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By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue http://www.rainforestportal.org/ & http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ June 19, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=madagascar_landgrab

The island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah's Ark of biodiversity, and this natural wealth is the country's primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development. The Korean company Daewoo Logistics intends to lease half the agricultural land in Madagascar for 99 years, industrially producing maize and palm oil on 1.3 million hectares that are now biodiversity rich rainforests and gardens. There already exists a severe food crisis nationally and local peoples, who are soon to be dispossessed from their land, are protesting, causing a major government crisis. Tell Daewoo the people of Madagascar have spoken -- and to shove off and leave Madagascar's rainforests, peoples and land alone.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=madagascar_landgrab

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Nedra Pickler, The Associated Press: "A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan's decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney's interview from the public."

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure on Wednesday evening to block the release of photos depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The legislation will now be sent to the House, but it's unclear whether Democratic lawmakers will support it."

http://www.truthout.org/061909A?n



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Published Date: 19 June 2009

Tara Dundon

Ailsworth residents and parish councillors are up in arms after a controversial 15m high phone mast in their village was given the go-ahead because of a planning department mix up.

When Orange Personal Communications Services submitted an application in 2005 to build a mobile phone mast off Helpston Road in Ailsworth, near Peterborough, it was immediately met with considerable local opposition.

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City council gives mast safety verdict

South Wales Argus - Newport, Wales, UK

We are forcing mobile phone masts away from suitable council premises and on to unsuitable private premises.” Council leader, Matthew Evans, said: “If you ...

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/4447614.City_council_gives_mast_safety_verdict/

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Broadcast company to investigate radiation levels

by Floyd Tower

Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY, USA

The complaints about alleged radiofrequency radiation causing health problems have been passed onto the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology in ...

http://www.uticaod.com/news/x737335590/Broadcast-company-to-investigate-radiation-levels-by-Floyd-tower

Register - London, England, UK

Guildford cathedral, famously, falls into the former camp - having had its angel re-gilded to avoid interfering with the telephone mast on which it now sits ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/church_masts/



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Congressman tells MSNBC that the very entity responsible for the economic crisis is now more powerful than Congress

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

Responding to the Obama administration’s new regulatory reform plan, which will officially hand the Federal Reserve complete dictatorial control over the U.S. economy, Congressman Ron Paul told MSNBC that the Fed was now more powerful than Congress.

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By BRIAN TILLEY

Last updated 09:38, Friday, 19 June 2009

COUNTY planners have been left with egg on their faces after a blunder allowed the erection of a mobile phone mast right outside a school.

They dragged their feet for so long over a proposal to erect the mast outside Darras Hall First School that their decision to say “no” came too late.

And now angry parents and school governors are demanding an explanation as to what went wrong.

Parents have also raised a petition to persuade applicants Telefonica to seek a less contentious site for the mast.

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CounterPunch
by Joshua Frank

06/18/09

It’s time to toss those Obama t-shirts in the trash. On Monday the Democrat controlled House voted 226-202 to approve a rushed $106 billion dollar war spending bill, guaranteeing more carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan (and lately Pakistan) until September 30, 2009, which marks the end of the budget year. The Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill’s first draft last month, with the final vote on a compromised version to occur in the Senate sometime in the next couple of weeks. … No longer can the blame for the turmoil in Iraq and Afghanistan rest at the feet of George W. Bush alone. This is now Obama’s War on Terror, fully funded and operated by the Democratic Party...

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You Took My Freedom But Where’s My Security?
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Kim Zetter, Wired: "A secret NSA surveillance database containing millions of intercepted foreign and domestic e-mails includes the personal correspondence of former President Bill Clinton, according to the New York Times."

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Norman Solomon, Truthout: "As a close vote neared on a supplemental funding bill for more war in Iraq and Afghanistan, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that 'the White House has threatened to pull support from Democratic freshmen who vote no.' In effect, it was so important to President Obama to get the war funds that he was willing to paint a political target on the backs of some of the gutsiest new progressives in Congress."

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Der US-Soldat Victor Agosto über seine Kriegsdienstverweigerung, die Feldzüge in Afghanistan und im Irak sowie die Friedensbewegung in den Vereinigten Staaten.

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- Physical protection against radiation from relay antennas: on the roof
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Protection.php#1

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "In May, the US economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9 percent to 9.4 percent. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans are now looking for work and, as a recent headline at Time.com put it, 'The jobs aren't coming back anytime soon.' In fact, a team of economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank recently reported that 'the level of labor market slack could be higher by the end of 2009 than at any other time in the post-World War Two period.'"

http://www.truthout.org/061809U

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The Federal Reserve System's Party Line
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north721.html

Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo173.html

On Jack Welch and Ben Bernanke
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs120.html

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A fake financial fix

Cato Institute
by Mark A. Calabria

06/18/09

The Obama administration yesterday presented a misguided, ill-informed remake of our financial regulatory system that will make crises more likely and more costly. Our financial system, particularly our mortgage system, is broken — but the Obama plan ignores the real flaws to focus on more convenient targets. Instead of putting an end to bank bailouts, the plan makes bailouts a permanent feature of our regulatory landscape. In fact, it extends the possibility of taxpayer-funded bailouts to any company choosing to become a financial-holding company. This will likely include every large insurer, as well as major consumer-finance companies like GMAC. Of course, the administration tells us that bailouts won’t be needed — because the same regulators who missed the signs of the current crisis will get added powers to prevent the next one...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10300



Obamanomics: The good, the bad, the weak

Mother Jones
by Nomi Prins

06/17/09

The administration’s new 88-page white paper, titled ‘Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation,” focuses more on alterations than true reform. Some of them are useful, like requiring lenders to keep a stake in the loans they make, and requiring banks to keep adequate capital on hand. The bill would also regulate a portion of the problematic financial instruments known as over-the-counter derivatives. But other aspects are ill advised, like giving the Federal Reserve more oversight, creating an uber-regulator, and allowing Wall Street’s biggest players to keep their hands in every pot imaginable...

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Where are they now?

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

06/23/09

One of the most galling aspects of the failure to confront the war-crimes perpetrators is that not only have they not been vilified, they have, in most cases, been rewarded. George Tenet, the CIA director notorious for his ’slam-dunk’ comment, a man who cooked the intelligence to make the war possible to curry favor with the White House, is now professor in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown University and has generously remunerated positions on the boards of Allen & Company merchant bank, QinetiQ, and L-1 Identity Solutions. He sold his memoir, At the Center of the Storm, which has been described as a ’self-justifying apologia,’ in 2007 for a reported advance of $4 million. His book, ironically, admits that the U.S. invaded Iraq for no good reason. James Pavitt, who was the point man responsible for the ‘enhanced interrogation’ program as Tenet’s deputy director for operations, is currently a principal with the Scowcroft Group. Cofer Black, who headed the Counter-Terrorism Center, which actually carried out ‘enhanced interrogations,’ is vice chairman of Blackwater Worldwide (now called Xe) and chairman of Total Intelligence Solutions, a Blackwater spinoff...

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Airstrikes in Afghanistan have caused many civilian casualties, resulting in an official request by the Afghan government to the US military to stop air and ground strikes within civilian populations.

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McChrystal Looks to Spin Afghan Civilian Deaths Problem

There are growing indications that his command is preparing to deal with the issue primarily by seeking to shift the blame to the Taliban through more and better propaganda operations and by using more high-tech drone intelligence aircraft to increase battlefield surveillance rather than by curbing the main direct cause of civilian casualties.

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Among the new drones (which are all very small) are the Suburb Warrior (loaded with four or five mini missiles for semi-urban environments), the Sniper targeting system ("that can lock on to multiple targets, allowing a single drone pilot to coordinate the attacks of a squadron of robots"), and a backup fleet of flying buggies that act as suicide-bomber snipers.

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By Teo Ballve

President Obama is trying to whitewash the history of U.S. foreign policy. In two major speeches in the last month, he has spun a fairy tale.

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By Jeremy Scahill

The cowardly Democrats who checked their spines at the door to Congress when they voted Tuesday try to defend their flip-flop on war funding. Frankly, it is embarrassing.

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- Audition Assemblée Nationale "Étude internationale Interphone : la Saga ça suffit !"
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Written by Louise Clarke

Thursday, 18 June 2009

A group of La Marina residents have been left fearing for their health after a large mobile phone mast was erected on a neighbour’s house. Parque Manzanares in La Marina is a quiet, residential area. Three weeks ago, men in unmarked vans arrived at a house on the Parque and started to unload electrical equipment. Neighbours Jane and Arthur Arnold assumed that it was a TV satellite company erecting a satellite dish. However when Arthur (who worked for BT for many years) saw what equipment was being unloaded, he knew that it wasn’t for any satellite dish.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 14:11

A PHONE company is to erect a mast less than 15 yards from the front door of a man whose doctors have warned him to avoid mobiles.

Reg Hill, who lives directly opposite the planned site of a Vodafone mast in Stoke, fears the radio waves will affect him, his wife Denise and their two children. Mr Hill's son Graham died of a brain tumour in October 2000. Mr Hill says that specialists at Derriford warned him to avoid mobile phones.

"It's really getting me down," Mr Hill said. "I just can't let it happen but I don't know what to do now."

Angry Stoke residents have launched a campaign to stop Vodafone putting up the mast at the corner of Masterman Road and Keppel Place.

With the support of their local Conservative councillor, they are campaigning to change Government policy, which forces councils to give planning permission automatically for masts under 15 metres tall.

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Phone firm considers options after mast bid blocked

Press and Journal - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, UK

By Jamie Buchan

A mobile phone giant is weighing up its options after councillors blocked its latest bid to build a new mast at Fraserburgh, ...

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„Droht der Welt nach der Krise eine Mega-Inflation? Die G-8-Finanzminister machen sich Sorgen und beraten nun darüber, wie man mit staatlichen Milliardenhilfen richtig Schluss macht, ohne dass massive Geldentwertung droht. Doch die Interessen der Industriestaaten gehen weit auseinander…“ Artikel von Michael Kröger in Spiegel online vom 16.6.09 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,630602,00.html


„Buy China“-Klausel: China versetzt Welthandel harten Schlag

„Die Wirtschaftskrise treibt gefährliche Blüten: Als die US-Regierung zu Jahresbeginn mit einer "Buy America"-Klausel die Vereinigten Staaten vom Rest der Welt abschotten wollte, war die Empörung groß. China sprach von einem "Gift" für die Bemühungen zur Überwindung der Krise. Doch jetzt steuert die Volksrepublik in dieselbe Richtung und versetzt damit dem freien Welthandel einen harten Schlag…“ Artikel von Eric Bonse und Andreas Hoffbauer im Handelsblatt vom 17.6.09 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/china-versetzt-welthandel-harten-schlag;2367751


Staatliche Schuldenberge

Konjunkturpakete, Bankenrettungen, sinkende Einnahmen - weltweit häufen die Regierungen Schulden an. Wie geht das? Und wann ist ein Staat pleite? Artikel von Yves Wegelin in der WoZ vom 18.6.09 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2009/nr25/wirtschaft/18027.html


Lehren aus der Krise: Wie Obama das Finanzsystem reguliert

„Die mangelhafte Finanzaufsicht in den USA gilt als eine Hauptursache der Kreditkrise. Präsident Obama stellt jetzt seine Reformvorschläge vor. FTD.de erklärt, was das für Behörden, Banken, Investoren und Verbraucher bedeutet…“ Artikel von Tobias Bayer in der FDT vom 17.6.09 http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:Lehren-aus-der-Krise-Wie-Obama-das-Finanzsystem-reguliert/527995.html

Siehe dazu:

Demonstration der Stärke: US-Banken werden immer kecker

„Kapital dürfen die ersten Institute schon zurückzahlen, jetzt wollen Morgan Stanley und JP Morgan keine garantierten Anleihen mehr platzieren. Die Erinnerung an den Beinahe-Kollaps der gesamten Branche nach der Lehman-Pleite verblasst…“ Artikel von Christine Mai in der FDT vom 17.6.09 http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/finanzdienstleister/:Demonstration-der-St%E4rke-US-Banken-werden-immer-kecker/528000.html


Konsequenzen aus der Finanzkrise: Packt die Banken noch härter an!

„Heute ist der Tag der Abrechnung - für Banken und Manager, die die Welt in die Krise treiben. In den USA stößt Präsident Obama die größte Finanzreform seit 70 Jahren an, in Deutschland begrenzt der Bundestag Gehälter. Zugleich aber wollen sich in den USA Banken von der Kontrolle freikaufen - und hierzulande versagen die zentralen Krisenbekämpfer, erklärt Robert von Heusinger…“ Artikel in der FR vom 17.06.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/1800906_Konsequenzen-aus-der-Finanzkrise-Packt-die-Banken-noch-haerter-an.html


Bad Banks: Wie andere Länder toxische Papiere entsorgen

„Bad Banks sollen faule Wertpapiere aufnehmen und so den angeschlagenen deutschen Banken durch die Krise helfen. Etliche andere Länder haben damit schon Erfahrungen gesammelt. Ein Überblick über internationale Erfolge und Fehlschläge mit der Bad Bank…“ Artikel im Handelsblatt vom 18.6.09 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/wie-andere-laender-toxische-papiere-entsorgen;2367449


Die Bilanzwillkür

„Um den Banken in der Krise zu helfen, verwässern die Regierungen die Bilanzierungsstandards. Dass dabei Transparenz und Vergleichbarkeit verloren gehen, stört sie nicht…“ Kommentar von Rolf Lebert in der FTD vom 16.06.2009 http://www.ftd.de/meinung/kommentare/:Kommentar-Die-Bilanzwillk%FCr/527638.html

Siehe dazu Anmerkung von M.M. in den Hinweise des Tages der Nachdenkseiten vom 17. Juni 2009: „Das ist nicht in allen Punkten hundertprozentig korrekt beschrieben, die Auswirkungen sind aber richtig dargestellt. Auf eine Besonderheit wurde nicht eingegangen, die aber noch viel schlimmere Auswirkungen in den Bankbilanzen hat. Es wurde die Möglichkeit geschaffen, den Fair Value toxischer Papiere, für die kein aktiver Markt mehr besteht, nach zwei Methoden zu ermitteln…“ http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=4007#h02


“Systematisch Schrottimmobilien finanziert”. Ehemaliger Banker beschreibt Methoden der Hypo-Bank

„Die Vorgängerbanken der Hypo Real Estate, wie die Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank, haben nach Angaben eines ehemaligen Mitarbeiters systematisch Immobilien zu hoch bewertet. Durch die falschen Bewertungen sei der deutsche Pfandbriefmarkt heute teilweise nicht ausreichend besichert, sagt Marian Vesely im Interview mit Frontal21. Für die Verpflichtungen aus den Pfandbriefen soll nun der Steuerzahler haften…“ Text der Frontal21-Sendung vom 10.6.09 von Steffen Judzikowski und Christian Rohde http://frontal21.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/14/0,1872,7594158,00.html


Landesregierung verplemperte Millionen beim LEG-Verkauf

„Als einen handfesten Skandal bezeichnet das Mieterforum Ruhr den Verlust von fast 37 Millionen Euro beim Verkauf der LEG-Anteile vor einem Jahr. Den hat der Landesrechnungshof in seinem heute vorgestellten Jahresbericht aufgedeckt…“ Pressemitteilung des Mieterforums Ruhr vom 16.6.09 http://www.mieterforum-ruhr.de/de/themen/politik/index.php/art_00001917


Von der Immobilienkrise zum Recht auf die Stadt. Die Finanzkrise ist auch eine Wohnungskrise

„Bodenspekulation, die Zerstörung des sozialen Wohnungsbaus und der weltweite Siegeszug der Eigenheimideologie waren die Grundlage der Immobilienblase auf Pump. Aufgrund der Krise, die diese Politik ausgelöst hat, haben Millionen Menschen ihre Wohnung verloren…“ Artikel von Knut Unger vom April 2009 beim MieterInnenverein Witten http://www.mvwit.de/de/positionen/index.php/art_00001918


Ackermanns Heuschrecken. In den USA hinterlässt die Deutsche Bank obdachlose Mieter und verwüstete Stadtteile

„Boston, 25. September 2008. "Organisiert euch gegen Zwangsräumungen", "Deutsche Bank, wir sind bereit zu verhandeln", steht auf Schildern, die Demonstranten der Organisation "City Life" hoch halten. Sie versuchen, die Behörde davon abzuhalten, die Familie Esquivel aus ihrem Haus im Arbeiterviertel Roslindale zu räumen. So wie sie es schon zehn mal in diesem Jahr gemacht haben. Meistens ist das gut gegangen. Aber heute geht es schief…“ Artikel von Knut Unger im Mieterforum Ruhr vom 20.05.2009 http://www.mieterforum-ruhr.de/de/themen/fondsvermieter/index.php/art_00001911


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Juni 2009



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„Deutsche Unternehmen riskieren unnötige Ausfallzeiten, weil ihr Personal krank an den Arbeitsplatz zurückkehrt. In jedem zweiten Betrieb ist die verfrühte Arbeitsaufnahme gängige Praxis. In gut jedem dritten Unternehmen wird die Ansteckungsgefahr für Kollegen sogar häufig erhöht, weil sich Mitarbeiter nicht bis zur Genesung auskurieren. Angesichts der jüngsten Gesundheitsrisiken durch den Ausbruch der Schweinegrippe ist dieser nachlässige Umgang mit Ansteckungsgefahren alarmierend. Denn die Ansteckungsprävention spielt eine Schlüsselrolle in der betrieblichen Influenzapandemievorsorge. "Wer krank ist, bleibt zuhause" gehört zu den sieben Grundregeln des Robert Koch Instituts zur Verringerung viraler Ansteckungsgefahren in Unternehmen. Zu diesen Ergebnissen kommt die Studie "Betriebliche Gesundheitsvorsorge" vom IMWF Institut für Management- und Wirtschaftsforschung in Kooperation mit handelsblatt.com. 203 Fach- und Führungskräfte verschiedener Branchen haben an der Befragung teilgenommen…“ Pressemeldung vom 16.06.2009 http://www.presseportal.de/meldung/1423480


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Juni 2009

Jun 18 2009 by Adam Jupp, The Journal

PARENTS at a North East first school fear council blunders will lead to a mobile phone mast being built yards from where their children study.

Telecommunications giant Telefonica O2 applied to build the 12.5m structure outside Darras Hall First School, in Ponteland, Northumberland, but the move was met by a wave of fierce objections.

Northumberland County Council’s West Area planning committee held a meeting to discuss the proposal, at which the decision was taken to reject it.

But now it has emerged the refusal is not valid because it did not take place within 56 days of the initial application being received.

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Guardian [UK]
by Pankaj Mishra

06/17/09

Unless the US president can break his hardline posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Mortgage Bankers Association says mortgage applications, which include new and refinanced loans, declined nearly 16 percent in the week ended June 12.

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A decision by China to reduce its US Treasury holdings suggests concern about the US attitude towards its economic woes, Chinese economists were quoted as saying in state media Wednesday.

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Russia's Medvedev: Supranational currency will be created

"We are likely to witness the creation of a supranational ´ ... which will be used for international settlements," Medvedev told a new conference. "Although volumes will be limited.

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Medvedev calls for new reserve currencies

Medvedev has made the proposal before. It reflects both the Kremlin's push for greater international clout and a concern shared by other countries that soaring U.S. budget deficits could spur inflation and weaken the dollar.

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Clip From A Documentary Film By John Pilger

"The weaker they are the greater the threat. People who can free themselves against all the odds are sure to inspire others".

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The Century of the Self

Video

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

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By Ali Khan

For all practical purposes, the Pashtuns are now subsumed under the title of the Taliban. The caricature is simple and compelling: It highlights the Taliban as the paramount enemy without ever mentioning the Pashtun resistance to the eight-year old occupation of Afghanistan.

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Die Schwellenländer fordern gemeinsam die Ablösung des Dollars als Leitwährung.
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