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DEFAULT CATASTROPHE! To get to the bottom of what's really going on with the U.S. debt "crisis" we turn to Professor Michael Hudson: Mr. Obama’s Scare Tactics to Get Democrats to Vote for His Republican Wall Street Plan (nakedcapitalism.com) Usually a crisis is needed to create a vacuum into which these toxic details are fed. Wall Street does not like real crises, of course – except to make quick computer-driven speculative gains on the usual fibrillation of today’s zigzagging markets. But when it comes to serious money, the illusion of a crisis is preferred, staged melodramatically to wring the greatest degree of emotion out of the audience much like a good film editor edits a montage sequence. Will the speeding train run over the girl strapped to the tracks? Will she escape in time? The train is debt; the girl is supposed to be the American economy. But she turns out to be Wall Street in disguise. The exercise turns out to be a not-so-divine comedy. Mr. Obama offers a plan that looks very Republican. But the Republicans say no. There is an illusion of a real fight. They say Obama is socialist. Democrats express shock at the giveaway being threatened. Many say, “Where is the real Obama?” But it seems that the real Obama turns out to be a Republican Wall Street imposter in Democratic clothing. That is what the Democratic Leadership Committee basically is: Wall Street Democrats. This is not as much of an oxymoron as it may sound. There is a reason why today’s post-Clinton Democrats are the natural party to undo what FDR and earlier Democrats stood for. A Democratic Senate never would stand for such giveaways to Wall Street and double-cross of their urban constituency if a Republican president would propose what Mr. Obama is putting before them. ... It’s the same story in Britain, where the Labour Party is called upon to finish up the job that the Conservatives start but need New Labour to subdue popular opposition to privatizing the railroads and a Public/Private Partnership financial giveaway for the London tube line. And it’s the same story in France, where a Socialist government is supporting the privatization program dictated by the European Central Bank. That's basically the gist of it: the ILLUSION of CRISIS fed by the DLC Wall Street "Democrats" (not to mention the Koch-Korporate-ALEC Tea Partiers). Nobel Laureate PAUL KRUGMAN thinks it's The Cult That Is Destroying America. And he's not talking about Ian Astbury and the boys: Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis — a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences — it’s increasingly obvious that what we’re looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system. And no, I don’t mean the fanaticism of the right. Well, OK, that too. But my feeling about those people is that they are what they are; you might as well denounce wolves for being carnivores. Crazy is what they do and what they are. What all this means is that there is no penalty for extremism; no way for most voters, who get their information on the fly rather than doing careful study of the issues, to understand what’s really going on. (And they might even have to pay $30 to get an ID to PROVE who they are and where they live in order to vote! See BradBlog Brad on KPFK: GOP Photo ID Restrictions & Video Revealing Hurdles to 'Free' ID at WI DMV uh huh. -Ed. Back to Krug.) You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault? This is the clearest, starkest situation one can imagine short of civil war. If this won’t do it, nothing will. Yes, Professor, yes yes! But some think it's all the fault of country club memberships! Hunter for Daily Kos Labor reports I do believe Paul Broun (Regressive-GA10) may in fact be a a bit of an idiot

A conservative member of the House warned that one consequence of the a weak economy is declining membership at country clubs. "When someone is overextended and broke they don't continue paying for expensive automobiles, they sell the expensive automobiles and buy a cheaper one. They don't continue paying for country club dues, they drop out of the country club," Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) said Wednesday on MSNBC.

Yes! Won't somebody please think of the country clubs! What kind of monsters are we, if in this jobless so-called recovery, full of pain and misery and people who haven't been able to find a new job in 99 weeks and so therefore are dumped into the sarlacc pit, if the end result is declining country club memberships! FORE! Where's Al Czervik when ya need him? "Hey, that kangaroo just took my ball!" Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress finds out After Signing Law Disenfranchising ID-less Voters, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Closes 10 DMV Offices One Democratic lawmaker said Friday it appeared the decisions were based on politics, with the department targeting offices for closure in Democratic areas and expanding hours for those in Republican districts. More ThinkProgress! Alex Seitz-Wald posted from ThinkProgress Economy GOP Leaders Voted For Three Of The Biggest Debt Drivers, Costing $3.4 Trillion! ...But Boehner and Cantor, along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) have all voted for some of the biggest contributors to the debt — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, and President Bush’s Medicare prescription drug plan — which helped to double the debt over the past decade .... Together, a Bloomberg News analysis shows, these initiatives added $3.4 trillion to the nation’s accumulated debt and to its current annual budget deficit of $1.5 trillion. ... The analysis shows the wars have cost $1.3 trillion since 9/11, the Bush tax cuts cost $1.7 trillion in lost revenue over a decade, and Medicare Part D costs $369 billion over a decade. The recession has also been a major contributor to the debt.... But this analysis shows that the very same people leading the GOP in Congress today helped contribute to the problem they are now blaming on anyone but themselves. George Washington posts at zerohedge Will a "Super Congress" Gut the Constitution - Just Like the Federal Reserve? Indeed, the Founding Fathers' vision of prosperity has been destroyed - and we've gone from the "wealth of nations" to the "debt of nations" - at least in part because our political system has been subverted by non-Constitutional committees and entities. and commentor DavyJones remarked Faster than a speeding mullet, more powerful than its loco motives, able to leap tall principles in a single bound, Look, up on The Hill, It's a bird dropping, it's derranged, NO IT'S SUPER CONGRESS! Here's Ryan Grim's story at HuffPo/AOL Super Congress Moves Forward Despite Tea Party Opposition Nevertheless, separate proposals put forward by Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday each included versions of a Super Congress -- referred to on the Hill as a Super Committee -- that would write laws that could not be amended by the regular Congress, only voted up or down. In Boehner's version, the debt ceiling would be raised a second time if Congress approved the cuts decided on by the Super Congress. ... The Super Congress amounts to an institutionalization of the gang structure that exists informally in the Senate, where a small number of lawmakers write legislation behind closed doors and then announce it to the public. Legislation written by the Super Congress would be extremely difficult for individual members of Congress to stop. UPDATE: MoveOn's Justin Ruben sends the following statement firmly opposing a Super Congress that would be able to cut Social Security or Medicare: "Republicans want a Super Congress so they can push through unpopular cuts to Medicare and Social Security. MoveOn members, and the vast majority of Americans, oppose benefit cuts, and Democrats shouldn't give Republicans a vehicle to make it easier to cut them. MoveOn members oppose the idea." It may be too late but here's MoveOn's ACTION PAGE. From the New Yorker's Enviro desk Elizabeth Kolbert finds some good news in Bloomberg Spends Big Against Coal These days, there isn’t much good news to report about the effort to combat climate change, so when some comes along, it’s worth taking note. Today’s is that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $50 million to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. The campaign’s aim is to stop the construction of new coal-burning power plants and to shut down—or to use the more polite term “phase out”—up to a third of the coal plants now in operation. Coal produces more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than any other fuel, so any reduction in coal use means a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement is significant for several reasons, some of them obvious, some of them less so. Read her entire post at the New Yorker! Jason Leopold posts at truthout Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons by citing passages from the New Testament and commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party, according to newly released documents. ... The Air Force documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and provided to Truthout by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a civil rights organization. MRFF President Mikey Weinstein said more than 30 Air Force officers, a majority of whom describe themselves as practicing Protestants and Roman Catholics, have contacted his group over the past week in hopes of enlisting him to work with the Air Force to have the Christian-themed teachings removed from the nuclear weapons ethics training session. [Full disclosure: Weinstein is a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.] Included with the PowerPoint presentation are more than 500 pages of other documents pertaining to a missile officer's first week of training, which takes place before they are sent to one of three Air Force bases to guard the country's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) arsenal and, if called upon to do so by the president, launch their nuclear-armed Minuteman IIIs. Read it all then Listen to Jason Leopold discuss this story on The Nicole Sandler Show (mp3) Then BOB KINCAID explains it all only the way Bob can in this week's PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY: "It's okay to roast the planet." So the Sunday Talkies will have lots of hand-wringing, posturing and misinformation as the debt ceiling extension drop-dead date comes on Tuesday. Watch Meet the David where PAUL KRUGMAN tells GROVER NORQUIST his atr.org just lost its non-profit tax status! And it goes downhill from there with the WH Limo dropping off DAVID PLOUFFE to MTP &This Anampout with GENE SPERLING on State of the Candy & FAKE SNOOZE while MITCH "The Man with No Neck" MCCONNELL takes on CHUCK SCHUMER on State of the Candy & Face the Bob. Plenty of Brick targets for your Sunday enjoyment! The Brick TeeVee Crew found out its lone pickup truck's frame is shot with rust holes and a leaky gas tank - unrepairable and nearly undriveable. Our roadtrip to Dayton to find a replacement came up empty as it had puddles of automotive fluids under it so the search continues! The Crew took in a Tribe game last Monday to see some 9th inning heroics, got no-hit on Thursday and last night Matt LaPorta stunned the Royals with a walk-off 3-run dinger! Check out the Tribe on ESPN Monday from Fenway Park! The Crew also has the Left Turn League on its rader for the Brickyard 400 on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Speedway today. The garden is out of control with 6' high tomato and tomatillo plants and cukes galore. We hope your gardens are doing well too. Have a great week!

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CHANGE.ORG The First Cause: A Plan to Claim Food As Food We're losing the right to manage our own health. Even the right to choose our food is being stolen. We can stop it, but only by ending the basis on which it's being done—not by addressing each action. Heidi Stevenson, Gaia Health: We've been focused on each incursion as it's brought to us. But we haven't looked at the overall picture. Even if we win a large percentage of these battles, we will still lose the war. The foes of health freedom will keep coming. When they lose one battle, they come back from a slightly different direction. ... We need to address the tricks being used to force these disastrous rulings on us. We must stop them from claiming powers that they do not have. Therefore, I propose that we start by addressing one of the most significant claims being made in both the US and the European Union. Both the US's FDA and the EU have been redefining terms to allow them to regulate foods, vitamins, and herbs as if they were drugs. The FDA is now labeling foods, vitamins, and herbs as drugs, and then regulating them in the same manner that pharmaceutical drugs are regulated. Just making a health claim for a food has, according to the FDA, literally turned it into a drug! That would, of course, be absurd—if it weren't so frighteningly effective. ... As a result of these absurdities, the FDA, along with its EU equivalents, has deemed that Cheerios cereal, walnuts, marmalade made from Seville oranges, and even Marmite, may be regulated as drugs.
The First Cause: A Plan to Claim Food As Food: We can't end this destruction of our rights simply by protesting each incident. By the time these limitations are pushed on us, it's too late. We must address the bases on which these rules are made. We must insure that, at a minimum, laws are enacted that remove the ability to limit our access to natural products. Food must be recognized as food, not treated as drugs. To this end, I'm starting two petitions, one in the US and one in the EU, to address this concern. However, these petitions are not the usual sort. They will form the basis of many actions. People who sign are asked to be part of the movement to claim back our health rights. We need to let politicians know that we're serious, we're organized—and we're growing. People who sign are asked to also send letters or e-mails to their representatives in congress or parliament, thus sending a constantly increasing stream of messages to keep the issue in front of them. A new website has been set up to allow people to post responses from politicians, along with their own articles: Free Choice - Health Defining food as food is not the only issue that must be tackled, but it's a key one. As it gets rolling, we'll start others. We are literally in a battle for our lives!
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(Ed. sez go read Michael Pollan's FARMER IN CHIEF -Ed.)
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  • ON THE EDGE Max Keiser On the Edge with Ned Naylor-Leyland [29-July-11] 'New Pan Asian Gold Exchange' [PressTV]

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
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  • Philip Giraldi July 24, 2011: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the early (incorrect) rumors that an Islamic group was responsible for the Oslo shooting/bombing; Giraldi’s insightful guess that the attack could very well be the work of a domestic terrorist with a personal agenda; the threat posed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; the CIA stirring up trouble in Mogadishu; the patently ridiculous “official” reasons for US interventions; and how the US settles refugees from countries currently at war with America – and then is surprised by retaliatory domestic terrorist attacks. This interview is from the KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles broadcast of July 22nd.
  • Rami Khouri July 26, 2011: Rami Khouri, internationally syndicated political columnist and author, discusses his article “It Sure Looks and Smells Like Apartheid” in Lebanon’s Daily Star; the starkly different competing narratives on Israel’s origin; making protest boycotts illegal within Israel; the Arab world’s broad acceptance of a two-state plan based on 1967 borders – despite rhetoric that they want to “push Israel into the sea;” and how the Israeli state’s version of Judaism has abandoned social justice in favor of Zionist racism.
  • Jeremy Sapienza July 28, 2011: Jeremy Sapienza, Senior Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the twisted MSM reporting on Somalia, such that most Americans have no idea the US is at war over there; how al-Shabaab grew out of the Islamic Courts Union’s youth movement to control most of the country; why Somalia’s famine is so severe (not from heat and drought) and who’s to blame; and the inevitability that someone in the “history began yesterday” media will advocate US intervention in Somalia to save the children from starvation.
  Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!

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  • House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
  • Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

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