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Ralph Lopez, Truthout: "As public opinion tips against the US military presence in Afghanistan, and Congress talks about 'doubling down,' as the pullout from Iraq is accompanied by steadily increasing violence, and talk turns to slowing or halting the pull-out, the question the anti-war public must ask itself is: What now? War funding for Iraq continues despite two consecutive Democratic majorities elected expressly to stop it ... Very few people know that on average 80 percent of their Congress members' and senators' campaign funds come from outside the district, and largely from outside the state. They come from industries like defense, telecommunications and financial services. What do they get for these contributions, even in cases when the Congress member votes against those contributors' positions on certain bills?"

http://www.truthout.org/090409A?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ralph+Lopez

By Pete Castle

September 04, 2009

TAXPAYERS are set to foot the bill for local authority mistakes after a planning inspector found that Elmbridge Borough Council had acted “unreasonably” when rejecting plans for a mobile phone mast.

The proposed Vodafone mast in Lower Green Road, Esher, was originally turned down by councillors in September last year, against the advice of planning officers.

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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2056777_protesters_fight_on_against_mobile_phone_mast

12:32pm Thursday 3rd September 2009

By Neil Docking

APPLETON ANGRY residents branded the decision of councillors to approve plans for a 15-metre telephone mast by protected woodland in Appleton a disgrace at a meeting at Warrington Town Hall last Wednesday.

Protestors jeered and shouted ‘shame on you’ after Warrington Borough Council’s development control committee voted 5-3 in favour of Telefonica O2’s plans for the telegraph column and equipment cabinets on land off Longwood Road.

Read More...
http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/news/4579160.Phone_mast_plans_branded_a__disgrace_/

http://www.thehealingpraxis.com/Flyer.pdf

http://www.thehealingpraxis.com/Flyers.html

http://www.thehealingpraxis.com/OperationFaxtoStoptheVax.html

Step Two---Spread this Message Worldwide Remember, they are about to convene in Washington to discuss how to continue society when 50% of the population is 'out of commission'. They are telling us right in our face so AGAIN!! Politics has no place here! Be a caring soul and share this regardless of the ignorant attacks you may receive. Put your LOVE and COMPASSION before anyone's ignorance. LOVE is going to win this WAR.

From Mast Sanity/Mast Network


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

AlterNet
by Mark Ames

09/03/09

America now has more military personnel in Afghanistan than the Red Army had at the peak of the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. According to a Congressional Research Service report, as of March of this year, the U.S. had 52,000 uniformed personnel and another 68,000 contractors in Afghanistan — a number that has likely grown given the blank check President Obama has written for what’s now being called ‘Obama’s War.’ That makes 120,000 American military personnel fighting in Afghanistan, a figure higher than the Soviet peak troop figure of 115,000 during their catastrophic 9-year war. Just this week, General McChrystal, whom Obama appointed to command American forces in Afghanistan, is talking of sending tens of thousands more American troops. At the height of the Soviet occupation,Western intelligence experts estimated that the Soviets had 115,000 troops in Afghanistan — but like America, the more troops and the longer the Soviets stayed, the more doomed their military mission became...

http://tinyurl.com/ld4hoc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/02/09

After 92 days of waiting for the Word from on high, the nation received its marching orders from our commander-in-chief — and it was a flop of major proportions. As his West Point audience looked on disdainfully — applauding only twice, and then tepidly — President Obama tried to make the case that his escalation of the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan is really just a prelude to withdrawal. But is it?

http://tinyurl.com/yj2bmbq



Imperial blues

Our Future Blog
by Robert Borosage

12/02/09

President Obama made the best possible case for dispatching more troops to Afghanistan last night. But his speech left me with a haunting foreboding. Surely this is the way that great imperial powers decline. Their soldiers police the ends of the earth. There is always another enemy, always a threat — sometimes imagined, often real — that must be faced. And meanwhile, the productive economy declines, the rich live increasingly off investments abroad, the poor depend on public sustenance, the middle declines. No battle is so costly that it cannot be afforded; no battle so unimportant that the nation must not be mobilized. The soldiers become professionals, ‘volunteers’ in our terms. The institutions of the Republic — the Congress, the Senate — are scorned, often deservedly so. The executive decides the questions of war and peace. The secret state expands. The country finds itself constantly at war...

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009124902/imperial-blues-0



Dodging the real questions on Afghanistan

The American Prospect
by Tim Fernholz

12/02/09

The debate is over, the speech delivered, and 30,000 more American soldiers are headed to Afghanistan at the behest of President Barack Obama. He didn’t look too happy about it. No one should be surprised, especially not his supporters. This was the candidate who called Afghanistan the good war, promising to nearly double the number of troops there. Now, after last summer’s fraud-riddled presidential election and the contemporaneous increase in the Taliban insurgency’s strength, he is trebling America’s military commitment to the conflict. … Afghanistan is not an easy case. … Beyond policy disagreements, the politics, both domestic and international, left the president painted into a corner. But his speech Tuesday night didn’t add much energy to his case for escalation because he did not leave the narrow confines of conventional wisdom on Afghanistan — conventional wisdom that many, even in Washington, have questioned...

http://tinyurl.com/yjqqdx7



Obama’s war begins

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

12/01/09

When Bush left office, the United States contributed slightly less than half of the allied troops in Afghanistan. By the time Obama’s escalation takes hold, this share will have risen to 70 percent. This is becoming more, not less, of an American war. It is also not yet clear why President Obama picked 30,000 as the magic number of troops. Was it a compromise between the 40,000 recommended by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and some lower number reportedly suggested by Vice President Joe Biden? Was it driven, at least in part, by budgetary factors? More to the point, what will they do once they get there?

http://www.slate.com/id/2237101/



The Obama surge

Mother Jones
by David Corn

12/01/09

Prior to the speech, polls showed that about half of the American public was skeptical about the Afghanistan war. Presumably, these Americans already know al Qaeda’s plotters are evildoers. So this speech is not likely to sway millions. But what’s been said a few thousand times in the past few days is definitely true: Obama has now made the Afghanistan war his own. This speech was just the opening shot in what will be a never-ending campaign to explain and justify a war that itself may be never-ending...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/obama-surge



Time to leave

USA Today
by Christopher Preble

12/02/09

Our social-engineering project in Afghanistan is a costly folly, one we could have avoided by heeding the proper lessons from the disastrous wars in Vietnam and Iraq. The president’s decision to double-down in Afghanistan parallels the Bush’s administration’s notion that unstable areas such as Afghanistan must be made ’safe for democracy’ or they will inevitably threaten U.S. national security...

http://tinyurl.com/yzd32l2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=commander-in-chief
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endless+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al+Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Borosage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Fernholz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Corn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Preble

William Astore, TomDispatch.com: "I have a few confessions to make: After almost eight years of off-and-on war in Afghanistan and after more than six years of mayhem and death since 'Mission Accomplished' was declared in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I'm tired of seeing simpleminded magnetic ribbons on vehicles telling me, a 20-year military veteran, to support or pray for our troops."

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

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=patriotism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Astore

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/03

 

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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/03-0

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Evans

In Afghanistan sind erstmals mehr Mitarbeiter von Privatfirmen als US-Soldaten für das Pentagon tätig.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31053/1.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/inflations-moral-hazard.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inflation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Theodore+Dalrymple

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/howden2.1.1.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/howden

http://www.lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli34.1.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/crovell

Suzan Filipek

A city zoning administrator denied T-Mobile a new cell tower base station in St. Andrews Square in a 22-page report released last month. "The overwhelming number of letters and e-mails bear testimony to the pervasive sense that T-Mobile's proposed structure would not be beneficial, but on the contrary, detrimental to the character of the community," wrote city Associate Zoning Administrator Maya Zaitzevsky.

Upon hearing the Aug. 12 decision, Patricia Carroll, a board member of the St. Andrews Square Neighborhood Association, said, "This was a wonderful example of neighborhood teamwork and a wonderful victory for our neighborhoods."

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http://www.larchmontchronicle.com/ArchiveDetail.asp?ArchiveID=1013

Ärzte und Psychologen, die an den Folterungen in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram und anderswo beteiligt waren, werden von der Menschenrechtsorganisation Physicians for Human Rights beschuldigt, Kriegsverbrechen begangen zu haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144726

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bagram
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Physicians+for+Human+Rights

http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston58.1.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/alston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sanktion

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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