World-News

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: ''The distinction between military support and combat roles [for women] vanished in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars of occupation.... These same women have found themselves, concurrently, caught in a second, more damaging war, a private, preemptive one in the barracks.''

http://www.truth-out.org/battlefield-and-barracks-five-part-series-two-war-fronts-women-soldiers/1325707932



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Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: ''Detainees at ... Guantanamo Bay launched a hunger strike today marking the prison's 10th anniversary, inspired in part by U.S. activists who have called for a national day of action.... And they're always very moved by the fact that Americans stand in solidarity with what they're going through and what their families are experiencing.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-detainees-launch-hunger-strike-protest-prisonss-10th-anniversary/1326299739



Live From Guantanamo

J. Wells Dixon, The Center for Constitutional Rights: ''Today marks ten years since the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.... There is no visible recognition of today s anniversary, except an oblique reference in the local paper to marking 'ten years of progress.' Progress toward what? Perfection of lawlessness? Indifference to human suffering? ... Guantanamo Bay has been open for ten years too long. It is illegal and its continued existence demeans us. It must be closed.''

http://www.truth-out.org/live-guantanamo/1326310599

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Human Rights Watch: US: Make Guantanamo s 10th Anniversary Its Last
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/11-2

Guantanamo 10 Years On: So Much for Closure
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/12



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Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: ''According to an analysis by Citizens for Tax Justice, the average tax cuts received by the richest 1 percent of Americans under the Republican plans would be 270 times as large as the cut received by the middle class ... Even the meager tax cuts that would go to low-income and middle-income taxpayers under these plans would almost surely be offset by the huge cuts in public services that would become necessary as a result.''

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-candidates-tax-cuts-rich-are-270-times-larger/1326290934



Romney Looks Like the Nominee, but His Flaws Could Hurt Come Fall

Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers: ''[Romney] has received an often-tepid response from Republicans, even in his own New England backyard.... And he s shown a tendency to utter politically tone-deaf quotes that signal difficulty connecting with working-class voters who appear ripe for the picking from the Democrats.... 'Very few people actually like Romney,' said Tim Fortier, a car salesman from Hollis. 'If he s the nominee, people will hold their nose and vote for him, but you would be amazed how little enthusiasm there is for the guy.''

http://www.truth-out.org/romney-looks-nominee-his-flaws-could-hurt-come-fall/1326291391

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Romney and McCain: The GOP frenemies? club

Freedom Politics
by Michelle Malkin

01/10/12

Michael Corleone said to 'keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.' But what, pray tell, do we do with our frenemies? This is the awful election-year quandary of movement conservatives. And everything you need to know about our heartache can be summed up in one image: 2008 presidential election loser John McCain and Mitt Romney together on the campaign trail...

http://tinyurl.com/85aenqe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Did Romney and Bain Capital Profit at the Expense of Bain s Employees?
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1088.html

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Ask Mitt anything and get two different answers
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012/a-tale-of-two-mitts.html



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
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Anti-Wall Street demonstrators return to Manhattan square for first time in two months after barricades are torn down.

http://bit.ly/ySM2Da


From Information Clearing House

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Bill Moyers, Truthout: ''The lack of civility and common sense that has paralyzed our democracy, the vast economic and social inequality that sends both left and right raging into the streets, the corrosive influence of money in politics, we are in a tailspin with little hope for a course correction from our elected leadership or corporate-dominated media. The need for voices of reason, simple and eloquent, has rarely been stronger.''

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers/1326216330



In 2012, the Real Conversation Will Be in the Occupations, While Corporate Candidates Have a False Conversation

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, October2011.org: ''Already, the Occupy Movement it showing its political independence: protesting candidates from both parties who are part of corrupt money-based elections. The irrelevance of the political debate, primarily between two-corporate approved candidates, will become more evident as the voices of the people grow.... The main job of the Occupy Movement during this election year will be to change the conversation from a mostly irrelevant debate between two corporate approved candidates to one relevant to the American people.''

http://www.truth-out.org/2012-real-conversation-will-be-occupations/1326292915

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Occupiers Return to Zuccotti Park
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/11-3

Grandparents, Unite! Your Grandchildren s Future is at Stake
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/11-6



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Nearly one in three American military aircraft is a drone, according to a congressional report, a 40-fold increase in the drone army from just a few years ago. From tiny man-portable flying wings to behemoth strike planes, unmanned aircraft now make up 31 percent of the military s air power.

http://bit.ly/A85QCq


From Information Clearing House

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Skynet: One in Three U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot; 7,494 Drones and Counting
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo89.1.html

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The (Remote-Controlled) War at Home
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/13-9



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Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Institute of Israeli and Middle East Studies, underscores that Russia s actions can be explained by its concerns that if the current regime in the country is replaced it will entail rivers of blood, millions of refuges and hundreds of thousands of victims among Syria s Christian community.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/11/63653729.html



Russian weapons ship arrives in Syria

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the ship carried a ''dangerous cargo,'' but did not elaborate. According to the documents, the cargo sender was the Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120112/170725460.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Andre Evans

People are taught to live in a simulated reality, with pre determined goals, aspirations, and false expectations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30220.htm
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Still Unfair, Still Unjust, Still Unbalanced

By Richard RJ Eskow

The Obama White House continues to push for a settlement that would let bankers avoid being punished, or even investigated, for a wave of mortgage-related crimes that includes perjury, tax evasion, and several types of fraud.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30212.htm



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By Michael T. Klare

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy ''chokepoint'' could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30217.htm



Boom And Doom: Revisiting Prophecies Of Collapse

By Debora MacKenzie

At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young scientists set out to explore our future. Their findings shook a generation and may be even more relevant than ever today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30216.htm



The Perils of 2012

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

By 2011, the savings of those who had lost their jobs in 2008 or 2009 had been spent. Unemployment checks had run out. Headlines announcing new hiring, still not enough to keep pace with the number of those who would normally have entered the labor force, meant little to the 50 year olds with little hope of ever holding a job again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30235.htm



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10820/



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Inmates at facility in Bagram tell investigating commission they were tortured and held without evidence by authorities.

http://bit.ly/wYs09k



Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment

The crisis besetting the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan has been deepened over recent days. Its own puppet government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has publicly accused the American military of torture and arbitrary detention at the largest US-run prison in the country.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/afgh-j10.shtml



Marines Urinating On Corpses

Video

And Americans wonder why many in the Muslim world hate us? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30222.htm



Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan

By Hamilton Nolan

Do you know what is worse than having your dead body urinated upon? Being killed. Being shot. Being bombed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30236.htm



This is the horror of war

How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30258.htm



Rick Sanchez: ''There is a huge problem with journalism in the United States''

Video

Dana Loesch, a CNN contributor, made a statement on her radio show that she would ''drop trou and do it too.'' The act she was talking about was joining US Marines to urinate on dead Afghans.

http://bit.ly/ys2gf4



Is Our Military Addicted to 'War Porn'?

By Matthis Chiroux

To myself and the majority of veterans I associate with, the barbarity of these images is synonymous with our experiences within a military at war. No crime our brothers and sisters commit really surprises us anymore.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30274.htm


From Information Clearing House

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US Marines probe video depicting urination on corpses

New Orleans Times-Picayune

01/11/12

The Marine Corps said Wednesday it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. In a statement, the Marine Corps said it has not verified the origin or authenticity of the YouTube video. But it also said the actions portrayed are not consistent with Marine values...

http://tinyurl.com/6sqrrf3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Video Brings Accusations of War Crimes: Marines Urinating on Corpses
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/12

The Dignity of Corpses
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-1



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By Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, because the revolution will not be televised.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30203.htm

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Occupy Wall Street: Why Now? What s Next?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/10-1



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http://lewrockwell.com/black-s/black-s103.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead38.1.html

Should Christians Support the War on Drugs?
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance283.html

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Ron Paul on government instituted racism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war/ron-paul-on-government-instituted-racism.html

'The war on drugs is a war on people'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war/introducing-incarcerex-8478-helping-politicians-maintain-long-lasting-election-results.html

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American Drug War: The Last White Hope

Video

How money, power and greed have corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30487.htm

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US drug policies are a crime against humanity

The Brown Daily Herald

The disturbing truth is that our drug laws, and the institutions that carry out the intent of those laws, constitute nothing less than a campaign of fear, corruption, violence and mind-control, it is a war after all. With citizens' tax dollars,...

http://www.browndailyherald.com/moffat-13-u-s-drug-policies-are-a-crime-against-humanity-1.2702446

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How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/27



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By John Nichols

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum told a crowd of supporters: ''I don't want to make black people s lives better by giving them somebody else s money.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30208.htm


''With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.''

Abraham Lincoln



War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Fighting Back is ''Aggression''

By Kevin Carson
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30249.htm

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GOP War of All Against All?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan207.html



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Puppets and Dictators

By RT

Author and scholar Gene Sharp told RT in exclusive interview that non-violence is the only way for people to bring about a democratic change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30196.htm



Humanitarian Bombing

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30204.htm



Why Do We Ignore the Civilians We Kill in US Wars?

By John Tirman

Why the American silence on our wars' main victims? Our self-image, based on what cultural historian Richard Slotkin calls ''the frontier myth'' in which righteous violence is used to subdue or annihilate the savages of whatever land we are trying to conquer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30201.htm



Save Us from the Liberal Hawks

By David Rieff

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of (humanitarian) war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30535.htm



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Wird die Schuldenbremse rückgängig gemacht?

Horst W. Opaschowski über Politik als Risikofaktor.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36207/1.html

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Schuldenbremse: Keine Lösung für Europa

''Den Euroländern wird eine Schuldenbremse nach deutschem Vorbild als Weg aus der Krise empfohlen. Dies wäre jedoch gefährlich für die Konjunktur, die Staatsfinanzen und sogar die Finanzmärkte, so das IMK..'' Böckler-Impuls 01/2012 (pdf) http://www.boeckler.de/impuls_2012_01_7.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Januar 2012



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Report München kritisiert Klientelpolitik
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151193



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https://www.regenwald.org/aktion/819?mt=1271



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Mike Lofgren, Truthout: ''There have been hundreds of books about globalization and how it would break down borders. But I am unaware of a well-developed theory from that time about how the super-rich and the corporations they run would secede from the nation state.''

http://www.truth-out.org/have-super-rich-seceded-united-states/1326127151



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US-Gewerkschaften erwachen aus jahrzehntelanger politischer Lethargie. Artikel von Kurt Stand in der jungen Welt vom 10.01.2012 http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/01-10/007.php

Siehe dazu auch im LabourNet Germany: ''Social Movement Unionism'' http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/smu/index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Januar 2012



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''Harte Geschütze wurden im Vorfeld des Streiks im Öffentlichen Dienst Englands aufgefahren: »unverantwortlich, links und schwach« sei Oppositions-Chef Ed Miliband, so der englische Premierminister David Cameron. Und das nur, weil dieser den Streik am 30. November nicht verurteilt hatte und Cameron selbst offenbar befürchtete, sein Projekt einer Anpassung der Pensionen der Staatsbediensteten an das Armutsniveau der Renten in der Privatwirtschaft nicht durchsetzen zu können. Nun versucht er, den nach Gewerkschaftsangaben mit ca. zwei Millionen TeilnehmerInnen »größten Arbeitskampf seit dem Streik 1979« (Tagespiegel, 30.11.2011) kleinzureden. In der Tat war die Beteiligung im Vorfeld höher eingeschätzt worden, doch die Regierung sah sich immerhin genötigt, Soldaten als Streikbrecher einzusetzen, z.B. an Schulen. Der Beitrag von Kim Moody erläutert, um was es geht?'' Artikel von Kim Moody http://www.labournet.de/internationales/gb/rente_moody.html


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Januar 2012



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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

01/09/12

In a recent letter in The New York Times, I noted the role played by the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in spawning the financial crisis and burdening taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. The two mortgage giants bought up risky sub-prime mortgages partly in order to satisfy government affordable-housing mandates, as even the liberal Village Voice found in its investigative reporting...

http://tinyurl.com/84hlncf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Freedom Politics
by Larry Elder

01/09/12

If libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Paul, as expected, did well in Iowa. His strong third-place finish is substantially better than he did in 2008, and his national poll numbers are twice what they were back then. Paul s appeal is easy to understand. His antiwar message of limited government, low taxes and federalism have strong appeal, especially to young people who oppose the war on drugs...

http://tinyurl.com/87wphya


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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false dichotomy
by Charlie Davis

01/06/12

Obama can talk all he wants about turning the page on a decade of war and occupation, but so long as he continues to fight wars and military occupy countries on the other side of the globe, talk is all it is...

http://bit.ly/zboduq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Pentagon to play mind games with soldiers
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/health-and-medical/pentagon-to-play-mind-games-with-soldiers.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/09-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-5

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U.S. drone initiated strike on Kurds

The drone, was one of four based at Incirlik Airbase in southern Turkey, launched the airstrike in December on the village of Ortasu, sources told Turkey s Aydinlik.

http://bit.ly/ylF53h


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-3

Occupy Our Homes Action in New York City Enters Second Month
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-2

Poor US Citizens Barter Their Way to Health
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/09

How the 1 Percent Could Do Its Share to Rebuild America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/09-2

Corporations Hate Taxes, So They Let the Children Pay
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/09-3

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Occupy New Hampshire counters the Republican narrative

The Nation
by Ben Adler

01/09/12

New Hampshire is a small state, so its primary does not allocate many delegates to the Republican National Convention. The reason New Hampshire s primary is so important is the momentum it creates for the winning candidate. And the reason it creates momentum is because the national media obsessively cover it in great detail. So, in some sense, the media coverage is itself the primary. Ground zero for the media in New Hampshire right now is the Radisson hotel in downtown Manchester...

http://bit.ly/A0Qa4R



Oakland s dirty war

CounterPunch
by George Ciccariello-Maher

01/09/12

As winter sets in, the Occupy Movement nationwide confronts a new series of challenges. Conspiring with the weather, however, is the threat of a shifting policing model currently being tested out in Oakland...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/09/oakland%E2%80%99s-dirty-war/



Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400

Reuters

01/29/12

Crews cleaned up Oakland's historic City Hall on Sunday from damage inflicted overnight during violent anti-Wall Street protests that resulted in about 400 arrests, marking one of the largest mass arrests since nationwide protests began last year...

http://reut.rs/y9iQOD


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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In New Hampshire, Occupiers Live Free or ''Die-In''

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''Live free or die,' the man instructed, and they all promptly died. This was Monday s 'Die-in,' an Occupy New Hampshire event in the parking lot of the campaign headquarters of President Barack Obama. The death certificate lists the name of deceased as 'democracy, freedom, liberty and the 99%.' Cause: 'The influence of Wall Street money.''

http://www.truth-out.org/live-free-or-die/1326205560



Emanuel s Protest-Squashing ''Sit Down and Shut Up'' Ordinance Passes in Chicago

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''The 'sit down and shut up' ordinance, as it has been called, seeks to chill protest in Chicago through measures including mandatory $1 million liability insurance for protests, a heightened police presence and more difficulty getting a permit.... When the ordinance was first introduced, it was said to be only a measure for the NATO/G8 conference to be held in Chicago in May, but it was later revealed that the ordinance change is expected to be permanent.''

http://www.truth-out.org/emanuels-sit-down-and-shut-ordinance-aims-chill-protest-chicago/1326902816



Occupy Oakland: An Illustrated History

Susie Cagle, Truthout: ''From the beginning, the Oakland Commune set Oaklands' occupation apart in its acceptance of the local homeless population. The camp was consistently referred to as not only a political meeting ground and organizing space, but also a replacement for the citys' failures in its everyday existence. Some people were living there to make a point, but others were living there because they needed to, and all were welcomed until the camp was cleared in the early morning of October 25.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland-illustrated-history/1327687114



Occupy Protesters and Police Clash in Oakland

Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times News Service: ''A march to take over a vacant building by members of the Occupy movement in Oakland, Calif., turned into a violent confrontation with the police on Saturday, leaving three officers injured and about 200 people arrested.... Most of the arrests occurred in the evening, when large groups of people were corralled in front of the Downtown Oakland Y.M.C.A. on Broadway. At one point, one group of protesters broke into the City Hall building...

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-protesters-and-police-clash-oakland/1327850727



Occupy Oakland: Over 400 Arrested as Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Grenades at Protesters

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: ''Police have arrested more than 400 Occupy Oakland protesters, as well as a number of journalists, in one of the largest mass arrests since the nationwide Occupy protests began last year. When protesters attempted to convert a vacant building into a community center on Saturday, witnesses say police used tear gas, bean bag projectiles and flash grenades. Several hours later, police said some of the protesters broke into City Hall. However, demonstrators claim they found the door to City Hall already ajar.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland-over-400-arrested-police-fire-tear-gas-flash-grenades-protesters/1327950850

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America s Dangerously Removed Elite

By David Sirota

It s easy to cut public education funding when your kids go to private school. Just ask Christie and Emanuel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30233.htm



300 arrested as police use flashbangs and tear-gas against protesters

Video

A 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEK6HgXBsQ


From Information Clearing House



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Nachdem das Land nun in die Depression gespart wurde, erwägt man beim Internationalen Währungsfonds neue Eckwerte des Rettungspakets.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151188



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/2012-year-of-living-dangerously.html

Hopes, Fears and Preparations for 2012
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner532.html

34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/34-shocking-facts-about-us-debt.html



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Punishing Jesse Thorsen
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/soldier-who-spoke-out-for-rp.html

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Defend Corporal Jesse Thorsen

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/11/12

The elites don t like us peons speaking out on issues they consider their personal domain, and foreign policy certainly falls into this category. When military figures, big shots like Petraeus, get up there in full uniform, pushing a pro-war agenda, well, that s just fine and dandy. But let a mere corporal try to get a word in edgewise in the national debate over war and peace, and suddenly the Paul Rieckhoffs of this world are demanding a court martial!

http://bit.ly/AhEu2P


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Pentagon Does not Want You To Read This
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/mason-a5.1.1.html



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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,807962,00.html

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Die FAS zweifelt am Darlehenscharakter der 500.000-Euro-Zahlung an Wulff

Anonymer Scheck und fehlende Grundbuchschuld.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36202/1.html

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Wulffs Anwalt: Antworten zur Affäre bleiben geheim

http://www.handelsblatt.com/wulffs-anwalt-antworten-zur-affaere-bleiben-geheim/6050494.html

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Buchprojekt über Wulff wirft neue Fragen auf

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,808017,00.html



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''My responsibility is to encourage the right degree of planning [for if Iran tries to build a nuclear bomb], to understand the risks associated with any kind of military option. in some cases to position assets, to provide those options in a timely fashion,'' General Martin Dempsey said on Face the Nation today. ''And all those activities are going on,'' he added.

http://bit.ly/zdZz0N



Beijing rejects sanctions on Iranian oil

''The normal trade relations and energy cooperation between China and Iran have nothing to do with the nuclear issue,'' Cui said. ''We should not mix issues of different natures, and China s legitimate concerns and demands should be respected.''

http://wapo.st/xex4du



China slams US military adventurism

China says the accusations leveled against the country in the new United States defense strategy are ''groundless'' and aim to counter the Asian country's growing power.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220142.html



After Iran, Venezuela?

By Mike Whitney

As soon as Obama is finished ''liberating'' Tehran, it ll be on to Venezuela. You can bet on it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30209.htm



'Iran war to deteriorate world economy'

A senior Chinese diplomat says, ''Everyone knows that 40 percent of the oil shipped daily to every part of the world goes through the Strait of Hormuz, so once war starts in this region not only will the relevant nations be affected and attacked, it would also ... bring disaster to a world economy deep in crisis," Chen Xiaodong warned on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220299.html



'US builds hospitals in Georgia, readies for war with Iran'

A big war between the US and Iran is beginning in the Persian Gulf. $5 billion was allocated for the construction of these 20-bed military hospitals," Javelidze said in an interview with Georgian paper Kviris Kronika (News of the Week), as cited by Newsgeorgia website.

http://rt.com/politics/us-georgia-iran-war-441/



War Plan Iran

By Finian Cunningham

''Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.'' http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30214.htm



Iran says Fordo uranium enrichment site runs under IAEA watch

Iran s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said all of the country s nuclear activities, including those at Fordo enrichment site, are under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-01/10/c_131352662.htm



Obama Ready to Use Military Force to Stop Nuclear Iran, Ex-Adviser Says

The administration considers the risks of permitting a nuclear-armed Iran to be greater than the risks of military action, said Ross, who last month rejoined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research group.

http://bloom.bg/znASfV



Iran Interest Rates Raised To 20% To Fight Hyperinflation

As a result of a financial embargo enacted on by the US on New Year s Day, Iran's economy had promptly entered freefall mode and is now experiencing hyperinflation as the currency implodes.

http://bit.ly/AoK08H



Thousands Of US Troops To Arrive In Israel This Week

Accompanied by a US aircraft carrier, 9,000 US troops including airmen, missile interceptor teams, marines, technicians and intelligence officers are scheduled to land in Israel in the coming weeks. Many will stay up to the end of the year as part of the US-Israeli Army deployment in readiness for a military engagement with Iran, aiming at a synchronized military front against Iran.

http://www.imemc.org/article/62803


From Information Clearing House

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NYT Responds on Iran Alarmism
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/10-5



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''China and Pakistan pledged to strengthen military ties and bring existing cooperation to a new level,'' Xinhua quoted China s Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie as saying.

http://bit.ly/wVEFGz


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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The global media have had little to say on Nigeria s latest oil spill and the hundreds of others that have destroyed so many lives.

http://bit.ly/yKy4Al


From Information Clearing House



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By Dahr Jamail

The state of the economy in Iraq is a disaster. Yet this irony is highlighted by the fact that Iraq has proven oil reserves third only behind Saudi Arabia and Iran, hence one would expect it to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30188.htm



Squad mate testifies in Marine s Iraq massacre trial

A former squad mate of a Marine implicated in the deaths of 19 Iraqis in 2005 has told a court-martial that after a roadside bombing the group raced to nearby homes, firing rounds and tossing grenades, even though he heard no gunfire and saw no weapons or Iraqis fleeing.

http://bit.ly/yD35Xp


From Information Clearing House



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Obama s New Military Strategy Doesn t Add Up

By Miriam Pemberton

The job description for our self-appointed role as world policeman will be trimmed a bit. We won t be patrolling everywhere all the time, but we ll be doing something more like check-ins in places like Latin America and Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30194.htm



Stone Age Logic: Preserving US Global Leadership

By Gwynne Dyer

If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30193.htm



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What s Really Going on in The Straits of Hormuz.

By David Malone

The stand off is as much with China and its allies as it is specifically with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30190.htm



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''Weltweit ähneln sich die Maßnahmen gegen Demokratiebewegungen. Ob die Welt demokratischer wird oder immer mehr wie China aussieht, wird sich bald zeigen?'' Artikel von Naomi Wolf in Die Welt online vom 05.01.2012

http://www.welt.de/debatte/die-welt-in-worten/article13798494/2012-werden-sich-die-Proteste-drastisch-verschaerfen.html


Empören, Okkupieren, Verweigern

''Warum ist es, vor allem in Deutschland, so ruhig? Wo bleiben die Proteste? Jahrelang staunten Linke, SoziologInnen und auch PolitikerInnen über die erstaunliche Akzeptanz der Krisenfolgen und Sparpakete. Lange Zeit galten neidische Blicke der Gewerkschaftslinken zum westlichen Nachbarn: ''Französisch lernen!''. Eher autonome Herzen ließen die griechischen Krisen-Proteste höher schlagen. Und immer wieder die frustrierte Frage: Warum nicht bei uns? Geht es ''uns'' (noch) zu gut?...?

Artikel von Mag Wompel in der graswurzelrevolution vom Januar 2012 http://www.graswurzel.net/365/sabotage.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Januar 2012



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An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai s demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody and saying anyone held without evidence should be freed.

http://on.wsj.com/ADb7n3



Afghanistan: 'Slave-like' conditions at Swedish army base revealed

Kitchen staff at Sweden s military base in Afghanistan have been working in ''slave-like conditions,'' a Swedish newspaper has revealed.

http://www.thelocal.se/38380/20120107/


From Information Clearing House



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The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil.

http://bit.ly/zNYA1g



Perry: ''I would send troops back into Iraq''

''The idea that we allow the Iranians to come back into Iraq and take over that country, with all of the treasures, both in blood and money, that we have spent in Iraq, because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base, and move out those men and women.

http://bit.ly/ySpFJu



Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO

A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009.

http://bit.ly/ztm14D


From Information Clearing House



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By Judge Napolitano

What If elections are simply means of social control and what ''public opinion'' actually tells us about what free people think.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30184.htm



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And now the Republicans want to attack Iran.
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed224.html

A Year To Wake Up
http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski282.html



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Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony

By Nile Bowie

Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect ''the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market'', before citing China s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30182.htm



Recognizing the ''Unpeople''

By Noam Chomsky

Africans are ''unpeople,'' to adapt George Orwell s term for those unfit to enter history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30180.htm



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By Scott Peterson

Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or, worse, acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30177.htm



The Manipulation of Fear

By Noam Chomsky

The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30175.htm



US faces challenges from 'rising Asian powers': Panetta

The United States now faces new array of security challenges from across the globe, including the rise of new powers in Asia; behaviour of countries like Iran and North Korea and proliferation of lethal weapons, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday.

http://bit.ly/xQlBeq



No proof of nuclear bomb development by Iran: Patrushev

''All this talk about Iranians being almost a week away from creating a nuclear bomb, we have been hearing it for many years now. The presence of a military aspect in Tehran s nuclear program has never been proved by anyone,'' Patrushev said in an interview with Interfax.

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=300758



Israel is pushing U.S. toward Iran war, Russian official says

Russia fears Israel will push the United States into a military conflict with Iran which could retaliate by blocking oil shipments from the Gulf, a confidant of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

http://bit.ly/yy7fGh



Real danger of US military strike on Iran: Russia

Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned that military escalation is likely in Iran, with ''real danger'' of a US strike, in an interview published Thursday.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1176281/1/.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Fear Factor
http://lewrockwell.com/galland/galland41.1.html



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http://www.zeit.de/news/2012-01/08/bundespraesident-der-druck-auf-christian-wulff-laesst-nicht-nach-08173007

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«Bild» beharrt: Wulff wollte Story verhindern

http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/bild-beharrt-wulff-wollte-story-verhindern-1771339.html



Schuh-Potest gegen Wulff

http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/demonstration-vor-schloss-bellevue-schuh-proteste-gegen-wulff-1771046.html

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Diskussion über Nachfolger für Wulff

http://www.gmx.net/themen/nachrichten/deutschland/788me4u-nachfolger-fuer-wulff-gesucht

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''Bild'' oder Wulff-Anwalt: Wer sagt die Wahrheit?

http://web.de/magazine/nachrichten/deutschland/14481678-bild-oder-wulff-anwalt-wer-sagt-die-wahrheit.html#.A1000145



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Joseph Varga, Labor Notes: ''An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college town are rallying to their cause. The millworkers, members of Local 8093 of the Carpenters Industrial Council in Oolitic, Indiana, rejected a concessionary contract and by unanimous vote went on strike November 15.''

http://www.truth-out.org/right-work-law-looms-indiana-occupiers-join-limestone-strikers/1326032629



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Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project Syndicate: ''After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand casualties, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.... Violently torn by religious and ethnic rivalries, Iraq is in no condition to play its part in America s vision of an Arab wall of containment of Iran.''

http://www.truth-out.org/lasting-damage-iraq/1326043606



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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''In the last weeks before the just-completed Iowa caucuses, Romney spent over $3 million relentlessly torpedoing Newt Gingrich with negative ads, cutting Gingrich s support by half and hurtling him from first place to fourth. But Romney kept his fingerprints off the torpedo. Technically the money didn t even come from his campaign. It came from a Super PAC called 'Restore Our Future,' which can sop up unlimited amounts from a few hugely wealthy donors without even disclosing their names.''

http://www.truth-out.org/mitt-son-citizens-united/1326031467



Why the Tea Party Need Mitt

Thomas Frank, Tom Dispatch: ''Dear Tea Party Movement, for the last few months, the world has been fascinated by your frenzied search for a presidential candidate who is not Mitt Romney.... It was quite a spectacle, your quest for the non-Romney - and I think we all know why you undertook it. In ways that matter, Romney is clearly a problem for you.... [He s] said that he approved of the TARP bank bailout, the abomination that ignited the Tea Party uprising in the first place.''

http://www.truth-out.org/why-tea-party-need-mitt/1326045170



Hawk in a Clown-Car Field

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''It s quite difficult for a president to change the nation s culture. It s quite easy for a president to start a war. Yes, the GOP s clown-car nomination battle is a source of amusement. The prospect of a Santorum presidency, though, is a source of alarm.''

http://www.truth-out.org/hawk-clown-car-field/1326035437



Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?

Dean Baker, Truthout: ''Mitt Romney seems ready to wield his version of birthirism as a major weapon in the fall campaign against President Obama. In his standard stump speech, he tells audiences that President Obama wants, 'to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society.''

http://www.truth-out.org/will-romney-lie-his-way-white-house/1326122881

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Will New Hampshire Pick the Orwellian ?Conservative,? Willard Mitt Romney?
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz37.1.html

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Mitt Romney embraces the Neocons

Mitt Romney s newfound relations with the neocons could spell disaster for the United States, as the war drums begin.

http://bit.ly/wPfBgt


From Information Clearing House

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Mitt Romney, vulture capitalist

Our Future
by Terrance Heath

01/09/12

One of the benefits of the seemingly endless Republican primaries, aside from the entertainment value, is the opportunity to discover how right the candidates are ... about each other. ... What s more striking than the intensity of the candidates' obligatory attacks, however, is the accuracy of their worst accusations against one another. The most recent, and perhaps most striking example, is Newt Gingrich s latest attack on Mitt Romney...

http://bit.ly/A6smNh



Mitt Romney: Extremist in pinstripes

The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

01/10/12

Mitt Romney s dead heat with Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses bolstered the media narrative that Mitt Romney may not be conservative enough for Republican primary voters. This characterization serves Romney well. His rivals carve up each other, hoping to emerge as the conservative 'alternative' to Romney. And vast swaths of the media discount his reactionary views, anticipating his 'pivot' to more moderate positions once the nomination is secured. In reality, Romney is a remarkably reactionary candidate, camouflaged in corporate pinstripes...

http://tinyurl.com/6mojnx6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ravi Batra, Truthout: ''Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one job.... The trillion dollar question is this: where is it all going, when the annual average wage is no higher than $50,000? Obviously, it must be going to the so-called 1 percent group or what the Republican Party calls the job creators, i.e., the mostly male CEOs and other executives of large corporations.''

http://www.truth-out.org/cost-government-job-creation-15-million-worker/1325800265



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Nach dem Willen des Berliner rot-schwarzen Senates sollen künftig Hartz IV Bezieher als sogenannte Wachschützer in ''Problemschulen'' eingesetzt werden. Hierzu sollen nach Angaben der Senatsverwaltung erwerbsfähige Arbeitslosengeld II Bezieher ausgebildet werden, die im Anschluss allerdings keinen regulären sozialversicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsplatz erhalten, sondern als Ein-Euro-Jobber (Arbeitsgelegenheit mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung) zum Dumpingpreis entlohnt werden. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/hartz-iv-bezieher-als-wachschuetzer-90084.php



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http://tinyurl.com/6oekcl3

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Affäre um Christian Wulff: Neue Details und schwarz-gelbe Kritik

http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/affaere-um-christian-wulff-neue-details-und-schwarz-gelbe-kritik-1771101.html



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Der Kandidat soll jemand sein, den SPD und Grüne ''nicht ablehnen können''.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151175



Wulff wird zu einer ''realen Gefahr'' in seinem Amt

Weil Wulff als Berufspolitiker die Sensibilität für die Trennung von Amt und Privatleben zu fehlen scheint, verheddert er sich immer weiter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151173



Das Amt des Bundespräsidenten

Ein Kommentar zum Fall Wulff.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151170



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Die polnische Regierung plant den Bau von mindestens einem Atomkraftwerk bis 2020.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814056ms299



Erneuerbare Energien wichtiger Pfeiler für die deutsche Energieversorgung

2011 bei Stromverbrauch Sprung auf 20 Prozent. Verdreifachung des Anteils seit dem Jahr 2000.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814066ms299



So wird 2012 solar

Von bestätigten Trends, dem Abschied einer Technologie und dem Aufschwung der solaren Weltwirtschaft.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814069ms299

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AKW-Bau in Polen mobilisiert

Volksabstimmung vor Ort, 20.000 Einwendungen aus Deutschland, Planungshoheit entzogen, auch ökonomischer Sinn in Frage gestellt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/151182



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=erneuerbare+Energie
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''Montgomery hat die Augsburger Buchreihe ''Stoffgeschichten'' um eine ebenso faszinierende wie erschreckende Weltgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Bodenerosion erweitert.'' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814038ms299



Was tun? Konkrete Antworten für eine wirklich nachhaltige Zukunft der Menschheit

Vandana Shiva: ''Was Tun? Widerstand leisten''
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814040ms299

Jakob von Uexküll: ''Was Tun? Verantwortung übernehmen''
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814041ms299

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker: ''Was Tun? Den Wohlstand vom Verbrauch entkoppeln''

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814042ms299

Dennis Meadows: ''Was Tun? Wieder runterkommen''
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814043ms299



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Lena Groeger, ProPublica: ''TSA body scanners continue their steady advance into our nation s airports, but another agency security initiative begins well before travelers ever reach a checkpoint. PreCheck, the TSA s nascent pre-screening program, allows some pre-approved frequent travelers to make it from check in to take off in record time, if they give the government access to lots of information in return.''

http://www.truth-out.org/speeding-security-tsa-wants-screen-they-scan/1325951710



TSA Now Traumatizing Disabled Toddlers in Strollers

Thom Hartmann, The Daily Take: Earlier this month, TSA officials at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport detained 3-year-old Lucy Forck, on her way to a family vacation in Disney World.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14786-tsa-now-traumatizing-disabled-toddlers-in-strollers

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Poll: One-Third of Americans Would Accept Cavity Searches By TSA

By Jonathan Turley

A particularly chilling measure of just how passive and accepting citizens have become to the new realities of our internal security system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33022.htm



12 year old driven to tears as TSA claims sick girl tests positive for bomb residue

Video

A 12-year-old girl in a wheelchair was detained for nearly an hour at DFW Airport while trying to get through security.

http://is.gd/2NLBOT



How Many Terrorists Has The TSA Caught

Video

Can you say ZERO?
http://is.gd/WtIFfT


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=security+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Transportation+Security+Administration
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
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Science with a Skew

Gayle Greene, The Asia-Pacific Journal: ''The media are saturated with a skilled ? effective advocacy campaign by the nuclear industry, resulting in disinformation' ? states the Worldwatch Institute. What is less well understood is the nature of the 'evidence' that gives the nuclear industry its mandate, Cold War science which, with its reassurances about low-dose radiation risk, is being used to quiet alarms about Fukushima and to stonewall new evidence that would call a halt to the industry.''

http://www.truth-out.org/science-skew-nuclear-power-industry-after-chernobyl-and-fukushima/1325956958



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Dispatch from Detention

Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines: ''Immigration detention centers claim their share of criminal abuses ? and rampant sexual assault by guards?. But for many detainees, the worst part of awaiting expulsion is not the acute trauma inflicted inside the jails. Most carry with them the unhealed wounds of violence from life on the outside that the humiliating baseness of life inside these jails reopens.''

http://www.truth-out.org/dispatch-detention-rare-look-inside-our-humane-immigration-jails/1325947813



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- 20 Minutes 06 01 2011: Vous avez interviewé Romain Gubert pour son livre «L'oligarchie des incapables»
''Je crois que les politiques sont conscients que cela ne peut plus durer. Ca va mal finir'', Romain Gubert auteur du livre de révélations inouïes: conflits d' intérêts, mensonges, copinage entre voyous et pire encore,...

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PublicationsDVD.php#1
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Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''A November 2010 article at Ice News reported how a memo released by WikiLeaks described an inquiry by 'a Danish Defence Ministry official' regarding 'what happened at the American Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after media reports of torture and abuse in 2003.' Subsequently, 'Danish soldiers continued to hand over prisoners to the facility, however, even after the torture was officially confirmed several months later.''

http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-nato/1325794053



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The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world s rich people.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm


From Information Clearing House



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'There are two losers: the US army and Marine Corps. US military contractors are the main winners in this new war for the shrinking US budget. The military industrial complex will be the main beneficiary of the troops downsizing and extension of the military s big ticket high tech items," says the military analyst.

http://rt.com/news/us-budget-china-army-301/



Obama s Leaner, Meaner Military

The president plans to shrink the Pentagon. But are we just swapping soldiers for drones, contractors, and reserve troops?

http://bit.ly/xFTz4b



Obama launches Bureau of Counterterrorism

President Obama s State Department announced, the creation of the Bureau of Counterterrorism, which will coordinate with United States entities such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and foreign governments to develop civilian counterterrorism strategies and operations.

http://bit.ly/zQAkvw


From Information Clearing House

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Obama s plan: less troops, more fire from the skies
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/obama-watch/obamas-plan-less-troops-more-fire-from-the-skies.html



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By Mike Whitney

If the Obama troupe doesn t change the present do-nothing policy, and take aggressive steps to keep people in their homes; we could see foreclosures triple before this thing is over.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30173.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig7/trotter10.1.html

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Santorum Becomes Millionaire After Senate Loss

''If he is claiming he is not an insider, this is the thing that insiders do, after public office they cash in,'' said Kent Cooper, a campaign finance expert and former Federal Elections Commission assistant staff director.

http://bloom.bg/yIPKNc



Santorum: Iranians' 'Principle Virtue' To Die For God
'Is An Encouragement For Them To Use' Nukes

By Eli Clifton

Santorum s Iran policy appears to be framed, in no small part, by his extremist views on Islam and a belief that the Islamic Republic s leadership is inherently irrational and suicidal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30191.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Rick Santorum: Republican candidate for Religious Bigot in Chief

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

01/05/12

Calling Rick Santorum an ultra-right-wing religious extremist is putting it mildly. Next to him, statist tyrants like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seem like timid moderates. That being the case, I don t envision Santorum coming close to capturing the Republican Party nomination, much less the presidency, but stranger things have happened in the course of history...

http://bit.ly/xnCnvg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rick Santorum has never heard of America
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012/rick-santorum-has-never-heard-of-america.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett45.1.html

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Learn To Make Terror Your Friend

By Doug Casey

In a world of asymmetric war, that means the ''little guys,'' the outsiders, the disadvantaged, the groups most likely to make terror their friend, have much more going in their favor than ever before.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30185.htm



Homeland Security Monitors Journalists

By RT

The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use ''traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30189.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1082.html



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By Ray McGovern

We have forgotten that the Founders risked everything for liberty, not for 'safety'?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30166.htm
[ http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10817/ ]

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Freedom in USA

Grand Central Terminal Arrests: Two protesters mic check about the loss of freedom brought about by the passage of the NDAA and both are promptly arrested and whisked out of public sight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6ayc-w3bE&feature=player_embedded


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-5



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-3

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Promoting War on Iran

By Stephen Lendman
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30171.htm



The US-Iran Economic War

By Pepe Escobar

Here s a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30172.htm

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Occupying Fears About Iran

Winslow Myers, Consortium News: ''Too many of us still refuse to see the practical relevance of such values either to international or personal politics?. We assume thousands of nuclear warheads in the control of a democratically elected leader are qualitatively different from the same weapons in the hands of a dictator ? 'Our' nuclear weapons are justified by our need for security, while 'theirs' indicate an unacceptable aggressiveness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupying-fears-about-iran/1325948517

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'Iran is being economically and financially strangled'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10811/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/06-6

The West in Flames: The Oxygen Planet Struts Its Stuff
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/24-4

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Doomsday Clock a minute closer to midnight

As well, the major global challenge now was a warmer climate that threatens to bring droughts, famine, water scarcity and rising seas, said Allison Macfarlane, an associated professor at George Mason University near Washington, who chairs the group s committee that helps set the clock.

http://bit.ly/zrCSb6


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/06-1

Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-9

Ten Years and One Broken Promise Later, Guantanamo Remains
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-4

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Guantanamo detainees still endure harsh prison conditions

''You don t walk, you don t budge, you don t talk. It s forbidden.'' That s not to mention the sleep deprivation, with neon lights blazing 24 hours a day and air conditioning kept at bone chilling temperatures.

http://bit.ly/w80P6V



My Guantánamo Nightmare

By LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE

I went on a hunger strike for two years because no one would tell me why I was being imprisoned. Twice each day my captors would shove a tube up my nose, down my throat and into my stomach so they could pour food into me. It was excruciating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30198.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantanamo detainees? bleak future

CNN

01/08/12

Ten years after the arrival of the first prisoners captured by U.S. forces after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be in business for many more years, perhaps decades, to come, analysts say. For the 171 detainees still there, the future is bleak. GITMO, as the detention facility is commonly known, would have been emptied two years ago under a proposal introduced by President Barack Obama...

http://tinyurl.com/7lm4rxj



A tired obsession with military detention plagues American politics

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/06/12

Before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, there were only two ways of holding prisoners, either they were prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, or they were criminal suspects, to be charged and subjected to federal court trials. That all changed when the administration of George W. Bush threw out the Geneva Conventions, equated the Taliban with al-Qaeda, and decided to hold both soldiers and terror suspects as 'illegal enemy combatants' who could be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial, and with no rights whatsoever...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201c.asp



The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/08/12

As we head into Election Year, there is an increasingly common, bizarre and self-evidently repellent tactic being employed by some Democratic partisans against those of us who insist that issues like indefinite detention (along with ongoing killing of civilians in the Muslim world) merit high priority. The argument is that to place emphasis on such issues is to harm President Obama ...

http://bit.ly/wvGIfV


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew

Jason Leopold, Truthout: To mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison to house ''war on terror'' detainees captured after 9/11, Truthout will republish a handful of exclusive reports by Jason Leopold about the facility.

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-years-guantanamo-what-bush-cheney-and-rumsfeld-knew/1326049233



Ten Years of Guantanamo: One of the Prison s First Detainees Breaks His Silence

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Last year, one of the first detainees sent to Guantanamo when the prison facility opened in January 2002, broke his silence and spoke to Truthout about the brutal physical and psychological torture he suffered during the five years he was imprisoned.''

http://www.truth-out.org/exclusive-an-interview-with-former-guantanamo-detainee-david-hicks67818



Guantanamo: Ten Years Too Many

Peter Weiss, Truthout: ''Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was the first legal organization to perceive the danger which the legal culture of Gitmo posed to the idea of justice and to take on cases on behalf of detainees.... About 600 detainees have been released and sent to their home countries or other countries willing to accept them, partly as a result of CCR attorneys scouring the world for such countries.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-ten-years-too-many/1326134485



''It Was a Sunny Day''

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''A former Guantanamo guard ... reflects on a decade of lawlessness.... Neely did not know it then, nor did the public, but a vast majority of the prisoners who populated Guantanamo during the prison s first year in operation were innocent bystanders sold to US forces for hefty bounty payments or were captured and sent to Guantanamo because they wore the same style Casio watch that members of al-Qaeda wore.''

http://www.truth-out.org/it-was-sunny-day/1326292528

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Sign our global petition calling on President Obama to take action to close Guantánamo by ending indefinite detention. It s been ten years too long.

http://webmail.amnesty.org.uk/_act/link.php?mId=J8210924017288875034746193815&tId=54882369



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Mit der Jamaica-Koalition ist es im Saarland nun Schluss.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151171



Wenn die Argumente ausgehen

FDP-Chef Rösler und ein ehemaliges Nachrichtenmagazin aus Hamburg wetteifern, wer in Sachen Energiepolitik die größten Peinlichkeiten absondern kann.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/151169



Wulff darf auf Mitleid zählen, die FDP ist unten angelangt

Nach dem DeutschlandTrend hat Wulff als Person vom Interview profitiert, auch wenn weiterhin fast zwei Drittel ihn weder als ehrlich noch als glaubwürdig befinden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36196/1.html



Ein permanenter Rettungsfonds als Nebelkerze

Die Finanztransaktionssteuer kommt wohl auch nicht, doch die Euro-Finanzminister haben den permanenten Rettungsschirm (ESM) abgesegnet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36289/1.html

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10. Januar 2012

Merkel darf Europa nicht zur Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei machen

Die Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch, fordert von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch ohne die Zustimmung der FDP einzuführen. Eine parlamentarische Mehrheit gebe es dennoch, weil alle anderen Parteien für die Einführung seien. Wenn Merkel dennoch auf die Durchsetzung der Finanztransaktionssteuer verzichte, mache sie die Bundesrepublik und Europa zur ''Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei''. Gesine Lötzsch erklärt:

Es ist richtig, dass der französische Präsident jetzt die Blockade bricht und Frankreich zum Vorreiter bei der Einführung der Finanztransaktionssteuer macht. Wenn Deutschland ihm folgt, dann entsteht mit Sicherheit eine Dynamik, der sich die anderen Euro-Länder nicht entziehen können. Merkel sollte die Interessen des Landes vor den Koalitionsfrieden stellen und die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch ohne die Zustimmung der FDP einführen. Alle anderen Parteien sind dafür. DIE LINKE wird im Parlament für die Einführung stimmen. Wir brauchen die Einnahmen dringend, um Konjunkturprogramme gegen die Euro-Krise zu finanzieren. Die Bundesregierung tut hier zu wenig. Während der Weltwirtschaftskrise 2008 hat Deutschland konjunkturstützende Maßnahmen auf den Weg gebracht, die die Wirtschaft vor dem Schlimmsten bewahrt haben. Wir brauchen schnell ein Konjunkturprogramm für Wachstum und Beschäftigung. Wenn Merkel auf die Durchsetzung der Finanztransaktionssteuer verzichtet, dann macht sie Deutschland und Europa zur Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/merkel-darf-europa-nicht-zur-geisel-einer-sich-in-aufloesung-befindlichen-partei-machen/



19. Januar 2012

DIE LINKE steht wie eine Frau an der Seite der Kanzlerin

Die Kanzlerin muss die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch gegen die sich auflösende FDP durchsetzen, erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch:

Die Kanzlerin will offensichtlich nun endlich die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch gegen die FDP in Europa durchsetzen. Dabei hat sie unsere volle Unterstützung. Die Kanzlerin muss sich von der in Auflösung begriffenen FDP befreien, wenn sie Europa retten und ein Auseinanderbrechen der Europäischen Union verhindern will. Die FDP gibt scheinheilig vor, der Finanztransaktionssteuer zustimmen zu wollen, wenn diese Steuer in den 27 EU-Staaten eingeführt werden würde. Doch es ist klar, dass Großbritannien einer Finanztransaktionssteuer nicht zustimmen wird. Der Versuch, sich hinter den Briten zu verstecken, ist mehr als peinlich. Das Argument der FDP, dass mit der Steuer der Finanzplatz London auf unsere Kosten gestärkt wird, kann man entkräften. Das Österreichische Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung hat vorgeschlagen, dass die Steuer unabhängig vom Finanzplatz für alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger gelten muss und über die Finanzämter eingezogen werden kann. Dann ist es für einen deutschen oder spanischen Anleger egal, ob er in London oder in Frankfurt/a.M. handelt, er muss die Steuer auf jeden Fall bezahlen. Die LINKE weist aber darauf hin, dass allein mit einer Finanztransaktionssteuer die Finanzkrise nicht zu lösen ist. Wer glaubt, nur an einer Schraube drehen zu müssen, um den europäischen Motor wieder in Gang zu bringen, der hat die Komplexität des Problems nicht verstanden. Vor allem brauchen wir jetzt europäische Solidarität. Wer Griechenland, Portugal, Spanien und Italien dem Schicksal überlässt, wird selbst scheitern. Ein solidarisches Europa ist für alle besser.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-linke-steht-wie-eine-frau-an-der-seite-der-kanzlerin/



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