World-News

by Brent Jessop

Global Research, December 24, 2007
Knowledge Driven Revolution.com - 2007-10-12

In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7681

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Invasive Federal tactics for Information Warfare
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/f089cc0b792e7462?hl=en

Robert J. Lopez, writing for The Los Angeles Times, reports: "For the Debora family, the holiday season usually means making tamales and opening presents under the Christmas tree. But there's no Christmas tree this year. Probably no tamales either. The four family members are trying to save their Boyle Heights home from foreclosure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407H.shtml



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Steve Fainaru, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The US government disregarded numerous warnings over the past two years about the risks of using Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq, expanding their presence even after a series of shooting incidents showed that the firms were operating with little regulation or oversight, according to government officials, private security firms and documents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407D.shtml



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Peter Baker, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The image of Sen. James Webb (D-Virginia) gaveling the Senate in and out of session in 30 seconds has become a staple of wry political commentary lately. But in fact, the senator's lonely vigil represents more than Washington gamesmanship. In a way, it marks a shift in the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407B.shtml



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LUCY BOLTON

24 December 2007 15:00

Angry families are mounting opposition against a controversial application for a phone mast near a city community hospital.

Householders living near the proposed T-Mobile mast, at Woodlands House at the Norwich Community Hospital in Bowthorpe Road, want to stop the 6ft being installed in a site so near ill patients.

City councillor Rupert Read said concern is mounting about the mast and he has been contacted from numerous families in the Earlham Rise area.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/24/5984/

Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/14/6353/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/24/5985/

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Lawyers Stepping Up

Katrina vanden Heuvel, writing for The Nation, says: "Over one thousand lawyers - including former Governor Mario Cuomo and former Reagan administration official Bruce Fein - have signed onto the above statement demanding wide-ranging investigative hearings into unconstitutional and potentially criminal activity by the Bush administration."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407C.shtml



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Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times, "Once upon a time, back when America had a strong middle class, it also had a strong union movement. These two facts were connected. Unions negotiated good wages and benefits for their workers, gains that often ended up being matched even by nonunion employers. They also provided an important counterbalance to the political influence of corporations and the economic elite."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407N.shtml



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The editorial board of The Concord Monitor writes, "When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it. Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407M.shtml



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Greg Miller reports for The Los Angeles Times, "The clandestine branch has a fierce instinct for protecting the agency's interests and a reputation for undermining directors perceived as hostile."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407L.shtml



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David Rohde, Carlotta Gall, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger report for The New York Times, "After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407J.shtml



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The U.N. General Assembly adopted a moratorium on the death penalty last week, overcoming opposition from the United States, China and Iran.

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/585642.html


From Information Clearing House



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A Melbourne forensic psychiatrist, Professor Paul Mullen, who assessed Hicks at Guantanamo Bay in February 2005, said Hicks would be suffering psychological damage from his severely traumatic experiences. These included being imprisoned in a container in the hot sun in the belief he had been left there to die.

http://snipurl.com/1vqx2


From Information Clearing House



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Israel's Home Front Command is preparing the public for possible war scenarios.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106050.html


From Information Clearing House



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A former warrior for Saddam Hussein's army and the insurgency now helps lead the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/mayfaire/latimes83.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Peter Dreier

Americans finally seem to have caught on. Iraq, Katrina, Enron, the current wave of foreclosures, and other events have helped wake them up to the reality that Bush's top-down class warfare has done great damage to our country. We now may be on the brink of another progressive era. Bubbling below the surface is a new wave of social activism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18945.htm



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America on Steroids

A Bill Moyers Essay

In our drugged state, we cheer the winners in the game of wealth, the billionaires who benefit from a skewed financial system -- the losers, we kick down the stairs. We open fire hoses of cash into our political system in the name of "free" speech.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18944.htm



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Ron Paul on Meet The Press

Video

Presidential candidate Ron Paul gave an interview to Tim Russert this morning on Meet The Press.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18943.htm

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Ron Paul DVD: 60,000 copies sold in 72 hours

Vallejo News

12/23/07

Ron Paul Reveres, an Independent Expenditure Campaign located in San Francisco CA, supporting Ron Paul for President, released an introductory DVD to Ron Paul, the man and his principles. Intense demand surprised even the DVD producers. One day after Ron Paul grass roots supporters made political history by raising over 6 million dollars in a single day, the RonPaulReveres.com website released a new Ron Paul Canvassing DVD, selling over 60,000 copies in the first 72 hours. The DVD, also available for free online, introduces prospective supporters to presidential candidate Ron Paul’s philosophy and key positions...

http://www.vallejonews.com/articles/index.cfm?artoid=334361


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff187.html



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http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2007/12/burning-british.html


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http://www.mises.org/story/2783


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Are The Globalists Out to Get Ron Paul?

by Alan Stang

Warning! As you know, I always give you my best jokes in these pieces. This one will contain no humor. Will the conspiracy for world government assassinate Dr. Paul? That is the stark question now before us. Since the Paul campaign started to take off, I have been hearing agonized comments to that effect from his supporters. So far, I have said nothing, hoping they would subside, but now comes an authentic reporter citing “reliable sources” from inside.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan21.htm

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America - Freedom to Fascism

Video

Freedom to Fascism presents startling facts about our laws, raising critical issues that Americans must consider if they are to be a free people.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15399.htm

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Informant: Shawbear


----- Forwarded Message ----
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WATCHMAN2008 Ron Paul - Fascism (YOUTUBE - 12/26/07) Wed Dec 26, 2007 22:11 http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=116130

Ron Paul - Fascism (YOUTUBE - 12/26/07)
9:58.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjpzPoVaFc


From: watchman2008 http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=watchman2008


MASTER VIDEO LIST:
0 - Emergency Call to Help Ron Paul VoteWatch - 0 http://www.apfn.net/videos.asp

The Radical Truth About Ron Paul Ron Paul: Real Conservatives Don't Start Wars, They End Them http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm

NETWORK -- NETWORK -- NETWORK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkmmNft0g3Q

Ron Paul gaining, Neocons weakened Gore Vidal on the U.S. primaries Wednesday December 26th, 2007 Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels and has written films including the classics Ben-Hur and Suddenly, Last Summer. He is recently the author of The Last Empire and Inventing a Nation.

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Writing for US News & World Report, Marianne Lavelle says, "The concept of the White House throwing out all the bad news at 5 p.m. on a Friday, when it is sure to get minimum press coverage, was immortalized in the great 'Take Out the Trash Day' episode in the first season of The West Wing. Well, the Bush administration's decision on California's climate change program wasn't made on a Friday, but it was after business hours the week before Christmas, about eight hours after President Bush signed into law an energy bill that the administration obviously thinks will give it perfect cover for what it has done."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122307E.shtml

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Cheney accused of blocking Californian bid to cut car fumes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2231965,00.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Tent City in Suburbs Is Cost of Home Crisis

Dana Ford, reporting for Reuters, writes: "Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits 'tent city,' a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California. The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los Angeles has been hit by the US housing crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122307Y.shtml

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Will you have food to eat next year?

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

12/18/07

With the economy tanking and the weight of fear hanging over us, the future looks bleak. Right now many Americans are facing the reality of becoming homeless and hunger and malnutrition will most likely become a reality to Americans who thought that impossible for even the poorest among us. You need to take action now. Americans depend on the food they get from the grocery store more than ever before. The unpalatable fact is that food from the local, corporate grocery store is going up in price so rapidly that people who have not shopped for a while are having sticker shock. The price you pay is only one issue, however. That food, and how it is produced, is also causing many of your health problems...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/will_you_have_food_eat_next_year.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Josh Meyer, writing for The Los Angeles Times, reports that according to American intelligence experts, the destruction of CIA videotapes highlights outmoded and weak intelligence gathering techniques that include over-reliance on coercive and abusive measures.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122307Z.shtml



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By Haydn Lewis

VILLAGERS battling to get a mobile phone mast removed from a North Yorkshire village will have their case raised in Parliament.

Ryedale's Tory MP John Greenway has written to villagers in Sheriff Hutton telling them he will be speaking to the House of Commons in January about a controversial phone mast in the village.

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A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and 2004 for documents and other information about the interrogation of operatives of Al Qaeda, and were told by a top C.I.A. official that the agency had "produced or made available for review" everything that had been requested.

http://snipurl.com/1vpmb


From Information Clearing House



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The United Nations has called for immediate action to assist about two million Iraqi children affected by poor nutrition, disease and disrupted education.

http://snipurl.com/1vplq



Fred Thompson: "Iraq War Going Well"

"We saw some of these atrocities I think in the last day or two day, al Qaeda torch hospitals or whatever they call them. That's indicative of what's been happening out there and people are sick and tired of it. And they're coming to our side. Some of the Sunni leadership is coming to our side".

http://snipurl.com/1vpls



Life 'better' under Saddam says vicar of Baghdad

Life was "better" for Christians in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein than it is today, according to the only Anglican vicar working in Baghdad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3084957.ece


From Information Clearing House



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By Gwynne Dyer

As the U.S. dollar fell in value, the price of oil (which is usually calculated in dollars) rose to compensate for it, but there was no comparable adjustment for foreign central banks that had huge amounts of U.S. dollars in their reserves. China, which was sitting on about a trillion U.S. dollars, simply lost several hundred billion as the currency's value fell. So various central banks started wondering if they should diversify their reserves, and some acted on it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18937.htm



Latin America Breaks Free Of The US

By Janette Habel

The US has lost ground in Latin America over the past decade, since the project to develop the Free Trade Area of the Americas flopped and since leftwing governments took power and used it with imagination and vigour. The US continues to try to block such emancipation by promoting more free trade agreements, and increasing military cooperation in the name of the war on terrorism and narcotics and the defence of market democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18938.htm



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By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

The question to ask is why did Congress approve the Iran Democracy Bill when it means more crack down on the pro-democracy movement?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18940.htm



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Die Frage, warum Gesellschaften dumme Dinge tun, die zu ihrem Zusammenbruch führen, beantwortet Jared Diamond in seinem Buch „Kollaps“ mit einer katastrophen-induzierenden Stufentheorie. Von Udo Ernst Simonis

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682779ms79



Von der Freiheit zu handeln

Wir sind eine Wissensgesellschaft, und es mangelt uns nicht an den notwendigen Untersuchungsmethoden und den entsprechenden Medien, um uns Jahr für Jahr mit den Klimaveränderungen, den Naturkatastrophen, dem Artensterben, der globalen Erwärmung, der weltweiten Zunahme der Arbeitslosigkeit vertraut zu machen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682780ms79



Anstieg des Meeresspiegels schneller und höher als erwartet?

Ein internationales Team mit Tübinger Geologen legt neue Ergebnisse in „Nature Geoscience“ vor.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682781ms79



Klimaschutz: Korallenriffe essentiell für das Überleben

25 Prozent des Fischreichtums auf einem Prozent der Erdoberfläche. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682796ms79



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By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI

A TEMPORARY ban has been imposed on the installation of new mobile phone masts in the Muharraq Governorate until a study into the potential health risks is researched.

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