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"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20095.htm = "Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins." -- John Biggs, Jr. (1895-1979) former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1945-65) =
"Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."-- Thomas Jefferson, 1799 =
"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." -- Harry Browne =
""The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein Now, Is The Crucial Time You can make a difference! By Ramsey Clark === Ford's Legacy By David Glenn Cox All change in the world comes either from rot or from new growth. Ford's pardon of Nixon might have been expedient at the time, but it has allowed the rot to fester. Senator Carl Levin wants a congressional inquiry into the actions of the Vice President and the Attorney General and their role in the torturing of prisoners. Thanks to Gerald Ford this is a question rather than a precedent. Had Nixon been put on trial, win, lose or draw there would be precedent for putting members of the Executive branch on trial.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21526.htm === Guns, Butter, and Obama By Conn Hallinan Over the next several months there will be a battle for hearts and minds, but not in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war will be here at home, waged mostly in the halls of Congress, where grim lobbyists for one of the top 15 economies in the world are digging in to preserve their stake in the massive U.S. military budget.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21522.htm === In Case you missed it: In The Great Tradition Obama Is A Hawk By John Pilger In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to the rest of humanity will diminish.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20095.htm === 1/3 of Banks Will Disappear Next Year CBS Video Report === Greed Has Pushed Political Credibility and Financial Trust into Freefall By Gary Younge Greenspan's ideology was unfettered, free-market capitalism. Its understanding of how the world works was rooted in self-interest. It was a value system that placed the private before the public, the individual before the collective, and the wealth of the few before the welfare of the many.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21523.htm === Hey Reagan Democrats Now Do You Get It? By David Michael Green The very people who had failed to regulate the folks causing the Even Greater Depression of the early twenty-first century now took $700 billion worth of taxpayer money and handed it to those same financial 'industry' crooks, without any requirements at all on what they could do with the money. But when the blue collar auto industry wanted just $15 billion to keep millions of middle class jobs afloat, the Republicans wouldn't give it to them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21528.htm === Higher Wages or Bubblenomics: What's it gonna be? By Mike Whitney === A New Wind Blowing By Mary Pitt === Pakistan Army Operation killed 11 militants in Sawat: === India threatens Pakistan with deadline: === 'Surgical strikes' mean war, senators warn India: The Senate on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of allowing India 'surgical strikes' in saying such attacks would be taken as aggression. "Any violation of Pakistani territory would be considered as war and would be repulsed with full force,"
http://tinyurl.com/8lehbp === What war with Pakistan could mean for India: ===
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