World-News

Defense And War Spending Equal 94% Of All Federal Income Tax Revenues.
http://bit.ly/r91n4b



Dennis Kucinich: Social Security Didn Not Create the Deficit

America s seniors are being presented with a fake Social Security crisis to try to trick them into accepting reduced benefits. Social Security will be able to pay 100% of its benefits through 2037 without any changes whatsoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx_oMTskEY4&feature=player_embedded



$10 Trillion missing from Pentagon since 1991

By Stephen Glain

In an interview with Tech Ticker s Aaron Task, Stephen Glain suggests that the U.S. military has squandered via waste, fraud and abuse, up to $10 Trillion since 1991.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28831.htm



The greatest elected body that money can buy

Just when you think your contempt for Congress could not get any higher, our elected representatives manage to do something to ratchet it up another notch.

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/11/the_greatest_elected_body_that_money_can_buy


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kucinich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=defense+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Glain
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The year-end pullout of US forces will improve security in Iraq, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi claimed Sunday, days after Iraqi leaders agreed to talk with Washington over a post-2011 training mission.

http://bit.ly/nmUrkq


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Hashemi
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By Keith Eldridge

Ashley says her husband Jared tried to come to grips with what he had seen and done on his eight deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. "And there is no way that any God would forgive him'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28839.htm



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=deploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Army+suicide
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Keith+Eldridge
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'Schwere Zeiten für die jungen Menschen in der EU: Mehr als 20 Prozent der 15- bis 24-Jährigen haben neuen Zahlen zufolge keinen Job, in Spanien ist inzwischen fast jeder Zweite arbeitslos - und die Aussichten sind alles andere als positiv. Selbst die recht guten Daten aus Deutschland sind trügerisch' Artikel in Spiegel online vom 11.08.2011 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,779610,00.html


Jugendproteste in Europa: Steht auf, wenn ihr eine Zukunft wollt

?Immer mehr junge Menschen gehen in ganz Europa auf die Straßen. Meist
läuft das friedlicher ab als vor kurzem in Großbritannien. Aber eines eint
die britischen Ausschreitungen mit den überall in Europa aufflammenden
Protestbewegungen: das Gefühl, hoffnungslos abgehängt zu sein?? Artikel
von Alex Rühle in Süddeutsche Zeitung online vom 14.08.2011
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/jugendproteste-in-europa-steht-auf-wenn-ihr-eine-zukunft-wollt-1.1130989


»Griechenland dient als Soziallabor«

Detlef Hartmann im Gespräch über Griechenland als Krisenlabor und soziale
Kämpfe. Interview von Peter Jonas in der Jungle World vom 11. August 2011
http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2011/32/43753.html

Siehe dazu auch: Klassenkampf von oben. Sloterdijk, Sarrazin und die
Verteilung der Kosten der Finanzkrise

Artikel von Michael Hartmann in der Lotta Nr. 44 vom Sommer 2011 (pdf)
http://projekte.free.de/lotta/pdf/44/l44_klassenkampf_von_oben.pdf


Die Vielfachkrise. Warum der Wahnsinn um sich greift

Banken und Spekulanten treiben dank der Milliarden aus den Rettungsfonds
jene vor sich her, die ihnen in der Finanzkrise aus der Patsche geholfen
haben. Artikel von Elmar Altvater in der WOZ vom 11.08.2011
http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2011/nr32/wirtschaft/21026.html


Das Löschfahrzeug als Brandherd

'Mit der Krise der Finanzindustrie fing es 2008 an. Der Staat trat als
Retter auf, nun befindet er sich selbst im Zentrum der Krise?' Artikel von
Ernst Lohoff in der Jungle World vom 11. August 2011
http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2011/32/43752.html

Seit 80 Jahren nichts gelernt? Profiteure der Krise - und kein Ende
Spekulationsaufblähungen abzusehen

Kommentierte Presseschau von Volker Bahl vom 15.8.2011
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/finanz/profiteure_bahl.html


Banken drehen wieder ein großes Rad

DIW-Pressemitteilung vom 10.08.2011
http://www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.377311.de/themen_nachrichten/banken_drehen_wieder_ein_grosses_rad.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. August 2011



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Finanzkrise
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Spekulation
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sloterdijk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sarrazin

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Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

08/14/11

The most destructive and devastating war in American history was not the Vietnam War, not World War II, not even the Civil War. The most destructive and devastating war in American history is the 40-year War on Drugs. It is a war in which thousands die each year, which wastes billions of dollars, and which has put more people in jail than any other nation in the world. It has come to the point where the War on Drugs is deadlier and more destructive than all the dreaded drugs scattered upon its battlefields.

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6415


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+drugs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
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http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski272.html

Fiat Money Has Enriched the Political Class
http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland35.1.html

Head Lie: CNN Says Insiders On Stock Buying Spree
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo51.1.html

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Politicians in a panic

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

You can almost see the panic on their faces. The politicians, central bankers, and court economists seem to be thrashing around like bad swimmers caught in a riptide. Despite all attempts - stimulus spending, increased borrowing, the Fed Reserve s low-interest-rate policy, presidential jaw-boning -- the economy refuses to recover...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108i.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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By Joseph Lazzaro

'We thought that markets work. They are not working. What s individually rational...is a self-destructive process.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28836.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+class
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/kwiatkowski
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/galland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/slavo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joseph+Lazzaro
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Sozialverbände sehen immer mehr Rentner in Armut. Schlechte Aussichten auch für die kommende Rentnergeneration.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150300

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Suppenküchen für Studenten

''Unter Frankreichs akademischem Nachwuchs macht sich eine immer größere Armut breit. Damit sich Studenten in finanzieller Notlage nicht allein von Nudeln ernähren müssen, eröffnen auf immer mehr französischen Universitätsgeländen Tafelläden?'' Artikel von Andrea Klingsieck, Paris, im Neues Deutschland vom 14.06.2013 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/824355.suppenkuechen-fuer-studenten.html


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Juni 2013



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tafel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Suppenküche
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Armut
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sozialverb

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John Grant, This Can t Be Happening: 'How do you assure the security of a nation of human beings who consume a disproportionate amount of the world s resources, habitually live beyond their means and are addicted to all forms of fantasy from Bible-based delusion, to patriotism-based arrogance, to movie special effects that make ordinary human drama seem boring?.. The answer for the United States seems to be a growing concentration on what is known as Special Operations, which includes Special Forces, Seals and a host of other lethal military forces that emphasize mobility, efficiency, secrecy and unaccountability.'

http://www.truth-out.org/special-ops-new-face-war/1313292868



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+ops
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Special+Forces
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http://www.alternet.org/story/151999/meet_the_global_financial_elites_controlling_%2446_trillion_in_wealth


From EMR-Updates



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
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http://www.rettet-das-internet.de/newsletter/abmahnwarnung_gedichte.htm
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http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812836ms274



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

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Die alten Energiekonzerne bekommen jetzt immer größere Probleme. Obwohl sie seit langem hätten wissen können, dass der Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie kommt, waren sie überhaupt nicht darauf vorbereitet. Noch weniger aber sind sie auf das absehbare Ende von Erdöl und Erdgas eingestellt. Das Hauptproblem von E.on, RWE, Vattenfall und EnBw ist nicht das Auslaufmodell Atomkraft, sondern die Kurzsichtigkeit und Zukunftsunfähigkeit ihrer Bosse.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416812824ms274



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kernenergie
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Energiekonzern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=E.on
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vattenfall
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=EnBw

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Ab einem bestimmten Finanz-Panikniveau gehen verunsicherte Haushalte und Unternehmen in Wartestellung und die Konjunktur kommt zum Stehen. Laut Stanford-Ökonom Nicholas Bloom ist dieses Niveau inzwischen erreicht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150304

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Nach einem Bericht des Bureau of Investigative Journalism starben mehr Menschen, darunter auch zahlreiche Zivilisten, bei den gezielten Tötungen aus der Ferne, als das Pentagon zugeben will.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150305



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=Drohne
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths

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Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout: 'News reports from California s Pelican Bay Prison amplified the need for change, but after the three-week inmate hunger strike ended, the torture of solitary confinement continues nationwide... In 1977, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has now served more than 35 years in federal prison. His trial remains one of the most controversial in the history of the American judicial system.'

http://www.truth-out.org/torture-us-prison-system-endless-punishment-leonard-peltier/1312917659



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison+system
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=solitary+confinement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+Peltier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Preston+Randolph
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dan+Battaglia

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Aktuell ist eine Beschwerde aufgrund eines Sanktionsbescheides nach nach § 31 SGB II gegen eine Hartz IV Bezieherin vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte anhängig. Das zuständige Jobcenter hatte im Jahre 2007 die ALG II-Leistungen aufgrund der bloßen Mitteilung eines Mitarbeiters einer Zeitarbeitsfirma gekürzt, der gesagt hatte, die Betroffene habe den Job gar nicht haben wollen. Das habe er daraus geschlossen, dass sie gesagt habe, der Lohn sei ja niedriger als die Hartz-IV-Leistungen (was zutraf). Den ganzen Artikel lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/beschwerde-vorm-europaeischen-gerichtshof-20913.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=ALG+II
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sanktion
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jobcenter
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http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/127a21da317dd370?hl=de



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Regenwald
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-3

ALEC: Facilitating Corporate Influence Behind Closed Doors
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-9

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What Can the Fed Do To Help Markets? Collectively Resign
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber117.html

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Preparing for the Big Crash
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/elliott-wave/preparing-for-the-big-crash.html

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Unequal Regulation (for Corporations)

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'There's a side to regulation that most people don t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the rules.... The regulatory rule essentially legalizes what a corporation is doing. In the best of worlds, this wouldn t be a problem. But in practice it means that business interests are often directly involved in writing the regulations that they themselves will have to obey.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-regulation/1313495625



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=/faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mary+Bottari
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-1



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=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Clive+Stafford+Smith
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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/12-2



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/12-1



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=genetical+engineer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chuck+Bartels
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By Phil Rockstroh

Some will rob you with a sixgun and some with a fountain pen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28820.htm



A Parasite On The World

By Paul Craig Roberts

The entire world suffers from the Americans' inability or unwillingness to put their house in order.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28823.htm



Austerity Is Bad for Business

By Ellen Brown

It used to be that when the Fed chairman spoke, the market listened; but the chairman has lost his mystique. Now when the market speaks, politicians listen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28819.htm



The Hijacked Crisis

By Paul Krugman

What we're seeing now is what happens when influential people exploit a crisis rather than try to solve it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28821.htm



The Video Congress Does NOT Want You To See!

Video

Many have had the sneaking suspicion that our elected 'leaders' in Congress are not going to Washington D.C. to represent us...but for their own personal gain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28818.htm



'Super Congress' Designed for One Purpose

By Jane Hamsher

It is designed to protect members of Congress from the electoral repercussions of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28822.htm



Calling All Robin Hoods and Maid Marions:

By John Perkins

Like Robin Hood, we live in a time of turmoil. The feudal lords once again are exploiting We the People, and chaos has ensued. It is time for change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28824.htm



China Central Bank Says Debt Level in U.S., Developed Nations 'Worrisome'

China s central bank said that the U.S. faces 'debt sustainability' risks in the medium- and long-term, the latest expression of concern from the nation that is America's biggest creditor.

http://bloom.bg/mQl6Um



Rightly Disgusted at the Banks

A bailout, like any other government expenditure, is a tax.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28826.htm



Consumer Sentiment Plunges to 30-Year Low

Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench.

http://bloom.bg/q5Sleo


From Information Clearing House

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Sandcastles of Capitalism Crumbling
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-11



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phil+Rockstroh
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Krugman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jane+Hamsher
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Perkins
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Hudson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ameen+Izzadeen
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http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=canada_tar_sands

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Canada s PR Work for Tar Sands: Dirty, Crude and Oily
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-2

Massive Protest at White House Against Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/19-6

'No Tar Sands': Margot Kidder Marches on Washington
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/19-1

Tar Sands Chance for Revitalized Climate Movement at 11th Hour?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/19-8

Tar Sands Pipeline: 'A Climate Killing Disaster'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/19-2



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tar+sands+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Martin+Lukacs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Knelman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gary+Houser
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
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Mark Karlin, Truthout: 'Watching 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave,' it becomes increasingly clear that we can t see the forest through the trees, because with the consolidation of for-profit corporate media, the forest of information is pretty much owned by just a few companies. And those companies not only frequently create 'facts' to enhance profits, but also create the frame through which public policy is debated to meet their business goals.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-corporate-media-turn-lies-truth/1311705270

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When You Play the Plutocrats? Game, They Win
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/11-4

Mitt Romney, Presidential Candidate, Says Corporations 'Are People, My Friend'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/11-9

Public Citizen: Today, Organizations Band Together Online to Protest Citizens United Ruling, Corporate Influence in Elections.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/11-8

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The media is the enemy

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/17/11

The media is a reliable instrument of government just as surely as if it were an official agency, like the Voice of America: it is owned by corporate entities entirely dependent on the good graces of government officials, and whose natural inclinations are to cozy up to Power rather than challenge it. That s why the new internet-based media is so disturbing to these mandarins, whose opinions are no longer automatically elevated to holy writ...

http://bit.ly/oTzl78


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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The most important voice in the debate about the credit worthiness of America s debt, is not the twisted opinions of the US-credit rating agencies, but rather, that of China s credit rating agency.

http://www.sirchartsalot.com/article.php?id=155



Jim Rogers: US Will Default

Video

Geithner Is Incompetent.
http://bit.ly/peL396



Debt Panel Co-Chairman Murray Counts U.S. Defense Industry as a Top Donor

As the newly appointed co-chairwoman of the 12-member, bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings, Murray s campaign supporters now are sure to come calling for her help.

http://bloom.bg/n9M9Cd



Bank Of America s Backdoor Bailout - Dumping Mortgage Trash Onto Taxpayers Via Fannie Mae

The official bailout of the financial system may be over, but the government is apparently far from finished propping up big banks, as evidenced by the news that Bank of America has struck a deal to dump a bunch of near-worthless home loans on U.S. taxpayers.

http://bit.ly/osGQgv


From Information Clearing House

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Predictable disaster in the mortgage market
http://www.realecontv.com/page/5083.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Rogers
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The morally bankrupt Obama administration insists on using brutal and massive force against unarmed and hapless civilians in gross violation of international law and in flagrant breach of basic human rights.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=108381



Kill Zone: 468 Pakistani lives lost to US drones in 7 months

Despite Islamabad's strong objection, American drones carried out 53 strikes in 2011 that killed 468 people in Pakistan s tribal belt. Though a Lahore court has directed the Pakistani government to take measures to stop these attacks, the US does not seem to be letting up any soon.

http://bit.ly/n4xQbU


From Information Clearing House



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/shield2.1.1.html

The Fabric Of American Society Is Coming Apart
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/fabric-of-us-society-coming-apart.html

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The fallout from a frozen Fed

Euro Pacific Capital
by Michael Pento

08/10/11

Years more of free money will result in tremendous economic imbalances, a crumbling currency, rising commodity prices and a ridiculously out of control bond market bubble. And that cannot at all end well...

http://www.europac.net/pentonomics/fallout_frozen_fed


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/polner/polner29.1.html

The State Itself
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer-br/shaffer-br9.1.1.html



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By Philip Shenon

Ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers-then covered it up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28814.htm



Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info?

By Ray McGovern

Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are serial offenders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28866.htm

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Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up

Jason Leopold, Truthout: 'In a stunning new interview set to air on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado tonight, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, for the first time, levels explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials - George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee - accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the Bush and Clinton White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments about two of the 9/11 hijackers who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks.'

http://www.truth-out.org/former-counterterrorism-czar-accuses-tenet-other-cia-officials-cover/1313071564

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9/11 chain of command breakdown
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-911-files/911-chain-of-command-breakdown.html



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By Philip Greenspun

The U.S. almost surely will default on some of its currently acknowledged obligations. The only question is whether it will be public employee pensions, Social Security, Medicare, or bonds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28815.htm

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A Free-Market Sovereign Debt Manifesto
http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland51.1.html

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S&P Downgrade Brought on by Republican Obstructionism

Jeff Madrick, New Deal 2.0: 'Does anyone really think that Standard & Poor's downgrade of US debt would have occurred unless there had been the Congressional stand-off on raising the debt ceiling? For all of S&P's handwringing about the nation's debt problems, Congressional recalcitrance was the driving issue. So when the press says neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can escape blame, it is in truth nonsense.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sp-downgrade-brought-republican-obstructionism/1313171551



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By Kathy Kelly

Imagine it. People in an Afghan village pass sleepless nights, anxious that their home might be targeted by a U.S.-led night raid.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28817.htm

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Living by the sword

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

'Those who live by the sword will likely die by the sword a wise old saying goes. It was proved once again in Afghanistan last week when a U.S. military Chinook helicopter went down killing 30 elite American special operations soldiers. The U.S. military, and most of the U.S. media are still dancing and dodging around the facts and real cause behind the disaster; even though the Taliban took credit immediately...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/08/living-by-sword.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Lizzie Phelan

I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women and 20 men.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28812.htm

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Congressman Kucinich Renews Call for Accountability from All Sides of Libyan War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/11-2



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FDP-Generalsekretär Lindner blitzt mit Vorschlag zu Ungunsten älterer Arbeitsloser selbst in den Reihen der eigenen Koalition ab.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150294



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http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/08/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal.html


From EMR-Updates



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Noch ist kein transgenes Tier als Lebensmittel zugelassen, ein genveränderter Turbolachs könnte als Türöffner dienen, US-Politiker versuchen, dies zu verhindern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35271/1.html



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

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Nach einem geheimen Dokument haben britische Dienste durch Folter erzwungene Informationen verwenden oder mit Diensten aus Folterregimen zusammenarbeiten können.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35270/1.html



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- News York Time: 'La population Japonaise a été irradiée et sacrifiée à cause de la rétention d'informations par le gouvernement'
- Next-up organisation: "La France mieux lotie?'

- The New York Times: Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril

http://www.cartoradiations.fr/
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Faced with a prolonged war against terrorism on global level, its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States seeks to fight covert wars in some Islamic countries, which will especially include Pakistan.

http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/08/us-learns-no-lesson/


From Information Clearing House



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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has killed at least 443 people in Pakistan in 51 drone attacks this year so far, the Conflict Monitoring Centre s latest report has said.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-45547.html



US has killed at least 168 children in Pakistan

In just a single attack on a madrassah in 2006 up to 69 children lost their lives.
http://tgr.ph/qtaPos


From Information Clearing House

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Pakistan: US drone strike kills 25

Pakistan Observer [Pakistan]

08/11/11

Playing hell in the Pakistan s northern tribal belt, the American planes commonly known as drones killed over two dozen people in couple of pre-dawn missile hits in North Waziristan Agency Wednesday morning. While there were no confirmed reports about the victims of the fresh drone attacks. [sic] Some officials claimed a majority of those falling prey in Wednesday s deadly attack were the militants belonging to Haqqani group of Afghan Taliban and a few foreigners were also included among the dead...

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=108378


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Many Dead Children for Profit?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-3

Terrror, American-Style
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/10-0

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The Next Crash Will Be Much Worse Than 2008
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber116.html

The collapse is happening
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente77.1.html

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Jeremy Grantham: The US Is A Banana Republic

When a top investor like Grantham sees the US like this, is it any surprise the market has crashed?

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-grantham-danger-children-at-play-2011-8


From Information Clearing House

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Valuable lessons from federal spending and debt

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/10/11

Americans are getting some great lessons in both economics and history in the federal spending-debt crisis. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it definitely intends to keep interest rates low for two more years. Translation: We will inflate (and debase) the currency to whatever extent necessary to get the economy rolling again...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-10.asp



End this agony

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

08/10/11

In the wake of the stock-market plunge and S&P downgrade, economic pundits of all stripes are rushing to explain events. But as so often happens in economics, 'believing is seeing.' Keynesians, monetarists, and Austrians can all look at the slow-motion train wreck and feel vindicated by the data...

http://mises.org/daily/5538/End-This-Agony



'A funny thing happened on the way to the apocalypse'

Living Freedom
by Claire Wolfe

08/10/11

But what if there is never a recognizable trigger point? What if we just go on like this - until perhaps we realize the 'it' we have been waiting for actually happened a long time ago and nobody even saw it until long after the fact?

http://bit.ly/om2R24



Quantitative easing forever?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Christopher Lingle

08/10/11

Despite assertions that it has ended its policy of quantitative easing (QE), the Fed is unlikely to be able to do so until it also ends its zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP). This deadly policy duo has had terrible consequences for the American economy and every country using U.S. dollars, which continue to depreciate. It is as though the Fed were riding on the back of a double-headed monster...

http://tinyurl.com/43l3ame



Yes we can

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M. Vance

08/10/11

Yes we can, Mr. President, yes we can. We can close the deficit with just spending cuts. Congressman Ron Paul recently explained how in language so simple that even a politician who never worked in anything but a government job could understand. ... We are not even talking about paying down the national debt and eliminating unconstitutional entitlement programs - just cutting spending to the point where outlays don t exceed revenues...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108g.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi s Answer to Financial Collapse

Michael Nagler, Waging Nonviolence: 'The real purpose of an economic system is to guarantee to every person in its circle the fundamentals of physical existence (food, clothing, shelter) and the tools of meaningful work so that they can get on with the business of living together and working out our common destiny. This was Gandhi s vision, among others'.'

http://www.truth-out.org/economic-crisis-or-nonviolent-opportunity-gandhis-answer-financial-collapse/1313084331



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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Libya and Syria: Humanitarian War Is a 'Monstrous Illusion'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/10-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/10-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/10-10



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