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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: "In the context of today?s roiling political and energy debates, it?s not at all clear who will win. But if money is an indicator, the anti-regulatory group has the upper hand.... According to data from Open Secrets, the 32 [congress] members against disclosure received $1,742,572. The average contribution from the oil and gas sector to individuals from that group was $54,455. Oklahoma Democrat Dan Boren, who co-chairs the caucus, personally received more than $202,000, including almost $15,000 from Chesapeake Energy, one of the largest natural gas producers in the United States."

http://www.truth-out.org/opponents-fracking-disclosure-take-big-money-from-industry66868



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K.T. Cox, Truthout: "Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a decorated disabled American veteran, is the victim of a witch hunt that has been ongoing since the 9/11 attacks. Chaudhry is being deported to Pakistan, where he will 'inevitably be murdered by the Taliban for his service in the US Army,' says Seth Manzel, executive director of G.I. Voice. Chaudhry came to the US legally over 13 years ago and has been married to a native-born citizen for nearly ten years. The suit Chaudhry and his wife filed against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in US district court to press for his citizenship was dismissed on October 26, 2010, on summary judgement, without any trial or opportunity to further present their circumstances."

http://www.truth-out.org/decorated-disabled-veteran-is-being-deported-pakistan66833



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Bisheriger Höhepunkt der Hartz-IV Klagewelle: Gerichtspräsidentin sieht Gründe hierfür in der Bürokratie und bei den Jobcentern.

Noch nie wurden so viele Klagen eingereicht: Die Hartz-IV-Klagewelle hält bundesweit an allen Sozialgerichten unverändert an. Allein am Berliner Sozialgericht wurden im vergangenen Jahr rund 32.000 Verfahren gegen Leistungsträger eingereicht. Das ist ein Anstieg von etwa einem Fünfte im Vergleich zum Jahr 2009. In der Hälfte aller Fälle sind die Kläger vor Gericht erfolgreich. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/bisheriger-hoehepunkt-der-hartz-iv-klagewelle-39809.php



Jobcenter in Braunschweig kürzte einer schwangeren Frau die Hartz IV Leistungen um 100 Prozent

Das Jobcenter Braunschweig hat einer 22 Jahre alten Hartz IV Bezieherin den ALG II Regelsatz auf Null gekürzt. Das Brisante: Die Betroffene ist im vierten Monat schwanger. Das Jobcenter sanktionierte die Frau, weil sie sich geweigert hatte, einen sogenannten Ein-Euro-Job aufzunehmen.

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/schwangeren-wurde-hartz-iv-auf-null-gekuerzt-65421.php

und musste aufgrund einer Eilklage die rechtswidrige Sanktion wieder zurück nehmen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-kuerzung-gegen-schwangere-widerrufen-09812.php



Hartz IV Übergangsleistungen gestrichen

Die Übergangsleistungen vom Arbeitslosengeld I zu Hartz IV wurden gestrichen. ?Da reibt sich der von Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit - trotz wiederholt, deutlich gegenteiliger Signale aus der Berlin Gesetzes-Fabrik ? immer noch nicht gänzlich abgefallene Bürger mächtig die Augen.. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-uebergangsleistung-gestrichen-652.php



Eine Pauschalierung der Hartz IV-Unterkunftskosten provoziert Klagewelle

Anlässlich des Berichts des Berliner Sozialgerichts zu Hartz IV-Verfahren warnte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach am Dienstag in Berlin vor der Pauschalierung der Hartz IV-Unterkunftskosten. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-klagewelle-durch-pauschale-wohnkosten-39833.php



Hartz IV: Die Lohnabstandsgebot-Lüge der Bundesregierung

Das immer wieder von CDU, CSU und FDP als alleiniges Gegenargument einer bedarfdeckenden Regelsatzerhöhung bei Hartz IV ins Feld geführte Lohnabstandsgebot gibt es im SGB II gar nicht. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-die-lohnabstandsgebot-luege-2651.php



Braunschweig ist leider kein Einzelfall: Auch weiteren schwangeren Frauen wurden die Hartz IV Regelleistungen auf Null Euro gekürzt

Nachdem öffentlich bekannt wurde, dass das Jobcenter in Braunschweig die Hartz IV Bezüge auf Null sanktionierte, weil eine Schwangere einen sogenannten Ein-Euro-Job nicht antrat, wurden weitere Fälle von schwerwiegenden Leistungskürzungen gegen schwangere Frauen bekannt. Dabei kürzten die Sozialbehörden die Leistungen ausnahmslos komplett und verweigerten den gesetzlich geregelten Mehrbedarf für Schwangere. In einem Fall wurden zusätzlich auch die Krankenkassenbeiträge sowie die Unterkunftskosten nicht mehr gezahlt. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-schon-wieder-sanktionen-gegen-schwangere-0436.php

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"Viele Mitarbeiter der Jobcenter sind nicht qualifiziert"

Interview von Stefan Strauß in der Berliner Zeitung vom 12.01.2011 mit Frank Steger, Vorstand des Berliner Arbeitslosenzentrums evangelischer Kirchenkreise e.V. http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/berlin/326232/326233.php


Nahezu 100 Prozent fehlerhafte Hartz-Bescheide in der Migrantenberatungsstelle des DGB

?Nur mit qualifiziertem Personal, funktionierender Software und der Reduzierung der Fallzahlen sei eine sorgfältige und möglichst fehlerfreie Betreuung von Erwerbslosen in den Jobcentern zu garantieren. So die DGB-Vorsitzende von Berlin und Brandenburg, Doro Zinke. Sie verweist auf die Migrantenberatungsstelle für Hartz-Empfänger im DGB-Haus: Von den 614 dort in 2010 betreuten Ratsuchenden hatte nahezu jeder fehlerhafte Bescheide o.ä. von den Jobcentern erhalten. Das Klagepotenzial liege auf der Hand. Vor allem ging es um abgelehnte Weiterbildungsbescheide, Mietprobleme oder falsch berechnete Zuwendungen für Bedarfsgemeinschaften?? Pressemitteilung des DGB Berlin / Brandenburg vom 13.01.2011 http://www.berlin-brandenburg.dgb.de/article/articleview/7815/1/579/


Hartz- IV schafft neue Berufe mit Perspektive

?Arbeitsagenturen blicken bei Hartz- IV- Regelungen nicht mehr durch. Das bietet Arbeitslosen die Chance, als Jobcenterschriftgelehrter zu arbeiten. Der Deutsche Arbeitgeberverband hat die Hartz-IV-Regelungen als großartigen Jobmotor und Konjunkturanschubhilfe ersten Ranges gelobt. Grund: Extrem viele Hartz-IV-Bescheide sind fehlerhaft, fast jeder zweite Hartz-IV-Empfänger klagt irgendwann. Dadurch müssen mehr Richter, Staatsanwälte, Sekretärinnen und Prozessdiener eingestellt werden, und Rechtsanwaltskanzleien müssen zusätzliches Personal beschäftigen. (?) Damit kann man HartzIV als Erfolgsmodell bezeichnen, durch das bald Tausende sozialversicherungspflichtige Arbeitsplätze geschaffen werden können. Schon jetzt entstehen neue Berufe mit großen Perspektiven wie Behördendeutschdolmetscher, Anfechttrainer, Jobcenterschriftgelehrter?? Artikel von Hans Zippert in Die Welt online vom 11.01.2011 http://www.welt.de/debatte/kolumnen/zippert_zappt/article12091815/Hartz-IV-schafft-neue-Berufe-mit-Perspektive.html


Hartz IV: Manche Kassen erheben Zusatzbeitrag

?Hartz IV: Manche Kassen erheben trotzdem einen Zusatzbeitrag von ALG II Beziehern, weil keine Satzungsänderung durchgeführt wird. ALG II-Bezieher müssen die Zusatzbeiträge unter Umständen vom Regelsatz bezahlen?? Meldung vom 12.01.2011 bei gegen-hartz.de http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-manche-kassen-erheben-zusatzbeitrag-540911.php


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Januar 2011



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Joel Olson, New Clear Vision: "With the passage of the notorious anti-immigrant bill SB 1070 last spring, the outlawing of ethnic studies as of January 1st, the gutting of the school and university systems, the collapsed housing market, the high unemployment rates, and now the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, you might be wondering what it's like to actually live in Arizona right about now. In short: it ain't easy. But it helps to put Giffords's shooting in historical perspective, which is defined by two things in Arizona: corruption and class struggle. And ironically, this perspective gives me hope about the radically democratic future of my home state."

http://www.truth-out.org/corruption-and-class-struggle-what-its-really-like-live-arizona66842



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Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "The case of Pvt. Bradley Manning raises legal issues about his pre-trial detention, freedom of speech and the press, as well as proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Putting aside Manning's guilt or innocence, if Manning saw the Afghan and Iraq war diaries as well as the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, what should he have done? And what should be the proper response of government to their publication?"

http://www.truth-out.org/bradley-manning-and-rule-law66829



Bradley Manning and GI Resistance to US War Crimes

Angola 3 News interviews Dahr Jamail on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the media's coverage of WikiLeaks, the actions of Bradley Manning and the military's response to soldier resistance. Jamail says, "The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq could not have more clearly violated international law. Even the former secretary general of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, said in September 2004 that the Iraq war was illegal and breached the UN Charter. An illegal war is thus the mother of all war crimes, for from that stems all the rest.... What Manning did by leaking this critical information has been to uphold his oath as a soldier in the most patriotic way."

http://www.truth-out.org/bradley-manning-and-gi-resistance-us-war-crimes66791



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John Pilger, Truthout: "The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send Assange to a hell-hole prison for the rest of his life, are the reactions of a rapacious system exposed as never before."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-war-wikileaks-john-pilgers-investigation-and-interview-with-julian-assange66847



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"We are entering a danger territory," Abdolreza Abbassian, chief economist at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41062817/ns/business-consumer_news/


From Information Clearing House



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A US rights group Thursday appealed to a court in the case of former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan who accuse ex-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld of being to blame for their torture.

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From Information Clearing House



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By James Politi

As it stands today, the U.S. borrows about 40 cents of every dollar it spends.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27262.htm



What Does Wikileaks Have on Bank of America?

By Mary Bottari

In 2008, BofA acquired Countrywide, one of the most aggressive and fraudulent lenders during the housing bubble. The result has been a train wreck of liability and lawsuits for the megabank that now has over 1.3 million customers in foreclosure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27259.htm



Austerity Policies Worsen Racial Economic Inequalities Hits Black and Latino People Hardest

By United for a Fair Economy

The official unemployment rate is 15.8 percent among Blacks and 13 percent among Latinos; Blacks earn only 57 cents for each dollar of White family income, Latinos earn 59 cents; and Blacks have only 10 cents of net wealth while Latinos have 12 cents to every dollar of net wealth that Whites have.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27258.htm



JPMorgan Chase profit soars 47%

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second-largest bank in Arizona by deposits, beat Wall Street estimates Friday with a 47 percent increase in fourth quarter profit to $4.83 billion, or $1.12 a share.

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2011/01/14/jpmorgan-chase-profit-soars-47.html



S&P, Moody's Warn On U.S. Credit Rating

With attention focused on sovereign-debt worries in Europe, two major credit-rating firms reminded investors again that the U.S. has debt problems of its own.

http://on.wsj.com/haSFnp



Foreclosure Filings in U.S. May Jump 20% From Record 2010 as Crisis Peaks

The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said.

http://bit.ly/ehCjge



Jobless claims hit a 10-week high

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly to 445,000 from 410,000 in the prior week, a Labor Department report showed. It was the biggest one-week jump in about six months and confounded analyst forecasts for a small drop to 405,000.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70A41H20110113


From Information Clearing House

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The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers, for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, the Fed came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, but the Fed has now delivered its ultimatum: there will be no 'quantitative easing' for municipal governments."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-fed-has-spoken-no-bailout-main-street66820



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By David Edwards and Stephen Webster

"I'd love to be proven wrong, but I suspect this is how reining in the growth of the surveillance state becomes an item perpetually on next year's agenda."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27256.htm



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By Juan Cole

The military-industrial complex wants to find a way of keeping thousands of US troops in Iraq past that deadline.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27257.htm



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TSA makes 'nominal' payment to settle suit over exposing 24-year-old's breasts

"For an extended period of time" other agents made jokes about the incident. "One male TSA employee expressed to the plaintiff that he wished he would have been there when she came through the first time and that 'he would just have to watch the video.'"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/tsa-pays-woman-breast-exposure-suit/


From Information Clearing House



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- Antennes relais: un "outil" majeur opposable pour les personnes, associations et collectifs
- CEM et altération Numération Formule Sanguine

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Alteration_Numeration_Formule_Sanguine.php



- Alteración del Conteo Sanguíneo Completo (CSC) y Antenas enlace (E.B.T.M.)
- Un ejemplo de acción oponible: Carta contra el operador de telefonía móvil Bouygues Telecom

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part 2

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

01/12/11

State capitalism prevails by allowing the privileged to unilaterally dictate the terms on which people who actually work have access to important resources, that is, through allowing some elite to make it impossible for you to subsist except on their conditions...

http://c4ss.org/content/5789


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/13/11

Most Americans seem detached from the U.S. government?s military actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere. U.S. forces not only engage in wanton killing and harsh treatment of prisoners, but also surveillance and other intelligence activities that might appall the American people if they were used at home...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101h.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence+activities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+actions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

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The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

01/13/11

It's easy to forget just how bipartisan an issue closing Gitmo once was. Sure, Obama supported closure, but so did Sen. John McCain and America's most recognizable military leader, Gen. David Petraeus. In 2006, President George W. Bush, reeling from his mishandling of two wars and public and international outcry over his national-security policies, said he thought the prison should be closed. He went as far as to say that some of the 'cold-blooded killers' held there needed to be 'tried in U.S. courts'...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=endless_guantanamo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Petraeus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gitmo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Serwer
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Jordan Flaherty, Truthout: "One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need. In fact, the nation's tragedy has served as an opportunity to further enrich corporate interests. The details of a recent lawsuit, as reported by Business Week, highlights the ways in which contractors - including some of the same players who profited from Hurricane Katrina-related reconstruction - have continued to use their political connections to gain profits from others' suffering, receiving contacts worth tens of millions of dollars while the Haitian people receive pennies, at best."

http://www.truth-out.org/one-year-after-haiti-earthquake-corporations-profit-while-people-suffer66822



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Haiti
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jordan+Flaherty
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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10134/

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Wikileaks: Making things harder for Hillary

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

01/12/11

When governments can?t trust each other to keep dirty secrets, they are likely to adjust their behavior. If they hesitate to conspire, then they will be less able to work together to impose the wills of political elites. If they restrict their own lines of communication, then they will be less effective at doing dirty deeds. If they restructure for efficiency, which will be extremely difficult for institutions laden with entrenched bureaucracy and cultures of privilege and rank, then they will probably be less of a burden on citizens and less profitable for political cronies...

http://c4ss.org/content/5793


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hillary
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Homeland+Security
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Darian+Worden

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-4

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Young Afghans Work for Peace, Starting With Their Own Hearts

Mike Ferner, Truthout: "Hakim relocated to Bamiyan, Afghanistan, to begin his new work. At first the native Singaporean, a 1993 medical school graduate, served people as a doctor, but he quickly saw that role as 'insufficient' when an Afghan youth told him that, 'Without peace, it is impossible to live.' Searching for a way to realize his dream for peace, the 41-year-old began a three-month peace workshop at Bamiyan University. The course began with about 40 college students, who quickly concluded with their peers and others in their community that, 'Peace is not possible.' Even so, 16 students agreed to stay together for one semester and continue the project."

http://www.truth-out.org/young-afghans-work-for-peace-starting-with-their-own-hearts66652

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Afghan reality

CounterPunch
by Vijay Prashad

01/13/11

Slowly, but surely, the leakage of the U. S. State Department cables continues. Media interest in the United States has died down. One reason for this is that the prosecution of Wikileaks leader Julian Assange became the story, and that spiked interest in the cables themselves. The New York Times has since reported on Assange, in the manner of a celebrity scandal, and failed to take any further interest in the cables. Crises in the cables are now academic; the scandals are on the front page. It tells us something about the state of journalism that this is so: few journalists at the major newspapers continue to scour the cables...

http://counterpunch.org/prashad01122011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=journalism
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Conn+Hallinan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Ferner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vijay+Prashad
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-5

How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-8



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gene+Sperling
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+van+Gelder
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brooke+Jarvis
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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/13-0

The President's Speech as Consolation: Is That What is Needed?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-11

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The conservative awakening

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/14/11

It wasn?t all that long ago that David Frum could credibly excommunicate Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, and other conservative opponents of the Iraq war in the pages of National Review. Today, however, as the American empire goes into foreclosure, and a decade of constant war has brought us no closer to 'victory,' those who want to limit the power and expense of government are finally beginning to wake up to the war racket...

http://tinyurl.com/4jj5qym



GOP can eclipse Obama

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Jim Harper

01/12/11

Congress's new rules package could mean that Republicans eclipse President Barack Obama on a signature issue: government transparency. During his first two years in office, the president generated a lot of heat in the transparency area ? but little sunlight. House Republicans can quickly outshine Obama and the Democratic Senate. It all depends on how they implement the watch phrase of their amendment package: 'publicly available in electronic form'...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12698



Wars to stay out of

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

01/13/11

Most people desire peace, but not Washington policy wonks. Safely ensconced in well-appointed offices throughout the nation's capital, a network of neoconservatives, leftish Wilsonians, and liberal hawks yearn for war. While they presumably don't actually enjoy the killing involved, most of them have never met a war they didn't want America to enter. And conflict is 'good for business' as they peddle foreign policy advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1288



The reflexive call for fewer liberties

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/12/11

What Galston is doing here is what the American political class reflexively does in the wake of every tragedy: it immediately seeks to exploit the resulting trauma and emotion to justify all-new restrictions on basic liberties (such as the right not to be locked away against one's will in the absence of a crime or a serious threat to others) and all-new government powers. Every traumatic event -- in the immediate, emotionally consuming aftermath -- leads to these sorts of knee-jerk responses...

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/galston


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Debra+Cooper
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Harper
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Frum
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/13-2



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=antiwar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/13-7



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vicki+Needham
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/black-s20.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/black-s
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel66.1.html

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Don?t buy government bonds

Ludwig von Mises Institute Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Chodorov

published 1962; posted 01/13/11

In 1800, the United States Treasury owed $83 million. The population was then three million. Every baby born that year was loaded down with a debt burden of about $28; if the interest rate was 6 percent, the newborn citizen could look forward to paying a service charge on the national debt of $1.68 per year. Today the debt load of the nation comes to well over $290 billion, and the population is, in round figures, 180 million...

http://mises.org/daily/4922



Do NOT raise the federal debt limit

Downsize DC Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

01/12/11

I do not buy the scare stories predicting cataclysm if the debt ceiling isn't raised. I think the opposite is true. Investors will have more confidence in the U.S. if they see Congress taking a strong stand against cancerous spending and debt. Those who fund federal borrowing will feel INCREASED SECURITY that they'll get their money back...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/do-not-raise-the-federal-debt-limit


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Treasury
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=chodorov
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Babka
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente60.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=freedom+of+speech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/celente
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The giant US banks have been bailed out again from huge potential writeoffs by loosey-goosey accounting accepted by the accounting profession and the regulators.

http://bit.ly/i2InMs


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mortgage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks

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The return to Iraq last week of fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who opposes any U.S. military presence in the country, could jeopardize American plans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011204225.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Sadr
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+presence
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"We must prepare ourselves for more violence and more casualties in coming months," the chairman said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/13/c_13688056.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Mullen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=casualties
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Dimon Warns

By William Alden

The JPMorgan CEO said he expects to see more U.S. municipalities declare bankruptcy. His concerns echo those of Meredith Whitney, the analyst who has said the next major financial crisis will come from a wave of local government defaults, and those of famed investor Warren Buffett, who has called the municipal debt situation a "terrible problem.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27246.htm



US Banks 'Foreclosured On record 1m Homes in 2010'

By BBC

Banks repossessed a record one million US homes in 2010, and could surpass that number this year, figures show.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27248.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+crisis
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+Buffett
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=JPMorgan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Alden
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By MARK MAZZETTI

An American teenager detained in Kuwait said he underwent a heated interrogation by F.B.I. agents for several hours on Wednesday, in a case that has renewed debate over the Obama administration's expansion of the no-fly list.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27252.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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=interrogat
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=no-fly+list
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Mazzetti

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By GEOFFREY R. STONE

THE so-called Shield bill, which was recently introduced in both houses of Congress in response to the WikiLeaks disclosures, would amend the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it a crime for any person knowingly and willfully to disseminate, "in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States," any classified information "concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27249.htm



Lawyer for Assange Accusers Has Ties to CIA and Torture

A lawyer for the accusers in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ties to the CIA and torture in the post-9/11 period, according to a 2009 report in Europe.

http://bit.ly/g0eixp



Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents

Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer with Wikileaks, was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/12/wikileaks-volunteer-1.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=free+speech
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GEOFFREY+R.+STONE
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By Jim Cason

Remote control killings by unmanned drones in Pakistan aren't making our country more secure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27251.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Cason

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?Kabinett beschloss Verlängerung des Afghanistan-Einsatzes / Rückzugsformel unverbindlich. Das Bundeskabinett hat am Mittwoch ein neues Mandat für den Afghanistan-Einsatz der Bundeswehr beschlossen. Die letzte

Entscheidung darüber liegt beim Bundestag, der am 28. Januar abstimmen soll?? Artikel von René Heilig im ND vom 13.01.2011 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/188449.neues-mandat-fuer-neue-kaempfe.html


22. Januar 2011: Dezentraler bundesweiter Aktionstag gegen die Verlängerung des Mandates für den Afghanistan-Einsatz: Nein zur Mandatsverlängerung des Kriegseinsatzes in Afghanistan!

Siehe Aufruf und die Liste der Aktionen vor Ort http://3a.blogsport.de/mandatsverlaengerung/


Im Windschatten der NATO: Die Europäische Union und der Krieg in Afghanistan

IMI-Studie 2011/02 von Jürgen Wagner, erschienen in Informationen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, Nr. 4/Januar 2011, dokumentiert bei IMI am 11.1.2011 http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2228


NATO-?Sicherheitskonferenzen?: Siko 2011

Die Hauptdemonstration der »SiKo«-Gegner beginnt am Samstag, den 5. Februar um 13 Uhr auf dem Münchner Marienplatz. Als prominente Redner sind unter anderem Kirchenkritiker Eugen Drewermann und die Bundestagsabgeordnete Sevim Dagdelen (Die Linke) angekündigt. Als Gegenstück zur »Sicherheitskonferenz« findet vom 3. bis 6. Februar in der bayerischen Landeshauptstadt eine Friedenskonferenz statt, getragen von der Deutschen Friedensgesellschaft ? Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen und weiteren Gruppen und Einzelpersonen.


Kriegsgewinnler im Visier

?NATO-Gegner rufen zum Protest gegen 47. »Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz« auf. Deren Schirmherr gab im Vorfeld eine Bankrotterklärung ab?? Artikel von Claudia Wangerin in junge Welt vom 13.01.2011 http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/01-13/039.php


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Januar 2011

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Alle reden vom Abzug ... Beginnt endlich damit!

Das aktuelle Afghanistan-Flugblatt des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 15. Januar 2011 (pdf) http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung/afgh-flugbl2011.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 20. Januar 2011



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- Dossier de la rédaction: THT FRANCE STOP AU SCANDALE
- Présentation de cas St Marcel les Valence: Vivre sous une THT
- THT : Le choc des photos, des enfants à quelques mètres des câbles
- France Bleu Drôme Ardèche: Interviews d'élus et témoignage, sidérant!
- La réalité in situ: Qui est responsable des nouveaux lotissements sous la THT?
- France 2 & France 5: THT présentation des études scientifiques.
- TV 2DFheute: Alzheimer et THT La méga étude scientifique Suisse (4,7 millions de personnes).

http://www.next-up.org/France/Upie.php#1
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning


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Poli-Tea
by d.eris

01/11/11

As Democrats and Republicans happily continue to play their game of partisan political ping-pong with the Tucson massacre, perhaps the most unwittingly ironic assertion is that which claims the assassin's act has little or nothing to do with mainstream politics because the assassin himself is clearly a deranged and mentally disturbed individual. It is by means of this precise argument that the deranged and disturbed proponents of the Democratic and Republican parties seek to wash their hands of the bloody affair after first attempting to wipe them clean with the other side's dirty laundry...

http://tinyurl.com/482wql3



The politicization of a crime

Strike The Root
by Michael Kleen

01/12/10

If the grave wounding of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of U.S. District Judge John Roll and five others was not political when the shots were fired, it soon became so. ... The effort to use this crime to score political points is an offense to common decency and underscores the decay of political life in the United States...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/politicization-of-crime



Same as the old boss?

John Stossel's Take
by John Stossel

01/12/11

So the Republicans took control of Congress. New House Speaker John Boehner declared that 'our spending has caught up with us ... No longer can we kick the can down the road.' He's right about that. Thanks to runaway spending during the last two administrations, the debt our government owes investors now stands at 62% of GDP. But is there any reason to believe that Republicans will reverse the trend? Will this group be more responsible that the previous bunch? I hope so. But I?m skeptical...

http://tinyurl.com/6gvnxkx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Stossel
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/12-3



Sarah speaks, again

Truth to Power
by James Mann

01/12/11

Sarah Palin has yet again released a statement on the Arizona shootings, this time in hopes of deflecting any blame from herself, and to again question the allegiance to the state of anyone who dares to disagree with her or tie her insipid, anti-American views to the actions of a madman. But she needn?t have bothered, because she made her most honest statement when she removed within hours the target map from her website. That?s all you need to know about Sarah Palin...

http://blogs.ink19.com/truthtopower/archives/9074


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Palin
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Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "House Republicans have renamed several Congressional committees by changing or removing certain hot-button words such as 'civil rights' and 'labor' from their titles. The Education and Labor Committee became the Education and Workforce Committee, while the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is set to be renamed the Constitution Subcommittee."

http://www.truth-out.org/house-republicans-remove-civil-rights-and-labor-from-committee-names66764



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Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "In October 2010, Truthout tested several water and soil samples from the Gulf of Mexico for chemicals in BP's crude oil and toxic dispersants. One sample of dead marine life was also tested. Truthout also obtained and had analyzed a sample of pure Corexit 9500, one of the toxic dispersants used to sink the crude oil. The dispersants BP has used in the Gulf of Mexico are banned in at least 19 other countries. BP has used at least 1.9 million gallons of the dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico to sink their 4.9 million barrels of crude oil. The samples were tested in a private lab via gas chromatography by an analyst who requested anonymity."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-tragic-state-gulf-mexico-sampling-reveals-oil-and-dispersants-mississippi-coast66726

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Diary of a Disaster: 6 Months in the Gulf
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12-11



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- CEM et Homo sapiens: Les quatre vérités du Dr Magda Havas.
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Medias.php#1
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Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

01/11/11

The Obama administration released Bush-era legal opinions authorizing torture. Will it make public its own rationale for targeting US citizens for death?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/obama-drone-memo-dilemma


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gun Crazy: From NRA Glocks to Predator Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12-7



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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/12/11

I?ve spent more than a few columns predicting that the so-called tea partiers -- the grassroots populist movement that has our liberal elites in a frothy-mouthed lather -- will be logically led to call for major cuts in military spending -- and, by the sheer logic of their anti-spending, 'anti-government' position, eventually come to challenge our foreign policy of global intervention. The other day, as I listened to a fascinating panel discussion on Warren Olney?s KCRW radio show To the Point on defense spending and deficit reduction, I had the distinct pleasure of hearing my prediction come true -- a lot sooner, I have to admit, than I ever imagined...

http://tinyurl.com/4k2eyz5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Boston Globe

01/11/11

Jennifer and Brian Law are caught up in a new wave of suburban and rural home foreclosures, far from the low-income city neighborhoods where the crisis began. ... Today, the Laws face foreclosure, part of a swelling group of rural and suburban homeowners who are tipping the scales in Massachusetts. ... The shift of foreclosures from cities to outlying areas indicates that the sluggish economy and a lingering high unemployment rate, not subprime loans and predatory lending, have become the main reasons people lose their homes...

http://tinyurl.com/4to59qv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Wikileaks MSNBC

01/11/11

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to increase the release of revelations related to secret U.S. diplomatic cables after he appeared in British court Tuesday as part of his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange said the website is 'stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials'...

http://tinyurl.com/4ndjx9s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WikiLeaks Has ?Insurance Files? on News Corp. Chief Rupert Murdoch, Assange Claims
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/12-5



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The U.S. Federal Reserve's journey to the outer limits of monetary policy is raising concerns about how hard it will be to withdraw trillions of dollars in stimulus from the banking system when the time is right.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7096FE20110111



Deepening crisis traps America's have-nots

The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repeat of the 1930s is premature.

http://bit.ly/f9yMGY



Job Openings in U.S. Decrease for Third Time in Four Months

The number of positions waiting to be filled decreased by 80,000 to 3.25 million, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The number of people hired dropped from the prior month and separations climbed.

http://bit.ly/hJbQzS


From Information Clearing House

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Managing the unmanageable

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

01/10/11

Like the money it prints, the profits reported by the Federal Reserve aren?t what they seem, representing returns on precarious investments that no sane actor would undertake. Those putrid investments include not only the storied mortgage-backed securities that became the focus of the financial debacle, but Treasury bonds that sponsor the federal government?s debt. Even while these holdings generate income now, their purchase with imaginary money that was 'printed' electronically means that financially-accountable, free people never got the chance to discover their clearing price...

http://c4ss.org/content/5773



The six most dangerous government-sponsored enterprises

Our Future
by Robert Borosage

01/11/11

Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a principled conservative who understands how financial oligopolies can loot a nation. .... he summarizes the stark and terrifying reality of where we are .... Today?s most dangerous government sponsored enterprises are the largest six bank holding companies: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. They are undoubtedly too big to fail .... The market knows this and, as a result, these large institutions can borrow more cheaply than their smaller competitors. This lets them stay big and -- amazingly -- get bigger...

http://tinyurl.com/66uk27p



Toward sensible monetary policy

US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/11/11

I am pleased that I will be chairing the Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee, which has oversight of the Federal Reserve. Obviously, this position will facilitate my efforts to ensure the Fed provides the American people with more information about what they have been doing with and to our money. Not surprisingly, since my chairmanship was announced, apologists for the Fed have been recycling the old canard about how increased transparency threatens the Fed's so-called political independence...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1283


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tom DeLay, former U.S. House leader, sentenced to 3 years in prison

Tom DeLay, the brash Texan who helped build and tightly control a Republican majority in his chamber until resigning in 2005, was sentenced by a state judge on Monday to three years in prison for illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011000557.html



Will Tom DeLay go to prison? Don't count on it

A defiant DeLay vowed to beat sentence on appeal
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/01/will-tom-delay-go-to-prison-do.html


From Information Clearing House



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A U.S. auditor for Afghanistan reconstruction, who said waste and fraud in efforts to rebuild the war-torn country may have cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars, resigned on Tuesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70A1DC20110111



Joe Biden: U.S. Could Stay In Afghanistan Beyond 2014

The United States is not in Afghanistan to "govern," but will stay beyond a scheduled 2014 security handover if Afghans want, visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212342777.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Afghanistan: War of choice not necessity

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/07/11

In December President Barack Obama received his annual assessment of the war in Afghanistan, then reported to the American people that the mission is 'on track' and troops would begin to withdraw next July. But the semi-upbeat assessment was less than persuasive because, as the Washington Post reported, 'The overview of the long-awaited report contained no specifics or data to back up its conclusions. The actual assessment document is classified and will not be made public'...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101c.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Time to Follow Fields' Example and Quit Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/12-4



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By Nathan Diebenow

"There are no real seriously armed enemies left in the world that can possibly justify an $800 billion national defense and security establishment, including Homeland Security."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27237.htm



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By William Alden

Wages for American workers have fallen dramatically since the financial crisis, in what will likely turn out to be the worst such plunge since the Great Depression, the Wall Street Journal reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27241.htm



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By Press TV

Sarkozy considered the current model which uses the US dollar as the primary reserve currency as "unstable" and stressed that it "makes part of the world dependent on American monetary policy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27239.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/11-11



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/11-2

Obama to Sanction Indefinite Gitmo Detention
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/11-1

Close Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/11-9

Justice Department Blockaded, No Arrests Made, in Shut Down Guantanamo Action Today
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/11-16

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What U.S. "Justice" Signifies Around The World

By Glenn Greenwald

We have the spectacle of Julian Assange's lawyers citing the Obama administration's policies of rendition and indefinite detention at Guantanamo as a reason why human rights treaties bar his extradition to any country (such as Sweden) which might transfer him to American custody.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27245.htm



WikiLeaks Founder Said to Fear 'Illegal Rendition' to U.S.

Lawyers acting for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, said on Tuesday they would argue against a demand for his extradition to Sweden on the grounds that he might subsequently face "illegal rendition" to the United States, risking imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, or even the death penalty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12assange.html?_r=1



Soldier's inhumane imprisonment

Pfc. Bradley Manning, can't reasonably complain that the military has him in custody. But the conditions under which he is being held at the Marine detention center at Quantico, Va., are so harsh as to suggest he is being punished for conduct of which he hasn't been convicted.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-manning-20110110,0,3558552.story


From Information Clearing House

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Nine Years Later: The Political Prisoners of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Political prisoners? Surely, that can't be right, can it? Surely, it's only dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of America? Sadly, no. As the 'War on Terror' prison established by President Bush begins its tenth year of operations, and as it begins to be forgotten that President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order promising to close the prison within a year, but failed spectacularly to do so, the bleak truth is that, for a majority of the 173 men held at Guantanamo, their chances of being released, or of receiving anything resembling justice, have receded to such an extent in the last two years that most face indefinite detention without charge or trial and may still be in Guantanamo a year from now, two years from now, or even five, ten or twenty years from now."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-political-prisoners-guantanamo66746



The Philosophies That Put People Behind Bars

Mike Konczal, new deal 2.0: "Following Lynn Parramore's piece on solitary confinement, it's important to note that criminal sentencing reform will be on the table in 2011. Collapsing state budgets and ever-increasing prison populations (and the costs associated with them) will force the issue. Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has recently endorsed a plan to help reduce the prison population. As this issue unfolds, it is important to understand how we got here in the first place. First, having so much of our population behind bars is a new phenomenon, going back to 1980."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-philosophies-that-put-people-behind-bars66732



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Esther+Addley
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nancy+Talanian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Witness+Against+Torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Konczal

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/11-6



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=plutocra
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=overlord
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lindsay+Beyerstein
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Some interesting NASA information about electromagnetic fields affecting Earth.

Originally Posted by ufochick I am NOT a scientist. So for those of you who are is this feasable???

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1059584537

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/...1&provider=top
[ http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=137071 ]

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30/31st, 2010 = WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SOMETHING UNUSUAL AROUND THE EXACT TIME OF MASS BIRD DIE-OFFS: A CRACK IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GEO-MAGNETIC FIELD WHICH IS NOW ROTATING or "MOVING" GLOBALLY!

I am an Aerospace Electro/Mechanical engineer and live in Hot Springs Arkansas. I would like to give you some information I have been following sense early December 2010.

When I saw a news flash on yahoo about a crack in the northern geomagnetic field:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...e_cluster.html

At first, I was concerned so I started tracking Spaceweather.com to see if there were any increases in solar activity, but was surprised that the Sun was calm, however I check this site daily up to today and only found slight elevations in the Sun's activity which also puzzled me.

So, I starter looking at local anomalies that could account for such a reaction to the birds being affected and I found that different regions have higher levels of magnet fields and it appears that the LITTLE ROCK and BEEBE areas fall in one area that has a positive charge NANOTESLA FIELD at 1,000 feet elevation colored in red which would attach the negative charged solar winds electrons and ions.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/352/arkla.html

Other State Maps

http://crustal.usgs.gov/projects/nam...e_listing.html

CONCLUSION:

The CRACK IS ROTATING as seen in Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA observations on the Sun side of the earth where high energy particle enter the atmosphere and spread around to the dark side of earth. They are then distributed across the hemisphere and then out to space where they create a snapping of magnetic field lines which can induce brief high current and lightning.

And as I recall, we had a coronal hole and coronal ejection earth bound on the December 30/31 2010.

Sense the timing of the fire works may have masked the lightning and thunder, it is very possible that this event and other similar die offs have been caused by the "Crack in the Geo Magnetic Shield" and LOCALIZED in areas of high absorption on Earth.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/AnimateN.html


Submitted by Robert R


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sabrin/sabrin14.1.html

The Cult of Sanctified Violence
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w190.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=violence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/sabrin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/grigg-w
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/01/11/182-the-menace-of-neoconservatism/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/kwiatkowski
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods160.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=serfdom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=public+citizenship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/woods
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- Rapports AFSSET/ANSES & CGIET (Conseil Général de l'Industrie, de l'Energie et des Technologies)
- THT et CEM : "Vers un abaissement des seuils et la création de zones non ædificandi"

http://www.next-up.org/France/THT.php#1

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/10-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+riot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gwynne+Dyer
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/10-2



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/10

Conservative Pundit Says Criticism of Palin Like 'McCarthyism'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/10-2

How Do Progressives Fight the Rightwing and Achieve Progressive Policy Victories?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/10-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Palin
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Cusack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Norman+Solomon

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by Devvy Kidd

For the past ten years, the issue of aerosol spraying has remained in the spotlight, mostly on the Internet. Here and there one sees a bit of coverage on a local news channel, but for the most part, it has not risen to the level of concern that it should with the American people. Those beautiful blue skies that disappear with the constant criss crossing of white gunk is no accident. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's real and......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd491.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Chemtrails/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Devvy
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The government spends, on average, nearly $7 million every minute. That means the cost-cutting measure yesterday only saved taxpayers enough to cover about five minutes worth of spending - less time than it takes to hold the average congressional vote.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20027782-503544.html



The Tea Party rules Washington as Barack Obama braces for savage cuts

New breed of right-wingers takes over the Capitol with a slash-and-burn agenda that threatens the White House.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/republicans-lay-siege-white-house



Bankrupt banks: Florida, Arizona Banks First Ones to Fail in 2011

Regulators shuttered the first two banks to fail this year. The two are the first banks to collapse in 2011, following 157 closures in 2010.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48940/



Food stamp applications skyrocket in South Florida

Nearly 1 million South Floridians need food stamps to get by - an increase of almost 200,000 in the last year alone. That jump is more than the entire population of Fort Lauderdale.

http://bit.ly/ebXDaN


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer

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It is also possible that CIA doctors may have "neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of intentional harm" among detainees held after the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a separate report from Physicians for Human Rights.

http://bit.ly/fZIOHM


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Physicians+for+Human+Rights
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The assassination of Salmaan Taseer has shown only too clearly the growing extremism in Pakistan. - This is not just between the religious and the secular, but also the polarisation that the "war on terror" has caused between the various religious sects.

http://bit.ly/feg6JV



Pakistanis believe U.S. is destroying their country

America has a dilemma in Afghanistan in that there is really no face-saving formula for an exit. The Taliban are gaining more territory, and they more or less control the countryside.

http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20110110/COLUMNIST12/110109527/-1/NEWS



Pakistan governor's killing: 'hidden hands' at work

In her first interview following the assassination of her father, the daughter of Salmaan Taseer tells Chanel 4 News she believes there are many "hidden hands" behind his murder.

http://bit.ly/hxKyy5



US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed

A government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.

http://bit.ly/e1bOi5



Anti-US rally held in Pakistan

Over 2,000 demonstrators in the tribal city of Miranshah held Washington and the US spy agency CIA, responsible for the soaring civilian deaths. They called for an immediate end to US missile attacks in North Waziristan region along the Afghan border.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161258.html



Pakistan: thousands march against US drone strikes

More than 10,000 marched in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar Jan. 23 to protest US drone attacks, a day after at least 13 were killed in three drone strikes in North Waziristan region.

http://www.ww4report.com/node/9374


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: US drone strikes kill 11

Times of India [India]

01/23/11

US drones carried out three strikes in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, killing 11 suspected militants even as tribesmen joined a protest in the area against the attacks...

http://tinyurl.com/4lps5sy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Miranshah
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone

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By Michelle Chen

Conservative lawmakers kicked off the new legislative session with a grandiose reading of the Constitution in the House this week, and then quickly settled down to shred its most important provisions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27231.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=public+citizenship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
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A Free And Fearless Press?

By Nancy A. Youssef

The freedom of the press committee of the Overseas Press Club of America in New York City declared him "not one of us."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27230.htm



US demands IP's and other info of all 637,000 followers

Wikileaks says: Too late to unfollow; Trick used is to demand the lists, dates and IPs of all who received our twitter messages.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/23943796899184640



Original Twitter Subpoena

637,000 Wikileaks followers are target of US gov subpoena against Twitter.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf



Facebook and Google under pressure over WikiLeaks

Pressure was growing for Facebook and Google to state whether they have been asked to submit data on prominent figures linked to WikiLeaks, as fresh signs emerged that a secret jury investigation will lead to an attempt to lay criminal charges against the whistleblowing website's founder.

http://ind.pn/egblO4


From Information Clearing House

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Let a thousand leaks bloom

Wikileaks WendyMcElroy.com
by Wendy McElroy

01/09/11

The ongoing torrent of released documents by WikiLeaks is an e-nightmare for the United States. WikiLeaks is the international document-leaking organization run by Julian Assange on the principle that the purpose of political secrecy is to protect the guilty. As authorities scramble frantically to silence the flow of information, technology is poised to make that task closer to impossible...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3720



Bradley Manning and the rule of law

Bradley Manning Antiwar.com
by Kevin B. Zeese

01/11/11

The case of Pfc. Bradley Manning raises legal issues about his pre-trial detention, freedom of speech and the press, and proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Putting aside Manning?s guilt or innocence, if Bradley Manning saw the Afghan and Iraq war diaries as well as the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, what should he have done? And what should be the proper response of government to their publication?

http://tinyurl.com/4bef4hv



Government-created climate of fear

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/10/11

A government can guarantee all the political liberties in the world on paper (free speech, free assembly, freedom of association), but if it succeeds in frightening the citizenry out of exercising those rights, they become meaningless. So much of what the U.S. Government has done over the last decade has been devoted to creating and strengthening this climate of fear...

http://salon.com/a/s9iIfAA



Weighing the consequences of political rhetoric

The American Prospect
by Michelle Goldberg

01/10/11

Certainly, there are crazy people across the political spectrum. But somehow, in recent decades, the vast majority of political violence in this country comes from the right and is directed at either liberals or the federal government...

http://tinyurl.com/22nn7oe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+secrecy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+of+fear
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+rule+of+law
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=freedom+of+the+press
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=freedom+of+speech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detention
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nancy+A.+Youssef
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kim+Sengupta
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wendy+McElroy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Zeese
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Goldberg
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Video

Professor of Economics Richard D. Wolff examines the unemployment problem in the United States.

http://www.truth-out.org/richard-wolff-unemployment-i-the-cost-economic-crisis-video66694

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Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire

By Paul Craig Roberts

Today the United States has only 11,670,000 manufacturing jobs, less than 9% of total jobs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27232.htm



Economists Foretell of U.S. Decline, China's Ascension

By Mark Felsenthal

"The age of American predominance is over," he told a panel. "The (Chinese) Yuan will be the world's reserve currency within two decades."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27234.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+decline
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+D.+Wolff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Felsenthal
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/outlaw-speech-because-it-may-be-a-threat.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=free+speech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Giffords
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams66.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/w-williams
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Kanadische Wissenschaftler leiten aus ihren Modellen ab, dass selbst bei künftigen Nullemissionen die einmal eingeleitete Erwärmung weiter gehen wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149056



In allen Wipfeln spürest Du den Klimawandel

Die Vereinten Nationen haben 2011 zum "Jahr der Wälder" erklärt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33974/1.html

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Zieht Euch warm an ? Die globale Erwärmung ist da

2010 hatte Deutschland den kältesten Dezember seit 40 Jahren ? aber zugleich gehörte das Jahr 2010 global zu den heißesten Jahren seit 1860. In den USA, in Europa und in Nordasien war es im letzten Dezember weit überdurchschnittlich kalt und zur selben Zeit auf der südlichen Erdhalbkugel überdurchschnittliche heiß. Warum spielt das Wetter verrückt und was hat das alles mit der globalen Erwärmung zu tun? Heißer Globus und kaltes Europa ? was sind die Ursachen?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811056ms243



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klimawandel

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