World-News: 24 Februar 2011

By Michael Hastings

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned - and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27560.htm

History is the Enemy as 'Brilliant' Psy-ops Become the News

By John Pilger

History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31666.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bhopal
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Hastings
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Pilger
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:22

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The Push of Conscience and Secretary Clinton

By Ray McGovern

Hillary Clinton - both as a U.S. senator and as Secretary of State - has demonstrated a nonchalant readiness to unleash the vast destructiveness of American military power. The charitable explanation, I suppose, is that she knows nothing of war from direct personal experience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27557.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hillary
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 22:19

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Training von Lehrkräften in der Gesamtschule Friedenstal

Wochenanzeiger Herford

Nicht nur direktes Mobbing, sondern auch speziell Cybermobbing ist unter Kindern und Jugendlichen viel stärker verbreitet, als Lehrkräfte und Eltern ahnen. ...

http://www.wochenanzeiger-herford.de/Umfassend-fortgebildet-zum-Thema-Gewalt-und-Mobbing-101284.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cybermobbing
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3561020/

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Starmail - 24. Feb, 21:55

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Next-up News Nr 1612

- Nantes 7 TV 'Antennes relais Écoles Charles Lebourg: 4,48 V/m'
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/06Vm.php
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 12:26

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Why Monsantos GM seeds are undemocratic

The Christian Science Monitor
by Christopher D. Cook

02/23/11

Question: Would you want a small handful of government officials controlling America?s entire food supply, all its seeds and harvests? I suspect most would scream, 'No way!' Yet, while America seems allergic to public servants -? with no profit motive in mind ?- controlling anything these days, a knee-jerk faith in the 'free market' has led to overwhelming centralized control of nearly all our food stuffs, from farm to fork...

http://tinyurl.com/6a67ccf

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Monsanto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GMOs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+supply
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+D.+Cook
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 09:22

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The curse of negative home equity

Distressed Homes Accounted for Nearly Half of January Sales

Already, in the key state of California, the survey found distressed property transactions account for 66 percent of the market.

http://bit.ly/hcTJ6U

The curse of negative home equity: Florida

43% Of Mortgages Underwater, 11% Of Homes In Foreclosure.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/19/2076031/the-curse-of-negative-home-equity.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+equity
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:37

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Lawsuit alleges FBI violated Muslims freedom of religion

An FBI informant who infiltrated a California mosque violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of Muslims by targeting them for surveillance because of their religion, the ACLU and a Muslim group said in a lawsuit Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206975.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ACLU
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:29

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118 drone raids killed only two top militants

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States launched 118 drone attacks in Pakistan last year, but managed to kill only two "most-wanted" terrorists, The Washington Post has reported.

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/542adc82-6123-4ec7-b455-dff651dd46a9.aspx

Pakistan: Teen 'victim' of US attack 'Stop drone use'

15-year-old Sadaullah lost both legs and an eye in a bombing in North Wazirstan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12511142

Extrajudicial Killing: US Kills 6 People In Pakistan

The officials said three missiles slammed into the house, killing four people. Two people were killed in the strike on the car. They did not identify the victims.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/sns-bc-as--pakistan,0,6715038..story

From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: Suspected US drone strikes kill seven

RTT News

02/24/11

As many as seven people have been killed in two attacks by US pilotless aircraft in Pakistan's volatile north-western tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, reports said on Thursday. ... three missiles were fired at a residential compound in Dattakhel Mohammedkhel area near Miranshah in North Waziristan. Five people died in the attack .... two people were killed when a missile strike from another drone hit a vehicle proceeding towards the house that was targeted earlier...

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1561390&SM=1

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wazirstan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tribal+region
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial

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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:25

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Afghan security at worst state since Taliban: UN

The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said yesterday.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=175320

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:22

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Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money

Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:05

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Climate Change and Agriculture: Biodiverse Ecological Farming Is the Answer, Not Genetic Engineering

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23

Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23-9

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=biodiverse
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kate+Desterberg
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 08:01

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A Global Call for Sharing and Justice

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23-1

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In Libya and elsewhere, the state depends on submission

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

02/22/11

Today in Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, free individuals, having awoken to the proposition that state power depends on their submission, are disobeying the despotic orders of the political class. In the face of savage violence and the stark disregard of their pleas for freedom, people in these countries continue to gather together in audacious defiance of those who call themselves rulers...

http://c4ss.org/content/6239

Overdue end to the old world order

Spiked
by Mick Hume

02/23/11

The Arab uprisings shocked us all -- but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10223/

Tiptoeing to war with Libya

The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy

02/22/11

Aside from making Western interventionists feel better about themselves, the only use the symbolic measures proposed by Lynch have is to set a pretext for large-scale military invention, which Lynch insists he does not want. ('I don?t call for a direct military intervention.') Imposing no-fly zone is not symbolic, of course: it?s 'direct military intervention' pure and simple, an act of war. If a single NATO jet goes down, pressure to invade North Africa will be nigh irresistible. Interventionists of all stripes are fully aware of this...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/02/22/tiptoeing-to-war-with-libya/

Agnostics for pacifism

EconLog
by Bryan Caplan

02/23/11

By itself, I freely admit, extreme uncertainty is a double-edged sword. The consequences of war might be worse than you thought; they might be even better. But as I've argued in my common-sense case for pacifism, pacifists just need to add the weak moral premise that 'before you kill innocent people, you should be reasonably sure that your action will have very good consequences.' This plausible premise, combined with the uncertainty of foreign affairs, creates an almost insurmountable presumption against war...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/agnostics_for_p.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bahrain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interventionist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pacifism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Parsons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rajesh+Makwana
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mick+Hume
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Daniel+McCarthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bryan+Caplan
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 07:58

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