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• Ron Paul and Eric Cantor's Views on Hurricane and Disaster Relief Are Immoral, Selfish, Wrong

The jubilant shouts of members of the GOP audience encouraging the death of a hypothetical uninsured man bring to mind the 2009 House floor speech delivered by former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, in which he famously charged: "The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick." Members of the crowd at the Tampa debate agree with Grayson.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the event's moderator, posed the hypothetical question to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? "Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

"Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.

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5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution, Adele M. Stan, AlterNet

• 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics
• He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start.
• Our Guide to the Best Coverage of Ron Paul and His Record
• Ron Paul and Eric Cantor's Views on Hurricane and Disaster Relief Are Immoral, Selfish, Wrong

Ron Paul and Eric Cantor's Views on Hurricane and Disaster Relief Are Immoral, Selfish, Wrong, Anthony Jerrod, Huffington Post

• Arguments on whether federal disaster relief evolves from the Constitution, the General Welfare Clause or an Executive Order should not supersede the humane discussion of the suffering of others and the unselfish willingness to assist and to encourage those who are hurting and needy.
• Where’s All That Personal Responsibility?
• Will the Commons Become Tragic?
• The Myopic Selfishness of Libertarians

• 6 reasons we can’t stop the coming economic meltdown
• Social unrest will spread
• Britain’s Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness … By the Ruling Class

Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch/It's Our Economy

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Police officers in riot gear drag a man along a street in London Aug. 8, 2011. Reuters

What a year. Rage in London, Egypt, Athens, Damascus. All real. Just a metaphor in the new “Planet of the Apes” film? No, much more. Warning: More rage is dead ahead. Across our planet a new generation is filled with rage. High unemployment. Raging inflation. Dreams lost. Hope gone. While the super -rich get richer and richer.

Listen to that hissing: The fuse is rapidly burning, warning us. Wake up before the rage explodes in your face. This firestorm is endangering America’s future. From forces outside, yes. But far more deadly, from deep within our collective psyche. We have lost our moral compass. We are self-destructing.

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Social unrest will spread, Nouriel Roubini, Globes | IL
Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, are all driven by the same issues and tensions.

Britain’s Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness … By the Ruling Class, Finian Cunningham, Global Research

• The fact that the capitalist economic system is in worldwide meltdown is not even registered in the mainstream commentary. This is the system that the mainstream political parties have facilitated and fawned over, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal, and which has resulted in social devastation across Britain while the corporate and financial elite has ransacked economic resources.
• This system of legalised looting has been going on for decades, but certainly took on a precipitous dynamic starting with Cameron’s Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s. Labour’s Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were merely purveyors of the same dynamic.
• The 'Toxic Mix' of social deprivation, austerity, and unemployment

• Confronted With Severe Financial Hardship, Why Do Americans Remain Passive?
• The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us
• It starts here!

David DeGraw, Amped Status

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Amped Status Editor's Note: The following post is an adapted excerpt from David DeGraw’s groundbreaking extensive new report on the financial destruction of the United States. The full report can be read here: Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America.

With an unprecedented sum of wealth, tens of trillions of dollars, held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the highest and most severe inequality of wealth in US history. Not even the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age were as greedy as the modern day Economic Elite.

As famed American philosopher John Dewey once said, “There is no such thing as the liberty or effective power of an individual, group, or class, except in relation to the liberties, the effective powers, of other individuals, groups or classes.”

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The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us, Amped Status

• We have endured financial oppression for long enough. In a time of national crisis and shared sacrifice, the richest one-tenth of one percent of the population cannot continue on their merry way, living in obscene wealth and detached from reality, while the majority of the population desperately struggles to make ends meet.
• We are under attack, and it’s time to fight back.
• Welcome To Your Conservative Recovery!

It starts here! October2011.org

• The top 400 richest people in the US have the same wealth as the bottom 150 million. Job growth was zero last month. One third of those who were in the middle class have fallen to the lower class. And 64% of people in the U.S. cannot withstand a crisis costing $1,000 or more. Now is the time for the 99% to take the power from the top 1%.
• The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us

• To avoid repaying the $2.8 trillion that the government has stolen for its wars and bailouts for mega-rich bankers, the right-wing has selected entitlements as the sacrificial lamb.
• The government of the United States does not represent the American people. It represents the oligarchs. The way campaign finance and elections are structured, the American people cannot take back their government by voting. A once proud and free people have been reduced to serfdom.

Paul Craig Roberts, VDare

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Kahlil Bendib

The American Empire is failing. A number of its puppet rulers are being overthrown by popular protests, and the almighty dollar will not even buy one Swiss franc, one Canadian dollar, or one Australian dollar. Despite the sovereign debt problem that threatens EU members Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, it requires $1.38 dollars to buy one euro, a new currency that was issued at parity with the US dollar.

The US dollar’s value is likely to fall further in terms of other currencies, because nothing is being done about the US budget and trade deficits. Obama’s budget, if passed, doesn’t reduce the deficit over the next ten years by enough to cover the projected deficit in the FY 2012 budget.

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