Kicking Down the World's Door

Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days when MiGs still roamed the skies, including an uncut nuclear arsenal. Eternally over-budget items like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, cherished by their services and well-lobbied congressional representatives, aren’t leaving the scene any time soon, though delays or cuts in purchase orders are planned. All this should reassure us that, despite the talk of massive cuts, the U.S. military will continue to be the profligate, inefficient, and remarkably ineffective institution we’ve come to know and squander our treasure on.
http://lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt436.html
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The 2013 Mazda CX-5 I Won’t Be Seeing

I just got invited by Mazda to attend a press event for the 2013 CX-5 in CA. I used to attend such events regularly, and I’d love to attend this one- but am pretty much decided against because of the prospect of being handled by some TSA cretin (because I won’t be scanned). I feel obliged to stand on principle, but there’s also the practical reason that I know myself - and know I might mouth off or maybe even hit one of those sons-of-bitches. And I don’t want to end up in jail (or worse). I’m still trying to practice avoidance. I know someday this will probably no longer be possible. But for now, I am trying to stay out of harm’s way - even though I know harm is not looking to stay out of my way. This is the dilemma of living in America, post 911. If it can be called living.
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e145.html
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Maryland Mall Evacuated and Locked Down After Sneaker Fight
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Extremist Government Watch: Proponents of Gold Standard May Be Violent Extremists

If you support returning the United States monetary system to sound money backed by the gold standard and believe that our country is bankrupt as a consequence of out-of-control spending and fiat money printing, then you may soon receive a visit from your local DHS/FBI office. This morning your family, friends and neighbors were alerted by representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that you and those who share similar ideas as you are potentially dangerous extremists that could threaten the national security of the United States.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/07/proponents-of-gold-standard-may-be-violent-extremists-report-all-suspicious-activity-to-the-fbi/
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Obama Invokes NDAA Declaring Threat From Iran a National Emergency

For those who think some random serious of events led up to this situation, the following article is a real eye opener. The Brookings Institute laid out the playbook in 2009 on how to provoke a war with Iran and garner international support for and invasion. Comparing the chain of events since then, it is pretty clear that the war hawks have followed the playbook to the tee so far. It is quite scary thinking about the the next steps in the playbook - an Iran sponsored 9/11 attack.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/02/07/obama-invokes-ndaa-declaring-iran-threat-national-emergency-81681/
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Senate to Vote on Bill That Could Kick TSA Out of Airports
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Europe Bans Airport Body Scanners For 'Health and Safety' Concerns
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U.S. Courts Run By Elitist Law Clerks Who Hate America, and Think Iowa is the Gulag

I noted the problem: law clerks make law. Non-citizen clerks, however, may or may not live under the laws they make. And they sure as heck aren't familiar with local values. It's like a slightly attenuated version of being ruled by the UN. But you need not be a non-citizen to feel like a foreigner. You can simply be an elite American law student-coastal, of course-taking up residence in Topeka for a year to clerk for a federal judge. For a squirming live specimen of the grotesquely hateful attitudes attending this arrangement, read the following article, crossposted on the Above the Law website and written by one Will Meyerhofer.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/us-courts-run-by-elitist-law-clerks-who-hate-america-and-think-iowa-is-the-gulag
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Slowly, Toxic Vets Get Recognition
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Runaway Train: Stop the War Against Iran - Now

Almost every day brings some new barrage of fear-mongering lies and vaporous accusations from leading members of the Obama Administration and other nabobs at the top of the political-media elite, all of them aimed relentlessly at one goal: justifying military action against Iran. It is an almost exact replay of what we saw in 2002-2003 during the build-up to the war of aggression against Iraq - with one significant exception. The "progressive" opposition to the baseless warmongering is virtually non-existent this time around - because the warmonger-in-chief is their own champion, their partisan standard-bearer. Many voices that hurled thunderous denunciations at the Bush Regime for its brazen manipulations toward a baseless and unjustified war are now silent - that is, if they are not actively supporting the increasingly rabid saber-rattling by the Peace Laureate. To them, Obama’s re-election is more important than anything on earth: certainly more important than the thousands (or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands) of innocent people who will die in the long-running, far-reverberating hellstorm that an attack on Iran will create.
http://www.infowars.com/runaway-train-stop-the-war-against-iran-now/
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The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts

Last Friday the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8.3 percent. This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model. In a prolonged downturn, seasonal adjustments and the birth/death model produce nonexistent employment.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/02/06/the-january-jobs-are-statistical-artifacts/
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Does Juan Williams Really Want 'Honest Discussion?'
In a Monday article in The Hill, Juan Williams of Fox News accused Republican Presidential candidates of using racist "code words" in their campaigns. In comments reminiscent of Eric Holder in his "nation of cowards" speech, Mr. Williams called for an "honest debate" on why hard-working poor people cannot find good jobs. He claimed that "a lack of work ethic on the part of the poor, who are disproportionately minorities" is not the problem. But the last thing Mr. Williams or Mr. Holder wants is an "honest debate."
http://amren.com/opinion/2012/02/does-juan-williams-really-want-honest-discussion/
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The Globalization of War

We are dealing with a global military agenda, namely "Global Warfare". Far from a world of peaceful cooperation, we are living in a dystopian world of permanent wars - wars that are being waged in flagrant contravention of international law and against public opinion and interest. Far from a "new era more secure in the quest for peace" we may see a world more akin to George Orwell’s 1984, dominated by perpetual conflict, insecurity, authoritarian surveillance, doublethink and public mind control.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28254
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Newt Gingrich the Skunk Vomit Neo-Con

Don Imus yells the slur "Skunk Vomit" as a description for Newt Gingrich. Coming from the erratic "Old Cowboy" and shock jock legend that lives on outrage and offense is nothing new to his listeners. This successor to the Andy Rooney curmudgeon institution is hardly a clarion voice of time-honored conservatives. So too, with a little investigation into Newt Gingrich you will see that the former Speaker is no true conservative. His rhetoric at times can seem appealing, but strip away the high tone platitudes and you are left with the assertions of an opportunist and a New World Order proponent. Regretfully, many political neophytes who view themselves as being conservative in their viewpoints lack sufficient understanding in the meaning of the ideology and the history of the movement. The Reagan dictum "Trust but Verify" certainly applies to candidates seeking public office. Also, the average armchair observer lacks the activism to engage in the down and dirty trench warfare of party politics. Lastly, few devote the necessary energy and time doing the homework needed to vet candidates properly.
http://www.batr.org/wrack/020512.html
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Leo Strauss - Immigration Enthusiast?
For many, Leo Strauss is a man of mystery. Was he, as Myles Burnyeat of Cambridge University suggested many years ago in The New York Review of Books, a "sphinx without a secret", not a genuine philosopher but rather a proponent of "ruthless anti-idealism" who provided intellectual backing for an aggressive American foreign policy? Kevin MacDonald takes a different view, holding that "Strauss crafted his vision of an aristocratic elite manipulating the masses as a Jewish survival strategy."(MacDonald, Cultural Insurrections, Occidental Press 2007, p.163). In his illuminating book Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal, the distinguished intellectual historian Paul Gottfried rejects what these approaches have in common: their picture of Strauss as an enemy of liberal democracy. Though Strauss earned the respect of the rightwing legal theorist Carl Schmitt, he was by no means, Gottfried maintains, a man of the Right. To the contrary, and despite some ambiguous remarks made early in his career, he remained throughout his long sojourn in America a convinced liberal democrat.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/leo-strauss-immigration-enthusiast
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Obama Can't Pass an E-Verify Check

For three years, top investigators have pursued Barack Obama’s legitimacy for being president of the United States. His mother was a U.S. citizen, but his father was from Kenya. That’s in question because Obama bears zero resemblance to his purported father. Jerome Corsi wrote a book: Where’s the Birth Certificate? His evidence shows compelling facts that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Lawyer Orly Taitz pursued the question all the way to a federal court in Georgia last week. Georgia State Administrative Judge Malihi ordered Obama to appear. Obama failed to attend. A retired Denver, Colorado ICE agent, John Sampson, testified that Barack Obama cannot pass an E-Verify employment check because of a fraudulent social security number made out to a man in Connecticut who died before Obama was born.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty738.htm
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The Syrian Crucible

The arrest and pending trial of foreign "democracy activists" in Egypt on charges they violated laws prohibiting funding by foreign governments of NGOs has caused an uproar in Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has publicly warned Cairo this endangers the $1.55 billion in aid the U.S. is supposed to shell out this year, but the Egyptians don’t seem all that impressed. "The government will not hesitate to expose foreign schemes that threaten the stability of the homeland," said Ms. Abu el-Naga speaking on behalf of the Egyptian government. Al Ahram, the state newspaper, reporting on this, added "she is betting on the true essence of the Egyptian people to come together during crisis." And they are making a very good bet, since the American government is widely reviled in Egypt for supporting dictator Hosni Mubarak all those years: indeed, the indignant Hillary supported him up until the very last moment, even as Egyptians of all persuasions were pouring into the streets demanding his resignation - and his head. In America, restrictions on foreign funding of political groups and nonprofit institutions is even stricter than in Egypt. Nonprofits acting as conduits for foreign money in the U.S. must register as agents of a foreign power, and detail their activities and all interactions with foreign nationals and governments. In short, the U.S. adheres to one standard within its own borders, but disallows those same standards when applied to itself overseas. This is typical behavior for Washington, and just one of the reasons why we’re hated everywhere we go.
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook060212.htm
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Yet Another War For Israel

Voltaire's wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing "thought" as expressed recently in Alert, the voice of AIPAC to its membership: "Some Americans believe if the Israelis strike Iran, the U.S. will pay the political costs anyway, so it would be better for the Americans to do the job and do it properly. Their clock is a bit different from the one the Israelis hear. Because of their vastly superior firepower, the Americans could strike Iran later, more devastatingly and more sustainably." How just is it for AIPAC's mouthpiece to declare that America should "devastate" Iran because it has "vastly more firepower" than Israel and could "do a better job" and "do it properly," as though this were a clean-up "job" of a waste dump and not an illegal invasion of a member country of the United Nations that has done nothing under international law to threaten the U.S. much less attack it, while the Israeli government and its IDF look on happily content that it is American boys and girls suffering the consequences of the unwarranted attacks and not Jewish boys and girls? Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC's policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people?
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook060212.htm
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NATO Clandestinely Engaged in Syrian Conflict

In the United States, many friends of Israel are on the Assad regime-change bandwagon, believing that a weakened Syria, divided by civil war, will present no threat to Tel Aviv. But they should think again, as these developments have a way of turning on their head. The best organized and funded opposition political movement in Syria is the Muslim Brotherhood.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29072
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Uncritical Mainstream Media Drivel: War Plan Iran: Endemic U.S./Israeli Double-Think is Now 'Normal Discourse'

Thanks to a subservient mainstream media, we are now fed a constant diet of preposterous double-think from American political leaders and their Israeli minions with regard to Iran and its alleged threat to world security. In this inadvertently valuable service, the pliant uncritical mainstream media is giving full vent to the most outrageous drivel dressed up as serious discourse.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29012
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Superbowl 2012: New England Patriots vs. New York Giants - And Anti-White Stereotypes
The amazing success of the New England Patriots under head coach Bill Belichick, now competing in their fifth Super Bowl (they’ve won three), shows that market inefficiencies also exist in NFL scouting. And significantly, under Belichick, the Patriots have consistently fielded one of the whitest rosters in the sport. When you consider that the NFL has been 67 -70 percent Black over the past 15 years, it becomes increasingly clear that something strange is happening in New England. Why?
http://www.vdare.com/articles/superbowl-2011-ne-patriots-vs-ny-giants-and-anti-white-stereotypes
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Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country

Two years ago Brian Knowlton, writing in the Wall Street Journal, noted the paradigm change taking place even then among wealthy Americans increasingly frightened about the economic and social situation in the country. He quoted Jackie Bugnion, director of American Citizens Abroad (ACA): "What we have seen is a substantial change in mentality among the overseas community in the past two years. 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."
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/10743-rich-americans-are-fleeing-the-country
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Big Brother Now Spies on Journalists, Keeps Records of Online Activity

What began as a simple program to address safety and security issues at the 2010 Winter Olympics has become a massive online spying operation targeted at journalists and writers. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’sMedia Monitoring Initiative(MMI) has been expanded to collect and track information from online forums, blogs, public websites, message boards, and social networking sites, as well as gather "personally identifiable information" (PII) on journalists and media writers.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/big-brother-now-spies-on-journalists-keeps-records-of-online-activity.html
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5 Wars That America Must End for Peace and Freedom to Prevail

I've gotten to the point where I cringe whenever I hear the word 'war'. Even when it's used to seemingly combat something noble sounding such as the war on poverty or the war on hunger. It's become apparent that all wars cause damage no matter if it's a figurative war or an actual war. It's also obvious that when a war is declared on a social problem, the State is announcing a power grab which is going to result in less freedom.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/5-wars-that-america-must-end-for-peace.html
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HSBC Laundering Billions?

A former employee of one of the world's largest international banks has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of documents, including customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which the financial institution was laundering money each month, according to the whistleblower. "I found many accounts through which hundreds of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on a monthly basis," John Cruz, an account relationship manager who worked in the HSBC southern New York region, told WND.
http://www.thedailybell.com/3580/HSBC-Laundering-Billions
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(Meat) Market Failure
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Raise the Crime Rate

Crime has not fallen in the United States-it’s been shifted. Just as Wall Street connived with regulators to transfer financial risk from spendthrift banks to careless home buyers, so have federal, state, and local legislatures succeeded in rerouting criminal risk away from urban centers and concentrating it in a proliferating web of hyperhells. The statistics touting the country’s crime-reduction miracle, when juxtaposed with those documenting the quantity of rape and assault that takes place each year within the correctional system, are exposed as not merely a lie, or even a damn lie-but as the single most shameful lie in American life. From 1980 to 2007, the number of prisoners held in the United States quadrupled to 2.3 million, with an additional 5 million on probation or parole. What Ayn Rand once called the "freest, noblest country in the history of the world" is now the most incarcerated, and the second-most incarcerated country in history, just barely edged out by Stalin’s Soviet Union. We’re used to hearing about the widening chasm between the haves and have-nots; we’re less accustomed to contemplating a more fundamental gap: the abyss that separates the fortunate majority, who control their own bodies, from the luckless minority, whose bodies are controlled, and defiled, by the state.
http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
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Watchdogs Accuse South Africa of Genocide

Last September the International Alliance to End Genocide upgraded South Africa on their genocide watch list. On their eight stage formula, they moved South Africa from a five to a six. Level five is "polarization" and level six is "preparation." The international human rights organizations stated "now we have evidence of organized incitement to violence against white people." This was in response to Julius Malema, the youth leader of the ruling African National Congress[ANC] party, holding rallies in which he calls for the murder of white people. He would lead huge crowds in singing "Kill the Boer." The word Boer is dutch for farmer and historically refers to white South South Africans of Dutch ancestry. However it is largely used as a euphemism for all whites in South Africa.
http://www.examiner.com/charleston-conservative-in-charleston-sc/watchdogs-accuse-south-africa-of-genocide
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How Hollywood Spreads Propaganda

Iran seems to many observers to be next in line for the Iraqi freedom treatment, the latest in a long line of "enemy" nations menaced by overt and covert military threats by the United States and its allies. As the psyops operations and media propaganda intensifies, you might think war is imminent and that Iran is doing what countries under threat do in these circumstances, such as mobilizing their people and preparing for a bombing onslaught. Think again. While I have been told that military targets have been or are being moved around, the atmosphere in Tehran is relaxed with more talk of a cultural battlefield than a military one. There’s a commemoration under way of the 33rd anniversary of the Iranian revolution and an international conference on "Hollywoodism and Cinema" as an extension of an annual Fajr film festival. And that’s what I am doing here, as a guest participant in an event that sees Hollywood as a bigger enemy than the Pentagon.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30432.htm
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Arizona Lawmaker Suggests Holiday for White People

Rep. Cecil Ash, a Republican from Mesa, is suggesting Arizona needs a holiday for white people. "I wanted to speak to you all about Latino Americans here in Arizona," said state Rep. Richard Miranda on the House floor Monday, starting the conversation that sparked the controversy. Miranda said Arizona should have a Latino American day in Arizona. After some heated debate, Rep. Cecil Ash stepped up to the mic. "I’m supportive of this proposition. I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you’ll have a day for us," Ash said.
http://amren.com/news/2012/02/az-lawmaker-suggests-holiday-for-white-people/
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20 Signs That Europe is Plunging Into a Full-Blown Economic Depression

An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse. At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for anyone to deny that Europe is plunging into a full-blown economic depression. In fact, some parts of Europe are already there.
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/europe-plunging-into-depression.html
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Contrary to Government Claims of 243,000 Jobs Created, Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Were Actually Lost in January
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Jews and Race: A Pre-Boasian Perspective

One Jewish trait which the essays and articles in Jews and Race consistently evince is hyper-ethnocentrism, as reflected in the tendency for Jewish intellectual activity to become enmeshed with Jewish ethno-political activism. This trait continues to distort Jewish contributions to the social sciences. Another conspicuous trait is hypocrisy. One increasingly prominent example with this trait is how, with population genetic studies confirming that Jews comprise a distinct genetic community, Jewish intellectuals and activists have engaged in a double game where racialist thinking is tacitly permitted as a means of enhancing Jewish group cohesion, while White people who invoke the same racialist arguments continue to be pathologized.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/02/jews-and-race-a-pre-boasian-perspective-part-2/
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Can Ron Paul Be Tamed?

Paul and his movement are onto the War Party’s games, and they are consciously fighting this left-right illusion - with amazing success. The time is right for it: the nation faces a crisis on a scale not seen since the 1930s. Once again we face the twin specters of an economy in collapse and a world at war. Paul cuts through the ideological fog and in doing so breaks with all the conventions, the worn and now useless political labels that have misled us for so long. Smearing him hasn’t worked, mockery has just added to his fame, and ignoring him has seriously backfired on the mainstream media, which has made itself more hated by the Republican rank-and-file than it already is - no mean feat. Their last hope is to co-opt him - or, at least, co-opt his movement. And we are seeing the first signs of such an attempt in a front page story in the Washington Post, which posits the existence of a "strategic alliance" between Mitt Romney and Paul.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/
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Perpetual Two Party Monopoly Losing Registered Voters
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Panopticon Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!

The U.S. is fast becoming one massive open air prison camp. Few realize that one by one their natural rights are being stripped by the fascist "criminal" law system. As we've noted in the past, more than 30% of those under 23 have been arrested as the fascist U.S. Government works to ensnare as many as possible into permanent indentured servitude through a criminal record. From the New Yorker. Over all, there are now more people under "correctional supervision" in America - more than six million - than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.
http://lewrockwell.com/berwick/berwick31.1.html
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The Real Economic Picture

These graphs courtesy of John Williams make it completely clear that there is no economic recovery. In place of recovery, we have hype from politicians, Wall Street, and the presstitute media. The "recovery" is no more real than Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" or Iranian "nukes" or the Obama regime’s phony story of assassinating last year an undefended Osama bin Laden, allegedly the mastermind of Islamic terrorism, left by al Qaeda to the mercy of a US Seal team, a man who was widely reported to have died from renal failure in December 2001, a man who denied any responsibility for 9/11. A government and media that will deceive you about simple things such as inflation, unemployment, and GDP growth, will lie to you about everything.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/02/02/the-real-economic-picture/
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Numbing Out of America - Public Apathy Explained
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New 'Snitch' App Helps You to Turn in Fellow Americans

People just LOVE calling the police of each other! This new Application for your smart phone will help you to turn in citizens at the touch of a finger, wherever you might be. While you are being monitored on your phone, you can help monitor your surroundings.... Millions of eyes (cameras) and ears for the Police state! No we do not advocate violent crimes, and in a perfect world something like this could be helpful to keep us all safe. Unfortunately, in the real world, it will give new power to those who feel it is their job to report even the smallest transgression; and this will likely clog the system even more than it is, making it harder to protect the citizenry from REAL criminals.
http://12160.info/forum/topics/2649739:Topic:764848?xg_source=activity
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Another War on the Cheap

Fear-mongering is the name of the game when citing the underlying concern that Iran might be about to obtain a nuclear weapon and might then be tempted to use it, a "what if" piled on a "maybe" to justify a preemptive war. It is not merely coincidental that Bronner cites Netanyahu’s apparent belief that the so-called Iranian threat is equivalent to "the Nazis who tried to eliminate the Jews." And the piece concludes with the Israeli prime minister speaking on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying, "I want to mention the main lesson of the Holocaust when it comes to our fate. We can only rely on ourselves." Someone should remind Bronner that while he is promoting an Israeli viewpoint he is writing for an American newspaper and audience and should address the serious question of what Washington’s options might be if Netanyahu does take action. Israeli self-reliance is a wonderful thing, if only it were true. The United States has been tied hand and foot to Israeli policies and would be drawn inexorably into anything that Tel Aviv starts. The confident assertion that Iran would be unable to retaliate effectively might prove as reliable as the claims made in 2002 that there would be a "cakewalk" in Iraq.
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/02/01/another-war-on-the-cheap/
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Has ’Whiteness Studies’ Run Its Course?

Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness studies. While there are no standalone departments dedicated to the field, interdisciplinary courses on the subject quietly gained traction on college and university campuses nationwide in the 1990s. Today, there are dozens of colleges and universities, including American University in Washington, D.C., and University of Texas at Arlington, that have a smattering of courses on the interdisciplinary subject of whiteness studies. The field argues that white privilege still exists, thanks largely to structural and institutional racism, and that the playing field isn’t level, and whites benefit from it.
http://amren.com/news/2012/02/has-whiteness-studies-run-its-course/
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Divining the Truth About Iran

You will almost never see in a major U.S. newspaper the assessment - backed by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies - that Iran is NOT building nuclear weapons. At most, you’ll see a boilerplate phrase about Iran denying that it is. You’re also not likely to see references to the fact that Israel has a sophisticated nuclear arsenal of its own. Still, it’s encouraging to see U.S. intelligence officials resist bending with the prevailing political winds the way the malleable CIA director, George Tenet, and his deputy John McLaughlin did when they orchestrated the fraudulent October 2002 NIE on Iraq’s "weapons of mass destruction."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30419.htm
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ATF Hit With $25 Million 'Furious' Claim

The family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claiming Terry was killed with AK-47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.
http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=2371
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Cameron Fleeing America To Escape Collapse?
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The Great Divorce

I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s "Coming Apart." I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society. Murray’s basic argument is not new, that America is dividing into a two-caste society. What’s impressive is the incredible data he produces to illustrate that trend and deepen our understanding of it. His story starts in 1963. There was a gap between rich and poor then, but it wasn’t that big. A house in an upper-crust suburb cost only twice as much as the average new American home. The tippy-top luxury car, the Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, cost about $47,000 in 2010 dollars. That’s pricey, but nowhere near the price of the top luxury cars today. More important, the income gaps did not lead to big behavior gaps. Roughly 98 percent of men between the ages of 30 and 49 were in the labor force, upper class and lower class alike. Only about 3 percent of white kids were born outside of marriage. The rates were similar, upper class and lower class. Since then, America has polarized. The word "class" doesn’t even capture the divide Murray describes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/brooks-the-great-divorce.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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Why Zionism Should be Feared More Than Islam

For at least the past two centuries, Jewish revolutionary activists have pursued and attained positions of highest influence in western industrialized nations. These nations remain the dominant industrial, military, financial, economic, cultural, and educational powerhouses for the world. Jewish control of them is real abiding power. Consider the following realities.
http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/whyfearzionismthanislam.htm
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United States Myths -- And Their Realities

The First Amendment was written for people with the Pioneer Spirit. We are people with the Pioneer Stereo. Times have changed and the interpretations of the First Amendment changed. Surveys have shown again and again the First Amendment would not be ratified by Congress, state legislatures, or the people today.
http://www.freewarehof.org/speech.html
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International Business -- Davos Style

The first lesson of international business is that the monopolies that drive the commercial trading system only hold loyalty to the god of capital. Making money means retaining a profit on trading transactions of business companies. The notion of MAKING MONEY means something very different to the financial empires that speculate on currencies, commodities, bonds and equities. When the two worlds come together to celebrate the common interest of their pirate culture, the Davos port of call, is a necessary winter holiday.
http://www.batr.org/negotium/020112.html
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Ron Paul Ready for Caucus States

While the media spotlight has been on Florida, Paul has been waging a quieter, parallel campaign in the caucus states with contests coming up in February. Unlike Florida - which awards its 50 delegates through a winner-take-all process - many of these states distribute delegates proportionally, allowing second and third place winners to nab some of them. The result is that the Texas congressman could end up winning more delegates over the next few weeks than anyone except Romney.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72270.html
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Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran; Up to 100,000 Troops Ready by March

Since 2010, the U.S. has been quietly building giant air force and naval bases on Socotra with facilities for submarines, intelligence command centers and take-off pads for flying stealth drones, as part of a linked chain of strategic U.S. military facilities in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. The Socotra facilities are so secret that they are never mentioned in any catalogue listing U.S. military facilities in this part of the world, which include Jebel Ali and Al Dahfra in the United Arab Emirates; Arifjan in Kuwait; and Al Udeid in Qatar - all within short flying distances from Iran. Additional U.S. forces are also being poured into Camp Justice on the barren, 70-kilometer long Omani island of Masirah, just south of the Hormuz entry point to the Gulf of Oman from the Arabian Sea.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30398.htm
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Iraq in Retrospect

So what did we get in return for the thousands of lives lost and billions spent "liberating" Iraq? We got a veritable dictatorship that routinely suppresses dissent, murders journalists, and is so infused with corruption that Iraqis routinely argue which government agency is the most venal. Well, then, what about the good will of the Iraqi people,who must surely be grateful for their "liberation" at our hands? Well, no - instead, anti-Americanism is a force that all Iraqi politicians play to, and one can’t help thinking the sentiment is fully justified. After all, if some foreign army had killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and left our country in ruins, what other sort of response would anyone have a right to expect? The costs of the war range in the $1 - 3 trillion range. We are left with tens of thousands of horribly wounded veterans, many fatherless and motherless children, and what do we have to show for it? Iraq today is a crippled nation, which doesn’t even have the capacity to supply electricity to its citizens: it is a nation on the brink of yet another civil war, so divided by tribe, clan, religion, and politics that it threatens to come apart at the seams every few months or so. In short, we have a country that really no longer exists in any meaningful sense. To which the architects of this war can add: "Mission accomplished!"
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/31/iraq-in-retrospect/
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The U.S. Can't Afford More Immigrants

Let’s face it-the entire third world, which comprises much of Africa, Asia, Mexico, Central America and South America would love to migrate to the United States of America. Three to four billion human beings subsist on less than $2 daily. Millions line up to immigrate legally each year. Millions more line up to immigrate illegally. They move to America for a better life. That’s four billion wanna-be immigrants. As it is, America takes more immigrants than all other countries combined. It cannot continue on its current path if it expects to survive the 21st century with any sense of ecological, economical and standard of living viability.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty736.htm
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Crimethink and Thinking Ability

What’s the latest from the scientific frontlines in the IQ Wars? As you’ll recall from the press, the Bad Guys are social scientists such as Arthur Jensen, Linda Gottfredson, Charles Murray, and the late Richard Herrnstein. They have all argued that there are differences in average intelligence among races and other politically fraught groups which impact their overall real-world performance. In a word: crimethink!
http://amren.com/news/2012/01/crimethink-and-thinking-ability/
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Lessons From Iraqi Outrage Over U.S. Drones
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Gold is the Hottest Currency in the World

The price of gold is roaring back from its latest temporary correction, sending the bears into full withdrawal. If you sold your gold in December as it fell to $1525 an ounce, you’re probably feeling foolish at the incredible $210 rise to $1735- a 15% move in no time at all. Gold, you see, is not a commodity like oil and copper and wheat. It is rather an alternative currency- one that finds buyers when paper currencies like the Euro are being hugely increased in supply by the ECB to forestall a sovereign cum bank crisis in Europe.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2012/01/28/gold-is-the-hottest-currency-in-the-world/?partner=yahootix
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Economics Lesson 1

When the methodology that measures a constant standard of living is used to deflate nominal GDP, the result is a shrinking U.S. economy. It becomes clear that the U.S. economy has had no recovery and has now been in deep recession for four years despite the proclamation by the National Bureau of Economic Research of a recovery based on the rigged official numbers. A government can always produce the illusion of economic growth by underestimating the rate of inflation. There is no question that a substitution-based measure of inflation understates the inflation that people experience. More proof that there has been no economic recovery is available from those data series that are unaffected by inflation. If the economy were in fact recovering, these date series would be picking up. Instead, they are flat or declining, as John Williams demonstrates.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/31/economics-lesson-1/
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Hundreds of Slaughtered Civilians Isn't a 'Huge Number' for Obama
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Meet John Kiriakou
Meet John Kiriakou. A married father with a baby and two small children at home, he once had a fulfilling job as a CIA operations officer and spent his early post-9/11 days "hunting down [al] Qaeda figures" in Pakistan for his country. If only he kept his mouth shut. Take a good look at Kiriakou because it is likely you won’t see him the same way again, at least not for a long while, because he’s been charged with disseminating classified information under the Espionage Act, in addition to disclosing the name of a covert CIA operative to a New York Times reporter, and making false statements in order to describe a classified interrogation technique in his 2010 memoir, The Reluctant Spy.
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/01/30/kiriakou-ivins/
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Obama Sandbags the Archbishop

At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read a letter. In the letter, the Church denounced the Obama administration for ordering all Catholic schools, hospitals and social services to provide, in their health insurance coverage for employes, free contraceptives, free sterilizations and free "morning-after" pills.
http://takimag.com/article/obama_sandbags_the_archbishop/print#axzz1l4XxWCGq
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Corporations Have No Use for Borders

The decay of Canada illustrates two things. Corporate power is global, and resistance to it cannot be restricted by national boundaries. Corporations have no regard for nation-states. They assert their power to exploit the land and the people everywhere. They play worker off of worker and nation off of nation. They control the political elites in Ottawa as they do in London, Paris and Washington. This, I suspect, is why the tactics to crush the Occupy movement around the globe have an eerie similarity-infiltrations, surveillance, the denial of public assembly, physical attempts to eradicate encampments, the use of propaganda and the press to demonize the movement, new draconian laws stripping citizens of basic rights, and increasingly harsh terms of incarceration.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30390.htm
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Land of the Free Watch: British Tourists Imprisoned and Deported From U.S. -- For Twitter Jokes

If the decomposed corpse of Marilyn Monroe is robbed from the grave, the terrorists have won. Authorities in America take threats seriously, and when it comes to Hollywood royalty nearly 50 years past their expiration date, the feds don’t kid around. So when a would-be British tourist joked about digging up the body of famed Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe, U.S. officials, to say the least, were not amused. The attempts at humor were posted on the Twitter account of Leigh Van Bryan, 26, which somehow managed to make its way to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the same time the British resident’s plane arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. When Van Bryan and his 24-year-old traveling companion arrived at LAX last week, feds were waiting for them.
http://rt.com/usa/news/joke-marilyn-bryan-monroe-197/
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Manifest Destiny Derailed: Treason from Within

It is a shameful fact that luminaries can and do lie about their nefarious, subversive activity in markets which "are" the very foundations of our monetary system. They do so ’wrapped in the flag’ so-to-speak. They lie to the press and they premeditatedly lie under oath to Congress - and they do so with impunity. They lie because they do not want the notoriety that accompanies being the authors of a system of false values which have undermined free market capitalism. They don’t act alone - they act in concert with their vassals - fellow conspirators in banking, government and media - who help project the appearance of authenticity on arbitrarily contrived, often counter-intuitive, market outcomes. It is the assignment of false values - and the Iron Curtain of lies and deceit maintaining them - in our increasingly inter-dependent, global markets, which is at the root of our global economic malaise. This is also the root cause of the growing global resentment toward the Anglo-American Banking Axis.
http://www.larsschall.com/2012/01/31/manifest-destiny-derailed-treason-from-within/
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American Exceptionalists Love Their Primitive Secular State Theocracy

At a recent debate when Ron Paul mentioned the "Golden Rule," that we should treat foreigners as we should be treated, he was booed by a number of people in the audience. This happened at a previous debate. At that previous debate, Paul further questioned how we would like it if a foreign government invaded and occupied the U.S. and set up its military bases here. How can so many people (and so many popular radio talk hosts and their listeners) condemn the suggestion that everyone must be equal under the rule of law? The myth of American exceptionalism is that the U.S. is an example of moral progress, peace and prosperity for the rest of the world to follow. But that has not been the case during most of America’s existence.
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz38.1.html
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Insanity Watch: Six Year Old at Government School Guilty of Sexual Assault After Playing Tag
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Big Brother Internet

The military-industrial complex of the Cold War era has morphed into the cybersecurity-military/industrial-Homeland Security complex of the Cyber War era ... to which there is no end in sight. With the cybersecurity industry creating the technology required to stem the very cyberattacks they are in charge of discovering and monitoring, we face an endless cyberarms race that will undoubtedly be fed on exaggerations of the virtual menace and our vulnerability to it. On the heels of the fear and hysteria will come the firm push for strict control and regulation of the Internet. It will be championed by government and industry as the necessary response to cyberwar, cyberterrorism, and cybercrime which, since cyberspace is considered a "strategic national asset," are essentially all the same.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/30/big-brother-internet/
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Police Usage of Armored Surveillance Vehicles Becoming More Widespread Across the United States

Recently, the Sun-Sentinel out of Fort Lauderdale, run by the Tribune Company which runs the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, among others, covered how the Fort Lauderdale Police Department has deployed "The Peacemaker," which is an armored bank truck converted into a surveillance powerhouse. The police purchased the discontinued armored truck from Brink’s for $10 then retrofitted it with cameras on all of the bullet-proof windows and it now has the ability to stream live panoramic video to the police headquarters for up to 700 hours. The truck is unmanned and emblazoned with slogans which read, "Warning: You are under video surveillance" and "Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?"
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/police-usage-of-armored-surveillance.html
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Number of Americans Dependent on Government at an All-Time High
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Red Tails Nosedives

In week two of being in theaters, Red Tails managed (projected) only $7.9 million in gate receipts. That’s a drop of nearly 60 percent, showing that Red Tails has no long-term audience whatsoever. Black movies don’t play well internationally. Any hope of Red Tails turning a profit appears to be grounded.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/red-tails-nosedives
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Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico [Satire]

Keep in mind, the covert war against Iran is ostensibly aimed at a nuclear weapon that does not exist, that the country’s leaders claim they are not building, that the best work of the American intelligence community in 2007 and 2010 indicated was not yet on the horizon. (At the moment, at worst, the Iranians are believed to be working toward "possible breakout capacity" - that is, the ability to relatively "quickly" build a nuclear weapon, if the decision were made.) As for nuclear weapons, we have 5,113 warheads that we don’t doubt are necessary for our safety and the safety of the planet.
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/01/29/iranian-aircraft-carriers-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-satire/
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Mark Leibler: An Exemplar of Jewish Hypocrisy and Self-Deception
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Is Israel on the Road to Self-Destruction?

If there comes a time when it seemed to them that the Zionist state’s self-destruction was imminent, Israel’s leaders would respond in the same way as they would if their state was in danger of being defeated on the battlefield. As readers of my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews know, that response was put into words by Golda Meir in the course of one of my BBC Panorama interviews with her when she was prime minister. In a doomsday situation, she said, Israel "would be prepared to take the region down with it." The question arising is something like this. Is there any power on Planet Earth that could assist Israeli Jews to save themselves from themselves - perhaps I should say save themselves from their deluded leaders?
http://www.alanhart.net/is-israel-on-the-road-to-self-destruction/
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Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?

This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold imports. Analysts believe China bought as much as 490 tons of gold in 2011, double the estimated 245 tons in 2010.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/01/29/why-are-the-chinese-buying-record-quantities-of-gold/
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Ron Paul's 1995 OKC Bombing Newsletter -- They Don't Want to Go There

Ron Paul was just starting his campaign when Oklahoma City was bombed. Being a strict Constitutionist, he was naturally wanting to know what other Constitution supporting folks thought, many of whom were in the know regarding OKC. The globalists must understand that if they push on this particular button in Ron Paul’s background they will be opening a box they’ll be unable to close, it will spotlight their "false-flagging" from the Gulf of Tonkin to 9/11, insuring their complete exposure. All their pagan rituals and moneyed incantations will not save them. The veil will fall revealing hundreds if not thousands of high level perpetrators of mass-murder and cover-up. Many are in positions of power now as they were then, and many more still within reach of indictment.
http://patriot-newswire.com/2012/01/ron-paul%e2%80%99s-1995-okc-bombing-newsletter-they-don%e2%80%99t-wanna-go-there/
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They Don't Have a Clue

Watching the president deliver his speech tonight, listening to all the gassy cant and bogus concern, the promises to "create" jobs by "investing" in grand government projects, the hollow claims of benevolence and omnipotence, I kept thinking, "They don’t have a clue. None of them has a single [expletive] clue." I merely don’t think he has a clue. Not him, not Geithner or Mrs. Clinton, not Reid or Pelosi, not Romney or Gingrich or Boehner-I don’t believe any of them has a clue.
http://takimag.com/article/they_dont_have_a_clue/print#axzz1ktPo2j1n
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If The TSA Will Treat Senator Rand Paul Like a Scumbag, What Will They Do to You?

On Monday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA for about two hours at an airport in Nashville. By doing so, TSA officials directly violated the U.S. Constitution and they demonstrated once again why the rest of the world is coming to regard us as a bunch of disgusting, arrogant "pig people". Do we really want to get such a bad reputation that virtually nobody will ever want to visit this country? We are going to absolutely destroy our tourism industry with this nonsense. Yes, we all want to fly safely, but other countries get the job done without their security officials running around acting like a bunch of Nazi prison guards.
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/what-will-tsa-do-to-you.html
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Former Fed Boss Herman Cain Delivers Tea Party Flock to Newt Gingrich

Even though Mitt Romney is a shoo-in as the handpicked insider nominee who will run against his ideological cousin Barry Obama, the establishment plans to keep the sideshow running in order to at least give the illusion that the tussle between candidates is democracy in action. What’s really rich, though, is the claim that "Citizen Cain" is "immensely popular among Tea Party conservatives," who are in fact little more than a domesticated cheering section for the Republican Party and its platform of big government, wealth confiscation at gunpoint and mass murder in small far-off countries. Few seem to remember that the original Tea Party was libertarian and stood adamantly opposed not only to a bloated and spend thrift federal government and the forever war agenda, but the Federal Reserve system as well.
http://www.infowars.com/former-fed-boss-herman-cain-delivers-tea-party-flock-to-newt-gingrich/
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Gold Shines as West Continues to Destabilize the World
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The Truth Behind the Coming 'Regime Change' in Syria

The United States appears to be using a strategy in Syria that it has perfected over the years, having succeeded most recently in Libya: arming small paramilitary groups loyal to U.S. interests that claim to speak for the local population; these militants then attack the targeted government the U.S. would like to see overthrown - including terrorist bombings - and when the attacked government defends itself, the U.S. cries "genocide" or "mass murder," while calling for foreign military intervention.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28853
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Israeli Soldiers Drive Tractor Over Worker’s Legs to Stop Palestinians From Building a House on Their (Occupied) Lands
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Gingrich and Romney Both Grovel on Univision

Univision (now owned by Israeli-US dual citizen Haim Saban) is more than a media network-it is a media network with an agenda: Hispanicizing the United States. The arrogant blond Mexican Jorge Ramos, now a U.S. citizen but also a dual citizen with Mexico, is its star. Ramos didn’t become a citizen to assimilate to the United States but to help further the Hispanicization of the United States. As he gloated in a 2007 article, "in a century we [Hispanics] will be the majority in the United States."
http://www.vdare.com/articles/memo-from-middle-america-formerly-known-as-memo-from-mexico-gingrich-and-romney-both-grovel
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Iran, Gold and Oil -- The Banksters' Next War

Where is gets so confusing for the casual observer is that any discussion that deems to be critical of Israel is a taboo discussion in polite company. Well, when it comes to addressing the impending prospects of a major conflict in the Middle East, the linkage between the deciding influences in American policy that coincide with a greater Israel objective, is silenced in the old-line press and media. Therefore, the key element to explore is the relationship of Zionist interests with the fundamental preservation of the paper currency imperium of Federal Reserve notes as the medium of payment for oil.
http://batr.org/view/012912.html
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Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus. The NDI is one of several agencies, dating to the 1980s, that were set up to subvert communist regimes. With the end of the Cold War, however, these agencies were not decommissioned, but recommissioned to serve as something of an American Comintern.
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan212.html
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Jeffersonian Exceptionalism

The American exceptionalism that has become an unchallengeable part of political discourse in the United States has taken on substantive trappings that are not at all intrinsic to the concept that America is indeed an exceptional place. Those trappings include a sense that some principles and rules of international relations somehow do not apply to the United States. They often include an attitude that the United States can do right but no wrong. There is often a disdain for any need to understand, much less to accommodate, the interests, perceptions, and feelings of non-Americans. There is a tendency to see the United States as an indispensable player in sundry matters around the globe. And there usually is the belief that because American values and institutions are superior to anyone else's, they are readily applicable to non-Americans, who will readily accept and understand them.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/jeffersonian-exceptionalism-6414
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U.S. Media Iraq Reporting: See No Evil
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White America's Team: The New England Patriots
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Extremism Watch: Columnist Calls for Internet 'Quality Control' to Quash Dissent

Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about the official version of how 9/11 went down? Then you, according to Evgeny Morozov, are part of a "kooky" "fringe movement" whose growth must be checked by forcing you to read "authoritative" content whenever you go looking for information on such topics on the Internet. Morozov is a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine, and a former fellow at George Soros’ Open Society Institute - in other words, a reliable bellwether of globalist establishment thinking.
http://thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/10656-columnist-calls-for-internet-quality-control-to-quash-dissent
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Drones: Another Tool of the Surveillance State

Evidence that New York City is considering using drones to keep an eye on its citizens is growing, according to Don Dahler of New York’s CBS Channel 2. Dahler quoted an email it obtained indicating that a detective in the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism division asked the Federal Aviation Administration "about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] as a law enforcement tool."
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/10686-drones-another-tool-of-the-surveillance-state
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U.S. and Israel -- Iran Not Building Nukes
A consensus seems to be emerging among the intelligence and military agencies of the United States - and Israel - that Iran has NOT made a decision to build a nuclear weapon. In recent days, that judgment has been expressed by high-profile figures in the defense establishments of the two countries - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak. You might think that you would have heard more about that, wouldn't you? U.S. and Israel agree that Iran is NOT building a nuclear bomb.
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/24/usisrael-iran-not-building-nukes/
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A New Call of the Wild: The American Third Position Party
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Propaganda Can Be Beautiful

Yes, we posted this video last week, in Russian, but I thought it was even more powerful with English subtitles. Beautiful women who are attracted to strong men? Imagine that. Such a healthy concept would never fly here, where men are supposed to be weak, apologetic, and feminine and women who look like "Chaz" Bono are held up as model Americans. Putin, meanwhile, has made an extremely important speech in which he explains Russia’s policy to multiculturalism. The overall idea is that Russia is a country with several ethnic groups with ethnic Russians as the "core" and the "binding fabric."
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/
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Tim Thomas, Friend of Liberty
Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas
Tim Thomas, a goaltender who took years to achieve anything and spent a good part of his checkered career playing in Europe, is a maverick. He claims the right to think for himself, a dangerous idea in this age of get along and go along. And he made his point by being the only Bruin not to attend one of these traditional championship audiences in which the modern imperial president, a person who can make war with little objection from Congress, basks in the accomplishment of a championship team.
http://lewrockwell.com/bresiger/bresiger22.1.html
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How Ron Paul Could Win

Both Republicans and Democrats have demonstrated disregard for the civil liberty protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Among the visible candidates for president, only Ron Paul has respect for the Constitution. As it is now possible for the executive branch to take away the life and liberty of a U.S. citizen without due process of law, the Constitution is for all practical purposes lost. Tyranny looms, and Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny. This is why I have written that Ron Paul is our last chance and encouraged his libertarian handlers to be flexible enough for the electorate to elect Ron Paul. I agree that Ron Paul, if elected president, would be hamstrung by the Establishment, but the other candidates offer no hope whatsoever. What is at stake is not libertarianism, but the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, not many libertarians see that. Neither do many progressives. If truth be known, Americans are too divided and in opposition to one another to be able to unite against tyranny.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/27/how-ron-paul-could-win/
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Facts About the Tuskegee Airmen
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For Newt, ’World War III’ is Just the Beginning
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The Greatest Threat

Our rulers invoke these militaristic metaphors as exhortations to get us in line: we hear much about "unity," "unselfishness," glorification of "the mission" (whose mission?). These are the bromides uttered by tyrants and would-be tyrants, who would love to turn society into a civilian army. Their vision of the future is of a collective marching in lockstep down the road to whatever hellish fate they have in store for us. These days, however, they are having a harder time convincing us of the reality of the Threat. This is true for a number of reasons, but the main source of our skepticism is the overwhelming certainty that the Threat is coming not from without but from within.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/26/the-greatest-threat/
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Israeli Finance Minister Pushes Naval, Aerial Blockade of Iran

In an interview today with Bloomberg Businessweek, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz rejected the European Union’s ban on importation of Iranian crude oil, insisting it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Instead, Steinitz called for the international community to impose a full naval and aerial blockade across all of Iran so that "no one can even go out [sic]." This is the only option with any chance of success, he said. Steinitz said a good model for his plan was the Cuban blockade by the United States in 1962, an effort which nearly ended with the annihilation of all life on earth in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/26/israeli-finance-minister-pushes-naval-aerial-blockade-of-iran/
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Democracy vs. Diversity

If the Arab Spring is good for democracy, then it has to be good for diversity, right? We know that democracy and diversity are virtually the same thing: Both words begin with a "d," end with a "y," and by definition are good. Who isn’t aware that minority protection (indeed, minority promotion) is the essence of majority rule? American intellectuals are confident of this because the Nazis were against democracy and diversity. And if you’ve heard of Hitler, what more do you need to know about history?
http://takimag.com/article/democracy_v_diversity/print#axzz1khOCt2HN
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The Political Party Illusion

It has been said that every great nation has its rise and fall; that its rise occurs as a result of the population (in general) becoming determined to work hard to create a better life, and that its fall occurs when the population becomes spoiled, then complacent and then finally, apathetic. Much of the First World has reached this latter stage, all (to varying degrees) at the same time. Unfortunately, from a historical standpoint, the period of apathy is almost invariably followed by a period of bondage - a marked social and economic decline in which the people of the nation become little more than serfs of the state that rules them.
http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/thomas-jeff2.1.1.html
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U.S. Falls to 47th in Press Freedom Rankings After Occupy Crackdown

Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals. The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests. The slide in the United States places it just behind Comoros and Taiwan in a group with Argentina and Romania.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091948/U-S-falls-47th-press-freedom-rankings-Occupy-crackdown.html
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Newt Gingrich: Constitution Doesn't Apply in GWOT
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