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Americans Aren’t Buying the Media’s Push For A War In Syria

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“While the mainstream media has enjoyed a monopoly on this thought-enforcement for decades, thanks to decentralized power of the internet there are signs that Americans are starting to wake up. Administration claims, whether they be about the next country that needs to be bombed or the status of the economy, are now more easily scrutinized than ever before. Rather than an acceptable, bipartisan mainstream and a kooky fringe, slowly but surely the real ideological battle lines are being drawn: individualism vs. authoritarianism. Those of us who believe in peace and the Bill of Rights on one side, and those who believe in unlimited state power on the other.”

http://libertycrier.com/americans-arent-buying-medias-push-war-syria/

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7 Reasons Why the Public Is Right to Mistrust Obama on Syria

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“1. What Iraq taught Americans — what Vietnam taught before that — is that Washington foreign-policy planners cannot accurately say beforehand just how long a war will last, how much it will cost, or how many Americans it might ultimately kill, even though many of them earnestly believe that their prognostication is accurate.  They’re asking us to believe their assurances about how limited the conflict will be, even though many of them got Iraq wrong on that same metric. They talk about intervention in Syria as if they know just what will happen. That’s part of why they can’t be trusted: their delusions of control.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/7-reasons-why-the-public-is-right-to-mistrust-obama-on-syria/279454/

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Napolitano: Obama’s remedy for embarrassment nothing but tough talk

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“Mr. Obama is generally firm in his belief that he needs to vindicate the threat he made last summer when he was trying to outdo Mitt Romney on sounding tough. It was then that Mr. Obama threatened to intervene in the Syrian civil war if chemical weapons were used by the government. Nevertheless, hating the international embarrassment visited upon him when suddenly Mr. Putin seems more reasonable than he does, Mr. Obama conceded to my Fox News colleague Chris Wallace that the Kerry-inspired and Putin-pushed idea seemed worth considering. Then the Syrian government agreed.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/12/napolitano-obamas-remedy-for-embarrassment/

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Is This Why Obama is So Desperate for a Nice Little War?

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“Why the desperation to focus our attention externally, to monsters abroad in need of slaying?  Could it be the mushrooming NSA scandal, that all of a sudden has grown exponentially more serious with today’s Guardian Snowden-leak sourced report that the ‘NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel.’  According to Glenn Greenwald, the National Security Agency routinely sends raw intelligence information to Israeli intelligence without first removing information about American citizens. In effect, rather than serving to protect the safety of Americans and national security of the United States the NSA has seemingly become an agent of Israeli intelligence.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/is-this-why-obama-is-so-desperate-for-a-nice-little-war/

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FDR: Sowing the Seeds of Chaos

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“The long-lasting imprint from FDR’s famous ‘Hundred Days’ did not stem from the bank holiday, national industrial recovery act, the farm adjustment act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or the public works administration. Instead, it is lodged in the footnotes of standard histories; namely, FDR’s April 1933 order confiscating every ounce of gold held by private citizens and businesses throughout the United States. Shortly thereafter he also embraced the Thomas Amendment, giving him open-ended authority to drastically reduce the gold content of the dollar; that is, to trash the nation’s currency.”

http://mises.org/daily/6429/FDR-Sowing-the-Seeds-of-Chaos

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Newly Released Watergate Wiretap List Raises Questions On ’72 Break-In

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“Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1972, Larry O’Brien has long been said to be the target of the Nixon White House ‘plumbers,’ the off-the-books squad of political dirty-tricksters, break-in artists and wiretappers arrested in the Watergate office building on June 17, 1972.  But O’Brien’s name is not on the list of bugging targets released Monday by the National Archives and Records Administration, on order of Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. And that throws a wrench into generally accepted answer to the affair’s central question: What were the burglars doing in the Watergate?”

http://www.andmagazine.com/content/phoenix/13124.html

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It Turns Out This Is A Murray Rothbard Day

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“After Nixon had given a speech announcing the resignation of his aides H. .R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Reagan called and told Nixon, ‘You can count on us, we’re still behind you out here, and I want you to know you are in our prayers…This to shall pass.’ Yes, Reagan called to give support to the authoritarian Nixon, who cut the final link between gold and the dollar, who instituted price controls, launched no knock police procedures domestically and bombings in Cambodia. Murray was right all along, that Reagan was nothing but a player in the inside circle and far from the fighter for liberty that he pretended to be.  George H. W. Bush also called to give support to Nixon.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/it-turns-out-this-is-murray-rothbard-day.html

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Audacious Hack Exposes Bush Family Pix, E-Mail, Clinton Friendship

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“The apparent hack of several e-mail accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family. In a December 27 e-mail to his four siblings, Jeb Bush saluted his ailing father’s ‘kindness and good nature’ and pointed to ‘how kind he was with President Clinton and he helped restore his sordid reputation. A very tough thing to do but with kindness, dad probably helped Bill Clinton than anything he himself has done.’  In a December 26 e-mail to his siblings, George W. Bush’s mention of ‘bubba’ is apparently a reference to Clinton, whom Bush has referred to as a ‘brother’ due to his close relationship with George H. W. Bush.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bush-family-hacked-589132

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Protesters gather in DC to demand no strike against Syria

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Protesters gather in DC to demand no strike against Syria

“As Congress prepares to consider a proposal for airstrikes in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, public sentiment is tilted against the idea. Protesters gathered to make their objections felt in the nation’s capital this weekend, calling into question President Barack Obama’s case that action is necessary to maintain international law, deter other ‘bad actors’ and protect American credibility.”

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Pepe Escobar: Dogs of war versus the emerging caravan

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“Not even the ghost of Machiavelli would come up with an adjective to describe the whole planet waiting in disbelief to see whether the almost universally despised House of Representatives (15% approval rating, according to RealClearPolitics) decides, Roman Empire style, to give the thumbs down and authorize the bombing of one of the oldest cities in humanity (well, they have an illustrious precedent of applauding Shock and Awe over Baghdad, which topped the Mongols going medieval in the 13th century). And all this against the will of the ‘American people’ who, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll support this folly by an overwhelming 9%.  Yes We Bomb. But what for?”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-05-060913.html

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