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Thomas D. Williams, Truthout: "Barack Obama is now the fourth president facing the scientific and bureaucratic conundrum gyrating around mostly US created ongoing wartime hazards producing disastrous health complications for soldiers and civilians. Many of those sicknesses are known as the allegedly 'mysterious Gulf War syndrome,' but they carry over to haunt soldiers and civilians in Kuwait and Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/031909A



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The stench of human waste is enough to tell Falah abu Hasan that his drinking water is bad. His infant daughter Fatma's continuous illnesses and his own constant nausea confirm it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090318/wl_mcclatchy/3191674


From Information Clearing House

We Have Seen the Enemy...

By Timothy V. Gatto

When did political dissent become a reason to end up grounded at an airport because you found out at a most inconvenient time that your name had been mysteriously added to a "no-fly list"? When did the American government begin building FEMA camps and what exactly is their purpose? When did Congress become the rubber stamp for policies of reading the correspondence and listening in on the conversations of the American public?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22246.htm



Preparing for Civil Unrest in America

Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases

By Michel Chossudovsky

Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall Street, the administration's economic package, which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package for the financial services industry, coupled with massive austerity measures, contributes to precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22245.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22248.htm



Restoring our Financial Sovereignty

A New Monetary System

By Nikki Alexander

Today the nation is essentially bankrupt and hoping Barack Obama's team of Wall Street advisors will forestall economic collapse. This expectation is equivalent to hoping that Al Capone will make our streets safe. Obama's economic recovery team is a Trojan horse filled with the same Wall Street racketeers that infected the global economy with a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, using deliberately deregulated mechanisms.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22247.htm



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The "Card Check" Hullabaloo

By Mike Whitney

Big business has launched a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into believing that if the bill passes it will trigger higher unemployment and a deeper recession. According to opponents, there's even the threat of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice Act or so called "card check" simply makes it easier for unions to organize.

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- EDF Fondation "Recherche : Le cerveau centrale électrique"
"Le cerveau est une véritable centrale d'énergie électrique, chaque neurone jouant le rôle de générateur.
Tout dysfonctionnement du réseau électrique du cerveau provoque des maladies très invalidantes.
En France, 1,5 millions de personnes souffrent ainsi d'affection neurologique. Épilepsie, maladie d'Alzheimer, maladie de Parkinson, sclérose en plaques, sclérose latérale amyotrophique ou maladie de Charcot."

http://www.next-up.org/France/EDF.php#1

19 March 2009

By Ruth Scammell

Plans for a phone mast at a site where Nelson is rumoured to have met his lover for romantic trysts have been given the green light. Councillors yesterday allowed mobile phone giant O2 to put a mast up in the garden of Town Quay House in Gosport Road, Fareham.

Lady Hamilton is believed to have once lived at the house, and she is also said to have looked out across Fareham Creek for the mast of Nelson's ship when he returned.

But residents have raised concerns over the appearance of the 41ft mast, and the health risks from radiation waves.

Councillor Dennis Steadman said: 'I'm very disappointed. It's going to be so intrusive for people who live there.

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Nelson39s-meeting-spot-to-get.5088853.jp

“Im Gegensatz zu den Medien, die die Ursache für eine dramatische Zunahme von Hunger und Tod in Länder der "dritten Welt" in der Weltwirtschafts- und Finanzkrise entdecken, macht Vandana Shiva, Quantenphysikerin, Umweltschützerin, Feministin, Bürgerrechtlerin und Trägerin des Alternativen Nobelpreises und des „Blue Planet Award“ der deutschen Stiftung “ethecon“, die großen Internationalen Konzerne dafür verantwortlich. Die Globalisierungskritikerin ist in ihrer Heimat vor allem durch ihr Engagement für die Rechte der indischen Urbevölkerung bekannt geworden. Hier ein Vortrag, in dem sie auf einer Konferenz von “medico internatonal“ zum Kampf gegen die europäischen und US-Konzerne aufruft, die ihr Land regieren.“ Text des Vortrags von Vandana Shiva in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online-Flyer vom 25.02.2009 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=13486


Das Weltwasserforum in Istanbul: Allgemeine Appelle, konkrete Interessen

Artikel von Dieter Sauter, Istanbul, in der WoZ vom 19.3.09 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/inhalt/2009/nr12/International/17670.html

Siehe dazu auch:

die offizielle Seite zum Forum (englisch) http://www.worldwaterforum5.org/index.php?id=1870&L=0

Türkei will Gewässer privatisieren!

„Stoppt den Ausverkauf der Erde! Die Attac-Kampagne Suko/Türkeiwasser organisiert deutsch-türkischen Protest gegen den Verkauf von Flüssen und Seen in der Türkei - auch vor den Toren des Weltwasserforums, 16.-22. März in Istanbul!“ Die Kampagnenseite von und bei attac http://www.attac-netzwerk.de/wasser

Water makes money

„Helfen Sie mit, dass ein kritischer Film zu der täglich fortschreitenden Privatisierung unserer Lebensgrundlage WASSER entsteht!“ Internationaler Aufruf zur Unterstützung des Filmprojekts auf der Homepage zum Projekt (mit Trailer und weiteren Infos) http://www.watermakesmoney.com/

Aus dem Finanzierungsaufruf: „…Ein Film „von unten". Der Film „Water makes money " wird diese brisante aktuelle Entwicklung beleuchten. Er wird zeigen, was Paris und andere französische Gemeinden aus der Herrschaft von Veolia & Co gelernt haben und wie sie es schaffen, das Wasser in eigene Regie zurückzuholen. Beispiele aus Europa und Amerika ergänzen den Film zu einem Lehrstück für die ganze Welt! „Water makes money " wird Mut machen: Wasser in Bürgerhand ist möglich!...“


Krise sorgt bei Millionen Mietern für steigende Wohnkosten

„Der Deutsche Mieterbund befürchtet infolge der Wirtschaftskrise steigende monatliche Wohnkosten für Millionen von Mietern. In einem Interview mit der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ kritisierte Mieterbund-Präsident Franz-Georg Rips, ausländische Investoren, hauptsächlich aus dem angloamerikanischen Raum, die in Deutschland Wohnungen erworben hätten, schöpften „zunehmend sämtliche Mieterhöhungsspielräume aus, um die erwarteten Renditen zu erzielen“. Auch Instandhaltungen und Modernisierungen würden zurückgefahren, um Geld zu sparen...“ Artikel in der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ vom 14.03.2009 http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/interviews/200903141.html


„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” - Studie zu Privatisierungsfolgen bei Wohnungen

„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” ist der Titel einer wissenschaftlichen Studie, die im Auftrag des Mietervereins erstellt wurde. Ausgangslage der Untersuchung ist, dass sich nach der großen Wohnungsnot der 90er Jahre das Geschehen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt deutlich verändert hat. Heute beherrschen Begriffe wie „Privatisierung“ und „Heuschrecken“ die Debatte. 1,5 Mio. ehemals öffentlicher oder werksverbundener Wohnungen sind seit der Jahrtausendwende an Finanzinvestoren verkauft worden, zum Teil an Firmen, die es vor zehn Jahren noch gar nicht gab. Doch anders als in vielen Nachbarstädten sind die großen Verkäufe an Bochum scheinbar vorbei gegangen - Eisenbahnerwohnungen, Gagfah, LEG hatten in Bochum kaum Bestände. Dennoch haben auch in Bochum im laufenden Jahrzehnt zahlreiche Siedlungen die BesitzerInnen gewechselt oder sind in Einzeleigentum „zerlegt“ worden. Die Auswirkungen dieses Prozesses untersucht die Studie. Sie ist beim Mieterverein als Broschüre und als PDF-Datei erhältlich (pdf) http://www.mieterverein-bochum.de/index.php?id=26&type=1&jumpurl=fileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fpdf%2Fverwertungsketten-endversion.pdf



Aus: LabourNet, 19. März 2009



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This is the Army, Mrs. Jones!

Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod

03/16/09

The biting winds of change are blowing through ObamaNation. The same ‘volunteerism’ that kept America running since the days of its founding, wiped out with the stroke of a pen, will no longer be volunteerism. It becomes forced labor and like the practice of another era, presses American citizens of all ages and creeds, unknowingly into military service. On paper, H.R. 1388 is the ‘Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act;’ the more innocuous sounding ‘The Give Act,’ for short. But ‘The Give Act’ is not part of Obama’s distant future for unsuspecting American citizens, because it hits the House floor tomorrow. … ‘The Give Act’ puts tow-headed school children and silver-haired seniors in the official uniform of the new State, and encompasses every walk of life in main-street America...

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9374


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

Legislation intensifies fears about Obama's civilian national security force

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 19, 2009

The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill.html



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MSNBC

03/18/09

Top aides to President Barack Obama are recommending that the United States combine a boost in military deployments with a steep increase in civilian experts to combat a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. Several hundred civilians from various U.S. government agencies — from agronomists to economists and legal experts — will be deployed to Afghanistan to reinforce the nonmilitary component in Kabul and the existing provincial reconstruction teams in the countryside, officials said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29763867/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der "Krieg" gegen die Krise lässt den Krieg gegen den Terrorismus in den Hintergrund treten.

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Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?"

http://www.truthout.org/031809R



Recession-Weary Americans Outraged by AIG Bonuses

Andrea Hopkins, Reuters: "While US President Barack Obama tries to claw back bonuses paid to AIG employees, Americans facing pay cuts and job losses are outraged that some refuse to share the pain of the recession."

http://www.truthout.org/031809LA

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Perp walks, not bonuses

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

03/18/09

There must be a criminal investigation of the AIG debacle, and it looks as if New York’s top lawman is on the case. The collusion to save this toxic company in order to salvage the rogue financiers who conspired to enrich themselves by impoverishing millions is being revealed as the greatest financial scandal in US history. Instead of taking bonuses, the culprits should be taking perp walks. I’m not just referring to the swindlers in the Financial Products Subsidiary of AIG who devised and sold those insurance policies on derivatives that brought the world economy to its knees. They do seem deserving of a special place in h..., and presumably the same divine power that according to Scripture labeled usury a high moral crime and threw the money-changers out of the temple will consider that outcome...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/scheer



Government could’ve easily prevented AIG bonuses

Fox News Forum

by Ken Klukowski

03/18/09

The debacle over the AIG bonuses proves that opponents of the bailouts were on to something. There are at least three ways the federal government could have avoided this debacle, and now taxpayers are stuck with the bill. Insurance giant AIG is paying $165 million in performance bonuses (a stunning thought, given the circumstances). AIG says that these are legally binding contracts, so it has no choice but to pay them. Since AIG is living off government money right now, these bonuses are really being paid directly by American taxpayers. The reaction from our leaders in D.C. has been to howl in protest, and then suggest this could not have been prevented. Wrong. First, if AIG had been forced into bankruptcy, this latest outrage would not have happened...

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/18/klukowski_government_aig/



The real AIG conspiracy

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/18/09

Regarding qui bono, what does Sen. Schumer, Rep. Frank, Pres. Obama and other Wall Street sponsors gain from this public outcry? For starters, it depicts them as hard taskmasters of the banking and financial sector, not its lobbyists scurrying to execute one giveaway after another. So the AIG kerfuffle has muddied the water about where their political loyalties really lie. It enables them to strike a misleading pose — and hence to pose as ‘honest brokers’ next time they dishonestly give away the next few trillion dollars to their major sponsors and campaign contributors...

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03182009.html



AIG: Sinking money in a hole

Economics Junkie
by Nima

03/17/09

It’s time for our dear politicians to act surprised again. It’s time for Congress again to complain about the results of false policies that they themselves recklessly approved, against all warnings. It’s time again for Ben Bernanke to fire off mindless blather, platitudes and predictions that will, as always and without exception, turn out to be abysmally false. The AP has a shocking surprise for us, Taxpayers unlikely to be fully repaid in AIG mess …. Of course the taxpayer won’t get any of this money back. Is there a living creature with more than one brain cell that seriously expected the taxpayer would ever see this money come back?

http://www.economicsjunkie.com/aig-sinking-money-in-a-hole/



How the scam works

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/29/09

Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Treasury Secretary Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Bank stocks are soaring — thereby bidding up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as if the ‘financial industry’ really were part of the industrial economy. Why are the very worst offenders — Bank of America (now owner of the Countrywide crooks) and Citibank the largest buyers? As the worst abusers and packagers of CDOs, shouldn’t they be in the best position to see how worthless their junk mortgages are?

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03272009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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According to recently released legal memos from the Bush-Cheney administration, the former vice president believes that the federal government can ignore the First Amendment and suppress free speech and freedom of the press as part of its "war on terror."

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THREE Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush today when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

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The eye-popping national debt surpassed $11 trillion Monday, the largest in U.S. history.
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President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban leaders are orchestrating attacks into southern Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html?_r=1&hp



US spills Afghan war into Pakistan

From available indications, the key American objective is two-fold: optimally getting Pakistani help in the fight against terrorism and, secondly, reducing American expectations for military victory.

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Obama and the Democrats Deny an Age-Old Economic Lesson
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Congress Shrugged
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The FOMC's Plan to Buy $1.1+ Trillion of T-bonds, Mortgage Debt, and 'Other Financial Assets'
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Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald - Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, UK

By Craig Nisbet

Controversial plans to site a mobile phone mast next to an Ardrossan school were knocked back this week in a sensational victory for people ...

http://www.ardrossanherald.com/articles/1/35263



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Die größte wild lebende Elefantenpopulation Asiens findet sich im Biosphärenschutzgebiet Nilgiri in Indien. Elefanten sind aus vielerlei Hinsicht bedroht, doch in Nilgiri stellt menschliche Ignoranz aktuell die größte Gefahr dar. Vier Kontrollstationen an einer Landstraße sollen mitten in einem schmalen Waldkorridor gebaut werden, den die Elefanten auf ihren jährlichen Wanderungen passieren. Die Kontrollstationen würden den Elefanten den Weg versperren und ihr Überleben bedrohen. (Start: 27.02.2009)

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=376

Richard Grossman, Truthout: "Sure, there are crooks out there. But the overwhelming majority of actions by corporate directors and managers that have created today's messes have been legal. Not only legal, but also widely regarded as necessary and essential to sustain the American Way of Life. To put food on our tables. To heat our homes. To provide jobs. To defend liberty and freedom ... Simply put: Giant business and financial corporations govern. The few who run them make the governing decisions that dictate people's work, living conditions, health and the nature of our communities."

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ACLU Asks Justice Department to Appoint Independent Prosecutor to Investigate Torture
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washingtonpost.com — You have to wonder what else has to go wrong, how much more wealth will need to be destroyed, before the people on Wall Street get the message that it's no longer business as usual.

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18/03/2009 02:56 PM - (SA)

LOUISA STEYL

RESIDENTS who live next to the Goodwood sports grounds are up in arms about cellphone company MTN’s application to erect new antennas and to continue using the cellular mast at the sports grounds.

Residents are worried about the environmental and health risks posed by the new infrastructure.

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NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness, England, UK

CAMPAIGNERS are delighted after council chiefs turned down plans for a 12 metre-high mobile phone mast. Mobile phone giant Vodafone wanted to build the mast ...

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/ulverston/protesters_delight_as_phone_mast_bid_rejected_1_528028?referrerPath=home

18. März 2009

Der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst tritt entschieden der landläufigen Annahme entgegen, dass die Renten im Osten generell höher als im Westen seien. Das Schüren entsprechender Ängste bezeichnet er als "gefährlichen Populismus". Er erklärt:

Der Eindruck, dass die Ost-Rentner im Geld schwimmen und mehr Rente bekommen als die West-Rentner ist falsch und gefährlich. Menschen, die ein Leben lang gearbeitet und Werte geschaffen haben, müssen ordentliche Renten bekommen - im Osten und im Westen. Das ist gerecht und bezahlbar. Im Osten wie im Westen droht ein deutlicher Anstieg der Altersarmut. Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Lohndumping haben in den Rentenbiografien tiefe Spuren hinterlassen. Die Rentenkürzungspolitik der letzten Jahre hat darüber hinaus zu massiven Kaufkraftverlusten geführt. Die Grenze verläuft nicht zwischen Ost-Rentnern und West-Rentnern sondern zwischen guter und schlechter Rentenpolitik. Wir brauchen ein Rettungspaket für die Rente. Die Renten müssen sofort bundesweit um mindestens vier Prozent steigen, damit die Kürzungen der letzten Jahre wenigstens teilweise ausgeglichen werden. Auch in der Rente muss es eine armutsfeste Mindestsicherung geben. Niemand darf im Alter weniger als 800 Euro haben.

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- Imágenes del día: "Radiación y característica falta de Responsabilidad"
(Mujeres embarazadas & Autismo)

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Published Date: 18 March 2009

By Richard Marsden

A MOBILE phone mast planned for woodland on the outskirts of Sheffield has provoked fury - with 160 people signing a petition and protesters voicing fears for health.

Vodafone has applied to Sheffield Council for permission to erect the 12 metre tower, which would be 14.4 metres high with three antennae attached.

If approved, it would be built within trees, behind houses off Bowman Drive, Charnock Hall, above the Moss Valley conservation area. Signatures on the protest petition were collected by Kevin Pryor, of Bowman Drive, Moss Valley Wildlife Group, who said he opposed the idea of such a development on green space and recreational land.

Three letters of objection have also been made, including one from Moss Valley Wildlife Group.

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http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Health-fear-over-phonemast-bid.5081930.jp

by Mary Tocco

Public awareness about problems associated with childhood vaccines is paramount. Concern is spreading like wild-fire. Parents across the country are not just going with the flow; they are questioning the issues of safety, efficacy and lack of long-term studies that the medical community continues to ignore. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, within a 12- month period, 85% of pediatricians encountered a parent who refused or delayed one or more vaccines and 54% encountered a parent who refused all vaccines........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Tocco/mary103.htm



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Crisis coddling

Fairfield County Weekly
by Phil Maymin

Despite rising unemployment, massive layoffs and a stock market that has lost half of its value from its peak, we are not in a crisis. There is no banking crisis, no financial crisis, no economic crisis. Why not? Because we have no decision to make. A bad situation is only a crisis if making the wrong decision can be fatal, and there is a chance of making the right one. Surely, a recession is a bad situation, but where is the debate about possible decisions? There can be no crisis without even a possibility of massively shrinking government. Who is proposing less government involvement? Who is pointing out that the problems were caused by too much government, too many regulations, too burdensome taxes, too powerful federal agencies? We are seeing more of the same... (for publication 03/19/09)

http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=12135



Stimulating ourselves to death

Reason
by Veronique de Rugy

Barack Obama says his ‘unprecedented’ economic stimulus package will not merely be ‘a short-term program to boost employment.’ No, it ‘will invest in our most important priorities like energy and education; health care; and a new infrastructure that are necessary to keep us strong and competitive in the 21st century.’ The massive cost of the stimulus doubled even before any legislation was written, much less approved. Originally tagged at $400 billion, the proposal quickly jumped to $825 billion, and latest estimates at press time have it costing north of $1 trillion (comprised of 60 percent spending and 40 percent tax cuts). Given the size, will the stimulus work as advertised? Will the goods and services — be they concrete for new highway projects or groceries for hungry families — pump up flagging demand and boost stalled economic activity? If so, it will be the first time in modern recorded history... (for publication 04/09)

http://www.reason.com/news/show/131968.html



In defense of distrust in government

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

03/17/09

President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that ‘our patchwork heritage is a strength’ because people of all backgrounds and creeds had come together to make America great. But there was one group, Obama suggested, that wasn’t quite welcome in the American family: the ‘cynics,’ those miserable killjoys who dare to ‘question the scale of [the federal government’s] ambitions.’ There, Obama echoed his 2008 opponent, John McCain, who has repeatedly warned that there’s a specter haunting our country, in the form of a ‘pervasive public cynicism’ toward government. ‘Cynicism’ is a scare word, meant to discredit those who cast a skeptical eye on politicians’ grand designs. But Obama and McCain are right that distrust of government is on the rise...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10051



Let freedom do it

Freedom Politics
by Steven Greenhut

03/16/09

Those of us who advocate freedom and capitalism run up against a difficult problem. Even though these ideas, hampered as they have always been by government intervention, have led to all the good things people say they want (wealth, justice, progress, personal liberty, etc.), they haven’t got a prayer against the grandiose promises of those who prefer the alternate route of command and control. Government promises to protect us, feed us, comfort us, instruct us and make life fair. Freedom promises nothing more than the ability to pursue one’s dreams as one chooses. There’s no promise of utopia in such a system, but the results of leaving people free to their own devices tend to be pretty good, on balance. The utopian systems are the ones where you find the concentration camps and dungeons, despite the flowery rhetoric...

http://tinyurl.com/cp8oar


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Politico
by Kenneth Vogel

03/15/09

The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of a shadowy, elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people. It sounds crazy, but that’s what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest piece of evidence supporting their claims...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20010.html



Peaceful dissent and government witch hunts

Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

[T]he flavor of government has changed from the Republican leviathan of George W. Bush to the Democratic leviathan of Barack Hussein Obama. A different group is vulnerable to being marginalized — in many ways a revitalization of the Clinton era atmosphere, although now with the post-9/11 concern about peace activists and all the surveillance powers inaugurated by Bush still in place. But the general substance behind government fear-mongering and witch-hunts, and the attempts to chill dissent and silence peaceful political critics, have continued and have a long history. For the last century especially, we have seen the government lump together violent and in many cases unsavory agitators on both the left and right with Americans who simply question unlimited government, nationalist police powers and disastrous foreign wars. While there are indeed some violent and crazed elements on the fringes of the right and left — while there are likewise some extremist characters and frightening viewpoints in the mainstream of American politics, too — the result of such government persecution of dissenters is always to marginalize everyday citizens with unpopular views, conflate thoughtful and principled criticism of the government with agitation for social unrest and violence, and jeopardize the civil liberties of all Americans...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=28



The teleprompter president

Intellectual Conservative
by Jack Ward

03/17/09

If President Obama is just reading the script, who is behind the curtain directing the performance?

http://tinyurl.com/dyhtug


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/17/09

Changing the names of things was a ploy that was used by the Bush administration in an attempt to justify some of its least palatable activities. In response to the 9/11 attacks, for instance, the nation was not involved in a limited pursuit of a group of criminals responsible for the attacks, but instead embarked on an open-ended ‘war on terror.’ In keeping with this ‘new paradigm,’ prisoners seized in this ‘war’ were referred to as ‘detainees’ and held neither as criminal suspects nor as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, but as illegal ‘enemy combatants,’ without any rights whatsoever...

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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers at a cost of $170 billion, is paying to its executives. But his criticism is hypocritical and dishonest, both because his administration had long known about the bonuses before they became public, and because the stimulus package he himself signed contains a provision specifically designed to shield those undeserved bonuses...

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Supporters of capitalism are crazy, says Harvard

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Last weekend, Harvard University sponsored a conference called (I am not making this up) ‘The Free Market Mindset: History, Psychology, and Consequences.’ Its purpose was to try to figure out why, since everyone knows the current crisis amounts to a failure of the market economy, the stupid rubes continue to believe in it. The promotional literature for the conference opened with That Quotation from Alan Greenspan — the one in which he suggested that there was, after all, a ‘flaw’ in the free market he hadn’t noticed before...

http://mises.org/story/3379



Crocodile tears over AIG

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

03/20/09

If politicians spill any more crocodile tears over AIG , the EPA might have to declare Washington, D.C. a protected wetland. Sweep aside the phony expressions of ‘outrage’ over AIG’s government-financed $165 million in bonuses (the information was in black and white) and ask yourself this: Who supplied the money?

http://fee.org/articles/goal-freedom-croc-tears/



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Outcry Builds in Washington for Recovery of A.I.G. Bonuses

Jackie Calmes And Louise Story, The New York Times: "The American International Group, which has received nearly $200 billion in bailout funds, last week paid bonuses to 418 employees, including $33.6 million to 52 people who have left the failed insurance conglomerate, according to the office of the New York attorney general. The company paid the bonuses, including more than $1 million each to 73 people, to almost all of the employees in the financial products unit responsible for creating the exotic derivatives that caused A.I.G.'s near collapse and started the government rescue to avoid a global financial crisis. The information adds to the firestorm confronting the Obama administration and Congress since the weekend disclosure that A.I.G., almost 80 percent owned by the government, paid out $165 million in bonuses."

http://www.truthout.org/031809K



Venality Bites

Brian E. Gray, Truthout: "The Obama administration's assertion that the federal government had no power to stop A.I.G. from awarding $165 million in bonuses to the derivatives traders in its financial products unit, whose reckless decisions both destroyed the company and exacerbated the collapse of the international banking and insurance industries, rests on a faulty interpretation of the US Constitution. Speaking on ABC's 'This Week,' Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council, explained that the United States could not block payment of the bonuses, despite A.I.G.'s receipt of more than $170 billion in federal TARP funds, because 'We are a country of law. There are contracts. The government cannot just abrogate contracts.' Although, it is true that the 'government cannot just abrogate contracts' for no good reason, the law is clear that the United States has the authority to impose significant restrictions on the administration of both public and private contracts to ensure that the expenditure of federal funds is consistent with the public interest. Although, it is too late to void the A.I.G. bonuses, the administration's narrow reading of the law should not deter Congress from amending the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of October 2008, the legislation that created TARP, to authorize the president or the secretary of the treasury to modify executive compensation agreements that are contrary to the purposes of the Act."

http://www.truthout.org/031809A



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CNN

03/17/09

Reports of sexual assault among U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan rose 26 percent from the previous year, according to an annual Pentagon report presented to Congress on Tuesday. Among all active duty U.S. military troops, the Pentagon showed an increase of about 8 percent in sexual assault reports from the previous year. Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the Pentagon’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office, told reporters she attributes the increases to improved reporting methods and officials’ belief that military personnel are less fearful of backlash from commanders and peers after reporting an assault...

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US-Psychologen monieren, dass die Folgen der Gewaltdarstellungen, vor allem der indirekten und verbalen, in Zeichentrickfilmen für Kinder unterschätzt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29939/1.html

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Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930s-style depression, Bank of England says

The country is displaying early symptoms of being trapped in a so-called "debt deflation trap" where families find themselves pushed further and further into the red every month, according to a Bank report published today.

http://snipurl.com/e0x99



UK: Unemployment among young workers hits 15 per cent

Embarrassment for Brown as new figures set to show jobless total has hit 2 million.
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Global trade collapsing

U.S. exports falling at 49% pace as customers fade away.
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Completed Foreclosures Hit New High in February

Even pre-foreclosure filings hit a new high, rising to 207,703 in February, up 24 percent from 166,860 in January and nine percent from 190,467 in December, the previous high.

http://www.thetruthaboutmortgage.com/completed-foreclosures-hit-new-high-in-February/



Ghost Town: An American Nightmare

Wilmington, a small town in America's Midwestern rust belt, was home to the world's largest private airport. Then recession struck.

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U.S. credit card defaults rise to 20 year-high

"There is a continued deterioration. Trends in credit cards will get worse before they start getting better," said Walter Todd, a portfolio manager at Greenwood Capital Associates.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1639142420090316?sp=true


From Information Clearing House



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Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company then known as Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department signed a $22.2 million deal in February to keep the embattled contractor working there through most of the summer, contract records show.

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The military says the Americans fired two warning shots when the vehicle ignored signals for it to stop near the Hurriyah Iraqi police station.

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From Information Clearing House



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I want to know why those complicit in Almalki's ordeal are not tried in court

By Robert Fisk

". . . the Syrians quite recently complained mightily to the Americans as well as the Canadians. First, the West sent its prisoners to be tortured in Damascus - and then complained that Syria abused human rights! "

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22236.htm



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By Bill and Kathleen Christison

There are indeed forces in both the United States and Israel that want a clash of civilizations and are definitely not against further wars, and these forces are powerful. Obviously, the first nation to be affected by implementation of this scenario would be Iran.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22231.htm



St. Patrick's Day and the Lost Lessons of Empire

By Daniel Patrick Welch

Another Saint Patrick's Day is here, with its tacky kegs of green beer, leprechauns, lucky charms, fake plastic hats and all imaginable variety of gaudy faux-Irish...um..."charm." But it needn't be so. The holiday offers up an incredible opportunity to expose children (and adults, of course) to the history of struggle of a courageous people--England's first and last colony--and, by extension, to shed light on the legacy of colonization and imperialism and the universal nature of popular resistance.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22237.htm



IDF must prepare to strike Iran

During a visit to Washington, D.C., Ashkenazi met with Dennis Ross, the designated U.S. envoy to the Persian Gulf, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss the Iranian issue.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1071490.html



Israel could use ballistic missiles against Iran, study says

Ballistic missiles could be Israel's weapon of choice against Iranian nuclear facilities if it decides on a pre-emptive attack and deems air strikes too risky, according to a report by a Washington think-tank.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1071718.html



IDF to U.S.: Israel Closing In on Taking Military Aim at Iran

The newspaper quoted sources that claimed Lieutenant-General Ashkenazi told American officials that Israel is preparing for a military attack.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130490



Mr. Iran envisions 'major' war in coming months

Amid lingering talks of war on Iran, Israel's prime minister-designate raises the alarm about a major military conflict in the coming months.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=88605&sectionid=351020104



Commander confirms Netanyahu war plans

Israel is preparing for all-out war on multiple fronts that include Iran, Syria and Lebanon, a senior military commander claims.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89413&sectionid=351020202


From Information Clearing House

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Top UN official accuses US of demonizing Iran

Miami Herald
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Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK: "Humanity is facing 'water bankruptcy' as a result of a crisis even greater than the financial meltdown now destabilizing the global economy, two authoritative new reports show. They add that it is already beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of bailing the earth out of water scarcity."

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The Baltimore Sun: "Many Americans have long suspected the Bush administration wasn't being completely truthful about the interrogation techniques used to extract information from terrorist suspects captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Officials conceded some methods were 'harsh,' but they insisted no detainees were tortured or seriously mistreated."

http://www.truthout.org/031709R



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Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 00:00

CONCERNED elderly people marched through St Austell to deliver a petition to Restormel in protest against a mobile phone mast 100 metres from their retirement village.

A 30-strong contingent of the Buckler's Village Residents' Association were on Tuesday fighting for a voice in a private meeting about the O2 mast near Wheal Northey.

An official complaint about the mast made to the Ombudsman at Restormel by the Bethel Mast Action Group was being discussed by councillors and officers who will decide if any action should be taken.

Resident association secretary, Frank Boulton, 69, said: "The mast is only 100 metres from our homes and people have been ill since it has been there over the past three years.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/obamas-corporate-state.html

FAS 157 and the Looming Bloodbath
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north695.html



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DNA - Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace - Strasbourg, France

Menés par Jean Heches et Pierre-Emmanuel George, ils ont décidé de lui remettre le rapport BioInitiative : une compilation de 1 500 études sur les antennes ...

http://www.dna.fr/articles/200903/18/le-collectif-poursuit-son-action,munster,000008987.php



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