World-News

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Two years into the Obama presidency, and the economic data is still looking grim. Don't be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a reflection of the ability of financial corporations - thanks to massive government largesse - to survive the mess they created. The basics are dismal: Unemployment is unacceptably high, the December consumer confidence index is down, and housing prices have fallen for four months in a row. The number of Americans living in poverty has never been higher, and a majority in a Washington Post poll said they were worried about making their next mortgage or rent payment."

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-in-money-changers-we-trust66383



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-7



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Christian Science Monitor

12/28/10)

House prices fell across the US in October and have dropped roughly 2 percent nationwide since June, according to data released by Standard & Poor's Tuesday. The news sent a sharp reminder that real estate remains a weak spot in the recovering US economy, and that the price declines that began four years ago probably aren't finished. One potential reason for the decline: the impact of a temporary tax credit designed to lure home buyers has faded...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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- Salud Pública: Película Full Signal, operación sensibilización países de América del Sur.
- Ayudas para asociaciones de militantes que están en lucha contra las irradiaciones de las microondas artificiales producidas por la telefonía móvil sobre la población.
- Envíos gratuitos de DVDs de la película Full Signal en español a las asociaciones para sensibilizar.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Antenas_Telefonia_Movil_Espana.php#1
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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "As we celebrate Christmas 2010, 100,000 US troops languish in Afghanistan, and Bradley Manning sits in 'maximum custody' in Quantico for the alleged crime of disclosing classified 'secrets' about US foreign policy - 'secrets' like the video of US troops killing two Reuters employees in Iraq, a video that the US military refused to release to Reuters. It is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Season of Peace, just as it is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Olympics. 'Peace on Earth' should stick in our throats a bit this holiday season, when our own government is bombing other people's countries, a practice which we have, so far, been unable to stop."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-christmas-truce-1914-threat-national-security66325



US to Vatican: Genetically Modified Food Is a "Moral Imperative"

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "Secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks detail efforts to promote genetically modified (GM) crops and biotechnology across the globe, including the Vatican, where US diplomats pushed the Roman Catholic Church to support biotech food in developing nations. Cables from embassies in Spain, Austria and even Pakistan reveal the US diplomats have clearly sided with the biotech industry, even as court cases and public debates over GM food raged in the US and abroad."

http://www.truth-out.org/us-vatican-genetically-modified-food-is-a-moral-imperative66369

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The treasonous US government

Strike The Root Strike the Root
by Scott Lazarowitz

12/28/10

The ongoing WikiLeaks affair has been an expose of who really understands the principles that define America, and who is truly confused. The 'classified' leakers and their publishers ... are merely attempting to expose the State and its crimes as well as its outright ridiculousness and irrationality. The ones who defend the State?s intrusions abroad, the killing of innocents, the occupations of foreign lands, the removal of due process through renditions, indefinite detentions and assassinations without cause or even suspicion, are the ones who want to suppress any exposing of those State crimes...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/treasonous-us-government



State lawlessness on the rampage

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/28/10

The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the US government of US law, international law, the Constitution, and truth, more suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility from the rest of the world, and new heights of media sycophancy...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts12282010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Capital's War Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-11



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Milagros Salazar, Inter Press Service: "The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study. More than 1,000 km of roads will have to be carved out of primary and secondary forests to build the dams and power plants and put up power lines, says the report, carried out by engineer Jose Serra for ProNaturaleza, a leading conservation organisation in Peru."

http://www.truth-out.org/sacrificing-rainforest-altar-energy66333



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Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a less-reported and potentially more sinister measure is set to take effect on January 1, 2011. This new law, which was passed by the conservative state legislature at the behest of then-School Superintendent (and now Attorney General-elect) Tom Horne, is designated HB 2281 and is colloquially referred to as a measure to ban ethnic studies programs in the state. As with SB 1070, the implications of this law are problematic, wide-ranging and decidedly hate filled."

http://www.truth-out.org/arizona-bans-ethnic-studies-and-along-with-it-reason-and-justice66340



Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal in Arizona as of January 1

Lourdes Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor: "A controversial Arizona law targeting ethnic studies in public schools will take effect come midnight.... The law bans classes that promote the overthrow of the United States government and resentment toward a race or class of people. Also outlawed are courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group and those that advocate ethnic solidarity rather than treat students as individuals. In Arizona, critics claim that the law ? along with the partially suspended immigration law ? threatens to make the state a "new South" of discrimination against minorities."

http://www.truth-out.org/ethnic-studies-classes-illegal-arizona-jan-166457

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More states following Arizona on Know-Nothing appeasement

Bloomberg News

12/29/10

Arizona?s get-tough approach to illegal [sic] immigration has sparked court challenges likely to take years to resolve. Randy Terrill, a Republican state lawmaker from Oklahoma, won?t be waiting to see what judges decide. Terrill is among dozens of state legislators drafting measures that match or go further than the Arizona law, which requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped for questioning...

http://tinyurl.com/28x8zzp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/28-3



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The GOP Plan to Force State Bankruptcy to Cripple Public Employee Unions

Video

Countdown With Keith Olbermann: James Pethokoukis, money and politics columnist for Reuters, talks about apparent Republican support for allowing states to declare bankruptcy as a means of undermining unions.

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-plan-force-state-bankruptcy-cripple-public-employee-unions66326



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Here we go again. Swine Flu Terror UK is currently in full swing with an epidemic shortly to occur, announces the UK mainstream media. Cynics have speculated that the UK government has massive stocks of flu vaccine to shift and what with the electorate (especially medical professionals) deeply reluctant to get jabbed with the vaccine for the very best of educated reasons, a media campaign has been mounted to sensationalise dodgy flu statistics in order to shift the product. Could they be right? If the entirely vested interests UK media's Swine Flu coverage bias is anything to go by, WikiLeaks needs to get its act together to ensure a level playing field in the future so that the information the organisation is releasing does not continue to be delivered exclusively through the fractured mainstream media prism that so many have grown to rightly distrust. You swallow holus bolus what you read in the mainstream media in regard to WikiLeaks, Swine Flu or any thing else at your peril.

Information Release, The One Click Group

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=4300&end=4320&view=yes&id=5704#newspost



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Analysis

The $700-billion bank bailout, launched in the final months of the Bush administration, was meant to save US financial institutions from a systemic collapse. But an analysis of banks' earnings statements concludes that nearly 100 bailed-out banks are at risk of collapsing all the same.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/100-bailed-out-banks-may-collapse/



Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million:

Among the report's most troubling findings: The number of Americans without any health care coverage grew by more than four million in 2009. That left almost one-fifth of non-elderly people uninsured. Among those between 19 and 29 years old, nearly one-third lacked coverage.

http://huff.to/gN7ZzN


From Information Clearing House



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Such an order would be further acknowledgment by Obama that his campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay will remain unfulfilled for the foreseeable future.

http://wapo.st/gMPhIk



Guantánamo is "A Piece of Hell that Kills Everything"

By Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington reveals a distressing letter from Guantanamo by Yemeni prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27167.htm


From Information Clearing House



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The Wikileaks revolution isn't only about airing secrets and transacting information. It's about dismantling large organizations-from corporations to government bureaucracies. It may well lead to their extinction.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/80481/game-changer?page=0,0



WikiLeaks Exposed US and Hillary's Hopelessness

By Robert Fisk

That Clinton should want her State Department slaves to play secret agents on the poor old UN shows what an utterly worthless institution the US State Department has become.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27143.htm



The Merger of Journalists and Government Officials

By Glenn Greenwald

It's not news that establishment journalists identify with, are merged into, serve as spokespeople for, the political class: that's what makes them establishment journalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27146.htm


2011

By Paul Craig Roberts

The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27141.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Julian Assange: Man of the Decade

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/28/10

It?s an old cliche, but the 9/11 terror attacks changed everything, and to act bewildered about where Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are coming from, with their demands of government transparency and accountability and of a corporate reckoning is as absurd as it is insincere. We all know where they come from. We created them...

http://tinyurl.com/23qkn49


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Truthout
by Shay Totten

12/24/10

You?ve probably heard of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Maybe even Bradley Manning, the Army private and former intelligence officer who allegedly turned over thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. But chances are you don?t know the name Thomas Drake, a former Vermonter charged under the Espionage Act for mishandling classified information. His alleged crime? Drake blew the whistle on a wasteful surveillance program within the National Security Agency...

http://www.truth-out.org/keep-state-secrets66236



Who will free Bradley Manning?

CounterPunch
by Eric Patton

12/27/10

If the left hasn?t figured out how to free Mumia, Peltier, or Lynne Stewart, why should anyone believe it will free Manning? The left will fail to free Manning, and then it will flit on to its next cause celebre.The right doesn?t operate this way. And actually, neither does the left. The right knows what it wants. The left only thinks it knows what it wants. What the left really wants is to be able to solicit donations, raise money, and get paid...

http://counterpunch.org/patton12272010.html



The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

Bradley Manning Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

12/27/10

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. ... it is just inconceivable that someone who claims to be a 'journalist' -- or who wants to be regarded as one -- would actively conceal from the public, for months on end, the key evidence in a political story that has generated headlines around the world...

http://salon.com/a/sdSEfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bradley Manning's Holiday Statement
http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/mannings-holiday-statement.html


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As often as seven times a week, tribesmen there say, corpses appear in fields and on roadsides with dark warnings pinned to their tunics: All American spies will meet the same fate.

http://wapo.st/fulImK



Pakistan sells sovereignty: US pays Pakistan more than $600m in "aid"

Washington transferred more than 600 million dollars to the Pakistani government this week to pay for its efforts in the fight against violent extremists, the US embassy in Islamabad said Thursday.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=167291



US Kills 25 People In Pakistan

At least 25 people were killed in three U.S. drone strikes launched on Monday in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local media.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7243782.html



US Kills Another 16 People In Pakistan

At least 16 people were killed in four consecutive U.S. drone strikes Tuesday afternoon in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local media.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7244977.html



US strikes kill 46 People In Pakistan

US drone attacks on tribal areas in northwest Pakistan have killed and wounded scores of people in the past two days.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157527.html



Obama's CIA War in Pakistan

Obama's favorite war is in Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border. He has had the CIA ramp up the number of missiles making attacks.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/73709.html



US kills 8 in Pakistan

A fresh Unauthorized US drone strike has killed at least eight people and wounded several others in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158036.html


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: Suspected US drone strike kills 18

Guardian [UK]

12/27/10

Suspected US missiles struck two vehicles in a Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan today, killing 18 alleged militants, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. ... The latest strikes targeted Shera Tala village in Mir Ali district, where militants are heavily concentrated. The identities of the 18 dead were not immediately known...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Die UN will jetzt die Haftbedingungen von Bradley Manning untersuchen. Das Pentagon wertet diese als korrekt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33923/1.html



Die zensierte Folter

Weil es Folter in Spanien angeblich nicht gibt, werden nun auch Bücher zum Thema zensiert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33945/1.html



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Understanding the Iraq sanctions

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

01/17/11

Between the Gulf War and the Iraq War, the United States enforced a comprehensive sanctions policy against the Iraqi people, under the auspices of the United Nations. Whereas the hot conflict of 1990 and the one that has run from March 2003 to this day have occupied American attention, the sanctions, beginning even before Operation Desert Storm and persisting until Shock and Awe, implemented by three presidential administrations, were largely ignored...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1292


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Deutsche Zustände: Unruhige Zeiten

Presseinformation zur Präsentation der Langzeituntersuchung ?Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit? am 03.12.2010 von und beim Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG) an der Uni Bielefeld (pdf) http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ikg/Pressehandout_GMF_2010.pdf darin befindet sich die Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der Studie von Wilhelm Heitmeyer. Siehe dazu:


"Rohe Bürgerlichkeit und soziale Vereisung"

?Seit 2002 untersuchen Wissenschaftler in einer Langzeitstudie die Ausmaße, Entwicklungen und Ursachen von Vorurteilen in Deutschland. Aktuell haben die Forscher die Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise unter die Lupe genommen - und dabei eine "deutliche Vereisung des sozialen Klimas", rohe Bürgerlichkeit und einen zunehmenden Klassenkampf von oben beobachtet. Die Feindbilder in einer durchweg wirtschaftlich geprägten Gesellschaft seien Muslime und "wirtschaftlich Nutzlose"? Kommentar von Patrick Gensing bei tagesschau.de vom 03.12.2010 http://www.tagesschau.de/redirectid.jsp?id=deutschezustaende100


Gedankenspiele. Die Studie des Soziologen Wilhelm Heitmeyer über ?Deutsche Zustände? sollte uns schockieren. Sie zeigt ein feindseliges, verrohtes Bürgertum.

?Ein Gedankenspiel aus unschönem Anlass: Ich stelle mir vor, ein Raunen ginge durch die Republik. Viele Menschen in diesem Land wären beunruhigt, mehr noch, erschrocken. Sie diskutierten leidenschaftlich die Ergebnisse der ?Deutschen Zustände?. In der neuen Auflage dieser umfassenden Langzeitstudie kommen renommierte Bielefelder Wissenschaftler um den Soziologen Wilhelm Heitmeyer zu dem Schluss, dass das deutsche Bürgertum verroht. Vor allem Besserverdienende blickten zunehmend feindselig, gar aggressiv auf sozial Schwache und auf Muslime?? Kolumne von Ferdos Forudastan in der FR vom 7.12.2010 http://www.fr-online.de/politik/meinung/gedankenspiele/-/1472602/4903162/-/index.html

Aus dem Text: ?? Hätte die Studie ?Deutsche Zustände? nur einen Bruchteil dieses Hypes ausgelöst, wäre das ein ermutigendes Zeichen. Man könnte daraus schließen, dass Aufmerksamkeit nicht nur erfährt, wer Krawall auf Kosten von Minderheiten schlägt. Man könnte daran ablesen, dass eine wachsame Öffentlichkeit weiß, wie gefährlich es für den inneren Frieden ist, wenn auch Teile der Mitte und der Eliten sich radikalisieren. Man wäre sehr zuversichtlich, dass dieses Land keinen deutschen Jörg Haider oder Geert Wilders hervorbringt ? nicht jetzt und nicht künftig. Aber auch das ist: ein Gedankenspiel aus unschönem Anlass??


Eure Armut kotzt sie an

Die Krise macht die Bürger irre. Die neue Ausgabe der Studie »Deutsche Zustände« stellt den wachsenden Hass der Wohlhabenden fest. Artikel von Roger Behrens in der Jungle World vom 16. Dezember 2010 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2010/50/42287.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Dezember 2010



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wirtschaftskrise
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klassenkampf
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wohlhabend
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geert+Wilders
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilhelm+Heitmeyer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb


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Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "New evidence has surfaced that the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) may have endorsed on-campus proselytizing by fundamentalist and evangelical organizations, particularly the Cadets for Christ ministry. The Baas family, whose daughter Lauren was converted after entering the school to become a pilot, has been fighting with watchdog group Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) for the USAFA to address the accusations against the academy and Cadets for Christ. The Baas family has alleged that the ministry, which was given free rein by the USAFA to operate on campus, convinced Lauren to abandon her career aspirations and focus solely on an arranged, subservient marriage."

http://www.truth-out.org/family-escalates-fight-against-air-force-academy-allowing-on-campus-proselytizing66161



The "Family": Who Really Is Behind This Secret Organization?

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Jesus plus nothing' is the mantra of the Fellowship, also known as the Family, a secret, fundamentalist Christian organization peopled primarily by devout policy makers and high-ranking individuals. Though the nonbeliever's view of religion can often be dismissive when faced with such catchphrases, in 'C Street,' a nonfiction account of the extended reach of the Family, these phrases fuel moral crusades with real, and terrifying, impact.... In his latest book, Sharlet traces the powerful orthodoxy's chilling influence on governments both inside and outside of the United States as well as the devastating effects of fundamentalism within the military."

http://www.truth-out.org/c-street-review-is-fact-power-its-justification66406

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Cadets For Christ Solicits Letters to the Air Force Academy to Use as Ammo

This is the most recent development in an outrageous story that has been developing over the better part of this year, so, for those who need to be brought up to speed, here's what's going on in as small of a nutshell as I can put it.

http://bit.ly/gfhchC


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=USAFA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=proselyt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fundamentalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=evangelical
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Military+Religious+Freedom+Foundation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nadia+Prupis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yana+Kunichoff
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