World-News

"NOW," PBS: "Closing Guantanamo Bay's prison will do little to close the debate on what we should do with alleged terrorists. 'NOW,' as part of a collaboration with the nonprofit investigative unit ProPublica, investigates the controversial tactic of 'preventative detention,' a government plan that may detain suspects indefinitely without trial or even formal charges."

http://www.truthout.org/090909G?n

 

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Buffalo News

They said the detonation of a nuclear device or another weapon that releases an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could fry America's energy grid, ...

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The Spanish newspaper Público reported exclusively on Saturday that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

http://snipurl.com/rodi0


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SPIEGEL Interview with Former Army Doctor in Afghanistan : I didn't want to go on seeing young men die senselessly. Lots of other doctors felt the same way and left as well. Modern warfare like this has made doctors like us superfluous.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,647751,00.html#ref=rss

 

Karzai slams deadly NATO airstrike

'What an error of judgment. More than 90 deaths for a simple lorry, which was moreover immobilized in a riverbed. Why didn't they send ground troops to recover the fuel tank?' Karzai said.

http://snipurl.com/rodc9

 

UK: Gordon Brown faces Labour motion to pull out troops from Afghanistan

Conference activists say war in Afghanistan 'is unwinnable'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/06/gordon-brown-afghanistan-pullout-motion


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The New Republic
by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson

09/05/09

[T]he Fed may well have mitigated our current crisis by sowing the seeds for the next one. All modern economies need a financial system that can connect people who want to save with those who have good investment projects. This is essentially what banks do. But, unfortunately, this process often goes wrong. And that is precisely what is happening now. Our banks have gotten into the habit of needing to be rescued through repeated bailouts. During this crisis, Bernanke — while saving the financial system in the short term — has done nothing to break this long-term pattern; worse, he exacerbated it. As a result, unless real reform happens soon, we face the prospect of another bubble-bust-bailout cycle that will be even more dangerous than the one we’ve just been through. If you’ve studied U.S. economic history, none of this will come as a surprise...

http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/the-next-financial-crisis


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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An unmanned aircraft, suspected to be US operated, fired two missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing nine people, a security official said.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=4102

 

Anti-Americanism rises in Pakistan over U.S. motives

Pakistanis are reacting to what many here see as an "imperial" American presence, echoing Iraq and Afghanistan, with Washington dictating to the Pakistani military and the government. Polls show that Pakistanis regard the U.S., formally a close ally and the country's biggest donor, as a hostile power.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/74966.html


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By Ramsey Clark

Fear is the principal element in both public acceptance of torture and individual submission to it. The frightened public is persuaded that only torture can force confessions essential to prevent catastrophic acts-terrorism in the present context. The frightened victim is persuaded torture will be unbearable, or be his death.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23448.htm

 

"We're The Children Of Barnum & Bailey"

By Bill Moyers

Forget what you learned in civics about the Founding Fathers - we're the children of Barnum and Bailey, our founding con men. Their freak show was the forerunner of today's talk radio.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23450.htm

 

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Plan for mobile phone mast on Aberdeen street

Aberdeen Evening Express - Aberdeen,Scotland, UK

By Sally Hind

Plans for a 49ft (15m) mobile phone mast have been lodged with Aberdeen City Council by Vodafone. The plan for Ferryhill's Polmuir Road came ...

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/1387226>

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Phone masts on debate's agenda

expressandstar.com - Wolverhampton, England, UK

People are being urged to go along and give their views to allow the council to produce a policy for phone mast applications in the borough. ...

http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/09/09/phone-masts-on-debates-agenda/

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Plan for second mast on street is uprooted by tree

Stoke & Staffordshire

FAMILIES are close to winning the fight against plans to build a second mobile phone mast in their street. Residents in Gallowstree Lane, Thistleberry, ...

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Plan-second-mast-street-uprooted-tree/article-1321878-detail/article.html

U.S. Dollar Falls Sharply Across The Board

The U.S. dollar fell sharply against most of its major rivals on Tuesday, as commodity prices and global equities posted gains.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/dollar-falls-sharply-board/

 

UN Says New Currency Is Needed to Fix Broken 'Confidence Game'

The dollar's role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the "confidence game" of financial speculation, the United Nations said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aSp9VoPeHquI

 

Top Chinese official signals move away from dollar

The Chinese are becoming increasingly wary of the growing supply of U.S. dollars, leading the head of the nation's green energy initiatives to signal a move away from dollar reserves and toward, gold, euros and yen, according to a published report.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/07/china-objects-to-dollars-growing-liquidity/

 

4 Signs that China is Moving Out of the Dollar

The U.S. Treasury Department revealed that China actually REDUCED its note and bond holdings by $25 billion in June. Although China did NOT sell shorter-term Treasury bills - and isn't expected to - it's still the largest amount of Treasuries China has ever sold in a single month.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/3-signs-that-china-is-moving-out-of.html

 

More US wealthy opt to surrender their citizenship

As offshore havens comply with transparency demands, a growing number of ultra-wealthy Americans are handing back their passports.

http://www.wealth-bulletin.com/rich-life/rich-monitor/content/1054959505/

 

Fed: Consumers Slash Debt by Record $21.6B in July

The Federal Reserve reported Tuesday that consumers ratcheted back their credit by a larger-than-anticipated $21.6 billion from June, the most on records dating to 1943.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/08/fed-consumers-slash-debt-record-b-july/

 

Van Jones decries 'lies and distortions,' quits as Obama's environmental advisor

Jones says he has become a distraction to the administration's healthcare agenda because of his videotaped insult of Republicans and his signature on a petition suggesting a 9/11 conspiracy.

http://snipurl.com/rodkf


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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/08

Help for Obama's Speech to Congress
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/08-11

Glenn Beck, Obama's White House, and the Progressive Movement
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/08-6

Free Press Calls on Obama Administration to Resist Extremism in the Media
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/08-10

ACLU: Supreme Court Urged To Deny Appeal On Torture Photo Case
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/08-2

Healthcare vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/08-1

 

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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations - Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now Barack Obama's - drew the US 'defense' perimeter at the Hindu Kush; that is, in the rugged, mountainous lands of Afghanistan. Put another way, while Americans argue feverishly and angrily over what kind of money, if any, to put into health care, or decaying infrastructure, or other key places of need, until recently just about no one in the mainstream raised a peep about the fact that, for nearly eight years (not to say much of the last three decades), we've been pouring billions of dollars, American military know-how, and American lives into a black hole in Afghanistan that is, at least in significant part, of our own creation."

http://www.truthout.org/090809U?n

 

Men With Guns in Kabul and Washington

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "For those who believe in making war, Kabul is a notable work product. After 30 years, the results are in: a devastated city. A stale witticism calls Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai 'the mayor of Kabul.' Now, not even. On block after block in the Afghan capital, AK-47s are conspicuous in the hands of men on guard against a near future. Widely seen as corrupt, inept and - with massive election fraud - now illegitimate, Karzai's government is losing its grip along with its credibility."

http://www.truthout.org/090809W?n

 

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Am Hindukusch steuert die NATO auf die größte militärische Pleite seit ihrer Gründung zu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144968

 

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Bundesregierung legt auf Drängen der Linksfraktion Zahlen über Engagement der Naumann-Stiftung in Honduras offen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144970

 

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Börsenkurse von Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual und Indymac schießen in die Höhe.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144997

 

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Die US-Börsenaufsicht erhielt umfangreiche Hinweise auf Betrügereien und hat fünf ergebnislose Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Die einzige Folge war, dass Madoff seine angebliche Seriosität mit dem Verweis auf die SEC-Untersuchungen zusätzlich unterstreichen konnte.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31080/1.html

 

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Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: "As millions of students prepare for the start of another school year, we focus on an issue that concerns many parents: the increasing presence of military recruiters in the nation's high schools and the military's ability to gather information about students. We speak with journalist David Goodman about his Mother Jones article 'A Few Good Kids?' and with the New York Civil Liberties Union's Ari Rosmarin, who works on the organization's Project on Military Recruitment and Students' Rights."

http://www.truthout.org/090809E?n

 

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Tom H. Hastings, Truthout: "Jumbo shrimp. Buy and save. Jobless recovery. Americans are on full oxymoron alert these days, as we read and hear about this 'jobless recovery.' Recovery for whom? The unemployment rate is high and growing higher, nearing an official 10 percent - an estimate which is always lower than the reality of impoverished, underemployed and 'discouraged workers' who have stopped bothering to officially register. Since this recession began, 7 million Americans have lost their jobs. Why aren't 7 million of us 'too big enough to fail'?"

http://www.truthout.org/090809B?n

 

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http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13451

Defend America's Arctic and all of its precious wildlife
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/arcticmms

 

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„Bei einem von der Bundeswehr angeordneten Luftangriff der NATO-Truppe ISAF auf von Taliban entführte Tanklastwagen sind am 4. Sept. in Nordafghanistan viele Menschen getötet worden. "Mehr als 150 Menschen wurden getötet oder verletzt", sagte ein Dorfbewohner namens Nadschibullah der Deutschen Presse-Agentur dpa. "In der Gegend waren auch Taliban, aber mehr Opfer gibt es unter Zivilisten." Auf die Frage in der Bundespressekonferenz, ob die Bundeswehr an ihrem Sprachgebrauch festhalten wolle, wonach in Afghanistan kein Krieg herrsche, sagte ein Ministeriumssprecher: "Es handelt sich um einen Stabilisierungseinsatz, zugegeben um einen recht robusten Stabilisierungseinsatz, der Kampfhandlungen miteinschließt." Mehr über den bisher größten Luftangriff im "deutschen" Gebiet lesen Sie in unserer tagesaktuellen Afghanistan-Chronik�“ Dossier beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Afghanistan/kriegschronik/09-09.html

Siehe dazu:

Nach dem Massaker in Afghanistan: Verteidigungsminister Jung muss zurücktreten. Die Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan abziehen! Aktionstag der Friedensbewegung am Mittwoch, 9. September 2009

Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 7. September
2009 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/afgh/09-09-baf.html

 

Aus: LabourNet, 8. September 2009

 

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I have just received this:

Monday, September 7th, several residents of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, accompanied by elected persons from the "Greens" have prevented the installation of an antenna. Forced to reverse, the truck-crane, in charge of installing the antenna on the roof of a building on behalf of Orange, was denied access by a human barricade.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaermf_paris-18eme-blocage-antenne-orange_news


Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden

&

Professor The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm Sweden)

German health expert says there’s yet another potential health risk to the already hazardous swine flu vaccine.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/08/Another-Shocking-Warning-About-Swine-Flu-Vaccine.aspx

 

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A US missile hit a house and a religious school in Pakistan's "lawless" tribal belt on the Afghan border Monday killing at least four people and wounding six others, security officials said.

http://snipurl.com/rnrjz

 

Pakistan: US Ambassador Forces Newspaper To Censor US Critic

United States Ambassador Anne W. Patterson intervened with one of the largest newspaper groups in Pakistan to force it to block today a decade-old weekly column by a prominent academic and critic of US policies.

http://www.daily.pk/news-break-anne-patterson-blocks-shireen-mazari-10053/


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A district governor in northern Afghanistan said Monday that more than 130 people were killed in a NATO airstrike last week that struck two Taliban-hijacked fuel trucks.

http://snipurl.com/rnrgs

 

Afghan Rights Group Says Mostly Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike:

An independent Afghan rights group says most of those killed last week in a controversial NATO airstrike on two hijacked fuel trucks were "non-combatants." The deadly attack is now the subject of a NATO investigation.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-07-voa24.cfm


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- and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

By Matt Taibbi

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23445.htm

 

Unhappy Labor Day

By Matthew Rothschild

It's Labor Day and the American worker doesn't have a lot to celebrate. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent-that's 15 million people out of work, officially, and millions more unofficially.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23444.htm

 

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- and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

By Matt Taibbi

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23445.htm

 

Unhappy Labor Day

By Matthew Rothschild

It's Labor Day and the American worker doesn't have a lot to celebrate. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent-that's 15 million people out of work, officially, and millions more unofficially.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23444.htm

 

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By Brad Friedman

We'll look at the answers given by Edmonds during her deposition in regard to bribery and blackmail of current and former members of the U.S. Congress, including Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased) and an unnamed, currently-serving, married Democratic Congresswoman said to have been video-taped in a Lesbian affair by Turkish agents for blackmail purposes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23442.htm

 

Words Matter

By Ralph Nader

Ever wonder what's happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don't wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23446.htm

 

Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows

By Thom Shanker

The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion the year before.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23443.htm

 

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Simon Johnson: We're Setting Ourselves Up For A Big Catastrophe, 'Crisis Is Just Beginning'

VIDEO

Simon Johnson, the MIT professor and economist who's long been a strident critic of "too big to fail" institutions, appeared on CNBC this morning and predicted that the next phase of the financial crisis could be precipitated by banks exploiting emerging markets like China

http://snipurl.com/u1qe2



US loses 85,000 jobs in December

The US economy lost 85,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday, the same day new major layoffs were announced by UPS and Lockheed Martin.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/jobs-j09.shtml



US 'in danger of recession relapse'

The economists say there is a 25 to 40 per cent chance of a 2010 crisis, a phenomena they call a "double dip recession".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/20101113446788772.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Stephen Grey

The decision to block publication of the critical academic paper in the army's in-house journal coincides with a scathing attack by a senior US military officer on the "arrogance" of UK tactics in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23438.htm

 

Myth v. Fact: Afghanistan

By Malou Innocent

The Taliban, the Haqqani network, and other guerilla-jihadi movements indigenous to this region have no shadowy global mission. In fact, what we are witnessing is a local and regional ethnic Pasthun population -- divided arbitrarily by a porous 1,500-mile border -- fighting against what they perceive to be a hostile occupation of their region.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23441.htm

 

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