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The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates.

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By Gary Leupp

There is clearly a faction of the power elite that is, and has for some years been pressing, for a U.S. military attack on Iran.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22597.htm



Are We Being Conditioned To Accept a Pre-emptive Attack on Iran?

By rds2301
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22599.htm



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THOMAS B. EDSALL

Crony Capitalism: How The Financial Industry Gets What It Wants

huffingtonpost.com — The tilt of American policy in favor of the finance industry — reflected in the policies of recent Treasury Secretaries Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin — cannot be attributed to any one person or institution. The industry flexes unsurpassed muscle in the political system, backed by billions of dollars invested in candidates and lobbying, a vast grassroots lobbying network of local bankers, the growing centrality of finance in the national economy, and widespread acceptance among public officials of a pro-market, deregulatory philosophy.

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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

Wall Street, DC, and the New Financial Euphoria

huffingtonpost.com — Talk about premature exaltation. The insider consensus seems to be that the worst of the hard times is behind us and that the economy is back on track. Or at least on track to be back on track. Not even the latest employment stats showing that another 539,000 Americans had lost their jobs dimmed the enthusiasm. Call it The New Financial Euphoria.

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12. Mai 2009

Heute hat in Bochum die Hauptversammlung des Deutschen Städtetages begonnen. Im Zentrum stehen die Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Finanzlage der Städte und die Zukunft der Jobcenter. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Stefan Ludwig, Bürgermeister von Königs Wusterhausen (Brandenburg):

Die Folgen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind in den Kommunen bereits spürbar. Bei einem Investitionsrückstau von 700 Milliarden Euro sind die zehn Milliarden aus dem Konjunkturpaket der Bundesregierung kaum mehr als der sprichwörtliche Tropfen auf den heißen Stein, zumal die Kommunen Eigenanteile aufbringen müssen. Im Konjunkturpaket selbst sind Steuersenkungen mit enthalten, die die Einnahmesituation bei Städten und Gemeinden in den kommenden zwei Jahren mit ca. fünf Milliarden Euro belasten werden. Das wird die Handlungsfähigkeit der Kommunen weiter einengen. In einem Haushalt, der kein Geld mehr für freiwillige Ausgaben wie Kultur, Sport und Jugendarbeit hat, geht der politische Handlungsspielraum gegen Null. Die Bundesregierung ist in der Pflicht, die dringend notwendige Reform der Jobcenter noch vor der Bundestagswahl auf den Weg zu bringen. Durch permanentes Wahlkampfgeplänkel ist die Bundesregierung nicht mehr handlungsfähig. Die Lasten der gegenseitigen Blockade der Regierungsparteien tragen in diesem Fall die von Hartz IV Betroffenen sowie die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Jobcenter. Offensichtlich hoffen CDU und CSU auf eine neue Koalition mit der FDP, um dann Hartz IV vollständig in die Hände der Kommunen zu legen. Damit würde sich der Bund nicht nur seiner Verantwortung entziehen, die ursprüngliche Idee der Jobcenter, die eine Wiedereingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt befördern sollten, würde ad absurdum geführt. DIE LINKE fordert, dass alle Erwerbslosen von einer Anlaufstelle unterstützt, betreut und vermittelt werden. Diese Einrichtung kann nur eine unter sozialen Gesichtspunkten reformierte Bundesagentur für Arbeit sein.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/handlungsfaehigkeit-der-kommunen-gefaehrdet/



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Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine: "Private security contractor Xe (formerly Blackwater USA) has fallen on hard times. Iraq has yanked its license, forcing Blackwater out of one of its former operations centers. Last December, five Blackwater employees were indicted on fourteen manslaughter charges and allegations they used automatic weapons in the commission of a crime. A sixth Blackwater agent pleaded guilty to two charges as part of an agreement to testify against his colleagues. Now the company faces more bad news. Bill Sizemore of the Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot reports that charges are being brought based on obstruction of justice."

http://www.truthout.org/051209K?n



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Studies that go back to World War II have found that combat veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide as people in the general population. Other lesser known distressing facts are that nine percent of all unemployment in the United States is attributed to combat exposure, as is 8 percent of all divorce or separation and 21 percent of all spousal or partner abuse. The impact of all this extends to behavioral problems in children, child abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, incarceration, and homelessness, all of which have implication that go well beyond the individual and reverberate across generations. As both occupations continue into the indefinite future, we should not be surprised when we hear of more atrocities like what happened Monday in Baghdad, whether they occur in Iraq or in the United States."

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15:21 - 12 May 2009

PHONE masts are set to be erected in Royston despite objections from local residents and the town council.

Last month, members of the Templar's Gate residents group lodged a formal objection to plans, submitted to North Herts District Council by mobile network Vodafone, to put 3G phone masts on street lights just off Melbourn Road.

At Monday's meeting of the Royston town council planning committee, Cllr Lynn Berry, chairman of the committee reported that the town council would oppose the plans too.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 08:30

RESIDENTS have won a fight against a giant telecommunications mast, after telling Vodafone where they could stick it.

Vodafone dropped proposals for a site at Froghall Road, Cheadle, after a public outcry amid fears over potential health risks.

A public consultation exercise was held and residents put forward alternative locations, which Vodafone confirmed they are now exploring.

Residents in the Brookhouse area of Cheadle are still waiting to hear if they have won a similar battle against plans for a mast on their doorsteps.

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http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Residents-block-phone-mast-plan/article-984392-detail/article.html

May 12 2009 by David Black, The Journal

PARENTS and local residents look set to win their battle against a bid to erect a mobile phone mast next to a school on one of the region’s most affluent housing estates.

Telefonica O2 UK wants to put up the 12.5 metre high mast and associated equipment just yards from Darras Hall First School on the upmarket estate of the same name in Ponteland, Northumberland.

Eighteen letters of objection have been received from local people, most of whom are worried about the potential effects of electromagnetic radiation on youngsters at the 450-pupil school.

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12. Mai 2009

Insolvenzrisiko wird vollständig auf Steuerzahler abgewälzt

Zu den jetzt bekannt gewordenen Plänen der Bundesregierung zur Bereinigung der Banken-Bilanzen durch so genannte Bad Banks erklärt das Mitglied des Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstands Ulrich Maurer:

Das jetzt bekannt gewordene Modell der Bundesregierung dient vor allem dem Schutz der Gläubiger der Banken, während das Insolvenzrisiko vollständig auf den Staat und auf die Steuerzahler abgewälzt wird. Es ist in höchstem Maße intransparent und verschleiert die tatsächlichen Vorgänge. Dem jeglicher öffentlichen Kontrolle entzogenen Bankenrettungsfonds SoFFin eröffnet es einen Spielraum für nicht durchschaubare Operationen zu Gunsten der Banken. Die Bundesregierung folgt damit ihrer Politik der Sozialisierung des Risikos bei gleichzeitig größtmöglichem Schutz für die Anteilseigener. Vor allem Finanzinvestoren werden als Gläubiger der Banken von jedem Risiko freigestellt.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/insolvenzrisiko-wird-vollstaendig-auf-steuerzahler-abgewaelzt/



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Antonio Negri über verfehlte Kritik und neue Bedingungen der Ausbeutung.

Interview von Themas Atzert und Alexandra Weltz in der taz vom 09.05.2009 http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/theorie/artikel/1/we-must-try/


"Von der Krise in den Absturz? Stabilisierung, Umbau, Demokratisierung"

Kurzfassung des Memorandum 2009 der Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik (pdf) http://www.memo.uni-bremen.de/docs/memo09-kurz.pdf


Nürnberg beendet Cross Border Leasing: "Froh, nicht draufzahlen zu müssen"

„Der fränkischen Metropole ist es gelungen, den Cross Border Leasing Vertrag mit einem amerikanischen Investor zwanzig Jahre vor Ablauf der Frist zu kündigen. Das Geschäft brachte der Kommune 10,6 Millionen Euro Gewinn ein – trotzdem konnte der Nürnberger Stadtkämmerer Harald Riedel (SPD) seine Gelöstheit über den vorzeitigen und vor allem glimpflichen Ausgang des Geschäfts angeblich kaum verhehlen…“ Beitrag von Reinhard Jellen im Telepolis-Nlog vom 02.05.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/137130


Pleiten, Pech und nun das Aus für ÖPP in Leimen

Das Frei- und Hallenbad in Boris Beckers Heimatstadt wird wieder städtisch. Ein Beispiel unter vielen. Zum Nachahmen. Artikel aus der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung vom 1.4.09 (pdf), dokumentiert bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/090402_oepp_in_leimen_beendet.pdf


Gewerkschaftliche Mobilisierung in der Krise: 14. bis 16. Mai: Aktionstage der Europäischen Gewerkschaften - Demonstrationen in Madrid, Brüssel, Berlin und Prag.

Fight the crisis: put the people first

Die internationale Mobilisierungsseite von the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) http://www.etuc.org/a/5972


Am 16. Mai 2009 auf nach Berlin! Soziale Unruhen? Yes we can!

Mobilisierungsclip der Verdi Campus Gruppe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXY3lMI0Bw


Für sichere Arbeitsplätze und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Die Profiteure müssen zahlen!

Die Mobilisierungsseite von ver.di http://sechzehnter-mai.verdi.de/


Sozialprotest-Block auf Gewerkschaftsdemo am 16. Mai in Berlin:
30-10-500-Block („Triadenblock“)

Der Sozialprotestblock ist ein Demonstrationsblock, den alle Organisationen gemeinsam bilden werden, die auf der Gewerkschaftsdemo am
16. Mai in Berlin vor allem die drei Forderungen 30-Stundenwoche, 10 EUR Mindestlohn und 500 EUR Alg-II-Eckregelsatz (drei Forderungen, "Triade") in die Öffentlichkeit tragen und weitere Menschen dafür gewinnen wollen. Ort: Der Sozialprotest-Block (Triaden-Block) wird sich am 16. Mai ab 10:30 Uhr an der Rückseite des Hauptbahnhofs, an der Invalidenstraße (nahe Sozialgericht) treffen, genau an der Kreuzung Invalidenstraße, Ecke Heidestraße, Friedrich-List-Ufer. Aufruf von und bei ABSP http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2009/demo-mai16/


Aufruf zur Teilnahme der Bündnisgruppen „Wir zahlen nicht für Eure Krise" an der DGB Demo am 16.5. in Berlin (Demozug Hauptbahnhof) Aufruf vom Bündnis "Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise - für eine solidarische Gesellschaft" (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2009/16maibuendnis.pdf


Friedensbewegung unterstützt Gewerkschaftsprotest. Gegen Krise und Krieg: Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau!

„Die Friedensbewegung will sich mit eigenen Forderungen an der Großdemonstration der Gewerkschaften in Berlin am kommenden Samstag (16. Mai) beteiligen. Dies beschloss der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag bei seinem letzten Treffen in Kassel…“ Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/dgb-demo.html


Tabubruch in Stuttgart

IG Metall Baden-Württemberg ruft zu Aktionen gegen Krisenfolgen auf. DGB-Demonstration am 16. Mai in Berlin und Bildungsstreik am 17. Juni nächste Etappen des Protests. Artikel von Herbert Wulff in junge Welt vom
11.05.2009 http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/05-11/057.php

Aus dem Text: „Bundesweit ist die nächste Protestetappe die vom DGB im Rahmen eines europaweiten Aktionstags organisierte Demonstration am 16. Mai in Berlin. Obwohl die Gewerkschaftsapparate – die sich bei den von linken Gruppen und Basisaktivisten veranstalteten Demos am 28. März noch vornehm zurückgehalten hatten – die Mobilisierung tragen, kommt diese mancherorts offenbar nur schwer in Gang. Das könnte durchaus mit der von der Gewerkschaftsspitze vorgegebenen politischen Ausrichtung zu tun haben. Diese versucht recht unverfroren, den Protest in eine Wahlkampfhilfe für die SPD umzumünzen. Vollends offensichtlich wurde dies bei dem in der vergangenen Woche von SPD-Präsidium und DGB-Bundesvorstand präsentierten gemeinsamen Positionspapier »Für ein Europa des sozialen Fortschritts« (…) Zudem spricht sich Riexinger für weitere regionale Mobilisierungen noch vor dem Sommer und für einen bundesweiten Aktionstag mit örtlichen Protesten im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl aus. So könne ein Generalstreik »schrittweise vorbereitet« werden. Sobald dann nach der Wahl die Rechnung für die Krise in Form einer »Agenda 2020« präsentiert wird, sollte die hiesige Arbeiterbewegung auch vor diesem – anderswo durchaus üblichen – Mittel nicht mehr zurückschrecken…“


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Mai 2009



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BKA-Gesetz: RAV erhebt Verfassungsbeschwerde

„„Mit dem BKA-Gesetz steht nicht weniger auf dem Spiel als die freie Advokatur, d.h. die Ausübung der anwaltlichen Tätigkeit frei von staatlicher Kontrolle, Einschüchterung oder Bevormundung.“ Mit dieser Warnung begründet die Berliner Rechtsanwältin Andrea Würdinger, Vorsitzende des Republikanischen Anwältinnen- und Anwältevereins (RAV) den Schritt, gemeinsam mit zwei Vorstandskollegen aus dem RAV gegen das BKA-Gesetz Verfassungsbeschwerde einzulegen…“ Pressemitteilung vom 11. Mai
2009 http://www.rav.de/news.php#


Zusammenfassung der wesentlichen verfassungsrechtlichen Beanstandungen des RAV (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/terror/bka_rav.pdf


BKA-Gesetz gefährdet anwaltliche Berufsausübung. Der Republikanische Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein hat Beschwerde vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht eingelegt

„Onlinedurchsuchungen, Ermittlungen ohne Tatverdacht, Videoüberwachung innerhalb der Wohnung: Kritik gibt es an der Neufassung des BKA-Gesetzes vom Dezember 2008 und den der Behörde darin neu erteilten Befugnisse genug. Jetzt gehen auch die Anwälte auf die Barrikaden: Der Republikanische Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (RAV) sieht die freie Advokatur in Gefahr und hat heute Beschwerde vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht eingelegt…“ Artikel von Benjamin Laufer in telepolis vom 12.05.2009 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30301/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Mai 2009



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From ufpj-news



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Common Dreams
by Dave Lindorff

05/10/09

What a joke the Obama administration is becoming, as it keeps trying to prop up failing industry after failing industry. First we had the president becoming First Car Salesman, offering federal guarantees for GM and Chrysler car warrantees so that potential car customers wouldn’t turn away from those two companies’ showrooms fearing that the manufacturers would go bust and leave them holding the bag. Then he started touting the cars themselves, saying they were ‘great products’ and that people should go out and buy them. Now we have the White House and Treasury Department assuring us that all 19 of the country’s biggest banks are going to survive the credit crisis and the economic slump, and that they are all basically sound...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/10-4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

05/12/09

The problem with assessing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy after little more than 100 days is that it is nearly impossible to distinguish what has already become policy from approaches that might be termed more tentative. Does he really think that a continued American engagement in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and on behalf of Israel serves the national interest? Maybe not. There are signs that a broad reassessment of U.S. policy is underway, though critics who have been rightly soured by eight years of George W. Bush’s blundering note that Obama appears to have embraced the interventionist formula that has proven so disastrous. Nation-building will not work in Afghanistan, and interference in neighboring Pakistan has produced a nuclear country that is self-destructing. Taking the two countries together, it is clear that Central Asia has become the poster child for U.S. foreign policy ineptitude...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/05/11/saigon-again/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/11/09

A few — and only a few — prescient commentators have questioned whether the U.S. can sustain its informal global empire in the wake of the most severe economic crisis since World War II. And the simultaneous quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading more and more opinion leaders and taxpayers to this question. But the U.S. Empire helped cause the meltdown in the first place...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2498


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bloated Empire and the Financial Crash
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/12-5



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Agence France-Presse

05/10/09

More than 25 of the CIA’s war-on-terror prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation during the administration of former president George W. Bush, the Los Angeles Times reported. Citing memoranda made public by the Justice Department, the newspaper said that at one point, the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to keep prisoners awake for as long as 11 days. However, the limit was later reduced to just over a week, the report said. Sleep deprivation had been one of the most important elements in the CIA’s interrogation program, used to help break dozens of suspected terrorists, the paper said...

http://tinyurl.com/o67e67


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

First, it was a Missouri Analysis and Information Center (MIAC) report; then it was a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report; now it is a New York congressman's bill. Each of these items, taken on their own, is problematic enough; taken together they portend "a clear and present danger" to the liberties of the American people. It is getting very serious now.

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin511.htm

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I’m a terrorist, you’re a terrorist

Wendy McElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

05/11/09

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security released its controversial report that warned against ‘right-wing extremists.’ … Although Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano eventually backed away from the report’s targeting of military veterans, she has not similarly withdrawn from viewing anti-government sorts — like libertarians — as threats to security. … Compared to the April 7th report, an 11-page memo entitled ‘Domestic Extremism Lexicon’ has received less attention — perhaps because it did not mention veterans. Dated March 27th, its public lifespan was a flicker; the document was yanked back almost as soon as it saw the light of day. The memo defined dozens of groups as potential threats to security …. Taken together, the two documents could chill the blood of anyone who believes in a free or civil society — not just libertarians but anyone who values freedom of speech, religion, the press, etc. ...

http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2452



“Thought crimes” bill advances

Cato Institute
by Nat Hentoff

05/11/09

Why is the press remaining mostly silent about the so-called ‘hate crimes law’ that passed in the House on April 29? The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed in a 249-175 vote (17 Republicans joined with 231 Democrats). These Democrats should have been tested on their knowledge of the First Amendment, equal protection of the laws (14th Amendment), and the prohibition of double jeopardy (no American can be prosecuted twice for the same crime or offense). If they had been, they would have known that this proposal, now headed for a Senate vote, violates all these constitutional provisions...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10188


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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"Position ist Identität"

Der US-amerikanische Geograph Jerome Dobson warnt vor Gefahren der Ortungstechnik.

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Buchhaltungstricks pushen Bankgewinne

Das Bankenwunder an der Wallstreet ist nichts anderes als ein übler Buchhaltungstrick, der sich als gefährliche Zeitbombe herausstellen wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30282/1.html



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Die Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik will die "heiligen Kühe" der deutschen Sicherheitsarchitektur schlachten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30288/1.html



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Dean Baker, Truthout: "Suppose that the federal government decided to give every newborn baby $200,000. That might seem like an extremely generous gift. However, by the peculiar accounting of those who claim to be watchdogs for future generations, this policy would be bankrupting our kids."

http://www.truthout.org/051109R?n



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- TAIPEI-TIMES : "La Commission Nationale des Communications - NCC
(ndlr: l'équivalent français de l'ARCEP) s'est battu pour proposer la limitation des antennes relais"
- "Alors que l'OMS dit n'y a pas de preuve qui montrent que les antennes relais sont dangereuses, un amendement proposé les limite maintenant à 3 par installation sur les bâtiments"
- De plus "l'amendement adopté stipule qu'aucune station de base d'antennes relais ne peut être installée dans les écoles secondaires publiques ou privées ainsi que dans les écoles primaires"



- TAIPEI-TIMES: "National Communications Commission (NCC) battles proposal to limit wireless stations"
- "The WHO said there was no evidence to show base stations are dangerous,
but a proposed amendment would limit them to three per building"
- "The amendment further stipulates that no base stations can be installed in public or private senior high schools, junior high schools and primary schools"

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/WHO_OMS.php#1

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/fry1.html



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily 'torture' updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged 'high-level' terrorist detainee, who was held at a secret 'black site' prison and waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to newly released court documents obtained by this reporter. The extensive back-and-forth between CIA field operatives and agency officials in Langley likely included updates provided to senior Bush administration officials."

http://www.truthout.org/051109J?n



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The economic crisis is already taking a toll on the Obama administration's new budget projections, adding $90 billion to its already historically high estimates of deficits for both this fiscal year and next.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/business/economy/12budget.html?ref=business


From Information Clearing House



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By Frank Ahrens

That U.S. unemployment has hit 13.7 million, pushing the rate to 8.9 percent, tells only half the story of this recession.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22587.htm



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By DOUGLAS JEHL

A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10887.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/11

60 Minutes Bombs on Drone Story
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/11-8

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Ugly Truth about Foreign Aid in Afghanistan

By Press TV

Exorbitant sums of international aid to Afghanistan are being lavished by Western aid agencies on their own officials in the conflict-stricken country.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22588.htm



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DAVID SIROTA

Piggish Capitalism — The Connection Between Swine Flu Outbreaks & Wall Street's Meltdown

Let's say you have a diversified industry of small, medium and large sized firms. Let's say you then gut anti-trust enforcement, eviscerate regulation, and massively increase subsidization to create textbook oligopoly. And then, finally, let's say the few mega-conglomerates that dominate the oligopoly make big mistakes and dangerous decisions. What are you going to get?

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ROBERT KUTTNER

Collateral Damage and Double Standards

huffingtonpost.com — The big Wall Street banks are getting propped up with literally trillions of dollars in aid from the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, while community bankers that stuck to their knitting and did not go in for the sub-prime swindle are suffering collateral damage.

http://ga3.org/ct/s120pgF1y4Yi/



PAUL ROSENBERG

A Reality-Based Narrative About The Economic Meltdown

openleft.com — The subprime crisis was created by the very banking institutions that are now being bailed out. They quite literally did it to themselves.

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„Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) hat seine berüchtigte Serie der Sonntagsinterviews fortgesetzt. Nicht genug, daß er anhaltenden Widerstand gegen die Aufnahme von Guantánamo-Gefangenen leistet und den Amerikanern hierfür wegen angeblich unzureichender Informationen die Schuld in die Schuhe schiebt. In der Bild am Sonntag holte er seinen alten Plan einer Grundgesetzänderung zugunsten erweiterter Befugnisse der Bundeswehr aus der Schublade. Als Vorwand hierfür nutzte er die Ende April abgebrochene Aktion der GSG9, die vor der Küste Somalias mit Waffengewalt ein gekapertes Schiff stürmen und Matrosen befreien sollte. (…) Diese Situation als Einstieg für eine Grundgesetzänderung zu verwenden, läßt auf ein ziemlich offenkundiges Motiv des Innenministers schließen: Wenn es hier gelänge, der Bundeswehr polizeiliche Aufgaben zu übertragen, wäre der nächste Schritt nur konsequent. Mit derselben Argumentation würden die Befürworter einer Grundgesetzänderung alsbald den Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Innern propagieren. Deshalb muß der von Schäuble gewünschten Übertragung polizeilicher Befugnisse auf die Bundeswehr sofort ein Riegel vorgeschoben werden. Andernfalls droht eine weitere Militarisierung auch der Innenpolitik. Wer keine Einsätze des Militärs gegen Demonstranten im Inland will, muß Schäubles Grundgesetzänderung strikt zurückweisen…“ Artikel von und bei Ulla Jelpke, zuerst erschienen in junge Welt vom 11.05.2009 http://www.ulla-jelpke.de/news_detail.php?newsid=1283


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Mai 2009

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Bundeswehr wird immer mehr Politikersatz

Die Bundeswehr wird nach Einschätzung der fünf deutschen Friedensforschungsinstitute zunehmend zu einem Ersatz für fehlende politische Strategien. Das zeige sich sowohl in Afghanistan als auch beim Anti-Piraten-Einsatz am Horn von Afrika, sagte Jochen Hippler vom Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) am Dienstag in Berlin bei der Vorstellung des Friedensgutachtens 2009.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19765



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From ufpj-news

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Should America Investigate the Bush/Cheney Torture Program?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/05/11-0

How Americans Think About Torture and Why
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/11-7



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Bournemouth Daily Echo - England, UK

By Timothy John

A PACKED parish meeting has heard West Moors residents vent anger over an application to put up a mobile phone mast nearly 80ft high in ...

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4355962.West_Moors_villagers____fury_over_mast_plan_on_green_belt/

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8602/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Robert McChesney and John Nichols on "The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again"

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/05-1



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/08/09

The Federal Reserve System does more than conjure up money from thin air. (That would be enough!) The Fed is also regulator/protector of the American banking industry. Indeed, as recent events amply demonstrate, we may think of the industry as a government-organized protectionist cartel, with the Fed as the hub. One need look no further for evidence than the relationship between the New York Federal Reserve Bank under now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whom the New York Times calls ‘the leading architect of [bank] bailouts’...

http://fee.org/articles/bankers-bank/



Why are we ruled by the illogical?

Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall

05/10/09

[A] reasonable thumbnail sketch of what happened is that the banks went overboard in a wave of euphoria about the joys of securitisation. In fact, they thought that these whizzy CDOs were such fun that they weren’t going to flog them on to the pension funds and the insurance companies as originally planned. Nope, these things were so super that they were going to keep them. And so they did keep them until everyone woke up with a hangover one day and realised that they weren’t so whizzy or super duper and immediately started calling them ‘toxic assets.’ And then the banks went bust. So the legislators suggestion to stop this happening again is that the banks should be forced to do what made them bust rather than just left to make a stupid decision like that on their own?

http://tinyurl.com/qyz3wg



The real problems are finally beginning to show in the financial sector

Sunni and the Conspirators
by Sunni Maravillosa

05/08/09

To be blunt about it, the real problems aren’t the burst bubbles in the home mortgage market, in credit default swaps (CDS), in commercial real estate, nor in credit. It’s the systemic fraud masquerading as government policy that encouraged too much of the risky behavior that allowed bubbles to begin in the first place...

http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/node/1642


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/08/09

U.S. officials are now concerned not only with a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan but also a Taliban takeover in Pakistan. These problems, however, were caused by the U.S. Empire itself. While most Americans now view President Bush’s Iraq War as a ‘bad war,’ the common perception is that Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan was a ‘good war’ (despite the fact that he went to war without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war)...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0905c.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Nation
by William Greider

05/08/09

So this is how the auto bailout will work. American taxpayers pump tens of billions into rescuing General Motors from bankruptcy. Then GM pays us back by shipping more jobs overseas — the equivalent of four assembly plants. The federal money will directly subsidize more imports from abroad, enabling GM to double its car production in Mexico, South Korea and China and selling the cars into the US market. Can someone explain how this is in our national interest? If that is the best deal Obama’s auto czars can come up with, then this angry taxpayer says: laissez-faire — let GM go down. Better to settle for bankruptcy court than provide public financing to further the destruction of US manufacturing. The Obama administration has stumbled into the middle of the political train wreck known as globalization...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/greider3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/11/09

[N]ow that the neocons have been driven out of town on a rail — supposedly — we have a new bunch of Official Experts in town. And if you hated the Project for a New American Century you’re going to despise the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the freshly minted Washington think-tank that seems to have been granted the foreign policy franchise by the Obama administration. … These left-neocons have their own cadre of experts, who are trotted out to imbue our current wrong-headed policy of escalating the Afghan war and dragging in Pakistan with an aura of faux credibility. Prominent among these is Tom Ricks, the Washington Post’s Pentagon correspondent and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Like most of our vaunted experts, Ricks hates having his credibility challenged, and he especially hates it when … well, let him tell it …

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/10/the-rule-of-the-experts/


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Ananova [UK]

05/07/09

A coughing Italian judge cleared a panicking courtroom when he told lawyers: ‘I’ve just got back from Mexico.’ More than 30 attorneys in Rome told Judge Giovanni Barese they were boycotting the court and adjourning their cases because of fear of swine flu. One lawyer said: ‘The judge coughed a few times, I don’t know if it was from the flu or he was just clearing his throat, and then said he had just come back from Mexico. I’ve never seen so many lawyers agree on anything in court so quickly but we all decided we had to get as far away from him as possible’...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3313042.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe

05/10/09

The general manager of the MBTA yesterday said he would ban on-the-job possession of cellphones by T operators and would fire anyone caught carrying a phone, pager, or similar device. Officials believe the ban would be the first of its kind in the country. ‘Leave it at home. Leave it in your car. Leave it with a friend. Leave it in a locker. But you are not to get on board that bus or [train or trolley] and have a cellphone on your person or in the cab. Period,’ said Daniel A. Grabauskas. ‘This is going to be a zero-tolerance policy.’ The proposed rule came less than a day after a Green Line operator told investigators from his hospital bed that he was tapping out a text message to his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the back of another on Friday night. The crash injured dozens of passengers, derailed both trains, and caused the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to suspend service at Government Center...

http://tinyurl.com/qsxcka


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

ABC News

05/08/09

Life as 8-year-old Razia knew it ended one March morning when a shell her father says was fired by Western troops exploded into their house, enveloping her head and neck in a blazing chemical. Now she spends her days in a U.S. hospital bed at the Bagram airbase, her small fingernails still covered with flaking red polish but her face an almost unrecognisable mess of burned tissue and half her scalp a bald scar...

http://tinyurl.com/rxk485


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Meaning of Quantitative Easing
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff297.html



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Die Bundeswehr wirbt massiv unter Minderjährigen für den Dienst an der Waffe.
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