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The Raw Story

10/20/11

MIT economics professor Simon Johnson said on MSNBC s The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday night that Wall Street 'blew itself up,' which led to the 'most severe recession since World War II.' The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund added that the enormous economic damage was 'a direct consequence of what the biggest banks did and were allowed to get away with'...

http://tinyurl.com/3wjr7pu



The American nightmare that is civil asset forfeiture

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

10/18/11

Being innocent does not matter. Not being arrested or convicted of a crime is no protection. With amazing ease, the government can take everything you own. And to recover it, you must prove your innocence through an expensive and difficult court proceeding in which a severely lowered standard of evidence favors the government. This is civil asset forfeiture...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1110o.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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TARPing War

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: 'American taxpayers are shelling out at least $1.2 trillion a year for the vast military, intelligence, and homeland security combine that operates in their name ... When a country spends 'more on defense than the next 17 top-spending countries combined' and can t win a war, you should know that something s wrong, and that 'too big' and 'fail' do stand in some relation to each other ... You, the taxpayer, bailed out a host of tottering financial firms ... The only bright spot: those were one-time, two-time, or three-time deals. The [military industrial] Complex is forever (at least as its managers see it).'

http://www.truth-out.org/national-security-complex-too-big-fail-tarping-war/1319132224

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Defending Bloated Military Spending

By Ryan Alexander

The $450 billion in Pentagon cuts that the debt ceiling deal enacted - isn t actually a 'cut' at all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29512.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/20-4

Five Candidates for the Corporate Death Penalty
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/20-8

Citigroup Settles for $285 Million; No Wall Street Exec Jailed Yet
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/20-5

The Abandoned Class
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/20

Resurrection Cities
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/20-1

The Austerity Death-Trap
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/20-7

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The Evil 1%
http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/the-evil-1-percent194.html

Are You Owned by the Government?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano27.1.html

End Times Signs
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e107.html

The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead35.1.html

Is America Disintegrating?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan191.html

The Natural Course of the US Empire
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner513.html

It Can Happen Here
http://lewrockwell.com/bauman/bauman-b14.1.html

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If the Greeks Can Shut Their Country Down, Why Can t We?

Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence: 'In an effort to stop Greece s parliament from voting for further austerity measures today and tomorrow, the Greek people have effectively shut the entire country down, as part of the 48-hour general strike ... As I watch the Greeks give everything they have got to stop this legislation from going through, I couldn t help but wonder why protests in the US haven t attempted a general strike, which is one of the most powerful nonviolent tactics.'

http://www.truth-out.org/if-greeks-can-shut-their-country-down-why-cant-we/1319133709



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Die US-Army wird demnächst Mikrodrohnen einsetzen, die als Geschosse mit einer Sprengladung zum Töten von Gegnern dienen können, und beginnt damit eine neue Etappe des Roboterkriegs.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35731/1.html



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Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation warnt davor, dass die weltweit hohe Arbeitslosigkeit der 15- bis 24-Jährigen und die Armut derer, die nur mehr Niedriglohnjobs finden, einen gefährlichen Mix ergeben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/150664



... und gehebelt wird auf 2 Billionen Euro

Mit der Euro-Krise weiten sich auch die Summen aus, die für die Euro-Rettung in die Hand genommen werden sollen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35729/1.html

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Trend zur Niedriglohn-Gesellschaft hat sich beschleunigt - Rund jeder Fünfte betroffen

'Die Bundesrepublik befindet sich weiter auf den rasanten Weg in eine Niedriglohn-Gesellschaft. Der Existenzdruck trotz Vollzeit-Tätigkeit hat im Jahr 2010 in Deutschland einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. Nach bisher unveröffentlichten Jahresstatistiken der Bundesagentur für Arbeit für das Jahr 2010, die der LVZ vorliegen, arbeitet mittlerweile mehr als jede dritte Frau und nahezu jeder zweite Jugendliche (unter 25 Jahre sowie unter Ausklammerung der Auszubildenden) unterhalb der Niedriglohnschwelle.

Diese liegt laut Bundesagentur für 2010 bei einem Monatseinkommen von 1802 Euro?' Artikel von Dieter Wonka in der LVZ-Online vom 29.10.2011 http://nachrichten.lvz-online.de/nachrichten/mitteldeutschland/trend-zur-niedriglohn-gesellschaft-hat-sich-beschleunigt--rund-jeder-fuenfte-betroffen/r-mitteldeutschland-a-111665.html


Tarifpolitische Parallelwelten

'Auslagerung von Dienstleistungen, Ausgründung von Firmen - die Veränderung der unternehmerischen Wertschöpfung verändert die Grundlagen der Tarifpolitik. Es entstehen tarifpolitische Parallelwelten, in denen die Tariflosigkeit weiter voranschreitet?' Artikel von Markus Helfen in Magazin Mitbestimmung, Ausgabe 07+08/2011, bei der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

http://www.boeckler.de/37053_37471.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 7. November 2011

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Neue Zahlen zur Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Deutschland. 3,6 Millionen verdienen unter 7 Euro

'Fast 3,6 Mio. Beschäftigte in Deutschland arbeiteten im Jahr 2009 für weniger als 7 Euro brutto pro Stunde. Dies entspricht gut elf Prozent aller Beschäftigten. Mehr als 1,2 Mio. bekamen sogar einen Stundenlohn von weniger als 5 Euro. Das zeigen neue Auswertungen des Instituts Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) der Universität Duisburg-Essen. 'Selbst bei einer Vollzeitbeschäftigung liegt das monatliche Erwerbseinkommen bei solchen Stundenlöhnen nur bei rund 800 Euro oder sogar darunter, was selbst bei Alleinstehenden nicht zum Leben reicht', rechnet Dr. Claudia Weinkopf, Stellvertretende IAQ-Direktorin. Unter 8,50 Euro, also der von den Gewerkschaften als Mindestlohn geforderten Bezahlung pro Stunde, arbeiteten 2009 fast 5,8 Mio. Beschäftigte. Die Zahl der Betroffenen dürfte sogar noch höher liegen, da bei den Berechnungen aus methodischen Gründen Schüler, Studierende und Rentner sowie Nebenjobber nicht einbezogen wurden?' IAQ-Pressemitteilung vom 15.11.2011 http://www.iaq.uni-due.de/archiv/presse/2011/111115.php


Aus: LabourNet, 17. November 2011

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Leben in ständiger Sorge. Lebenserwartung von Geringverdienern sinkt

'Wer im Niedriglohnsektor gearbeitet hat, stirbt früher als ein Besserverdiener. Und noch schlimmer: Die Lebenserwartung von Geringverdienern nimmt ab. Experten sehen die Ursache in Reformen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und im Gesundheitssektor und fordern eine 'offensive Armutspolitik'?' Artikel von Lena Jakat in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 12.12.2011 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/lebenserwartung-von-geringverdienern-sinkt-dramatische-zuspitzung-der-einkommenskluft-1.1232605

Siehe dazu: Lebenserwartung und soziale Schicht

'Während in den Industrieländern die soziale Ungleichheit und der Unterschied in der Lebenserwartung ansteigen, scheint dies in Schwellenländern wie Brasilien (noch) anders zu sein..' Artikel von Florian Rötzer in telepolis vom 11.12.2011 http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35379/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2011



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By Rob Waugh

A University of Zurich study 'proves' that a small group of companies - mainly banks - wields huge power over the global economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29463.htm



U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley

Federal Employee Compensation Averages More Than $126,000

By Frank Bass and Timothy R. Homan

Inequality is on display in Washington as well. In the District of Columbia, almost 11 percent of the citys' population qualifies as 'very poor,' meaning they make less than half the poverty rate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29462.htm



A long, steep drop for Americans' standard of living

Not since at least 1960 has the US standard of living fallen so fast for so long. The average American has $1,315 less in annual disposable income now than at the onset of the Great Recession.

http://goo.gl/LrS1c


From Information Clearing House

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How economic inequality harms societies
http://www.ufppc.org/quotations-mainmenu-39/10642/



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By Stephen Lendman

The business of America is war. Washington has a permanent war policy. Republicans and Democrats perpetuate it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29464.htm



Obama drones kill citizens: Where's the law?

If 'we continue to justify such practices in only the vaguest of terms, we should expect other countries to take them up, and almost certainly in ways we will not find to our liking.' Killer drones are being built and perfected in many countries in the world, and not only by our friends.

http://goo.gl/D0rlu



The Son of Africa Claims a Continents' Crown Jewels

By John Pilger

With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29461.htm



'NATO has bombed Libya back to Stone Age'

Former MI5 agent Annie Machon says that the US wants to reinforce the myths that public has been told about NATOs' 'humanitarian' intervention, while Libya is being bombed beyond the point of no return.

http://rt.com/news/nato-libya-machon-former-219/



Muammar Gaddafi Killed in Gun Battle

Video

NTC military chief says toppled leader died of wounds following capture near his hometown of Sirte.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29465.htm



The Killing of Awlakis' 16-year-old Son

By Glenn Greenwald

Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen - far from any battlefield and with no due process - it did the same to his 16-year-old son.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29467.htm



Backpack drone a 'magic bullet' for U.S. troops?

According to the British newspaper The Times, U.S. troops will soon be able to deploy the Switchblade, a miniature drone that can be stored in a backpack and offer a new method to locating and killing enemy targets.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20122608-503543.html



Gaddafi s Last Words As Rebels Dragged Him Through Street

Video


Gaddafi is alive and talking in the video footage.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29470.htm



Clinton on Qaddafi: 'We Came, We Saw, He Died'

Video

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29472.htm



Awlaki family angered by U.S. silence

'What confirmation of the killing do they want,' a family member said in an e-mail to The Post. 'They obliterated him with a Hellfire missile? What was left of him was pieces of his clothes.'

http://goo.gl/xzTTo


From Information Clearing House

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Graphic video leaves little doubt: Muammar Gaddafi captured and killed near his hometown
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10629

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US Combat Troops Descending on Africa

John Pilger, Truthout: 'The main reason the US is invading Africa is no different from that which ignited the Vietnam War. It is China. In the world of self-serving, institutionalized paranoia that justifies what Gen. David Petraeus, the former US commander and now CIA director, implies is a state of perpetual war, China is replacing al-Qaeda as the official American 'threat.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-combat-troops-descend-africa/1319125424

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Moammar Gadhafi, RIP

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/21/11

You could almost hear the sigh of relief coming from Western capitals as news of Gadhafi s unceremonious death spread around the world. Apparently captured alive ... he was almost immediately killed by his captors, who then dragged his body through the streets of Sirte, which had been the last loyalist holdout. That a US drone first attacked Gadhafi s convoy, and so gave the rebels the opportunity to make short work of him, is a telling detail...

http://bit.ly/pJIMQC


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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NATO Wanted Gaddafi Dead All Along
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/21

Qaddafi s Death: Barbarism and Hypocrisy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/21-8

Amnesty International: Libya Urged to Investigate Whether al-Gaddafi Death Was a War Crime
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/21-0



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- Dossier Actualité "Paris: Tous contre Free !"

http://www.next-up.org/France/Paris.php
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http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/fallujah20oct2011.htm



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Adam Smith Institute
by Eamonn Butler

10/19/11

Looking at Whitehall, and taking just the most recent month for which we have figures, Central Government spending (ANLP in the jargon) for August 2011 was a remarkable 7.2% higher than a year earlier. In other words, despite all the howls about austerity, government spending is still growing, and growing fast, in both cash terms and real terms...

http://bit.ly/qWjp8n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Johnny Barber, Truthout: 'As we step off the Turkish Air flight and walk across the dusty tarmac to the terminal, we are greeted by a large billboard. In big, bold English it proclaims, 'Welcome to the Home of the Brave.' It stops me in my tracks. I shake my head, thinking, 'damn weird' and continue in to passport control. After waiting in a short line, I present my American passport to the guard in the booth. He doesnt' acknowledge me. He flips through the shiny, new pages until he gets to the visa. He stamps it. He turns to the picture. He gives me a precursory glance and hands the passport back to me. I turn and enter Afghanistan.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-years-after-afghan-invasion-welcome-failed-state-americastan/1318537730



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- Le 18 octobre 2011, Le Conseil de Paris dit non à Linky d'ERDF

http://www.next-up.org/France/Linky.php
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Government Is Beating, Looting, Caging, Killing
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul774.html

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Americas? Real Industrial Policy: Maximize Profits at All Cost
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/19-8

Killed Relatives of US Assassination Target Only Teenagers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/19-3

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Restore America Plan

Freedoms' Phoenix
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. But, we have drifted far from our founding principles, and America is in crisis...

http://bit.ly/oPKlqC



Ron Pauls? 'Plan to Restore America'

Independent Institute
by Randall Holcombe

10/18/11

Political platforms tend to be vague promises for something better in the future, and deliberately so. Lots of people favor making things better than they are today, but far fewer will be in favor of any one specific alternative. ... In that context, it is refreshing to see that Ron Pauls? 'Plan to Restore America' makes specific and detailed budgetary recommendations.'

http://bit.ly/qEbmQs



Republicans are constitutional hypocrites, AGAIN

Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

10/19/11

I am tired of Republican hypocrisy about the Constitution, federalism, and limited government. The Senate GOP s Jobs Through Growth Act (S.1720) demonstrates this hypocrisy in at least three ways...

http://bit.ly/oewOL3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How economics has been corrupted
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/capital-market-collapse/how-economics-has-been-corrupted.html

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Totally Corrupt America

By Paul Craig Roberts

Totally innocent people are held indefinitely and tortured by the US government for no other reason than to convince the gullible public that they are endangered by terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29500.htm



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FOCUS Online

Cybermobbing ist schon längst keine Randerscheinung mehr. Zumindest deutet das eine Pilotstudie der Universität Hohenheim an. Im April 2011 befragten Wissenschaftler im Raum Stuttgart über 400 Schüler nach ihren persönlichen Erfahrungen zum Thema...

http://www.focus.de/schule/schule/medien/kommunikation/tid-23942/cybermobbing-unter-schuelern-gezielter-psychoterror-im-internet_aid_676150.html



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Local officials warned that Pakistans' armed forces would repel any incursion across the border by American forces, but military sources in Islamabad and Afghan officials suggested the build-up was co-ordinated.

http://goo.gl/N4X2k



Kayani says Pakistan doesnt' need U.S. aid, warns against unilateral action

The General ruled out the possibility of unilateral U.S. military action on Pakistani soil. Kayani said he would like to remind the Americans that Pakistan was a nuclear power and must not be compared with Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://goo.gl/GCXs4


From Information Clearing House



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'This One Could Take Them All Down'

By Chris Hedges

'What happens is in all of these movements ... the foot soldiers of the elite - the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control - finally dont' want to impede the movement and at that point the power elite is left defenseless ..."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29452.htm



Prosecute The Banks In 2012

Greater Employment - Less Fraud

Video

'We Put The U.S. Treasury Up For Auction And Goldman Sachs Was The Highest Bidder!'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29460.htm



Occupy The World!

By William Bowles

The crisis of capital has now hit those who make up the very bedrock of capitalist societys' justification for existing, its so-called middle classes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29456.htm



A Manifesto for the Impending Second American Revolution

By Carmen Yarrusso

The immense human suffering caused by collaborating, corrupt governments throughout the world is about to awaken all humanity to a common cause.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29457.htm



How Bank of America Covered Up Fraud by Silencing Whistleblowers

Countrywide made life hard for an internal investigator, and a court ruled that when BofA took over, she was illegally fired in retaliation.

http://goo.gl/L1dxr



A demand from Occupy Detroit: Stop foreclosures

The Occupy Detroit group has potentially set a precedent for groups aligned with the flagship in New York City.

http://goo.gl/BynT0



Unpaid student loans top $1 trillion

Giving validation to Occupy Wall Street protests over the increasing burdens of student debt, a new report indicates that the total amount of outstanding student loans this year will exceed $1 trillion for the first time.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66347.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/19

A Framing Memo For Occupy Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/19-2

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Wall Street Is Dazed and Confused

Jim Hightower, Truthout: 'Astonishingly, some Wall Streeters continue to be clueless about what the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting. Yoo-hoo, Streeters: Note that the movements' name has the term 'Wall Street' in it. While there is a plethora of particular issues being raised by the protesters - from the corrupting power of corporate money in our elections to the demise of middle-class wages - the unifying theme is that each one adds to the rising tide of economic inequality thats' enriching the most privileged few by knocking down Americas' workaday majority.'

http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-dazed-and-confused/1319028757



Occupy Movement Heats Up US South

Matthew Cardinale, Inter Press Service: 'As the Occupy Movement spreads like wildfire across the United States and around the world, protests in the US South are facing unique challenges. Occupy protests have sprouted up in countless cities across the US South, including Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Miami, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana, to name just a few.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-movement-heats-us-south/1319042374

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Occupy Wall Street visited

Nolan Chart
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

10/18/11

My visit to the Occupy Wall Street protest in downtown Manhattan filled me with pride and hope that there still may be hope for a much needed Second American Revolution...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article9042-occupy-wall-street-visited.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Occupy London

Ein Livestream aus London - wir sind hier, um zu bleiben: 'Occupy London' seit dem 15. Oktober 2011:
http://www.livestream.com/OCCUPYLSX


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Oktober 2011

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Occupy London Stock Exchange, The People s Protest
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6567#newspost

The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (Oct. 21), With Frequent Updates
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6566#newspost

Harassing British people on benefits degrades us all
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6558#newspost



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Pressrelations (Pressemitteilung)

Zur aktuellen Debatte über Cyber-Mobbing, die durch den Film 'Homevideo' (Träger des Deutschen Fernsehpreises) ausgelöst wurde, erklärt der jugendpolitische Sprecher der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion Florian BERNSCHNEIDER: Obwohl Jugendliche im Internet mit...

http://www.pressrelations.de/new/standard/result_main.cfm?aktion=jour_pm&comefrom=scan&r=470101

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Ein Opfer der Spaßgesellschaft

Märkische Allgemeine

Doch während hier beide Seiten noch direkt physisch aufeinandertreffen, bleiben die Verursacher beim Cyber-Mobbing in den Weiten des World Wide Web oft verborgen und damit schwer angreifbar. Nicht umsonst werden wir immer wieder gewarnt,...

http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/12198353/63369/Das-Erste-zeigt-mit-Homevideo-eine-eindringliche-Tragoedie.html



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Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: 'Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year - with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society. I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state.'

http://www.truth-out.org/letter-dead-man-about-occupation-hope/1318949571



Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then '#occupy' protesters around the world this weekend just gave the Arab Spring an Academy Award. Of course, the chain of inspiration of freedom and justice seekers is unending in history, but theres' no question that the Arab Spring opened a new chapter which is inspiring people to protest for justice worldwide.'

http://www.truth-out.org/WalkingLikeanEgyptianFoodFarmingandForeignPolicy/1318951270



Wall Streets' Moneymen Shower Cash on Candidates

David Goldstein, McClatchy: 'Even as protests over its political influence grow louder, Wall Street is one of the leading sources of money so far in the 2012 race for the White House. Not surprisingly, the biggest beneficiary has been Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, according to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog group.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rage-wall-street-rises-its-moneymen-shower-cash-candidates/1318945201



Rediscovering Civil Disobedience

George Goehl, The Nation: 'There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal,' proclaimed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he took a risk and spoke out forcefully against the War in Vietnam. As more Americans debate whether to leave the sidelines and join the Occupy Wall Street movement, we should heed Dr. Kings' words. Our individual silence is a form of acquiescence, and we speak volumes not only through our action but also through our lack of it. Silence signals that we are okay with whats' happening, or that we have simply given up. While Occupy Wall Street has inspired a new level of consciousness in America, we have only just scratched the surface of what will be needed to shift the political economy of our country.'

http://www.truth-out.org/rediscovering-civil-disobedience/1318944426



Sounds of Outrage Heard on Wall Street

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: 'Harvards' Nieman Watchdog Web site recently featured a very good piece by John Hanrahan, a former reporter at The Washington Post, about press coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. 'There has been an outpouring of well-informed criticism of the mainstream news medias' initial coverage and non-coverage of the Wall Street protests,' Mr. Hanrahan wrote. Coverage was initially dismissive and minimal - and mea culpa, I wasnt' paying attention myself. But it's becoming clear that theres' something important happening: finally, after three years in which the Very Serious People refused to hold the financial industry accountable, theres' a real grass-roots uprising against the Masters of the Universe.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sounds-outrage-heard-wall-street/1318958460



Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf of Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'Increasingly, citizens of democratic nations are setting aside labels like Republican, Democrat, Tory, and Labour when considering their politicians. Instead the labels in peoples' minds are: working in the interests of corporations and working in the interests of individual citizens.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-influence/1318963129



Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas Discuses Occupy Times Square and the Role of Veterans' Rights Within the Economic Justice Movement

Video

Keith Olbermann, Countdown: Made famous by his poignant message to police while protesting at New Yorks' Occupy Time Square, Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas speaks with Keith Olbermann about the role of veterans' rights within the occupy movement.

http://www.truth-out.org/keith-olbermann-marine-corps-veteran-sgt-shamar-thomas-occupy-times-square-veterans-rights/13189488

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US, Euro arms used against Arab protesters

Loveland Reporter-Herald

10/18/11

The United States, Russia and many European countries that have supported the swell of protests across the Middle East and North Africa this year also supplied some of the weapons used against demonstrators, Amnesty International said in a new report Tuesday. The report comes as the human rights group urges the U.S. Congress to block a $53 million proposed U.S. arms sale to Bahrain, where more than 30 people have been killed as the ruling Sunni Muslim monarchy has waged sweeping crackdowns against mostly Shiite Muslim protesters who have demanded greater rights...

http://tinyurl.com/3wgfshw



The paradox of the outraged

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Axel Kaiser

10/17/11

A wave of social upheaval is shaking the world. In the West, the press has called the protesters 'the outraged.' The name is taken from the pamphlet Time for Outrage! (Indignez-vous!) by French intellectual Stéphane Hessel. The outrage by the political and economic situation in the Western world is justified.'

http://mises.org/daily/5762/The-Paradox-of-the-Outraged



Mitt Romneys? lying problem

Reason
by Matt Welch

10/19/11

Is the GOP really ready to replace one truth-challenged president with another?
http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/19/mitt-romneys-lying-problem


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas on Countdown
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/good-guys/marine-sgt-shamar-thomas-on-countdown.html



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Dark Knight: Former Vice President Cheney in the Global War on Terror

T.J. Buonomo, Truthout: ''Of all the members of the Bush administration, none has generated as much controversy as Richard B. Cheney. In his memoir 'In My Time,' the former vice president defends his support for numerous controversial policy decisions, including the invasion of Iraq and the authorization of waterboarding, which numerous military, intelligence and political officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have denounced as torture.''

http://www.truth-out.org/dark-knight-vice-president-cheney-global-war-terror/1329517416



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A miniature 'kamikaze' drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Armys' arsenal, officials say.

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Karzai is demanding to know what actionable intelligence Nato had that led to the raid on former senator Sameh Jan Sherzads' family, the presidents' office said in a statement. Noor Agha, the brother of Mr Sherzad, and two his young daughters were killed in the operation.

http://goo.gl/Ier10



Afghanistan: The lost platoon:

The joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker unit allowed murder, an investigation shows.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/16/1866929/lost-platoon.html



UK: Soldier who beheaded Taliban soldier in Afghanistan cleared to return to duty

A Gurkha solider who beheaded a Taliban gunman and carried his head back to base in a bag has been cleared to resume his duties.

http://goo.gl/20ilV


From Information Clearing House



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By George Monbiot

Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29443.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/a-lesson-in-democracy.html

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Occupy Wall Street: My One Demand

By Jinger Dixon

Would you go back to...the rest of the world to have your cable TV and your steel belted radials?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29436.htm



The silence of the elites

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

Neros' fiddling while Rome burned may be nothing compared to the folly of Washington and Wall Streets' inaction while the world economy teeters on the verge of global depression. No wonder the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have spread across the world. By raising a din, they might wake folks up.

http://goo.gl/JMVVT



Scores arrested at 'Occupy Chicago' protest:

'We are not going anywhere. There are still plenty of us,' Kaunert told The Associated Press after police began the wave of arrests that took more than an hour to complete.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-23/occupy-chicago-protests/50876194/1


From Information Clearing House

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We Are Not Your Human Resources
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/18-9

Occupy Chicago After Arrests: 'We Will Re-Occupy'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/18-7

Greek Union Warns of Austerity 'Death Spiral'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/18-4

Occupy Windsor, Canada: 'There is Too Much Disparity Between the Rich and the Poor.'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/18-6

Occupy Wall Street: In Its Second Month and Gaining Momentum
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/18-0

Sen. Bernie Sanders Urges President Obama to Use Occupy Momentum to Push Jobs Act
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/18

'I Want My Job Back:' Scenes from a Season of Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/18-7

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Occupy Chicago Grows, Looks for a Permanent Home

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: 'Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase all have their own slice of downtown Chicago, but the grassroots occupation movement Occupy Chicago has yet to find a permanent home. Since Occupy Chicagos' attempt to take start an encampment at a swathe of prominent Grant Park on Saturday ended with a mass civil disobedience in which 200 activists were arrested, the movement has been offered a meeting with Emanuel.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-chicago-grows-looks-permanent-home/1318964043



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/10/18/228-ron-paul-on-cainesian-economics/

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Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics

Michael Corcoran, Truthout: 'Obamas' dead-on-arrival jobs bill, which followed trillions in spending cuts that were made during the debt ceiling controversy, remind us that politicians have stopped seriously trying to save the economy through job creation and government spending. The protests on Wall Street show that the public recognizes that change will only come when the people take matters into their own hands.'

http://www.truth-out.org/democrats-and-death-keynesian-economics/1318864268



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http://www.ufppc.org/book-notes-mainmenu-36/10624/



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By Peter Finn and Greg Miller
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29441.htm

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Nuremberg, Eichmann, and Extra-Judicial Murder
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance262.html



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By Jim Lobe

'It is time for President Obama to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and stand up to tyrants who kill Americans and threaten our interests'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29440.htm



The FBI Goes Rogue On Iran

By Lawrence Davidson

There has always been a fine line dividing the criminal from the police. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29446.htm

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The ?Terrorist? Who Could Not Think Straight
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo141.html



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Schluss mit Wetten auf Nahrungsmittel-Preise

Mit der Veröffentlichung eines Berichts und einer Email-Aktion will foodwatch auf die Spekulation mit Agrarrohstoffen aufmerksam machen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35709/1.html



'Hände weg vom Acker, Mann!'

'Spekuliert wird an den Börsen mit allem, also auch mit Lebensmittel-Rohstoffen. Dadurch werden die Preise mitunter künstlich hochgeschraubt, womit die Spekulanten und die hinter ihnen stehenden Geldgeber, die möglichst hohe Profite machen wollen, unmittelbar arme Menschen in den Hunger treiben können?'

Artikel von Florian Rötzer auf Telepolis vom 18.10.2011 http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35709/1.html



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- Dossier Actualité 'Téléphonie et Linky: Paris c'est fini' (Clash Charte Antennes relais / Phone masts Paris) et Scandale au Conseil d'État, le cas Xavier de Lesquen du Plessis Casso.

http://www.next-up.org/France/Paris.php
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Derwesten.de

'Denn wir haben erfahren', so die gebürtige Sauerländerin Viola Roggenbach, 'dass Cyber-Mobbing nicht nur an jeder Schule stattfindet, es erreicht die Kinder und Jugendlichen selbst in ihrem geschützten Bereich - in ihrem Zuhause...

http://www.derwesten.de/wp/region/Cyber-Mobbing-erreicht-Schueler-selbst-zu-Hause-id5172850.html



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Campaign For Liberty
by Phil Giraldi

10/16/11

President Obama is rapidly becoming George W. Bush on steroids. This weeks? announcement that 100 military advisers would be going to Uganda to assist in operations against 'The Lords? Army' surprised even pessimists like myself who have been watching the growing militarization of the foreign policy being conducted White House. 'The Lords' Army' threatens no conceivable US national interest...

http://tinyurl.com/3mop6uy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Uganda: US Troops Deploy to Fight Lords' Resistance Army

U.S. troops are landing in Uganda and from there may deploy to the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and southern Sudan - areas were the L.R.A. - a scattered force whose numbers are estimated to be around 400 - are operating.

http://goo.gl/dhVON



Uganda to start refining its own oil in 2014

The east African nation discovered commercial oil deposits in 2006 in the Albertine basin along its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and reserves of about 2.5 billion barrels have been confirmed.

http://goo.gl/vxtaC



Uganda: Another US Military Adventure

By Nicholas Kramer

The details of violence and torture are difficult to even read, but it is important to understand exactly what sort of activities our government is supporting in our names.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29495.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The Legacy of Colonialism in Central African Republic
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/02/04



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Jim Hightower, Other Words: 'Whatever else you think about tea-party-infused Republican leaders in Congress, at least they are consistent in their opposition to big government intrusion in the economy, right? Absolutely. Unless you count intrusions of taxpayer funds into corporate projects back in their districts.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-loves-federal-spending-it-hates/1318861032



Democracy Versus Bankers at the Fed

Dean Baker, Truthout: 'The Federal Reserve Board has provided the basis for thousands of conspiracy theories in its near 100-year existence. These conspiracies have some basis in reality as can be seen by the Feds' recent moves on monetary policy.'

http://www.truth-out.org/democracy-versus-bankers-fed/1318857810

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Bashing Ben Bernanke

Reason
by Steve Chapman

10/17/11

Bernankes' alleged sins are legion. He is blamed for bailing out Wall Street, destroying the value of the dollar, orchestrating events to re-elect Barack Obama, and sinking the Titanic. His GOP detractors dont' mention that he was appointed by George W. Bush, and that the Wall Street bailout bill passed in October 2008, before Obama arrived...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/17/bashing-ben-bernanke


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis263.html

The Tea Party Movement, Republicans, and Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/tea-party-republicans-and-ron-paul.html



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Tom Hayden, The Nation: 'The UN report, described in a lead New York Times story on October 10, is triggering calls once again for enforcement of the so-called Leahy Law, passed in the 1990s, which prohibits any US funding, weapons or training to security force units in other countries committing gross human rights violations. A loophole in the Leahy Law, however, allows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to waive the ban by issuing a finding that the Afghan government is taking remedial measures.... No one in Congress has introduced language to expose and defund US assistance to human rights violators like the Afghan security forces, but the time may be approaching.'

http://www.truth-out.org/un-torture-report-stirs-pressure-congressional-response/1318873323



California Prison Hunger Strike Ends, Conditions of 'Immense Torture' Continue

Victoria Law, Truthout: 'Imagine a concrete room no more than eight by ten feet. It has no windows, only a perforated steel door facing a solid concrete wall. Fluorescent lights stay on 24 hours a day. Now imagine being locked in that room.'

http://www.truth-out.org/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends-conditions-immense-torture-continue/1318874282

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15 Years in Prison for Recording a Traffic Stop
http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e106.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/17-0

The Unforgiven: Record Debt Strangles Students, Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/17-8

Can Co-ops Be One Solution to Occupy Wall Street Woes?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/17

New Yorkers Support Wall Street Protest, Millionaires' Tax
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/17-10

Across the World, a New Spirit Took Hold: Power Was Taken Back by the People
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-1

Saving the Planet from the Bottom Up!
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/17-0

What I have Learned Occupying Wall Street and DC
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-3

Wall Streets? Second Occupation: The Police Move In
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-2

Politics in Place
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-5

What Are Those OWS People So Angry About?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-7

People Rise, Cops Blink and a Human Rights Movement Takes Root in a New York Park
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/17-6

Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month at Liberty Square: Occupations Spread to Over 100 US Cities
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/17-0

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Occupy DC and the Fed
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber120.html

Americans With an Attitude
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/americans-with-an-attitude.html



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- Proposition de loi à la Chambre des Représentants (USA) pour étudier les lignes à Haute Tension et cancers

http://www.next-up.org/France/THT.php
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Bedienstete des US-Heimatschutzministeriums verhängen Reiseverbote am Frankfurter Flughafen. Die Bundesregierung weiß nicht einmal, welche Datenbanken hierfür herangezogen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35700/1.html



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They increasingly dot the planet. Theres' a facility outside Las Vegas where 'pilots' work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion. And that leaves at least 56 more such facilities to mention in an expanding American empire of unmanned drone bases being set up worldwide.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/17/opinion/main20121271.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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By Toby Helm and Jamie Doward

We need to know just how far and how deep the links into US politics go. This crisis has discovered traces of a stealth neocon agenda.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29419.htm



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The Chosen Nation

By Andrew J. Bacevich

Despite a Constitution that mandates the separation of church and state, religion and politics have become inseparable. To lend authority to their views, presidential aspirants of both parties regularly press God into service. They know what he intends.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29430.htm



Who Are The One Percent in America?

By Press TV

The median net worth for a current member of the U.S. House of Representatives was $725,000 in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and the media net worth of a U.S. Senator was $2.4 million.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29432.htm



A Movement Too Big to Fail

By Chris Hedges

Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and environmental catastrophe or we will wrest power from corporate hands.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29431.htm



The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

By Robert Reich

Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, the nation eventually rallies and moves forward.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29427.htm



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Video

How the CIA Used 'Libyan Expatriates' To Engineer Consent For Regime Change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29428.htm



Libyans rule out Kadhafi autopsy but promise probe

Military commanders in the Libyan city of Misrata said Saturday that no autopsy would be carried out on the body of Moamer Kadhafi despite concerns over how the toppled dictator died.

http://goo.gl/dcU3b



'Gaddafi Murder - International Crime' :

There s growing international pressure for an investigation into exactly how Libya s ousted dictator Moammar Gaddafi died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNCg6YmO9w



Death of Gaddafi May Have Been a War Crime

Human Right Watch have called for an investigation into the circumstances of the death of Muammar Gaddafi and his son, Muatassim, following the release of videos which show both alive and walking after capture. If the Libyan leader and his son were killed whilst in custody of rebel forces, and before a trial, the act may constitute a war crime.

http://theglobalherald.com/death-of-gaddafi-may-have-been-a-war-crime/25597/



The War in Libya is Still a Failure

By Daniel Larison

Libya has confirmed every skeptic s worst fears that in practice, the 'responsibility to protect' is little more than a pretext for toppling vulnerable governments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29496.htm



Drones, Dictators, Dirty Deals

By RT

Gaddafi worth more dead than alive?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29502.htm



British companies to rush for £200bn in Libya contracts

UKTI estimates that Libyan contracts, in sectors from oil and gas to education and construction, could be worth £200billion over the next decade.

http://goo.gl/r0HdO


From Information Clearing House

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'NATO bombed Libya back into Stone Age'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5448.html

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The return of barbarism

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/24/11

That a US Secretary of State hailed the horrific death of someone -- anyone - the way Hillary Clinton did in the case of Gadhafi would have been almost inconceivable in an earlier era: say, the 1950s or 1960s. That today no one so much as blinks tells us everything we need to know about the age in which we are living: to call it barbaric is to slander barbarians...

http://bit.ly/oLhGbw



Libya: Costs outweigh benefits

Cato Institute
by Doug Bandow

10/21/11

Even if the Libyan war counts as an American victory, the benefits pale compared to the costs. Libya gave the lie to the dubious doctrine of Responsibility to Protect. This was no humanitarian operation. Yes, the Qaddafi regime was brutal, but its forces had massacred no civilians before the campaign to 'save' the Libyan people. Like other civil wars in Third World countries, this one generated most of its killing through the fighting itself...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13787


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Gareth Porter

The information about two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm



Iran Had Better Watch Its Step Now Obamas' Chasing Votes

By Patrick Cockburn

By dramatising how he frustrated the fiendish plots of the Iranians, Mr Obama can present himself as the president who kept America safe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29420.htm



Military Force an Option Against Iran, U.S. Republican Says

Military force should not be ruled out as a response to an alleged Iranian assassination plot on U.S. soil, the top House Republican on intelligence issues said.

http://goo.gl/ElYny


From Information Clearing House

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US businessman visits Iran
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/iranus-sabre-rattling/us-businessman-visits-iran.html

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Americas? foreign dictatorship

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/17/11

President Obamas? reaction to the alleged Iranian assassination plot reflects, once again, the dictatorial powers that the president of the United States now wields in foreign affairs. As many commentators are noting, the whole scheme appears to be as bogus as a 3-dollar bill, but that isn?t really the point. The point is that we now live in a country in which the ruler wields the omnipotent power to send the entire nation into war for whatever reason he wants, bogus or not...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-17.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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'Die Initiative 'Anwälte gegen Hartz IV' berichtet, dass eine Geschäftsführerin einer Behindertenwerkstatt bestätigte, dass Bezieher des SGB II in Behindertenwerkstätten per Androhungen von Kürzungen des Arbeitslosengeldes II in Behindertenwerkstätten eingewiesen werden. So schreibt die Initiative: ?Wenn ein Bürger von einem Jobcenter zum Medizinischen Dienst geschickt wird und ihm "Teilhabe am Arbeitsleben" bescheinigt wurde, ist es Jobcentern prinzipiell möglich, ihn mit Hilfe von Sanktionsandrohungen in Behindertenwerkstätten einzuweisen. Ärzte des Medizinischen Dienstes der Arbeitsagentur sind laut Bundestag, Gerichtsentscheidung und Pressemeldungen keine Vertrauensärzte. Behindertenwerkstätten zahlen keinen regulären Arbeitslohn, sie dürfen Bürger an profitorientierte Fremdfirmen verleihen, Bürger können den Sozialhilfestatus durch Arbeitsleistungen gar nicht verlassen. Laut Internetrecherchen könnte es ausreichend sein, im Protest, weil Bürger nicht als Schlachtergehilfe arbeiten will, laut geworden zu sein, oder Angst vor einem erneuten Bandscheibenvorfall geäußert zu haben. Laut UN dürfte es Behindertenwerkstätten auch nicht für Schwerbehinderte geben, weil kein regulärer Arbeitslohn gezahlt wird.' Eine Rechtsanwältin eines Integrationsverbandes sagte, es existiere in den Hartz IV Behörden eine entsprechende interne Dienstanweisung, 'die von Fallmanagern missbraucht werden können'. Der Verein 'Anwälte gegen Hartz IV' will nun weiter recherchieren, um konkrete Anhaltspunkte für diese unglaublichen Vorfälle zu ermitteln. Daher an alle Leser und Betroffene die Fragen: 1. Wer kennt den genauen Wortlaut dieser ominösen Dienstanweisung? 2. Wer wurde in Jobcentern zum Medizinischen Dienst geschickt, bedroht und gegen seinen Willen in eine Behindertenwerkstatt eingewiesen? Betroffene oder Sachbearbeiter wenden sich an: mail(at)anwaelte-gegen-hartz4.de Meldung von gegen-hartz.de vom 15.10.2011 http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-einweisung-in-behindertenwerkstaetten-372882.php


Aus: LabourNet, 17. Oktober 2011

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Die Arbeitsagentur und ihre 'Kundendaten'

Arbeitsuchende können gleich die Auskunft über ihre wirtschaftliche Situation samt aller intimen Daten an die Tür vom Bahnhofsklo heften

'Es klingt unglaublich, was in den Medien über Korruption und Amtsmissbrauch bei der Agentur für Arbeit in Saarbrücken berichtet wird. Illegale Leiharbeiter bearbeiteten rechtswidrig und ohne Wissen der Kunden sensible Vorgänge bei der Arbeitsvermittlung. Angestellte der Arbeitsagenturen, insbesondere die Arbeitsvermittler, sind für Arbeitsuchende gezwungenermaßen Vertrauenspersonen. Wer auf die Arbeitslosenhilfe angewiesen ist, muss der Behörde eine Vielzahl an persönlichen Daten offenbaren. Datenschutz zählt somit zu den Grundsätzen dieser Behörde, der nun augenscheinlich grob missbraucht wurde. Zur Aufklärung tragen die Verantwortlichen kaum etwas bei, vielmehr werden Anfragen nur schleppend bis gar nicht bearbeitet. Selbst der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar wird hingehalten. Seitens der Landesregierung gibt es bislang keine Stellungnahme, ein beherztes Eingreifen wäre jedoch dringend erforderlich?? Artikel in der Saarländischen Online Zeitung vom 18. November 2011 http://www.s-o-z.de/?p=56616

Aus: LabourNet, 22. November 2011



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- Alert: Marie-Claire UK 'One in six mobile phones contain E. Coli'
- Press Release (Scientific Study) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine 'Contamination of UK mobile phones and hands revealed'

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/E_coli.php
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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/14/11

In todays? blog, I thought I would share with you a deeply insightful quote by Alan Barth (1906-1979), who served on the Washington Posts? editorial board for 30 years. The quote is from his book The Rights of Free Men, which was published posthumously in 1984. As you read the quote, keep in mind that we now live in a country in which the government - specifically the president and his military - now wields the authority to barge down peoples? door to seize them, cart them away to a concentration camp or military dungeon for indefinite detention, torture them, or even execute them...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-14.asp



Pandoras? box wide open

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

10/15/11

Senior U.S. government officials in the Obama administration have now candidly admitted to reporters on condition of anonymity that American citizens are added to a kill or capture list by the decision of a secretive National Security Council panel which reports its decisions to the president...

http://bit.ly/qH1fPV



Obama: A disaster for civil liberties

Los Angeles Times
by Jonathan Turley

09/29/11

With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties. ... One man is primarily responsible for the disappearance of civil liberties from the national debate, and he is Barack Obama...

http://tinyurl.com/6f4sgoq



Justice for all

Reason
by Kmele Foster

10/14/11

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will be formally dedicated this Sunday in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama will be on hand, as will a cadre of politicos, celebrities, and luminaries of the civil rights movement. The controversy surrounding the memorial, however, may dampen the occasion...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/14/justice-for-all


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Campaign Reports More than 350 Big Bundlers

By Peter Stone, Elizabeth Lucas

More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama's re-election efforts, And more than 40 bundlers each roped in at least $500,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29429.htm



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Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

10/17/11

The American elites are on trial in the court of public opinion and the verdict is just about to come in. The world economic system based on central banking and floating fiat currencies is crumbling beneath their feet, and the return of populism on both sides of the political spectrum has them in fear of losing their grip on power for the first time since the 1930s. While American troops are occupying Afghanistan, the folks back home are occupying Wall Street...

http://bit.ly/qggFpf



War breeds war. Peace breeds prosperity

Wrights 2012
by R. Lee Wrights

10/15/11

War breeds war. That is all it can do. War does nothing but devour valuable resources and destroy precious lives for the sole purpose of perpetuating itself. As Randolph Bourne wrote, 'War is the health of the State.' War is a mechanism used by the ruling elites of the State to coerce and control the people, so it becomes essential that whenever one war is complete, another is instigated elsewhere so that the mechanism keeps running...

http://tinyurl.com/42a6e74



Barney Frank connects defense cuts to Occupy movement

Our Future Blog
by Isaiah J. Poole

10/14/11

Rep. Barney Frank is ratcheting up his longstanding push to reduce federal defense spending with a series of town hall events in his Massachusetts congressional district atarting this weekend. And he is encouraging Occupy Wall Street and its sibling movements around the country to get involved. 'Cutting military spending is really essential if we are going to accomplish some of the things the Occupy movement wants to do in terms of fairness,' Frank said in an interview Friday afternoon...

http://tinyurl.com/3pgdw7f



Corporate personhood and the Occupy Wall Street movement

Nolan Chart
by Gene DeNardo

10/15/11

The corporation is an association of people organized in a manner determined by contracts and countless laws. Most of these laws have little to do protecting people from aggression or wrongdoing and a lot to do with privileging and encouraging the corporate form itself. The occupiers have hit the nail on the head when it comes to removing the corporate privilege of personhood, but it is hardly the tip of the iceberg...

http://bit.ly/nrMKoK


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Occupy World St: From NYC to Everywhere

Video

All over the globe people are rising up and demanding their rights in a worldwide rally of discontent as protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the world on Saturday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29425.htm


From Information Clearing House

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How to End Corporate Personhood

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'Virtually every legislative session since the 1800s has seen new attempts to regulate or control corporate behavior, starting with Thomas Jefferson s unsuccessful insistence that the Bill of Rights protect humans from 'commercial monopolies.' Ultimately, most have either failed or been co-opted because they didn t address the underlying structural issue of corporate personhood. To solve this problem, then, new laws controlling corporations aren t the ultimate answer. Instead what is needed is a foundational change in the definition of the relationship between living human beings and the nonliving legal fictions we call corporations.'

http://www.truth-out.org/end-corporate-personhood/1320725933



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

10/14/11

In Cleveland and other American cities homes are being demolished because five years after the housing bust there is nothing better to do with them. Therein lies a lesson in Austrian business cycle theory. In a world of uncertainty, waste - the destruction of value - is inevitable...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/destroying-value/



Prison-yard America

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy

10/12/11

Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants. As in most highly intrusive school policies, parents are thrown a bone of control by allowing them to request an 'opt out' for their children. An opted-out student needs to pursue a teacher and go through a special sign-in every day...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1110k.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/burris/burris19.1.html

Why the State Demands Control of Money
http://lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe29.1.html

First Great War of The 21st Century Is Here
http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente81.1.html

Are the Federal Reserve and Its Primary Dealer Banks Manipulating the Stock Market?
http://lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett39.1.html

Big Trouble Brewing
http://lewrockwell.com/martenson/martenson13.1.html



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Die Regierung Obama erhöht den Druck auf die internationale Atomaufsichtsbehörde IAEA, damit sich diese eindeutiger zur Frage der iranischen Bombe äußert.

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