World-News

Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy. That assertion was revealed ? perhaps inadvertently ? by the department in its response to a McClatchy request for a copy of a secret Justice Department memo. Critics say the legal position is flawed and creates a potential loophole that could lead to a repeat of FBI abuses that were supposed to have been stopped in 2006."

http://www.truth-out.org/obama-assertion-fbi-can-get-phone-records-without-oversight67686



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
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=Marisa+Taylor
-----

- Linky, informations de dernières minutes: Un millions de cobayes?, Interview exclusive Michèle Bellon, Nicolas Sarkozy et le Gouvernement provoquent un emballement de la procédure d'appels d'offres et un passage en force.
- UFC Que Choisir "LINKY: ERDF passe aux aveux mais... persiste dans ses silences et demi-vérités"
- Jean-François Quinchon, ERDF: "Linky n'économise pas un seul kilowatt".

http://www.next-up.org/France/Linky.php

-----

The trade deficit - the difference between imports and exports - hit $497.8bn (£311bn) last year, up 32.8% on the year before, the biggest annual percentage gain since 2000.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12431066



Fannie, Freddie bailout: $153 billion ... and counting

When the dust settles, the federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be the most expensive government rescue of the financial crisis -- it already stands at $153 billion and counting.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/11/news/companies/fannie_freddie_losses/index.htm



U.S. Home Values Lost $798 Billion Last Quarter:

The average home is down 27 percent from peak. This puts the total loss from the housing crash at an incredible $9.8 trillion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-fourth-quarter-798-billion-2011-2



Obama's Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor:

As Democrats and Republicans wrangle over fiscal austerity and the shape of the 2012 federal budget, the White House is targeting programs in the $4 trillion budget that benefit low-income Americans.

http://huff.to/gempyv


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=financial+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=trade+deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fannie+Mae
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Freddie+Mac
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+value
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=low-income
-----

The Mexico-to-Colombia Security Corridor Advances

By Greg Grandin

The origin of this security corridor is Plan Colombia-Bill Clinton's multibillion-dollar aid program to one of the worst human-rights violators in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27460.htm



A Christian Warmonger on Steroids

By Laurence M. Vance

The bottom line here is that the God of the Bible clearly honors those who show valor and gallantry in waging aggressive war in a just cause against the enemies of freedom, even while inflicting massive casualties in the process.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27457.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=perpetual+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mexico
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Colombia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Grandin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/vance

-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north944.html

--------

Make Sure the Wheelbarrow is Ready

By Mike Whitney

It's a miracle. Who would have thought that Bernanke could engineer another bubble this fast. But he has.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27461.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bubble
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernanke
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Whitney
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard255.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=power+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rothbard
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/11



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Goldman+Sachs

-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/11-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Koch+brothers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kenneth+P.+Vogel
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/11-0

--------

When the Dust Settles, US Policies Will Remain the Same

By James Zogby
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27455.htm



The New Pharaohs of Egypt and the World

By John Stubley

The people of Egypt - the place in which such Pharaoh-ism originated - are showing us that now is the time for us to rise to the tasks of today. They are reminding us that no longer do we need to sacrifice our own freedom by elevating another into the position which we ourselves should rightly occupy. The thrones are ours.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27458.htm

--------

Vision: Across the Country, People are Rising Up to Fight for Change

Rose Aguilar, AlterNet: "Over the years, Milwaukee Labor Press editor Dominique Paul North has covered a 'heck of a lot of protests' in Wisconsin. Last summer, a peace rally in Wisconsin?s inner city drew about 100 people calling for the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan. 'There was no media coverage,' he says. 'I was the only reporter there.' The next day, 40 people attended a tea party event in Wisconsin and every local media outlet was there to cover it? So while it was disappointing, it came as no surprise when most Wisconsin and national media outlets ignored the state?s first anti-inaugural rally on January 3. Here?s a summary of a few of the other actions you may have missed last month."

http://www.truth-out.org/vision-across-country-people-are-rising-up-fight-change67680



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=uprising
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Huckabee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Zogby
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Stubley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rose+Aguilar

-----

Energiekonzerne geben Kostenvorteile nicht an Verbraucher weiter. Preissteigerungen werden unredlich begründet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149246

--------

Rettet die deutsche Energiepolitik!

Peak demand parity ? Wenn mehr erneuerbarer Strom erzeugt als verbraucht wird. Worüber keiner redet - Deutschland leidet an einem Luxusproblem: Es hat zu viel Strom. Ein Bericht von Graig Morris - Teil 1/2

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811273ms247



Einspeisevorrang für Solarstrom gekappt

Nachdem die Solarstromvergütung gekappt ist, geht die Bundesregierung nun auch gegen den Einspeisevorrang für Photovoltaik-Anlagen vor.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811298ms247



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Strom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Solarstrom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Photovoltaik
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energiekonzern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energiepolitik
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Einspeis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

Union und FDP befürchten eine "Schauveranstaltung" zum 25. Jahrestages der Reaktorexplosion.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34179/1.html



Wissenschaftlich belastbar, was heißt das?

Endlager Asse: Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz hat eine Strahlenbelastung für die Bergarbeiter errechnet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149243



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tschernobyl
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Endlager+Asse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=CDU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=CSU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=FDP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

Der Bundesrat hat erneut den Vermittlungsausschuss zu den Hartz IV-Sätzen angerufen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149255



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vermittlungsausschuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

Steigende Lebensmittelpreise waren ein maßgeblicher Grund für den Ausbruch der Volksaufstände in Ägypten und Tunesien. Doch welche Faktoren tragen zur Explosion der Nahrungspreise hauptsächlich bei?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34174/1.html

--------

Ägypten und Tunesien: Die ersten Klima-Revolutionen

?Brot und Freiheit? stand auf vielen Plakaten der Aufständischen in Kairo und Tunis. Der Hunger von Millionen und die steigenden Lebensmittelpreise gehörten zweifellos zu den Auslösern der beiden Revolutionen. Eine der Hauptursachen des Hungers ist der Klimawandel und die ihm vorausgehenden Wetterextreme, welche die Klimaforscher seit Jahren vorhersagen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811271ms247



Lebensstandard sinkt - Verstärkt der Klimawandel innereuropäische Unterschiede?

Forscher erwarten sinkenden Lebensstandard in der EU bis 2080. Wissenschaftler erwarten für die nächsten Jahrzehnte fundamentale klimatische Veränderungen globalen Ausmaßes.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811274ms247



Abschied vom Wachstumszwang

Tabu Wachstumszwang ? und wie man es knacken kann. Zu einem fundamentalen Pamphlet des Bremer Senators Loske. Von Rupert Neudeck

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811279ms247



Kaufen für die Müllhalde

Bei zahlreichen Produkten ist der Verschleiß vorprogrammiert. ARTE | 15.02.2011 | 20.15 Uhr

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811281ms247



"Wir brauchen Millenniumsziele für Reiche"

Nobelpreisträger: Konsum ist Schlüssel nachhaltiger Entwicklung.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811282ms247

--------

Bread and Butter Revolution: Egypt?s Workers Mobilize for a New FutureEdit
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-7



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ägypten
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Klimawandel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebensmittelpreis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wachstum
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Konsum
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
-----

?Nach geplatzten Gesprächen erwägen Sozialgerichte, Karlsruhe anzurufen. Sachsen-Anhalt will im Bundesrat nicht für die Hartz-IV-Reform stimmen?? Artikel von Stefan Braun, Susanne Höll und Wolfgang Janisch in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 10.02.2011 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hartz-iv-reform-verfassungsgericht-soll-bei-hartz-iv-eingreifen-1.1057991


Materialsammlung zum Thema Hartz-IV-Regelsatz-Neubemessung

Thomas Kallay, Kläger gegen die Hartz-IV-Regelsätze vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht veröffentlicht am Jahrestag dieses Urteils eine aktuelle und hilfreiche Materialsammlung zur Gegenwehr gegen den Schwindel bei der Hartz-IV-Regelsatz-Neubemessung. Enthalten ist auch ein Musterwiderspruch/Musterüberprüfungsantrag für Leistungsbezieher, die für sozial gerechte und korrekt bemessene Hartz-IV-Regelsätze kämpfen wollen. Infos und Links bei chefduzen http://www.chefduzen.de/index.php/topic,23243.0.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Kastensystem der Armen in Deutschland: Arm, ärmer, Langzeitarbeitsloser

?Auch in den untersten sozialen Schichten gibt es eine subtile Hierarchie. Die Hartz-IV-Verhandlungen haben mal wieder gezeigt, wie sehr die Politiker dies ausspielen?? Artikel von Ulrike Herrmann in der taz vom 09.02.2011 http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/arm-aermer-langzeitarbeitsloser/


Europäischer Vergleich: Niedriglöhne treiben immer mehr Deutsche in Pleite

?Der Anstieg der privaten Insolvenzen liegt in Deutschland über dem europäischen Schnitt. Schuld sind Experten zufolge niedrige Löhne?" Artikel von Tobias Kaiser in Die Welt vom 08.02.2011 http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article12481278/Niedrigloehne-treiben-immer-mehr-Deutsche-in-Pleite.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Februar 2011

--------

Jetzt Hartz IV Regelsatz-Klage einreichen

Nach den gescheiterten Verhandlungen über die Ausgestaltung der sogenannten Hartz IV-Reformen http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/eiertanz-um-hartz-iv-reformen-91543.php der Bundesregierung, rufen Erwerbslosen-Gruppen zum massenhaften Einreichen von Klagen auf. Lesen Sie weiter:
http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/jetzt-hartz-iv-regelsatz-klage-einreichen-5104.php



Jeder achte Zeitarbeiter auf Hartz IV angewiesen. Leiharbeiter verdienen im Schnitt nur die Hälfte

Laut einer Studie des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) benötigt jeder achte Arbeitnehmer in der Zeitarbeitsbranche zusätzliche Hartz IV-Leistungen (sog. Aufstockung). Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/jeder-achte-zeitarbeiter-auf-hartz-iv-angewiesen-34520.php



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Erwerbslos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Langzeitarbeitslos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Regelsatz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Niedriglohn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Zeitarbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bundesverfassungsgericht
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

-----

- Confirmation Linky: ERDF a bien disjoncté !
http://www.next-up.org/France/Linky.php#1
-----

Poli-Tea
by d.eris

02/10/11

An attempt to fast-track the renewal of the most controversial portions of the Patriot Act failed in the House yesterday. The measure failed to get the procedurally necessary two-third majority. The same measure would easily pass on a simple majority vote. In the People's House, there is a sizable bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans who are united in opposition to core constitutional principles such as the protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and the civil rights of American citizens...

http://tinyurl.com/49g623x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=d.eris

-----

CNN

02/10/11

The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency. The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global financial system...

http://tinyurl.com/697bv2m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IMF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=reserve+currency
-----

Nick Mottern, Truthout: "On January 12, 2011, the investment world thrilled to the announcement that ITT Corporation, one of the top ten US military contractors, will disengage from its 'defense' business as part of a planned split into three new companies. The move points to ITT as a possible canary in the coal mine for military contractors, and a signal to those of us who want to stop our current wars that the time is right to mount a divestment campaign on the war industry."

http://www.truth-out.org/time-divest-from-war-machine-drones-first67602



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+industry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=contractor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Mottern
-----

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Four key demands have been constantly lifted up by protesters and opposition parties, which are essential for a credible transition to democracy: ending the arbitrary detention and harassment of journalists, human rights activists and peaceful demonstrators and freeing those who have been detained; ending the state of emergency; allowing free electoral competition in elections; and restoring full judicial supervision of elections.... Without these reforms, any 'orderly transition' in Egypt is likely to be a transition not to democracy, but a transition to dictatorship under a different face."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-protesters-verge-victory-watch-demands67647



The Revolt in Egypt Is Coming Home

John Pilger, Truthout: "The uprising in Egypt is our theater of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse the words 'we' and 'us' to speak on behalf of those with power who see the rest of humanity as useful or expendable. The 'we' and 'us' are universal now. Tunisia came first, but the spectacle always promised to be Egyptian."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-revolt-egypt-is-coming-home67624



Egypt Demonstrates for Democracy; Americans Contemplate PATRIOT Act Extension

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "In spite of our own interests, Americans and the US government are supplying the boots that rest on the necks of citizens of Egypt and dictatorships around the world. Meanwhile, we remain silent as the impending reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act threatens to speed the momentum of repression in our own country."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-demonstrates-democracy-americans-contemplate-patriot-act-extension67635

--------

The Middle East Does Not Need Stability

By Gideon Levy

This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27445.htm



Who's Next? Contagious Revolution Sweeping in Arab World

Video By Press TV

Developments in the Arab world, the Egyptian revolution, a decade of Algerian strife and civil war, the growing trends towards Islamophobia in the West and many other issues are reviewed in this edition of Rattansi & Ridley.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27449.htm



US Cables: FBI Trained Egypt's State Security 'Torturers'

By Daniel Tencer

Egypt's secret police, long accused of torturing suspects and intimidating political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak, received training at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia, even as US diplomats compiled allegations of brutality against them, according to US State Department cables.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27447.htm

--------

Mubarak?s Norma Desmond moment

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/11/11

We are at what the smart alecks of the world call a plastic moment, a strategic conjuncture, a critical turning point. Because no one?s in charge. The Egyptian people could rise up, as one, tomorrow, in their multi-millions, and crush Mubarak and Mubarakism into dust, if they chose. This is the great fear that all rulers, no matter how popular at the moment, have nightmares about, a terror that pervades and motivates their every action while in office: a sudden and massive uprising...

http://tinyurl.com/6zcmaaa



The perils of intervention

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

02/10/11

Americans have become accustomed to presidents and secretaries of state pontificating on the condition of the world and advising other governments and peoples what they should be doing. But one rather suspects that George Washington, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson would be shocked to see our Federal government passing judgment on the doings of foreigners and doing so in a hectoring and imperious fashion that seems to suggest that Washington enjoys some exceptional quality that permits it to hand out advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1325



When pro-US tyrants topple

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

02/08/11

Mubarak's fate today may indeed only reinforce the lesson of history. Washington has almost always been embarrassed ? or worse ? by its long-time support of authoritarian rulers. Though there are times when Washington may need to make common cause with unsavory regimes to protect crucial U.S. interests ? those occasions should be the exception rather than the rule...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12768


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arab+World
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mubarak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamophobia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tyran
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=repression
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptional
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intervention
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=US+cables
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Quantico
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tortur
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=orderly+transition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Pilger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shahid+Buttar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gideon+Levy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Daniel+Tencer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ted+Galen+Carpenter
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/10-11



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=RootsAction
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/10-7



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Latin+America
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wikileaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rebecca+Ray
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/10-6
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt419.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chase+Madar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/engelhardt
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/10-9

--------

What Obama didn?t say in his sermon to the Chamber of Commerce
Freedom's Phoenix

by Craig Cantoni

02/09/11

In his recent sermon to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Barack Obama came across as the most pedestrian, pedantic, preachy, and professorial president since Woodrow Wilson left Princeton to go into politics and eventually the White House. His ivory-tower comments accomplished the Herculean task of making George W. Bush look smart by comparison and have sullied the reputations of his alma maters of Columbia and Harvard. He was an embarrassment to himself, to his supporters, and to all graduates of Columbia and Harvard. It was even more embarrassing when you consider what he didn?t say...

http://tinyurl.com/4a3jprg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chamber+of+Commerce
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=worker+union
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lee+Fang
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Craig+Cantoni
-----

'Teures Spielzeug für einen elitären Kreis'. Interview mit Heinz Smital von Greenpeace

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34128/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kernfusion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kernfusion
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greenpeace
-----

Politik pervertiert
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149239



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/nonsense-to-justify-qe2.html

--------

QE2 Sets Off Inflation Alarms

By Mike Whitney

The stimulus that's pushing liquidity into the markets, is not being transmitted to the real economy. It's stuck in financial La-la land where it can't do any good. The problem is not that Bernanke is dropping money out of helicopters. The problem is that his helicopter never stops circling Wall Street.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27450.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=stimulus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernanke
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=QE2
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Willie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Whitney
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard257.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=power+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kissinger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rockefeller
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rothbard
-----

- Sarkozy et Linky: ULTIMATUM à ERDF (Communiqué en Urgence)

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

10. Februar 2011

Die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Katja Kipping, wirft Union und FDP nach den gescheiterten Hartz-IV-Gesprächen einen ?Putsch gegen die Verfassung? vor. Kipping äußert die Hoffnung auf ein baldiges Eingreifen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, um eine deutliche Regelsatzanhebung zu erreichen. Sie erklärt:

Union und FDP haben jede Bewegung beim Regelsatz blockiert. Das war ein Putsch gegen die Verfassung. SPD und Grüne waren nicht in der Lage, echten Druck aufzubauen. Herausgekommen ist eine Nullnummer. Bei Hartz IV werden praktisch längst durch die Hintertür die Leistungen gekürzt, obwohl die Schmerzgrenze längst überschritten ist. Das provoziert Unmut und auf Dauer soziale Unruhen. So kann man weder mit den Millionen Betroffenen noch mit dem höchsten deutschen Gericht umgehen. Spätestens dann wenn das Verfassungsgericht angerufen wird, wird es per Anordnung nachholen müssen, was die Politik verweigert hat. Das Gericht urteilt nicht nach Kassenlage sondern nach Rechtslage. Maßgeblich ist die Verfassung, und die sagt, dass die Würde des Menschen unantastbar ist.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/putsch-gegen-die-verfassung/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Regelsatz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bundesverfassungsgericht
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=CDU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=FDP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

-----

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Andrew Napolitano

02/09/11

The compromise version of the Patriot Act to which House and Senate conferees agreed last week and for which the House voted yesterday is an unforgivable assault on basic American values and core constitutional liberties. Unless amended in response to the courageous efforts of a few dozen senators from both parties, the new Patriot Act will continue to give federal agents the power to write their own search warrants -- the statute?s newspeak terminology calls them 'national security letters' -- and serve them on a host of persons and entities that regularly gather and store sensitive, private information on virtually every American...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1324


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

PATRIOT ACT or Bill of Rights?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1031.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fourth+Amendment
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Napolitano
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warrant
-----

Downsize DC Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

02/09/11

There's been a lot of hysteria about Wikileaks. Negative propaganda has made many people hostile to the organization and its leader, Julian Assange. Sadly, national security is like a religion for many Americans. When the Political Priests of the National Security State rattle their sabers it becomes heretical to take the contrary view...

http://tinyurl.com/483dg6m


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=heresy
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=Jim+Babka
-----

http://ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011020609/fannie-freddie-and-privatization-next-crisis-starting-right-now


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+meltdown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fannie+Mae
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Freddie+Mac
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Eskow
-----

MSNBC

02/09/11

An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians the group registered as killed in conflict-related security incidents in 2010, some 739 were under the age of 18...

http://tinyurl.com/4sspsk3


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=civilian+deaths

-----

USA Today

02/09/11

Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans, according to the government's first in-depth study of homelessness among former servicemembers. About 16% of homeless adults in a one-night survey in January 2009 were veterans, though vets make up only 10% of the adult population...

http://tinyurl.com/4bd6ray


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Global+Warming+-+Globale+Erwaermung/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cancun
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Miranda+Spencer
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-7



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=detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=abuse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Marian+Wang
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett29.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ruling+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tyranny
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/barnett
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo200.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/dilorenzo
-----

We just had a "rich-get-richer" recession. U.K. data suggest the gap between the wealthy and the poor has widened. We can give up any idea that it is going to close by itself.

http://bloom.bg/dPi7Lg



Negative Home Equity Surges, Weighing on Housing "Recovery"

A full 27 percent of borrowers are now "underwater" on their mortgages, up from 23 percent in the previous quarter, according to a new report from Zillow. Foreclosure moratoriums and falling home prices are to blame.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41483676


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mortgage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
-----

The US has broken off high-level contacts with Pakistan as it increases pressure on Islamabad to free an American official who shot dead two Pakistanis, according to sources from both countries.

http://bit.ly/hKvWQi



Pakistan defence photos found in US official's camera

"It is strongly recommended that a case of espionage be registered against Davis,' the prosecution branch of the Punjab police has written in an official letter to the investigation branch.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/742073/cs/1/



American's fake IDs, spy gadgets stoke Pakistani anger

The mystery about what Davis was doing with these gadgets has touched directly on Pakistani resentment of the large U.S. security presence. Such U.S. employees roam the country freely and are not answerable to the Pakistani authorities.

http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_17333655?nclick_check=1



US threatens to cut Pakistani aid if US gunman not released

US lawmakers threatened to cut aid to Pakistan unless it freed an American detained over a shadowy shooting, as Washington intensified pressure on its uneasy war partner.

http://bit.ly/fdEbdC


From Information Clearing House



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

By Ray McGovern

As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of arrest on a torture complaint, my first thought was - how humiliating, not only for Bush but, by extension, for all Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27439.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
-----

By DPA

The bases would enable US troops to remain in the area beyond the planned transfer of security responsibility from US and NATO troops to Afghan forces by end of 2014, a process due to begin in the spring.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27438.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Karzai
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghan+base
-----

By Richard Falk

When the Soviet empire collapsed, the way was opened for the triumphalist pursuit of the American imperial project, seizing the opportunity for geopolitical expansion provided by its self-anointed global leadership - as 'the sole surviving superpower'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27437.htm



Senior US Marine Says "Multiple Platoons" Are Headed To Egypt

A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.

http://read.bi/gbJcXk



France rocked by news of aid to Tunisia and Egypt

France trained Egyptian police officers in crowd control and sent tear gas to Tunis. And its foreign minister vacationed in Tunisia after the uprising, using the jet of a man linked to the ousted president.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/05/world/la-fg-france-scandal-20110205


From Information Clearing House

--------

Egypt-Inspired Protests Across Middle East Meet Violent Clampdown
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-0

Suleiman: America's New Man in Egypt
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/09

--------

Let?s go to Plan B

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

02/10/11

Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is a definition of insanity. He might have been describing the foreign policy of the United States of America. In the past week we long suffering citizens have seen our government stand by the dictator in Egypt, then call on him to go, and most recently support his staying on while at the same time publicly demanding that some transition start immediately. All of which is not doing the same thing over and over except when one considers that the US Department of State and White House have followed precisely the same dysfunctional pattern when dealing with other client states throughout the Middle East and in Central Asia...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/02/09/lets-go-to-plan-b/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Suleiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+leadership
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=superpower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Falk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Human+Rights+Watch
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi

-----

Laufzeitverlängerung: Neckarwestheim 1 profitiert als erster Meiler - sicherheitsrelevante Nachrüstung ist auf einmal nicht mehr erforderlich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149225



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=AKW
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Laufzeitverlängerung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Neckarwestheim
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb

-----

In Afghanistan findet nicht nur der erste Drohnenkrieg statt, es sind auch 2000 Bodenroboter im Einsatz.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34167/1.html



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

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I know I should be immune to this by now, but I still find myself awestruck by the incredibly detailed, insulated fantasy world that the American conservative 'movement' has created for themselves. No lie is too big to be told, no fact is too firm to be bent around ideology, no myth is too absurd to defend to the knife. The ability to spew deliberate nonsense into the credulous ears of Fox-watching right-bent voters - and to be utterly without shame while doing it - is the core of this 'movement's' political muscle, and has been for a number of decades now."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-rich-fantasy-life67572



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt
-----

- NCBI Pub-Med: Un panel de scientifiques lance une alerte santé concernant les risques des champs électromagnétiques artificiels: le consensus, les justifications et les recommandations.
- Les 10 points clés de l'ALERTE mondiale.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Database_CEM_EMF.php#1
-----

Wikileaks Yuma Sun

02/08/11

The man famous for leaking thousands of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents just spent two days in court fighting extradition to Sweden and criticizing prosecutors there for allegedly leaking his name to the media in a sex crimes inquiry. No one in court acknowledged any irony in Julian Assange's efforts to seek the protection of confidentiality...

http://tinyurl.com/48egrap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Air Force Warns Everyone Is a Criminal for Reading WikiLeaks
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/07/air-force-warns-everyone-is-a-criminal-for-reading-wikileaks/

--------

Data Intelligence Firms Proposed a Systematic Attack Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/09-6



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Ragan

-----

Henry A. Giroux, Paradigm Press: "Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity, and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of politics and culture that simply became an extension of war, both at home and abroad. At home, the punishing state increasingly replaced the welfare state, however ill conceived, as more and more individuals and groups were now treated as disposable populations, undeserving of those safety nets and basic protections that provide the conditions for living with a sense of security and dignity. Under such conditions, basic social supports were replaced by an accelerated production of prisons, the expansion of the criminal justice system into everyday life, and the further erosion of crucial civil liberties."

http://www.truth-out.org/torturing-democracy67570

--------

Moral negligence

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

02/08/11

Good citizens' don?t like to hear this, but its truth should be obvious: The biggest threat to humanity, to peace, and to justice is not personal malice. It is the belief in 'authority'...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5519


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=justice+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Larken+Rose
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-3



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Beck
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Frances+Fox+Piven
-----

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08

Obama Invokes FDR at Chamber of Commerce, But Misses Mark
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/08-0

Obama, Inc.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-2

Obama's Scary Budget: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-8

--------

Obama Walks in the Wrong Direction

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America's avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and show deference to the business establishment. Apparently, his ongoing obsequiousness is an effort to woo corporate donors and show conservative voters how moderate he can be. But does he really think that that either of those groups is going to give any love back?"

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-obama-walks-wrong-direction67594



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Daley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chamber+of+Commerce
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Hightower
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Earl+Ofari+Hutchinson
-----

Abroad, at Least
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-2

George Bush: No Escaping Torture Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08-0

--------

George Bush Cuts and Runs From Torture Case in Switzerland

Vincent Warren, Truthout: "Apparently, former president George W. Bush does 'cut and run.' On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against Bush in Geneva. Bush was due to speak there at a charity gala on February 12. On the eve of the case filing, Bush abruptly canceled his trip, choosing instead to attend the Super Bowl in Dallas. Why would he rather be in Dallas than in Geneva? For one thing, Swiss authorities are under a legal obligation to start a preliminary criminal investigation if a torturer is on Swiss soil. But, thanks to Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to apply US law to investigate torture, Bush isn't even breaking a sweat in Dallas - or anywhere in the US, for that matter."

http://www.truth-out.org/george-bush-cuts-and-runs-torture-case-switzerland67559



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kanya+D'Almeida
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Katherine+Gallagher
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vincent+Warren
-----

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149215



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

Das Verteidigungsministerium soll abgespeckt werden, aber die überzähligen Beschäftigten werden eigentlich nur in eine neue Behörde verschoben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149220



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guttenberg
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=CSU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds24.1.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods164.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/woods
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard256.html



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

By Greg Hunter

If unemployment was computed the way BLS did it prior to 1994, the true unemployment rate would be 22.2%.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27435.htm



When Irish Eyes Are Crying

By Michael Lewis

By the start of the new millennium, the Irish poverty rate was under 6 percent and by 2006 Ireland was one of the richest countries in the world.. How did that happen?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27436.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ireland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greg+Hunter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Lewis

-----

By Gareth Porter

The entire senior Taliban leadership, meeting in Karachi, "agreed in principle to find a way for them to return to Afghanistan and abandon the fight", Gopal wrote, but the initiative was frustrated by the unwillingness of the United States and the Afghan government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27434.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter

-----

By Robert Fisk in Cairo


"Even in past examples where presidents have sent someone 'respected' or 'close' to a foreign leader in order to lubricate an exit," Mr Noe adds, "the envoys in question were not actually paid by the leader they were supposed to squeeze out!"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27428.htm



The Egyptian Mirror

By Glenn Greenwald

It's remarkable how self-righteously our political and media class can proclaim sympathy with the heroic populace, and such scorn for their dictator, without really reconciling our national responsibility for Mubarak's reign of terror.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27429.htm



Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

By Chris Hedges

Those who administer empire-elected officials, corporate managers, generals and the celebrity courtiers who disseminate the propaganda-become very wealthy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27433.htm



Kleptocrats at Work

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27432.htm

--------

Strangling Egypt: Eric Margolis on the Empire
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/2182939/12759198/134537/0/

--------

'Sheik al-Torture': Washington's New Man in Cairo
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/08-4

U.S. Middle-East Policy: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil -- Just Practice It, Then Act Surprised"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/08

--------

For America, stability trumps freedom

Spiked
by Sean Collins

02/08/11

In echoing Mubarak?s call for an 'orderly transition,' the US is undermining the fight for democratic rights...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10168/



Illusions of change

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

02/08/11

While the drama of revolution plays out across Egypt, the capitols of former and current western imperial powers are abuzz with activity. Much of this activity is focused on preventing the success of the Egyptian uprising by replacing the man Hosni Mubarak with another agent of those powers. The top name in the hat at this time appears to be Egypt's torture chief and recently appointed vice president Omar Suleiman. As most observers of the region know (and as has been reported in media around the world) Suleiman's history includes assisting in renditions, torture and operating the Egyptian internal security apparatus...

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs02082011.html



Five reasons why Arab regimes are falling

The Christian Science Monitor
by Moataz A. Fattah

02/08/11

Public protests in Egypt are not about minor changes or grievances. President Hosni Mubarak?s regime faces a deep process of legitimacy erosion ?- the same pattern of legitimacy erosion that exists across much of the Arab region. This erosion won?t simply go away with more protests or new governments, and it will be with us in the years to come. Understanding the larger societal and demographic factors eroding these regimes is vital to understanding the unrest in the Middle East and how the Arab world can move forward...

http://tinyurl.com/45eebox



Ideology vs. the national interest

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

02/07/11

Hosni Mubarak has been a loyal ally. He kept the peace with Israel and helped keep weapons out of Gaza. He fought beside us in Desert Storm and stands with us in the War on Terror. But he is also an autocrat who rules a regime where state and army are virtually one and where the opposition is squelched, when it is not imprisoned. If a democratic Egypt is America?s goal, we will push for the removal of Mubarak, for the army to go back to the barracks, and for parliamentary and presidential elections where all parties participate. But before we do this, we should be on notice what a democratic Egypt, where the government reflects the will of the people, may look like...

http://tinyurl.com/494uul6



Egypt, human rights and America

Our Future Blog
by Alan Jenkins

02/08/11

After two weeks behind the curve on the uprising in Egypt, the Obama administration seems to have found its voice, recognizing that our national interests and our national values point in the same direction ? toward democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. There are reasons to worry about the kind of regime that will emerge in Cairo. But promoting those three principles will serve our nation well in supporting the Egyptian people and engaging whatever government they ultimately choose. The same is true here at home...

http://tinyurl.com/6c2fck5



Is the US really the freest country in the world?

Fr33 Agents
by Xaq Fixx

02/07/11

Whether you take a holistic approach to freedom or analyze any number of specific categories the United States of America consistently is proven not to be the freest country. Countries in Scandinavia, Western Europe [and] the English Speaking Far East do much better comparatively when examined either way but often still prove far from ideal. Americans can and should see the assaults on their freedoms as an opportunity to improve and live up to the legend we all grew up believing...

http://tinyurl.com/4gppqkk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

"Orderly Transition" or "Nothing Burger" Reforms? Benchmarks for US Policy in Egypt

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "To the disappointment of many, the Obama administration's policy of 'orderly transition to democracy' in Egypt, which just a few days ago seemed to be embracing pro-democracy protesters' demand that Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak leave office, now seems to be backtracking to the idea that Mubarak and Vice President Omar Suleiman can lead a credible process of transition to democracy, despite the unwillingness of the US-backed Egyptian government so far to accept any concrete demands for reform."

http://www.truth-out.org/orderly-transition-or-nothing-burger-reforms-benchmarks-us-policy-egypt67593



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mubarak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Suleiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tyranny
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corruption
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
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=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/margolis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pepe+Escobar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sean+Collins
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Jacobs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Moataz+A.+Fattah
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Jenkins
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman

-----

- TIME/CNN: Compteurs Mouchards "Rage Against the Machine"
- Les factures d'électricité "explosent !"

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

by JB Williams

The Montana State Legislature is first to introduce a broad-based state nullification bill designed to reassert the states right to rein in the federal government by nullifying all unconstitutional acts committed by the three branches of the federal government. Montana HOUSE BILL NO. 382 sponsored by Rep. D. Skees is titled.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams130.htm



State Nullification: Requisite To Freedom

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

I was thrilled to see J.B. Williams report in NewsWithViews.com that the State of Montana has a broad-based State nullification bill currently proposed in its legislature. Derek Skees (R-Whitefish) is the State legislator who has introduced this much-needed legislation. The fact is, Skees' State Nullification bill is only one of several outstanding freedom-first bills that is........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin636.htm



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

Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com: "In Donald Rumsfeld's new book, Known and Unknown, out February 8, Rumsfeld offers an account of George W. Bush's early interest in Iraq. This was just days after the 9/11 attacks. There were no apparent reasons for Bush to focus on Iraq, instead of on the actual perpetrators of the attacks."

http://www.truth-out.org/bush-rumsfeld-and-iraq-is-real-reason-invasion-finally-emerging67527



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russ+Baker

-----

Joseph Natoli, Truthout: "If we accept the assumption that we think inside a personally determined box which is itself inside a 'Let Markets Rule' larger box, we need to acknowledge that such a state of affairs has much affected conditions 'here on the ground.' I mean that what we think comprises a 'good education' has already been affected by market values. An example: we think of 'problem solving' and not 'critical thinking.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/our-market-regime-and-public-education67474



Corporate Media Push Wrong Story on Obama's Relationship With Business

Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "President Barack Obama is hoping to 'mend ties' with big business by speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce (COC), Washington DC's top lobbyist. That's the frame we're hearing in the corporate media even though the President has extended the Bush tax cuts, recently named JP Morgan Chase executive and former COC board member William Daley as his chief of staff, and chose General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head the new 'White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/corporate-media-push-wrong-story-obamas-relationship-with-business67543

--------

Banksters Back in the Black: JPMorgan Chase
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/07-3

Public Citizen: Enough of the Olive Branches to Big Business
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/07-7

--------

US Education: Show Us the Money!

By Bill Walker

The US government spends more per pupil than any nation in the world except Switzerland. The US spent an average of $149,000 for the K-12 education of every 2009 public high school graduate. That works out to $11,461 per year or so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27520.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Daley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Business
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chamber+of+Commerce
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bankster
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=JP+Morgan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=public+education
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tax+cuts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joseph+Natoli
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rose+Aguilar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mary+Bottari

-----

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "After nearly five years of legal and regulatory battles, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa that is genetically modified (GM) to be resistant to Roundup herbicide. The decision squashed a proposed compromise between the biotech industry and its opponents that would have placed geographic restrictions on Roundup Ready alfalfa to prevent organic and traditional alfalfa from being contaminated by herbicide sprays and transgenes spread by cross-pollination and other factors."

http://www.truth-out.org/big-win-biotech-usda-deregulates-monsanto-alfalfa67373

--------

Earthjustice: Farmers and Conservationists Challenge Latest Federal Approval of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4376?akid=387.124981.eygWOi&t=46



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Department+of+Agriculture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=USDA
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=biotech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=genetically+engineered
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Monsanto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Roundup
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=transgenes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cross-pollination
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Ludwig
-----

Regulators shut two banks in Georgia and another in Illinois as U.S. lenders buckle under souring real estate loans, pushing this year's failure count to 14.

http://bloom.bg/f9lpIH



Bankrupt Banks: Regulators close 2 Georgia banks; 2011 total is 70

Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Georgia, boosting to 70 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-close-2-Georgia-apf-531233682.html



First International Bank Fails, Brings Count Up to 74

First International Bank, of Plano, TX, failed this week, bringing this year s total number of FDIC-insured bank failures to 74.

http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/2011/10/03/fdic-bank-failures-climb-74/



3 bankrupt banks bring US 2012 total to 46

Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.

http://is.gd/pYeZpx


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=real+estate+loan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bank+failure
-----

Learning To Walk: Fear, Shame And Your Underwater Mortgage

By Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney and Lucia Graves

Nearly 1 in every 4 U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more on their home than it's worth. Once a month, those 10.8 million are faced with a question that cuts to the core of the American Dream. - Should I pay my mortgage?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27421.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mortgage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeowner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+dream
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ryan+Grim
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arthur+Delaney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lucia+Graves

-----

By Ellen Brown

In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27422.htm



Egypt's military-industrial complex

The cozy relationship between the lobbyists, members of the US Congress, Pentagon officials and the Egyptian government is easily explained: much is at stake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/egypt-arms-trade


From Information Clearing House

--------

Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/05

--------

Hosni Mubarak and American foreign policy

Breaking All The Rules Breaking All the Rules
by SARTRE

02/07/11

The sands of time sweep once again over the Egyptian kingdom. Hosni Mubarak is just one more in a long line of autocrats. A Pharaoh he is not. A tin horn dictator, beholding to the regal Yankee, is a more apt description. It is difficult to embrace or have sympathy for a regime that traded rendition torture for a steady flow of military and foreign aid. Mubarak, like all favored despots, has no qualms of conscience when it comes to following orders, from a higher imposing force. Now he is paying the price of being a collaborator of the American Empire...

http://batr.org/gulag/020611.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mubarak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=autocrats
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=despot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=starvation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pratap+Chatterjee

-----

http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=bmSEBKyzRh67v7w3A66cuQ..



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

Muss Ex-US-Präsident Bush in Europa Strafverfahren fürchten?

Bush hat seinen Besuch in der Schweiz lieber einmal abgesagt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149212

--------

Bush cancels Switzerland visit under threat of protests, efforts to arrest him
http://bit.ly/ihqHuQ


From Information Clearing House

--------

GWB Ducks Geneva Criminal Torture Charges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/07-6

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Announces Bush Indictment for Convention Against Torture Signatory States
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/07-0



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Constitutional+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+Quigley
-----

Erneuerbarer Strom soll aus dem Netz gedrängt werden.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149214



Wärmespeicher

Kostengünstige und flexibel einsetzbare Stromspeicher für das Stromnetz.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34156/1.html

--------

Kleine Kügelchen ganz groß

Damit Wärme aus Kraftwerken nicht ungenutzt bleibt, werden zunehmend Wärmespeicher eingesetzt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416815382ms322



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Atomstrom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

Nach einer DGB-Studie verdienen Leiharbeiter fast die Hälfte weniger als normal Beschäftigte, 13 Prozent sind zusätzlich auf Hartz IV angewiesen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149218

--------

Niedriglohn und Lohndumping im Verleihgewerbe

LeiharbeiterInnen mit einem Vollzeitstelle verdienen nur etwa die Hälfte von Vollzeitbeschäftigen in der Wirtschaft insgesamt. Gleichzeitig werden die Einkommensabstände zwischen LeiharbeiterInnen und Beschäftigten in Normalarbeit immer größer. Eine Untersuchung des DGB-Bundesvorstands. Download von Arbeitsmarkt aktuell 02/2011 vom 07.02.2011 (pdf) http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++9a41fdf0-3299-11e0-6480-00188b4dc422


Zeitarbeit und Leiharbeit: Armut trotz Arbeit ist hier an der Tagesordnung. DGB-Studie: LeiharbeiterInnen bekommen nur 50 % vom Lohn. Kommentar von Reinhold Schramm vom 07.02.11 bei scharf links http://scharf-links.de/43.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=14522&tx_ttnews[backPid]=56&cHash=b7d2bd35d9


Zeitarbeit boomt: Die traurige Wahrheit hinter dem ?Jobwunder?

Das sogenannte 'Jobwunder' klingt positiver, als es ist. Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der schönen Arbeitsmarkt-Zahlen belegt: Unterm Strich verlagern nicht zuletzt die Dax-Konzerne mehr Stellen ins Ausland, als sie im Inland schaffen. Großer Profiteur ist die Zeitarbeitsbranche. Doch die Gewerkschaften gehen wegen der "Lohndrückerei" immer mehr auf die Barrikaden?? Artikel von Markus Fasse, Ulf Sommer und Dietrich Creutzburg im Handelsblatt online vom 08.02.2011 http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/zeitarbeit-boomt-die-traurige-wahrheit-hinter-dem-jobwunder;2748999

Aus dem Text: ??Die Zeitarbeit hat einen regelrechten Siegeszug angetreten. Seitdem die rot-grüne Bundesregierung im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen 2003 den Arbeitsmarkt deregulierte, boomt die Branche. Gab es damals erst 300 000 Zeitarbeiter, so sind es heute knapp 900 000. Gerade die Elite der deutschen Wirtschaft, die 30 Dax-Konzerne, greift zunehmend auf die flexible Arbeitsreserve zurück - zulasten der Stammbelegschaft. In den vergangenen vier Jahren verschwanden 80 000 Jobs bei den Großkonzernen. Allein 2010 gingen unter dem Strich 11 600 Stellen verloren. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Handelsblatt-Analyse?.?


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Februar 2011

--------

Lohndumping: Gewerkschaft wirft Netto Ausbeutung vor

Ver.di knöpft sich den Discounter Netto vor: Die Gewerkschafter werfen der Supermarktkette vor, sittenwidrige Löhne zu zahlen - in Höhe von 5,50 Euro. Mehr als 40 Prozent der Mitarbeiter seien geringfügig beschäftigt. Das Unternehmen weist die Kritik zurück. Artikel auf Spiegel-Online vom 16.03.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,751302,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2011



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lohndumping
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lohndrückerei
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Zeitarbeit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz-Gelb
-----

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis226.html

Our 30-Year Mistake
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul720.html

Pox Americana
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt418.html

--------

It's Not Radical Islam That Worries The US - It's Independence

By Noam Chomsky

The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27419.htm

--------

Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Chris Hedges, Truthout: "Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the use of indiscriminate violence. When families are gunned down at a checkpoint in Iraq they are referred to as having been 'lit up.' So it goes. The other language of empire is softer. It employs the vocabulary of ideals and lofty goals and insists that the power of empire is noble and benevolent."

http://www.truth-out.org/recognizing-language-tyranny67536



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=violence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/margolis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
-----