Donnerstag, 3. September 2009

Young Workers in Free Fall: One-Third Under 35 Live With Parents

Art Levine, The Huffington Post: "So much for the economic independence that's supposed to come with young adulthood. But when unemployment among young men workers is the highest it's been in 61 years, as noted by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, it's little wonder that workers under 35 are facing so many economic obstacles."

http://www.truthout.org/090309B?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Art+Levine

Obama Administration Argues Against Releasing Bush-Era Detainee Information

The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://snipurl.com/rkqom

 

Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans

The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0296cf1a-9594-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html

 

Bailout bank execs compensated nicely:

The 20 financial firms that have received the most bailout money from the government have, in the three years through 2008, awarded their top five executives pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/31/daily58.html

 

U.S. consumer bankruptcies up 24 percent in August

Bankruptcy filings by U.S. consumers rose 24 percent in August compared with a year earlier and could reach 1.4 million this year, according to an American Bankruptcy Institute and National Bankruptcy Research Center report released on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5815X020090902

 

Crooks, Computers, and the Coming Crash

As stocks continued to rally into September, one has to ask one's self, "just who's buying this rally?" The answer? Computers and no one else.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Summers/sep012009.html


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bankruptcies

CIA doctors face human experimentation claims

Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect

Big Bucks for Bailout Barons

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

One year after the global banking system collapsed the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) 16th Annual Executive Excess report -- "America's Bailout Barons" -- shows that the perverse system of executive compensation which contributed to the financial meltdown is still thriving for top bailout recipients.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23419.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+meltdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina+vanden+Heuvel

How Bad Will It Get?

By Mike Whitney

The best-informed market participants believe that the 6-month rally is beginning to fizzle out. The consensus is that stocks are grossly overpriced and the fundamentals are weak. Bernanke's strategy has improved the equity position of many of the larger financial institutions but, unfortunately, there's been no spillover into the real economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23422.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

US's 'Arc of Instability' Just Gets Bigger

By Pepe Escobar

The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa to western China. The cover story is the former "global war on terror", now "overseas contingency operations" under the management of President Barack Obama's administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23420.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

War on illegal phone masts

Gulf Daily News - Manama, Bahrain

By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI, Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009

ELECTRICITY could soon be cut off to illegal phone masts on rooftops in Muharraq to force out ... http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=258786

WHO Admits to Releasing Pandemic Virus into Population via 'Mock-Up' Vaccines

Have you ever wondered how new pandemic viruses keep showing up all over the world?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/03/WHO-Admits-to-Releasing-Pandemic-Virus-into-Population-via-MockUp-Vaccines.aspx

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pandemic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu

Sanktionen gegen Hartz-IV-Beziehende aussetzen

Weiterhin werden Unterschriften für den Aufruf gesammelt!
http://www.sanktionsmoratorium.de/

Zusätzlich sind jetzt Unterschriftenlisten für alle Menschen abrufbar.
Damit auch die unterschreiben können die keinen Internetanschluss haben.
Wir bitten alle unabhängigen Beratungsstellen, diese den Betroffenen
zugänglich zu machen.
http://www.sanktionsmoratorium.de/html/themen/themen_text_2.php?zid=209

Schluss mit den Sanktionen bei Hartz IV. Die Sammlung von
Unterschriften für die Petition zur Streichung des Sanktionsparagrafen 31

Ziel der Sammlung von Unterstützerunterschriften für die Petition ist es
nun, mit möglichst vielen Unterschriften die Petition alsbald
einzureichen, damit eine baldige öffentliche Anhörung im Deutschen
Bundestag erreicht werden kann. Auf der Aktionswebsite finden sich die
Unterstützerlisten für die Petition mit Angaben, wohin sie ausgefüllt
geschickt werden können, die Erklärungen zu den Begründungen für die
Streichung des Sanktionsparagrafen 31 sowie die Materialien dazu
http://sanktionen-weg.de/


Workfare oder Workfair?

Beitrag von GEG vom 31. August 2009 bei Thomas Trueten
http://www.trueten.de/archives/5313-Workfare-oder-Workfair.html

Aus dem Text: „�Workfair statt Workfare muss die Devise lauten, welche,
Erwerbslose und Arbeitnehmer zukünftig fordern müssen. Dazu müssen sie
aber endlich aus ihrer Lethargie herauskommen etwas unternehmen ,
aufbegehren und sich einem Kampf stellen, welcher noch nicht mal richtig
begonnen hat. Hartz IV war nur der Vorbote, sozusagen zum gewöhnen an
einen erbarmungslosen Kapitalismus, welcher zum Schluss wirklich nur noch
die Alternative „friß oder stirb“ übrig lässt.“


Aus: LabourNet, 3. September 2009

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Workfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kapitalismus
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Suizid und neue Leiden am Arbeitsplatz

Artikel von Alexandra Rau in WIDERSPRUCH 56 (pdf) – Exklusiv im LabourNet Germany! Wir danken der Redaktion! http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeitsalltag/gh/rau.pdf

Aus dem Text: „ Nach Dejours konnte so schließlich auch der Umgang mit Überlastung potenziell zu kollektivem Widerstand führen. Heute hingegen sei dies aufgrund von neuen Formen der Arbeitsorganisation, wie Zielvereinbarungen, Total Quality Management und der Evaluierung von Leistung u.a.m., nicht mehr möglich. Solidarität sei hier als Praxis verschwunden. Und zwar deshalb, weil diese neuen Formen der Arbeitorganisation zur Dynamik einer strukturellen „Zwangsindividualisierung“ führten, deren Effekt darin bestehe, Beschäftigte praktisch voneinander zu isolieren. Damit verknüpft seien neue Leiden, die Menschen unter diesen Arbeitsbedingungen dazu zwängen, Schutzmechanismen zu entwickeln, die nicht zuletzt darin bestünden, das Leiden anderer nicht mehr wahrzunehmen. Es fehlt eine Sprache des Leidens, die am Arbeitsplatz gesprochen wird und verstanden werden kann. Es fehlt jedoch auch an kollektiven Formen und Praktiken, dieses Leiden anders als durch Selbstmord sichtbar zu machen und es als gesellschaftliches zu politisieren;

WIDERSPRUCH Heft 56 (240 S., Fr. 25.-) ist dem Thema Krankheit / Gesundheit gewidmet mit über 25 Beiträgen zu den Aspekten der Sozial-, Arbeits- und Gesundheitspolitik, die wie immer auch auf aktuelle Analysen und Debatten Bezug nehmen und intervenieren. Siehe Inhalt und Editorial auf der Verlagshomepage – dort auch die Bestelladresse http://www.widerspruch.ch/56.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. September 2009

Deleting the Bush Personality Cult from history

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

09/02/09

[H]uge swaths of the right-wing movement were devoted to an unprecedented veneration of George Bush. A whole industry on the Right was created to convert him into a warrior-deity, including truly creepy reverence books by National Review writers �. Some on the Right actually speculated that God intervened in our elections because he had hand-picked Bush to be our leader. Even Bill Kristol admitted that the GOP had turned into little more than a Bush-centered personality cult, telling the New York Times: ‘Bush was the movement and the cause.’ More than any single, discrete issue, what motivated me to begin writing about political issues was the warped climate of hero worship constructed — by the Right and the media — around George Bush as a ‘War President.’ If you search long enough on the Internet, can you find examples of random people or vapid celebrities guilty of excessive Obama worship? Obviously. One can find virtually anything using those methods. But the personalized veneration of George Bush, particularly during his first term, was systematic and engulfing...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/02/bush/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Kristol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

An empire of consumption

Daily Reckoning
by Byron King

09/01/09

The big problem — obviously, the headline issue — with the US economy is too much debt. (That’s the BIG problem. There’s a long list of other problems after that.) And the debt problem is getting worse, not better. Debt is ubiquitous across US society. Debt permeates the culture. Practically the whole nation has bitten off more than it can chew. Within the past two generations, the US economy has transformed from what Harvard historian Charles Maier calls an ‘empire of production’ (which is what won the Second World War, for example) to an ‘empire of consumption...

http://dailyreckoning.com/an-empire-of-consumption/

 

New bull, new bubble, new meltdown?

MSN MarketWatch
by Paul Farrell

09/01/09

Something’s in the air. You can feel it. A new bull. Hype? Maybe, but also a roaring new bull — and eventually another meltdown. Television is a metaphor for our cycles, so see how America’s becoming a huge ratings competition. Yes, Americans want another bull, another bubble, even another meltdown. Guess what? It’s already here, folks. The next big market-economic-business cycle has arrived ahead of schedule. This is what makes us America. We love challenges, risk-takers and winners. The nobody who suddenly becomes a big somebody is the biggest of all TV metaphors for who we are...

http://tinyurl.com/mwycqu



The undead of the banking world

Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

The world economy is recovering, or so people believe. Stocks are going up — led by the banks. But are the undead of the banking world really stronger? Ha ha … don’t make us laugh. But the world seems to believe it.” (09/02/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ll6lmx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bubble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=consumption
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recovery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Farrell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Bonner

ElBaradei: Iranische Atomwaffendrohung gehyped

In vielen Hinsichten sei die Vorstellung, der Iran stehe kurz davor, Atomwaffen zu haben, überzogen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144650

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei

Obama's Meaningless War

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-2

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

Great Barrier Reef Facing 'Catastrophic Damage' From Climate Change

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/02-2

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Barrier+Reef

Is Health Care the Next 'Bonusgate'?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/02-0

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bonus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Liberto

Lt. Col. Stuart Couch: Guantanamo Justice

NOW on PBS: "On Friday, September 4, at 8:30 pm EDT on PBS, learn how Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a government prosecutor set on convicting alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamedou Ould Slahi, changed his mind after getting access to details of Slahi's treatment at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay. Couch, who was friends with a co-pilot of one of the jets hijacked on September 11, 2001, says Slahi was tortured."

http://www.truthout.org/090209Y?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mohamedou+Ould+Slahi

Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to those anti-democratic forces in which religious, market, military and political fundamentalism thrived, casting an ominous shadow over the fate of United States democracy. During the Bush-Cheney regime, power became an instrument of retribution and punishment connected to and fueled by a repressive state, a bullying rhetoric of war, a ruthless consolidation of economic forces and an all-embracing free-market apparatus and media-driven pedagogy of fear that supported and sustained a distinct culture of cruelty and inequality in the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/090209R?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=authoritarianism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fundamentalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux

US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

Matthew Lee, The Associated Press: "State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide air support for US diplomats was temporarily extended because the firm chosen to replace it is not yet ready to take over. The contract was due to expire on September 3 and be taken over a day later by DynCorp International."

http://www.truthout.org/090209S?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Lee

Group calls for stop to tower work

Summerland Review

Published: September 02, 2009 4:00 PM
Updated: September 02, 2009 4:28 PM

Summerland Citizens Opposed to Radiofrequency Emissions (SCORE) recently sponsored two public meetings with a cumulative total of over 130 people in attendance.

SCORE wants Telus to halt construction of a microwave transmitter on Little Conkle Mountain in Summerland until Telus can show to Summerlanders that this technology is safe.

Read More...
http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/56756217.html

Petition against Bull Fighting-please sign and share

http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=23&ea.campaign.id=4257&ea.param.extras=Source:email

This is an important petition. Please sign. Just scroll down to the TAKE ACTION BUTTON Click it, and fill in your name, e-mail address, and country; It takes just a few seconds to do.

Earle

Reinforcing Failure in Afghanistan

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz17.1.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/shirtz

The US Economy Has Been Pushed Off a Cliff

On Keynesian poison from the state
http://www.lewrockwell.com/clancy/clancy17.1.html

Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1630130/12759198/98637/0/

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/clancy

Deficits Will Matter

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north752.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/north

Mittwoch, 2. September 2009

Video of use of Mobile Phone while driving

This is an educational video from Wales about a woman who writes an SMS while driving, and causes a most severe accident: http://www.gwent.police.uk/leadnews.php?a=2172

Police in Gwent, Wales ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwent_Police ), hopes the film will become part of the core schools programme across Wales and ultimately the UK, and will help to keep people from using their mobile phones while driving.


Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Liebl
Wirelessfacts Ltd.

Vodafone removes mast from shopping centre

Wednesday, 02 September 2009

A MOBILE telecommunications company has removed a mast from a shopping centre on the Northside. Fingal County Council ordered Vodafone to remove the mast from Bayside Square after it was discovered that it had not been authorised.

Read More...
http://www.dublinpeople.com/content/view/2323/57/

Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable

TrimTabs Estimates U.S. Lost 335,000 Jobs in August and 5.9 Million Jobs in Past Year

In the past twelve months, the U.S. economy has lost 5.9 million jobs, the largest annual job loss in records dating back to 1970.

http://snipurl.com/rjug9

 

Jim Hightower: Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable

Who's this guy, this guy in New York who has dared to confront some of the biggest Wall Street elites and demand answers? You've probably never heard of Jed Rakoff, but he's a federal district judge whose Manhattan court gets many of the cases involving the financial powers.

http://snipurl.com/rjugk


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Hightower

CIA refuses to release torture documents

The Central Intelligence Agency has refused to turn over documents they were ordered to produce to a civil rights group under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/01/cia-refuses-to-release-torture-documents/

 

Obama formalizes Bush policy on digital searches and seizures

The Obama administration disclosed on August 27 that it will carry on Bush administration policies that allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to seize and search international travelers' laptop computers, cellular phones, cameras, and other electronic devices, even in the absence of suspicion of criminal activity.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/digi-s01.shtml

 

Phrase 'War on Terror' Returns to White House Lexicon:

Asked Tuesday whether the use of the phrase was intentionally, Gibbs answered, "We're focused on getting the strategy right."

http://snipurl.com/rjuf2


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

Afghanistan for Dummies

By Ray McGovern

I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23410.htm

 

Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

By David Swanson

There's Dubya now, still rewriting laws via signing statements. Still creating and destroying laws with executive orders. And still violating laws at his whim. Imagine Bush continuing his policy of extraordinary rendition, sending prisoners off to other countries with grim interrogation reputations to be held and tortured. I can even picture him formalizing his policy of preventive detention, sprucing it up with some "due process" even as he permanently removes habeas corpus from our culture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23411.htm



Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

Civilian contractors working for the Pentagon in Afghanistan not only outnumber the uniformed troops, according to a report by a Congressional research group, but also form the highest ratio of contractors to military personnel recorded in any war in the history of the United States.

http://snipurl.com/rjuaa



US reports question Afghan policy

The report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says only 15 per cent of those deployed are US citizens, raising both security and credibility questions for the US mission.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/20099215511387322.html



Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites

The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others - any space where the White House "maintains a presence."

http://snipurl.com/rjueo


From Information Clearing House

 

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CDC Warns Neurologists To Watch For Nerve Disease Following Swine Flu Shots

Echoes British concerns over Guillain-Barre syndrome

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The CDC has followed in the footsteps of British health authorities by warning neurologists to look out for cases of the nerve disease Guillain-Barre syndrome caused by the swine flu vaccine.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cdc-warns-neurologists-to-watch-for-nerve-disease-following-swine-flu-shots.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin

impf-report Newsletter Nr. 14/2009

http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2009/14.htm

CREW Files Second FOIA Request

CREW Files Second FOIA Request with Federal Reserve Board Over Refusal to Name Recipients of $2.2 Trillion in Aid

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/01-5

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FOIA+request

Fast Times at Recruitment High: Arne Duncan and the Militarization of Chicago's Schools

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/01-0

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Military's presence in public schools continues to grow
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8962/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arne+Duncan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recruitment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarization
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Kroll

The ghost of 9/11

AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo

09/02/09

We can’t get out of Afghanistan, because Pakistan will fall, and vice versa. But each may fall on its own. What kind of a shell game are war supporters playing? And what, by the way, are we fighting for? No one seems to know: or, more accurately, no one dares say what it’s really all about — revenge. It’s a war that has nothing to do with protecting America from another 9/11, and everything to do with institutionalizing an endless war of aggression the aim of which is slaughter for its own sake, as an end in itself. Vengeance, not prevention, is what all the references to 9/11 are about, because that is the only way we can justify our policy of perpetual warfare in the eyes of the American people...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/01/the-ghost-of-911/

 

Win, hold and lose

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

09/01/09

Although President Obama insists that America’s goal in Afghanistan is to disrupt, degrade, and defeat al-Qaeda, it is apparent that the objective is much broader than that. U.S. and NATO officials speak of supporting an indigenous political structure that will provide security to the Afghan people and implement good governance. Since the U.S.-led invasion that overthrew the Taliban government in late 2001, hordes of Western military and civilian personnel have been involved in everything from setting up schools to drilling wells to building roads. Although they avoid using the term nation-building, that is clearly what is taking place. Not only is Afghanistan an extremely unpromising candidate for such a mission, given its pervasive poverty, its fractured clan-based and tribal-based social structure, and its weak national identity, U.S. and NATO officials should also be sobered by the disappointing outcomes of other nation-building ventures over the past two decades. An audit of the two most prominent missions, Bosnia and Iraq, ought to inoculate Americans against pursuing the same fool’s errand in Afghanistan...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10498


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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Doctors had 'central role' in CIA abuse: rights group

A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.

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American Diplomats Advocated 'Nuremberg Defense':

Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaciously to incorporate what is commonly known as the Nuremberg Defense into a new international convention addressing enforced disappearances.

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Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/01-7

 

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The Truth Of Iraq's City Of Deformed Babies

By Lisa Holland

An Iraqi doctor has told Sky News the number of babies born with deformities in the heavily-bombed area of Fallujah is still on the increase.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23406.htm

 

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Outgoing IAEA Chief ElBaradei Calls Iranian Threat 'Hyped'

By Jerusalem Post Staff

Mohamed ElBaradei, outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has called the Iranian threat "hyped," saying there is no proof the Islamic republic will soon have nuclear weapons.

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The Rise of Mercenary Armies: A Threat to Global Security

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The U.S. Is Deploying Its Vietnam-Iraq Fig Leaf

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VA Won't Pay Benefits to Marine Injured by Vaccine

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq. It was an injection into his arm before his unit left the states."

http://www.truthout.org/090109Y?n

 

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Reverse Bank Robbery

Dean Baker, The Guardian UK: "Most of us work for a living, the rest are bankers. These days the news is filled with great tales about how America's banks are coming back. Even that giant corpse Citigroup is showing signs of life. Its stock is now selling for more than five times the lows it hit earlier this year. Its market capitalization is up near $57 billion, a bit more than the $45 billion that the government lent them through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP. Some are even expecting that the government will make a profit on its Citigroup investment."

http://www.truthout.org/090109R?n

 

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The Brute Factory

By John S. Hatch

Henry Kissinger once referred to military service people as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as tools of foreign policy. One wonders if this man of no regrets nevertheless wishes he had not vocalized what in fact has been the position of successive US governments including the present one?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23409.htm

 

"Army Strong"

Video

This video is a mix of the Army Strong video produced by the army to entice young women and men to join the military.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23404.htm

 

America Needs To Wake Up

By Cindy Sheehan

In an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan talks about the need of accountability, an end to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American psyche ignoring the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23403.htm

 

Obama: The Last Emperor

"The Crash of America"

Video Report

Professor Igor Panarin, believes President Obama will lead his country to a breakup. Panarin compares Obama to former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23401.htm

 

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The Corruption of Empire

Just as the United States is winding down its reconstruction of Iraq, the largest nation building project in history, President Obama wants to do the same for Afghanistan only do it better and bigger.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=184


From Information Clearing House

 

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Obama Wants To Circumcise You If You Cannot Consent

http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy-s/murphy-s12.1.html

 

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Makers Of Vaccination Refuse To Take H1N1

08-31-2009

Wayne Madsen

Even scientists who helped develop the vaccine say THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT AND URGE THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOT TO TAKE IT EITHER.



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