World-News

CNN

12/02/09

On the eve of what’s expected to be a tough confirmation hearing Thursday, one senator has thrown up a political roadblock intended to stymie Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s second term. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said late Wednesday that he will put a hold on Bernanke’s nomination. A hold is an informal practice in which a senator informs the majority leader that he does not want a measure or nomination to reach the floor for a vote...

http://tinyurl.com/yaazf24



An answer to Bernanke

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

12/03/09

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (November 29th Washington Post) does not want us to know any of the details of the Fed’s secret operations. This position is not surprising and has been typical of all central bank chairmen. Bernanke’s stated goal in his editorial is ‘To design a system of financial oversight …’ that will ‘provide a robust framework for preventing future crises.’ During its 96 years of existence, the Federal Reserve has played havoc with our economy and brought great suffering to millions through unemployment and price escalation...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=407



A few questions for Fed chief Bernanke

Cato Institute
by Mark A. Calabria

On Dec. 3 the U.S. Senate Banking Committee meets to hold a hearing on the nomination of Ben Bernanke to another term as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Although Bernanke is almost assured confirmation by the Banking Committee and the full Senate, this is perhaps the only opportunity for Congress, and the American public, to get a fuller accounting of both Bernanke’s role in creating the financial crisis and responding to it...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11030


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bunning to Bernanke
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/bunning1.1.1.html

Bernanke and Fed in Crosshairs of Left and Right
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/bernanke-in-crosshairs.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+A.+Calabria
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano11.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=napolitano

William Fisher, Truthout: "Thousands of legitimate refugees and asylum seekers - who pose no danger to the United States and who have committed no acts of wrongdoing - are being labeled "terrorists" and their applications for protection are being denied or delayed because of overly broad "terrorism" provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)."

http://www.truthout.org/1202099



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Jacques Attali, L'Express (Translation: Leslie Thatcher): "When will people finally realize that the discourse of many leaders over months now about the return of growth, the effectiveness of the G-20 and the end of the crisis are nothing but a farce? Not only has nothing been resolved, not only has no truly serious measure been taken, but on top of that, the management of the crisis up until now has only fattened the avalanche that will tumble down over following generations."

http://www.truthout.org/1202094



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacques+Attali

Alex Abdo, The Hill: "Records obtained late last month by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new information about the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of prisoners at CIA black sites, including the precise date the tapes were destroyed and evidence that the White House was involved in early discussions about the proposed destruction."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/120209vh06

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CIA Cable "Granting Permission" to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces

A January 8 release of documents in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit seeking materials related to the CIA's destruction of videotapes of interrogators using "enhanced interrogation techniques" has revealed the first evidence of a precise instruction for the destruction of those tapes.

http://snipurl.com/u42ou


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=black+sites
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=videotape
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alex+Abdo

Between summer 2008 and summer 2009, demand for food assistance increased by over 30 percent nationally. Ninety-nine percent of participating charities reported an increase in demand and 92 percent witnessed an increase of newly unemployed workers seeking assistance.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/food-n28.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+assistance
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Lawyers for the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face prosecution in the U.S. asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss the criminal charges against him, saying his lengthy detention overseas and the use of interrogation techniques "amounting to torture" violated his constitutional rights.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091201-716226.html



UK: High court makes "historic" terrorism evidence ruling

London's High Court ruled against the British government on Tuesday over the use of secret evidence to deny terrorism suspects bail in what campaigners called an "historic" judgement.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5B030620091201


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
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The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling that would have required the government to release photographs showing the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/politics/01scotus.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee+photo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

By Raj Patel

If war is God's way of teaching Americans geography, recession is His way of teaching everyone a little economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24097.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raj+Patel

By Gordon Duff

Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan. He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies. He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are examined, a farce.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24095.htm



A Foreign Invader and Occupier

The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down

By Jacob G. Hornberger

What will those additional troops do? They will kill and maim and incarcerate and torture people. That's their job. Sure, they'll call it pacifying the country, establishing law and order, spreading democracy, and waging the war on terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24091.htm

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When truth no longer matters

Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

12/13/09

Truth is the best defense, or so people think. It is said — and are accepted Maxims — that the truth sets you free and that the truth will always out. And, then there is another truism, that a lie may only be defended with another lie. Once upon a time in the great new land of America, and for perhaps a century and a half following its creation, that the truth did matter, and that the truth would set one free when wrongfully accused...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3508


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spreading+democracy
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