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Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN August 12, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.": - Thomas Friedman   = "Every 10 years or so, the US needs to pick up some small, crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.": - Michael Ledeen   = All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. - Barack Obama, speech, Apr. 3, 2006   ==   Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq"1,366,350"www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html   =   Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,732icasualties.org/oif/   Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,995   =   Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $1,064,415,460,438http://www.costofwar.com/   =   Subscribe to this feed using your newsreader For Headlines - http://www.html2rss.com/site/321608-Information-Clearing-House-News.xml - For Newsletter - http://ichnews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default