World-News

All Too Human

The New York Times columnist Bob Herbert says, "Thursday was the 21st anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture. It was also the same day that two Bush administration lawyers appeared before a House subcommittee to answer questions about their roles in providing the legal framework for harsh interrogation techniques that inevitably rose to the level of torture and shamed the US before the rest of the world."

http://www.truthout.org/article/all-too-human



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

It Was Oil, All Along

For Truthout, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write: "Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil."

http://www.truthout.org/article/it-was-oil-all-along

--------

Was the Iraq Invasion for Oil After All?
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0701-11.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Winship
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy

http://www.alternet.org/audits/89452/


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Here’s an interesting read at:
http://quackbengoldacre.wordpress.com/
[ http://quackbengoldacre.wordpress.com/introduction/ ]


Martin

--------

SUICIDES ‘LINKED TO PHONE MASTS’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5009723/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ben+Goldacre
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=suicides

Consumer Sentiment Index Falls in June

Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in June to the lowest level in 28 years as record-high gasoline and rising joblessness rattled Americans.

http://tinyurl.com/5rxbkt



This Recession, It's Just Beginning

Corporate bankruptcies, bond defaults, bank failures, hedge fund meltdowns and 6 percent unemployment. We're caught in one of those vicious, downward spirals that, once it gets going, is very hard to pull out of.

http://tinyurl.com/6z6m8w



City Pension Funds Lose Billions

New York City officials are bracing for increased pressure on the budget as the city's pension funds are reeling from the credit crisis and posting billions of dollars in losses.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/city-pension-funds-lose-billions/80738/



Credit crunch forcing US middle classes to live in their cars

As mortgage foreclosures continue to rise, growing numbers of middle-class professionals are losing their homes and downsizing from four bedrooms to four wheels.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/26/usa.creditcrunch


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gas+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=jobless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankruptcies
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure

For China these days it seems that nothing -- not rising energy prices; not sanctions aimed at its more unsavoury business partners, Burma and Sudan; not even the prospect of a nuclear Iran -- can curb its thirst for oil.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42989


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+addiction

By Brkic Sulejman

Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court of putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20189.htm

By Peter Chamberlin

Americans can stop the overlords from carrying-out the final step for ending human freedom, expanding their global war into Iran, escalating it beyond the nuclear threshold. Advancement of their geopolitical plan through the use of terrorism by our own government and through their proxies in foreign intelligence services remains the immoral center of their unholy schemes. We stop this hypocrisy by making this common knowledge.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20184.htm



US Public Irrelevant

Video

In the world of academia Noam Chomsky is the most cited author alive. He talks to Inside USA about politics in the United States and this Presidential election.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20185.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slavery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=human+freedom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=presidential+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Chamberlin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

By Ellen Brown: More than 1.5 million homeowners are expected to enter foreclosure this year, and about half of them are expected to have their homes repossessed. If the dire consequences Jefferson warned of 200 years ago have been slow in coming, it is because they have been concealed by what Jerome a Paris calls the Anglo Disease - "the highly unequal economy whereby the rich and the financial sector . . . capture most of the income but hide it by providing cheap debt to the middle classes so that they can continue to spend."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20190.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein191.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/hein

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/karlsson9.html

--------

Oil Speculators ‘R’ Us

Competititive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

08/21/08

Those dastardly speculators! As well as oil company CEOs, traders in commodity futures have become convenient whipping boys for politicians of both parties in the blame game for skyrocketing oil prices… But blaming speculation reveals itself to be a fool’s game…

http://cei.org/articles/oil-speculators-%E2%80%98r%E2%80%99-us


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=speculation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=speculator
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/karlsson

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/110041



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Agrartreibstoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Biodiesel

Durch die italienische Justizreform könnte sich Berlusconi nicht nur selbst amnestieren, auch das Verfahren gegen die Prügelpolizisten von Genua könnte in letzter Minute gestoppt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28209/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Berlusconi

- France 2 : Etude Scientifique Dr Dirk Adang
- " Téléphonie Mobile surmortalité et vieillissement prématuré rats "
- Next-up organisation : Reportage et Analyse "Capital santé"

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PressReviewRevuePresse042007.php#1