EXCERPT: US Troops Say Goodbye to IraqTorture. Corruption. Civil war. America has certainly left its markBy Robert FiskAugust 20, 2010 "The Independent" - -When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier – just as there has to be a last.The first man in front of the first unit of the first column of the invading American army to reach Fardous Square in the centre of Baghdad in 2003 was Corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment. For that reason,...

EXCERPT: Contractors Will Take The Place Of Troops In Iraq
August 3, 2010
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As U.S. troops pull out of Iraq, the State Department will need to rely extensively on security contractors. Their presence raises issues of oversight and cost -- and what happens if those contractors are targeted by insurgents? Grant Green of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan talks to Steve Inskeep...

EXCERPT: We all remember how Democrats (like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler) SOLD out government to the BANKERS and made them BANKSTERSunder the Clinton Administration that LED to the WHOLESALE collapse of our economy...
Well, after BAILING them out with TENS of TRILLIONS of TAX DOLLARS....
They are selling out to them AGAIN......YES, just like with Healthcare INSURANCE:
Government for Sale: How Lobbyists Shaped the Financial Reform BillBy Steven BrillJuly 15, 2010 "Time" July...

EXCERPT: We have all seen how Larry Summers led the fight for reregulating BANKers into BANKSTERS and then BAILING them OUT with tens of TRILLIONS of
We understand WHY this has been a JOBLESS
But just WHY is Larry Summers in a DEMOCRAT WHITE HOUSE?
He is OBVIOUSLY neither LIBERAL or PROGRESSIVE, but a HARD CORE CORPORATIST like the REPUBLICANS..And 'socially', he is a PSYOPATH:
Larry Summers, stated in an infamous 1971 memo: “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the world Bank be encouraging...

EXCERPT: The Fourth Amendment vanished long ago...
Now they have killed the First Amendment.......Unless you are a politically connected Corporatist..
This is EXACTLY how totalitarianism deals with the ultimate enemy-it's OWN citizenry...
Ich neine judah, ich neine judah......
Court's Dual Standards on Free SpeechBy Nat Parry June 30, 2010 "Consortiumnews" -- A majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court seems to believe in free speech for corporations when it comes to influencing...

EXCERPT: ew spy chief who hyped Iraq WMD ‘may invade Finland’
President Obama's selection of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. to serve as the Director of National Intelligence is already drawing fire from a variety of quarters. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was forced to defend Clapper on Sunday against charges that he has failed to keep Congress sufficiently informed on intelligence matters in his present position as Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
A more serious...

EXCERPT: The Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room.
By Tim Karr, June 22, 2010
The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding "closed-door meetings"with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality – the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience.
Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won't be pretty.
The meetings include a small group of industry lobbyists...

EXCERPT: 6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning
AP–Flames shoot up from the 'King of King's' statue of Jesus Christ standing outside of Solid Rock Church…
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MONROE, Ohio – A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday.
The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the...

EXCERPT: The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser June 7, 2010| 3:34 pm
In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet way the inner political circles intersect, protect and care for one another in the nation's capital. And Chicago.
We already knew that BP and its folks were significant...

EXCERPT: Did an American Mine Sink South Korean Ship?
New America Media, News Analysis, Yoichi Shimatsu, Posted: May 27, 2010
BEIJING - South Korean Prime Minister Lee Myung-bak has claimed "overwhelming evidence" that a North Korean torpedo sank the corvette Cheonan on March 26, killing 46 sailors. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that there’s "overwhelming evidence" in favor of the theory that North Korea sank the South Korean Navy warship Cheonan. But the articles of proof...