World-News

The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this morning.

http://snipurl.com/tf0la



Bank 'problem' list climbs to 552

Number at risk of failing soars in latest quarter. Deposit insurance fund slips into the red for first time since 1992.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/news/companies/fdic_list/index.htm



FDIC insurance fund closes quarter $8.2 billion in debt

As the number of problem U.S. banks swells to the hundreds, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is increasingly hard-pressed to fill in the gaps where institutions have put depositor's funds at risk.

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fdic-insurance-fund-closes-quarter-82-billion-debt/


From Information Clearing House



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The clear message of the 125-page majority appellate panel opinion is that attorneys who zealously represent their clients in the post-9/11 era beware.

http://marjoriecohn.com/2009/11/lynne-stewart-casualty-of-war-on-terror.html



US Responsible For 9/11

By Howard Zinn

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24142.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Robert Scheer

Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown? Or for the many other acts of double-dealing that left one out of three American homeowners owing much more than their houses were worth while the folks who swindled them were rewarded with hundreds of billions in public money?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24065.htm



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- France : Antennes Relais Danger Grande Manifestation à Nantes samedi 28 novembre
http://www.next-up.org/France/Pays_De_La_Loire.php#1

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Mother Jones
by David Corn

11/24/09

Whatever happened to the so-called ‘black sites,’ where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that included torture? On April 9, CIA chief Leon Panetta issued a statement notifying CIA employees that the agency ‘no longer operates detention facilities or black sites’ — which were effectively shut down in the fall of 2006 — ‘and has proposed a plan to decommission the remaining sites.’ In the months since then, lawyers for several terrorism suspects have been trying to determine the status of these sites, as they seek evidence for their cases. But the US government has refused to disclose anything about what it has done with these facilities...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/25/09

All in all, we face a depressing prospect: the Left brain-dead with Obama idolatry, the Right neoconized beyond redemption — and no one left to oppose a futile, draining, and horrifically destructive conflict, a war we cannot afford and which directly contravenes our real interests as a nation. No one, that is, except a clear majority of the American people, who, according to polls, think the battle for Afghanistan is not worth it. Here is a clear instance in which ordinary, everyday Americans are radically out of sync with partisan activists of both the Right and the Left - thus creating a huge opening for libertarians, particularly the campus arm of the movement...

http://tinyurl.com/yd4xexs



Limits of US power in Afghanistan

Hawaii Reporter
by Doug Bandow

11/24/09

U.S. President Barack Obama continues to consider a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Instead, the president should rethink Washington’s objective. The goal should be to minimize international terrorism, not build an Afghan state. Conflict in Afghanistan has raged for eight years, yet ‘victory’ looks ever more distant. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declared that the goal is ‘a credible government and a legitimate process.’ Alas, neither exists...

http://tinyurl.com/yhb93qp



It’s Obama’s war now

CounterPunch
by Gary Leupp

11/30/09

There are now at present some 68,000 U.S. troops and 42,000 allied forces occupying Afghanistan, in league with the Northern Alliance warlords and the corrupt and feeble Karzai regime in Kabul. President Obama clearly wishes to increase the figure and will announce before an audience of West Point cadets Tuesday that he will add over 30,000 more while pushing the Europeans to add 10,000. This will bring the total number of occupation forces to around the level of the Soviet deployment at its peak in the 1980s. The Soviets were trying to protect the secular government in Afghanistan and to discourage Islamic fundamentalism, a potential threat to the neighboring Soviet Central Asian republics such as Uzbekistan. What is Obama trying to do? Because make no mistake about it, this is Barack Obama’s war now...

http://counterpunch.org/leupp11302009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Afghan Escalation 'Utter Insanity' and 'Morally Reprehensible'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/25-0

Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/25-0

Obama's Afghanistan Decision
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/25-8

A Call for the U.S. to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/25

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Afghanistan Is A "War Of National Resistance": Former CIA Agent

By Robert Baer

"The people that want their country liberated from the West have nothing to do with Al Qaeda," Baer says. "They simply want us gone because we're foreigners, and they're rallying behind the Taliban because the Taliban are experienced, effective fighters."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24061.htm



Are Some Democrats Getting a Spine?

Editors Pick

Some Democrats are proposing, in the same way that we have to find the money for social programs, that if we want to continue and or escalate the war, we should find the money to pay for war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24060.htm



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Libertarian News Examiner

11/24/09

Penn State University Professor Emeritus Julian Heicklen keeps returning to the scene of the crimes committed against him by Homeland Security police who confront him whenever he attempts to distribute Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) pamphlets to his fellow citizens. But he likely didn’t expect to be grabbed, punched, pounded on, stripped, and involuntarily stuck with needles...

http://tinyurl.com/yexkfse


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Deutschland will mit Elena bei der elektronischen Signatur eine weltweite Führungsrolle übernehmen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31514/1.html



"Na gut", sag ich, "dann besser ich halt was nach"

Am Beispiel des elektronischen Entgeltnachweises (ElENa) zeigt sich einmal öfter die Verfahrensweise der Politik, wenn es um Projekte geht, die den Datenschutz tangieren: Durchsetzen, abwarten, gegebenenfalls nachbessern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31845/1.html

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Chipkarte für Lohnsklaven

Datenbank Elena: Wer streikt, wird erfasst

„In Deutschland wird künftig zentral erfasst, wer an einem Streik teilgenommen hat. Auch ob rechtmäßig oder wild gestreikt wurde oder Beschäftigte vom Arbeitgeber ausgesperrt wurden, steht vom 1. Januar 2010 an in einer bundesweiten Datenbank. Was Gewerkschafter und Datenschützer in Alarmstimmung versetzt, hört offiziell auf den Namen Elena - die Abkürzung für "Elektronischer Einkommensnachweis"…“ Artikel von Joachhim F. Tornau in der FR vom 30.11.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2110813_Datenbank-Elena-Wer-streikt-wird-erfasst.html

Aus dem Text: „… Was Elena im Detail enthält, wurde dagegen bislang lieber nicht an die große Glocke gehängt - obwohl es schon seit September feststeht. Die Liste der Angaben, die Unternehmen über ihre Arbeitnehmer zu machen haben, ist mehr als 40 Seiten lang. Und darin wird nicht nur nach Namen, Geburtsdatum, Anschrift oder Bezügen gefragt, sondern in der Rubrik "Fehlzeiten" auch nach einer Teilnahme an Streiks. Oder nach Abmahnungen und möglichem Fehlverhalten. (..) Und ebenso bedenklich sei es, dass Arbeitgeber über Abmahnungen und Kündigungsgründe Auskunft geben sollen - ohne dass der Betroffene sich dazu äußern könne…“


Aus: LabourNet, 30. November 2009

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ELENA – die Chipkarte für Lohnsklaven

Datenschutz: Schaar hält Arbeitnehmer-Datenbank für verfassungswidrig

„Gewerkschaftsbund und Datenschützer kritisieren die zentrale Datenbank der Deutschen Rentenversicherung. In ihr werden ab dem 1. Januar sensible Arbeitnehmerdaten gespeichert - auch, ob jemand an einem Streik teilnimmt. Gewerkschaften prüfen Möglichkeiten, gegen das Gesetz zu klagen…“ Artikel in Spiegel online vom 18. Dezember 2009 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,667748,00.html


DGB hat erhebliche Bedenken zum Elektronischen Entgeltnachweis

„Vom 1. Januar an müssen Unternehmen sensible Daten ihrer Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer an eine Datenbank bei der Deutschen Rentenversicherung schicken. Die DGB-Vizevorsitzende Ingrid Sehrbrock äußert gegen den sogenannten Elektronischen Entgeltnachweis (ELENA) erhebliche Bedenken: "Angesichts des Datenmissbrauchs, der in den letzten Monaten offengelegt worden ist, braucht es nicht viel Fantasie, sich vorzustellen, was für Begehrlichkeiten solche Datenmengen wecken." Zudem wachse die Gefahr von Grundrechtsverletzungen, wenn immer mehr Datenbanken zu Steuern, Gesundheit, Polizeidaten angelegt würden und der Staat darauf den Zugriff einräume, so Sehrbrock.“ DGB-Meldung vom 21.12.2009. Siehe dazu die neue Sonderseite beim DGB: Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz http://www.dgb.de/themen/arbeitsrecht/informationen/arbeitnehmerdatenschutz/


Praxisratgeber „Elena“ von und bei Lohnexperten24.de (pdf) http://www.elena2010.de/download.php?id=4040298b73320bd370b0dcfcaa9b9fb


Die meisten Verfassungsschutzberichte sind verfassungswidrig

„Ergebnisse einer Studie am Institut für Öffentliches Recht der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Mit Ausnahme der Verfassungsschutzberichte Berlins und Brandenburgs sind alle in den letzten vier Jahren publizierten Verfassungsschutzberichte von Bund und Ländern verfassungswidrig. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer am Institut für Öffentliches Recht der Universität Freiburg vorgenommenen Untersuchung, die jetzt im Jahrbuch "Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht" veröffentlicht wurde…“ idw-Pressemitteilung vom 04.12.2009 http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news347666


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Dezember 2009

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Keine weitere "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" mit ELENA

Pressemitteilung der Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. vom 12. Januar 2010 http://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/975-keine-weitere-qvorratsdatenspeicherungq-mit-elena-12012010

Aus dem Text: „… Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. stellt fest: personenbezogene Daten gehören nicht in zentrale Datenbanken, sensible persönliche Daten haben in Daten­banken schon garnichts zu suchen, Verknüpfungen von persönlichen Daten mit einem "Generalschlüssel" wie der Steuer-ID bergen die Gefahr des "gläsernen Bürgers". Das ELENA Verfahren ist gefährlich und völlig unnötig, weil Aufwand und mögliche Einsparung in keinem Verhältnis stehen…“


Wissen ist Macht. Die Datenkrake ELENA

„Willkommen im Arbeitsamt der Zukunft: Berater: Das wird aber schwierig, Sie zu vermitteln, mit zwei Abmahnungen. Eigentlich werden OP-Schwestern ja gesucht, aber elf Fehltage in einem Jahr?" Frau: "Aber meine Tochter ist chronisch krank! ..." Berater: "Ja, ich weiß, mir brauchen Sie das nicht zu sagen. Und dann sind Sie seit Jahren im Betriebsrat?"…“ Bericht von Isabel Schayani und Jan Schmitt im Monitor vom 07.01.2010 – Text der Sendung und Video beim WDR http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/sendungen/2010/0107/elena.php5

Siehe dazu: Bundesagentur: "Monitor"-Bericht über ELENA führt in die Irre

„Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) wehrt sich gegen den Bericht des ARD-Magazins "Monitor" über das Projekt ELENA. In dem fiktiven Beratungsgespräch im Bericht seien falsche und unrealistische Behauptungen enthalten. Mit diesem Bericht werden lediglich Ängste geschürt", sagt BA-Vorstand Raimund Becker. In der Spielszene zum "Arbeitsamt der Zukunft" wird behauptet, ein Arbeitsvermittler könne in Zukunft bei einem Beratungsgespräch auf sensible Arbeitnehmerdaten wie beispielsweise Krankheiten, Fehltage oder Teilnahme an Streiks zugreifen. "Das ist aus der Luft gegriffen", sagt Raimund Becker…“ Meldung vom 12.01.2010 bei Haufe Online http://www.haufe.de/personal/newsDetails?newsID=1263283591.13&portal=Personal&topic=HLGO&topicView=Lohn%20%26%20Gehalt


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Januar 2010

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Elena hat 35 Millionen Datensätze gespeichert

„In der Datenbank zum umstrittenen elektronischen Entgeltnachweis "Elena" sind schon 35 Millionen Datensätze über Beschäftigung und Einkommen von Arbeitnehmern gespeichert. Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz, Peter Schaar, sagte am Donnerstag in Stuttgart, diese Daten seien verschlüsselt und könnten deshalb noch nicht genutzt werden. Auch fehlten noch etliche rechtliche Regelungen. Mit "Elena" will die Bundesregierung lästigen Papierkram in der Arbeitswelt abschaffen. Die Arbeitgeber müssen seit Jahresbeginn monatlich die Daten an eine zentrale Speicherstelle bei der Deutschen Rentenversicherung senden. Gegen das Vorhaben läuft seit dem vergangenen Montag eine "Mitmach-Verfassungsbeschwerde" des FoeBuD. Zur Stunde verzeichnet die Aktion bereits 16.000 Teilnehmer…“ Meldung in heise online vom 18.03.2010 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Elena-hat-35-Millionen-Datensaetze-gespeichert-958264.html


Justizministerin: Keine schnelle Neuregelung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung

„Bundesjustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) hat eine Neuregelung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung, deren gesetzliche Regelung in Deutschland vom Bundesverfassungsgericht verworfen wurde, bis zur parlamentarischen Sommerpause ausgeschlossen…“ Meldung in heise online vom 17.03.2010 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Justizministerin-Keine-schnelle-Neuregelung-der-Vorratsdatenspeicherung-956600.html


Aus: LabourNet, 22. März 2010



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Nachdem der US-Dollar immer mehr zum globalen Problem wird, beschäftigte sich auch der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) mit der Zukunft des Weltwährungssystems.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31558/1.html



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Helen Benedict, ColorLines: "Mickiela curled up on her grandmother's couch, tucked her feet under her and stroked her belly. Her long red hair was pulled into a high ponytail, and her pretty freckled face was free of makeup. She was twenty-one, a year out of her tour in Iraq, and pregnant."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112409sg03



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Ray McGovern, Truthout: "It's not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired Gen. Douglas McArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/1124093



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Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture (BAAT)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/24-12



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-0

Obama's Profile in Courage Moment
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-11

Taking Care of Business: How Big Business Has Hijacked Climate Talks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-3

Oil Giant Chevron Accused of 'Extortion' on Capitol Hill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-4

Bush-Style Military Spending Not Over Yet
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-5

Greg Craig and Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/24-6

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Obama's Fifth Category: The "Untriable"

William Fisher, Truthout: "In his talk at the National Archives in May, President Obama referred to five categories of prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay. First, there are those who have violated American criminal laws and will be tried in federal courts. There may be as many as a dozen men in this category, five of whose trials were announced last week, including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."

http://www.truthout.org/1124094



Obama and the Intelligence Community: An Interim Report Card

Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "President Obama has had nearly a year to make necessary changes in the intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While he has been successful in addressing the CIA's renditions, detentions and interrogations programs, he has failed to appoint leaders willing to address the culture of cover-up that exists at the CIA and to make the necessary strategic changes. Until President Obama is willing to address the militarization and centralization of the intelligence community, he will retain his grade of C+ in managing the community."

http://www.truthout.org/1124095



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- MALAGA: 43 cas de cancers parmi les 350 riverains d'une antenne relais de téléphonie mobile

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/ClustersEmfCem.php#1

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/hoodwinked.html



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Time to Quell Excessive Power of Credit Bureaus, Sometimes Ruling Life or Death

Peter Stern, Truthout: "During the past several decades in the US, three credit bureaus have become so powerful, they can make or break American lives. They are Equifax, Experian and Trans Union. Any one of them has the capability to cause many sleepless nights of worry for American citizens, and on many levels their power and control rival that exerted by the dreaded IRS."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/11250902



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The Gov't Will Make You Dirt Poor
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north787.html

Massive Tax Increases Loom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi135.html

Gold, Freedom, and the Fed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger174.html

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Audit the Fed attached as an amendment

Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

11/24/09

I was pleased last week when we won a vote in the Financial Services Committee to include language from the Audit the Fed bill HR1207 in the upcoming financial regulatory reform bill. As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes, because of this action, the Federal Reserve’s entire balance sheet will be opened up to a GAO audit. We will at last have a chance to find out what happened to the trillions of dollars the Fed has been giving out. Finally, the blanket restrictions on GAO audits of the Fed that have existed since 1978 will be removed...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=387


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The children of Falluja

Video

Doctors are dealing with an increase in chronic deformities in infants in Falluja, where heavy munitions were used in 2004.

http://snipurl.com/tf0j4


From Information Clearing House

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DEPLETED URANIUM USED CAUSING MASS BIRTH DEFECTS IN IRAQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reieDvzYQs


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The government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&hp


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President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and promised to unveil a decision soon on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/pl_afp/usafghanistanmilitarytroops



Top Democrat warns Afghanistan will bankrupt domestic programs

Threatens war surtax if Obama sends more troops.
http://snipurl.com/tem5k


From Information Clearing House

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Obama Plans to Send 34,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24

Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens US War Plans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24-11

Obama's 'Finish the Job' Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/25-4



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By Mike Whitney

The truth behind the headlines, shining a light on the negligent regulators, the colluding Fed, the unscrupulous ratings agencies, the mercenary banks, the venal mortgage lenders, and the long daisy-chain of opportunists and fraudsters who gorged themselves on the spoils from the biggest swindle in history. This is this generation's big story.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24038.htm



The Cost of Dying

By CBS 60 Minutes

Many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost. Steve Kroft reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24053.htm



Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World

By Anis Shivani

If you want to have a compliant populace, what could be better than to say that everyone has to think positively and accept that anything that goes wrong in their lives is their own fault because they haven't had a positive enough attitude?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24054.htm

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The Vicious Alliance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood40.1.html



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By Paul Craig Roberts

Republicans and American conservatives regard civil liberties as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists. They assume that police and prosecutors are morally pure and, in addition, never make mistakes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24040.htm



The Resistance Of The Oppressed

By Paul Balles

If I die while killing 20 of my enemies, doesn't that serve my people in their war against oppression? Hasn't this been the justification for all soldiers dying in all wars?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24039.htm



Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions

By Emily Spence

I will not discuss fatuous repugnant myths concerning Indians and Pilgrims when I sit down to my next Thanksgiving dinner with relatives who lives so many states away from mine. I will, instead, remember the suffering that transpired after the "New World" became seen as a land of opportunity.

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By Stephen M. Walt

The bottom line is that you don't need to be a sociologist, political scientist, or a student of colonialism or foreign cultures to understand why military occupation is such a poisonous activity and why it usually fails. If you're an American, you just need to read a bit about Reconstruction and reflect on how its effects -- along with the effects of slavery itself -- have persisted across generations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24047.htm



Why They Hate Us

How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24092.htm



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24. November 2009

Der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst fordert nach dem Vorstoß von NRW-Ministerpräsident Rüttgers für ein "Arbeitsplatzzukunftspaket" umfassende Hilfsmaßnahmen für alle Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer, die durch die Krise vom Jobverlust bedroht sind. Er fordert einen Mix aus Maßnahmen zur Jobsicherung und besseren Sozialleistungen. Ernst erklärt:

Rüttgers geht mit seinem Vorstoß in die richtige Richtung, springt aber viel zu kurz. Die Uhr am Arbeitsmarkt tickt. Millionen droht Jobverlust und existenzieller Absturz. Wir brauchen jetzt schnell ein umfassendes Rettungspaket für alle Krisen-Arbeitslosen. Staatliche Hilfen für Arbeitszeitverkürzungen sind ein Weg. Das kann Jobs mittelfristig sichern. Wir brauchen aber auch sofort wirkende Hilfen. Das Arbeitslosengeld I muss in der Krise für alle Anspruchsberechtigten auf 24 Monate verlängert werden. Staatshilfen für Unternehmen darf es nur gegen Jobgarantien geben. Profitablen Firmen müssen Massenentlassungen ganz verboten werden. Für Kurzarbeiter müssen die Hartz-IV-Regeln so gelockert werden, dass sie nicht Partnereinkommen und Vermögen offenlegen müssen, wenn sie mit ihren Familien unter die Hartz-IV-Schwelle fallen. Das Geld dafür ist gut angelegt, weil so eine Brücke in die Zeit nach der Krise gebaut wird.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/rettungspaket-fuer-alle-krisen-arbeitslosen-notwendig/



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Die BA hat nach massiver und Berechtigter Kritik eine umfassende Arbeitshilfe zum Sozialdatenschutz herausgegeben, sie sind dokumentiert auf der Homepage von Harald Thomé:

Sozialdatenschutz im Zusammenhang mit der Erfassung sensibler Daten und Veröf-fentlichung von Bewerberdaten in der JOB-BÖRSE vom 18.09.2009 (pdf) http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/E-Mail-Info-2009-09-22-Anlage-1.pdf

Erläuterungen zur Liste der datenschutzrechtlich riskanten Begrifflichkeiten (pdf) http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/E-Mail-Info-2009-09-22-Anlage-2.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 24. November 2009

The American Prospect
by Jeff Faux

11/23/09

The word from Washington and Wall Street is that the worst is over. Sure, it will take a while for jobs to recover, for housing to come back, and for wages to rise. But we are definitely on the road to recovery from the biggest debt-bubble collapse since 1929. Maybe. There were actually two debt bubbles. One was driven by Americans borrowing against unsustainable inflation in housing prices. The other was driven by America borrowing against unsustainable inflation in the price of the U.S. dollar. One more bubble is left to pop. … The central threat here is not the currently rising federal deficit. … Rather, the core problem is the accumulating debt that the U.S. economy as a whole owes to the rest of the world, a result of a more chronic condition: 25 years of buying more in the global marketplace than we have been selling — and borrowing to make up the difference...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=one_more_bubble_to_go



The critical unraveling of US society

Amped Status
by David DeGraw

11/23/09

You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Before exposing the root causes of this breakdown, let’s look at some vital statistics and facts: (1) The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. The US already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis. Since the crisis, which has hit the middle class and poor much harder than the top one percent, the gap between the top one percent and the remaining 99% of the US population has grown to a record high...

http://ampedstatus.com/the-critical-unraveling-of-us-society


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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UK complicit in torture of detainees-rights group

A human rights group on Tuesday accused Britain of being complicit in the torture of terrorism detainees in Pakistan and said it should hold an inquiry into the conduct of British security services.

http://snipurl.com/tem3w


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Dem Pharmakonzern Merck wurde angeblich ein ausgesprochen umfangreiches Patent erteilt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/146601

Britische Medien enthüllen Armee-Berichte zu den Vorbereitungen für den Einmarsch im Irak. Laut Guardian glauben Militärkommandeure, dass sich Mitglieder der damaligen britischen und amerikanischen Regierungen Kriegsverbrechen schuldig gemacht haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146605

Dean Baker, Truthout: "The country is being bombarded with stories claiming that record budget deficits threaten our children's future and jeopardize the credibility of the dollar. These stories are a serious problem - they have hugely confused the public about the nature of the country's economic crisis. And both parties share the blame."

http://www.truthout.org/1123094



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Scott Galindez, Truthout: "This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Fort Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and the six Jesuit priests with whom she worked at the Central American University in San Salvador. Nearly 5,000 people are gathered in the pouring rain, according to Larry White, a protester who spoke to Truthout."

http://www.truthout.org/1122098



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Gingrich, Palin, GOP Offer Magic Jobs Solution: More Tax Cuts Now!

Art Levine, Truthout: "With the economy still reeling from unemployment at 10.2 percent, Democrats and progressives are battling a barrage of GOP-driven misinformation about the first $787 billion stimulus plan as they look to create a new, targeted, fast-acting jobs program, possibly before Christmas. Aiming to cash in - literally - on growing public anger over joblessness, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich separately returned this week to the Republican nostrum of wide-ranging tax cuts, mostly for the rich, as the answer to every problem under the sun - in this case, unemployment."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112209ms01



Sarah, Don't Go Rogue; Go Home

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "With the release of her new book, 'Going Rogue: An American Life,' former Alaskan Governor and Republican Party vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is once again being given a spotlight she does not deserve. Under normal circumstances, Palin would have drifted into obscurity by now; a political has-been, who never was. Instead, a sub-par politician with no substantial constituency, no command of relevant issues and no solutions to substantive problems is being given air and face time as though she really matters. The simple reality that few are willing to articulate is, if she were not relatively attractive, of European ancestry and a woman, Sarah Palin would be day-old bread."

http://www.truthout.org/1123095

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Why can’t we look away from Sarah Palin?

AlterNet
by Vanessa Richmond

11/24/09

Sarah Palin is a liar who is unfit for public office. This is generally accepted. And yet, she’s getting more attention than people who are honest, sane and actually holding office, and also more than people, even celebrities, who are arguably insane and vapid. Media and audiences clearly can’t take their eyes and ears off her, much as they might want to. I’m among them. Every day, I’m surprised and perplexed that she’s still in the news and on talk shows, then I watch more and read more about her. I am surely one of those liberal media elite haters she keeps referring to, and if this continues, she’s going to have to acknowledge we’re her main audience, if not her base. The question is why...

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Tea Party, meet the Religious Right

The American Prospect
by Michelle Goldberg

01/13/10

Next month’s Tea Party National Convention has been making news for the fat fee Sarah Palin is commanding — $100,000, according to many reports. But the gathering, to be held at Nashville’s Opryland Hotel, is interesting for another reason as well: It marks the attempt of the old-school Christian right to take over the tea-party movement. Speakers joining Palin include Rick Scarborough, Roy Moore, and Joseph Farah, men who are radical even by religious-right standards. Their presence shows that the tea-party movement is no longer merely populist, libertarian or anti-government, if it ever was. It is theocratic. Indeed, after several months in which the religious right seemed lost and dispirited, it has found a way to ride the tea-party express into renewed relevance...

http://tinyurl.com/ycqdfjx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Palin Paradox

Rehabilitating a Vengeful Rogue Going P.T. Barnum

By Robert S. Becker

Palin's circus obeys Barnum's model, "There's a sucker born every minute."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24062.htm



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Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam and Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/23-3

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Realities Collide at Halifax "War Conference"

Anthony Fenton, Inter Press Service: "While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organization's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan."

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