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		<title>The CIA: Beyond Redemption and Should be Terminated</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/27/the-cia-beyond-redemption-and-should-be-terminated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sherwood Ross
The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has  been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy [...]


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		<title>Should the Fed Pump Even More?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/27/should-the-fed-pump-even-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Fed officials and various commentators, such as Professor Paul Krugman, are of the view that the US central bank should be ready to consider additional steps to boost the US economy in the wake of a visible softening in key economic data. For instance, the yearly rate of growth of retail sales, after climbing [...]


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		<title>American&#8217;s Crazed Corn Habit</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/12/americans-crazed-corn-habit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, the increased use of ethanol is responsible for a rise in food prices of approximately 10 to 15 percent.
Why?
We&#8217;re turning corn into fuel — a highly inefficient one, at that — instead of food.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy points out that &#8220;mixing food and fuel markets [...]


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		<title>Cancer cure likely found, big pharma won&#8217;t fund it though</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/12/cancer-cure-likely-found-big-pharma-wont-fund-it-though/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Central Banking vs. The Republic and the World</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/05/30/central-banking-vs-the-republic-and-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago in Japan, Ben Bernanke said that the benefits of low interest rate policies that politicians want “are not sustainable and will soon evaporate, leaving behind inflationary pressures that worsen the economy’s long-term prospects…&#8230;thus political interference in monetary policy can generate undesirable boom-bust cycles that ultimately lead to both a less [...]


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		<title>How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 03:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The negative impact of high healthcare costs on the national economy may not be fully recognized. At over $1.4 trillion a year, healthcare costs represent 15%—approximately a seventh—of our total gross domestic product. Our annual cost per capita, $4,662.00, is nearly double that of health care in other countries. This excessive and constantly increasing cost [...]


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		<title>Do Capitalists Produce Nothing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subprime crisis left many Americans wary of financial markets and  capitalist financiers. In his recent speech President Obama blamed Wall  Street, and to a lesser extent Main Street, for the 2008 crisis.  According to this speech, Washington bears little or no responsibility  for the 2008 crisis.
Obama is not alone in [...]


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		<title>100 Years of US Medical Fascism</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/04/21/100-years-of-us-medical-fascism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago today, on April 16, 1910, Henry Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation, put the finishing touches on the Flexner Report. No other document would have such a profound effect on American medicine, starting it on its path to destruction up to and beyond the recently passed (and laughably titled) Patient Protection [...]


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		<title>The Texas Textbook Wars</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/03/17/the-texas-textbook-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, meeting in Austin, the state capitol, made some preliminary decisions about what the next generation of students will learn about subjects like history, economics, and sociology, when they take courses in those subjects in any of the Lone Star State&#8217;s public schools. The board decided, for example, [...]


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		<title>By the Way, Free Markets Are Free</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/29/by-the-way-free-markets-are-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mises Daily: Friday, January 29, 2010         by George  F. Smith
Having failed to learn what causes depressions and how to treat them  when they arrive, our nation&#8217;s leaders are steering us straight into a monetary  catastrophe. Predictably, the major media voices are clinging to the [...]


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		<title>Propaganda machine reignited: New bin Laden tape emerges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Widely believed to be dead, there is now supposedly a new tape released by Bin Laden claiming responsibility for the Christmas day attempt to blow up a plane headed to Michigan.
Research the evidence and find out for yourself, but I am now counting myself in the category of people that believe the CIA and/or other [...]


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		<title>Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/25/obama-administration-steers-lucrative-no-bid-contract-for-afghan-work-to-dem-donor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.


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		<title>State Department Waste in Iraq Costs Billions, Audit Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly $4.5 million a year, the State Department assigned a 16-person security detail to protect six U.S. contractors in Iraq who already had a team of hired guards they didn&#8217;t really need.
The expensive miscue is one of many described in an audit issued Monday of a $2.5 billion State Department contract with DynCorp International [...]


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		<title>Supreme Court Gives Corporatism and Special Interests Stamp of Approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling has now declared that corporations and unions have the same rights that people do, and will now be allowed to buy elections till their heart&#8217;s content. We need to give George Bush a big thank you for making this possible, as his two picks Roberts and Alito  helped [...]


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		<title>Giving corporations an outsized voice in elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporations are pitching a bizarre product &#8212; a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give corporations rather than voters a central role in our electoral process by treating corporate political spending as protected speech. If this vision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will spend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or [...]


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