World-News

A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. by Wall Street banks in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=axH24KWxjVDE&pos=10



How Investors Made Millions from People Facing Eviction

A six-year conspiracy by veteran real estate investors to rig bids and stifle competition at tax sale auctions made two chief organizers at least $10 million, largely from fees homeowners paid to keep from losing their properties, according to federal prosecutors.

http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2010/05/investors-made-millions-people-facing-eviction



More homeowners choose to default on loans

The report found that the incidence of strategic default is higher among those with higher credit scores and larger loan balances.

http://snipurl.com/whgb2


From Information Clearing House

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U.S. Creates 1.3 Trillion Dollars out of Thin Air to Cover Banking Scam

Video

An amazing admission by Fed Chariman Ben Bernanke, caught on tape!

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How Stagnant Pools of Government Money Could Help Save the Economy

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "For over a decade, accountant Walter Burien has been trying to rouse the public over what he contends is a massive conspiracy and cover-up, involving trillions of dollars squirreled away in funds maintained at every level of government. His numbers may be disputed, but these funds definitely exist, as evidenced by the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) required of every government agency. If they don't represent a concerted government conspiracy, what are they for?"

http://www.truthout.org/how-stagnant-pools-government-money-could-help-save-economy59731

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Warning: Crash Dead Ahead. Sell. Get liquid. Now.

By Paul B. Farrell

Main Street lost 20% last decade ... yet like sheep keep going back.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25541.htm



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By Mike Whitney

Real organic personal income is nearly $500 billion lower now than it was at the peak 16 months ago and this has never occurred before coming out of any technical recession.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25473.htm



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By Robert Parry

If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on cable TV, it's pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25478.htm



Mohammed elBaradei on the Iranian Nuclear Issue

By Mohamed ElBaradei

Iran wants a "nuclear weapons capability"-which is not the same as actual nuclear weapons-to be taken seriously as a regional power by the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25472.htm



Nuclear Israel vs Iran

Video report

2 Nuclear Research Centers - At Least 108 Nuclear Warheads.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25471.htm



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By Eli Clifton

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes estimated that the long-term costs - taking into account the costs of taking care of wounded soldiers and rebuilding the military - of the war in Iraq will ultimately cost three trillion dollars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25479.htm



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http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/f9b7533365211e18?hl=de

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Die durch Krise und Bankenrettung gestiegene Staatsverschuldung soll auf Kosten der Beschäftigten und Erwerbslosen, der Gesundheitsversorgung, der Bildung und der Kommunen abgebaut werden.

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/391c11d97e1bca16?hl=de

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Zahltag am 7.6. in Berlin

Die Initiative solidarisch Begleiten und andere im Rahmen der Mobilisierung zur Demonstration am 12.6.2010 beim JobCenter Mitte am
7.Juni um 9 Uhr in der Sickingenstr.70 eine Zahltagsaktion organisieren. Mitstreiter/innen sind herzlichst willkommen. Es werden verschiedene "Begleiter/innen" bereitstehen, die an diesem Tage Betroffene bei alltäglichen Überlebenskampf in den JobCentern helfen werden. Für weitere Infos siehe den Flyer http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/zahltag_b07062010.pdf


Von Athen bis Berlin - Banken und Konzerne sollen für die Krise zahlen!

Flugblatt zur Mobilisierung für die Demonstrationen am 12. Juni (pdf) http://www.kapitalismuskrise.org/downloads/12062010_griechenland_farbe_6_web.pdf

"Wir zahlen nicht für eure Krise" - Trailer zu den bundesweiten Demos am 12. Juni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCawNERhE8

Aufruf zur DGB-Demonstration am 12. Juni in Stuttgart

Aufruf von Wolfgang Alles, IGM, Betriebsrat Alstom Mannheim und Thomas Böhm, Vorsitzender ver.di Stuttgart, GPR-Vorsitzender Klinikum Stuttgart
(pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2010/krise1206s.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juni 2010



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Crisis and Leviathan: Observations amid the Current Episode
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs151.html



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WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

05/17/10

The Baltimore, MD police are determined to establish new law by broadly reinterpreting (to their advantage, of course) how an existing law on wiretapping can be applied. Recording people on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists doesn’t fit the traditional interpretation of wiretapping, especially since the use of cameras-on-the-street by authorities has become ubiquitous. So why is 24-year-old Anthony John Graber III facing criminal charges for a video he recorded on his helmet-mounted camera during a March 5 traffic stop? Because some of the footage was posted to the Internet and it embarrassed the police officer involved, Trooper J.D. Uhler...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3276


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Ever since 9/11, Americans have generally fallen into two camps in explaining why our country now faces the constant threat of terrorist attacks. The first group is composed of people who claim that foreigners, particularly Muslims, hate America for its freedom and values. Things like rock-and-roll, beauty pageants, Lady Gaga, and intellectual and religious freedom drive the foreigners crazy with anger and hatred, claim the people in this group, which drives them to commit acts of terrorism against America...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-05-17.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff

05/17/10

When the Greek economy melted down recently its citizens rioted in the streets. Some have called it ‘the death-spiral of a welfare state’ — too much borrowing for too many social programs for too long. Eventually, the bottom falls out, says the Christian Broadcasting Network. But if you don’t think the economic chaos in Greece can come to America, economists say think again. America is on a fiscal course economists warn is unsustainable — racking up debts we will not be able to repay. This nation, they warn, is already on the path to economic ruin...

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19342


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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LewRockwell.Com
by John W. Whitehead

05/18/10

What we are grappling with today is a government that is cutting great roads through the very foundations of freedom in order to get after its modern devils. Yet the government can only go as far as “we the people” allow. Therein lies the problem. Having allowed the government to expand and exceed our reach, we find ourselves on the losing end of a tug-of-war over control of our country and our lives. The hour grows late in terms of restoring the balance of power and reclaiming our freedoms, but it may not be too late...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitehead11.1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dave Lindorff, ThisCan'tBeHappening: "President Obama claims to have learned a lesson from the disastrous blowout of British Petroleum drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico: a 'cozy relationship' between the agency that regulates oil drilling, the Minerals Management Service, and the oil industry, he charges, allowed companies to drill in vulnerable offshore areas without properly assessing the risks to the ocean and its ecology."

http://www.truthout.org/dave-lindorff-obama-has-learned-nothing-bp-blowout59577



Maybe We Can All Get Rich Cleaning Up Each Others' Pollution

Max Ajl, Truthout: "The pictures are everywhere and they are really ugly: the waters of the Gulf of Mexico marred with cocoa-brown blots of oil, seabirds brown-black with oil gunk that will probably kill them. Reportage of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons offshore drilling rig is full of facts about ecological devastation, mismanagement of the rig, corporate wrong-doing and, rightfully, Barack Obama's abominable stance on offshore drilling. But could something good come out of this mess?"

http://www.truthout.org/maybe-we-can-all-get-rich-cleaning-up-each-others-pollution59573

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Can you see the government’s hidden role in the BP oil spill?

Downsize DC
by James Leroy Wilson

05/17/10

The BP oil spill is another example of the destructive nature of government guarantees and bailouts. I know that BP has agreed to pay more of the clean-up costs, beyond the government-provided liability cap. I also know that they’ve been threatened by Congress and the Administration if they don’t. But this is hypocritical, because Congress created the liability cap and the clean up fund in the first place!

http://tinyurl.com/2d28bx4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What Caused The Disaster

Deepwater Horizon's Blowout

Video

Scott Pelley speaks to one of the survivors of the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast who was in a position to know what caused the disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25474.htm



As oil spill approaches, dead animals wash up in Mississippi
http://snipurl.com/whg3v


From Information Clearing House



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Adele Hampton, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund: "Amid attempts to rein in Wall Street, persuaders safeguard bank's interests. For all of Goldman Sachs' professed support for an overhaul of financial regulations, the megabank hasn't exactly withdrawn its army of lobbyists. Far from wearing out its welcome, the firm is busier than ever safeguarding its interests while a Wall Street crackdown takes shape in Washington."

http://www.truthout.org/goldman-sachs-publicly-backs-financial-reform-while-dispatching-army-lobbyists59571

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Public Citizen: Big Bank Lobbyists Fighting Financial Reform Outnumber Pro-Reform Lobbyists by 11-1

http://act.commondreams.org/go/679?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=42



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Under the Obama administration's current fiscal plans, the national debt in the US (on a gross basis) will climb to above 100pc of GDP by 2015 - a far steeper increase than almost any other country.

http://snipurl.com/wfid2



The Thirteen Housing Markets That Will Never Recover

New RealtyTrac numbers show that in April there were well over 300,000 foreclosures and the figure in on track to be higher in 2010 than in 2009. Several research firms say that underwater mortgages have moved above 11 million.

http://247wallst.com/2010/05/13/the-thirteen-housing-markets-that-will-never-recover/


From Information Clearing House



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"We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives. We need to fix the system. Doing so will require a major nationwide recalculation of who goes to prison and for how long and of how we address the long-term consequences of incarceration."

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Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

Savaged by dogs, electrocuted with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm



Americans' Outlook for U.S. Morality Remains Bleak

"Americans' assessment of U.S. morality has never been positive, but the current ratings rank among the worst Gallup has measured over the past nine years.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/128042/Americans-Outlook-Morality-Remains-Bleak.aspx


From Information Clearing House

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A duty to be oppressed?

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

05/17/10

Do good, upstanding citizens have a moral obligation to allow themselves to be oppressed, harassed, terrorized, assaulted, and wrongfully detained or imprisoned? Most people would say ‘no.’ But would most people actually mean it? There are many examples of ‘law enforcers’ treating innocent people like dirt. Random stops at ’sobriety checkpoints’ is a favorite of mine, since the local jackboots do that in front of my house on occasion...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4328


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US aid program was responsible for sending millions of taxpayer dollars to Iraqi insurgents via a complex web of contractors and subcontractors.

http://www.thenation.com/article/aiding-insurgency


From Information Clearing House



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By David Sirota

After their anti-tax zealotry left their city in the budgetary lurch, Colorado Springs Republicans have slashed their community's social services to the bone. We're talking big cuts to police, firefighters, park maintenance, public transportation - even turning off the city's streetlights (except, of course, in the wealthy areas!).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25467.htm



Couple Commits Suicide Over Debt

By 39 Online

Foreclosure and Unemployment Blamed for Spike in Suicides.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25476.htm



A perfect storm for unemployment in June

While there is plenty of talk about the economic recovery, there is barely a whisper about what is just a few weeks ahead. It's not any one thing. It's a combination of three (and possibly four) different events that will deliver devastating body-blows to the economy.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/18/867517/-A-perfect-storm-for-unemployment-in-June


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Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing

Bill Quigley, Truthout: "May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With millions of homeless living in our communities and millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together."

http://www.truthout.org/taking-back-homes-banks-exercising-human-right-housing59530



HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America's Public Housing

George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Obama administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation, called PETRA, to Congress that would result in the privatization of all public housing in America."

http://www.truthout.org/below-radar-hud-trying-privatize-and-mortgage-off-all-americas-public-housing59779



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By Mustafa Qadri

Foreign troops and the state they prop up are viewed as outsiders who have come not to liberate the country but subjugate it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25465.htm



Afghan Prosecutor Issues Arrest Warrant for US Army Officer Over Police Killing

By Stephen Grey

The chief military prosecutor in Kabul, has accused the US of creating an outlaw militia which allegedly shot dead Matiullah Qateh, the chief of police in the city of Kandahar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25464.htm



How U.S. Aid Puts A Happy Face On Afghan Occupation

By James A. Lucas

USAID projected that it would build 286 schools by the end of 2004, but only eight were completed. Although the Afghan government could build a school for about $40,000, an international aid agency undertook the task of building 500 schools, at a cost of $250,000 each.

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"Die Bundeswehr im Kriegseinsatz in Afghanistan - Die militärische Situation
2010 für Deutschland"

Referent: Jürgen Rose, Oberstleutnant a.D. - (Buch: "Ernstfall Angriffskrieg")

Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010, 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19:00 Uhr - Der Eintritt ist frei
In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses, Brienner Str. 39, Rgb., (Rahnstüberl) MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21)

Kurzzusammenfassung durch den Referenten:

"Bis zu 50 000 Opfer, vorwiegend Zivilisten, forderte der Krieg in Afghanistan seit 2001. Eine schleichende Eskalation des Krieges ist festzustellen. In Bagram gibt es ein Foltergefängnis. Armut und Hunger haben laut UN-Berichten erschreckende Ausmaße angenommen. Die Geschehnisse in Afghanistan erinnern zunehmend an den Irakkrieg.

Der Referent Jürgen Rose befasste sich als Pädagoge, Publizist und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter mit sicherheitspolitischen Fragestellungen - u. a. am Institut für Internationale Politik, Sicherheitspolitik, Wehrrecht und Völkerrecht an der Universität der Bundeswehr München und am George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

2007 verweigerte Rose seine Mitarbeit an Unterstützungsleistungen zum Tornadoeinsatz in Afghanistan. Er wird u.a. darüber berichten, welche Aufgaben die mit deutschem Personal besetzten Tornados und AWACS in diesem Krieg übernehmen - und wie diese Einsätze für die deutsche Öffentlichkeit verharmlost werden.

Rose stellt die Frage nach den Zielen der Kämpfe: Geht es um die Aufrechterhaltung der Sicherheit in Afghanistan zum Schutz der Bevölkerung und zur Abwehr von islamischen Extremisten oder geht es um geopolitische Interessen?"

Referent: Jürgen Rose, geb. 18. Juli 1958, Diplom-Pädagoge und Publizist, ist seit fast dreißig Jahren als Seminarleiter und Dozent bei akademischen Veranstaltungen in der gesamten Bundesrepublik Deutschland, in England, Österreich und der Schweiz tätig. Er ist Mitglied im AK »Darmstädter Signal«, einem Arbeitskreis kritischer Offiziere und Unteroffiziere innerhalb der Bundeswehr. Seine militärische Ausbildung erfolgte u.a. in Fort Bliss, Texas/USA.

Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Rose_%28Publizist%29


Herbert Brunner Pressebeauftragter (V.i.S.d.P.)
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ÖDP)Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46/V, 80333 München
Fon 089/452 474 15 × Fax 089/550 699 86
E-Mail presse@oedp-muenchen.de www.oedp-muenchen.de


Veranstaltungshinweise zur kostenfreien Vortragsreihe der ÖDP München:

In den Räumen des Hansa-Hauses, Brienner Str. 39, Rgb, Rahnstüberl. MVV-Haltestellen: Königsplatz (U2) oder Stiglmaierplatz (U1/Tram 20+21).

Di., 13. Juli 2010, 19.30 Uhr "Chancen und Nutzen der Elektromobilität" Referent: Karl Nestmeier, im Vorstand von Smiles-World, früher CITYCOM AG, Elektrofahrzeuge Aub

Di., 14. Sept. 2010, 19.30 Uhr "Nanotechnologie in verbrauchernahen Produkten"


ödp - Profil: In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil - weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

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27. Mai 2010

Bundeswehr führt in Afghanistan einen Wirtschaftskrieg

Der Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst fordert nach den umstrittenen Äußerungen von Bundespräsident Köhler eine Neuabstimmung des Bundestags über den Afghanistan-Einsatz der Bundeswehr. Weder die Mandate noch die Verfassung deckten Wirtschaftskriege ab, so Ernst. Er erklärt:

Das war kein Missverständnis. Köhler hat offen gesagt, was nicht zu leugnen ist. In Afghanistan riskieren Bundeswehr-Soldaten Gesundheit und Leben für die Exportinteressen riesiger Konzerne. Die laute Kritik der SPD soll nur von der Verantwortung der Sozialdemokraten für dieses militärische Abenteuer ablenken. Das ist kein friedenssichernder Einsatz sondern ein Krieg um Einfluss und Rohstoffe. Die Afghanistan-Mandate des Bundestags decken die Realität am Hindukusch nicht ab. Das Grundgesetz erlaubt der Bundeswehr keine Wirtschaftskriege. Mit Krieg schafft man keinen Frieden. Die Bundeswehr muss aus Afghanistan abziehen. So will es die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung. Der Einsatz muss so schnell wie möglich neu im Parlament abgestimmt werden. Dann muss jeder Abgeordnete vor seinem Gewissen verantworten, ob er unsere Soldaten in einen Krieg schicken will, der den Exportinteressen deutscher Unternehmen dient.

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Is Britain Freeing Itself From US Colonialism?
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17. Mai 2010

Zur Forderung des österreichischen Finanzministers Josef Pröll, dass Frau Merkel den Weg für eine Transaktionssteuer frei machen soll, erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch:

Frau Merkel muss ihrem Finanzminister für das Treffen der Finanzminister der Eurogruppe grünes Licht für eine europäische Finanztransaktionssteuer geben. Die Kanzlerin hat sich wieder ins europäische Abseits begeben. Sie verhindert mit ihrem Veto eine Regulierung der Finanzmärkte. Frau Merkel darf sich nicht länger für den Deutschen-Bank-Chef Ackermann als Prellbock missbrauchen lassen. DIE LINKE erwartet schnelle Beschlüsse zu einer Finanztransaktionssteuer in Europa. Das wäre ein erster Schritt zur Regulierung der Finanzmärkte. In einem 2. Schritt müssen gefährliche Finanzinstrumente und Hedgefonds verboten und Steueroasen geschlossen werden.

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/14/10

“It is important that Americans be fully aware of an important rule with respect to U.S. foreign policy that the U.S. government has implemented and is now enforcing. In fact, knowing and understanding the rule is a matter of life and death. As everyone knows, the First Amendment guarantees the fundamental right of freedom of speech from infringement at the hands of U.S. officials...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, fears that America shares many of the same fiscal problems currently haunting Europe.

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"World's Worst Financial Crisis Ever": Governor Bank of England

The following experts have said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/mervyn-king-worlds-worst-financial.html



Bank-Failure Tally Grows to 72 for 2010

So far this year, 72 banks have collapsed and the spate of failures is expected to continue throughout 2010.

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Bank Failures Exceed 2009's Pace

Year-to-date bank failures were more than double the pace for the same period in 2009, when there were 33 bank closures.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10757598/1/bank-failures-exceed-2009s-pace.html



Bankers' earnings surge towards pre-crash levels

Pay and bonuses totalled £20.5bn in four months to April, compared with £24bn at height of boom in 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/13/bankers-pay-bonuses-surge



US bankruptcies resume upward path in 1st quarter

U.S. bankruptcy filings resumed their upward climb in the first quarter, nearly equaling their highest level since 2005, as high unemployment and a still-strained housing market squeezed consumers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1418760920100514



Eight banks face US investigation

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is looking at whether the relationship between the banks and credit rating agencies was manipulated to gain a better ratings for risky securities.

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Millions of jobs lost, many may never return

Jobs in the beleaguered manufacturing sector aren't the only ones likely lost forever. What sets the Great Recession apart is the variety of jobs that may not return.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37132888/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/



Great Depression 2.0. Bet on it

By Mike Whitney

If the government cuts spending at the same time as consumers, then overall spending declines and the economy slips into recession. This is what the deficit hawks want--a return to recession. This is politics, not economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25516.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Crony capitalism caused the crisis

Nolan Chart
by Kenn Jacobine

05/15/10

The old mantra goes, ‘capitalism is a flawed system that requires government intervention to alleviate the suffering caused by its shortfalls.’ Supported by their tax dollar dependent cronies in academia and their big government loving mouthpieces in the mainstream media, our ruling elite has been effective in socializing the masses that they know what they are talking about. It is of course all an attempt to justify expanding the size of government even more so there is more for the politicians to give away to their faithful supporters. Capitalism did not cause the financial crisis that we are still mired in some 29 months after it began; crony capitalism did...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7704.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Deficits To Go Galactic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north845.html



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Federal records show that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave BP the green light for drilling, in violation of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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In pictures: Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico

Seawater covered with thick black oil splashes up in brown-stained whitecaps.
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BP And The 'Little Eichmanns'

By Chris Hedges

Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25468.htm



Reports show NOAA knew Gulf of Mexico drilling operations were illegal

An Interior Department agency has authorized more than 300 drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico without first obtaining permits from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to published reports and the notice of intent to file a law suit by an environmental non-profit.

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From Information Clearing House

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BP Stands for Bad Petroleum

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if the costs exceed the $75 million liability cap under federal law. BP responded Sunday saying its public statements are 'absolutely consistent' with the Administration's request."

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Protect Our Oceans From Oil Drilling's Invisible Threat: Acidification
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3807

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Speak Out Now Against More Offshore Oil Drilling

Two weeks ago we told you the truth when everyone else was trying to downplay the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil "leak". Let's see a show of hands of who believed us then.

Now the New York Times is finally reporting that the oil blowout disaster in the Gulf is much larger than we were led to believe, at LEAST 25,000 barrels a day versus 5,000. British Petroleum and our own government have done nothing but lie to us about the scale of this catastrophe since the beginning. And the reckless use of massive quantities of "dispersants" to try to further hide the hide the truth, trying to make it look like there is less oil out there, is just making things worse.

And yet, astonishingly, members of Congress are still talking as if the way to respond to the climate crisis is to drill MORE oil wells off shore, and in the Gulf in particular. Driven by their self-serving corporate contributors they want to burn MORE coal to further accelerate global warming, and preferentially subsidize absurdly expensive and dangerous nuclear power plants instead of true renewables like concentrated solar technologies, where the same investment would make our country energy self-sufficient safely.

Please tell your members of Congress to stop treating the Gulf, and the rest of our coastline, like the oil companies' own personal industrial sewer. This may be our last chance to put sane energy policy in place, assuming it is not already too late.

No More Offshore Oil Drilling Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1044.php

Right wing flacks for the oil companies may seize on every bogus temperature signal, one isolated snow storm, any fleeting aberration from the undeniable trend, but the climate crisis is inescapably the reality that it is. For in the meantime the percentage of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is already over 392 ppm, and climbing more and more every year without respite.

And that is why we created a couple months ago our "350 ppm or catastrophe" cap, embroidered in beautiful ocean tones of blue, with a red arrow pointing the way to where we need to go, an atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration down to no more than 350 parts per million. Yes, we were using the word catastrophe even before the latest disaster. It was not an exaggeration then, and it is even less so now.

Please consider requesting one of these new caps from the return page after you submit the action page above, to help spread the climate sanity message. Start the conversation about carbon dioxide as a global warming pollutant. As you know, we never set a price on our policy advocacy message items. You can have one for a donation of any amount at all. Submit the action page, or you can get one directly from this page.

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As bad as the situation in the Gulf is right now, it will unfortunately get so much worse when the hurricane season hits again, and all that oil gets dumped on land by the storm surges, hurricanes themselves driven by rising global temperatures.

This is not just a wake up call, this is a kick in the head. Either we get serious about the climate crisis, and STOP burning fossil fuels, requiring literally a Manhattan project to develop alternative renewable resources, or the day will come all too soon when the scientists tell us there no longer anything we can do to save ourselves.

No More Offshore Oil Drilling Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1044.php

Please submit the action page to your members of Congress calling on them to dramatically shift the focus of the new Climate Crisis bill, away from more emphasis on coal and especially the insane push for even more oil drilling in the Gulf, assuming it has not already been turned into an industrial sewer by the irresponsible corporate criminals at BP. No amount of dispersants can continue to conceal the truly biblical scale of the ongoing Gulf eco-catastrophe.

And instead of providing subsidies to dangerous and expensive new nuclear power plants, we need to redirect those same resources into real support for true renewables, concentrated solar technologies in particular. Only a fundamental shift in direction offers any hope of averting the climate disaster of our future, just as otherwise inevitable as a blow out incident just like the one we are witnessing in the Gulf right now.

If our legislative representatives will for once in their lives ever take actual scientists seriously, you must understand that just a half hearted bit of carbon offset trading has NO chance of actually reducing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million and keeping it there. Unless we do that, its inexorable rise, which continues unabated even now, will make the world of our near future unrecognizable from the temperate one we now enjoy.

How they have so ignorantly ridiculed the environmentalists for so many years, calling us "tree huggers". Well, they can call us "shrimp huggers" now too, and "oyster huggers", and "fish huggers" and "bird huggers". It's about time we gave mother nature a hug. Lord knows she could sure use one right about now.

And here is the Facebook link for the No More Offshore Oil Drilling action page further above.

[Facebook] Action Page: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1044

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1044

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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US attack kills 15 people in Pakistan

About six missiles were fired at two suspected militant compounds in the western most part of Khyber tribal agency, intelligence sources told KUNA. They confirmed 15 casualties and said about five others were critically wounded.

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US kills 5 people in NW Pakistan

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least five people in the Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Saturday, in what would be one of the first such attacks in the area, intelligence and government officials said.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9FNDQA80.htm



American Arrogance

By Javed Hussain

Hillary Clinton's outburst is reminiscent of the arrogant 'stone age' call after 9/11. On reflection she just might have discovered that Pakistan has lost more soldiers than the combined losses suffered by foreign forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and five times more civilians than those lost in the 9/11 strikes, which eminently reflect on Pakistan's commitment to the war on terror.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25510.htm



US Attack Kills Women and Children In Pakistan

The airstrike in North Waziristan Friday night allegedly killed two children, two women and five men, Pakistani intelligence and administrative officials said.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/22/Pakistan-9-killed-by-drone-airstrike/UPI-15181274541772/


From Information Clearing House



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By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Having bailed out the insolvent banksters, many governments have now become insolvent or nearly insolvent themselves, and are asking the public to skimp on their bread and butter in order to service the debt that is not their responsibility.

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The Bailout of Big American Banks Cost Trillions More Than We've Been Told

By Washington's Blog

These are just a few of the secret bailouts programs the government is giving to the giant banks. There are many other bailout programs as well. If these bailouts and subsidies are added up, they amount to many tens - or perhaps even hundreds - of trillions of dollars.

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Will the Wall Street Banksters Ever Be Held Accountable?

By Danny Schechter

We are all still stuck in the "big Muddy." No, not the wars of old or even the oil disaster. The mud I am referring to is more like quicksand and it sucks anyone who wants to look at what happened in the financial crisis deeper and deeper into it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25455.htm



The May 6 Stock Crash Revisited

By PAM MARTENS

"Over My 21 Years on Wall Street, I Never Saw Anything Remotely So Suspicious".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25454.htm



Is This The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See?

This video has been viewed by more than 1.4 million people

You'll just have to watch to see what's so amazing about what he (Prof. Albert Bartlett) has to say.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25458.htm



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By Robert Fisk

Another horrible, obscene story from Guantanamo. But wait. We can't have this kind of publicity show in the Canadian press, can we?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25452.htm

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Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress

Newnan Times-Herald

05/26/10

Amnesty International accused the United States, Russia and China on Thursday of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in an annual survey meant to pressure governments to act more compassionately. The human rights organization took the U.S. to task for President Barack Obama’s failure — despite promises — to close its prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and criticized Russia and China for what it described as blocking international scrutiny of the Sri Lankan government’s conduct during its bloody conflict with insurgents...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Klimaschutz kommt jetzt per Auto
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147626



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Die Weltweisheit der FAZ, allerdings nur für Anleger, also für diejenigen, die mehr Geld als notwendig haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147631



Steuererhöhungen oder Kürzungen im Sozial- und Bildungsbereich?

Was Deutschland womöglich bevorsteht, macht Kalifornien vor, wenn Steuererhöhungen für die Reichen tabu sind.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147630



Leistung muss sich wieder lohnen bei der Arbeitsagentur

Da gibt es so tolle Arbeitsplätze und dann erfährt niemand etwas davon. Schade, denn da hätten sich bestimmt auch viele ALG II-Empfänger beworben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/147633



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Your Life Is Theirs
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers126.html

Replies to Neoconservative Objections
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/c-white4.1.1.html

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A Just War?

Jim McCluskey, Truthout: "War has been problematic since Roman times, especially after the rise of Christianity. 'Thou shalt not kill' did not seem to leave much wiggle room. Yet, it was recognized that people have a right to defend themselves when under lethal attack. Saint Augustine suggested a solution in his theory of a Just War. This was developed by St. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages and his tenets for a Just War have been more or less accepted every since by those who concern themselves about such things."

http://www.truthout.org/a-just-war59836

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Civil rights and “total war”

Pro Libertate
by Will Grigg

05/26/10

William Sherman’s march to the sea, writes Victor Davis Hanson approvingly, was a war of ‘terror’ intended to destroy an aristocratic Southern culture he hated because of its impudence in resisting the central government’s authority. Although rarely acknowledged as such, Sherman could be considered America’s first ‘civil rights’ crusader. This isn’t an endorsement of Sherman; it’s an indictment of contemporary ‘civil rights’ ideology...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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