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"War is not a Game!"

Die Rekrutierungsmethoden der US-Armee geraten zunehmend in die Kritik. Die Keimzelle des Widerstands bildet ein High-Tech-Spielecenter in Philadelphia.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/146672



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Truthout Editor Sari Gelzer interviews British Journalist Andy Worthington, who has spent the past several years exposing the stories on the hundreds of men who were taken to Guantanamo prison. Worthington recently toured the US with a new documentary, 'Outside the Law: Stories From Guantanamo,' which he co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash. Watch the interview to gain insight into the current predicament the US faces in closing the prison and view clips from the gripping documentary that highlights the human cost of imprisoning people with disregard to the Geneva Conventions.

http://www.truthout.org/1203091



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The Dollar Meltdown
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1755783/12759198/106493/0/

Dump US Dollar, Invest in Commodities
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j61.1.html

Protecting Yourself From Currency Collapse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/dollar-meltdown2.html



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"Congressman addresses warmongers, directly asks Gates, Clinton if they support Bush doctrine of "preventive war"

Steve Watson,
Infowars.net
Thursday, Dec 3, 2009

In comments before the House and during a televised interview yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul pointed out that with the decision to increase troop presence in Afghanistan and into Pakistan, president Obama is preparing to continue on the path of “perpetual war for perpetual peace”.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-obama-is-preparing-for-perpetual-war.html



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Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices



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By Adam Ciralsky

Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees, set for next month.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24109.htm



Erik Prince, head of US security firm Blackwater, 'was CIA operative'

He was a CIA operative, with his own file as a "vetted asset" at the agency's headquarters, and a mission to build "a unilateral, unattributable capability" to hunt down and kill al-Qaeda militants for the US Government wherever they could be found.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6945254.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Blackwater chief confirms CIA ties

Washington Post

12/03/09

The founder of Blackwater Worldwide acknowledged in an interview published Wednesday that he had helped the CIA with secret programs targeting top al-Qaida leaders, a role he says was intended to give the agency ‘unattributable capability’ in sensitive missions. Erik Prince, owner of the military contractor now known as Xe Services, told Vanity Fair magazine that his company performed numerous ‘very risky missions’ for the spy agency, some of which were improperly exposed in leaks to the news media. … Among other, previously undisclosed roles, Prince ran intelligence-gathering operations to coordinate the movement of undercover spies in ‘one of the so-called Axis of Evil countries,’ the magazine said...

http://tinyurl.com/ygnozfy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Blackwater Founder Tells of Extensive Government-Contracted Assassinations

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The head of Blackwater revealed the details Tuesday of his collaboration with the CIA to locate and assassinate top al-Qaeda operatives as part of a covert antiterror operation, and blamed Democrats for the leak that ended the program."

http://www.truthout.org/1204097



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BY IFTEKHAR A KHAN

General Peter Chiarelli, US Vice Chief of Staff, has revealed in his briefing to the Pentagon that "suicides in the army will escalate." Certainly, these incidents among the troops have increased because the soldiers see no point in laying down their lives in purposeless wars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24110.htm



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Freedom Politics
by John Stossel

11/25/09

When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician. President Obama insists that health care ‘reform’ not ‘add a dime’ to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow ‘$900 billion over 10 years’ has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit...

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The house that Uncle Sam built

Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke

12/02/09

The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for decades, namely, that the more they try to inflate and direct the economy, the more damage the rest of us will suffer sooner or later. Hindsight is always 20-20, but in this instance, good old-fashioned common sense would have provided all the foresight needed to avoid the mess we’re in...

http://fee.org/doc/the-house-that-uncle-sam-built/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

12/02/09

The crusade against moral hypocrisy necessarily hits conservatives harder, not because conservatives are more immoral, but because they uphold morality more publicly, making them richer targets. The Left aims much of its moralizing at moralizing itself — ‘thou shalt not judge.’ Meanwhile, the Right focuses on the oldies but goodies — adultery, drug use, etc. I think we’re right to uphold a standard even if we sometimes fail to live up to it. What I don’t think we hear enough about is intellectual hypocrisy. What’s that? Well, if moral hypocrisy is saying what values people should live by while failing to follow them yourself, intellectual hypocrisy is believing you are smart enough to run other peoples’ lives when you can barely run your own...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Computer World

12/02/09

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic have filed a lawsuit against six government agencies, seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It invoked the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in seeking information from the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, Central Intelligence Agency, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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