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Obama unveils new retirement savings plan: ‘MyRA’

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“Obama said he would direct the Treasury Department to create new ‘MyRA’ accounts to allow people to more simply invest in Treasury bonds.  The MyRA bond would be like a Roth IRA: Your contributions would not be tax-deductible, but your earnings would be free from tax when you withdraw it. As with a Roth, your contributions can be taken out tax-free at any time.  Employers who offer the option won’t have to administer them. And if they automatically enroll employees — which they won’t be required to do — those employees will have a greater chance of accumulating retirement savings.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/01/28/obama-state-of-the-union-myra-savings-plan/4992743/

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State of the Union (2014 Political Remix Video)

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Alfred McCoy: It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security

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“For an imperial power losing its economic grip on the planet and heading into more austere times, the NSA’s latest technological breakthroughs look like a bargain basement deal when it comes to projecting power and keeping subordinate allies in line.  Even when disaster turned out to be attached to them, the NSA’s surveillance programs have come with such a discounted price tag that no Washington elite rejected them.  For well over a century, from the pacification of the Philippines in 1898 to trade negotiations with the European Union today, surveillance and its kissing cousins, scandal and scurrilous information, have been key weapons in Washington’s search for global dominion.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175795/tomgram:_alfred_mccoy,_it’s_about_blackmail,_not_national_security/

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NYT Editor: This Administration Is the Most Secretive and Closed Ever

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“The government has taken to protecting criminal wrongdoing by attacking whistleblowers … and any journalists who have the nerve to report on the spilled beans.  (The government has also repealed long-standing laws against using propaganda against Americans on U.S. soil, and the government is manipulating social media).  The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined.  And it goes out of its way to smear whistleblowers, threaten reporters who discuss whistleblower information and harass honest analysts. Journalism is not only being criminalized in America, but investigative reporting is actually treated like terrorism.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/contrary-claims-openness-transparency-administration-secretive-closed-administration-ever.html

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Can We Convince the Supreme Court to End Legalized Kidnapping?

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“The Second Circuit court erred in ruling that Hedges would need to be illegally detained before he could have standing to challenge his detention. This is insane, given that he would then be held without due process and would have no means to challenge his detention (Catch 22). Our attorneys want to argue that Hedges has standing because the detention is impacting Hedge’s freedom of the press, thereby creating the kind of ‘case or controversy’ that has traditionally created standing.  The Second Court also mistakenly misread the provision as PREVENTING such detentions, when it actually authorizes them. The proposed brief will correct this error.”

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/can-we-convince-the-supreme-court-to-end-legalized-kidnapping

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Dangerous Organizations of the National Security State

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“Predictably, President Obama has done nothing significant to diminish the National Security State. He presided over its expansion. Why should he want to undo it?  It’s a big mistake, however, in understanding the National Security State (NSS) and what to do about it to focus on Obama. The issue concerning the NSS is much deeper than one man, one president and a few terms of office.  Once we understand the NSS, we will see that it will only disappear in two cases. Either it falls when the American Empire falls, or it falls if Americans fundamentally rethink and change their entire government.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/michael-s-rozeff/the-national-security-state-2/

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Liberal icon urges Obama impeachment

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“Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most un-American president in the nation’s history.  Nat Hentoff does not think much of President Obama.  And now, the famous journalist says it is time to begin looking into impeachment.  Hentoff sees the biggest problem as Obama’s penchant to rule by executive order when he can’t convince Congress to do things his way.  The First Amendment expert still hews left on many issues, railing against former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the National Defense Authorization Act.”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/liberal-icon-urges-obama-impeachment/

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Obama’s Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty

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“When it comes to the NSA, Obama has been lying to the American people for quite some time now. There was the time he claimed the secret FISA court is ‘transparent.’ Then he insisted that ‘we don’t have a domestic spying program.’ And then, to top it all off, he actually insisted there was no evidence the NSA was ‘actually abusing’ its power. As David Sirota writes: ‘it has now become almost silly to insinuate or assume that the president hasn’t also been lying. Why? Because if that’s true — if indeed he hasn’t been deliberately lying — then it means he has been dangerously, irresponsibly and negligently ignorant of not only the government he runs, but also of the news breaking around him.'”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/obamas_lies_nsa_spies_and_the_sons_of_liberty_will_you_choose_dangerou

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Sheldon Richman: The Surveillance State Lives

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“President Obama has some nerve. He opened his speech on NSA spying by likening his surveillance regime to Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty. How insulting! They were helping people resist government tyranny, and the British spied on them to put down the coming rebellion.  To the extent Obama has become more favorable to surveillance since the Bush years it’s apparently because, as a former aide told the New York Times, ‘he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration.’  In light of this flagrant disregard for the truth and willingness to bamboozle the people, why should anyone take Obama’s ‘reforms’ seriously?”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-surveillance-state-lives/

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Obama reveals himself as a champion of the surveillance state

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“The president is at least as fond of passive constructions as Chris ‘Mistakes Were Made’ Christie. ‘Too often,’ Obama said, ‘new authorities were instituted without adequate public debate.’ But before the Snowden revelations, the American public didn’t know that the administration considered all Americans’ call records ‘relevant’ to terrorism investigations under section 215 of the Patriot Act–and Obama liked it that way.  Still, Obama pointed out, his review group on NSA surveillance found ‘no indication that this database has been intentionally abused.’ In the speech, Obama congratulated himself for maintaining a ‘healthy skepticism towards our surveillance programs.'”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reveals-himself-as-a-champion-of-the-surveillance-state/article/2542550

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