World-News

DeeDee Correll, The Los Angeles Times: "In rural Chaffee County, Colorado, one of the world's largest beverage companies has discovered water it deems fit for a bottle: clean and crisp, with the mountain spring flavor people are willing to pay for. Nestle Waters North America wants to tap an aquifer feeding a pair of springs near Salida, southwest of Colorado Springs, and draw 65 million gallons of water per year to bottle and sell under its Arrowhead brand. But many mountain residents say Nestle should go bottle someone else's water."

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- France 2 "Science 2: l'Enquête de la semaine" (Haute Définition 16/9ème)

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Your help required urgently if you travel through Junction 9 on the M6, Wednesbury.

Sandwell council have received a revised planning application for the "Sandwell Gateway Icon".

The original application contained a section which included at least two mobile telephone mast systems to be howsed within the structure. Application DC/08/50100. http://planapps.sandwell.gov.uk/MULTIWAM/showCaseFile.do?appType=Planning&appNumber=DC/08/50100

The recent application has dropped this part. It is our contention that this will enable the structure to stand more chance of being approved, and then at a later date the masts will be installed as there would then be no reason to reject on the grounds of loss of amenity or eyesore etc, as the antenna would be enclosed within the structure and not be seen.

Briefly the Icon will be an 80 meters long and 75 meteres high 3D advertising edific which will be lit up 24/7. A monstrosity.

You can view details at the following sandwell web site:-

http://planapps.sandwell.gov.uk/MULTIWAM/showCaseFile.do?appType=Planning&appNumber=DC/09/5641A

We would appreciate any assistance you can give by objecting to this application (DC/09/5641A) on the grounds of safety, or for anyone who lives in the area, eyesore and loss of amenity etc. at

http://webcaps.sandwell.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_comments_entryform.aspx?caseno=KGCQ4QNR03300

The original application was withdrawn, as the developer had a 500 name petition submitted to planning, including w-a-r-t and other residents written objections.

It is vital that if you do object as travellers or visitors to the area that your objections are sent BEFORE APRIL 8th.

Thanks in advance

Peter & Ann Mobley

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Although all recent presidents have granted few pardons, Bush's rate was exceptionally low. He tied with his father for the lowest-ever percentage of granted pardons (conviction reversals) - 9.8 percent - and he granted an astonishingly tiny number of requested commutations (shortened sentences): 0.012 percent. Bush's abstinence on the pardon front had some of his friends grumbling (Dick Cheney complained, poetically, that the president had left Scooter Libby 'hanging in the wind'), but it was a relief to many of his critics. The word 'pardon' conjured up images of Libby, Stevens and GOP Congressman-turned-felon Randy Cunningham - not the thousands of nonviolent offenders languishing in federal prisons across the country."

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"We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!"

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com: "Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors - a company that's spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 list than anyone else - 'You're fired!' I simply can't believe it. This stunning, unprecedented action has left me speechless for the past two days. I keep saying, 'Did Obama really fire the chairman of General Motors?'"

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2. April 2009

Zur Enthüllung der rechtswidrigen Rasterung aller Telekomkunden durch BKA und Telekom erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte
(MdB):

Bislang dachte man die Überwachungsaffäre bei der Telekom, bei der Vorstandsmitglieder des Konzerns, Betriebsräte, Gewerkschaftsfunktionäre und Journalisten in den Jahren 2005 und 2006 bespitzelt wurden, könne nur noch von der Bahn getoppt werden. Dies war eine krasse Fehlannahme. Im Ranking der deutschen Konzerne liegt nach der Enthüllung des neuesten Bespitzelungsskandals eindeutig die Deutsche Telekom wieder an der Spitzel-Spitze. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat 2006 eindeutig festgestellt, dass die Rasterfahndung einen gravierenden Eingriff in das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung darstellt und nur bei Vorliegen einer konkreten Gefahr rechtmäßig sei. Das kümmerte das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) allerdings wenig. Bei der Spitzelkooperation, die nach Medienberichten zur umfassenden Durchrasterung von nahezu allen Kundendatenbeständen geführt hat, dürften die traditionell guten Beziehungen des BKA zur Konzernspitze des ehemaligen Staatsunternehmens Deutsche Telekom geholfen haben. Betroffen von der rechtswidrigen Aktion dürften demnach alle Festnetzkunden und die über 30 Millionen Mobilfunkkunden der Telekomtochter T-Mobile sein. Also eigentlich der Großteil der Bundesbürger. Besonders gravierend: Die Suche nach Straftätern spielte dabei keine Rolle. Die Spitzeleien von Staat und Unternehmen sind kein Kavaliersdelikt. Die seit Jahren laufende Ausweitung der Ermächtigungen der Sicherheitsbehörden mit polizeilichen Vorfeldbefugnissen ist der Versuch, im Windschatten der „Terrorbekämpfung“, die Unschuldsvermutung gegenüber den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zu beerdigen. Im Licht der neuesten Enthüllungen muss auch die Aufklärung des "Telekomgate-Skandals" ganz neu betrachtet werden: Anfang Mai 2008 beauftragte die Telekom ausgerechnet den Ex-Vizepräsidenten des BKA, Reinhard Rupprecht, mit der internen Untersuchung der Überwachungsaffäre und der Erarbeitung von Empfehlungen zum verbesserten Umgang mit Daten. Die Wahl passt wie die Faust aufs Auge. DIE LINKE verlangt daher eine sofortige transparente und umfassende Aufklärung aller Spitzelskandale durch BKA und Telekom.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bka-und-telekom-rastern-illegal-die-bevoelkerung/

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Keine Späte Schlappe für BKA-Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit. BKA empfahl der NATO die Akkreditierungsverweigerung und scheitert gewinnt damit vor Gericht

„Nachtrag der Redaktion am 03.04.2009: Am Mittag des 2.4. hat das BKA wie erwartet Beschwerde beim Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VGH) eingelegt und in einer Eilentscheidung auch Recht bekommen…“ Der aktualisierte Artikel der LabourNet-Redaktion vom 3.4.09 mit Dokumenten und Pressespiegel http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/nato09.html

Darin:

Beschluß des Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VGH) vom 02.04.2009 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/nato09b.pdf

Urteil des Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof: BKA bekommt Recht

„Im Streit um die Weitergabe von Daten zur Akkreditierung eines Fotoreporters an die Nato hat der Hessische Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VGH) dem Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Recht gegeben…“ Artikel in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 02.04.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt_und_hessen/nachrichten/hessen/1708992_Urteil-des-Hessischen-Verwaltungsgerichtshof-BKA-bekommt-Recht.html


NATO siegt gegen Journalisten

„Der hessische Verwaltungsgerichtshof sieht keine Notwendigkeit für eine einstweilige Anordnung, weil das BKA durch eine von der vorherigen Instanz als offensichtlich rechtswidrig erkannte Stellungnahme bereits "vollendete Tatsachen" geschaffen habe…“ Beitrag von Peter Muehlbauer im Telepolis-News vom 03.04.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/135708


»Der Beschluss ist ein Armutszeugnis«. Das Bundeskriminalamt darf Journalisten für die NATO beurteilen, so ein hohes hessisches Gericht

„Wie beim G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm hat das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) vor dem NATO-Gipfel Beurteilungen über Journalisten verfasst, auf deren Basis mindestens drei Autoren nicht akkreditiert wurden. Der Berliner Anwalt Alain Mundt vertritt einen ND-Journalisten, der sich dagegen wehrt. Zweitinstanzlich wurde eine einstweilige Verfügung abgelehnt. ND-Mitarbeiter Velten Schäfer sprach mit dem Anwalt über das Verfahren und seine Folgen…“ Interview im ND vom 04.04.2009 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/146746.der-beschluss-ist-ein-armutszeugnis.html


BKA-Rasterfahndung: Telekom soll Kundendaten weitergegeben haben

„Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 soll die Telekom dem BKA nahezu alle Kunden-Datenbestände bereitgestellt haben - für eine umfassende Durchrasterung…“ Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 02.04.2009 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt4m1/wirtschaft/189/463794/text/


Aus: LabourNet, 6. April 2009

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Telekom-Überwachungsskandal

Zumwinkel und Ricke frühzeitig über Spitzeleien informiert

Neue Details zum Spitzelskandal bei der Telekom: Der ehemalige Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende Klaus Zumwinkel und Ex-Chef Kai-Uwe Ricke sind nach SPIEGEL-Informationen offenbar tiefer in die Affäre verstrickt als bisher bekannt. Das ergibt sich aus der Ermittlungsakte der Staatsanwaltschaft Bonn. Artikel von Juergen Dahlkamp, Frank Dohmen und Klaus-Peter Kerbusk auf Spiegel-Online vom 16.05.2009 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,625190,00.html


Konzern untergrub jahrelang den Datenschutz: Telekom spioniert Bankdaten aus

„Die Spitzelaffäre der Deutschen Telekom erreicht eine neue Dimension. Nach Informationen des Handelsblatts spähte der Staatskonzern nicht nur die Telefondaten von Aufsichtsräten und Journalisten aus. Die Konzernsicherheit der Telekom vergab außerdem über Jahre hinweg Aufträge, um Konten von Mitarbeitern, deren Angehörigen und Dritten durchleuchten zu lassen...“ Artikel im Handelsblatt vom 18.05.2009 http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/telekom-spioniert-bankdaten-aus;2281274


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Mai 2009



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10:32am Thursday 2nd April 2009

By Adrianne Maslen

OBJECTORS to a new mobile phone mast say their fight has been won after the plans were scrapped this week.

Phone company Telefónica O2 wanted to raise a 20m transmitter on a piece of derelict land in Lyme Regis Industrial Estate to improve network coverage in the area.

Anxious residents living near the site launched a campaign to stop the move claiming it would seriously put their health at risk and create an unsightly blot on the landscape.

They also had major concerns for the wellbeing of the hundreds of Woodroffe School pupils who use the footpath just metres from the proposed site.

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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

04/01/09

During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover damaged the economy, and impoverished the American people, with costly, artificial attempts to stimulate the economy through increased government spending, financed by heavy taxes like the Revenue Act of 1932. Obama is now doing the same thing through his proposed $2 trillion cap-and-trade tax scheme. That tax fulfills his prediction in 2008 to the San Francisco Chronicle (which didn’t report it) that ‘Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket’...

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Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W. Reed

04/01/09

In 1890, Americans were outraged that their House of Representatives in Washington spent a record billion dollars in just two years’ time. They punished the ‘Billion Dollar Congress’ in the elections that year by making the majority party the minority party, cutting its roster in the House by more than 90 seats. Think about that. The American people were mad as wet hens because Congress spent half a billion dollars in twelve months and then another half billion again the very next year. But the lawmakers of 1890 were skinflints compared to the porkers in Washington these days...

http://fee.org/articles/big-succeed/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Common Dreams

by Ann Jones

04/01/09

Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they’re not the boys who went away.

On New Year’s Day, the New York Times welcomed the advent of 2009 by reporting that, since returning from Iraq, nine members of the Fort Carson, Colorado, Fourth Brigade Combat team had been charged with homicide. Five of the murders they were responsible for took place in 2008 when, in addition, “charges of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault” at the base rose sharply. Some of the murder victims were chosen at random; four were fellow soldiers — all men. Three were wives or girlfriends.This shouldn’t be a surprise. Men sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for two, three, or four tours of duty return to wives who find them “changed” and children they barely know...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/01-2


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The Nation
by Robert Scheer

04/01/09

The good news on the government’s ‘No Banker Left Behind’ program is that according to the special inspector general’s report on Tuesday, the total handout to date is still less than 3 trillion dollars. It’s only 2.98 trillion to be precise, an amount six times greater than will be spent by federal, state and local governments this year on educating the fifty million American children in elementary and secondary schools. The bad news is that even greater amounts of money are to be thrown down what has to be the world record for rat holes...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/scheer


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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- "1er Avril 2009 : Flash Infos Orange et UMTS"
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On Fighting Inflationary Depression
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff15.html

On who's done what to the economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz126.html

Letter to Bank of America
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Obama's Ersatz Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/01-8



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Obama’s surge

Asia Times
by Pepe Escobar

04/01/09

President Barack Obama is selling the US’s military surge in Afghanistan and Pakistan as nation-building based on trust. A hard sell if there ever was one - as Washington cannot trust the Pakistani government or security forces, while the Pakistanis don’t trust Washington. Can nation-building be done by Predator drones? Will this become Obama’s Vietnam? Whatever it is, it’s not about “terrorists”. Not really...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD02Df03.html



Surging further into the Afghan abyss

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

04/01/09

The political class has failed us. At every level, they have failed us. Republican and Democrat, they have failed us. Liberal, conservative and centrist, they have failed us. They have lived on lies, and lived by lies, for so long that they no longer know how to comprehend the truth, much less communicate it or – God forbid – act on it. And so they plow on deeper into the darkness, in zombified pursuit of pointless goals, heedless of the signposts warning of danger, like some demented wagon train dragging a load of dead mules toward the edge of a cliff...

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Im laufenden Verfahren gegen die "militante gruppe" hat das Bundeskriminalamt Beweise gefälscht. Nun muss das Ausmaß der Manipulation geklärt werden.

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Wirtschaftswissenschaftler kritisieren die Deregulierungspolitik der EU und fordern einen Kurswechsel.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30060/1.html



Wie kommt man durch harte wirtschaftliche Zeiten?

Das US-Gesundheitsministerium gibt auf seiner Website Ratschläge und warnt vor Depression, Angst und Selbstmordgedanken.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30052/1.html



Quo vadis Weltwirtschaft?

Die internationale Fragmentierung der Güterproduktion dürfte über globale "Supply-Chains" stark zur fast augenblicklichen weltweiten Verbreitung der Wirtschaftskrise beigetragen haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30036/1.html



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Bill Moyers Journal: "The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980's. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. Also, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media."

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For the first time in history, U.S. banks have suffered large, ominous losses in a giant sector that, until now, they thought was solid: bets on interest rates. I'll explain what this means for your savings and your stocks.

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/alarming-news-bank-losses-spreading-32910


From Information Clearing House



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In 2003, the 'NY Times' severely damage its once stellar reputation by serving as a primary conduit for fake war propaganda put out by the Bush administration over Iraq. The 'Times' is now beating the war drums for more US military operations against Pakistan.

http://snipurl.com/f0vgk



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Pakistan:

World has to see Pakistan as 'epicentre of terror'

PM: Declaring Pakistan as the 'epicentre' of world terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged the world's most powerful countries to rid both Pakistan and Afghanistan of terrorism.

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14877612&?vsv=TopHP1



Petraeus: Military Reserves 'Right of Last Resort' for Threats Inside Pakistan

The U.S. military will reserve the "right of last resort" to take out threats inside Pakistan, but it would prefer to enable the Pakistani military to do the job itself, Gen. David Petraeus said Monday in an exclusive interview with FOX News.

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From Information Clearing House



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work conducted for the Bush administration by three attorneys who worked at the agency’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel is in the process of being revised after the agency received responses on the report's conclusions from the attorneys under scrutiny, according to a letter sent to two Democratic senators by a Justice Department’s acting assistant attorney general. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is apparently 'watering' down some of the more critical conclusions related to legal opinions on 'enhanced interrogation' policies based on responses from John Yoo, Steven Bradbury and Jay Bybee. It's now unknown, the DOJ, said when the revised version of its report will be complete."

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dave.tanner@archant.co.uk

01 April 2009

SIR - Scientists from Edinburgh and Oxford Universities are studying swarm behaviour.

Apparently, most swarms use their large groups to protect themselves, their own interests, unlike ants and bees which work together as a single unit and are prepared to die for the greater good of the colony.

No, I am not suggesting politicians show the same commitment!

I was reminded of these swarming instincts when I read that been colonies have suffered significant losses in the last two years.

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Loss of bees is more than a threat to honey supply
http://www.timescolonist.com/Life/Loss+bees+more+than+threat+honey+supply/1544953/story.html



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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

03/31/09

‘Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to have the government subsidize investments in ‘toxic assets’ creates a serious moral hazard: Private investors will pocket any gains, while the federal government promises to cover virtually all potential losses: ‘Quite frankly, this amounts to robbery of the American people.’’ It’s the London Telegraph that’s reporting this, though...

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In These Times
by Jason Leopold

03/31/09

Last June, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and 55 other congressional Democrats signed a letter to then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding a special prosecutor to investigate the growing body of evidence that Bush administration officials had sanctioned torture, which had been documented by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Not unexpectedly, Mukasey — a staunch defender of Bush’s theories about expansive presidential powers — ignored the letter. Now, however, despite even more evidence of torture and a Democratic administration in place, the calls for a special prosecutor have grown muted. Aides to several Democratic lawmakers who signed the June 2008 letter told me that the focus has shifted to the economy and that pressure for a special prosecutor to bring criminal charges over the Bush administration’s past actions could become a distraction to that focus...

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Last Free Voice
by author unknown

03/31/09

Here in America it seems that most people have a very hypocritical understanding of ‘freedom.’ Most people believe in the premise of ‘liberty and justice for all,’ but it seems deep down we don’t believe this. On a micro level people don’t believe in the abolition of drugs because others can’t be trusted with ‘legal’ drugs. On a macro level America believes in controlling other people’s countries regardless of whether they pose a legitimate threat or not...

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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

04/01/09

It was a neocon moment: there they were, the organizers of the Foreign Policy Initiative, the new neoconservative think-tank — Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, and Robert Kagan, with Clifford May, Randy Scheunemann, and junior neocon James Kirchick in tow. It was the occasion of FPI’s first public event — their Washington coming out party, so to speak — and who should show up but I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. A more fitting symbol of the neoconservative tendency in American politics — its history, its methods, and its essential criminality — could hardly be conceived. While John McCain was ostensibly the main attraction, the real focus of the conference was a celebration of the man who defeated him...

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Beware the cult of Obama

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

03/30/09

You’ve met them. They may be friends of yours, or family members. You may even be one of them (in which case you’ll hate this column). I’m referring to those who’ve heard the Call of Obama. Tucker Carlson compares it to a dog whistle: Inaudible to most, but irresistible to those who can hear it. … Conservatives like to think they’re above this sort of thing. Their attitude is summed up by the subtitle of Jerome Corsi’s recent bestseller: Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. But any conservative who thinks cultishness is exclusively a leftist phenomenon ought to take a good long look in the mirror. Because many of those who decry the “cult of Obama” are the same people who made a flight-suited action figure hero out of such common clay as George W. Bush...

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Neo-Cons and Moral Degeneracy

By Jacob G. Hornberger

What is fascinating to me is how so many conservatives, neo-cons, and liberals fail to recognize the morally degeneracy of U.S. foreign policy. It's as if they have just resigned themselves into accepting that the U.S. Empire is now a permanent feature in American life and the life of the world and, therefore, that anything it does should automatically be considered good and moral.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22330.htm



Terror as a Tool of Empire

By Chris Floyd

The United States is deliberately fomenting terrorist attacks in order to pursue its political and military agendas.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22331.htm

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Endless Right-Wing Self-Pity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald34.html



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Government website now offers 'suicide warning signs' for victims of recession.

When the government starts warning you not to commit suicide, you know things have gotten bad.

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Judge Must Release Woman Sentenced to Jail for Being Poor, ACLU Says in Court Papers

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan asked for an emergency hearing today on behalf of an Escanaba woman sentenced to 30 days in jail because she is too poor to reimburse the court for her son's stay in a juvenile detention facility.

http://aclumich.org/issues/due-process/2009-03/1353


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The spending total equals about 85 percent of the $808 billion that Congress has appropriated for military operations in the global war on terrorism since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the GAO said.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Walden Bello

The Group of 20 (G20) is making a big show of getting together to come to grips with the global economic crisis. But here's the problem with the upcoming summit in London on April 2: It's all show. What the show masks is a very deep worry and fear among the global elite that it really doesn't know the direction in which the world economy is heading and the measures needed to stabilize it.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22322.htm



UK: Demonstrate at the G20 on 1 April

The leaders of the world's big powers will meet at the G20 summit in London on 2 April. It is Barack Obama's first visit to Britain. It is our chance to demand a change from Bush's war policies.

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1121/1/



G20: Will China make this the G1?

Alone among the big economies, China is still in the ascendancy. It may well hold the swing vote at the G20

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/02/g20-china-hu-brown



G20 pledges $1 trillion in funds

World leaders at the G20 summit in London have announced they are to triple the finances of the International Monetary Fund to help fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and will impose new curbs on financial markets.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/04/200942143554840312.html


From Information Clearing House

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G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian UK: "The run-up to the G-20 meeting has been interesting and colorful. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil declared that 'this crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.' His full remarks made it clear that he was not promoting biological race theories but calling attention to the injustice that the vast majority of the world, who happen to be both poor and non-white, should suffer for the greed and stupidity of a few."

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G20 Protests: Thousands Flood Into City of London
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/01

Why We Should Listen to the Protesters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/03-11

Promises, Promises, That's All They Ever Give Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/03-5

G20 protests turn violent
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/74fd33c7115c0c1b?hl=en

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New World Order: Still A Conspiracy Theory?

Wikipedia still thinks so, despite hundreds of pronouncements during G20 summit

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 3, 2009

Despite the fact that the term “new world order” was mentioned in connection with the G20 this week hundreds of times by both global leaders and in news reports, it is still regarded as a “conspiracy theory” by that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-world-order-still-a-conspiracy-theory.html



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By Chris Hedges

The trial of Al-Arian is a cause célèbre in the Muslim world. A documentary film was made about the case in Europe. He has become the poster child for judicial abuse and persecution of Muslims in the United States by the Bush administration.

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By Juan Cole

Obama broke with his pledge of straight talk to the public and fell back on Bush-style boogeymen and implausible conspiracy theories.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22321.htm



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By James Petras

We are living the end of an entire epoch: Experts everywhere witness the collapse of the US and world financial system, the absence of credit for trade and the lack of financing for investment. A world depression, in which upward of a quarter of the world's labor force will be unemployed, is looming.

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Destination Collapse
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The Dollar’s Days Are Numbered
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 00:00

SCHOOL leaders are celebrating victory after a controversial application for a mobile phone mast – which would sit just yards from their gates – was withdrawn.

For the past three weeks, Newquay Pre-School has campaigned against mobile phone giant Vodafone, which planned to erect a mobile mast on a floodlight at Newquay AFC'S Mount Wise Stadium.

However, after a public crusade against the plans by the school, Newquay AFC's committee withdrew their consent for Vodafone's application on the stadium, scuppering the plans.

Reacting to the news, Karen Austin, chairman of the preschool committee, said she was overjoyed.

"I am absolutely delighted that it's all over now and the school can now focus on other things," she said.

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