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Larry Margasak: The Associated Press: "Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report. Payments went to a company whose president tried to sell nuclear bomb parts to North Korea, a company that jeopardized lives on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, and a seller of body armor that the Air Force said was defective."

http://www.truthout.org/022809D



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Margasak

Saturday, February 28, 2009, 20:00

by Dave Burke

dave.burke@essnmedia.co.uk

A mobile phone mast has given residents new hope that their opposition to a block of flats can still win the day – even though a planning inquiry has backed the scheme.

The inspector, David Hogger, has given the go-ahead for 10 new two-bedroom homes in Lower Barn Road, even though Croydon Council denied permission.

But residents are gearing up for a new fight as Mr Hogger also ruled a nearby 15-metre phone mast is too close to the new development and must be moved before construction of the flats begins.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/adoabu

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Huge number of mobile phone stations in Croydon revealed

Croydon Advertiser

Referring specifically to mobile phone masts, Mr Longman explained: "We're not a NIMBY organisation because we all use mobile phones. ...

http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/latestnews/Huge-number-mobile-phone-stations-Croydon-revealed/article-1885809-detail/article.html



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Joe Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers: "If the new American team has some new ideas about how to succeed in Afghanistan, now would be the time to lay them out. Nothing that Alexander the Great, Queen Victoria or Leonid Brezhnev tried in their attempts to subdue the quarrelsome Afghan tribes worked, and nothing we've tried in the last eight years has, either. While we're waiting for a new strategy, perhaps we should break out some old Kipling: 'When wounded and left on Afghanistan's plain.' 'And the women come out to cut up your remains ....' Etc., etc."

http://www.truthout.org/022809Z



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Mit dem Konjunkturprogramm werden die Probleme nicht gelöst, notwendig wäre eine Umkehrung der Vermögensdisparität.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29816/1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/02/27

Kucinich Requests Assurances Regarding Treasury's Plan for Citigroup
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/02-4



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Citigroup
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/27-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/27-11



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http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/3c4b367c48a17284?hl=de



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Citi Gets Nationalized, Don't Call It Nationalization

The Government has reached a deal to buy 36% of Citigroup's common stock. The United States will now be the largest shareholder of the troubled bank (But don't call it nationalization). Citigroup announced another huge quarterly loss.

http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/02/citi-gets-nationalized-dont-call-it-nationalization/



Citigroup Stock Costs Less Than Their ATM Fee

The shareholders have essentially been wiped out.
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/02/citigroup-stock-costs-less-than-their-atm-fee/



Problem bank list tops 250

FDIC reports that number of troubled institutions soared during the fourth quarter to the highest level since 1994.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/26/news/companies/fdic_banks/index.htm



Dow Jones Industrial Average marks worst February point drop in history

The S&P closed at 752.44 on Nov. 20, though the benchmark on Monday undercut that prior bear-market low.

http://snipurl.com/cseya



Govt: 'Mass Layoffs' Soared In January

Employers took a large ax to their payrolls in January, the government said Wednesday, and the cuts are likely to get worse over the next few months.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/govt-mass-layoffs-soared-_n_169898.html


From Information Clearing House

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Economy Shrinks at Fastest Pace in 26 Years

Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press: "The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into recession."

http://www.truthout.org/022709T



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The slump that has swept through developed nations like the UK, the eurozone and the United States is hitting the world's emerging economies with a speed and ferocity that has shocked even the most pessimistic analysts.

http://snipurl.com/csevu



'We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!': Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls

Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: "We're not paying for your crisis."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610099,00.html



Thousands of Opel Workers Demonstrate against GM

Huge losses in Detroit threaten to doom the German carmaker Opel, and the workers want a divorce from the parent company.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,610159,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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After the Financial Crisis, Civil War?

Clair Gatinois, Le Monde: "Will the economic and financial crisis degenerate into violent social explosions? Tomorrow, will there be civil war in Europe, the United States and Japan? That's the rather alarming conclusion that the experts of European think tank LEAP/Europe 2020 lay out in their latest bulletin dated mid-February."

http://www.truthout.org/022709F



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They are licensed by the State Department; they are contracting with foreign governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The PMC industry is now worth over $100 billion a year.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/107146-private_military_company-0


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+companies

Change? What change?

"Nothing has changed our efforts to go after terrorists, and nothing will change those efforts," Panetta said in response to questions about CIA missile attacks, launched from unmanned Predator aircraft.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503584_pf.html


From Information Clearing House



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The Marines based at Camp Lejeune now know when their missions to Iraq will end, but they also know their deadly days of fighting overseas are far from over.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/27/america/Obama-Mission-Continues.php



Change? What change?

Obama: 'Our combat mission in Iraq will end' Aug. 31, 2010

He'll keep 35,000 to 50,000 troops there in non-combat missions.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/63426627/1

Read the full speech here
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Responsibly-Ending-the-War-in-Iraq/



Change? What change?

McCain backs Obama Iraq pullout plan

"Overall it is a reasonable plan and one that can work and I support it," McCain told Reuters.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE51Q3VH20090227


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq Troop Withdrawal or Occupation-Lite?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/27-14



CODEPINK Calls Obama's Announcement of Timetable, Residual Troops in Iraq a 'Broken Promise'

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/27-24



Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Kucinich on Iraq Troop Withdrawal: You Can't be In and Out at the Same Time

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/27-20



Veterans for Peace: Veterans' Group Says Leaving 50,000 Troops to Control Iraq Is No 'Withdrawal'

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/27-19



Peace Action: Largest Peace Group Gives Mixed Review of Obama's Iraq Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/27-16



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Interview of John Bellamy Foster

By Mike Whitney
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22116.htm



On The Collapse Of Capitalism

By Ron Paul

Nations will be redefined in this period.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22120.htm



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By William Fisher

In a brief filing in federal court last week, lawyers from Obama's Department of Justice said they would adopt the same position taken by the George W. Bush administration - that detainees held at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22112.htm



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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22114.htm



Hegemony or Survival

Audio

Scott Horton Interviews Noam Chomsky
http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/03/03/noam-chomsky/


From Information Clearing House



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In the midst of the severest market reaction in two months, the New York Stock Exchange announced yesterday that the 51-year-old firm of Prince Whitely, one of the largest and best known houses in Wall Street, had been suspended on its own admission that it was unable to meet its obligations.

http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/02/great-depression-quotes-1929-vs-2008-have-we-learned-anything/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stock+Exchange

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/publications/1998/smartdust_comm_memo.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TibFO0_aL3M

http://www.dustinc.net/technology/
"Data from the physical world, including temperature, lighting, humidity, energy consumption, and movement, then be married to the world of industrial systems and IT."

http://www.dustnetworks.com/products/SmartMesh_XT_2_4_GHz
2.4 GHZ

http://www.dustnetworks.com/cms/products/SmartMesh_IA_510
802 WIFI


Informant: gotemf

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

By Jamie Buchan

A leading mobile phone firm is expected to appeal against a controversial council ruling that blocked its plans to build a new mast in the ...

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1100400?UserKey=

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/dark-secrets-first-gulf-war.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=First+Gulf+War
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan104.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/schiff5.html

What is the right word to describe the U.S. government’s current and proposed fiscal condition: fantastic, unbelievable, surreal?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs107.html

The FED’s Unsound Theories
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff276.html

End the Fed's Secretiveness
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul509.html



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