World-News

Antoine Reverchon, of Le Monde, interviews Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics and author of the Stern Report on the costs of global warming, about the nexus between the global economic crisis and what Sir Nicholas calls "the planetary crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/121608E



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Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers: "Politics corroded Bush administration decisions on protecting endangered species nationwide, federal investigators have concluded in a sweeping new report. Former Interior Department official Julie MacDonald frequently bullied career scientists to reduce species protections, the Interior Department investigators found. Species from the California tiger salamander to plants and crustaceans found in vernal pools were rendered potentially more vulnerable as a result, environmentalists believe."

http://www.truthout.org/121608B



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Henry Giroux, Truthout: "Under the Bush administration, the language of war has taken on a distinctly new register, more expansive in both its meaning and its consequences. War no longer needs to be ratified by Congress since it is now waged by various government agencies that escape the need for official approval. War has become a permanent condition adopted by a nation state that is largely defined by its repressive functions in response to its powerlessness to regulate corporate power, provide social investments for the populace and guarantee a measure of social freedom."

http://www.truthout.org/121608A



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Douglas MacGregor, Defense News: "Today's world is different from the world of 1991 or 2001. Outside of the United States and Western Europe, nation-building with US military power is a euphemism for imperialism. American financial hegemony has collapsed. As seen in Iraq, the 'total victory' construct as it equates to the imposition of Western-style government and a free-market economy subservient to the US is in full retreat. In the broader Middle East, as well as in most of Africa, Latin America and Asia, 'damage control,' not 'total victory,' is the most realistic goal for US national security strategy."

http://www.truthout.org/121608L



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Written by Lloyd Mudiwa Tuesday, 16 December 2008 09:07

An Bord Pleanála has ruled in favour of allowing the retention of telecommunications equipment forming part of a mobile phone communications network at Cork University Hos­pital (CUH)

This followed an appeal by local Councillor Catherine Clancy against an earlier decision made by Cork City Council to grant permission to O2 Com­munications (Ireland) Limited. The retention is for a period of five years from the date of the order issued last week.

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http://www.irishmedicalnews.ie/index.php/component/content/article/1-news/593-cuh-phone-masts-retained

The Weekly Standard
by Christopher Caldwell

Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain had much of value to say about the financial crisis as it raged through the headlines this fall. Rather than shred their campaign strategies, they played it safe, as most politicians would have. But in the name of justice we ought to recall that there was one candidate who did foresee our predicament with considerable accuracy when it still lay far in the future. Ron Paul, in almost every speech he made during the Republican primaries, spoke of bubbles, reckless credit growth, and the ‘unsustainability’ of present policy. So why isn’t there more demand for the common-sense solutions he put forward? Because common sense is not much use in a financial panic... (for publication 12/22/08)

http://tinyurl.com/63ahha


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

12/15/08

After the 9/11 attacks, instead of attempting to capture Osama bin Laden using intelligence and law enforcement resources, or kill him in the shadows using Special Forces troops, the Bush administration elected to invade Afghanistan and conduct a nation-building exercise that was far more expansive than just neutralizing al Qaeda, which is now centered in Pakistan. As the Malay communists and Iraqi rebels — and really all insurgent and terrorists groups throughout history — have hoped for, al Qaeda dreamt of a military overreaction by its more powerful adversary to help it score more recruits, money, and propaganda points. Because U.S. intervention in Muslim lands was bin Laden’s original beef, and non-Muslim occupation of Islamic territory has stoked the fires of Islamist radicals for centuries, it seemed obvious that pursuing bin Laden after 9/11 would call for a light footprint in the Muslim world. Instead, not only did the Bush administration invade and occupy one Muslim nation, Afghanistan, but it gave bin Laden a bonus by making it a doubleheader — invading and occupying Iraq and initially using aggressive techniques...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2392


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tennessean

The U.S. government was already headed for fiscal disaster and then the problem got $3 trillion worse over the past year, Nashville Congressman Jim Cooper and others said Monday. They were responding to the release of the annual financial report of the United States, which said the government faces $56 trillion of unfunded long-term promises. The annual deficit hit $1 trillion for the first time for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the report said. And these figures don’t even include the various bailouts that have followed the collapse of the economy over the past two months. A loosely knit group of Washington budget reformers, which includes Cooper, wants President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a commission upon taking office next month to address these long-term problems...

http://tennessean.com/article/20081215/NEWS01/81215075


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die Wut einer enttäuschten Generation
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29354/1.html



Leben im Irrenhaus

Griechenland versinkt in ein Chaos aus Demonstrationen, Skandalen und politischer Misswirtschaft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29412/1.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/15-5



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/15-7

Supreme Court Sends Guantanamo Torture Case Back to Lower Court
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/15-7



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Trostberger Tagblatt - Bayern, Germany

... die Errichtung einer Mobilfunkanlage über zehn Metern Höhe aber nicht
unter das Planungsrecht der Gemeinden falle, sei etwas faul. ...

http://www.chiemgau-online.de/lokalnachrichten/text_sr.php?satz=18302



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15 December 2008

By Chris Visser

Protesters have spoken out against plans for an "eyesore" mobile phone mast in Fulwood.

Vodafone want to place a 13.8m high pole with three antennae and equipment cabinets on the footpath outside the Little Sisters of the Poor care home in Garstang Road.

But Preston Council has received 19 letters of objection including one signed by 14 residents opposed to plans which would impact on the Harris Children's Home Conservation Area.

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http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Anger-over-plans-for-mobile.4794839.jp

BY ANITA MAGLICIC

16/12/2008 9:53:00 AM

LLANDILO residents are opposing plans for a mobile phone tower to be built on Sixth Avenue, fearing its electromagnetic radiation will compromise the community's health.

Despite receiving negative feedback in two rounds of public consultation and a town petition, Penrith Council passed the development application of the Telstra mobile-phone base station at a council meeting on Monday, December1.

The proposed 35-metre concrete pole will provide for Telstra's Next G network.

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http://penrith.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/residents-fear-for-their-health-londonderry/1386659.aspx

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz10.html



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Whether it's a Tiffany diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4BE02720081215


From Information Clearing House

Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States.

http://tinyurl.com/6pxch3


From Information Clearing House

"Around 30 lawsuits have been accepted so far," Qeisi told AFP. The others are still under consideration. "The torture was systemic, and those responsible for it should be punished and the victims should be compensated," he said.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Iraqi_group_files_200_lawsuits_against_1215.html


From Information Clearing House



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U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost USD 904 billion since 2001 and could top USD 1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n163271


From Information Clearing House



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The United States believes that India`s air force began preliminary preparations for a possible attack against Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of the recent massacre in Mumbai, a US news channel reported on Monday.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208929



'ISI cleared of Mumbai involvement'

After interrogating the sole surviving gunman, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded that the ISI was cleared of any involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26, Pakistani daily The Dawn quoted diplomatic sources as saying on Thursday.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=78821&sectionid=351020401


From Information Clearing House



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By Patrick Martin

Blagojevich is distinguished not so much by his much-publicized use of four-letter words as by the penny-ante character of his financial aspirations. To the Illinois governor, a $150,000-a-year sinecure for his wife was truly a bonanza. For the New York senator, that is mere petty cash.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21476.htm



Illinois house OKs impeachment inquiry on governor

The Illinois House of Representatives voted on Monday to begin an impeachment inquiry into Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4BA65D20081216



The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust

Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ordered the FBI to arrest Rod Blagojevich before sunrise Tuesday in order to stop a crime from being committed. But the opposite is true.

http://tinyurl.com/5d6jpr



Blagojevich Legal Hurdle: A Crime, or Just Talk?

Tapes of Ill. governor discussing Senate pick may fall into a legal gray area

By David Johnston

"This town is full of people who call themselves ambassadors, and all they did was pay $200,000 or $300,000 to the Republican or Democratic Party," said Mr. Bennett, referring to a passage in the criminal complaint filed against the governor suggesting that Mr. Blagojevich was interested in an ambassadorial appointment in return for the Senate seat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21480.htm


From Information Clearing House

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What Blagojevich was doing right before he was indicted
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/501.html



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"The Cook Plan"

By Richard C. Cook

What I am modestly calling the "Cook Plan" is simply to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the Earth and the bounty of the modern industrial economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21472.htm



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"Understanding the Next Phase of the Global Systemic Crisis"

By Guns And Butter - Audio

Interview with Director of Research for the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, Franck Biancheri. We discuss the global systemic crisis leading to a Very Great Depression in the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21467.htm



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By Ron Paul

The updated total bailout commitments add up to over $8 trillion now. This translates into a monetary base increase of 75 percent over the last two months. This money does not come from some rainy day fund tucked away in the budget somewhere - it is created from thin air, and devalues every dollar in circulation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21468.htm



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By Remi Kanazi

We are led to believe that a soldier can either serve out the rest of his tour or be branded a disgrace and imprisoned for becoming a conscientious objector. In reality the choice is much starker: a soldier can refuse to serve or contribute to the death of a million Iraqis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21474.htm



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It's not about them...it's about us

By Mike Ferner

We are complicit in the horrors of this administration. We can claim neither ignorance nor innocence. We are complicit by the very fact that we are citizens of the United States, more so because we paid for the war, and even more so for this reason. Listen to a village sheik I met in Iraq describe it better than I ever could.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21473.htm



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By David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster

Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21477.htm



Cheney faces 'torture' criticism

A senior US Democrat has condemned Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, for his defence of waterboarding "terror" suspects, saying the abuse amounted to torture and warning there could be prosecutions over the issue under a new administration.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/12/20081218155537836929.html



Deterring Torture Through the Law

By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern

Our country's values and the immorality of torture are important considerations. And the law, of course, is also key-or should be. Seldom have we seen it more cynically twisted and abused.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21509.htm



Why Did Cheney Confess On National Television?

Michael Ratner

Cheney's admission of guilt is a plea for a presidential pardon.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21516.htm



Cheney: If President Does it During Wartime, it's Legal

By Andrew McLemore

Dick Cheney is leaving office without remorse and taking some potshots at his successor on the way out the door.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21514.htm


From Information Clearing House

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ACLU Rejects Vice President Cheney's Praise Of Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/16-3

Dick Cheney's Fantasy World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/17-3

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Cheney brazenly admits he authorized torture
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8155/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Cheney Was Key in Clearing CIA Interrogation Tactics

Greg Miller, The Los Angeles Times: "Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he was directly involved in approving severe interrogation methods used by the CIA, and that the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should remain open indefinitely."

http://www.truthout.org/121708B



Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: "Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, 'I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared.' He also said he still believes waterboarding was an appropriate method to use on terrorism suspects. CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that the agency waterboarded three al-Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003. US courts have long held that waterboarding, where water is poured into someone's nose and mouth until he nearly drowns, constitutes torture. Our federal War Crimes Act defines torture as a war crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty if the victim dies."

http://www.truthout.org/121908J



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By Glenn Greenwald

The culpability which the Report assigns for these war crimes is vast in scope and unambiguous.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21478.htm



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Paul Harris, The Guardian UK: "After spending eight years at the helm of one of the most ideologically driven administrations in American history, George W. Bush is ending his presidency in characteristically aggressive fashion, with a swath of controversial measures designed to reward supporters and enrage opponents."

http://www.truthout.org/121508EA



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NOW: "Just this week, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in the South Pacific, climate change is already more than just a theory - it is a pressing, menacing reality. These small, low-lying islands are frighteningly vulnerable to rising temperatures and sea levels that could cause flooding and contaminate their fresh water wells. Within 50 years, some of them could be underwater."

http://www.truthout.org/121508U

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8149/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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American dreams: Diary of a mad law professor

The Nation
by Patricia J. Williams

12/16/08

On December 8 the front page of the New York Times featured an arresting image of three snow-white SUVs on the altar of a Pentecostal church in Detroit. Like bullocks led to sacrifice, they were parked amid a swirl of parishioners in choir robes, arms raised in song and seeming supplication. The caption revealed that they were praying for the auto industry to be saved. It might be tempting for some to dismiss such pageantry as idolatry, this beseeched-for sustenance embodied in a once-golden calf, now a dried-up cash cow. But as passion play, it is powerfully evocative of an American spirit. If I were the proverbial Martian anthropologist, I’d see similarities between those SUV anthems and a rain dance, or the miracle of the loaves and fishes. We pray for the cod to be plentiful, we pray for the corn crop, we pray for a harvest of cars. We look for divine signs that our traditional sources of abundance have not been driven to the point of drought or extinction...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/williams?rel=hp_picks


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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money.cnn.com — American homeowners will collectively lose more than $2 trillion in home value by the end of 2008, according to a new report. The real estate Web site, Zillow.com, calculated that home values have dropped 8.4% year-over-year during the first three quarters of 2008, compared with the same period of 2007. Some 11.7 million Americans are now "underwater," owing more on their mortgage balances than their homes are worth. Zillow collects home values and analyzes home price trends in 163 markets; all but 30 registered price drops over the nine months ended September 30, compared with the same nine-month period of 2007.

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Steve Weissman, Truthout: "Whether ordained by God, the crusade against communism or the Global War on Terror, many Americans believe we have a mandate to police the world, hold dominion over its supply of oil and natural gas and lead the way in whatever way we happen to be leading at the time. John F. Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen believed all this as they escalated their terrible war of choice in Southeast Asia. George W. Bush and his neoincompetents still believe they pursued America's destiny in Iraq. And, from their writing and speeches, Barack Obama and his national security team believe no less strongly in America's calling to put the world right."

http://www.truthout.org/121508A



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1. Pharma-Kartell-Der Betrogene Patient
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/d744bf7d6c1aee71?hl=de

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Hier der Link für den Frontal 21 Bericht:

Das Pharmakartell - Wie wir als Patienten betrogen werden



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Published Date: 15 December 2008

A DECISION on the controversial plan to place a mobile phone mast just metres from a Ripon primary school has been made.

Planners at Harrogate Council rejected Vodafone's proposal for a mast 60 metres from Greystone Primary School on aesthetic grounds.

In a statement, the council said the proposed 47ft mast would "unreasonably detract" from the residential amenity of nearby houses due to its design, height and location.

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Agence France-Presse: "An unpublished US government report says US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq were crippled by bureaucratic turf wars, violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society, resulting in a 100-billion-dollar failure, The New York Times reported on its website."

http://www.truthout.org/121508O



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "It is worth asking how much taxpayers should be willing to spend to keep a homeowner in a home in which they have zero equity. Unless we discuss this question in a serious way, then we are speaking nonsense when we talk about plans to deal with the foreclosure crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/121508K



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Marc Ash, Truthout: "Our federal government is utterly corrupt; we are confronted by creeping fascism and our environment is imperiled. The problems are real and solutions are few. There is a sense of futility and anger that becomes an oppression unto itself."

http://www.truthout.org/121508J



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„Sie haben einen verantwortungsvollen Job: Sie fahren Bus, transportieren Schulkinder und Behinderte. Deshalb stellt ihr Arbeitgeber, die Firma Schulbusse Sonnenschein, auch besondere Anforderungen an sie, wie die Internetseite der Firma preis gibt. Was die Firma verschweigt, sind die Löhne, die sie ihren "qualifizierten Mitarbeitern" zahlt: Maximal 3,87 Euro pro Stunde. Das geht aus zwei Arbeitsverträgen hervor, die der Frankfurter Rundschau vorliegen. Das Unternehmen bestreitet in einer schriftlichen Stellungnahme diese Zahlen. Effektiv liegt der Stundenlohn laut Gewerkschaft Verdi sogar unter zwei Euro, da die langen An- und Abfahrtzeiten nicht vergütet würden...“ Artikel von Frank Lübberding in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 12.12.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/1644503_Tief-im-Westen.html

Siehe dazu:

»Ein so krasser Fall ist mir noch nicht begegnet«

Ein Busunternehmen im Münsterland zahlt Stundenlöhne unter zwei Euro. Ein Interview von Ralf Wurzbacher mit Werner Linnemann, Geschäftsführer des Bezirks Herford-Minden-Lippe der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di, in der jungen Welt vom 15.12.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/12-15/043.php


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Dezember 2008



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

Residents of Tema Community 8 near the P road residential area have called on the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restrain a mobile telecommunications company from installing a communications mast over their houses because of the health hazards and dangers the masts will pose to them.

In a petition copied to the TMA and the EPA the residents entreated the regulatory bodies to come to their aid to save them from any future health problems.

According to them, reports obtained from scientific research indicate that such erected phone masts and towers are sources of harmful radioactive and electromagnetic emissions, which are harmful to individuals and communities who live near them.

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http://tinyurl.com/5kb3uq

The Price of Liberty
by Nathan A. Barton

12/15/08

On Tuesday, 20 January 2008, the first black man elected to the Presidency of these United States will take the oath of office. It should be a day of rejoicing, that a large number of his fellow citizens, of all colors and ethnicities and backgrounds, have chosen him to lead this Union further into the 21st Century. It should be a day of enthusiasm for a standard ritual of a great republic, the longest existing since the time of Rome (509 BC to 31 BC). It is not; indeed, it is a day of mourning. Even the most resistant must now come to the conclusion that the Republic, this American Republican Union, has come to an end, as surely as the Battle of Actium marked the end of the Republic and the foundation of the Principate, led by Augustus Caesar...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/08/12/15/nathan.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nathan+A.+Barton

The Liberty Papers
by Brad Warbiany

12/12/08

Signing statements were wrong enough … Now Bush is saying ‘if Congress won’t do it, I’ll do it myself’ …. I think I’ve seen this before. My son isn’t quite old enough to use this tactic, but I think most children figure it out pretty quickly. If Mommy says no, go ask Daddy. This is how an imperial presidency behaves...

http://tinyurl.com/6gcowl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=signing+statements
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial+presidency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brad+Warbiany

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/15/08

It seems the clock is always ticking. We live in a state of perpetual ‘emergency,’ and every day we’re faced with fresh ultimatums. I’ve had boyfriends like that. ‘If you don’t do such-and-such immediately, I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue — and then you’ll be sorry.’ The first few times I fell for it; after all, I didn’t want a medical emergency on my hands. Now that I’m wiser, though not all that old yet, my response is more measured: ‘Blue really isn’t your color, you know.’ The Dershowitz Principle is that morality and truth bend under extreme conditions, like even the strongest steel — if it’s hot enough. The idea, then, is to raise the temperature and create a crisis, or at least convince enough people to panic...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13904


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100005105



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

Jesse Ventura speaks about his personal experiences and knowledge of such facts!
http://tinyurl.com/66aq5q


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jesse+Ventura

On a farewell trip to Iraq, President George W. Bush said on Sunday the war has been hard, but was necessary to protect the US and give Iraqis hope for a peaceful future.

http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/article.asp?AID=35&Section=Main



Troops Will Remain In Iraqi Cities After June, Odierno Says

American combat troops will remain inside Iraqi cities to train and mentor Iraqi forces after next summer, despite a security agreement that calls for their withdrawal from urban areas by June 30, the top U.S. military commander said Saturday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/13/AR2008121300569.html



Still Lying, Still Allowed To Lie

By David Michael Green

This astonishing little dialogue packs more deceit, and more permission to engage in deceit, into one passage than any 'blivet' I've ever seen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21466.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Revisionist history about the Iraq war

San Francisco Chronicle
by staff

President Bush is trying mightily to rewrite the history of the Iraq war before his administration leaves power. He and members of his national security brain trust, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, would like to dispel the narrative that they misled the country into war. Instead, both Bush and Rice are trying to characterize the White House as the unwitting recipient of faulty intelligence. In recent interviews, both Bush and Rice have expressed regret that the prewar intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction proved to be seriously flawed. … The president’s attempt to disassociate himself from accountability for the phony pretext for war is simply outrageous...

http://tinyurl.com/5eus9p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Odierno
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

By Shamus Cooke

Fighting the corporate strategy of bankruptcy and business closures is an immediate need of working people. This tactic will increase in number as the crisis deepens and companies strive to "restore profitability" by drastically lowering wages.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21460.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankruptcy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lowering+wages
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shamus+Cooke

By Nat Hentoff

What has happened to the rule of law, and what has happened to Americans?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21461.htm



'License to Kill' ?

Video

This song is a 'call to arms'. Or at least a call to link arms, and show that we see through the crumbling facade of military consumerism.... of dropping 100,000 dollar bombs on people who live on one dollar a day!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21465.htm



Down to Zero

By David Glenn Cox

A government that shoots its people is declaring war upon them; a people that shoot back is a people pushed too far. A society that excludes its citizens from economic participation makes itself a foreign entity, unknown and unloved across the land.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21462.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+criminals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rule+of+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nat+Hentoff

By Arundhati Roy

The Mumbai attacks have been dubbed 'India's 9/11', and there are calls for a 9/11-style response, including an attack on Pakistan. Instead, the country must fight terrorism with justice, or face civil war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21456.htm



No lying low, defensive Pak says will hit back if attacked

As the pressure from the international community mounts to crack down on terror, Pakistan has gone on a defensive, saying it will fight back any country's attempt to "encroach upon its rights".

http://tinyurl.com/67y9go



Tariq Ali: Brown's al-Qaida blame game

Gordon Brown is targeting Pakistan. His claim that 75% of UK terror plots originate there is now part of a common western stance that refuses to accept any responsibility for encouraging the growth of recruits to ­jihadi organisations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/14/pakistan-gordonbrown


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mumbai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fight+terrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gordon+Brown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arundhati+Roy
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Iraqi Journalist Insults President Bush

Video

Two shoes thrown at President Bush during press conference in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21463.htm



Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago

By Dave Lindorff

Al-Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been "necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace" and something just snapped.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21470.htm



Free Bush shoe-thrower, Iraqis urge

Thousands of Iraqis have demonstrated in Baghdad's Sadr City in support of a journalist being held in custody after throwing his shoes at George Bush, the US president.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/20081215144834440817.html



Shoe thrower kidnapped once

THE Iraqi TV reporter who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush was kidnapped once by militants and, separately, detained briefly by the US military.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/World/Story/STIStory_314995.html



Ducking the issue on Iraq

One Iraqi journalist shows more willingness to stand up to President Bush than the entire White House press corps.

http://tinyurl.com/62zwen



"Iraqi reporter al-Zaidi's arm, ribs broken"

Security agents have broken the arm and ribs of al-Zaidi, a reporter who hurled his shoes at Bush during a press conference Sunday in Baghdad.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78617&sectionid=351020201



Bush shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi 'too injured' for court

THE Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at United States President George W. Bush has appeared before a judge in his jail cell because he is too injured to appear in a courtroom, his brother says.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24815225-12335,00.html



Journalist threw shoe at Bush for Iraqi pride

"What made me do it was the humiliation Iraq has been subjected to due to the US occupation and the murder of innocent people," al-Zeidi said. "I wanted to restore the pride of the Iraqis in any way possible, apart from using weapons."

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=391682&type=World


From Information Clearing House

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The shoe incident
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/500.html

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On Final Iraq Trip, Attempted Assault on Bush

Jennifer Loven, The Associated Press: "On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference."

http://www.truthout.org/121508L



Across Mideast, Arabs Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist

Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Omar Sinan, The Associated Press: "Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the unpopular U.S. president."

http://www.truthout.org/121508C



Iraqi Shoe Thrower Captures Mideast Rage at Bush

Alistair Lyon, Reuters: "The hurling of shoes at US President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq strikes many in the Middle East as a fittingly furious comment on what they see as his calamitous legacy in the region. Arab and Iranian TV stations have gleefully replayed the clip, sometimes in slow motion, of an Iraqi reporter calling Bush a 'dog' and throwing his shoes at him - the Middle East's tastiest insults - at a Baghdad news conference on Sunday."

http://www.truthout.org/121608J



The Shoe Heard Round the World

Aaron Lake Smith, Truthout: "As with any event that pushes history forward, when you click the play button over and over to watch Muntanzer al-Zaidi mumble something in Arabic that we now know meant 'This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!,' the question inevitably arises - Why hasn't this happened before?"

http://www.truthout.org/121808A

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Significance of Shoes Thrown

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/15-12

The Shoes We Longed For
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/17-8

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Muntadar al-Zeidi: Hero, martyr, symbol of resistance

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/17/08

The shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist, who is, by now, probably half beaten to death for the ‘crime’ of paying back — in very small measure — George W. Bush for his crimes against the Iraqi people, is a folk hero to millions. And his admirers aren’t all Iraqis or other Arabs, not by a long shot. The shoe-wielding Iraqi television reporter, one Muntadar al-Zeidi, managed to sum up, in a single gesture, how much of the world feels about the 43rd president of the United States — including Americans...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13915



Keep out … a message for foreign leaders

Independent [UK]
by Patrick Cockburn

12/16/08

The sight of the Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi hurling his shoes at President Bush at a press conference in Baghdad will gladden the heart of any journalist forced to attend these tedious, useless, and almost invariably obsequious, events. … Official press conferences of any kind seldom produce real news, but the worst are usually those given by foreign leaders on trips abroad in which they and their local ally suggest that they are in control of events and all is going according to plan. One of the many infuriating, though also ludicrous, events in Iraq since the invasion of 2003 has been American and British leaders, arriving in secret at the enormous US base at Baghdad airport and travelling, accompanied by numerous armed guards, by helicopter to the heavily-fortified Green Zone. After a few hours there they would give upbeat press conferences, sitting alongside the Iraqi leader of the day, claiming significant improvements in security and chiding the assembled journalists for ignoring such clear signs of success...

http://tinyurl.com/5j9scm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Zaidi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Loven
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Qassim+Abdul-Zahra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Omar+Sinan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alistair+Lyon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sami+Ramadani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Lake+Smith

by TIM FLETCHER

THE HEAD teacher of Staffordshire's biggest school says he fears students' health could be put at risk by proposals to site a mobile phone mast less than 100 metres away

Michael York, principal of de Ferrers Specialist Technology College, has added his voice to those opposing the plan by telecoms giant Telefonica 02 to site a 15-metre mast on the corner of Tutbury Road and Harehedge Lane, Outwoods.

As reported in Thursday's Mail, Outwoods politicians have opposed the scheme, which is currently being considered by East Staffordshire Borough Council.

Mr York said he was concerned by the mast's proximity to his school's Dove Campus, in Harehedge Lane - 90 metres from the proposed location.

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http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=374086



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast

15 December 2008 | 07:36

ANNIE DAVIDSON

RESIDENTS are being rallied to protest against plans for a mobile phone mast which could be sited near three Essex schools.

The application by O2 has been met with dismay by people living in Lexden Road and nearby Colchester County High School for Girls.

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http://tinyurl.com/6xv2xo



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HLV-Info-081214-077-kb
14.12.2008

Krank durch Energiesparlampen?


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

10 Downing Street provides a reasonably-priced in-house canteen for its hard-working staff.

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1214856/12759198/68349/0/



Decline, fall and then some
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1214856/12759198/68350/0/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/hulsmann2.html



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