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Pound falls again on deficit fears

Sterling drops below $1.50 on warnings from ratings agency Fitch - January's trade gap nears £8bn adding to pressure on pound.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/09/pound-falls-deficit-fears



Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson warns

"We're running out of time ... to prevent a true depression." He says unless we break Wall Street's "stranglehold" we will be unable prevent the Great Depression 2.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/3204/Economists_Warn:_Another_Great_Depression_is_Likely.html



43% have less than $10k for retirement

The percentage of American workers with virtually no retirement savings grew for the third straight year, according to a survey released Tuesday.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/09/pf/retirement_confidence


From Information Clearing House



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Video Interview

A man named Splitting the Sky, tried to arrest former President George W. Bush for war crimes. He crossed police lines during President Bush's visit to Canada and was arrested. He now faces criminal charges in court, the trial began today, March 08, 2010.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24950.htm



Rove 'proud' of US waterboarding terror suspects

In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8563547.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Sorry, Rove, Bush DID lie about Iraq

In These Times
by Robert Parry

03/09/10

George W. Bush’s political adviser Karl Rove claims ‘one of the biggest mistakes’ of that presidency was not aggressively challenging critics who charged that Bush ‘lied’ to the American people about the reasons for the Iraq War, an accusation that Rove insists was false and unfair. In his forthcoming book, Courage and Consequence, Rove calls the ‘lie’ charge ‘a poison-tipped dagger aimed at the heart of the Bush presidency’ and blames himself for ‘a weak response’ that underestimated ‘how damaging this assault was.’ But the problem with Rove’s account is that not only did Bush oversee the twisting of intelligence to justify invading Iraq in March 2003 but he subsequently lied — repeatedly — about how Iraq had responded to United Nations inspection demands...

http://tinyurl.com/yjwdzpn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Historians warning of a sudden 'thief at night,' an 'accelerating car crash'

By Paul B. Farrell

Harvard's Niall Ferguson, one of the world's leading financial historians, echoes Diamond's warning: "Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice." Yes, America is on the edge.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24949.htm



Stumbling About In the Graveyard of Empires

By David Michael Green

Where is the public which, in a democracy, can control their government? Where are the fine American citizens, with their "Support the Troops" bumper-stickers cracked and fading on the back of their SUVs? Where are the great advocates of Christian morality, reading about cheek-turning in their bibles at night, and pouring out of churches on Sunday mornings? Where are they, indeed?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25038.htm

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How Dare You Tell the Truth About the Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald63.html



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By Leo Hindery Jr.

At least 50 million people are ill-fed -- up from 37 million just a year ago -- including 17 million children. Hunger in America is now at an all-time high, and there are currently entire national geographic regions -- the very large 15-state 'South' being one of them -- where more than half of all public school students are poor and ill-fed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24948.htm



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Video Interview With Dr. Dahlia Wasfi

Are Americans defending U.S. national security, or the security of our colonial outpost in the Arab World?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24945.htm



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Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair, Truthout: "He may soon be called the nuclear industry's Golden Child. No president in the last three decades has put more taxpayer dollars behind atom power than Barack Obama. And there may be good reason why the president is salivating over the prospect of building new nuclear power plants around the country."

http://www.truthout.org/obamas-nuclear-dreams-resurrecting-a-noxious-industry57507



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The crowd at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, gathered to hear their candidate outline his grand strategy for a new way forward and Barack Obama delivered. 'I will reject a legal framework that does not work,' Obama said, his words slightly drowned out by the loud applause that erupted."

http://www.truthout.org/the-unmaking-a-campaign-promise-obama-and-military-tribunals57493



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/09-11

Obama Sabotages Himself with Fake 'Pragmatism'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/09-12

Obama Administration a Year Behind on Scientific Integrity Plan
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/09-17

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Reality Challenges the CIA, Part 2

Economist Samir Amin deciphers the latest CIA report on the state of the world. He shows that intelligence agency experts still see a single view only: the American model's dominance. In the first part, Samir Amin described the experts' capitalist blindness. In this section, he describes how the CIA analysis fails to meet the challenges of the real world and the better world that is possible.

http://www.truthout.org/reality-challenges-cia-part-257504

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American Military: Trust in the Last Vestige of US Dominance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner432.html



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by Lynn Stuter

In order for the United States to coalesce other nations in pursuit of the sustainable global environment, the middle class must be exterminated, leaving the two classes characterizing all third world nations: the elitists who rule with a heavy hand, and the poor who live in squalor with no hope of anything better. This is the feudal system of the Dark Ages, when ignorance and lack of education kept people repressed, when witchcraft, paganism and Gnosticism permeated the culture just as it is today..........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter181.htm



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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

03/08/10

“One of the most inane acts undertaken by the Democratic Congress was its formal and highly bipartisan condemnation of MoveOn.org’s ‘Petraeus/Betrayus’ ad. Regardless of one’s views of that ad, formally opining on the views of private citizens is not the role of Congress. But since they did that, and apparently believe that repugnant political campaigns merit Congressional disapproval, shouldn’t there be some form of formal sanction for the far more pernicious and genuinely McCarthyite attacks on DOJ lawyers from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s ‘Keep America Safe?’ So reprehensible was that campaign that numerous right-wing lawyers have vehemenetly condemned it — including Ken Starr, David Rivkin, Ted Olsen, and even (ironically) former Bush official Cully Stimson — with most of them signing a letter decrying it as ‘a shameful series of attacks’ that are ‘destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications.’ There is a real opportunity here to cause that rarest of political events: namely, having someone’s credibility and standing be diminished by virtue of repugnant acts...

http://tinyurl.com/yazz947



Republican witch-hunters embrace dictatorship

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Are there no depths to which conservatives will not sink in their ardent embrace of the war on terrorism? The latest monstrosity from the right came courtesy of Keep America Safe, a toxic organization headed by Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who recently put out a disgraceful TV ad, ‘Who Are the Al-Qaeda Seven?’ The ad questioned the loyalty and patriotism of nine lawyers in the Justice Department who had represented prisoners at Guantanamo before joining the DoJ...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1003e.asp



Glenn Beck: Conservatism’s snake oil salesman, part 1

Our Future Blog
by Terrance Heath

03/15/10

The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the ’stage’ of conservative media — that medicine show never stops rolling and never stops hawking its ’solutions’ to Americans in desperate need of something to ease their economic aches and pains, and heal their political maladies. And like the medicine shows of old, Glenn Beck — and others like him — peddle magical ‘miracle cures’ that either poison directly by filling the body politic with toxic bile, or indirectly by distracting us from actual solutions, and aren’t intended to ‘cure what ails us’ so much as to make us think that we feel better even as the illness progresses...

http://tinyurl.com/ygldy2t


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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"Values" of a Smear

Eugene Robinson: "The word 'McCarthyism' is overused, but in this case it's mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has in her hand a list of nine Justice Department lawyers whose 'values' she has the gall to question. She ought to spend the time examining her own principles, if she can find them."

http://www.truthout.org/values-a-smear57484

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Why Netanyahu Canceled His DC Visit, and Why the GOP Is Applauding

By Daniel Levy

Speaking to Republican party loyalists at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Liz Cheney in a manner that was not only very predictable but also as one imagines Netanyahu would have scripted her -- attacked the president of her own country for what she called his "shabby" and "disgraceful" treatment of Israel. The party faithful applauded.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25184.htm



The Weird Theology of Glenn Beck and His Cohorts

The New Christian Right and Christianity

By Robert Fantina

It is an unfortunate truth that organizations ranging from the mildly amusing to the extremely dangerous have all co-opted the term 'Christian.' Christian Right, Christian Coalition, etc., all use the term without, apparently, knowing what it means. It has reached a point where even Christians cringe when they hear the word in political commentary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25299.htm



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