World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/23-5



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system

David Sirota, In These Times: "If a museum in the next superpower nation ever commemorates the decline of the last great superpower, it will make the two-and-a-half page bill introduced this week the center of the display. Just as they do today at the National Archives' Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future-perhaps in Beijing, perhaps somewhere else-will line up to see a framed draft of this week's White House legislation demanding Congress surrender its power of the purse, and give an unelected appointee-in this case, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson-the power to hand over $700 billion of taxpayer money to 'any financial institution,' 'without limitation…on such terms and conditions as determined by [him].' In a nation priding itself on separating powers between the branches of government, the bill explicitly states that decisions by Paulson may not even 'be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-700-billion-questions



The Great Switch: Banks Rob People

Jim Crotty, Truthout: "The US government is on the verge of making an unprecedented financial commitment, likely to cost $700 billion, to buy the bad securities held by large US and foreign financial institutions. Having driven our economy to the edge of financial destruction, the Lords of Finance now want the public to put up the money needed to save them and their firms from collapse. Maybe men don't bite dogs, but banks do rob people."

http://www.truthout.org/092408R

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Critics See Bailout as Massive Blank Check
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/23

Now Is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23-1

Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23

GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23-4

Global Priorities: Feeding Markets, Starving the Hungry
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23-2

A US-NATO War In Pakistan? - An Anatomy of the Current Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23-5

Bailout Plan Won't Be End of Wall Street Bailouts
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/23-0

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Now Is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine

By Naomi Klein

The best summary of how the right plans to use the economic crisis to push through their policy wish list comes from Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. On Sunday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20848.htm



The 50 Richest Members of Congress

By Paul Singer, Jennifer Yachnin and Casey Hynes

Rranking of the 50 wealthiest Members of Congress based on the minimum net worth reported on their financial disclosure forms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20844.htm

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Before DC gets our money, it owes us some answer

The Corner
by Newt Gingrich

09/21/08

If this were a Democratic proposal, Republicans would remember that the Democrats wrote a grotesque housing bailout bill this summer that paid off their left-wing allies with taxpayer money, which despite its price tag of $300 billion has apparently failed as of last week, and could expect even more damage in this bill. But because this gigantic power shift to Washington and this avalanche of taxpayer money is being proposed by a Republican administration, the normal conservative voices have been silent or confused. It’s time to end the silence and clear up the confusion. Congress has an obligation to protect the taxpayer. Congress has an obligation to limit the executive branch to the rule of law. Congress has an obligation to perform oversight...

http://tinyurl.com/3gqmvf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Huma Yusuf, The Christian Science Monitor: "On July 18, Ahmed Zaid Zuhair, a detainee in Camp 6 of the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, wrote to his legal team in the US, terminating all written communication. He claimed that two guards had harassed him the previous night: one threatening to kill him and quarter his body; the other threatening to cut off his ears and nose. One guard then read through his legal correspondence, confiscating several documents."

http://www.truthout.org/article/detainees-rights-subverted-guantanamo-their-lawyers-say



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Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded Tuesday that the attorney general provide an 'immediate explanation' for a Justice Department decision that could have cost taxpayers up to $40 million in royalties from a major oil company. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Conyers said charges that politics might have played a part in a decision favoring a major oil company 'must be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated.' Conyers said he wanted to question the officials involved in the case and that he sought access to all related records."

http://www.truthout.org/article/rep-conyers-demands-answers-justices-oil-decision



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Vor dem Hintergrund der so genannten "Terrorbekämpfung" hat Bundespräsident Horst Köhler vor zu scharfen Eingriffen in die Grundrechte gewarnt. "Unser Streben nach Sicherheit darf uns nicht die Freiheit kosten", sagte das Staatsoberhaupt am Dienstag (23. September) in Erfurt auf dem 67. Deutschen Juristentag. Wenn man sich auf die Stufe der Terroristen hinab begäbe, beschädigte das nicht nur die Verfassung, "sondern auch unser Seelenheil", sagte Köhler. Der Bundespräsident bezeichnete es als eine unumstößliche Grunderkenntnis aus dem Unrecht beider Diktaturen auf deutschem Boden, dass die Würde des Menschen unantastbar sei. Sie zu achten und zu schützen sei Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18648

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Gloucestershire Gazette - Dursley, England, UK

By Ali Dent

PLANS for a controversial phone mast on a busy school route have been cut off amid fears it could have caused a fatal accident. Mobile company ...

http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/3696076.Application_for_mobile_phone_mast_refused/



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"Speichelleckend" werfen sich Journalisten an Lobbyisten heran, um so bequem an Informationen zu kommen. Das war nicht die einzige Kritik auf einer Tagung des Netzwerks Recherche. Artikel von Sebastian Heiser in der Taz vom 22.09.2008 http://www.taz.de/1/leben/medien/artikel/1/geschaeft-mit-halbwahrheiten/

Aus dem Text: „…PR-Berater und Berufsprovokateur Klaus Kocks beschrieb das Problem wie folgt: "Wir können gar nicht so viele Geschichten erfinden, wie ihr von uns haben wollt." Es sei "ekelhaft, wie speichelleckend sich Journalisten an Lobbyisten heranschmeißen, um so an Informationen zu kommen und bloß nicht selbst recherchieren zu müssen." Auch Leif monierte die "Bequemlichkeit vieler Journalisten". So kommt es dann zu dem von ihm kritisierten vermeintlich "perfekten Deal für beide Seiten: Journalisten bekommen in kurzer Zeit die sehr gut aufbereiteten Informationen, die sie brauchen. Und Lobbyisten können dafür die gewünschte Geschichte mit der gewünschten Zielrichtung unterbringen."…“


Aus: LabourNet, 23. September 2008



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Kathimerini - Athens, Greece

The City of Athens tore down five illegal mobile phone masts yesterday. Four of the antennas had been placed on the roofs of apartment blocks and disguised as chimney stacks. Deputy Mayor Nikos Avramidis said the mobile phone companies had appealed against the move to remove the masts but were unsuccessful. The municipality plans to tear down another three mobile phone antennas tomorrow.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_23/09/2008_100692

But September 2008 marks the moment when the scale of our excesses, the extent of our debts and the moral bankruptcy of our financial regulatory system finally began to be truly exposed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/21/ccliam121.xml



Fury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus

STAFF at Lehman's New York office who helped to cause the world's biggest corporate bankruptcy are to share in a $2.5 billion bonanza.

http://tinyurl.com/4n85x9



BAD MONEY: RECKLESS FINANCE, FAILED POLITICS, AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM

Video and transcript

Bill Moyers sits down with former Nixon White House strategist and political and economic critic Kevin Phillips.They explores the role that the crumbling financial sector played in the now-fragile American economy.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09192008/watch2.html



$1,000,000,000,000: The astonishing cost of US government's desperate bid to rid the economy of toxic debt

There are some members of Congress who are unhappy at the thought of the taxpayer taking on hundreds of billions of dollars of currently worthless debt. But the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Steney Hoyer, said he expected quick action

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/1000000000000-The-astonishing-cost-of.4513002.jp



Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked by Courts

"He's asking for a huge amount of power,'' said Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University. "He's saying, `Trust me, I'm going to do it right if you give me absolute control.' This is not a monarchy.'
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http://tinyurl.com/442mrm



Many economists skeptical of bailout

Many of the same economists and opinion-makers who'd provided a bipartisan sheen of consensus to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's previous moves have quickly begun casting doubts on the wisdom of a policy that would allow Treasury to purchase without oversight hundreds of billions of dollars of difficult-to-price assets from financial institutions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080921/pl_politico/13689


From Information Clearing House

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Bailout could boost inflation, sink dollar

Christian Science Monitor

09/23/08

A spike in the price of gold and oil was matched Monday by a fall in the US dollar and in stocks – all signs of unease as investors take a sober look at a mammoth government bailout of financial institutions. Two big questions are weighing on investors: First, will this bailout cost so much that it affects the creditworthiness of the US Treasury? Second, will the bailout succeed in calming credit chaos and restoring health to the banking system?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0923/p25s10-usec.html



Paulson urges speed in Sovietization of US finance sector

Indianapolis Star

09/21/08

The Bush administration insisted Sunday that Congress must move quickly to approve what one lawmaker called the ‘mother of all bailouts’ — a $700 billion proposal to buy a mountain of bad mortgage debt in an effort to unfreeze the nation’s credit markets. Congressional leaders endorsed the plan’s main thrust, saying passage might occur in a matter of days. But they said it must be expanded to include help for people on Main Street as well as the big Wall Street financial firms who have lost billions of dollars through their bad investment decisions...

http://tinyurl.com/45h3os



The $700 billion questions

In These Times
by David Sirota

09/22/08

Just as they do today at the National Archives’ Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future … will line up to see a framed draft of this week’s White House legislation demanding Congress surrender its power of the purse, and give an unelected appointee (in this case, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) the power to hand over $700 billion of taxpayer money to ‘any financial institution’ … ‘without limitation … on such terms and conditions as determined by [him].’ In a nation priding itself on separating powers between the branches of government, the bill explicitly states that decisions by Paulson may not even ‘be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.’” Whether the bill passes or not, the drafting of it — even the mere thinking of it — is the single most clear sign that all of the major tenets of American democracy are on the auction block these days...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3932/the_700_billion_questions/



Bailout threatens economy, shreds Constitution, rips off taxpayers

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

09/22/08

The stock market sank as the Bush Administration, not content with a $700 billion financial system bailout, capitulated to liberal demands that it be expanded to add more costly give-aways, like ‘a systematic approach for preventing foreclosure’ that would allow irresponsible borrowers to remain in their homes at taxpayer expense. It is so extreme that it is unconstitutional...

http://tinyurl.com/42xlnv



The American Empire: Too big to fail?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/22/08

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. bestrode the earth like a colossus, America’s stock was rising, and the pride that goeth before a fall imbued our leaders with the illusion that they couldn’t fail. The American empire, they thought, is too big to fail. It’s the end of history — and the rest will just be a mopping-up operation, that will be well worth the costs. The failed policies that led to our current economic predicament — the whole system of central banking and fiat currency — are precisely those policies that benefited those who are now demanding to be bailed out. They may have bankrupted the country, but you can be damned sure they aren’t going down with the rest of us, no sirree! This outrageous rip-off is mirrored in the foreign policy realm, where the very same crowd that dragged us waist-deep into the Middle Eastern quicksand are lecturing us from every podium...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13489


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The US military sees the next 30 to 40 years as involving a state of continuous war against ideologically-motivated terrorists and competing with Russia and China for natural resources and markets, writes Tom Clonan.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0922/1221998220381.html


From Information Clearing House



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Military prosecutors accused a U.S. soldier Sunday of taking an Iraqi detainee to a remote desert location, stripping him naked, shooting him in the head and chest and then watching as another soldier set fire to the body with an incendiary grenade.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_soldiers_charged_2


From Information Clearing House

By SHAHID R. SIDDIQUI

American strategists favor fracturing and weakening the national unity of Islamic states that could become strongholds of Islamic militants. They want oil rich territories like Kurdistan, Eastern Arabian Peninsula and Balochistan carved out, unified and controlled by puppet regimes, while splintering other Muslim countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20840.htm



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By ERIC MARGOLIS

America has reveled for two decades in an orgy of debt. The U.S. national debt is now twice its net worth. From Wall Street's "masters of the universe" financial powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman, and Morgan Stanley, to the humblest homeowners, America's national motto became "borrow to the hilt and bet."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20837.htm



For The Love Of Money

When Corporations Rule the World

By David C. Korten

Most everyone is aware that we live in an unequal world. Few realize, however, just how extreme the inequality has become or how fast the gap between the poor and the super rich is growing. Forbes tells us the world now has 358 billionaires. Their combined net worth exceeds the combined net worth of the world's poorest 2½ billion people. This is but one manifestation of the extreme economic and social distortions created by the globalized free market economy idealized by business publications such as Forbes and Business Week.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20829.htm



The New New Deal

We're Footing the Bill and Holding the Bag

By Mike Rivage-Seul

Presently (following the Great Crash of 2008), we're in the midst of yet another reshuffling and redistribution of cards - another New Deal. But whereas 30s version shifted money from the haves to the have-nots, the re-run promises an income redistribution from the disappearing middle class to the super-rich. They're the gambling addicts who got us here in the first place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20841.htm



A Note of Appreciation From the Rich

By Author Unknown

Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system -- robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20833.htm



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The Deadly Blast in Islamabad

Why was the Marriott Targeted?

By TARIQ ALI

Hellfire missiles, drones, special operation raids inside Pakistan and the resulting deaths of innocents have fuelled Pashtun nationalism. It is this spillage from the war in Afghanistan that is now destabilizing Pakistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20843.htm



Pakistan probes mystery of US Marines' steel boxes in Marriott

Pakistani authorities are trying to "solve the riddle" of US Marines and their mysterious steel cases that were shifted to the Marriott Hotel four days before it was razed in the worst terrorist attack in the federal capital, a media report on Tuesday said.

http://tinyurl.com/3ujp3p



Pakistan blames US raids for hotel bombing

Pakistan President pleads with Bush to reverse policy as BA cancels all flights to country.

http://tinyurl.com/4zvp2p



Pakistan Won't Tolerate Sovereignty Violations, PM Says

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday reiterated that his country wouldn't tolerate violations of its sovereignty after a series of strikes this month.

http://tinyurl.com/3p8awr



Officials: U.S. Drone Shot Down

Pakistani soldiers and tribesm en shot down a suspected U.S. military drone close to the Afghan border Tuesday night, three intelligence officials said.

http://tinyurl.com/4dmtra



'US drone crashes' in Pakistan

An unmanned drone aircraft has crashed in northwest Pakistan's South Waziristan region, according to Pakistan's military.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/200892461651173711.html



Pakistan: Taliban war now threatens to reach beyond tribal areas

The Taliban rebellion which has gripped Pakistan's North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan is gaining strength and threatening to escalate in other parts of the country.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2509469117


From Information Clearing House



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Ein sozialistischer Staat aus Bankern und Milliardären.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28775/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve

Von verspekulierten Abermillionen zu Ungunsten der Steuerzahler, vorgeführten Wahlversprechen und Hausdurchsuchungen bei Oppositionspolitikern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28774/1.html

Für das Pentagon stellen Kampfdrohnen die "Speerspitze" von Angriffen dar.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28779/1.html

http://links.org.au/node/637


Informant: glparramatta



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis

David D. Kirkpatrick and Charles Duhigg, The New York Times: "Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say."

http://www.truthout.org/article/loan-titans-paid-mccain-adviser-nearly-2-million



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Matt Renner, Truthout: "Push back against the massive $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal has come hard and fast from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. The bailout plan proposed by the Bush administration would give the Treasury Department and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson - a former Wall Street CEO himself - the power to buy up extremely risky mortgages and other dangerous debt using taxpayer dollars. Members of Congress point to a severe lack of oversight in the proposed Bush administration plan."

http://www.truthout.org/article/taxpayers-congress-push-back-against-bailout

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Senator Says Bailout Transfers Wealth Upward
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/22-6

The $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout: One More Weapon of Mass Deception
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-4

Growing Right-Wing Opposition to the Paulson Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-8



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Liechtensteiner Vaterland - Liechtenstein

Durch diesen Entscheid sind für die Mobilfunkanbieter die mittel- und langfristigen Rahmenbedingungen zur Erbringung ihrer Dienstleistungen verändert worden ...

http://www.vaterland.li/page/lv/artikel_detail.cfm?id=31840

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+election

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/427.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/shostak1.html

Your Bill for the Bailouts
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/schembrie9.html

Quo Vadis, America?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe90.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
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Cold War Revisionism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/spielberg7.html

American Wars Through Revisionist Eyes
http://lewrockwell.com/riggenbach/riggenbach3-4.html

An Introduction to Revisionism: The New American History Wars
http://lewrockwell.com/riggenbach/riggenbach3-6.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn8.html



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http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/3563688730d65824



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http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080921_youtube_crackdown.htm


Informant: shane_digital



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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/c45a98fb59671e92?hl=en



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Frida Berrigan, Foreign Policy in Focus: "The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security, retired military personnel, and the best and brightest of the defense establishment almost any week of the year."

http://www.truthout.org/article/no-recession-arms-sales



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Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com: "Despite the media feeding frenzy, we still may be asking ourselves, 'Just who exactly is Sarah Palin?' Mixed in with the Davy-Crockett-meets-SuperMom vignettes -- all those moose hunting, ice fishing, snowmobiling, baby-juggling, and hockey-momming moments -- we've also learned that she doesn't care much for her former brother-in-law and wasn't afraid to use her office to go after his job as a state trooper; that she was for the 'bridge to nowhere' before she was against it; that she's against earmarks unless they benefit her constituents; that she can deliver a snappy wisecracking speech, thinks banning books in libraries is okay, considers herself a pit bull with lipstick, and above all else, wants to drill the ever-lovin' daylights out of every corner of her home state (which John McCain's handlers have somehow translated into being against Big Oil, since she insisted on a marginally bigger cut of the profits for Alaskans)."

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "Remember how President Bush got Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell to run around warning about Saddam Hussein's nuclear bombs? This phony scare tactic got Congress to give him the authorization he needed to start the Iraq war. Even though his credibility has vanished, in large part because of the Iraq war, President Bush is again using a lie to cow Congress into giving him a huge blank check. This time, the check is for $700 billion, to be handed over to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, to spend pretty much as he wants."

http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-brings-wmd-line-wall-street



Can You Trust a Wall Street Veteran With a Wall Street Bailout?

Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "Making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson repeatedly said today's financial problems were long in the making. He should know. He was part of the Gold Rush that has brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse. Paulson presided over one of the most profitable runs on Wall Street as chairman and chief executive officer of investment banking titan Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1999 until President Bush nominated him on May 30, 2006 to take over the Treasury Department."

http://www.truthout.org/article/can-you-trust-a-wall-street-veteran-with-a-wall-street-bailout



Cash for Trash

Paul Krugman, The New York Times: "Some skeptics are calling Henry Paulson’s $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system 'cash for trash.' Others are calling the proposed legislation the Authorization for Use of Financial Force, after the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the infamous bill that gave the Bush administration the green light to invade Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/article/cash-trash

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Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street

"All Hail Caesar!" The days of the republic are over.

By Mike Whitney

"The bill gives Paulson the ability to nationalize unlimited amount of private debt and force you and your children to pay for it."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20839.htm

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US Tax Payers To Bail Out Foreign Banks

Paulson: Foreign Banks can use U.S. Rescue Plan

By Mark Felsenthal

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that foreign banks will be able to unload bad financial assets under a $700 billion U.S. proposal aimed at restoring order during a devastating financial crisis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20838.htm



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Norwich Evening News - Norwich, England, UK

Families are being urged to fight a proposal to install a mobile phone mast in a built-up area in the city. Phone giant Orange wants to install a replica ...

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Die derzeitige Staatsministerin im Kanzleramt, Hildegard Müller (CDU), wechselt in die Energiewirtschaft. Wie Regierungssprecher Ulrich Wilhelm am Montag (22. September) in Berlin mitteilte, wird Müller zum 1. Oktober Hauptgeschäftsführerin des Bundesverbandes der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW). Sie will auch ihr Mandat im Bundestag und den Platz im CDU-Präsidium aufgeben. Müller wird am Mittwoch letztmalig an einer Kabinettssitzung teilnehmen. Sie war für die Bund-Länder-Koordination und für den so genannten "Bürokratieabbau" zuständig - zugunsten der Wirtschaft wurden zahlreiche gesetzliche Regelungen gestrichen.

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Marc Ash, Truthout: "The big bailout option doesn't fix the problem, it only converts the problem to national debt. The problem then lives on. Greed is not good...greed is not right...greed does not work. Roll back the interest rates, keep people in their homes, restore broad economic stability."

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ISIS Press Release 22/09/08

A devastating new report exposes UK’s unfolding nuclear catastrophe. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

Voodoo economics dooms nuclear renaissance

Paul Brown, environmental correspondent of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, has produced a detailed report documenting why it is not possible to achieve what the UK Government says it will do, build a new generation of nuclear stations without public subsidy [1].

New build will not be possible without large sums of taxpayers’ money being pledged, and extending the unlimited guarantees to underwrite all the debts of the existing and future nuclear industry.”

One should point out here that it appears impossible to have new nuclear build in the United States even with extremely generous public subsidy [2] (Nuclear Renaissance Runs Aground, SiS 40). In the UK, there is already extensive hidden subsidy to the industry.

Brown’s report exposes how badly the nuclear industry has performed over the entire 50 years of unfulfilled promises, and the escalating bill to the taxpayer.

The UK nuclear industry, like that in the US [2], has never completed any project on time or on budget and has saddled the nation with a mammoth nuclear fuel reprocessing complex at Sellafield that’s a financial as well as safety nightmare.

British Energy, the commercial company privatised in 1996, soon ran into serious financial trouble [3] (see Box 1), and had to be taken over by the government. That meant the taxpayer has essentially underwritten all its debts and liabilities so the company can never go bankrupt. Brown remarks: “This commitment dwarfs the risk to the taxpayer of the Northern Rock nationalisation.” It means paying for the maintenance and decommissioning of ageing nuclear power stations, and worst of all, the upkeep of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing complex.

Read the rest of this article here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NuclearFinancialandSafetyNightmare.php

This is the third of a five article series on nuclear power. Other titles are

Nuclear Renaissance Runs Aground
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NuclearRenaissanceRunsAground.php

Close-up on Nuclear Safety
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CloseUpOnNuclearSafety.php

Read other articles about energy generation here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scienergy.php

I have just received the following from Norway - looks like an interesting link for any mast campaigners:

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We had an action last Monday in Oslo/Norway. The antennas were not legal according to the procedures, that gave us the opportunity to cut down illegal equipment. The antennas were close to a roof terrace. http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/article2217344.ece The two major TV-channels followed the action, and we have had lots of articles and discussions. That was also our goal - to highlighten the problems with the radiation and the lack of safety regulations. If you want to use this video clip, please feel free. As my english is not the best, I hope you can rewrite my text.

Sissel Halmøy
Green Warriers of Norway


Informant:Graham

Gloucestershire Gazette - Dursley, England, UK

"I had been so immensely heartened to hear the new approach the council was taking in the matter of mobile phone mast applications. ...

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Boston Globe

09/21/08

The Bush administration is seeking sweeping powers for what could become the biggest private sector bailout in the nation’s history, as economic policy makers try to end the gravest threats to the financial system since the Great Depression. In a proposal sent to Congress yesterday, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. sought authority to spend up to $700 billion to buy troubled mortgage-related assets to restore confidence in stock and credit markets, which have lurched from crisis to crisis. Some analysts estimate the cost could top $1 trillion. In the long run, analysts said, the bailout should cost taxpayers far less than the initial outlay as the federal government resells assets once panicked financial markets return to normal. The upfront costs of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, for example, totaled more than $500 billion, but the price eventually fell to about $125 billion after bank assets, primarily real estate, were sold...

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The mortgage buck stops where?

Christian Science Monitor
by staff

09/22/08

Like a subprime mortgage, Congress may soon put taxpayers on a risky hook for mortgages gone bad. The Bush administration wants authority to spend up to $700 billion, or about the cost of the Iraq war, to buy up troubled loans. A federal rescue effort may stem a financial market meltdown. But it shouldn’t be done without a reckoning. Americans need to hear a full-throated debate by lawmakers about the range of players in this mortgage maelstrom who either lied, took on too much debt, or failed to check creditworthiness as these loans were issued and then sold up the financial food chain to the point where it has become nearly impossible to determine their value. They also need to hear about the government’s role in encouraging a housing bubble — and that will mean Congress needs to look at itself. No longer should federal support for owning a home be based on the false premise that housing prices will always go up or that taxpayers are the final backstop for mortgage holders...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0922/p08s01-comv.html



Government bailouts something only a socialist could love

Tennessean
by Phil Valentine

09/21/08

First, it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now, the government is bailing out AIG, American International Group. They’re known most as an insurance company, but it wasn’t the insurance end of the business that caused them problems. It was their investment in — you guessed it — subprime mortgages. So, now we’re bailing them out for bad business decisions. Let’s follow this back to the beginning. The government started putting pressure on lenders to grant mortgages to people who, ordinarily, would be turned down. Mortgage companies did just that. Some of these people decided to take on a loan they really couldn’t afford because it was going to get them more house than they needed. Stupid mistake No. 1. The mortgage companies figured at the very least they could repossess the house if the people didn’t pay so they made the loan. Stupid mistake No. 2...

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A bailout to nowhere

CounterPunch
by Richard Rhames

09/21/08

Sadly and unsurprisingly the story is an old an familiar one: Government socializing costs and risk while securing the outlandish private profits of society’s greediest people. There’s nothing new here.
The more interesting question is whether we are at a point in our rather lamentable and bloody history when the usual tricks may no longer work. In a country that no longer manufactures much except weapons of war, or cultural weapons of mass distraction, kept afloat mainly by massive infusions of foreign capital, with a domestic / domesticated population famously dependent on “credit” and buried in personal debt, are we approaching the End of Something?

http://counterpunch.org/rhames091202008.html



The Bailout Plan What does it mean?

Safe Haven
by Clive Maund

09/20/08

Many investors in the Precious Metals sector are worried that the “bailout plan” announced yesterday will resolve the crisis with the effect that things will return to normal and gold and silver will as a result go into retreat once more. Nothing could be further than the truth….. as far as arresting the financial crisis is concerned, it simply can’t work and won`t work - the proposed $1.2 trillion slush fund intended to fund this giant garbage dump is still peanuts compared to the towering $47 trillion debt market and the even larger derivatives time bomb. Not only will the bailout plan not work, but it is set to spread the contagion to a crucial area that has so far been sacrosanct - the US T-bond market...

http://www.safehaven.com/article-11301.htm



Bail out or power grab?

Nolan Chart
by Darren Wolfe

09/21/08

The legislation being hammered out in our imperial capital to bail out financial institutions contains a decidedly dictatorial twist. Section 8 relates to review of the Secretary of the Treasury’s decisions. It reads as follows: ‘Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency’...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article4951.html


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Von einer elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK), die zu mehr fähig ist, als nur Patientendaten zu verwalten.

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Kinder und Mobilfunk
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Mobilfunk und Kinder
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