"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith

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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience ... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves ... [and] the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." - Howard Zinn

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." 

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Most Yemenis and some observers firmly believe that Saleh and Washington are using each other to create chaos, a vain attempt to justify their illegitimate authority. Coolly rational, yet utterly deranged.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28729.htm

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I, for one, do not wish to live in a world controlled by barbaric savagery and the law of the jungle, but that's all there will be unless NATO is dismantled and dragged kicking and screaming before an International Court.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28724.htm

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It is not conspiracy -- it's structural economic behavior locked into Western Foreign Policy and therefore the global economy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28719.htm

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Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman condemned Breivik's ideology, but he is still an enabler of Islamophobia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28726.htm

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"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy,"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28718.htm

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Should an attack hit one of the major NATO nations, the effects, this time, will go global. Bank holidays will be called, the US and other fragile economies will crumble, gold and silver will soar, and already-troubled currencies will crash.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28727.htm

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Polluted water, smoggy skies, crumbling bridges, less education funding, more unhealthy Americans: the impact of the debt deal's massive cuts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28725.htm

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If more people understood the means by which banks create money, the way it swells the coffers of the already wealthy, and the destabilising effect it has on the real economy, then surely there would be a outcry of Murdochian proportions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28722.htm

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Murdoch The Mogul Who Screwed the News
 
 Video Documentary -  Dispatches Channel 4
 
 The incredible story of how Rupert Murdoch used celebrity scandal to bankroll his expanding media empire, before scandal ultimately engulfed the News of the World itself.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28714.htm

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Something is unraveling before our eyes. From bankers to media-barons, private interests have bankrupted and corrupted the public realm. Power, for so long hidden in the pockets of a cosy elite, has been exposed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28723.htm

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People's Protest: DC's Freedom Plaza on October 6th
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28675.htm

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Two U.S. House members who collected large campaign donations from the financial industry are pushing legislation to block an Internal Revenue Service plan to discourage foreign tax evaders and money launderers from stashing money in U.S. banks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28720.htm

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College education is the largest scam in U.S. history!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28721.htm

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Yemeni military airstrikes and bombings throughout the country resulted in the deaths of four civilians and 15 militants, officials said Monday.
http://bit.ly/nlisyt

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Two US drone attacks in Zinjibar, Abyan, killed 15 suspected al-Qaeda fighters on Monday, a senior military official in Abyan confirmed
http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=3873&MainCat=3

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The governor of a province in northeastern Afghanistan said Monday a NATO airstrike killed four police officers at a checkpoint in the remote, mountainous region.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110801/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

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Afghan officials say a suicide bomb attack has killed at least three people and wounded 10 others in northern Afghanistan.
http://bit.ly/q4cofv

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The BBC has asked Nato to investigate the death of one of its journalists in Afghanistan after reports suggested international forces could have been involved.
http://bit.ly/nPxKkZ

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A coalition service member was killed in southern Afghanistan on Monday as a result of an insurgent attack, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/08/nato-soldier-killed-in-southern-afghanistan/

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At least four people were killed Monday and two more injured in a suspected US drone strike in Pakistan's restive north-western area along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said, dpa reported. "The identities of those killed were still unknown."
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1912749.html

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Police have found bodies scattered across different parts of the city since Monday morning, some riddled with bullets and others that showed signs of torture and were tied up in gunny sacks
http://wapo.st/r9oPM3

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Mogadishu - Two African Union peacekeepers were killed in a suicide attack carried out by Islamists in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday, as more refugees from the war-torn country are fleeing a devastating drought to neighbouring Kenya.
http://bit.ly/nCPDK6

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"The next three to four months are set to worsen in Ethiopia, Kenya and parts of southern Somalia and the situation will remain classified as an 'emergency' until the end of the year," aid agency Oxfam warned Tuesday.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/aid-groups-warn-famine-may-engulf-southern-somalia-1

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The Security Council members gathered for closed consultations on Monday, following demands from European powers to condemn Assad's deadly crackdown on opposition protests.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/249908/syrian-tanks-shell-hama-ahead-of-un-meeting

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U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir Assad. This is an open threat to the people of Syria. It is a clear signal that progressive forces in the U.S. must give priority to combating this imperialist intervention no matter how they evaluate the Assad government.
http://www.workers.org/2011/editorials/syria_0804/

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Forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi killed seven rebels and wounded another 65 in a counter-attack in the town of Zlitan on Tuesday, hospital sources in Misrata said.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=232117

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Authorities in Tripoli say NATO's air raid on transmitters of Libyan state television Saturday left 3 people killed and 15 injured.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/31/53991917.html

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Fox in the chicken coop:
$250 million given to Libyan rebels:

France has given the Libyan rebels over $ 250 million from the frozen accounts of Muamar Gaddafi and his entourage, reports Agence France-Press.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/02/54050864.html

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The force that is rapidly entering into this conflict is the leadership of Libya's more than 2000 tribes. In a series of meetings in Libya, Tunisia and elsewhere, the Tribal Council is speaking out forcefully and forging a political block that is demanding an end to Libyans killing Libyans.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=23316&cid=41&fromval=1

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Norway on Aug. 1 withdrew as planned its final four F-16 fighter jets that have been taking part in the NATO-led mission over Libya, the Norwegian military said.
http://bit.ly/nQJWZC

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Contrary to negative perception on Libya, AbdulHadi Lahweej, Libyan Secretary of Expatriates Immigrants and Refugees Affairs, said the situation in the country is stable except in areas controlled by the rebels.
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=712443&publicationSubCategoryId=200

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President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela would not recognize the governing body of Libya's rebels, defending Moammar Gadhafi and urging his ally to stand firm against the armed movement aimed at ousting the Libyan leader.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-08/02/content_13030388.htm

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We, the undersigned, ask why the Guardian ignored one of Venezuela's most serious human rights problems - the assassination of hundreds of peasant activists since 2001 by gunmen hired by wealthy land owners.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6394

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Iraq must decide on the future of the US troop presence in the country as soon as possible and include provisions on immunity for American soldiers, the top US military officer said in Baghdad on Tuesday.
http://bit.ly/nuYOb6

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Over 2.5 million Iraqis have signed a demand that the US military presence in the country should be terminated.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/02/54072217.html

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Revolution betrayed. The Egyptian army now colludes with the hated Muslim Brotherhood to bring you - well, a new Egypt that looks much like the old one.
http://ind.pn/pihMHj

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Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed nine children so far in 2011, and almost 200 children have been injured by settler violence and the Israeli military, a statement by the Government Media Center said.
http://bit.ly/noOwJd

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Among all developed nations, Israel, America and Britain are the most unequal, a trend getting worse, not better, showing up now on Israeli streets.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28728.htm

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The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies. But one department stands to gain: the Pentagon.
http://bit.ly/nUYuas

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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo and other major banks, credit unions and industry groups spent at least $17.3 million on federal lobbying in the first three months of 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
http://bit.ly/oj6iEX

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Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850m (£517m) position in Goldman Sachs in a move that underlines growing concerns about the prospects for the global banking sector.
http://tgr.ph/r2vpRz

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The bank also said it had cut 5,000 jobs following restructuring of operations in Latin America, the United States, Britain, France and the Middle East and that it would cut another 25,000 between now and 2013.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-hsbc-idUSTRE7701HH20110801

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Central Falls, Rhode Island, one of a handful of U.S. cities and counties facing fiscal collapse in the wake of the economic recession, filed for a rare Chapter 9 bankruptcy on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-rhodeisland-centralfalls-idUSTRE7703ID20110801

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Tom Feeley