World-News

While health authorities create plausible deniability by acknowledging millions of deadly health problems will be blamed on the vaccine in the aftermath of mass immunization programs

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Law enforcement and military personnel are training to set up checkpoints in order to catch people who refuse to take the swine flu vaccination according to whistle blowers, while health authorities are laying the groundwork for a mass vaccination campaign by warning that serious and potentially deadly health problems will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/police-and-military-train-to-intern-swine-flu-vaccine-refusniks.html

 

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The latest case accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of personally directing murders from a 24-hour remote monitoring "war room" at the private military company's Moyock, N.C., headquarters.

http://snipurl.com/rxv6b


From Information Clearing House

 

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is privately requesting between 30,000 and 40,000 more troops, a request that has produced "sticker shock" and "huge resistance" among key lawmakers, sources told FOX News.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551120,00.html


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By Mike Whitney

The question is, how long can the Obama administration write checks on an account that's overdrawn by $11 trillion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23524.htm

 

It's A Cover Up, Not A Recovery

"We Are In The Early Stages Of A Revolution"

Video

Gerald Celente - the most trusted name in trends - sits down for an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina to talk about what the future holds for America during and after the Great Recession, gives advice to Obama, and forecasts the unexpected.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23525.htm

 

Who Really Crashed the Economy?:

The Wall Street corporations funding the front organizations that orchestrate these and other diversions hope we will forget that America's number one problem is Wall Street-and the overpaid Wall Street casino gamblers who destroyed our economy in a reckless test of the theory that markets can self-regulate and that the unrestrained pursuit of individual greed is beneficial to society.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/david-korten/blog-who-really-crashed-the-economy

 

Mixing the whitewash

US Panel Begins Inquiry Into Financial Meltdown

Four months after its creation, a congressionally appointed panel modeled after the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group is opening a 15-month investigation into the causes of last year's economy-crippling financial collapse.

http://www.wftv.com/money/20959051/detail.html


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Commando Raid in Somalia is Latest in Covert Operations

By Bill Roggio

The attack in southern Somalia that targeted and killed a senior "al Qaeda leader" wanted for several deadly attacks is the latest in a series of covert operations carried out by US and allied special operations. At least four other high-profile raids by ground forces took place in Pakistan, Madagascar, and Syria over the past several years, while others have gone unreported, according to US officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23521.htm

 

US Attack In Pakistan Kills 2

If their deaths are confirmed, Ilyas Kashmiri and Nazimuddin, alias Yahyo, would be two of several militant leaders killed in Pakistan by missiles fired by unmanned US drones.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/17/pakistan-alqaeda-commander-killed-us-strike.html

 

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By John Pilger

By refusing to bring the troops home, Brown is likely to provoke an atrocity by young British Muslims who view the war as a western crusade; the recent Old Bailey trail made that clear. He has been told as much by British intelligence and security services. Brown's own security adviser has said as much publicly. As with Tony Blair and the bombs of 7 July 2005, he will bear ultimate responsibility for bringing violence and grief to his own people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23523.htm

 

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By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive

The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23520.htm

 

Israel 'will attack Iran this year' if West does not cripple Tehran with sanctions

Ephraim Sneh, Israel's deputy defence minister until 2007, said a nuclear-armed Iran was an unacceptable threat to Israel. No Israeli government could put its faith in President Barack Obama's efforts to bring Tehran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, he said.

http://snipurl.com/rxvai

 

Report: Barak says Iran is not existential threat to Israel

Defense Minister Ehud Barak was quoted on Thursday as saying he does not view Iran as a threat to Israel's existence, a view that would seem to depart from Israeli statements of the recent past.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115282.html



Why No Dancing in the Streets?

The status of the Iranian alleged program to develop "a nuclear bomb" has not changed since their formal National Intelligence Estimate of 2007. That NIE stated - with "high confidence" - that Iran "halted", in the fall of 2003, whatever program it was alleged to have had, and stated - with "moderate confidence" - that Iran had made no attempt to resurrect it. So, why isn't there mucho dancing in the streets; here and around the world?

http://snipurl.com/rzqle


From Information Clearing House

 

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U.S. Military Buildup in Colombia

The U.S. State Department has just wrapped up a deal with Colombia's President Uribe that will lead to a massive buildup of U.S. military personnel across seven bases in Colombia.

http://www.workerscompass.org/vorpahl_9-16-2009.html


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Nach einer Umfrage gehen 63 Prozent der US-Bürger davon aus, dass die Medien nicht korrekt berichten, um von fair gar nicht zu reden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/145299

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson

09/14/09

There’s a mistaken idea about history that is persisting. The pursuit of this mistaken idea is ruining many things and destroying many millions of lives. This idea has to be put to rest. The idea is that the Roman empire was a pinnacle of culture. It wasn’t. The Romans did not create new technologies, new forms of art, new ideas. They burned libraries, raped Europe, north Africa, and parts of Asia, slaughtered poets and philosophers, stole entire museums of art, enslaved masses, brutalised souls, debased their currency, and paved parts of three continents. The Roman empire’s fall did not herald a new dark age, it heralded the end of a dark age. Yet for many centuries, the idealisation of Rome and the pursuit of a new empire by Russian, French, British, and now American elitists has been part of the pretext for war and slaughter...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle536-20090913-12.html

 

Homeland Security goes insane

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

09/16/09

We now know what the whole point of creating the Department of Homeland Security was all about. It’s about creating the biggest baddest bogus boondoggle in the history of American boondoggleism. A CNN article reports that the people who spend their entire adult lives eating, drinking, breathing, and generally suckling at the great national teat of taxation have broken ground on ‘the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.’ Once completed, the DHS Big Top will take ‘more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region’ (where their diffusion makes them relatively safe from physical attack) and pack them into a single ‘176-acre campus’ (where, as the old joke goes, one hand grenade can git ‘em all.)...
http://tinyurl.com/oncgfl

 

War without end

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

09/17/09

An assessment by France’s highly regarded Paris Institute of Political Studies last week suggested that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has likely been reduced to a core group of eight to ten terrorists who are on the run more often than not. The report from Paris should be regarded as good news, enabling Washington to close the book on the ‘global war on terror’ saga that has damaged the United States more than it has any adversary. Unfortunately, things do not quite work that way and Washington is in fact expanding its anti-terrorism Crusade with a military incursion into Somalia even as it continues to be bogged down in a war that it is losing in Afghanistan. The Afghan war is being fought precisely to eliminate bin Laden even though General Stanley McChrystal indicated last week that there is currently no al-Qaeda presence in the country...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/16/war-without-end-2/

 

Lobbyists still run Washington

Salon
by Andy Kroll

09/17/09

The new White House stood confident in those early months that it could take on ‘K Street’ — a street in the capital notorious for the density of its lobbying firms as well as Washington shorthand for their growing ranks. Tallied up today, however, the administration’s seven-month scorecard tells a different story. Just as sweeping as the administration’s packed domestic agenda has been the sheer force with which the lobbying industry and its clients have fought back, blocking, maligning or undermining its progress. In a Washington version of Newton’s third law, the president’s actions and those of his allies in Congress have elicited an equal and opposite reaction from opponents — inside the Beltway and beyond it. Spending eye-popping sums of money, deploying armies of lobbyists, dispatching grass-roots foot soldiers as agents of disruption, the special interests have fought fiercely to derail the White House reform agenda. It’s now apparent that Obama and his advisors, including Rahm Emanuel, underestimated their strength...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/17/kroll/

 

Why is Obama still using Blackwater?

The Nation
by Jeremy Scahill

09/16/09

Two years ago on September 16, 2007, on a steamy hot Baghdad day with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, a heavily armed Blackwater convoy entered a congested intersection at Nisour Square in the Mansour district of the Iraqi capital. The once-upscale section of Baghdad was still lined with boutiques, cafes and art galleries dating back to better days. The ominous caravan consisted of four large armored vehicles with machine guns mounted on top. As the Blackwater convoy was entering the square that day, a young Iraqi medical student named Ahmed Hathem Al-Rubaie was driving his mother, Mahasin, in the family’s white sedan. As fate would have it, they found themselves stuck near Nisour Square. The family were devout Muslims and were fasting in observance of the holy month of Ramadan...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090928/scahill3

 

The crisis of confidence

Strike the Root
by Michael Kleen

09/16/09

There is a crisis of confidence in America’s political leadership, from the smallest municipality all the way to Washington DC. At bottom, this crisis means that trust between elected representatives and their constituency has almost completely broken down...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/kleen/kleen3.html

 

Obama and the protectionist war against the poor

Foundation for Economic Education
by William Anderson

09/16/09

After President Barack Obama unilaterally slapped a 35 percent tariff on Chinese-made tires imported to the United States, I checked the Usual Sites to see if there were any objections to this latest government assault against lower-income Americans. I flyspecked the New York Times, and while there were editorials and columns condemning Serena Williams’s outburst at the U.S. Open and a call for lawmakers to criminalize ‘texting’ while driving, the was silent about the tariff...

http://tinyurl.com/lyuhwa

 

The continuing push for globalism

Campaign For Liberty
by Chuck Baldwin

09/16/09

When George W. Bush was President, he greatly advanced the prospect of integrating the United States with a North American Union (NAU). With no thanks to most Christian conservatives or the mainstream news media, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans rallied against this proposal and–at least temporarily–seriously stymied Bush’s draconian dream. But if you thought President Barack Obama would be content to let the NAU die a natural death, think again...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=220


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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sueddeutsche.de - München, Bayern, Germany "Die Lampen im normalen Haushalt wirken so, als ob Sie zehn DECT-Basisstationen in der Wohnung stehen haben", sagt Eder, also die Sendeteile von schnurlosen ...

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The News Media Scam

By Ken Bowers

Do you like the idea of being "manipulated," having someone "pull the wires [to] control the public mind?" Or do you think that they can't manipulate us?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23508.htm

 

Good Billions After Bad

By DONALD L. BARLETT and JAMES B. STEELE

As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system-without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23513.htm

 

UK jobless rate hits 13-year high

The number of jobless increased by 210,000 in the three months leading up to July, figures showed on Wednesday, taking the unemployment rate up to 7.9 per cent, Britain's highest since November 1996.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/09/200991613329580530.html

 

U.S. credit card defaults up, signal consumer stress

Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc customers defaulted on their credit card debts in August at the highest rates since the onset of the recession, a sign that the banks' consumer lending woes are far from over.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58E6LH20090915

 

Peter Schiff: Americans must prepare for deepening unemployment, inflation and possible breadlines

Economist Peter Schiff tells RT's Marina Portnaya that Lehman Brothers failure was a success not a failure. He says Americans will face increasing unemployment, inflation, and possible bread-lines if government backed bail-outs continue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhPpzWZDyx0


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By Bill Van Auken

As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, near Afghanistan's eastern border, provide a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its local allies are waging.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23515.htm

 

Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

By Amy Goodman

On Oct. 7, the U.S. enters its ninth year of occupation of Afghanistan-equal to the time the United States was involved in World War I, World War II and the Korean War combined.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23516.htm

 

US 'needs larger Afghanistan force'

The most senior military officer in the United States has said that more American troops will probably be needed to bring security to Afghanistan, during an address in Washington.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/2009915172044125822.html

 

Obama sets Afghan, Pakistan goals, waits on troops

The White House delivered its long-awaited objectives to lawmakers ahead of an expected request by Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, for additional forces to counter a resurgent Taliban insurgency.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58F4EH20090916

 

$75 billion a year: Secretive spending on US intelligence disclosed

Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, disclosing an overall number long shrouded in secrecy.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15278272.htm


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The Press in York - York, North Yorkshire, UK

RESIDENTS in Haxby are celebrating after winning their campaign to stop a phone mast being put up near their homes. People living in Holly Tree Meadows ...

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World Radio Switzerland

The hotly debated issue of mobile phone masts is to be put to the vote in Liechtenstein, where business lobbies have challenged a parliamentary ruling on ...

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H1N1 Mass Vaccinations message from Military
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/9a10f858b1ba29b7?hl=de

The Truth About the Flu Shot
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/8cdf28e476e4cb67?hl=de

Many Health Workers Won't Take Swine Flu Vaccine
Do they know something you don’t?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/17/Many-Health-Workers-Wont-Take-Swine-Flu-Vaccine.aspx

 

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Video

The common perception is that the economy is recovering, but don’t be fooled by the media.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/17/Oversight-on-US-Federal-Reserve-is-a-Disaster.aspx

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Audit the Fed, Then End It
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul579.html

Ground Hog Ben: Fed Declares Depression Over
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rajiva/rajiva28.1.html

Have You Bought Your Copy of End the Fed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul580.html

Anti-Fed Activists Fuel Push for Audit
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/anti-fed-activists.html

Fed-ACORN Criminality
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo177.html

Jim Rogers Says Bank Regulators Should be in Jail for Not Allowing Banks to Fail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j36.1.html

A Concrete Symbol of the Waste of Wealth Caused by Central-Banking Booms
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/dubai-depression.html

 

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ABC News

09/15/09

“The Justice Department has indicated that the Obama administration is in support of renewing a pair of controversial sections of the USA Patriot Act that expire later this year. The provisions that will expire in December include Section 206, that allows ‘roving’ wiretaps so FBI agents can tap multiple phones or computers (with court authorization) that a specific person (target) may use. Another expiring provision, Section 215, is the so-called ‘library provision,’ which allows investigators to obtain business records with approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court...

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Analysis: Iraq troops’ PTSD rate up to 35%

Science News

The Veterans’ Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces will be as high as 35%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®)�. The article, ‘A Dynamic Model for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among U.S. Troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom.’ is by Michael P. Atkinson of the Naval Postgraduate School and Adam Guetz and Lawrence M. Wein of Stanford University.” (09/15/09)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914151629.htm

 

The paranoid center

Reason
by Jesse Walker

for publication 10/09

We’ve heard ample warnings about extremist paranoia in the months since Barack Obama became president, and we’re sure to hear many more throughout his term. But we’ve heard almost nothing about the paranoia of the political center. When mainstream commentators treat a small group of unconnected crimes as a grand, malevolent movement, they unwittingly echo the very conspiracy theories they denounce. Both brands of connect-the-dots fantasy reflect the tellers’ anxieties much more than any order actually emerging in the world. When such a story is directed at those who oppose the politicians in power, it has an additional effect. The list of dangerous forces that need to be marginalized inevitably expands to include peaceful, legitimate critics...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135735.html

 

Interventionism, empire, and the Taliban

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/15/09

The U.S. government’s primary justification for continuing the occupation of Afghanistan is to prevent the Taliban from regaining power and providing a sanctuary for al-Qaeda. Ironically, however, this is another example of the disastrous consequences of imperialism and interventionism, for it was the U.S. invasion itself that created the problem that now serves as the main justification for the indefinite occupation of the country. Interventionists often delude themselves with respect to why the U.S. government attacked both al-Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11. They say that the Taliban had provided a ’sanctuary’ for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-09-15.asp

 

America must end its deadly devotion to democracy

Christian Science Monitor
by Gerard DeGroot

09/15/09

Usama Rehda is a photographer who lives in Baghdad. Crossing his city to ply his trade means running a gantlet of bandits, extortionists, and snipers, not to mention suicide bombers. While he once despised Saddam Hussein, he admits that life was easier under the dictator. ‘You know what they say,’ he remarked to a colleague bitterly. ‘Be nice to the Americans or they’ll punish you with democracy.’ America needs to rid itself of the hopelessly naive attitude that all nations are capable of becoming sustainable democracies.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p09s02-coop.html

 

Wall Street’s “days of reckless behavior” not over

Our Future
by Bernie Horn

09/15/09

I appreciate that the President is making the case for a particular solution — an agency to oversee all risky financial products. But in order to get a handle on the excesses of Wall Street, I believe the public needs to hear and understand a larger point. When the government allows — and even encourages — irresponsible corporate and individual behavior, who is most at fault? The corporations and individuals that took advantage of risky opportunities to make windfall profits or the government that allowed and/or created those opportunities? I think it is the government — in this case the Bush Administration and the Federal Reserve — that is mostly to blame. The exotic financial instruments that ultimately collapsed world markets were the result of a willful refusal to regulate. The housing bubble that brought on the current Great Recession was caused by these instruments, artificially low interest rates, and other factors within government control...

http://tinyurl.com/r7g4qv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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ISIS Report 16/09/09

The swine flu virus had three parents from two continents and appeared suddenly without warning, evading all routine flu surveillance and quarantine; sequence data suggest it may have been created from a faulty vaccine given to pigs in North America Prof. Adrian Gibbs and Dr. Jean Downie

Background

Several papers reporting phylogenetic analyses of the gene sequences of the new pandemic swine-origin H1N1 virus (S- OIV) have been published. All show that S-OIV inherited its genes from parents that came from two well-known groups of swine flus. Flu viruses have 8 different genes and in mixed infections sometimes shuffle those genes to form ‘reassortants’ with new combinations of the 8 genes chosen from those of the parents. Several reports have shown that six of the genes of S-OIV came from a ‘triple-reassortant’ influenza virus (or viruses). These viruses have been common in North American pigs for more than a decade, and have never been found in Europe. The other two genes (NA and MP) came from Eurasian ‘avian-like’ viruses common in Europe for longer, but never found in North America. Both groups of viruses have however been found recently in pigs in SE Asia.

The analyses reveal an unusual feature of the S-OIV genes, which is that none of the genes have been found recently in swine influenzas collected during routine flu surveillance. The NA gene had not been sampled (identified in samples) for
17 years before it reappeared in S-OIV, and the others, including the MP gene, for around 11 years. Thus the NA and MP genes were most likely acquired by S-OIV from Eurasian ‘avian-like’ viruses on separate occasions, and therefore S- OIV probably had at least three parents.

We have done further specific analyses to find out which isolates contain the genes that are closest to those of S- OIV. We find that all are viruses of pigs. The NA gene of S-OIV is closest to that of European ‘avian-like’ H1N1 influenza viruses sampled in 1991/1993, its MP gene closest to that of H3N2 Asian ‘avian-like’ viruses sampled in 1999, and its other six genes are closest to those of North American H1N2 ‘triple-reassortant’ viruses sampled in
1999/2000. Note that the dates those isolates were collected agree with the calculated ‘time-line’ leading to S-OIV; NA 17 years ago, all the others 11 years.

In summary, S-OIV is a reassortant with at least three parents. The parents were sampled over a decade ago, all found in pigs, and in three very distant parts of the world; North America, Europe and SE Asia!!!

The Questions

Where were S-OIV’s genes between the time that they were last sampled and 2008 when they all reappeared in S-OIV? In which virus or viruses, which host, and when and how did they get together? It is important for us to try to answer these questions as it might help us avoid similar pandemics in future.

The Theories

There are two theories regarding the origin of S-OIV, as described below.

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?
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ACLU: Obama Administration Seeks To Deny Bagram Prisoners Access To U.S. Courts
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Three Things About Obama's Health Care Speech
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CREW Releases Fifth Annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress Report
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Robert Borosage, The Campaign For America's Future: "President Obama traveled to Wall Street on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers that triggered the worst financial debacle since the Great Depression. His purpose was to challenge Wall Street's barons, telling them: 'We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess ... where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses.' Those days are over, the president said. It's time for comprehensive legislation. Taxpayers won't cover your bets or your bonuses. And we know once more the threat that financial holdings can pose to the nation."

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Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports: "On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, which are being sued by Iraqi civilians for their alleged role in the torture and abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. The companies provided interrogators at the prison at the height of the abuses there. The suit alleges that employees of the companies conspired with US. Army reservist Charles Graner, who was convicted of prisoner abuse on January 14, 2005 and is currently serving 10 years at Fort Leavenworth, and others to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Several of the plaintiffs are Iraqis whose torture was depicted in graphic photos revealed over the past several years."

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By Tony Romm

"We have reached a seminal moment in our struggle against violent Islamist extremism, and we must commit the 'decisive force' that Gen. [Stanley] McChrystal tells us carries the least risk of failure."

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"You Have to Learn Lessons from History"

By Cindy Sheehan

Somehow, Obama believes, he's going to stain his hands darker with blood, but he's not going to pay any political consequences.

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Why Propaganda Trumps Truth

By Paul Craig Roberts

Democracy is based on the assumption that people are rational beings who factually examine arguments and are not easily manipulated. Studies are not finding this to be the case.

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Der (Pseudo-) Aufschwung ist da

Man nehme: Statistische Tricks, eine fantasievolle Bilanzführung, schuldenfinanzierte Konjunkturprogramme und Billionen zur Generierung einer erneuten Spekulationsblase und schon ist die Weltwirtschaftskrise scheinbar überwunden.

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Volatile Lage, die Politik zaudert

Geändert wurden an den Ursachen der Finanzkrise bislang kaum etwas, Joseph Stiglitz sieht die Lage jetzt sogar schlimmer als 2007.

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Health-Care Reform and the Constitution
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1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear programme.

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IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged

By Gareth Porter

The IAEA has refused to acknowledge publicly significant evidence brought to its attention by Iran that the documents were fabricated, and has made little, if any, effort to test the authenticity of the intelligence documents or to question officials of the governments holding them.

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A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold in declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghanistan.

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US Peace Activists Call for Near-Term Withdrawal of Foreign Troops From Afghanistan

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "The coming weeks hold critical significance for the US occupation of Afghanistan. The Senate is expected to vote on the Obama administration's $128 billion request to fund war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq for the coming fiscal year. Next week, the Obama administration will unveil a report on whether US benchmarks for success in Afghanistan are being achieved. It's widely believed President Obama will receive a military request to escalate the Afghan war with thousands of additional troops. The apparent congressional unease over a troop escalation comes near Friday's eight-year anniversary of the vote authorizing the attack on Afghanistan. We speak to Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy on his recent trip to Afghanistan and CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin."

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Mullen Confirms: More troops Requied for Afghan Escalation
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Eight Years Later: Speak Out Against the War in Afghanistan
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Did Bernanke and Paulson Blackmail Congress?

By Mike Whitney

Lehman Bros. didn't die of natural causes; it was drawn-and-quartered by high-ranking officials at the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Most of the rubbish presently appearing in the media, ignores this glaring fact. Lehman was a planned demolition (most likely) concocted by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, who wanted to create a financial 9-11 to scare Congress into complying with his demands for $700 billion in emergency funding (TARP) for underwater US banking behemoths.

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For All Obama's Talk of Overhaul, the US Has Failed to Wind in Wall Street

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

With a blank cheque from taxpayers and no real reform the perverse incentives for risk-taking are bigger than ever.

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Dems Feel Michael Moore's Wrath

By Alec MacGillis

In building his indictment against the ill-fated marriage of Wall Street and Washington, Moore zeroes in less on Phil Gramm or other GOP string-pullers than he does on White House economic adviser Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Sen. Chris Dodd. Especially Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

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UK: TUC fears risk of riots as jobless total rises:

Public spending cuts could plunge Britain into a double-dip recession, driving unemployment above 4m and threatening to provoke riots on the streets, the country's most senior union leader has said.

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Ron Paul: Federal government 'one giant toxic asset'

The US economy has not really recovered from last year's financial crisis, and the policies of the Federal Reserve, the US's central bank, are ensuring that the suffering will continue much longer than necessary, US House Rep. Ron Paul.

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Bernanke: US recession "very likely" over

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the worst US recession in seven decades has 'very likely' come to an end, but warned the country's economy will remain weak for some time.

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US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession

Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.

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How Sacramento Treats The Homeless

The City of Sacramento has sent a cruel message to the world: They would rather criminalize their community's homeless than sanction a designated area where they can safely and peacefully live.

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