World-News

Jim Hightower, Other Words: *Faster than you can say 'business as usual,' freshman Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have begun to execute Wall Street s agenda. They came, they saw, they were conquered. That sums up the fate of many tea-partying freshmen in the House of Representatives. As soon as they arrived, the corporate lobbying corps came to visit, saw what these supposed rebels were made of, and quickly conquered them without a fight. The forces of big business only needed to lay out some campaign cash. Faster than you can say 'business as usual,' budding lawmakers snatched up the money and began to execute the lobbyists' agenda.'

http://www.truthout.org/tea-party-rebels-quickly-tamed/1305552965



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Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation: 'We are on offense again, this time putting the spotlight on David Koch and denying him a chance to spend his millions on credibility and social status. We organized a flashmob in the heart of NYC. We projected four Koch Brothers Exposed videos on the facade of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center during our Guerrilla Drive In..... The brothers David and Charles Koch have a knack for getting buildings named after themselves. Everything from theaters, to sports arenas and medical buildings bear the Koch brand. So why do the brothers hide from burnishing their name on their political causes?'

http://www.truthout.org/people-nyc-vs-koch/1305564738



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The State Department declines to even send a representative to a hearing on human rights in the Gulf kingdom.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/13/bahrain_human_rights_state_department


From Information Clearing House



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A former British spy chief has written to Sir John Chilcot, the Inquiry chairman, accusing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and journalist Alastair Campbell of lying about the 'dodgy dossier' on Saddam Hussein'´s weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-208402.html


From Information Clearing House



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Campaigners condemn decision not to include 'murky' issue of detainee transfers in investigation as 'only doing half the job'.

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Foreign occupation troops killed an Afghan child and wounded four others when responding to insurgent fire in volatile eastern Kunar province, the provincial Governor said on Monday, the third accidental killing of young civilians in less than a week.

http://thesent.nl/jBW8B6



Afghans protest boy s death

Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Saturday after a 15-year-old boy was killed by U.S.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/45427357/


From Information Clearing House



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Jim Rogers

Video

Rogers says the next crisis will be worse than the financial collapse of 2008. He remains bullish on the Chinese yuan and sees China continuing to open its currency down the road.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28106.htm



Noam Chomsky: What Drives US Foreign Policy

Video

'The domestic masters of mankind'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28108.htm



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By Marjorie Cohn

The UN Charter does not permit the use of military force for humanitarian interventions. The military invasions of Libya and Ivory Coast have been justified by reference to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28102.htm



Libya is US, China s Battleground': Paul Craig Roberts

Video Interview

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28105.htm



Gadaffi Wanted Dead Or Alive! 30 Million Pounds Bounty

Britain s Daily Star reports that the highly trained secret British service troops have already infiltrated Gadaffi s Tripoli stronghold after having been sent to Libya from Afghanistan.

http://bit.ly/j61kyK


From Information Clearing House

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WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia Out of Libyan Oil

Video

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: National Economics Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, Kevin Hall discusses America s desire to block Italian Eni from acting as a 'stalking horse' for Russian oil company, Gazprom.

http://www.truthout.org/wikileaks-reveals-us-wanted-keep-russia-out-libyan-oil-video/1305571993



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CIA in collaboration with RAW destabilising Pakistan

In a great game going on in the region, CIA in collaboration with RAW is destabilising Pakistan to ultimately achieve its objectives of having a strong foothold in Afghanistan, containing China, and controlling Iran and oil reserves in the Middle East.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=92580



Pakistan s Spy Chief Denounces U.S. Before Parliament

Pakistan s chief spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, will not allow the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct operations in Pakistan without the full knowledge of the ISI, General Pasha said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?_r=3



Thousands rally against the US in Pakistan

Police said at least 4,000 people attended the Sunday demonstration. Protesters chanted 'Down with America' and carried a banner that said 'America is the worst enemy of humanity!'

http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/15/thousands-rally-against-the-us-in-pakistan.html


From Information Clearing House



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Berlin-aktuell.de

Cybermobbing hat in letzter Zeit stark zugenommen. Was dahinter steckt und was man dagegen tun kann, wird bei der ersten Elternakademie in Tempelhof-Schöneberg thematisiert. Experten informieren zu aktuellen Themen im Erziehungsalltag. Am 20. ...

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15. Mai 2011

Zu den Plänen der Ministerin von der Leyen (CDU), ab Montag, dem 16. Mai 2011, die 440 regionalen Hartz-IV-Jobcenter durch "permanente Leistungsvergleiche" einer strengen Effizienzkontrolle unterziehen, erklärt Katja Kipping, sozialpolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion, stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE:

Hintergrund für diese sogenannte Effizienzkontrolle ist, dass im Zug des Kompromisses zwischen SPD und Bundesregierung zu den Hartz-IV-Regelsätzen, Milliardenkürzungen auf die Bundesagentur für Arbeit abgewälzt wurden. Angesichts dieser Einschnitte kann die angebliche Effizienzkontrolle nur eins bedeuten: Der Einspardruck auf die Beschäftigten wird erhöht. Schon heute stehen die Beschäftigten der BA unter großen Druck, bei den Leistungen für Erwerbslose zu kürzen. Dies führt in der Praxis dazu, dass zunehmend mehr Sanktionen verhängt werden, von denen sich viele später als fehlerhaft und ungerechtfertigt erweisen. DIE LINKE fordert die schwarz-gelbe Bundesregierung auf, diesen grundrechtswidrigen Einsparzwang abzubauen, statt zu erweitern. Bedürftige Erwerbslose dürfen nicht zum Sparschwein für von der Leyens Image-Aufbesserung werden.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/erwerbslose-als-sparschwein-der-ministerin-von-der-leyen/



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Las Vegas Review Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
05/15/11

Why are there so many executive and judiciary branch government employees serving in the Legislature?

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/power-play-state-s-separation-of-powers-doctrine-effectively-ignored-121851449.html



About those oil company tax breaks

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/13/11

Whether or not one has a warm cozy feeling about big oil companies, one should be troubled by the government s power to issue selective 'tax breaks' and to rescind them whenever politicians need the money. You won t catch me saying anything nice about any tax, but I reserve a special animus for any system that gives politicians the power to treat different productive activities differently. Let s take equality before the law seriously...

http://tinyurl.com/3uymyhs



Who will restore reality to politics?

Orange County Register
by Mark Steyn

05/14/11

In the real world, debt ceilings are determined by the lenders, not the borrowers. In March, Pimco (which manages the world s largest mutual fund) calculated that 70 percent of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve. So under the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the United States government spends $188 million it doesn t have, $130 million of which is 'borrowed' from itself. There s nobody else out there...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-300417--.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

05/13/11

A presidential veto is a power vested in the executive branch of government by the U.S. Constitution (Article I, section 7) through which the president can prevent the enactment of congressional legislation. When a bill passes both houses of Congress, it arrives on the president s desk. He has 10 days (excluding Sundays) to accept the measure by signing it or to return it to Congress with an explanation of its rejection. Mere failure to sign is deemed to be approval and the measure becomes law...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105j.asp



The war on freedom

MaxKeiser.com
by Michael Kreiger

What would we do without Barack Obama as President? I mean it is amazing. The guy proved he was an American citizen and got public enemy number one all in the same week! And what ladies and gentlemen do we get as a reward for this PR stunt? Well, we immediately got more terror threats and fear mongering as we were conveniently told we were back on a war footing (the never ending 'war on terror' just like Orwell wrote about in 1984)...

http://maxkeiser.com/2011/05/13/the-war-on-freedom-4/



Riders of the storm

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/16/11

The tides of history are moving fast, these days. It s hard for the average human being - who, after all, has a life to live, filled with troubles that are small in scale but no less earthshaking to the individuals experiencing them - to make sense of it all. Indeed, even the so-called 'experts' are baffled, at this point - with US policymakers among the most clueless, and the most resistant to the great sea change enveloping much of the world...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/05/15/riders-of-the-storm/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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United Press International

The founder of Blackwater is building a secret mercenary army in the the United Arab Emirates, former employees and U.S. officials say. Erik Prince moved to Abu Dhabi under legal pressure in the United States and was hired by the crown prince to set up an 800-member force .... to conduct missions inside and outside the UAE, protect pipelines and cities and put down revolts like those sweeping the rest of the Arab world, the documents show...

http://tinyurl.com/6cyoryv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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State Department Investigating Legality of Erik Prince s UAE Private Army

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security company, is establishing a 'counter-terrorism' force of up to 800 foreign mercenaries in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

http://bit.ly/iMaQRN


From Information Clearing House

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Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Founder Erik Prince s Private Army of 'Christian Crusaders' in the UAE

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/18-0



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Neue Westfälische

Am Folgetag konnten Jugendliche aller Bürener Schulen das Theaterstück 'R@usgemobbt2.0' für Jugendliche von 13-15 Jahren erleben. Die Stadthalle Büren war mit 340 Schülern prall gefüllt: Cybermobbing geht alle an. Und das Theaterstück hat alle ...

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'Unhaltbare Zustände'

Das politische Erbe Guttenbergs: Verteidigungsminister De Maizière beklagt sich über schlechte Arbeit seines Vorgängers im Amt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149842



Achtung, hochgeheime Informationen

Guttenberg und die Regenbogenpresse: 'Weil jemand etwas Falsches geschrieben hat.'

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/149945



Kein Verfahren gegen Guttenberg?

Nach Informationen der Leipziger Zeitung hat der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister keine strafrechtliche Verfolgung wegen Urheberrechtsverletzung zu befürchten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/150640



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