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Bozeman Daily Chronicle

12/10/09

Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Thursday. Blackwater’s role points to a much deeper connection between the company and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed and raises concerns over the legalities of involving contractors in the most sensitive operations conducted by the U.S. government...

http://tinyurl.com/yk5fy4k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Mercenaries Murdered "Militants"

Private Guards 'Took Part in Raids on al-Qaeda Militants'

By Giles Whittell and Tim Reid

According to former Blackwater staff, sent to protect CIA officers in the field, they helped to kill militants targeted in "snatch and grab" raids.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24164.htm



Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret C.I.A. Kidnapping

Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive activities - clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html


From Information Clearing House

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Extent of Blackwater and CIA Collaboration Uncovered

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "New details of Blackwater participation in clandestine CIA raids detail the extent to which private security contractors were involved in covert government antiterror operations."

http://www.truthout.org/12110909



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Stop the U.S. Energy Industry's War on Native Peoples and Lands

Indigenous Activists March on U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen Urging Obama to "Stop the U.S. Energy Industry's War on Native Peoples and Lands".

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/10-1



New Senate Climate Bill Is “Slap in the Face to Everything that Earth Day Stands For”

http://act.commondreams.org/go/323?akid=31.124981.droUBq&t=17

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Leaders of the Rich World Are Enacting a Giant Fraud

Every delegate to the Copenhagen summit is being greeted by the sight of a vast fake planet dominating the city's central square. This swirling globe is covered with corporate logos - the Coke brand is stamped over Africa, while Carlsberg appears to own Asia, and McDonald's announces "I'm loving it!" in great red letters above.

http://snipurl.com/tnlqm


From Information Clearing House

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US Senators: More Coal, Oil and Nukes Are "Solution" for Global Warming

Art Levine, Truthout: "A bipartisan coalition of US senators put forward a 'framework' for climate legislation that aims to dramatically increase offshore oil drilling, ensure a 'future for coal' and, above all, ramp up subsidies for the financially risky nuclear power industry. The announcement was timed, in part, to send a signal to negotiators at the climate conference in Copenhagen that the US Senate is supposedly serious about climate reform."

http://www.truthout.org/12110904

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Live from Copenhagen: Follow us at the Climate Talks
http://wilderness.org/content/live-copenhagen-follow-us-climate-talks

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Obama to permit oil exploration off Virginia coast

Reuters

03/30/10

President Barack Obama is to announce on Wednesday a plan to permit exploration for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia as a way to create jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Obama, who wants Congress to move a stalled climate change bill, has sought to reach out to Republicans by signaling he is open to allowing offshore drilling, providing coastlines are protected...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62T06520100331


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/10-7

That Unpopular Bank Bailout? Geithner Wants to Extend It
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/10-5



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

According to an obscure report in the European Union Times (EUTimes.net), "Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to 'begin immediately' increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin554.htm



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Obama, Secessionist Movements and the Nobel Prize
http://www.lewrockwell.com/longcore/longcore14.1.html

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Obama Defends War as He Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/10-1

Mr. President, War Is Not Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/10-3

The Nine Surges of Obama's War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/10-5

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama's Nobel Prize vs. Policies
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/10-4

Norman Solomon on Afghan Escalation and Healthcare Fiasco
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/14-1

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Nelson Proposes War Bonds to Fund Wars

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Working to help fund ongoing wars without sharp tax increases or increased foreign borrowing has led Nebraska's Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) to introduce a new measure Tuesday: the US War Bonds Act of 2009. The legislation would authorize the Treasury to issue and market War Bonds to the American people to help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/1210094



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By Ted Rall

What a joke! When you ask a bunch of generals and the secretary of defense for advice about a war, the results are pre-determined: more bang bang, more soldiers, more planes, more bombs, more coffins. The amazing part is how far we've traveled down the path towards all war, all the time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24152.htm



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Salon
by Andrew Leonard

12/09/09

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest point in 15 million years. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the current decade is the warmest on record, and the current year is the fifth warmest ever — observations that are supported by data collected by multiple climate research centers. Evidence of global warming comes from many reinforcing points — melting polar ice, rising sea levels, changes in plant and animal ecology across the globe. Palin’s assertion that we can’t ’say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes’ is far more highly politicized than anything that comes out of the Climate Research Unit. It is fundamentally anti-science...

http://tinyurl.com/ydwkcb9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Liberty For All
by Donna Mancini

12/09/09

Governments run up the cost of essential goods and services, by making them so called ‘rights’ or entitlements. When something is ‘free,’ people overuse it. When it is paid for by other people aka third parties or insurance, the people using the goods and services don’t care what they are charged because they aren’t paying for it, which ultimately raises prices for all. Service providers are guaranteed payment by the government or insurance company, and not wanting to or having to deal with delinquent accounts like others in the so called ‘free market’ — (we cannot in reality say we have a free market in America because almost everything is regulated by bureaucrats) — providers hesitate or refuse to give care to those who do not have the insurance or government coverage...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3494



Crime must have a consequence

Last Free Voice
by Donald Meinshausen

12/08/09

One of the reasons that crime is punished and the criminal so dramatically humiliated is so that others who might consider such acts are warned by the consequences of criminality. This is accepted as the basis of any society that holds to a theory of justice. For if it becomes relatively easy for a person to do crime and enjoy the fruits then what happens to the general mores of society? How do we uphold the standards of non-coercion, honesty, thrift and work? How do we instill a sense of guilt to the perpetrator? If we don’t then soon it will be regarded as foolish to work honestly. The country then can become a war of all vs. all where more and more assets are based on stealing and protection against rather than being engaged in productive behavior. A poor, frightened society ripe for tyranny emerges after such times. This goes in spades when we are considering the greatest theft in the history of civilization. The current international regime of Bush/Obama has orchestrated bailouts, nationalizations and inflationary debt that have run into trillions of dollars...

http://tinyurl.com/ydztj2g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Frum Forum

12/09/09

Cracking jokes about Congressional thievery is something of a national past-time. But the results of the newest Gallup poll will likely startle even the cynical news dorks that have read enough of these polls to know that the American people don’t think highly of their government. For the first time since Gallup began conducting its annual ‘Honesty and Ethics of Professions’ poll, a majority (55%) of Americans responded that they believe the honesty and ethical standards of ‘members of Congress’ are ‘low’ or ‘very low.’ The American people don’t think senators are particularly upstanding citizens either: 49% said Senators have ‘low or very low’ ethical standards...

http://www.frumforum.com/congress-less-trusted-than-ever


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bloomberg

12/10/09

Foreclosure filings in the U.S. will reach a record for the second consecutive year with 3.9 million notices sent to homeowners in default, RealtyTrac Inc. said. This year’s filings will surpass 2008’s total of 3.2 million as record unemployment and price erosion batter the housing market, the Irvine, California-based company said...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6aLuu9zxbcM


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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