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Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:03 PM EST (Salon.com)
As has been voluminously documented here, one of the most notable aspects of the first year of the Obama presidency has been how many previously controversial Bush/Cheney policies in the terrorism and civil liberties realms have been embraced.
Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows
Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:17 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter.
Citigroup Gets 38-Billion-Dollar Tax Break In Deal with IRS
Seeded on Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:28 PM EST (The Washington Post)
The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.
Steorn Begins Public Demonstration of Free Energy Device
Seeded on Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:43 PM EST ()
At 1pm on Tuesday in Dublin, Steorn unveiled its first demonstration of its Orbo over-unity device running in public.
Why Is All This Happening? It's the War Between Bankers
Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:45 PM EST (LewRockwell.com)
The public may have casually become aware of recent news announcements about an agreed upon goal between bankers to reach an 8-percent cash reserve requirement in their institutions. A list was recently published showing few banks currently have reached this reserve requirement.
The strange consensus on Obama's Nobel address - By Glenn Greenwald
Seeded on Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:09 PM EST (Salon.com)
... "Most of the neocons celebrating Obama's speech yesterday made exactly that point in one way or another: if even this Democratic President, beloved by liberals, announces to the world that we have the unilateral right to wage war and that doing so creates Peace and crushes …
New Methane Study Boosts Theory Of Current Martian Life
Seeded on Wed Dec 9, 2009 12:57 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
The Swiss Minaret Ban: Some Things Never Change
Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 11:37 PM EST ()
In the Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke wrote,
Strange Coalition Forms Targeting Bernanke, Founders of Moveon and Freedomworks Have Dinner
Seeded on Mon Dec 7, 2009 6:06 PM EST (Politico)
There's a strange political cocktail brewing in Washington, one that mixes top conservative strategist Grover Norquist and tea party organizers at FreedomWorks with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), progressive activists and public interest advocates.
Obama Blocks Scheduled Release of Government Documents all Older than 25 Years.
Seeded on Fri Dec 4, 2009 9:34 PM EST (The Boston Globe)
WASHINGTON - President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials.
Ron Paul asks Hillary Clinton if she supports Bush Doctrine
Seeded on Fri Dec 4, 2009 3:48 PM EST ()
A great video
Teaching Yoga is Not a Crime
Seeded on Wed Dec 2, 2009 3:18 PM EST (Reason Magazine)
The Richmond Times-Dispatch had a great op-ed yesterday detailing the Institute for Justice's latest legal battle against arbitrary state interference with the right to earn an honest living.
Bloomberg Reporter Who Sued Fed Has Died
Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:49 PM EST (Bloomberg.com)
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52.
Fed Tightens Rules on Directors, Latest in a String of Announcements to Bolster Credibility
Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:23 PM EST (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, under attack in Congress for being too entwined with big banks, closed a loophole on Wednesday that allowed a director at Goldman Sachs to be a director of the New York Fed as the agency was bailing out Wall Street during the financial crisis.
We Pay Them to Lie to Us - The Problem With Politicians
Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:04 PM EST (Reason Magazine)
John Stossel | November 26, 2009 When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician.
Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:59 PM EST (Salon.com)
Over at Daily Kos, Barbara Morrill complains that The Washington Post's Richard Cohen "is Karl Rove dressed up in pseudo-sadness" because -- according to her -- Cohen today "whines that the Attorney General announced that the United States follows the rule of law" by giving trial …
Who Will Protest Obama's War?
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:58 PM EST (AntiWar.com)
Here we are on the verge of a momentous announcement – President Obama's unveiling of his "comprehensive plan" for escalating the war in Afghanistan – and where is the so-called antiwar movement? Missing in action, as this news report reveals:
U.S. Prepares for "Full Spectrum" Operations in South America
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:01 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia.
India's Henry Ford of Heart Surgery
Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:00 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)
BANGALORE -- Hair tucked into a surgical cap, eyes hidden behind thick-framed magnifying glasses, Devi Shetty leans over the sawed open chest of an 11-year-old boy, using bright blue thread to sew an artificial aorta onto his stopped heart.
Geithner Asked To Resign; 'Mr. Secretary, The Public Has Lost All Confidence In Your Ability To Do Your Job' (VIDEO)
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:10 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
A heated exchange erupted on Capitol Hill today as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was explicitly asked to resign.
Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush (WATCH)
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:12 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Are Obama's economic policies actually working?
Audit The Fed Effort Wins Support From An Unusual Coalition
Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:58 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would allow the Federal Reserve to continue operating in secrecy.
Virtually legal - In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforce
Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:10 AM EST (The Economist)
THE Green Relief "natural health clinic" in a bohemian part of San Francisco doesn't sound like an ordinary doctor's surgery. For those who wonder about the sort of relief provided, its logo—a cannabis leaf—is a clue.
DEA Stops Citing AMA on Medical Marijuana
Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:37 AM EST (Reason Magazine)
Speaking of evolving positions on medical marijuana, it looks like the DEA has stopped telling the public "the American Medical Association recommends that marijuana remain a Schedule I controlled substance," a legal category that signifies a high potential for abuse, a lack of …
One Nation, Under Surveillance
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:48 AM EST (LewRockwell.com)
What have you got to hide? The answer may shock you: If you're like most Americans, you have far more than you realize that you need to be hiding, and not doing so may be putting you and your family in grave danger.
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