We're all Indians now
Starmail - 3. Feb, 17:51
USA
Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2011
Egypt: Lessons in Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/02-3
Noam Chomsky: ?This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/02-1
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Watch Live: Revolution in Egypt
http://www.truth-out.org/aljazeeralive67405
"The Arab World Is on Fire"
Noam Chomsky: "'The Arab world is on fire,' al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies 'are quickly losing their influence.' The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a Western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator's brutal police. Observers compared the events to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences."
http://www.truth-out.org/the-arab-world-is-fire67410
The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World
Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. Analysts estimate that food price inflation in Egypt is currently at an unsustainable 17 percent yearly. In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries."
http://www.truth-out.org/the-egyptian-tinderbox-how-banks-and-investors-are-starving-third-world67424
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Egypt and US foreign policy
Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Laurence M. Vance
02/02/11
Until very recently, the only things many Americans knew about Egypt were its pyramids they read about in their school history texts, its mummies they saw on display at U.S. museum exhibits or on the screen in Hollywood movies, and the Nile River they marveled at in TV documentaries...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1315
?Losing? Egypt
Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson
02/02/11
Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the U.S.-backed leader who came to power after the assassination of Anwar Sadat nearly 30 years ago. We can be sure that sooner or later someone will condemn Barack Obama as the president who 'lost Egypt.' Such mutterings, in my view, would border on delusion. The world is not a chessboard on which the U.S. government can move the world?s people around, expecting them to obey. And yet the illusion continues...
http://tinyurl.com/4dyh8aj
American foreign policy promotes ?our interests??
C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
02/01/11
When I hear a reference to 'our interests,' or what ?we? are doing in Iraq or Afghanistan, my automatic response is 'Are you carrying a friend in your pocket?' The clear assumption is that there is some commonality of interest between the American people and the state that claims to represent them. But in reality, we?ve got about as many interests in common with 'our' government as the Egyptian people have in common with Hosni Mubarak...
http://c4ss.org/content/6003
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Obama Administration Has Been Gutless and Cowardly in Dealing with the Mubarak Regime
Robert Fisk - Democracy Now! Video Interview From Cairo
"One of the blights of history will now involve a U.S. president who held out his hand to the Islamic world and then clenched his fist when it fought a dictatorship and demanded democracy."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27407.htm
The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World
By Ted Rall
Coverage by U.S. state-controlled media of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is too dim by half: they say it's an Arab thing. So it is. But not for long.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27401.htm
IMF raises spectre of civil wars as global inequalities worsen
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that "dangerous" imbalances have emerged that threaten to derail global recovery and stoke tensions that may ultimately set off civil wars in deeply unequal countries.
http://bit.ly/gpqTpM
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IMF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inequalities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Zunes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/vance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+L.+Anderson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Carson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
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Noam Chomsky: ?This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/02-1
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Watch Live: Revolution in Egypt
http://www.truth-out.org/aljazeeralive67405
"The Arab World Is on Fire"
Noam Chomsky: "'The Arab world is on fire,' al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies 'are quickly losing their influence.' The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a Western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator's brutal police. Observers compared the events to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences."
http://www.truth-out.org/the-arab-world-is-fire67410
The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World
Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. Analysts estimate that food price inflation in Egypt is currently at an unsustainable 17 percent yearly. In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries."
http://www.truth-out.org/the-egyptian-tinderbox-how-banks-and-investors-are-starving-third-world67424
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Egypt and US foreign policy
Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Laurence M. Vance
02/02/11
Until very recently, the only things many Americans knew about Egypt were its pyramids they read about in their school history texts, its mummies they saw on display at U.S. museum exhibits or on the screen in Hollywood movies, and the Nile River they marveled at in TV documentaries...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1315
?Losing? Egypt
Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson
02/02/11
Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the U.S.-backed leader who came to power after the assassination of Anwar Sadat nearly 30 years ago. We can be sure that sooner or later someone will condemn Barack Obama as the president who 'lost Egypt.' Such mutterings, in my view, would border on delusion. The world is not a chessboard on which the U.S. government can move the world?s people around, expecting them to obey. And yet the illusion continues...
http://tinyurl.com/4dyh8aj
American foreign policy promotes ?our interests??
C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
02/01/11
When I hear a reference to 'our interests,' or what ?we? are doing in Iraq or Afghanistan, my automatic response is 'Are you carrying a friend in your pocket?' The clear assumption is that there is some commonality of interest between the American people and the state that claims to represent them. But in reality, we?ve got about as many interests in common with 'our' government as the Egyptian people have in common with Hosni Mubarak...
http://c4ss.org/content/6003
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Obama Administration Has Been Gutless and Cowardly in Dealing with the Mubarak Regime
Robert Fisk - Democracy Now! Video Interview From Cairo
"One of the blights of history will now involve a U.S. president who held out his hand to the Islamic world and then clenched his fist when it fought a dictatorship and demanded democracy."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27407.htm
The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World
By Ted Rall
Coverage by U.S. state-controlled media of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is too dim by half: they say it's an Arab thing. So it is. But not for long.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27401.htm
IMF raises spectre of civil wars as global inequalities worsen
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that "dangerous" imbalances have emerged that threaten to derail global recovery and stoke tensions that may ultimately set off civil wars in deeply unequal countries.
http://bit.ly/gpqTpM
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IMF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recovery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=inequalities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Zunes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/vance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+L.+Anderson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Carson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
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Starmail - 3. Feb, 06:10
We Are in the Midst of the Worst Housing Collapse in U.S. History
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/housing-armageddon.html
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Stocks Up, Houses Down and What This Means for Most Americans
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Put your ear to the ground and you can almost hear the bulls stampeding. The Dow closed above 12,000 Tuesday for the first time since June 2008. The Dow is up 4 percent this year after increasing 11 percent in 2010. The Standard & Poor 500 is also up 4 percent this year, and the Nasdaq index, up 3.7 percent. 'The U.S. economy is back!' says a prominent Wall Streeter. Ummm. Not quite."
http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-stocks-up-houses-down-and-what-this-means-most-americans67380
Recession Takes Severe Toll on Low-Income Renters
Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly incomes for rent in 2009, according to a federal report delivered to Congress on Tuesday. During the height of the Great Recession, the number of low-income households with 'worst-case housing needs' increased by nearly 1.2 million, or 20 percent, from 2007 to 2009. That's the largest two-year increase since the Department of Housing and Urban Development began tracking the data in 1985."
http://www.truth-out.org/recession-takes-severe-toll-low-income-renters67395
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The fear created by fractional reserve
Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman
01/31/11
You?ve been a good person all your life. You?ve worked hard. You?ve played by the rules. Yet this feeling in the pit of your stomach grows. The uncertainty metastasizes. You find yourself worrying about what the future will bring. You may realize that maybe you?re not so invulnerable after all. This has happened, in my opinion, by design. The fractional reserve system that is in place in the modern world is one designed to funnel wealth to a very few privileged and extremely wealthy elite masters...
http://tinyurl.com/4j5gny4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fractional+reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Department+of+Housing+and+Urban+Development
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tony+Pugh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
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Stocks Up, Houses Down and What This Means for Most Americans
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Put your ear to the ground and you can almost hear the bulls stampeding. The Dow closed above 12,000 Tuesday for the first time since June 2008. The Dow is up 4 percent this year after increasing 11 percent in 2010. The Standard & Poor 500 is also up 4 percent this year, and the Nasdaq index, up 3.7 percent. 'The U.S. economy is back!' says a prominent Wall Streeter. Ummm. Not quite."
http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-stocks-up-houses-down-and-what-this-means-most-americans67380
Recession Takes Severe Toll on Low-Income Renters
Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly incomes for rent in 2009, according to a federal report delivered to Congress on Tuesday. During the height of the Great Recession, the number of low-income households with 'worst-case housing needs' increased by nearly 1.2 million, or 20 percent, from 2007 to 2009. That's the largest two-year increase since the Department of Housing and Urban Development began tracking the data in 1985."
http://www.truth-out.org/recession-takes-severe-toll-low-income-renters67395
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The fear created by fractional reserve
Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman
01/31/11
You?ve been a good person all your life. You?ve worked hard. You?ve played by the rules. Yet this feeling in the pit of your stomach grows. The uncertainty metastasizes. You find yourself worrying about what the future will bring. You may realize that maybe you?re not so invulnerable after all. This has happened, in my opinion, by design. The fractional reserve system that is in place in the modern world is one designed to funnel wealth to a very few privileged and extremely wealthy elite masters...
http://tinyurl.com/4j5gny4
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fractional+reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Department+of+Housing+and+Urban+Development
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tony+Pugh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
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Starmail - 3. Feb, 06:03
The Fantasy of American Exceptionalism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed197.html
The Greatest Warmonger of All Time
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance227.html
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No military immunity
Reason Reason
by Jacob Sullum
02/02/11
For Hartzler and too many of her fellow Republicans, it's never time to talk about defense cuts. This irrational attitude, the flip side of automatic progressive resistance to reductions in social spending, must be disavowed by anyone who is serious about dealing with the nation's fiscal crisis...
http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/02/no-military-immunity
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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War Still The Health Of The State
By Robert S. Becker
How long, as the Great Recession plods on, can the right treat the bloated, trillion dollar Pentagon budget as sacrosanct? How long before Joe Sixpack connects his structural unemployment, along with crumbling infrastructures and even worse schools, with nation-building abroad and energy subsidies at home?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27405.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.google.de/search?q=Ellis+Washington
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fiscal+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/reed
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/vance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+S.+Becker
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The Greatest Warmonger of All Time
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance227.html
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No military immunity
Reason Reason
by Jacob Sullum
02/02/11
For Hartzler and too many of her fellow Republicans, it's never time to talk about defense cuts. This irrational attitude, the flip side of automatic progressive resistance to reductions in social spending, must be disavowed by anyone who is serious about dealing with the nation's fiscal crisis...
http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/02/no-military-immunity
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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War Still The Health Of The State
By Robert S. Becker
How long, as the Great Recession plods on, can the right treat the bloated, trillion dollar Pentagon budget as sacrosanct? How long before Joe Sixpack connects his structural unemployment, along with crumbling infrastructures and even worse schools, with nation-building abroad and energy subsidies at home?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27405.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warmonger
http://www.google.de/search?q=Ellis+Washington
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fiscal+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/reed
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/vance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+S.+Becker
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Starmail - 3. Feb, 05:54
Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2011
US airstrike kills civilians in Afghanistan
At least one civilian has been killed and several others wounded in a helicopter gunship attack by the US-led foreign forces in troubled western Afghanistan.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162931.html
US-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians:
US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/163867.html
'Men Killed by US Diplomat Were Intelligence Operatives':
The men shot and killed by US official Raymond Davis in Lahore on January 27 "belonged to the security establishment" and "found the activities of the American official detrimental to our national security", an unnamed security official told The Express Tribune newspaper.
http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?711172
Widow of man 'killed' by US envoy commits suicide
The widow of one of the Pakistani men allegedly shot and killed by an American official in Lahore has committed suicide in an attempt to secure justice.
http://ind.pn/h7F7g6
What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore?
By Dave Lindorff
The mystery surrounding Raymond A. Davis, the American former Special Forces operative jailed in Lahore, Pakistan for the murder of two young motorcyclists, and his funky "security" company, Hyperion-Protective Consultants LLC, in the US continues to grow.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27441.htm
Video reveals US diplomat's Pakistan police encounter
Mobile phone clip of Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, deepens mystery about his US embassy role.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/10/us-diplomat-video-footage-pakistan
US man Raymond Davis shot Pakistan pair 'in cold blood'
Lahore city police chief Aslam Tareen told a news conference that one of the men was killed while running away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12427518
US tells Pakistan to release Davis or its envoy would be kicked out: Report
The US has threatened Pakistan that its envoy will be "kicked out" if it fails to release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday, according to a media report.
http://bit.ly/icWc0q
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162931.html
US-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians:
US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/163867.html
'Men Killed by US Diplomat Were Intelligence Operatives':
The men shot and killed by US official Raymond Davis in Lahore on January 27 "belonged to the security establishment" and "found the activities of the American official detrimental to our national security", an unnamed security official told The Express Tribune newspaper.
http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?711172
Widow of man 'killed' by US envoy commits suicide
The widow of one of the Pakistani men allegedly shot and killed by an American official in Lahore has committed suicide in an attempt to secure justice.
http://ind.pn/h7F7g6
What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore?
By Dave Lindorff
The mystery surrounding Raymond A. Davis, the American former Special Forces operative jailed in Lahore, Pakistan for the murder of two young motorcyclists, and his funky "security" company, Hyperion-Protective Consultants LLC, in the US continues to grow.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27441.htm
Video reveals US diplomat's Pakistan police encounter
Mobile phone clip of Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, deepens mystery about his US embassy role.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/10/us-diplomat-video-footage-pakistan
US man Raymond Davis shot Pakistan pair 'in cold blood'
Lahore city police chief Aslam Tareen told a news conference that one of the men was killed while running away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12427518
US tells Pakistan to release Davis or its envoy would be kicked out: Report
The US has threatened Pakistan that its envoy will be "kicked out" if it fails to release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday, according to a media report.
http://bit.ly/icWc0q
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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Starmail - 2. Feb, 22:22
Employment conditions in the United States remain disastrous
Back to Full Employment
Robert Pollin, Boston Review: "Employment conditions in the United States today, in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Wall Street collapse and worldwide Great Recession, remain disastrous - worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s. Since Barack Obama entered office in January 2009, the official unemployment rate has averaged more than 9.5 percent, representing some fifteen million people in a labor force of about 154 million. By a broader definition, including people employed for fewer hours than they would like and those discouraged from looking for work, the unemployment rate has been far higher - 16.5 percent, on average."
http://www.truth-out.org/back-full-employment67325
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=employ
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Pollin
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Robert Pollin, Boston Review: "Employment conditions in the United States today, in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Wall Street collapse and worldwide Great Recession, remain disastrous - worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s. Since Barack Obama entered office in January 2009, the official unemployment rate has averaged more than 9.5 percent, representing some fifteen million people in a labor force of about 154 million. By a broader definition, including people employed for fewer hours than they would like and those discouraged from looking for work, the unemployment rate has been far higher - 16.5 percent, on average."
http://www.truth-out.org/back-full-employment67325
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=employ
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Pollin
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Starmail - 2. Feb, 06:11
Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01-0
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Turse
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Turse
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Starmail - 2. Feb, 06:04
The US and Egypt: Our Role in the Uprising
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-3
Tunisia's Spark and Egypt's Flame: The Middle East Is Rising
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01-4
Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2
Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01
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A New Arab Street in Post-Islamist Times
Asef Bayat, Foreign Policy: "The popular uprising in Tunisia has surprised many - Western observers, the Arab elites, and even those who have generated this remarkable episode. The surprise seems justified. How could one imagine that a campaign of ordinary Tunisians in just over one month would topple a dictator who presided over a police state for 23 years? This is a region where the life expectancy of 'presidencies' match only the 'eternal' rule of its sheiks, kings, and Ayatollahs who bank on oil and political rent (western protection) to hang on to their power and subjugate their people."
http://www.truth-out.org/a-new-arab-street-post-islamist-times67356
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Egypt: Battle of the narratives
Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
02/02/11
The Egyptian events seem, on the face of it, fairly straightforward: a tyrant in office for 30 years, propped up by fulsome US support and a very efficient secret police apparatus, faces a full-scale revolution by his brutalized subjects, who are -- finally! -- enraged-beyond-endurance and just can?t take it anymore. A million people in the streets of Cairo are telling us this story, and one would think the wise thing to do would be to take their word for it. But that?s hardly sufficient for some US commentators, who have their own agendas -- and their own narratives to sell...
http://tinyurl.com/45hkpej
Why not freedom of all persons everywhere now?
LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff
02/02/11
Why don?t Egyptians seize the moment and create freedom for themselves -- their Persons -- now? By freedom for Persons, I don?t mean democracy or a so-called free society or a society under some government, be it democratic or democratic-socialist or theocratic or autocratic or whatever. I don?t mean elections, coalitions, parties, votes, leaders, taxes, and so on. I mean freedom of each and every person. And I do not mean to single out Egyptians. I raise the same question for Americans...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff341.html
Stop trying to balance liberty with security
Spiked
by Tim Black
02/01/11
Exaggerated fear of terrorism should not be allowed to water down our most fundamental freedoms...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10126/
American hypocrisy in the Middle East
CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts
02/01/11
The hypocrisy of the US government is yet again demonstrated in full bore force. The US government invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, laid waste to much of the countries including entire villages and towns, and massacred untold numbers of civilians in order 'to bring democracy' to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now after days of Egyptians in the streets demanding 'Mubarak must go,' the US government remains aligned with its puppet Egyptian ruler, even suggesting that Mubarak, after running a police state for three decades, is the appropriate person to implement democracy in Egypt...
http://counterpunch.org/roberts02012011.html
The revolutionary moment
The Nation
by Jonathan Schell
02/01/11
If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt. Not of course, the Egypt of President Hosni Mubarak -- of the rigged elections, the censored press, the axed Internet, the black-clad security police and the tanks and the torture chambers -- but the Egypt of the intrepid ordinary citizens who, almost entirely unarmed, with little more than their physical presence in the streets and their prayers, are defying this whole apparatus of intimidation and violence in the name of justice and freedom...
http://www.thenation.com/article/158193/revolutionary-moment
Egypt, revolution, and future of USA
Freedom's Phoenix Freedom's Phoenix
by Spartacus Americanus
01/30/11
2011 Will be the first 'summer of hell' in a growing series. The economic harpies of the U.S. and much of the world economy have not been slain. To the contrary the political leaders have only fed them, expanded their numbers, and pretend they don't exist. The U.S. is not immune to the same events transpiring overseas. In the end it will suffer economic consequences as it has never experienced before -- worse than the 1970s stagflation or the great depression...
http://tinyurl.com/5terlzm
Revolution in Egypt and hypocrisy in the US
Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
01/31/11
For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling ? and failing ? to cope with popular uprisings, so too the United States and other Western countries are rudderless when faced with an undefined enemy ? and make no mistake about it, the people of foreign countries are the enemy when their revolts against dictatorship threaten Western interests...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101p.asp
What to do with Egypt
The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson
02/01/11
Does the U.S. have an interest in taking sides between a brutal but secular and pro-U.S. dictatorship, and a potential Islamic democracy? Choosing the first may be short-sighted; choosing the second, based on an idealistic faith in Democracy, could be equally bad. The only option is to pull out of Egypt altogether...
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3574
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Tunisia, Egypt, the Fed: Overthrowing the Despots
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/02/02/185-tunisia-egypt-the-fed-overthrowing-the-despots/
When the Insiders Lose Control
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north940.html
10 Things We Can Learn From Egypt About Preparing for Economic and Societal Collapse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo27.1.html
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The Triviality of US Mideast Policy
By Robert Grenier
The failure of the US to uphold its stated commitment to democratic values goes beyond a simple surface hypocrisy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27393.htm
Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?
By Lawrence Davidson
For a very long time now the U.S. has put its money on the dictators. Washington has bought both them and their armies so as to have the leverage to economically exploit their countries and dictate their foreign policies. We officially call this arrangement "stability."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27395.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Afghanistan/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inequality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fundamental+freedom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=liberty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Laura+Flanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Asef+Bayat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rozeff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schell
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Leroy+Wilson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/slavo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Grenier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lawrence+Davidson
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Tunisia's Spark and Egypt's Flame: The Middle East Is Rising
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01-4
Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2
Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01
--------
A New Arab Street in Post-Islamist Times
Asef Bayat, Foreign Policy: "The popular uprising in Tunisia has surprised many - Western observers, the Arab elites, and even those who have generated this remarkable episode. The surprise seems justified. How could one imagine that a campaign of ordinary Tunisians in just over one month would topple a dictator who presided over a police state for 23 years? This is a region where the life expectancy of 'presidencies' match only the 'eternal' rule of its sheiks, kings, and Ayatollahs who bank on oil and political rent (western protection) to hang on to their power and subjugate their people."
http://www.truth-out.org/a-new-arab-street-post-islamist-times67356
--------
Egypt: Battle of the narratives
Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
02/02/11
The Egyptian events seem, on the face of it, fairly straightforward: a tyrant in office for 30 years, propped up by fulsome US support and a very efficient secret police apparatus, faces a full-scale revolution by his brutalized subjects, who are -- finally! -- enraged-beyond-endurance and just can?t take it anymore. A million people in the streets of Cairo are telling us this story, and one would think the wise thing to do would be to take their word for it. But that?s hardly sufficient for some US commentators, who have their own agendas -- and their own narratives to sell...
http://tinyurl.com/45hkpej
Why not freedom of all persons everywhere now?
LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff
02/02/11
Why don?t Egyptians seize the moment and create freedom for themselves -- their Persons -- now? By freedom for Persons, I don?t mean democracy or a so-called free society or a society under some government, be it democratic or democratic-socialist or theocratic or autocratic or whatever. I don?t mean elections, coalitions, parties, votes, leaders, taxes, and so on. I mean freedom of each and every person. And I do not mean to single out Egyptians. I raise the same question for Americans...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff341.html
Stop trying to balance liberty with security
Spiked
by Tim Black
02/01/11
Exaggerated fear of terrorism should not be allowed to water down our most fundamental freedoms...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10126/
American hypocrisy in the Middle East
CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts
02/01/11
The hypocrisy of the US government is yet again demonstrated in full bore force. The US government invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, laid waste to much of the countries including entire villages and towns, and massacred untold numbers of civilians in order 'to bring democracy' to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now after days of Egyptians in the streets demanding 'Mubarak must go,' the US government remains aligned with its puppet Egyptian ruler, even suggesting that Mubarak, after running a police state for three decades, is the appropriate person to implement democracy in Egypt...
http://counterpunch.org/roberts02012011.html
The revolutionary moment
The Nation
by Jonathan Schell
02/01/11
If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt. Not of course, the Egypt of President Hosni Mubarak -- of the rigged elections, the censored press, the axed Internet, the black-clad security police and the tanks and the torture chambers -- but the Egypt of the intrepid ordinary citizens who, almost entirely unarmed, with little more than their physical presence in the streets and their prayers, are defying this whole apparatus of intimidation and violence in the name of justice and freedom...
http://www.thenation.com/article/158193/revolutionary-moment
Egypt, revolution, and future of USA
Freedom's Phoenix Freedom's Phoenix
by Spartacus Americanus
01/30/11
2011 Will be the first 'summer of hell' in a growing series. The economic harpies of the U.S. and much of the world economy have not been slain. To the contrary the political leaders have only fed them, expanded their numbers, and pretend they don't exist. The U.S. is not immune to the same events transpiring overseas. In the end it will suffer economic consequences as it has never experienced before -- worse than the 1970s stagflation or the great depression...
http://tinyurl.com/5terlzm
Revolution in Egypt and hypocrisy in the US
Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
01/31/11
For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling ? and failing ? to cope with popular uprisings, so too the United States and other Western countries are rudderless when faced with an undefined enemy ? and make no mistake about it, the people of foreign countries are the enemy when their revolts against dictatorship threaten Western interests...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101p.asp
What to do with Egypt
The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson
02/01/11
Does the U.S. have an interest in taking sides between a brutal but secular and pro-U.S. dictatorship, and a potential Islamic democracy? Choosing the first may be short-sighted; choosing the second, based on an idealistic faith in Democracy, could be equally bad. The only option is to pull out of Egypt altogether...
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3574
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Tunisia, Egypt, the Fed: Overthrowing the Despots
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/02/02/185-tunisia-egypt-the-fed-overthrowing-the-despots/
When the Insiders Lose Control
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north940.html
10 Things We Can Learn From Egypt About Preparing for Economic and Societal Collapse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo27.1.html
--------
The Triviality of US Mideast Policy
By Robert Grenier
The failure of the US to uphold its stated commitment to democratic values goes beyond a simple surface hypocrisy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27393.htm
Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?
By Lawrence Davidson
For a very long time now the U.S. has put its money on the dictators. Washington has bought both them and their armies so as to have the leverage to economically exploit their countries and dictate their foreign policies. We officially call this arrangement "stability."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27395.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Afghanistan/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inequality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fundamental+freedom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=liberty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dictatorship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Laura+Flanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Asef+Bayat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rozeff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schell
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Leroy+Wilson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/slavo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Grenier
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lawrence+Davidson
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Starmail - 2. Feb, 05:57
Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011
COALITION OF ENVIRO, CITIZENS AND POLITICAL GROUPS DEMAND COREXIT USE BE STOPPED
Dr. Tom Termotto's Latest Press Release has been published by Christiane Tourtet B.A. in the American Chronicle, and its 21 Affiliates Magazines:
DR. TOM TERMOTTO: COALITION OF ENVIRO, CITIZENS AND POLITICAL GROUPS DEMAND COREXIT USE BE STOPPED
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/215855
You may circulate this message internationally.
Christiane Tourtet B.A.
Founder/President
International MCS/EMS Awareness
http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Corexit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Termotto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christiane+Tourtet
-----
DR. TOM TERMOTTO: COALITION OF ENVIRO, CITIZENS AND POLITICAL GROUPS DEMAND COREXIT USE BE STOPPED
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/215855
You may circulate this message internationally.
Christiane Tourtet B.A.
Founder/President
International MCS/EMS Awareness
http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Corexit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Termotto
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christiane+Tourtet
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Starmail - 1. Feb, 22:08
Nearly 11 Percent of US Houses Empty
Homeownership is falling at an alarming pace, despite the fact that home prices have fallen, affordability is much improved and inventories of new and existing homes are still running quite high.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41355854
Low-wage jobs dominated hiring so far in job market recovery
Growth has been concentrated in mid-wage and lower-wage industries. High-wage sectors -- made up of jobs that pay between $17.43 and $31 an hour -- accounted for nearly half the jobs lost during the recession, but have produced only 5% of the new jobs since hiring resumed.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lowwage-jobs-dominated-hiring-cnnm-311581420.html?x=0
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeowner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=job+market
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/41355854
Low-wage jobs dominated hiring so far in job market recovery
Growth has been concentrated in mid-wage and lower-wage industries. High-wage sectors -- made up of jobs that pay between $17.43 and $31 an hour -- accounted for nearly half the jobs lost during the recession, but have produced only 5% of the new jobs since hiring resumed.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lowwage-jobs-dominated-hiring-cnnm-311581420.html?x=0
From Information Clearing House
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeowner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=job+market
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Starmail - 1. Feb, 08:50
