World-News

Reuters reports a spokesperson from the Islamist Al-Shabaab group in Somalia claiming that the US mercenary group Blackwater/Xe Services is in Somalia, is recruiting and is planning a series of spectacular terrorist attacks against civilians to discredit his movement in Mogadishu.

http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/13-01-2010/111632-blackwater-0


From Information Clearing House

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Schakowsky Prepares Legislation to Ban Blackwater

Jeremy Scahill, The Rebel Report: "As multiple scandals involving Blackwater continue to emerge almost daily, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is preparing to introduce legislation aimed at ending the US government's relationship with Blackwater and other armed contracting companies. 'In 2009, the U.S. government employed well over 20,000 armed private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there is every indication that these figures will continue to rise in 2010,' Schakowsky wrote in a 'Dear Colleage' letter asking for support for her Stop Outsourcing Security (SOS) Act."

http://www.truthout.org/schakowsky-prepares-legislation-ban-blackwater56058



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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Fitch Ratings has issued the starkest warning to date that the US will lose its AAA credit rating unless acts to bring the budget deficit under control, citing a spiral in debt service costs and dependence on foreign lenders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24383.htm



Engineering Poverty

Food Stamp Profits?

Audio Report By Stacy Herbert & Max Keiser

How JP Morgan gets rich with increased poverty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24382.htm

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Just what we need: More Pentagon spending

AntiWar.Com
by Winslow T. Wheeler

01/16/10

The Defense Department spends in a few hours more than al Qaeda spends in an entire year. For this post-World War II high in spending, we get the smallest Army, Navy, and Air Force we have had since 1946. And, our tanks, ships, and aircraft are, on average, older than they have ever been before. And, major elements of our forces are getting less training than they did even during the so-called ‘hollow’ years of the Jimmy Carter Pentagon. Those levels of Pentagon spending do not include what we pay for foreign aid, arms sales and arms control, Veterans, Homeland Security, the Pentagon’s share of interest on the national debt, and more. To tally up our entire national security budget, we can get very cozy with $1 Trillion. Feeling secure? I’m not. Feeling President Obama has a handle on things? I don’t...

http://tinyurl.com/yat793j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Obama and Afghanistan: America’s Drug-Corrupted War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd1.1.1.html

Why Journalist Gary Webb Died
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/parry1.html

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Obama's Alternate Universe

By Scott Ritter

2010 will be a very bad year for the American people, and the world as a whole, simply because those who can make a difference are operating in an alternative policy universe governed by the self-serving interests of those who use politically induced fear as a mechanism of placating a public oblivious to the fact that they are sleepwalking ever closer to a demise of their own making.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24385.htm



Obama will seek additional $33 billion for wars

Obama will seek additional $33 billion for warsThe Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-seek-additional-33-billion-wars/



US think tank seeks to connect Iran, Yemen, Qaeda

A report says a high-profile neoconservative think tank in the United States is reportedly working to establish a link between Iran, the Yemeni opposition groups and al-Qaeda militants.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115990&sectionid=351020206



Top Ten Counter-Terrorism Scandals 2010

The entire premise of combating al-Qaeda as though it were an enemy army, using the Pentagon as the lead agency, while simultaneously militarizing the CIA, needs to be questioned.

http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/top-counter.html


From Information Clearing House

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666 to 1: The US Military, al-Qaeda, and a War of Futility
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/15-0



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber39.1.html

The Stock Market Is Set To Crash
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey37.1.html

Faber Lashes Out – Again
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber44.1.html



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The panty bomber mystery deepens
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo69.html

Anatomy of a Cover-Up
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/burghardt3.1.1.html

The Truth About Flight 253 Has Been Revealed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pr/haskell-truth-flight253.html

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U.S. Mulls Legality of Killing American Citizen

By MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS

While Awlaki has not been charged with any crimes under U.S. law, intelligence officials say recent intelligence reports and electronic intercepts show he played an important role in recruiting the accused "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24500.htm



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Wirtschaftskrise: Die Jugendzeit wird für Amerikaner wieder kürzer und manche Jobs sind für immer verloren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146892



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Consider the record of the American media over the last two weeks alone.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24378.htm



Rupert Murdoch Begins Blocking News Aggregators, Search Engines

New Corp honcho Rupert Murdoch has been known to refer to those running the web as "plagiarists" and "parasites," threatening to remove all of his content from search engines like Google (especially if Bing is willing to pay up). Many wondered if he was bluffing, but now the process seems to have begun, with the Times Online blocking aggregation of its stories.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rupert-murdoch-begins-blocking-new-aggregators-search-engines/


From Information Clearing House



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By Megan Tady

Millions of Americans don't know that a battle over the future of the Internet is being played out right now in Washington. How it ends will have deep repercussions for decades to come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24377.htm

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Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan

Establishment mouthpiece calls for web ID system that would outstrip Communist Chinese style net censorship

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Time Magazine has enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Microsoft executive Craig Mundie’s call for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/time-magazine-pushes-draconian-internet-licensing-plan.html



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By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Muslims stayed out of our Thirty Years' War. Perhaps we would do well to get out of theirs. But as long as we take sides in their wars, those we fight and kill over there will come to kill us over here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24373.htm

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War is theft
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/783.html



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