World-News

By The BBC

The CIA operated a secret prison in the Romanian capital Bucharest where terrorism suspects were 'interrogated', an investigation by the Associated Press and German media has found.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29923.htm



Inside Secret CIA Prison

By MATT APUZZO

One of the CIA s most important secrets in the war on terrorism was hiding in plain sight, on a leafy residential street along a busy set of train tracks in Romania's capital.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29931.htm

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Revealed: Inside a CIA Torture Site in Romania
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/08-3

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CIA s European torture prisons identified, photographed
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10744/



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As U.S. forces pull out of Iraq, residents and officials in Falluja say they leave behind bullet-riddled homes, destroyed infrastructure and a worrying increase in birth defects and maladies in a city polluted by weapons and war chemicals.

http://reut.rs/uwxCoe



USA repeatedly shipped arms to Egyptian security forces despite abuses

Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the USA has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19848


From Information Clearing House



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The bankers still rule.
http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland56.1.html

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And now for something completely predictable: War with Iran

By Terry Jones

The US government spent a staggering $US687 billion on 'defence' last year. Think what could be done with that money if it were put into hospitals, schools or to pay off foreclosed mortgage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29908.htm



Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies

By Phil Rockstroh

Free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers' game, in which, psychopathic personalities (not 'job creators' but con job perpetrators) thrive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29915.htm

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Will US be Greece in ten years?
Fox News
by John Stossel

12/07/11

When Greece blew up, its government debt was 126 percent of gross domestic product. Ours is on track to exceed that in about 10 years. If we haven t learned from Greece, might we learn when other countries blow up? That may be about to happen, says Daniel Hannan, author of The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America...

http://tinyurl.com/7ql7dnf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/07-0

San Francisco Police Raid Occupy Camp, Arrest 70
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/07-8

Los Angeles Calls for End to 'Corporate Personhood'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/07-0

Listen to the People, Not the Polluters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/07-0

Black America at the Bottom
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/07-6

Stop Buying Tainted Food From Billion Dollar Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/07-5

Sanders Fights Citizens United, Files Constitutional Amendment
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/08-6

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Hundreds 'occupy' Washington offices demanding stronger social security

Hundreds of people from across the US demonstrated in Washington Tuesday for jobs and stronger social security by converging on the offices of US lawmakers in Congress.

http://bit.ly/sEhaD9



Occupy protesters target foreclosed homes

Rallies staged in more than 25 US cities on behalf of homeowners facing evictions in move seen as a tactical shift.

http://bit.ly/vRpSHp



The Global Crisis Reaches China: Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls

China s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Government activating 'FEMA camps' across U.S.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/judicial-corruption/government-activating-fema-camps-across-us-.html



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In Crisis, The Rich Get Richer
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/07-1

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Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing

By Alan Hart

'Baring a miracle, an historic, world-changing event is about to end the American way of life as we know it.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29932.htm



We are No. 1!

BY Cecil Acuff

Does America joyously lead the world in something? Yes, but it is not a joy, but the sad fact that the United States of America is a leader in incarceration. There are about 2.3 million people behind bars - one of every 100 citizens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29933.htm



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Bei der Frage, wer für die Ölpest im Golf von Mexiko verantwortlich ist, wirft der britische Ölkonzern dem amerikanischen Zementzulieferer vor, Beweise vernichtet zu haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150985



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Marie Diamond, ThinkProgress: 'While the science supporting climate change has only gotten stronger, the onetime Republican consensus on the issue has fallen apart. The reason, quite simply, is the right-wing polluter Koch Industries and its political front group Americans for Prosperity. They have become the unparalleled enforcer of far right-wing ideology, funneling millions of oil and coal industry dollars cash across the nation to spread their message of global warming denial.'

http://www.truth-out.org/koch-political-group-brags-about-bullying-gop-lawmakers-denying-climate-science/1323283179



California Governor Calls Doubters of Climate Change 'Political Lemmings'

David Siders, McClatchy Newspapers: 'Ninety seven percent of the scientists who research climate change are people who, from their own understanding of the science, are completely convinced that greenhouse gases are associated with climate change and global warming,' Brown said. 'But when you go into the political class, then it s a very different thing.'

http://www.truth-out.org/california-governor-calls-doubters-climate-change-political-lemmings/1324046329



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Dave Johnson, Truthout: 'Are members of Congress corrupt? Perhaps we should define the term. There is the terrible, 'legal' corruption of pay-for-play campaign contributions, with wealthy donors and big corporations paying to get tax cuts, subsidies, special laws and 'access.' This is part of why our government is responsive to the agenda of the 1 percent and their corporations only.'

http://www.truth-out.org/license-profit-legalized-corruption-us-congress/1323198914

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Poll: 3/4 say don t reelect Congress

The anti-incumbent sentiment toward members of Congress has reached a 19-year high, with three out of four voters saying most lawmakers do not deserve to win reelection, according to a new Gallup poll Friday.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70163.html#ixzz1g2lgJ4q6


From Information Clearing House



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Since the start of the Second Great Depression, food stamp participation has increased by 18.7 million, and is now at an all time higher 46.3 million.

http://bit.ly/ua4McJ



Mom Shoots Children and Kills Self After Being Denied Food Stamps

By RT

In a final and violent act of desperation, a 38-year-old mother in Texas bombarded herself in a welfare office on Tuesday after being denied food stamps. She took her own life and shot her two children before the stand-off ceased.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29922.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Butler Shaffer

Beginning in early childhood, schools have inculcated young minds in the alleged virtues of obedience to the centralized authority of the state, without whose continuing supervision, we have been told, would render our lives 'nasty, brutish, and short'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29897.htm



Absurdity Rules the World

By Siv O'Neall

Respect for power and blind obedience were the result of the U.S. educational system. ''I pledge obedience to the flag of the United States of America ...'' Millions and millions of yes-men had been molded out of the clay of propaganda and history books.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31894.htm



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