World-News

The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this morning.

http://snipurl.com/tf0la



Bank 'problem' list climbs to 552

Number at risk of failing soars in latest quarter. Deposit insurance fund slips into the red for first time since 1992.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/news/companies/fdic_list/index.htm



FDIC insurance fund closes quarter $8.2 billion in debt

As the number of problem U.S. banks swells to the hundreds, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is increasingly hard-pressed to fill in the gaps where institutions have put depositor's funds at risk.

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fdic-insurance-fund-closes-quarter-82-billion-debt/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IMF
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
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The clear message of the 125-page majority appellate panel opinion is that attorneys who zealously represent their clients in the post-9/11 era beware.

http://marjoriecohn.com/2009/11/lynne-stewart-casualty-of-war-on-terror.html



US Responsible For 9/11

By Howard Zinn

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24142.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
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By Robert Scheer

Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown? Or for the many other acts of double-dealing that left one out of three American homeowners owing much more than their houses were worth while the folks who swindled them were rewarded with hundreds of billions in public money?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24065.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/25-1



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Mother Jones
by David Corn

11/24/09

Whatever happened to the so-called ‘black sites,’ where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that included torture? On April 9, CIA chief Leon Panetta issued a statement notifying CIA employees that the agency ‘no longer operates detention facilities or black sites’ — which were effectively shut down in the fall of 2006 — ‘and has proposed a plan to decommission the remaining sites.’ In the months since then, lawyers for several terrorism suspects have been trying to determine the status of these sites, as they seek evidence for their cases. But the US government has refused to disclose anything about what it has done with these facilities...

http://tinyurl.com/ydqgfwl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Panetta
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Libertarian News Examiner

11/24/09

Penn State University Professor Emeritus Julian Heicklen keeps returning to the scene of the crimes committed against him by Homeland Security police who confront him whenever he attempts to distribute Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) pamphlets to his fellow citizens. But he likely didn’t expect to be grabbed, punched, pounded on, stripped, and involuntarily stuck with needles...

http://tinyurl.com/yexkfse


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

Nachdem der US-Dollar immer mehr zum globalen Problem wird, beschäftigte sich auch der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) mit der Zukunft des Weltwährungssystems.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31558/1.html



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

Ray McGovern, Truthout: "It's not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired Gen. Douglas McArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/1124093



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/737.html



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