Dienstag, 18. März 2008

The Collapse of American Power

Paul Craig Roberts

In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett reports that in the opening days of World War II Great Britain only had enough gold and foreign exchange to finance war expenditures for a few months. The British turned to the Americans to finance their ability to wage war. Barnett writes that this dependency signaled the end of British power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19556.htm



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How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State

The Despoiling of America

By Katherine Yurica

George W. Bush began to wield the sword of God's revenge with relish from the beginning of his administration, but most of us missed the sword play. I have taken the liberty to paraphrase an illustration from Leo Strauss, the father of the neo-conservative movement, which gives us a clue of how the hiding is done.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5646.htm



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How to Destroy a Country and Get Off Scot-Free

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19563.htm



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U. of CT. Voting Technology Research Center Warns Votes can be Switched Without Detection

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Largest Wild Bison Slaughter Since 19th Century

Special Alert!

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Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of Torture

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/18/7740/



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Red Cross, Amnesty Paint Grim Picture of Post-Invasion Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/18/7737/

Five Years And Counting

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/18/7739/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance137.html

Anti-War Grannies Arrested Trying To Enlist
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/18/7744/



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Cheney Cites "Phenomenal" Iraqi Security Progress as Bombing Kills 40

Hannah Allam and Qassim Zein report for McClatchy Newspapers, "Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday made a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he pledged that US forces would 'not quit before the job is done' and said that a massive troop buildup had achieved 'phenomenal' improvements in security."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808P.shtml

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Journey to Baghdad killing fields
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1170&thisview=item

Baghdad is more divided than ever
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1171&thisview=item

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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,185,800" http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html



Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially Acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 3,987
http://icasualties.org/oif/



The War in Iraq Costs $502,216,875,875

See the cost in your community http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182



Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks

Vice President Dick Cheney told soldiers in Iraq that the 9/11 attacks spurred the decision to invade Iraq.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/461967.html



Cheney On Two-Thirds Of The American Public Opposing The Iraq War: "So?"

Video

ABC's Good Morning America aired an interview with Vice President Cheney on the war. During the segment, Cheney flatly told White House correspondent Martha Raddatz that he doesn't care about the American public's views on the war.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/19/cheney-poll-iraq/



What is the real death toll in Iraq?

The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/19/iraq


From Information Clearing House



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Interview With Congressman Peter DeFazio

Truthout's Matt Renner talks with Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) about the Democratic presidential primary contest, the ongoing occupation of Iraq, the sudden resignation of Adm. William Fallon and the recent revelations about the Bush administration's surveillance programs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808J.shtml



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Critics Say Bush Is Out of Touch on the Economy

Maura Reynolds and Janet Hook report for The Los Angeles Times: "In some ways it was a throwaway line, the kind of praise a boss tosses out casually. But as the economy teetered Monday, President Bush's words to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson struck many as discordant and disengaged. 'I want to thank you, Mr. Secretary, for working over the weekend,' Bush said as he met with his economic advisors at the White House."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808O.shtml



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FBI Provided Flawed Data for Terrorism Watch List, Audit Says

Josh Meyer, of The Los Angeles Times, reports, "Adding to the litany of complaints about one of the nation's primary counter-terrorism safety nets, a Justice Department audit has concluded that the FBI provided the government-wide terrorism watch list with incomplete, inaccurate and outdated information about suspects for almost three years."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808N.shtml



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Veterans Administration Won't Help Soldiers Register to Vote

Steven Rosenfeld reports for AlterNet, "For at least four years, since the 2004 presidential election, when a veteran, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was the Democratic Party nominee, the Department of Veterans Affairs has blocked efforts to help US soldiers register to vote at its facilities in all 50 states."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808L.shtml



Veterans Department Creates Roadblocks to Voter Registration for Injured Vets

Steven Rosenfeld reports for AlterNet, "On the same day the Pentagon's commander in Iraq told the Senate that new troop withdrawals could not considered for months, Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake told two Democratic senators that his department will not help injured veterans at VA facilities to register to vote before the 2008 election."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008O.shtml



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We now move forward to mark the 5th anniversary of the war

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Die Geschäfte des Josef Ackermann

"Entmachtet die Banker!"
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31185

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Steinbrück eilt Deutsche-Bank-Chef Ackermann zu Hilfe

Es wirkt wie ein abgestimmtes Drehbuch. Am Abend des 17. März ruft fordert Deutsche Bank-Chef Josef Ackermann wegen der Finanzkrise in den USA Unterstützung auch vom deutschen Staat. "Es reicht nicht mehr, die Banken zu gegenseitiger Hilfe aufzufordern. Es gibt keinen Liquiditätsengpass, sondern einen Investorenstreik. Ich glaube hier nicht allein an die Selbstheilungskräfte der Märkte." Der mächtige Bank-Chef rief zu "gemeinsamen Aktionen" von Regierungen, Zentralbanken und Privatbanken auf, um das Vertrauen in die globalen Finanzmärkte wiederherzustellen. Die Regierungen müssten Einfluss nehmen auf die Märkte. Er forderte eine globale Regulierungsbehörde. Ackermann musste nicht lange warten. Schon am nächsten Morgen reagierte Bundesfinanzminister Peer Steinbrück (SPD) - und forderte praktisch das Gleiche. Zunächst sprach Steinbrück in Potsdam von der "größten Finanzkrise der letzten Jahrzehnte". Und forderte wie Ackermann: Nur durch einen engen Schulterschluss von Politik, Zentralbank und Kreditbranche sei die Finanzkrise zu bewältigen. "Wir in Deutschland sind sehr stark darauf angewiesen, die gute Zusammenarbeit zwischen Politik, Bundesbank, den jeweiligen Bankenverbänden und Bankeninstituten so dicht zu halten, dass wir die Folgewirkungen minimieren können", so der Bundesfinanzminister. Der Bundesverband deutscher Banken hatte vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzkrise schon vor einiger Zeit "eine verbesserte internationale Zusammenarbeit" gefordert. Das globalisierungskritische Netzwerk Attac protestierte gegen die Bestrebungen, die Folgen einer "verfehlten neoliberalen Finanzmarktpolitik" nun auf die Allgemeinheit abzuwälzen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17531



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Zeitarbeit: „Geduldetes Sklaventum“

„Die Telekom Austria kündigt einen Job-Abbau an, und die Gewerkschaft hüllt sich in Schweigen. Es betrifft ja schließlich nur Zeitarbeiter. Sind Beschäftigte von Leasingfirmen Arbeiter zweiter Klasse? Es war niemals schlimm. Denn die Gewerkschaft hat die Meldung von 1000 Jobs, die angeblich zur Disposition stünden, sogar mit Wohlwollen aufgenommen. Es sei durchaus im Interesse des Betriebsrats, dass zuerst Leasingkräfte statt fixer Mitarbeiter abgebaut werden, sagte Betriebsratschef Michael Kolek zur „Presse“. „Es kann ja nicht sein, dass wir Leiharbeiter aufnehmen und für die eigenen Leute keine Jobs haben.“ Leasingkräfte zählen für Gewerkschafter also nicht zu den „eigenen Leuten“. Und das bekommen sie täglich zu spüren. Erst recht, wenn es um ihre Jobs geht…“ Artikel von G. Hofer und O. Griffe in der österreichischen Die Presse vpm 14.03.2008 http://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/economist/369969/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/index.do


Aus: LabourNet, 18. März 2008



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Elektrosmog-Gegner blockieren Netzaufbau

Der Swisscom läuft die Zeit davon.

Die Swisscom ist derzeit daran, ein neues Handy-TV-Netz aufzubauen. Erklärtes Ziel ist es, die grossen Agglomerationen bis zum Beginn der Euro 08 im Juni zu abzudecken. Wie "20 Minuten" berichtet, läuft der Telekomanbieterin bei diesem Unterfangen jedoch die Zeit davon, weil Elektrosmog-Gegner den Bau nötiger Anlagen blockieren. Das Pendlerblatt zitiert Hans-Ueli Jakob von der IG Gigaherz, der bereits davon spricht, dass die Swisscom mit diesem Ziel gescheitert sei.

Weiter unter...
http://www.persoenlich.com/news/show_news.cfm?newsid=74363



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Oil for war

The American Conservative
by Robert Bryce

03/10/08

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. That may have been true for his 19th-century force. But the modern American military runs on jet fuel — and lots of it. Today the average American G.I. in Iraq uses about 20.5 gallons of fuel every day, more than double the daily volume consumed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2004. Thus, in order to secure the third-richest country on the planet, the U.S. military is burning enormous quantities of petroleum. And nearly every drop of that fuel is imported into Iraq...

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_10/cover.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The dollar is dead, long live gold!

from Reason to Freedom
by Peter Namtvedt

03/14/08

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States announced today before the opening of the stock market that it would create an exchange whereby bundles of mortgages would be bought in exchange for $200 billion of its reserves, for a period of 28 days. If that does not prove sufficient to ’stabilize’ prices and prevent a recession, it would be repeated. Thus, if the prices do not stabilize and a recession does not prove to be prevented in the next month, this will be repeated (I have never heard of a one-month period proving this kind of change of trend). … A grade school kid will quickly tell you that by injecting this much credit into the market, the Fed could be broke in four months...

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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Stocks Tumble Around World, Dollar Declines After Fed Cuts Rate

UBS AG posted its biggest drop in more than nine years in Zurich and Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell to the lowest in four years. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index and Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average sank to the lowest since 2005

http://tinyurl.com/3c6xga



Fed acts Sunday to prevent global bank run Monday

Acting quickly to prevent a run on major global financial firms, the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.25% and offered to lend money to a longer list of firms than ever before.

http://tinyurl.com/2yvfyt



Dollar dives to near 13-year low vs. yen

Greenback plunges after Federal Reserve slashes discount rate at emergency meeting.

http://tinyurl.com/39opzw



Global market panic sparks more gold buying, bullion near record

Unrelenting dollar weakness, with the greenback near another record low against the euro and a 12-year bottom against the yen, also sparked gold-buying, as bullion became cheaper for those trading in other currencies.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/17/afx4779779.html



JPMorgan to buy crisis-hit US bank

But the deal announced late on Sunday in the US has failed to soothe worries among Asian investors over the strength of the US economy and the continuing fallout from the global credit crunch.

http://tinyurl.com/2qgv9r



JPMorgan Surges After Capturing Bear Stearns for $240 Million

JPMorgan Chase & Co. surged in New York trading after striking a deal backed by the Federal Reserve to buy Bear Stearns Cos. for $2 a share, 90 percent less than the 85-year old firm's market value last week.

http://tinyurl.com/2fohg5



Banks face "new world order," consolidation: report

Financial firms face a "new world order" after a weekend fire sale of Bear Stearns and the Federal Reserve's first emergency weekend meeting since 1979, research firm CreditSights said in a report on Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/39wdj3



Wall St braced for buy-out loans pain

Wall Street investment banks are poised for further pain from loans to private equity groups when they start reporting first-quarter results this week.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ee1ad274-f3c4-11dc-b6bc-0000779fd2ac.html



Wall Street fears for next Great Depression

Wall Street is bracing itself for another week of roller-coaster trading after more than $300bn (£150bn) was wiped off the US equity markets on Friday following the emergency funding package put together by the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase to rescue Bear Stearns.

http://tinyurl.com/2qlv6p



U.S. to start economic stimulus payments May 2

The IRS said the payments -- tax rebates of about $600 for most middle-income individuals and $1,200 for middle-income couples -- will be sent in the order of the last two digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. Taxpayers must file a 2007 tax return to receive a payment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1759922420080317



How bad is the mortgage crisis going to get?

What started in subprime is likely to continue cascading into the markets and keep the economy down until 2010, economist Paul Krugman forecasts. Bottom line for homeowners: An average drop of 25%.

http://tinyurl.com/2qlv6p


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Abu Ghraib Prisoners Packed In Ice Water, Filled Garbage Cans

Muslim prisoners held in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were submerged in water-filled garbage cans with ice or put naked under cold showers in near-freezing rooms until they went into shock, Sgt. Javal Davis, who served with the 372nd Military Police Company there, has told a national magazine.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31874


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Iraq Vets: 'Racism Endemic, Comes from the Top of Command Chain'

VIDEO

At its core, the "War on Terror" is inherently racist. Its central tenet is that all Muslims are interchangeable.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79865/


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Global protests against Iraq war

Tens of thousands of protesters across the world have taken part in a day of protests demanding the withdrawal of US and British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://tinyurl.com/39pna9


From Information Clearing House

5 Years Ago, as War Neared, Hillary Clinton Was Silent, 'NYT' Archives Show

Wherever you stand on the Obama/Clinton race, one thing nearly everyone agrees on is this: She voted for the war resolution in 2002, but now says the resolution did not really authorize the war -- and she calls the 2003 invasion a mistake. But what did she do in attempting to halt the war in the two weeks before it began?

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Red Cross: Iraq humanitarian situation one of the most desperate

The humanitarian situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion is 'one of the most critical in the world,' the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report issued Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/27zzw2



Red Cross says millions of Iraqis lack water and healthcare

Five years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq, millions of people there are still deprived of clean water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/28myzs



France says Iraqi crisis one of worst in worldwide

"The crisis affecting Iraq is one of the most grave in the world," she said. "In a situation which remains extremely fragile with regard to security, there is a humanitarian dimension of a particular gravity," she added.

http://tinyurl.com/2clbhg



Patrick Cockburn: Iraq is a country no more

'It reminds me of Iraq under Saddam," a militant opponent of Saddam Hussein said angrily to me last week as he watched red-capped Iraqi soldiers close down part of central Baghdad so the convoy of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, might briefly venture into the city.

http://tinyurl.com/2pfz3g



Only Saddam Hussein can run Iraq, says aide

A prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition movement that helped propel America and Britain to war in 2003 has said the country would be better off if Saddam Hussein was still in power.

http://tinyurl.com/2glw8w



Iraq key players, then and now

The world was divided in 2003 into countries that supported or opposed the Iraq war. The UN was in the middle. Here we recount the arguments for and against made by eight key players, and where they stand now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7297592.stm


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Explosions rock Iraq's capital as McCain, Cheney visit

Sen. John McCain stressed the importance of a U.S. commitment to Iraq during talks with Iraq's prime minister Monday, and explosions struck Baghdad during twin visits by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Bear Stearns Fire-sale sends Global Markets Plunging, Dollar Routed

By Mike Whitney

Bear's travails are just the beginning of Wall Street's woes. Now there's talk of Lehman Brothers going under. According to the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19552.htm

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The Fed panics

The American Spectator
by Philip Klein

The extraordinary intrusion into the free market over the past several days by the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman Ben Bernanke should send shudders down the spines of conservatives everywhere. While some so-called free marketers were lauding the Fed’s bailout of Bear Stearns as a necessary rescue of a banking institution that was too connected with the rest of the financial system to be allowed to fail, government should not protect Wall Street firms from the inherent risks of investing. As a result of the deal, American taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars in troubled mortgage assets so that Bear Stearns can avert bankruptcy...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12911


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The Iraq Experience Has Laid Bare The Timits Of Raw Military Power

By Max Hastings

The next US president must reject the juvenile Bush vision, reach out to Iran and seek justice for the Palestinian people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19551.htm



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Glaciers Suffer Record Shrinkage

BBC News reports: "The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031708EA.shtml

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Glacier ice loss at record levels
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/glacier-ice-loss-at-record-levels-796623.html


Informant: Bob Banner



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Letting Companies off the Hook

"Should telecommunication companies receive retroactive immunity for their role in helping the government eavesdrop on American phone calls and emails? As Congress and President Bush duel over the answer to that question, NOW on PBS interviews a whistleblower with exclusive insight into the role played by one of those companies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708U.shtml



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Pope: Enough With Slaughters in Iraq

The Associated Press reports: "Pope Benedict XVI issued one of his strongest appeals for peace in Iraq on Sunday, days after the body of the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found near the northern city of Mosul."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708R.shtml

Bush's Big Bank Bailout

by Cliff Kincaid

But Paulson’s answer was similar to Bush’s. He said that “on the one hand, you’ve got a moral hazard. On the other, you’ve got what’s right for the markets, what’s right for the stability of the financial system, the U.S. economy.” He said that “All of these situations are situation-specific, depending on what’s going on in the markets at the time. You’re jumping to a conclusion about what the cost is going to be to U.S. taxpayers.”.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff212.htm

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Too Big to Bail

The Fed's Wall Street Dilemma

By Pam Martens

Americans learned two new truths last week from the Bush Administration's version of Life's Little Instruction Book: if you're a Wall Street miscreant you're thrown a lifeline; if you're a Wall Street crime fighter you're thrown a land mine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19555.htm



The Fed is just an Extension of the Banking Establishment; The Bear bailout proves it

By Mike Whitney

Direct intervention into supposedly "free markets" is less defensible when it is merely a matter of saving an over-leveraged banking system from its inevitable Day of Reckoning. And, yet, that appears to be the reason for the White House confab.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19572.htm



If the bailout comes, watch for a dollar dive

If the United States bails out the financial system by buying mortgage debt directly, the price just might be surging inflation and a dollar crisis.

http://tinyurl.com/2zyh8h


From Information Clearing House

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The Fed Packages Corruption as Sound Public Policy

David Sirota writes for Creators Syndicate, "If you are a banking executive whose risky loans go bad, your industry's campaign donations get you Big Boy Bailout-ism that makes taxpayers 'take the bad loans off the banks' books,' as one financial analyst gushed this week. If you are a regular Joe who can't pay your home loan, you get foreclosed on."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108O.shtml



The Gentlemen's Bailout

The Nation's editorial team writes, "The Federal Reserve's announcement of an open-ended bailout for Wall Street's endangered financial firms and banks opens an ominous new chapter in what might be called 'market socialism with American characteristics.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032108LA.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Sirota

Bundesregierung lehnt eine verständliche Kennzeichnung der Lebensmittel ab

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27499/1.html

Trügerische Erwerbslosenzahlen: FDP kritisiert geschönte Arbeitslosenstatistik

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27513/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Erwerbslose
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitslosenstatistik
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ein-Euro-Jobs

Mit einer neuen Zinssenkung doktert die Fed weiter an Symptomen der Kreditkrise herum, die weltweite Wellen schlägt

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27520/1.html



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

Wächst die Zuversicht im Irak? Wie ARD, BBC oder Channel4 Umfragen im Irak auslegen

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27525/1.html



Zuversicht in den Ghettos?

Irak: Fünf Jahre nach der Invasion.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27519/1.html

General William Odom Says Congress Should Impeach and Stop Funding the Occupation

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/c25e6bca52df470f?hl=en


From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Odom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

Beware an Attack on Iran

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8371



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn

Iraq Veterans Against the War: Why we're against the war

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/9ce3b36940d0b732?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Veterans+Against+the+War

5 YEARS IN IRAQ



http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/9eb2698be7bcfec7?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Greenwald

Government-Made Crises

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger146.html



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

All That Warrantless Wiretapping

http://www.lewrockwell.com/chartier/chartier100.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/chartier

Montag, 17. März 2008

Soft Shoe in Hard Times

Maureen Dowd, writing for The New York Times, says: "Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar's crumpling, the recession's thundering, the Dow's bungee-jumping and the world's disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called 'The Most Happy Fella.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708I.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maureen+Dowd

Triple Shock to the Global Economy

Le Monde's Eric Le Boucher elucidates the global economic crisis and attempts to find its silver lining.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708G.shtml

Many Voting for Clinton to Boost GOP

Scott Helman, reporting for The Boston Globe, writes: "For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show. A sudden change of heart? Hardly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary

Subprime Mortgage Watchdogs Kept on Leash

E. Scott Reckard, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes: "Freelance financial watchdogs who examined the paperwork on subprime home loans being sold to Wall Street had an inside view of the boom in easy-money lending this decade. The reviewers say they raised plenty of red flags about flaws so serious that mortgages should have been rejected outright - such as borrowers' incomes that seemed inflated or documents that looked fake - but the problems were glossed over, ignored or stricken from reports."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708B.shtml



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

Help Save Troy Davis!

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on September 23.
Justice matters, stop the imminent execution of Troy Davis!

http://tinyurl.com/2gamch



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Troy+Davis

Bosbach rechnet mit rascher Einigung über Online-Durchsuchungen

Während der Chaos Computer Club das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts so interpretiert, dass Online-Durchsuchungen in der Praxis fast ausgeschlossen sind, meint die Bundesregierung, sie könne das geplante BKA-Gesetz mit nur "marginalen" Änderungen zügig durchsetzen zu können. Unions-Bundestagsfraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) rechnet mit einer raschen Einigung der großen Koalition. "Die ersten Gespräche mit der SPD nach der Entscheidung des Gerichts waren sehr konstruktiv und sachlich", sagte Bosbach der Düsseldorfer "Rheinischen Post". "Ich bin optimistisch, dass es uns gelingen kann, das BKA-Gesetz im Bundestag bis zur Sommerpause zu verabschieden." Der bisherige Referentenentwurf müsse nur marginal geändert werden, sagte Bosbach. Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) wolle ebenso wie Innenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) jetzt ein rasches Ergebnis.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17513



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chaos+Computer+Club
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Online-Durchsuchung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bosbach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zypries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble

Guantánamo: The Bigger Picture

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/17/7728/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frida+Berrigan

Wimax Funknetz soll Satellitenfernsehen stören

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,541884,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wimax
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wimax

The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper

The Wages of Peace

Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier write for The Nation: "The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper than the squandered opportunities for vital public investments. Spending on Iraq is also a job killer. Every $1 billion spent on a combination of education, healthcare, energy conservation and infrastructure investments creates between 50 and 100 percent more jobs than the same money going to Iraq. Taking the 2007 Iraq budget of $138 billion, this means that upward of 1 million jobs were lost because the Bush Administration chose the Iraq sinkhole over public investment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708O.shtml

Army Judge in Guantanamo Bay Rebukes Government

Carol Rosenberg reports for The Miami Herald: "In a rebuke to the government, an Army judge Friday issued five successive orders instructing the Pentagon to do more to help lawyers for Canadian captive Omar Khadr build a defense case. Khadr, 21, faces a trial by military commissions as an alleged al Qaeda terrorist. He is accused of throwing a grenade in a July 2002 firefight in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed a U.S. soldier. He was 15."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Omar+Khadr

Supreme Court Inc.

Jeffrey Rosen reports for The New York Times: "Though the current Supreme Court has a well-earned reputation for divisiveness, it has been surprisingly united in cases affecting business interests. Of the 30 business cases last term, 22 were decided unanimously, or with only one or two dissenting votes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeffrey+Rosen

The latest news about slavery worldwide

http://www.antislavery.org/archive/reporter/reporter_winter_2008.htm



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

Take the ProtectSeals Petition Challenge to help save seals!

https://community.hsus.org/ct/OdA90DS1-mRH/



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

IWF fordert Steuermittel zur Eindämmung der Finanzmarktkrise

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31182



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Finanzmarktkrise
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IWF

The Brazilian Bloody War Against US Monsanto and Swiss Syngenta

http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/10048/1/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Syngenta

Finanzsystem: fortschreitender Kollaps

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31181

Worum es in der Tarifauseinandersetzung im Einzelhandel geht: Ganz normale Ausbeutung

„…Zu tun hat man es da mit einer Branche, in der den Unternehmern eine schier unerschöpfliche Arbeitskraftreserve zur Verfügung steht; ein Heer von angestammten und zugewanderten Arbeitslosen, die Arbeit um jeden Preis suchen; von Staats wegen noch verstärkt verfügbar gemacht durch die Hartz-4-Gesetze, welche die Betreffenden zwingen, die miesesten Jobs anzunehmen; und sofort einsetzbar für die zahllosen Handlangerdienste, die in diesem Gewerbe zu erledigen sind; für Jobs, die keine großen Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten voraussetzen; erledigt von Leuten, die auf ihrem Posten jederzeit ersetzbar sind. Um die gewerkschaftliche Vertretung von Arbeiterinteressen ist es in dieser Branche schon allein deswegen schlecht bestellt. Der zuständigen Gewerkschaft Verdi ist in den letzten Jahren ihr Tarifpartner weitgehend abhanden gekommen; viele große Unternehmen haben die Tarifgemeinschaft verlassen – sie sehen nicht ein, warum sie sich überhaupt noch mit einer Gewerkschaft auseinandersetzen und eine Tarifbindung akzeptieren sollen. Bei den Kleinkrämern um die Ecke, die es ja auch noch massenhaft gibt, hat die Gewerkschaft sowieso Hausverbot. Der Organisationsgrad im gesamten Einzelhandel liegt bei ca. 30%....“ Ein Beitrag aus GegenStandpunkt vom 14. März 2008 http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/08/1/Einzelhandel.html

video: konsumentInnenstreik bei real

„Gestern, den 29.02.08 haben zwanzig verärgerte KonsumentInnen während des Abendgeschäftes um ca. 17.30 Uhr den Verkauf bei „Real“ im Park-Center am Treptower Park, Berlin unterbrochen. Mit Einkaufswägen wurden sämtliche Kassen versperrt! Die Aktion galt der Unterstützung der dort Beschäftigten, die seit 8 Monaten für höhere Löhne und die Beibehaltung der Nacht- und Spätzuschläge streiken…“ Bericht von idap vom 02.03.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/03/209395.shtml

und das Video dazu bei KanalB http://kanalb.org/index.php?play_id=1978&modul=Clip&autostart=true

Siehe weitere Videos auf der Sonderseite mit Videos zum Streik im Einzelhandel bei KanalB http://kanalb.org/topic.php?clipId=261


Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2008

Next-up news N°510

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/32d1d3225c3f379a

Big Brother really is watching

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

03/14/08

I’ve been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there is something satisfying in seeing an insufferably self-righteous, politically ambitious, ham-handed, and ethically challenged former prosecutor lose his grip on power because he did what he used to prosecute other people for doing. On the other hand, he was caught in a victimless crime because the ludicrously named Patriot Act requires banks to inform the IRS when their depositors engage in ’suspicious,’ that is, unusual, financial activity...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1946


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Spitzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

How to destroy a country in five years

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

03/16/08

Five rears after the invasion of Iraq the US and the Iraqi government both claim that Iraq is becoming a less dangerous place, but the measures taken to protect Mr Maliki told a different story. Gun-waving soldiers first cleared all traffic from the streets. Then four black armored cars, each with three machine gunners on the roof, raced out of a heavily fortified exit from the Green Zone, followed by sand-coloured American Humvees and more armoured cars. Finally, in the middle of the speeding convoy, we saw six identical bullet proof vehicles with black windows, one of which must have carried Mr Maliki. The precautions were not excessive since Baghdad remains the most dangerous city in the world...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick03152008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Another year, another $300 billion

Boston Globe
by Linda Bilmes

03/16/08

The sixth year of the Iraq war begins this week. The war is now the second-longest in US history — longer than any except Vietnam. So far, 1.6 million US troops have served, more than a third of them for two or more tours of duty. Almost 4,000 US service personnel have been killed, and 60,000 wounded, injured or contracted a serious disease. Many survive with severe multiple injuries (’polytraumas’) that in previous wars would have almost certainly ended in death. One-third of the 780,000 troops discharged so far have been treated at veterans’ hospitals and clinics, including 120,000 treated for mental health conditions and 68,000 diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. This year alone the Department of Veterans Affairs expects to treat 333,000 returning veterans. The majority of these veterans will be eligible to receive lifetime disability compensation - 228,000 have already filed applications...

http://tinyurl.com/2d8r6n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=injuries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PTSD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=disability
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Bilmes

Bush barely trims FOIA backlog

Greensboro News-Record

03/16/08

Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act. At the same time, an audit by the National Security Archive found that Bush has provided citizens someone to talk to about how long it is going to take to get the government records they want or to be turned down...

http://tinyurl.com/yswyzv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Veterans recall horrors of war in live broadcast

Boston Globe

03/16/08

Liz Jackson’s eyes were fixed on a screen showing a live broadcast of anguished testimonies by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans describing what they had seen and done during their combat tours. Jeffery Smith recalled how his Army unit beat and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. Former Marine Bryan Casler recounted how fellow Marines urinated and defecated into food and gave it to Iraqi children. Former Marine Matthew Childers talked about how he used to humiliate Iraqi civilians during predawn raids on their homes. When he described turning away an Iraqi father who was asking American troops to help the badly burned baby he carried in his arms, Jackson began to weep silently. ‘These soldiers are saying: ‘I’m complicit,” said Jackson, 29, a community organizer from Cambridge. ‘But every American citizen who saw this happen and isn’t out there protesting is complicit. I include myself’...

http://tinyurl.com/3xzz9v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

More see government as secretive

USA Today

03/16/08

Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government, but three out of four view the federal government as secretive, according to a survey released Sunday. Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University conducted the survey in conjunction with Sunshine Week, a nationwide effort by media organizations to draw attention to the public’s right to know...

http://tinyurl.com/29q9s5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Dangerous cracks appearing in job market

Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force - ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession

Fed chairman tosses out the rulebook

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is being forced to throw out four decades of monetary history as the US financial system chokes on miscalculated risks and a deepening recession.

http://tinyurl.com/3crf4z


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession

World Bank sees US recession risk

The United States may well be heading into a recession and Europe faces further financial market turmoil too but developing countries are showing little signs of being hurt, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.

http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN648664.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Zoellick

Argentina, Brazil to drop U.S. dollar in bilateral commercial transactions

Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in U.S. dollars and start using their own currencies from August, an official in charge of currency settlement at the Argentine Central Bank said here Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/2rzjve


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drop+dollar

Venezuela opts for oil contracts in euros

Venezuelan state oil giant PDVSA has decided to sign some oil contracts in euros in the face of a plummeting dollar, local media reported, citing officials.

http://tinyurl.com/2u3szu


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Venezuela
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PDVSA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=plummeting+dollar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+contracts

$3 trillion is just a part of the cost

Long after the war ends, America will continue to pay a staggering price.
http://www.thestar.com/article/346563


From Information Clearing House

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Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark

David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn

McCain Makes Unannounced Trip To Iraq

With 13 U.S. Troops Killed This Week, GOP Candidate Who Supports Bush's War Makes "Fact-Finding" Visit.

http://tinyurl.com/33ofhh


From Information Clearing House



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

Most Iraqis want foreign occupation forces out

More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe the American-led occupation forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=252016


From Information Clearing House

Debt Serfdom Comes to America

By Dr. Ellen Brown

The Irish were driven to America by debt, and they are leading the Western world in household debt today. The London Daily Telegraph reported on March 13, 2008 that household debt in Ireland has reached 190 percent of disposable income, the highest in the developed world; and that the Irish banking system is suffering such acute strains from the downturn in the housing market that it may have to nationalize its banks.1 The same may soon be happening in the United States, and for much the same reasons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19548.htm



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

The Dollar, Paulson, and Carlyle Capital

By Mike Whitney

The subprime meltdown just got a whole lot bigger. As the massive cycle of deleveraging continues for the over-extended hedge funds; Triple A assets will be sold for merely pennies on the dollar sending the faltering banking system into a last, lethal swan dive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19542.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subprime+meltdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hedge+funds
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carlyle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

U.S. Chief Auditor Leaves, Giving Dire Warning About National Debt

By David S. Broader

As the head of the Government Accountability Office, the auditing arm of Congress, Walker has been perhaps the most outspoken official in Washington warning of the fiscal train wreck that awaits this country unless it mends its ways.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19545.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Accountability+Office
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+S.+Broader

Harvard expert says US economy in recession's grip

By Bloomberg

Atlanta: Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a member of the group that dates business cycles in the US, said the nation has entered a recession that could be the worst since World War II.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19547.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Martin+Feldstein

U.S. Amnesia in the Middle East

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19543.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Gannon

Silenced By The Men In White Socks

By Robert Fisk

Shut them up. Accuse them. Imprison them. Stop them talking. Why is it that this seems to have become a symbol of the Arab - or Muslim - world? Yes I know about our Western reputation for free speech; from the Roman Empire to the Spanish inquisition, from Henry VIII to Robespierre, from Mussolini and Stalin to Hitler, even - on a pitiable scale - to Mr Anthony Blair. But it's getting hard to avoid the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19549.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

Five Years of Failure

By Bianca Jagger

The Iraq war was always illegal and unwinnable. Gordon Brown must now name the date for withdrawal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19546.htm



Brown promises public inquiry into Iraqi war

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq, prior to the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led war, The Independent newspaper said Monday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/17/content_7808931.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gordon+Brown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bianca+Jagger

We Own The World

By Noam Chomsky

The whole debate about the Iranian "interference" in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that "we own the world." If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied. So if you look over the debate that took place and is still taking place about Iranian interference, no one points out this is insane.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19540.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

My Lai Massacre Remembered, But Others Forgotten

By DPA

Hanoi is staging a weekend-long ceremony to mark the massacres, in which a company of US Army soldiers, unable to find any of the Viet Cong guerrillas they had been ordered to clear from the village, instead killed up to 504 defenceless men, women and children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19539.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=massacre
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam

Namibia: Cape Fur Seals Gone Within A Year

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8ba11e18942ab3bb?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cape+seals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=seals

Former U.S Marines admit war cover ups in Iraq


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http://www.truthzonetv.com/view_video.php?video_id=250


Informant: osirismediany

Environment Canada scientists told to toe the line

Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service

Published: Thursday, January 31, 2008

Environment Canada has "muzzled" its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with "approved lines."

The new policy, which went into force in recent weeks and sent a chill through the department research divisions, is designed to control the department's media message and ensure there are no "surprises" for Environment Minister John Baird and senior management when they open the newspaper or turn on the television, according to documents obtained by Canwest News Service.

Read More...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=277560


Informant: Paul Raymond Doyon

Why Aren't We Furious?

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-arent-we-furious.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Living by the Sword

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul443.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?

Bailing Out the Power Elite
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitney10.html

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Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?

Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Why is the Fed, an agency of the government, using our tax dollars to keep Bear Stearns and its rich managers and shareholders above water? After all, the government supposedly doesn't have enough money to provide kids with health care and childcare, to guarantee families decent housing or to meet a long list of other needs. Why do we have the money to lend tens of billions of dollars to Bear Stearns at below market interest rates?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708J.shtml



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Bush Clears the Way for More War

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The Fed's Desperation Move

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New row as mobile masts net €100m for State

By ine Kerr Political Correspondent

Monday March 17 2008

A fresh row over the location of mobile phone masts has broken out as the Irish Independent reveals that 29 state buildings now have the transmitters located on their rooftops.

The state is earning €600,000-a-year from facilitating 51 licences for 29 public buildings, including antennae for two mobile phone companies on top of the Department of Health headquarters in Hawkins House, Dublin.

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Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation Health Problem Alert

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WHY THE USA ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING?

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RON PAUL: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY EXPLAINED

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