World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/22

How I Committed Voter Fraud
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/22-4

McCain and Palin: To Their Eternal Shame
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/22-9

Long Lines on Election Day: A Form of Voter Suppression?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/22-3



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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Last week, Bush signed the 2009 Defense Authorization Act, allowing $611 billion to be spent this fiscal year on defense. Though the number was not a surprise - the money in the bill had already been appropriated over the last few months - this bill makes it official, placing ceilings on spending, granting authority on who gets to spend what, and nailing the 2009 defense budget into place. It is the highest defense budget since World War II, and Pentagon officials estimate that it will increase by $450 billion over the next five years."

http://www.truthout.org/102208A



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Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "'Joe the Plumber' was only one of two Americans injected into the presidential election this past week. The other was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, whom former Secretary of State Colin Powell invoked in his endorsement Sunday of Barack Obama."

http://www.truthout.org/102208N



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US Election: McCain Campaign Backing Away From Colorado

Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian UK: "John McCain's path to the presidency narrowed further today with reports that the Republican was giving up on Colorado, a day after a campaign swing through the battleground state by his running mate, Sarah Palin. The signs of retrenchment for McCain came as a new poll showed Barack Obama steadily increasing his lead since mid-September."

http://www.truthout.org/102208L



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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "On the brief occasions when the President now appears in the Rose Garden to 'comfort' or 'reassure' a shock-and-awed nation, you can almost hear those legions of ducks quacking lamely in the background. Once upon a time, George W. Bush, along with his top officials and advisors, hoped to preside over a global Pax Americana and a domestic Pax Republicana - a legacy for the generations. More recently, their highest hope seems to have been to slip out of town in January before the you-know-what hits the fan. No such luck."

http://www.truthout.org/102208J



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by Ben Turner

Macclesfield Express - United Kingdom

22/10/2008

RESIDENTS are celebrating after plans for a large Vodafone mast in the centre of Tytherington were scrapped.

The communications’ giant withdrew its application to install a mobile phone mast on Manchester Road, close to the Shell Service Station, following objections from Ian Davies and his neighbours on Bluebell Close – and, bizarrely, the Bat Society.

Residents sent letters of protest to Macclesfield Borough Council on the grounds that the mast did not meet Government guidelines and was too close to Marlborough Primary School and Tytherington High School.

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http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/s/1073961_numbers_up_for_phone_mast_plan



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Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

10/16/08

Under the GOP’s current vote suppression strategy in Ohio, McCain’s now famous icon might have had a hard time casting a ballot. In a case that has now gone to the Supreme Court for review, Republicans in the state are challenging the registrations of all new voters whose names and other information do not exactly match those in government databases. It turns out that one of the present Ohio voters who could have fallen into this category is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — or is it Worzelbacher? — otherwise known as Joe the Plumber. The man John McCain lionized in Wednesday night’s debate has since had every aspect of his life scrutinized by the media. They’ve uncovered some contradictory facts, to say the least: He’s not really a plumber, he probably wouldn’t pay more taxes under Obama if he bought his business, and he hasn’t actually paid some of the taxes he already owes. He’s also registered to vote under a different name...

http://tinyurl.com/67mwvj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Eine "unbequeme Wahrheit" für den Bundesumweltminister und unangenehmen Nachrichten aus der Arktis.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28972/1.html



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Seit Jahren ist immer wieder die Rede, dass die angeblich nichttödliche Strahlenwaffe ADS oder der kleinere "Silent Guardian" zum Einsatz kommen könnten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28920/1.html



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Reuters: "The worst financial crisis since the 1930s may be a chance to put price tags on nature in a radical economic rethink to protect everything from coral reefs to rainforests, environmental experts say."

http://www.truthout.org/102108EA



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David Yepsen, The Des Moines Register: "Gen. Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama on Sunday was more than just a nod of approval. It was also an indictment of the state of the Republican Party and the way John McCain has conducted himself and his presidential campaign."

http://www.truthout.org/102108S



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The Iraqi Cabinet dealt a blow today to a draft agreement to allow US forces to stay in Iraq beyond the end of the year, demanding changes to the document to make it more acceptable.

http://tinyurl.com/5739mv



Iraqi-U.S. pact dishonors Iraq: Jaafari

Former Iraqi Premier Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Monday said from Iran that the Iraqi-U.S. long-term proposed security agreement is both detrimental to and dishonors Iraq, calling on the Iraqi people to reject it, according to Fars News Agency.

http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=101554


From Information Clearing House

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The Real News Network: US-Iraq Security Deal in Doubt Again
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/21-2



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By H.D.S. Greeway

"We have a choice," said Donald Rumsfeld in September, 2001. Either we change the way we live, "which is unacceptable," or we "change the way they live, and we chose the latter. "

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21069.htm



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Chomsky: The Bewildered Herd

Video

Noam Chomsky: People should vote against McCain and for Obama - but without illusions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21067.htm



How Should You Vote?

Defining a new framework for electoral strategy in America.

By Jeremy R. Hammond

The "we have to ensure the greater evil doesn't gain power" mindset wins out over "we have to ensure the best candidate wins". But, of course, strict adherence to this electoral strategy can only result in the self-perpetuation of the same political process they they are so disillusioned with in the first place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21070.htm



Cynthia McKinney - Vote Your Values - Not Your Fears

Video

Vote Your Values and you can get the leadership that reflects those values.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21063.htm



The Real Scandal

Can a rancid Congressional committee be far behind? Leave it to a right-wing Republican to long for those sunny, bygone days of political witch-hunting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin



Will Your Vote Be Counted?

Video - Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, who has been following voter fraud allegations in his blog News from the Underground. An expert on propaganda and media, Miller's book LOSER TAKES ALL is an anthology of writings covering election fraud.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/watch3.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Conor Clarke

In 2000 George Bush ran for president as something called a compassionate conservative, which Bush described obscurely as "first and foremost springing from the heart". But the heart, Bush was quick to insist, must be set free. The word "regulations" or its variants crops up 28 times in the 2000 platform, and Bush wasn't asking for more of them. Instead, he was fond of mocking Al Gore for presiding over a regulatory bureaucracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21061.htm

Licensed Kleptocracy for Years to Come

By Michael Hudson

Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy - which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21066.htm



What Went Wrong in the Capitalist Casino?

By Tony Benn

What we are watching is nothing less than the steady transfer of real political power from the polling station to the market and from the ballot to the wallet - reversing the democratic gains we have made over the last century when we were able, increasingly, to use our votes to shape our economic future.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21062.htm



Why Wont The Bail Out Work?

Video

Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700,000,000,000 that the government doesn't have to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why then aren't we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system? Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon? Or the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21071.htm



Layoffs spreading across corporate America

Shock waves from the global financial crisis are now being felt in almost every corner of working America as companies press the eject button on increasing numbers of employees.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49G5N420081017



Homeless numbers 'alarming'

More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-21-homeless_N.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?

Dean Baker, Truthout: "Congress assured us that there would be no more big paychecks for incompetent Wall Street bankers when they passed their bailout bill. They told us that the tough pay provisions would put an end to the multimillion-dollar payouts to these folks."

http://www.truthout.org/102108R

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No Golden Parachutes for the Working Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/21-6

Current Crisis Demonstrates Anti-Democratic Nature of Financial System
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/21-1

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Fed announces new plan to help money market funds

Las Vegas Review-Journal

10/21/08

First, it was the banks. Now the Federal Reserve has come to the aid of money market funds as the government seeks to break the credit logjam that threatens the global economy. A week after the government announced it would spend $250 billion to buy stakes in U.S. banks, the Fed stepped up Tuesday to help money market funds that have been squeezed by worried investors demanding to cash out their holdings. Meanwhile, the Treasury named two accounting firms to help manage the $700 billion bailout package...

http://tinyurl.com/6m7j5z



Taxpayer-funded bank mergers?

Tom Paine/Our Future
by Isaiah J. Poole

10/21/08

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the Treasury Department is considering using part of a $250 billion fund associated with the Wall Street bailout effort to help facillitate bank mergers. Is this a good idea? The surprising answer in this video from Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research highlights why it’s important for grassroots activists to stay informed and stay active as federal officials move quickly, with no real congressional or public input, to reshape the financial landscape...

http://tinyurl.com/6hlaym


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Sick Man of North America
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis127.html

Too Big to Fail?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul486.html

Four More Years
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory166.html

Being Prepared
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcpherson/mcpherson12.html



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Chennai, Oct 20, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) --

Madras High Court today issued notices to the Centre, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), BSNL and private cellular operators on a petition seeking a direction to stop erection of communication towers atop buildings in populated areas.

A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice A K Ganguly and Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla, ordered notices returnable by three weeks.

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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/10/21/3719351.htm


Informant: Martin Weatherall

Keith Olbermann addresses Governor Sarah Palin's statements regarding "real America."

http://www.truthout.org/102108A



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In Deutschland haben die Einkommensunterschiede und der Anteil der armen Menschen an der Bevölkerung in den vergangen Jahren deutlich schneller zugenommen als in den meisten anderen OECD-Ländern. ...

http://tinyurl.com/6kv2uk



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JONATHAN WEIL

bloomberg.com — You can imagine the devilish grins on the faces of Morgan Stanley employees last week, after the Treasury Department said it would pump $10 billion into the bank. Not only did we — the taxpayers — save their company. More importantly, we funded their 2008 bonus pool.

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How the Banksters are Making a Killing Off the Bailout

PAM MARTENS

What most Americans do not understand, because mainstream media rarely explains it, is the incestuous relationship between the U.S. and this small band of financial marauders who busted the entire financial system with insane levels of leveraged derivative bets.

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neuerdings.com - Berlin

Die Lausanner Forscher haben diese Idee übernommen und “decodieren” nun den Elektrosmog von üblichen Computertastaturen - von kabelgebundenen wohlverstanden ...

http://neuerdings.com/2008/10/21/sicherheitsluecke-durch-elektrosmog-kabeltastaturen-senden-20-meter-weit/

2:00pm Tuesday 21st October 2008

RESIDENTS who feared three phone masts would be built outside their homes are breathing a sigh of relief.

People living along Rodford Way, in Dodington, were horrified when mobile company Vodafone submitted plans for a 10-metre high mast in September.

But they are celebrating victory this week after South Gloucestershire Council refused the proposals out of hand.

Campaign leader Mandy Sainsbury, who lives in Blaisdon off Rodford Way, said: "The battle is won but the war is not over yet."

Residents were particularly upset because they already have to put up with a giant O2 receptor and expect phone company 3 to put up a mast imminently.

During a campaign against the Vodafone proposals, homeowners launched a scathing attack on the council for ignoring previous agreements to consider mobile phone mast applications in much more detail.

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http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/3777765.Phone_mast_campaigners_celebrate_victory/

Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times: "Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Bush’s top advisers held a series of meetings at the White House this summer after a Supreme Court ruling in June cast doubt on the future of the American detention center. But Mr. Bush adopted the view of his most hawkish advisers that closing Guantanamo would involve too many legal and political risks to be acceptable, now or any time soon, the officials said."

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The High Court in Tema has restrained Zain Ghana Limited, a mobile telecommunications company, from constructing a phone mast at a house at Adjiringano, a suburb of Accra. The order, which took effect from Friday, October 17, 2008 is valid for 10 days.

The court gave the order following an application for an order of interim injunction to restrain the company from constructing the phone mast at No.14 Manor Valley Road which was filed on behalf of some residents of Adjiringano by Mr Kojo Graham, the Executive Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Civil Liberties (CHUCIL), an NGO.

According to the residents, checks from regulatory bodies had proved that the company was putting up the mast without the requisite approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), among other regulatory bodies.

They further argued that phone masts and towers were internationally known and reported, through scientific research and case studies, to be sources of harmful radioactive and electromagnetic emissions against individuals and communities living near and within the environs of erected phone masts and towers.

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Reuters Deutschland - Germany Ghasni (Reuters) - Die radikal-islamischen Taliban in Afghanistan haben von den Mobilfunk-Betreibern in der Provinz Ghasni verlangt, tagsüber ihre Netzwerke ...

http://de.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idDEBEE49K05620081021

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Taliban sind radikale Mobilfunk-Gegner

silicon.de - München

Die Terrororganisation der Taliban fordert Mobilfunkbetreiber in Zentralafghanistan auf, das Funknetz herunterzufahren. Diese Aktion ist offenbar auf zehn ...

http://www.silicon.de/silicon/hardware/netzwerk-storage/0,39039015,39197887,00.htm

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Taliban order phone firms to cut day signals

PakTribune.com - Pakistan

(Quqnoos) - THE TALIBAN have issued a new warning to mobile phone companies – no longer content with forcing phone companies to cut their signals at night, ...

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?207008

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Taliban shuts down mobile phones

TechRadar.com - London, UK

Mobile phone masts have been destroyed in the past by the insurgents, creating difficulties for many as their handsets often represent their only form of ...

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/taliban-shuts-down-mobile-phones-478518

Part I
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/3146/1/

Part II
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/5444/32/



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FreedomWorks
by John M. Virginia

10/20/08

The main problem is the cost of homes are too high and too much of a percentage of a family’s income. The prices of homes must come down. Has anyone questioned that these bad home loans out there are partially due to the cost of the home? I work with a homebuilder in Northern Virginia. The land costs are what are driving the cost of homes up so much. This homebuilder was paying $450,000 for each lot that they were building townhouses in Ashburn, Virginia. This lot price drives the finished cost of a 3 bedroom townhouse to $600,000 or more...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fox News
by Radley Balko

10/20/08

I grew up in a particularly conservative part of the already conservative state of Indiana. I voted for Bob Dole in 1996 and George Bush in 2000, generally because — though I’m not a conservative (I’m a libertarian) — I’d always thought the GOP was the party of limited government. By 2002, I was less sure of that. … Since then, ‘fed up’ has soured to ‘given up.’ … This isn’t to say that Barack Obama would be any better. Government would undoubtedly grow under his watch. And from my libertarian perspective, he has been increasingly disappointing even on the issues where he’s supposed to be good. … While I’m not thrilled at the prospect of an Obama administration (especially with a friendly Congress), the Republicans still need to get their clocks cleaned in two weeks, for a couple of reasons...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,441025,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Our oligarchic class is incompetent at governing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/20-0

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Fear has profoundly changed us

Miami Herald
by Leonard Pitts Jr.

10/20/08

Fear, which had cut through us like a hot poker, became instead a low-grade fever, ambient noise, wallpaper, something you feel without feeling, hear without hearing, see without seeing.Then you look up one day and realize how profoundly that fear has changed your world. People are imprisoned without charges or access to attorneys, and it’s routine. People are surveilled, their reading habits studied, their telephone usage logged, and it’s commonplace. People, including children, end up on a secret list of those who are not allowed to fly, nobody will tell you why, there is no appeal, and it’s ordinary. We swallow lies like candy, nod sagely at babblespeak, and it’s unexceptional. Torture is inflicted with White House approval, the president lies about it and it’s just another Tuesday...

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The Disillusioned Reality of the American Choice
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/20-10

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McCain Employing GOP Operative Accused of Voter Registration Fraud

Sam Stein, The Huffington Post: "John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of 'registering voters.' The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even, once, spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots so as to hinder the Democratic ticket."

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Our worries about jobs or pensions pale beside the fallout Africa and Asia now face in this absurdly skewed global system.

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A financial new world order?

When President Bush hosts a world financial summit in the coming weeks, one of the least multilateral American presidents in decades will set in motion what could result in a full reordering of the global financial system.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1020/p01s01-usec.html



Millions of Homeowners Are in Desperation Mode

With almost 1 in 6 homeowners dealing with a troubled mortgage, we need a rescue plan fast or else face a huge social problem.

http://www.alternet.org/story/103644



Home prices to fall another 10 percent: Fitch

National home prices have declined a full 22 percent from the peak hit in 2006, the agency said in a note. Fitch has a peak to trough forecast for prices to decline 30 percent.

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Maybe the Rich Are the Problem
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/21-7



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UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei disputes Western claims about Iran, saying the country is far from developing nuclear weapons.

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By CHARLIE SAVAGE

In a newly disclosed legal memorandum, the Bush administration says it can bypass laws that forbid giving taxpayer money to religious groups that hire only staff members who share their faith.

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So Long, Suckers

By Andrew Clark
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21056.htm



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Where Inflation Came From

By Paul Craig Roberts

Anyone who has been alive very long is aware that the US government has failed on the inflation front. Soft drink machines that once delivered a bottled drink for a nickel now charge a dollar, a twenty- fold increase in price.

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By Peter Chamberlin

World peace is more than just the silencing of the guns, it is the elimination of the injustice that has compelled the men to reach for those guns in self-defense against the aggression.

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By Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books

We were told we were fighting terrorists; the real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21055.htm



Is America Fascist?

By Sherwood Ross

What if some clever tyrant in the White House, having the backing of the military, got USA to invade and loot another country without arresting and/or killing vast numbers of his own people who opposed his war? What if he just ignored their protests and then, when his term of office ended, enjoyed a blissful retirement at his ranch?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21053.htm



"Bush Guilty Of First Deg Murder"

Video

George W Bush knew and purposely lied to America and mislead The Congress about "Saddam Hussein NOT being an IMMINENT threat to the United States by deleting that critical sentence in a declassified report (The White Papers) by his own Intelligence Advisors in order to start the War with Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21057.htm



Translating Propaganda and Thinking the Unthinkable

By Max Kantar

Propaganda in the US rests mostly in what is not said, but rather assumed. Such a system of indoctrination is extremely powerful as it serves the purpose of making certain thoughts not so much undesirable, but unthinkable, strikingly reminiscent of Orwell's depiction of totalitarian control and manipulation of the English language in his novel, 1984.

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"Wirtschaftsterrorismus"

Finanzkrise wird benutzt, um mit Bedrohungsszenarios vor möglichen Manipulationen der Finanzsysteme durch Insider-Hacker und Terroristen zu warnen.

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Wir leben im "Zeitalter der Paranoia"

Eine weiter anwachsende Stadtbevölkerung, die zunehmende Kluft zwischen Reich und Arm und die Medienberichterstattung über Kriminalität und Terrorismus verstärken nach Ansicht eines britischen Psychiaters Misstrauen und Angst vor den Mitmenschen.

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Wann kommt die Bankrott-Erklärung der Vierten Gewalt?

Wir haben der Freiheit kein Preisschild gegeben.
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Kari Lydersen, The Washington Post: "When a 1991 cholera outbreak that killed thousands in Peru was traced to plankton blooms fueled by warmer-than-usual coastal waters, linking disease outbreaks to epidemics was a new idea. Now, scientists say, it is a near-certainty that global warming will drive significant increases in waterborne diseases around the world."

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Agence France-Presse: "With John McCain and Barack Obama already swapping accusations of widespread voter fraud, experts warn that a bitter and protracted fight could ensue if the race to the White House is decided by a narrow margin. The legal battle over election rules has already made it all the way to the Supreme Court as Republicans fight to block potentially false registrations from being validated and Democrats struggle to prevent voter disenfranchisement."

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Could The US Election Be Stolen (Again)?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/20-11

Common Cause: This Election: Deceptive Practices 2.0?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/20-1

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Will Rightful Voters Be Able to Vote: Ohio and Colorado
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied in the streets of Baghdad Saturday against a proposed American-Iraqi deal that would allow US troops to stay in the country for three more years.The large turnout points to trouble ahead for the US-Iraqi security deal as Sunni and Shiite lawmakers weigh the political risks associated with the agreement."

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Another Million Iraqi demonstrators

Get out of our country: Baghdad witnessed another demonstration with more than one million Iraqi, Arabs and Kurds and others, Muslims and Christians and others, Sunnis and Shiites and others demonstrated together against the occupation and the long term agreement, asking for a complete withdrawal the leaves no permanent bases, no troops, and no mercenaries.

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John P. Briggs, MD, and J.P. Briggs, PhD, Truthout: "For the past eight years, American voters afforded themselves the rare opportunity to observe a president who claims to be immune from any ambivalent feelings in making the kinds of decisions that would give any other leader pause: sending troops to engage in an elective war in Iraq, torturing human beings, saving the planet from climate change, saving the financial system. He has sold himself as a great leader on the basis of his self-confident certainty, and for a long time the public bought it. From a psychological perspective, Bush's repeated assertions that he never experiences doubt in critical matters are simply not credible. They're a dangerous fantasy."

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By Rose Egge

Monday, October 20, 2008

When Joel and Nicole Donnelly look out at the view from their deck, five 10-foot-tall cellular phone antennas constructed on the roof of the apartment complex next door block what would be a sweeping view of the city.

Soon the Donnelly's could be looking out at 12 more on the same roof.

Verizon Wireless was granted a conditional use permit on June 30 to add eight new antennas to their existing three on the Sound Crest apartments at 6609 S.W. Admiral Way. That decision is being appealed by community members to a hearing examiner on Oct. 28.

"They're a physical blight on the neighborhood," said neighbor Karen Clegg. "They're an eyesore."

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Gizmodo - USA

The method for intercepting signals involves detecting the full spectrum of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a keyboard (which are unshielded to keep ...

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Keyboard sniffers to steal data

Screengrab of EPFL video, EPFL
The attacks were shown to work at a distance of 20 metres

Computer criminals could soon be eavesdropping on what you type by analysing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press.

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