.

As his eyes roamed back in my direction, I responded,
“I can’t believe this is happening...”

“What did this soundproof room and its security suite
cost you?”

Still baffled, I said, “Plenty. But that doesn’t answer my
question.”

Leaning forward in his chair, Rick Olson says, “Nobody
knows for sure. I was contacted by his landlord last week,
and she doesn’t know why either. But there’s one thing
we do know...”

“And what’s that?”

“You’ll never ever have a chance to reconcile your
relationship with your father if you don’t help me free him.”

Feeling a sense of despair and depression grip my emotional
being, I was taken aback. “You must have mistaken me for
someone who gives a shit...!”

Rick rolled his eyes, and says, “Tis the time to make
amends, my dear. He’s your biological father, as I heard
your mom refers to him. And if that is all he means to you,
then I’m wasting my time, and yours.”

“Wait a minute. I know my mom has made snide remarks
over the years, and they’ve certainly influenced my thinking.”

“Jake Jacobs is a decent guy. This I know... He doesn’t
deserve the raw deal your mother has cast around him,
blurring the great qualities he possesses. And you’re a
reporter, and if you have any common sense buried inside
you, you’ll understand that: or at least, you should. It’s
time to grow up and think for yourself. Jake has avoided
contact with you because he can’t stand the derisive
remarks you make about him that are nothing more
than verbatim caustic remarks straight out of your mother’s
lips. True or not true?” he asked, with his hands politely
folded on the edge of my desk.

Stung by the implications, I retorted, “That’s your
interpretation, not mine.”

“Don’t want to answer the question? Fine. It’s been
nice chatting with you. I can let myself outside. Here’s my
business card. If you have a change of heart, give me a call.”

The private detective raised his jet lagged body frame
from the overstuffed chair, and didn’t say another word.

Nor did I... I just flipped his business card around my
fingers nervously, then tossed it into my desk drawer and
stared at the velvet wallpaper, emotionally drained. But
there’s one thing I know in my heart, Rick Olson’s assessment
was spot on.

My mother has contaminated in a sordid way, my
perceptions of my father. If he dies in captivity, I will be
the cause of his death. And to my dad’s favor, he’s always
said that he would never ever say anything derogatory
about my mother. He would rather not see me than be
tempted to do so. He’s always maintained that he’d never
do anything that would hurt my mother’s and my relationship.
Having a clear conscience in that regard was the only thing
that mattered. ‘Do no harm, and no harm shall return to
you.’ That’s what he’s always said to me. And meant every
word of it.

I pushed back the tears, wiped my nose, opened the
shades...and thought, hard.

I was about to make a life or death decision... Oh, my God:
I thought.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

 The Politics of Class in the US     

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WTF?: A Letter to Appalled and Puzzled European Friends

By Bernard Weiner

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

It Is Official: The US Is A Police State By Paul Craig Roberts

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It Is Official: The US Is A Police State


By Paul Craig Roberts


The US media, highly concentrated in violation of the
American principle of a diverse and independent media,
will lend its support to the witch hunts that will close down
all protests and independent thought in the US over the
next few years.

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Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation

By David Michael Green

Just when you thought you’d reached the ground floor
in the well of American self-destruction, you find out
once again that that pit is absolutely bottomless.

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Democratic Cowardice

Keith Olbermann Interviews Michael Moore.



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Tea Party is Just a Media Spectacle

By Joe Bageant & RT



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20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Begun


By Economic Collapse Blog


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Village Girl's Life of redemption in the jungle of Bangkok, A

By Onanong Janchuey (A new & promising Thai novelist)

Tell your Thai friends: Thai language only. Take a peek
at a sample of her writing.

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Sick Bastards

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed


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Bangkok Post : Media magnate under analysis: Rupert Murdoch

http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/book/195951/media-magnate-under-analysis

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The literary gardener: Manote Phromsing-a review of a famous Thai writer
(In English)

http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/book/194807/the-literary-gardener

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Walking in Reagan's Shoes


By Mike Whitney

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26342.htm

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Roubini and Bremmer:

Financial Crisis Ended the Era of Free-Market Capitalism

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26336.htm

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Let's Stop Fulfilling Bin Laden's Goals By Ted Koppel:

http://digg.com/news/politics/let_s_stop_fulfilling_bin_laden_s_goals_by_ted_koppel

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Happy Fuckin' Labor Day! By Michael Moore:

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Drowning in Debt: US Students Helpless to Pay Off Education :

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26303.htm

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Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning


By David Michael Green


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26306.htm

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Glenn Beck's rejection of the common good

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Glenn Beck's rejection of the common good

By Simon Greer

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Jobless Millions Signal Death of the American
Dream for Many

By Paul Harris

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Understanding America's Class System

Honk If You Love Caviar

By Joe Bageant

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Presidential Porn

Gerald Celente: The Recession is Heading
Toward Depression

By Daniel Tencer

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The Banksters Strike Again Chase Bank and Obama's
"Make Home Affordable" Scam

By Ted Rall

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Obama's US Assassination Program?

By Chuck Norris

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Death of the First Amendment

The Nazification of the United States

By Paul Craig Roberts

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Overdose

This is the story of the greatest financial
crisis we will ever see... The one that is on
the way.

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U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis'

By Jeff Nielson

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Honoring Those Who Toil

By Ralph Nader

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Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis?

By Les Leopold

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Vomiting Perfidy

By Layla Anwar

"Arab Woman Blues" -

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The American Nightmare

By Hans Vogel

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Appeals Court Ruling Allows Government
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Death By GlobalismEconomists haven’t a clue

By Paul Craig Roberts

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Give'em Hell "Mike"...!

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Give'em Hell "Mike"...!

Is Robert Gibbs Right About the "Professional Left"?


By Mike Whitney

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Glenn Beck's rejection of the common good

By Simon Greer

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Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed U.S. Economy'

By Paul B. Farrell

August 11, 2010 "MarketWatch" --

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that
is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald
Reagan's director of the Office of Management and
Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece,
"Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."Get it? Not "
destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the U.S.
economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse."

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The Horror Show

By BOB HERBERT

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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is

‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it

By Tim Teeman

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Political Prisoners in America

By Stephen Lendman

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