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Perthshire Advertiser - Perth, UK

Just three months after the development control committee knocked back mobile phone giant Vodafone's plans to erect a 12m mast opposite the junction of ...

http://www.perthshireadvertiser.co.uk/perthshire-news/local-news-perthshire/2009/09/11/phone-firm-tries-again-for-new-mast-73103-24658608/

Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: The early impact of the worst recession since the 1930s pushed median incomes down, forced millions more people into poverty and left more Americans without health care in 2008, according to new annual survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.truthout.org/091109C?n

 

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Ameisenbär lebt im Cerrado

Der Ölmulti BP will 4 Milliarden Euro in Brasilien investieren, um aus Zuckerrohr Ethanol zu produzieren. Die erste Ethanolfabrik wurde bereits im vergangenen Jahr in Betrieb genommen, eine zweite befindet sich in Planung. Mit Ethanol lässt sich zurzeit viel Geld verdienen. Es wird Autokraftstoffen beigemischt, um als vermeintlicher „Bio-Sprit“ die Klimabilanz zu schönen. Die dafür benötigten riesigen Zuckerrohrmonokulturen zerstören in Brasilien die Savannen des Cerrado und bedroht die Regenwälder.

Start: 11.09.2009
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Mit großer Bestürzung haben wir erfahren, dass am Mittwoch in Japans Fischerort Taiji die ersten Delfine der diesjährigen Saison gefangen wurden: 100 Große Tümmler und 50 Grindwale wurden in eine Bucht getrieben. Der Fischerort Taiji ist für das grausamste Delfinmassaker der Welt bekannt: Jährlich werden dort etwa 2.000 Delfine in eine Bucht getrieben und mit Speeren und Messern qualvoll getötet. Ihr Fleisch wird in Japans Supermärkten verkauft.

Seitdem der aufrüttelnde Film "The Cove - die Bucht" (läuft ab 22.10. in deutschen Kinos) in einigen Ländern bereits für Aufsehen gesorgt hat, sehen sich Japans Politiker und Fischer jedoch scharfer Kritik ausgesetzt. Deshalb haben wir jetzt bessere Chancen denn je, die grausame Delfinjagd in Japan zu stoppen - wenn Sie mithelfen!

1) Protestieren Sie online unter www.prowildlife.de/Protestaktion bei dem japanischen Fischereiminister!

2) Leiten Sie dieses Email an fünf Freunde und Bekannte weiter, damit die Protestwelle weiter anwächst!

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11. September 2009

Parteivorstand und Bundestagsfraktion der LINKEN rufen gemeinsam mit Bürgerrechtlerinnen und Bürgerrechtlern und zahlreichen Organisationen bundesweit zur Teilnahme am internationalen Aktionstag gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Wirtschaft und Staat auf. Dazu erklärt Jan Korte, MdB und Mitglied des Parteivorstandes:

Die Bundestagswahl wird in besonderem Maße auch eine Abstimmung über den weiteren Gehalt unserer Demokratie. Entweder weiterer Grundrechteabbau á la Schäuble oder eine Trendwende hin zu tatsächlichem Datenschutz, einer Stärkung der Bürgerrechte und gegen den drohenden präventiven Sicherheitsstaat. Am Samstag, den 12. September 2009 werden Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Berlin unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst - Stoppt den Überwachungswahn!" auf die Straße gehen. Treffpunkte sind der Neptunbrunnen vor dem Roten Rathaus um 13.00 Uhr und der Potsdamer Platz um 15.00 Uhr, wo die Großdemonstration starten wird. Die ständig neuen Datenschutzskandale in der Privatwirtschaft dürfen nicht vergessen lassen, dass der größte Datenkrake im Land der Staat ist. Mit seiner law-and-order-Politik greift er seit Jahren immer tiefer in die Privatsphäre der Bürger ein und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht. Persönlichkeitsrechte, Datenschutz, Unschuldsvermutung, Intimsphäre, politische Freiheiten – all das soll dem Kontrollwahn weichen. In den letzten Jahren jagte eine Gesetzesverschärfung die nächste. Wer noch etwas auf Grundrechte gibt, wird mit dem Vorwurf überzogen, mit Schwerverbrechern zu sympathisieren. Dieser Entwicklung muss endlich Einhalt geboten werden. DIE LINKE will, dass die Bürgerinnen und Bürger die Kontrolle über ihre Daten zurück erlangen. Wir wollen Freiheitsrechte nicht auf dem Altar des Überwachungsstaates opfern, sondern verteidigen sie – im Parlament und auf der Straße. Deswegen unterstützen wir seit dem Jahr 2007 die Demonstrationen "Freiheit statt Angst".

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CounterPunch
by Brian Downing

09/10/09

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have ensnarled the military in long conflicts that have cost the lives of thousands of young Americans and inched the country toward fiscal calamity. In so doing, they have also weakened American security. Stirring exaltations and pithy quotes can do nothing to alter that...

http://counterpunch.org/downing09102009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff

09/11/09

A number of major events in the past few years reinforce the notion that the U.S. is on a path of failure, not success. ‘Major’ means an event that involves near a trillion dollars or into the multi-trillions. A key variable in the success or failure of a nation and government like ours is the production of wealth. We the People produce this wealth. When our government selects strategies that impair the production of wealth and that destroy wealth, it causes failure. Let’s look at six major government strategies that are causing major failure. There are many more. In each case, there is a pattern of persistence. The government failures do not deter it from continuing the failed strategy. The government enlarges them. The end result of such behavior is the ruination of the country...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff311.html

 

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Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

09/10/09

Most people learn about the relation between the rise of big business and the growth of government in the form of what amounts to a morality play. In the most widely disseminated version, presented in nearly every American history textbook, the emergence of big business (playing the role of the devil) is said to have given rise to a variety of evils and abuses–monopoly power, pollution, exploitation of workers, and so forth. Matthew Josephson tells this story in rousing (if not scrupulously factual) style in his 1934 classic, The Robber Barons. The masses are said to have cried out for relief and to have pressed their political representatives to enact protective legislation. Thus emerged, most markedly during the Progressive, New Deal, and Great Society periods, a profusion of government programs, regulatory agencies, and direct government participation in economic life (divine intervention, as it were), which served to shield the public from the otherwise crushing weight of brutal laissez-faire capitalism. A competing tale, popular among many libertarians and some left-radicals, presents the rise of big business as leading directly to satanic endeavors. This version maintains that the big businessmen, however virtuous they might have been at the outset, ran into trouble because of rampant competition among the emergent big firms. To suppress this irksome, profit-sapping market phenomenon, they used their wealth diabolically to influence or bribe lawmakers to create government programs, regulatory agencies, and so forth that, in effect, allowed them to wield the government’s coercive power in the service of propping up their cartels, suppressing competition, and maintaining excessive profits...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2600


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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09/10/09

A year after Capt. Sam Brown was set ablaze when a bomb blew up his Humvee in Afghanistan, the 25-year-old West Point graduate endures a steady schedule of painful surgery and stretching to break up knotty burn scars. He also has another routine: checking a Web site that counts U.S. and coalition troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. For Brown, it’s one more regular reminder that the wars have not ended — something he says many Americans seem to have forgotten...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32782397/ns/us_news-military/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Failing to Curb Global Warming Could Cost the Nation Hundreds of Billions by the End of the Century, New Report Finds

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/10-9

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/10-6

Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/10-5

When We Allow Fear to Overcome Reason
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/10-6


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By Samantha Chetwynd

Published: 11/09/2009

Controversial plans to build a mobile phone mast close to an Inverness primary school have been rejected by a Scottish Government reporter.

Vodafone wanted to build a 40ft mast at the St Ninian Drive and St John’s Avenue junction, next to Dalneigh Primary School.

The proposal was unanimously rejected by the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey planning committee in February, against the advice of council officers who had advised them that refusal on health grounds was “not a material planning consideration” and that citing visual impact would also be irrelevant.

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Seema Jilani, M.D., McClatchy Newspapers: "Seven months after his release from Guantanamo Bay, Mustafa Ait Idr cautiously sips coffee in a Sarajevo cafe. His face is still partially paralyzed and numb from when guards pinned him onto gravel and jumped on him. He is nursing a broken finger — punishment for refusing to strip naked in his cell. On another occasion, his head was held in a toilet for prolonged periods of time."

http://www.truthout.org/091009U?n

 

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The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Wednesday he is collecting information on possible war crimes by NATO forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/international-criminal-co_0_n_281385.html

 

Censorship American Style: Hide the US War Dead from the American People

The latest example of the hypocrisy of US authorities who claim to be concerned about the feelings of American military families, while really simply desiring to censor the war's horrors from the eyes of the American people.

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/380


From Information Clearing House

 

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Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech

By David Sirota

Not to be too much of a downer, but I found Obama's speech tonight a big O-bummer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23461.htm

 

Obama Tries On The Uniform

By David Michael Green

Tens of thousands of his campaign staff, volunteers and contributors had to resort to buying a full-page New York Times ad to let the guy know that they'll find somebody else, thank you very much, in the 2012 primaries if this clown continues to serve Wall Street while ignoring every other street in America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23459.htm

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Whose Economic Recovery?

Has The US Economy Really Been Pulled Back From The Brink?

By Danny Schechter

Look around Mr. Obama: the unemployment rate in real terms is over 16%. The consumer economy is shattered. The commercial real estate market is imploding, and, yes, more foreclosures are on the way according to the Washington Post:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23462.htm

 

If You Think Corporations Run The Government Now...

By Chris Bowers

Then just wait and see what happens after, as expected, the Supreme Court allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of their favored candidates:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23463.htm

 

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Eight years later there is more terrorism in the world and we are paying the price in Afghanistan

By Haroon Siddiqui

"If you wanted to be extreme, you'd say that the international community have shown, from the point of view of exaggerated fears, a kind of paranoia. And from the point of exaggerated response, a kind of megalomania."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23458.htm

 

Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: 9/11 and Beyond

By Alan Sabrosky.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23460.htm



UnPACking AIPAC's White House Slam

By Marsha B. Cohen
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25018.htm



US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent

By IRMEP

Espionage related FBI investigations in 1984 and 2005 reveal AIPAC's ongoing stealth foreign agency activities. Declassified FBI files released on the Internet last week reveal that in 1984 AIPAC and the Israeli Ministry of Economics were investigated for jointly obtaining and circulating classified US economic data to obtain favorable trade benefits for Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25019.htm

 

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Mit einem YouTube-Video will eine unzufriedene Bankkundin das US-Finanzsystem in die Knie zwingen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/145113

 

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Anmerkungen zu einer Regierungserklärung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31112/1.html

 

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Questioning World Bank Palm Oil Funding and Forest Carbon Finance in Indonesia

By Rainforest Rescue, http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/ with Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal, http://www.rainforestportal.org/ September 11, 2009

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

Ombudsman report on 20 years of corrupt IFC, World Bank Group lending to the Indonesian oil palm industry casts doubt on Bank's fitness to manage international forest carbon funds that may emerge at Copenhagen climate talks. It is time for the World Bank to end finance of oil palm, sustainable forest management, paper pulp and other industrial rainforest developments known to be the root causes of deforestation, degradation and climate change. The Bank must permanently end financial support for these industrial developments impacting primary rainforests, or it is the wrong entity to administer forest carbon monies.

NOTE: This alert is part of EI's campaign to protect and restore old forests globally. After sending this protest you are forwarded to several other related crucial and ongoing alerts, which we ask you to please send as well.

MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=world_bank_indo_forests

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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Does anyone even remember the first eight months of the George W. Bush administration? It was an unmitigated train wreck. One of the last nails in our current economic coffin got hammered in when he gave away the Clinton surplus to his one-percenter buddies with a massive tax cut we couldn't afford and they didn't need. Chinese fighters swatted some of our airmen out of the sky, and George made sure they had Bibles."


http://www.truthout.org/091009R?n

 

How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com: "Eight years ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. The al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers did not defeat New Yorkers. It destroyed the buildings, contaminated the region, killed thousands, and disrupted the global economy, but it most assuredly did not conquer the citizenry. They were only defeated when their resilience was stolen from them by clichés, by the invisibility of what they accomplished that extraordinary morning, and by the very word 'terrorism,' which suggests that they, or we, were all terrified. The distortion, even obliteration, of what actually happened was a necessary precursor to launching the obscene response that culminated in a war on Iraq, a war we lost (even if some of us don't know that yet), and the loss of civil liberties and democratic principles that went with it."

http://www.truthout.org/091009T?n

 

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Sep 10 2009

by Nick Moreton, Crosby Herald

A ROW has erupted over plans to lift a controversial ban on mobile phone masts being put up on Sefton Council property.

A moratorium currently exists which prohibits the authority from erecting mobile phone masts on its land and buildings.

The moratorium was rushed through in 2000 in response to people’s fears about the effect of the masts.

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Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq in order to bolster the forces in Afghanistan in order to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda. 'It's time to refocus our attention on the war we have to win in Afghanistan.' This approach was taken in order to placate the anti-Iraq war contingent of the American electorate on the left while not leaving candidate Obama vulnerable to the 'soft on defense' hawkish argument from the right. As a campaign tactic, this proved to be successful. As American foreign policy, this is proving to be one of the greatest miscalculations President Obama has made."

http://www.truthout.org/091009D?n

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Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/29-7

 

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The Center for Public Integrity: "For months, a cloud has swirled around Congressman John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and the relationship that Murtha and other subcommittee members had with the PMA Group, a lobbying firm filled with former subcommittee aides. Murtha and fellow panel members Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.) steered a host of earmarks to PMA clients, and those clients and PMA staffers gave campaign contributions to the lawmakers. Aspects of those relationships are the subject of a Justice Department probe, which is thought to be looking at whether there were explicit quid pro quo exchanges of favors for cash, which would make crimes out of relationships that are otherwise legal."

http://www.truthout.org/091009C?n

By Stephanie Bertholdo

The debate over whether radio frequency emissions from cell towers are safe enough for school sites continues to rage.

Varous scientific studies about radio frequency emissions were discussed at the Las Virgenes school board’s Aug. 18 meeting amid concerns that the placement of cell towers on campus poses a health risk to children.

The school district has contracted with OmniPoint Communications, the parent company of TMobile Wireless, to build an unmanned wireless telecommunications facility on the campus of Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills.

Agoura High School already has four cell antenna installations, and Calabasas High has two. Another is planned for A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas.

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AlterNet
by David Swanson

09/09/09

Nixon never kept as much of our government secret as Bush-Cheney did, and when push came to shove, he gave up some of his secrets and left town. Nixon’s former legal counsel John Dean agrees that the Cheney-Bush gang far surpassed Nixonian levels of secrecy and abuse of power. Not to mention lawyerly deviousness. Cheney claimed privileges supposedly belonging to the executive branch when it suited him. For example, he refused to comply with subpoenas because ‘the president and the vice president are constitutional officers and don’t appear before the Congress.’ At other times, Cheney claimed to be part of Congress in order to avoid complying with rules governing the executive branch. Hence the conclusion that if Cheney belonged to any branch it had to be the hitherto unheard of Dick Cheney Branch, which perhaps existed in Cheney’s well-known ‘undisclosed location...

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Truth Dig

by William Pfaff

09/08/09

The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money. The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that money, and the source of the money is the United States government, which directs it to them as a result of the contracts awarded to them by the House and Senate members whose election they support. The process is circular. It would be cheaper for all concerned if business were directly to pay senators and representatives and eliminate the middlemen, the parasites who live on the surplus money in this system, paid for their ability to persuade both sellers and buyers (so to speak) that they are providing a service by facilitating the bargain. Elections now cannot take place without them...


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Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): Role of Disabilities Ignored for Tens of Millions Experiencing Income Poverty

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/09/09-6

 

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Bill Moyers Journal: "With a landmark speech on health reform behind him and tensions rising in war-torn Afghanistan, Bill Moyers Journal looks at President Obama's next big fights. Global health specialist and incoming president of Dartmouth College Dr. Jim Yong Kim shares his expertise in public health. And, the Journal takes a hard look at the state of affairs in ever-divided Afghanistan with McClatchy DC Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef."

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John Mottern, Truthout: "The diversity of Camp Runamuck illustrates the impact current economic times are having on those living to close to the edge in America. Young and old, blue collar workers and professionals - all are appearing in greater numbers in these tent cities after losing jobs and homes. 'Homeless' no longer refers to mostly alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill. It now includes many whose options have just plain run out."

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Who's the number one weapons broker in the world, again? Take a guess
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

 

Fate of Democracy Now in Supreme Court's Hands

If the court rules to free corporations to make unlimited campaign expenditures from their treasuries, the election playing field will be tilted massively against candidates advancing the public interest.

http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2959

 

Senate must raise debt ceiling above $12 Trillion

Obama is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling, something lawmakers are almost certain to do despite misgivings about the federal debt. The ceiling already has been hiked three times in the past two years, and the House took action earlier this year to raise the ceiling to $13 trillion.

http://snipurl.com/rpq0p

 

Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains

Two-thirds of the nation's total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928,

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2908

 

Treasury Sees Millions More Foreclosures

Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration's housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8525289

 

Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms

The housing market faces the prospect of a new round of foreclosures as hundreds of thousands of risky home loans known as option adjustable-rate mortgages reset to significantly higher payments that could force borrowers to fall behind, according to a report released Tuesday by Fitch Ratings.

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Job openings down 50% from the peak in 2007

6 unemployed people for every available position
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Another financial crisis inevitable: Greenspan

Another global financial crisis is inevitable because human nature always reverts to "speculative excesses" during a period of sustained prosperity, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23452.htm

 

Greenspan and Buffett issue recovery warning - papers

Two of America's most noted financial commentators have argued the recovery of the US economy is not a given, despite the recent uptick in sentiment.

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More contractors, fewer troops: The Pentagon's "quarterly report on contracting showed a 19 percent increase from the three previous months in the number of security guards in Iraq hired by the Defense Department.

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Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart

The first people you encounter when driving up to an American base are not actually American. They are usually Ugandans, employed by a private security company, Triple Canopy, and those at Balad had enough authority to delay for five hours an American Air Force captain escorting an American reporter onto the base.

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Senior Pakistani sources have accused Britain of failing to do enough to tackle home-grown terrorists and maintain they are falsely being blamed for harbouring extremists plotting to attack the UK.

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A 9/11 Reality Check

By Robert Scheer

In blind and wrathful retaliation for 9/11 we wreaked havoc on Iraq, a nation that our then-president knew had not attacked us, and we continue to slaughter peasants in Afghanistan who aren't able to find Manhattan on a map.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23456.htm

 

Europe's Complicity in Evil

By Paul Craig Roberts

Europe must look beyond the empty American political rhetoric about "freedom and democracy" and recognize the emerging Brownshirt American State. Democracy is slipping away from America. Its place is being taken by an oligarchy of powerful interest groups, such as the financial sector, the military/security complex about which President Eisenhower warned, and AIPAC.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23454.htm

 

Report: Blackwater Guard Saw Iraqi Killings as 9/11 Revenge

By Stephen C. Webster

Guards "routinely acted in disregard of the use of force policies," and one, known as "Raven 23," allegedly bragged that disregard for Iraqi lives stemmed from a desire for revenge after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Nach dem tödlichen Bombenangriff in Nordafghanistan beschäftigt der Feldzug Parlament und Justiz in Deutschland.

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AntiWar.Com

by Philip Giraldi

09/10/09

If Obama gives McChrystal his soldiers he will be heading down the road to disaster. When reliably conservative columnist George Will calls for leaving Afghanistan, the writing is surely on the wall. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Michael Mullen has conceded that the United States has effectively wasted more than seven years in Afghanistan and now has to start over, an assessment that is actually optimistic in that it presumes that there is a way to achieve success, whatever that means. Obama can read the tea leaves as well as anyone. Will he do an LBJ and, in the cowardly fashion of a politician placing party above country, support a war that he knows is lost or will he make the courageous and correct choice to speak candidly to the American people and admit that Afghanistan has been a failed US policy and that it is time to walk away? Or will he adopt a third way that is neither fish nor fowl, going with the status quo and supporting current troop levels and funding, even though he knows to do so is futile, in the hope that he will not be labeled as the president who ‘lost’ Afghanistan?


http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/09/obamas-turning-point/

 

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To escalate the escalation?

Independent Institute

by Ivan Eland

09/09/09

The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama’s ‘war of necessity’ in Afghanistan — seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of times, Washington can be isolated from the rest of the country and world. Now the imperial city — and most of the politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who run it — seems to be reenacting an episode of the incomprehensible television series Lost...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2599


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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Seth Wessler, In These Times: "Last week, CNN reported that Obama's foreclosure prevention plan - the one that was supposed to keep millions of Americans in their homes by giving banks incentives to refinance mortgages - has not worked. In fact, just six percent of eligible households have received assistance. The impact of this failure is catastrophic, as millions of homeowners continue to slide into foreclosure. People of color have been hit hardest by the crisis, facing disproportionate rates of foreclosure as well as higher levels of unemployment. The recession has deepened the racial divide."


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Don't Get Rolled by Corporate Greed
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/09-1

'The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/09-0


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