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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (89047)	7/4/2012 10:36:05 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Homeland Security Report Lists ‘Liberty Lovers’ As Terrorists Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty” deemed domestic threat Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, July 4, 2012 A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists. Entitled Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008 ( PDF), the study was produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. The organization was launched with the aid of DHS funding to the tune of $12 million dollars. While largely omitting Islamic terrorism - the report fails completely to mention the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – the study focuses on Americans who hold beliefs shared by the vast majority of conservatives and libertarians and puts them in the context of radical extremism. The report takes its definitions from a 2011 study entitled Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, in which the following characteristics are used to identify terrorists. - Americans who believe their “way of life” is under attack; - Americans who are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”; - People who consider themselves “anti-global” (presumably those who are wary of the loss of American sovereignty); - Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”; - Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty”; - People who “believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.” (more....)

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (89047)	7/5/2012 2:06:00 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Media, Obama Coordinate Romney Smear With Pro-Occupier's 'Vanity Fair' Article Breitbart by John Nolte 3 Jul 2012 Excerpt: The first thing you need to know is that everything Mitt Romney is obligated by law to reveal about his finances he has revealed. That's a fact. A fact the likes of Politico's Alexander Burns ( remember him) and the Washington Post's Greg Sargent leave out of their concern-trolling over what this Vanity Fair article written by Nicholas Shaxson just might mean for Mitt Romney. WaPo: Dems are circulating the magazine’s deep dive into Romney’s offshore accounts, tax loopholes, and carried interest. The article suggests that Romney is the poster boy for a kind of financial behavior that pushes the boundaries into “murky” and “gray” areas — words the article uses frequently — and sketches out the degree to which the Romney camp has not been forthcoming about the details of his financial holdings. The Obama camp will use this to continue raising questions about Romney’s commitment to the middle class and whose interests he’d really represent as president.. Politico: One of the themes of the VF piece is that while we know how Romney characterizes his finances and his taxes — Romney says he doesn't dodge U.S. taxes and operates his money within the bounds of the law — there's not enough information available to verify that publicly. You can see exactly where this is headed, right?. Though both Politico and the Post lie through the act of omission by not telling their readers Romney has complied 100% with financial disclosure requirements, what both are doing here (and you can expect the rest of the media to pile on) is laying the foundation for a media-narrative that will demand more disclosure from Romney. The tactic is an old one, for the media knows that the simple act of demanding this kind of information is in and of itself a way of making Romney look slippery and dishonest -- you know, like a rich jerk with something to hide -- which is exactly how the Obama campaign (and therefore Politico and the Washington Post) intend to define Romney. There's no evidence of any wrongdoing on Romney's part in the Vanity Fair piece, just a lot of innuendo using words such as "murky" and "unsettling." Words the media never used after it was revealed the Obamas purchased their million dollar home with the "murky" help of Tony Rezko, who is now a convicted felon. Moreover, once again we learn that both Politico and the Post are coordinating with the Obama campaign, which had a conference call today with reporters about -- you guessed it -- this very issue: snip The Rest Here