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By Ye Xie and Anchalee Worrachate

Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23698.htm



A Dollar Rout Or More Bernanke Trickery?

By Mike Whitney

The only way to weaken the dollar further is through asymmetrical warfare, a disinformation campaign aimed at triggering a sell-off before the dollar strengthens when the stock market corrects and credit tightens even more. Is that what Bernanke has in mind?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23699.htm



'Benign currency neglect' could spell real danger for US economy

What's happening to the dollar? That's the question dominating the world's financial markets. Last week the US currency fell, on a trade-weighted basis, to a fresh 14-month low. The dollar's decline is now gaining momentum.

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US facing massive economic 'power shift' with dollar's downward spiral

The dollar's position as the world's leading reserve currency faces increased pressure as the financial crisis allows emerging economies greater influence on the world stage, analysts said.

http://snipurl.com/sh8l4



U.S. states suffer "unbelievable" revenue shortages

"It's crazy. It's really just unbelievable," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers, and called the states' revenue situations "close to unprecedented."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091009/pl_nm/us_usa_state_budgets


From Information Clearing House



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Matt Renner, Truthout: "On January 21, Obama signed an executive order instructing all federal agencies and departments to 'adopt a presumption in favor' of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and promised to make the federal government more transparent ... But since that time, the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that civil libertarians say amounts to covering up crimes committed by the Bush administration."

http://www.truthout.org/10120912



The Myth of "America"

Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, Truthout: "In 1892, the National Council of Churches, the largest ecumenical body in the United States, is known to have exhorted Christians to refrain from celebrating the Columbus quincentennial, saying, 'What represented newness of freedom, hope, and opportunity for some was the occasion for oppression, degradation and genocide for others.' Yet America continues to celebrate 'Columbus Day.'"

http://www.truthout.org/1012091



Obama at the Precipice: Tough Guys Don't Need to Dance in Afghanistan

Willian Astore, TomDispatch.com: "It's early in 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson faces a critical decision. Should he escalate in Vietnam? Should he say 'yes' to the request from U.S. commanders for more troops? Or should he change strategy, downsize the American commitment, even withdraw completely, a decision that would help him focus on his top domestic priority, 'The Great Society' he hopes to build?"

http://www.truthout.org/1012092



The Price of Peace

Jerica Arents, Truthout: "While waiting to be processed at the Anacostia Park Police Station, I was drawn to a mounted, post-9/11, Bush-era FBI reward poster. 'The Cost of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance,' propagated the sign. The unrestrained madness is as prevalent today as it was eight years ago: Obama is continuing Bush's war folly."

http://www.truthout.org/1012099



He Won Because He Speaks of Peace

Andrew Stelzer, Truthout: "He won because he spoke about peace and people listened. That is rare. The whole world listened, and is still listening to this man who speaks of peace, who clearly believes in it, although his actions don't always seem to move towards that goal. Think of how few people have spoken about peace, from the heart, and had the world pay attention. It happens rarely. And it's part of why we fall so short of peace."

http://www.truthout.org/1012097



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Der Fall Hosam Maher Husein Smadi und eine große Sicherheitslücke in den USA.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146329

Billionen US-Dollar im Schwarzen Fed-Loch verschwunden?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31275/1.html



Fannie Mae und Freddie Mac brauchen weitere Staatshilfen

Mit 96 Milliarden US-Dollar ist es wohl längst nicht getan.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146337



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It produces disease, including swine flu.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/curtis2.1.1.html



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The Nobel Prize, the Brand and the President

By Gilad Atzmon

Obama may have to find some other policies to pursue peace rather than killing Muslims. Time will tell whether the Nobel Committee gamble justified itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23701.htm

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On the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace

True/Slant
by Matt Taibbi

10/13/09

The Nobel Peace Prize long ago ceased to be an award given to people who really spend their whole careers agitating for peace. Like most awards the Prize has evolved into a kind of maraschino cherry for hardcore careerists to place atop their resumes, a reward not for dissidence but on the contrary for gamely upholding the values of Western society as it perceives itself, for putting a good face on things (in Obama’s place, literally so). Even when the award is given to a genuine dissident, it tends to be a dissident hailing from a country we consider outside the fold of Western civilization, a rogue state, ‘not one of us’ …. You never, ever get a true dissident from a prominent Western country winning the award, despite the obvious appropriateness such a choice would represent. Our Western society quite openly embraces war as a means of solving problems and for quite some time now has fashioned its entire social and economic structure around the preparation for war...

http://tinyurl.com/yf6e5r4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Against the Totalitarian Tide
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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Here, then, are those principles that, to me, must never be surrendered. To surrender these liberties to Big Government would mean to commit idolatry. It would be sacrilege. It would reduce us to slavery. It would destroy our humanity. To surrender these freedoms would mean "absolute Despotism" and would provide moral justification to the proposition that such tyranny be "thrown off." The seven principles are........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin539.htm



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A Columbus Day Meditation - As Nobel Laureate Obama Decides Whether to 'Conquer' Afghanistan...

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



The System Let Obama Be President. But He Still May Not Be Able to Beat It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/12-2



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