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Top 50 Stocks Held by Congressmen

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“The chart below (via OpenSecrets.org) shows the most common stocks among all members of Congress who served during all or part of 2010, ranked by the number of members invested in them, with breakdowns by party. (Note 2010 is the most recent year that data is compiled by OS)”  [A who’s who of ‘indispensable’ corporations.]

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/08/top-50-stocks-held-by-congressmen.html

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Glenn Greenwald: The Right’s brittle heroes

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“The ‘chickenhawk’ insult that was so popular among Democrats during the Bush years has completely disappeared, as they now celebrate the so-called Toughness of two political leaders — Obama and Biden — in their continuous willingness to use military force in other countries even though neither ever served in the military.  But the American Right seems to have a particular need to inflate their leaders into beacons of courage, self-sufficiency and virtue, even when their lives are completely devoid of those traits. Paul Ryan is a perfect symbol of America’s political class.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/12/the_rights_brittle_heroes/

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These Guys

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“You want these guys back? Whaddaya, crazy?”

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Paul Ryan describes Israel as issue of ‘Homeland Security’

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“How far do politicians conflate US and Israeli interests? Well Romney’s choice for veep, Paul Ryan, puts the issue ‘Israel’ under the category ‘Homeland Security’ on his Congressional website. Homeland Security also includes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Support Our Troops, and Defense Appropriations.  Ryan’s website statement on Israel is typical of the Republican right, and Democratic left for that matter: the only ‘fully functioning democracy’ in the Middle East, shared values, and Hamas is a terrorist organization.”

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/paul-ryan-describes-israel-as-issue-of-homeland-security.html

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Romney’s Paul Ryan VP Pick Pleases War Hawks

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“Ryan has been receiving briefings from Elliot Abrams, George W. Bush’s former Middle East director at the National Security Council. Fred Kagan, a leading neoconservative and one of the architects of the military surges in Iraq and Afghanistan, has also been meeting with Ryan to coach him on foreign policy.  Paul Ryan has also been praised by Jamie Fly, executive director of the uber-hawkish Foreign Policy Initiative, a neoconservative think tank that has advocated regime change in Iran, military action in Syria to depose the regime there, and criticized the US withdrawal from Iraq.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/08/11/romneys-paul-ryan-vp-pick-pleases-war-hawks/

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Democratic foreign policy figures press for intervention in Syria

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“Senior Democratic foreign policy figures, along with diplomats who have worked for Democratic administrations, are saying the administration needs to do more to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and preserve U.S. influence in a key Mideast state. The views of these figures, including former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry and former Obama administration officials Ann-Marie Slaughter and Dennis Ross, add to pressure on the White House from regional allies and Republican rivals as the Syrian conflict has intensified.”  [So much for that ‘peacenik party’]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-us-syria-20120811,0,5894858.story

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Romney praises Israel’s health care system with individual mandate

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“Mitt Romney had kind words for Israel’s health care system Monday, even though, as ThinkProgress reports, it resembles the recently passed Affordable Health Care Act, which his party has been trying to repeal.  The country’s health-care system includes an individual mandate clause, requiring citizens to buy one of four HMOs offered by the government since 1995, with the state covering 60 percent of a person’s medical costs. The remaining 40 percent is covered by income-related tax collections.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/30/romney-praises-israels-health-care-system-with-individual-mandate/

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