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Reference: American Tragedy–Another Free Ride for Pentagon

November 23, 2010 The Root Causes of the Defense Budget Mess Another Free Ride for the Pentagon? By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney11232010.html The Simpson-Bowles Deficit Commission will be reporting out its results in early December. We can expect that it will focus on domestic spending, especially entitlements, including Social Security. By the time the …

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Search: China Fake Gold + Fraud RECAP

2004 Seagrave (US/FR) Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave on Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up! Journal: Banks’ Foreclosure ‘Robo-Signers’ Were Hair Stylists, Teens, Walmart Workers–Lawsuit Journal: China May Demand Physical Gold Journal: Chuck Spinney Highlights Labor …

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Reference: Saving Defense from Itself

Weekend Edition November 19 – 21, 2010 Open Letter to Erskine Bowles How to Cut the Defense Budget By THOMAS CHRISTIE, PIERRE SPREY, FRANKLIN SPINNEY et al. Counterpunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/christie11192010.html The Honorable Erskine Bowles National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20504 Dear Mr. Bowles: We are writing to you and …

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Journal: Israel, Gaza Blocade, and F-35 Lemon

Consider please the moral implications of concatenating the following events: The Obama administration just humiliated itself by promising to turn over $3 billion in stealth fighters to Israel, supplementing the 20 F-35s it will buy with the $2.75 billion in “grants” it gets from Washington (i.e., and thereby using taxpayer money to save the troubled F-35 …

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Journal: Taliban’s grip is far stronger than the West will admit

Afghanistan – behind enemy lines James Fergusson returns after three years to Chak, just 40 miles from Kabul, to find the Taliban’s grip is far stronger than the West will admit Independent, 14 November 2010 The sound of a propeller engine is audible the moment my fixer and I climb out of the car, causing …

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