World-News

H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "On Tuesday, February 10, the British High Court finally released a 'seven-paragraph court document showing that MI5 officers were involved in the ill-treatment of a British resident, Binyam Mohamed.' The document is itself a summary of 42 classified CIA documents given to the British in 2002. The US government has threatened the British government that the US-British intelligence relationship could be damaged if this material were released."

http://www.truthout.org/the-real-roots-cias-rendition-black-sites-program56956

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CIA Accountability Hits New Lows
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/19-10

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MI5 facing five more torture investigations

The attorney general, has been studying the cases of five British men alleged to have been unlawfully detained and tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of MI5.

http://snipurl.com/uhfxv



Ex-MI5 head: US hid torture tactics from UK

"I said to my staff, 'Why is he talking?' because our experience of Irish prisoners, Irish terrorists, was that they never said anything," she said. "They said, well, the Americans say he is very proud of his achievements when questioned about it. It wasn't actually until after I retired that I read that, in fact, he had been waterboarded 160 times."

http://snipurl.com/urdnt


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- "L'objet du scandale" Guillaume Durand invité Dr Pierre Souvet : BioInitiative "iPhone et Santé"

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Dawn raid on phone mast site: Vodafone backs down

Melton Today

Anti-mobile phone mast protestors managed to defeat Vodafone after a 24 hour stand-off on the corner of Grange Drive and Sapcote Drive. ...

http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/UPDATE-Dawn-raid-on-phone.6079583.jp



People power beats Vodafone

Melton Today

Vodafone has permission to build a mobile phone mast on the corner of Grange Drive and Sapcote Drive and mounted a dawn raid to side-step protesters who ...

http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/People-power-beats-Vodafone.6084412.jp

Regelsatz - Erste Berechnung nach dem BVerfG-Urteil vom 9. Februar von einem Mitglied des Deutschen Sozialgerichtstages

„Der mit 631 € bezifferte, nach Bundesverfassungsgerichts-Vorgaben neu berechnete Hartz IV-Regelsatz, entspricht nicht nur unseren Erwartungen auf Grund eigener empirischer Analyse, sondern deckt sich ebenfalls mit dem Willen der Bürger, erklärt Hartz4-Plattform-Sprecherin, Brigitte Vallenthin, gegenüber dem Sozialticker.”

Vollständige Meldung unter:

http://www.sozialticker.com/hartz-iv-631-e-nach-vorgaben-des-bundesverfassungsgerichts_20100217.html



Thema: Das Hartz IV-Urteil (BVerfG)

… so trocken, wie das Urteil im Text bei manchem noch ungläubigen Politikern im Hals zu stecken scheint bzw. noch nicht den Weg durch die verwinkelten Hirnwindung gefunden hat, beließ man es im Interview bei Radio DREYECKLAND nun doch nicht und erklärte dem Zuhörer anschaulich, alle Details rund um die gefallene Entscheidung in Karlsruhe.

Gespickt mit inhaltsreicher Musik beginnend, folgend mit knallharten Fakten belegt und abschließend mit einem Hoffnungsschimmer für die Zukunft aller Menschen, äußerten sich im Schlagabtausch Brigitte Vallenthin und Thomas Kallay zu den gestellten Fragen.

Weitere Informationen unter:
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Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

02/16/10

Last Friday, federal attorneys told the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that government officials should be able to track the location of Americans by following their cell phone transmissions — without having to get a warrant. While the FBI and state and local officials have already obtained logs from mobile phone companies that reveal the locations of customers’ telephones, the practice has never formally been endorsed by the courts. The latest federal arguments — and rebuttals by civil liberties organizations — give the courts the opportunity to either support or repudiate federal claims that Americans have no ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ so long as they carry cell phones...

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Oakland Local (blog)

However, in Europe, where EMF emission standards are much more stringent, the EU Parliament passed a resolution calling for more regulation of cellular ...

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Obama wollte die USA wieder zu einem Rechtsstaat machen, statt Verschleppungen, Guantanamo und Geheimgefängnisse sind nun "gezielte Tötungen" zum Mittel der Wahl geworden.

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Obama and the 'Savvy' Bankers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/16-6

Answer to the People, Not Greedy Elites
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/16-4

Rattle Obama With Primary Challenger
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/17-4

Greed Trophy up for Grabs
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/17-3

Human Interest in Bank Practices
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/17-2

Obama's Atomic Blunder
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/17-5

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Poll: Majority of Americans say Obama doesn’t deserve second term

New York Daily News

02/17/10

President Obama’s new jobs plan may include finding one, a new survey suggests. A majority of Americans think Obama should be a one-term president, the CNN / Opinion Research Corp. poll says, with 52% saying he is undeserving of a second term in office...

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Report: US state pension funds face $1 trillion shortfall

Reuters

02/18/10

U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees’ pensions and retirement benefits, and their financial problems are quickly mounting, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States on Thursday. Illinois is in the worst shape, with only 54 percent of its pension obligations funded, according to the report, which looked at fiscal year 2008. Because the analysis did not encompass the final six months of calendar year 2008 — most states’ fiscal year’s end during the summer — it does not include the market downturn that devastated many funds’ investment portfolios...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H13X20100218



Freedom in free fall

Acton Institute
by Kevin E. Schmiesing

02/16/10

If you’re known by the company you keep, then the United States may want to re-think its economic policy. The 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, a joint publication of the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, measures the world’s nations according to a range of criteria from the ease of starting a business, to protection of property rights, to various forms of government interventions. Among the 15 ‘biggest losers’ during the past year was the United States, placing it among the likes of Libya, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Venezuela...

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Stimulus Day

The Weekly Standard
by Matthew Continetti

02/17/10

Today marks one year since President Obama signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, otherwise known as the stimulus, into law in Denver, Colorado. In January 2009, Obama administration economists predicted the stimulus would hold unemployment to 8 percent, and that without a stimulus unemployment would rise to 9 percent. Instead, unemployment rose to a high of 10.1 percent before falling to 9.7 percent in January 2010. Majorities now oppose the stimulus. Only six percent of respondents in the recent New York Times / CBS News poll believe the stimulus has already created jobs...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/stimulus-day


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The End of Obama's Vision of a Nuke-Free World

By Scott Ritter

The fear and hype that emanate from American and European policymakers, strongly influenced by the zero-tolerance policy of Israel when it comes to Iran and anything nuclear, peaceful or otherwise, have created an environment where common sense goes out the window and anything becomes possible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24781.htm



The Future's so Bright, I've Got to Wear Lead

By David Glenn Cox

Mr. Obama, CEO of Gopasskiss, Incorporated, formally known as the United States of America, will offer up $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build two new nuclear power plants in Georgia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24786.htm

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Defying Progressives, Obama Revives Nuclear Power

Randy Shaw, Truthout: "Those who continue to insist that President Obama would implement progressive measures if he only had 60 Senate votes (ignoring that he had this for most of 2009) will have a hard time explaining his move this week to launch the first nuclear power plants built in the United States since the 1970s."

http://www.truthout.org/defying-progressives-obama-revives-nuclear-power57221



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Jason Leopold and Robert Corsini, Truthout: "When Barack Obama was swept into the White House last year on a mandate of hope and change, many progressives believed his arrival meant they could finally roll down their sleeves and wash their hands. But David Swanson was not one of them. Although he voted for Obama, Swanson, author of the recently published book 'Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union,' predominantly about the Bush years, told Truthout that 'people have gone through this foolish cycle of expecting an election to change everything and then being disappointed and discouraged that it didn't.'"

http://www.truthout.org/david-swanson-dont-expect-election-change-everything56942



The Folks Who Missed the Bubble Want Your Social Security

Dean Baker, Truthout: "If you fail disastrously at most jobs, you get sent packing. But, there are different rules for Washington policy wonks. The same crew who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are convening in Washington this week to hatch new schemes to take away people's Social Security and Medicare in the name of 'fiscal responsibility.'"

http://www.truthout.org/the-folks-who-missed-bubble-want-your-social-security56930

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Ping pong politics

Liberty For All
by Lady Liberty

02/16/10

Over a few games of beer pong (yes, really), I got a chance to talk a little politics with a couple of college students this past Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It was no surprise to find that their view of Barack Obama was fairly positive since that demographic is almost overwhelmingly both Democrat and supportive of Obama’s campaign and presidency. … Yes, Barack Obama seems to be a pretty smart guy but he’s sure doing some stupid things!...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3846


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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My son leaves for his volunteer tour of duty in Afghanistan. And I won't be there to say goodbye. Because I advocate a position of peace, my son believes my priorities are off kilter, and for some time now he has believed that he goes to war so whiners at home can keep griping about less critical concerns - like healthcare or economic justice.

http://snipurl.com/ue1tq



Five Million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits by June

According to the BLS, there are a record 6.31 million workers who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks (and still want a job). This is a record 4.1% of the civilian workforce. (note: records started in 1948).

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/02/five-million-workers-to-exhaust.html



Rich Getting Richer Rewards as Credit-Card Law Refutes Bankers

Credit-card write-offs, or loans deemed uncollectible, jumped 59 percent to $89 billion last year from $56 billion a year earlier.

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The White House on Tuesday would not rule out any options, including the military option, for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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US is still paying companies that defy its policy on Iran

Boston Globe

The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants, and loans over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there, records show. That includes nearly $15 billion in benefits paid to companies that defied American sanctions law by making large investments that helped Iran develop its vast oil and gas reserves...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Holding a prisoner by a clump of hair, a bare- chested British soldier poses for the camera in an 'appalling' display of abuse in Iraq.

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By The Associated Press

The government said Tuesday that foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities fell by the largest amount on record in December with China reducing its holdings by $34.2 billion.

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A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs

By Paul Craig Roberts

The media has headlined good economic news: fourth quarter GDP growth of 5.7 percent ("the recession is over"), Jan. retail sales up, productivity up in 4th quarter, the dollar is gaining strength. Is any of it true? What does it mean?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24704.htm



Inverted Totalitarianism

Fighting Corporate Rape of US

By Chris Hedges

American journalist and Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges told RT the United States has developed a new form of corporate totalitarianism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24694.htm



The Great Bi-Partisan Deception

By Shamus Cooke

Some cancer is too aggressive even for chemotherapy. The US political system is infected with such a disease; and we may be witnessing the first death spasms. In a country ravaged by war and economic crisis, with tens of millions of people suffering, politicians are capable of doing absolutely nothing to help ordinary people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24701.htm



Marc Faber : Collapse of Capitalistic System

Video Interview

Marc Faber talks about total disaster with a collapse of capitalistic system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24695.htm



Capitalism Cut Adrift

Have we really been brainwashed?

By William Bowles

There has been much talk expended over the years on the degree to which the media-and hence culture-is central to maintaining the capitalist system. Leading the charge have been Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, so much so that they now more resemble sainted objects than social/political analysts, but then this is nothing new for the left, who unfortunately for the most part are happy to let others do the thinking for them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24702.htm



Gerald Celente: Begining Of Financial Wars

Video Interview

Gerald Celente on the Annual economic report.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24696.htm



Somewhere Over the Rainbow

By Case Wagenvoord

Since Americans believe that there is no class but the middleclass, the working class came to believe that an above-ground pool and two cars in the garage made it middleclass. So it flocked to a Republican Party that proceeded to screw it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24703.htm



In Hard Times, Americans Blame The Poor

By Alfred Lubrano

There is, some say, a deep American anger toward the poor for violating the near-sacred belief that all people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It's connected to a notion, rooted in Puritanism, "that the poor must have done something wrong because they weren't blessed by the heavens, as the prosperous are"...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24708.htm



American Gulag

Lindsey Graham: White House Mulling Indefinite Detention

By JOSH GERSTEIN

The White House is considering endorsing a law that would allow the indefinite detention of some alleged terrorists without trial as part of efforts to break a logjam with Congress over President Barack Obama's plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24707.htm



The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010

By Elizabeth Woodworth

Eight countries - Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Russia - have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24697.htm



China in record US debt sell-off

According to Treasury figures released on Tuesday, Beijing sold off more than $34bn of its holdings in the final month of 2009, cutting its holding of US debt by just over 4 per cent to $755.4bn.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24723.htm



Foreigners cut Treasury stakes; rates could rise

A record drop in foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury bills in December sent a reminder that the government might have to pay higher interest rates on its debt to continue to attract investors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24711.htm

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China Will Keep Dumping Treasurys
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j76.1.html



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Kern Valley Sun

Concerns about the tower include, property devaluation, health hazard of electromagnetic radiation/radio frequency radiation, sidestepping CEQA ...

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Proposed cell tower causes controversy in Mount Shasta
http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x626058408/Proposed-cell-tower-causes-controversy-in-Mount-Shasta


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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On US troops in Afghanistan
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Joya Condemns 'Ridiculous' Military Strategy

By Glyn Strong

"It is ridiculous," said Malalai Joya, an elected member of the Afghan parliament. "On the one hand they call on Mullah Omar to join the puppet regime. On another hand they launch this attack in which defenceless and poor people will be the prime victims.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24706.htm

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Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "When the US military began a major offensive in southern Afghanistan over the weekend, the killing of children and other civilians was predictable. Lofty rhetoric aside, such deaths come with the territory of war and occupation."

http://www.truthout.org/dollars-death-pennies-life56933



Malalai Joya Is an Angry Woman

Dominique Bari, L'Humanite in English: "Exclusive interview with the young Afghan deputy thrown out of Parliament for having exposed foreign interference in her country.... Malalai Joya is an angry woman. She's angry about the war being carried out by the international coalition in her country, Afghanistan, angry about the UN bombs that are killing civilians in their villages, angry about calls for reconciliation with the Taliban and the war lords. 'Stop the massacres in my country. Withdraw your foreign troops so we can stop Talibanization,' is what the young Afghan deputy tells Western public opinion."

http://www.truthout.org/malalai-joya-is-angry-woman57321

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In Iraq, Obama has chosen the continuation of criminal social engineering
http://www.brussellstribunal.org/Newsletters/Newsletter4EN.htm



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