World-News

By James Politi

As it stands today, the U.S. borrows about 40 cents of every dollar it spends.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27262.htm



What Does Wikileaks Have on Bank of America?

By Mary Bottari

In 2008, BofA acquired Countrywide, one of the most aggressive and fraudulent lenders during the housing bubble. The result has been a train wreck of liability and lawsuits for the megabank that now has over 1.3 million customers in foreclosure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27259.htm



Austerity Policies Worsen Racial Economic Inequalities Hits Black and Latino People Hardest

By United for a Fair Economy

The official unemployment rate is 15.8 percent among Blacks and 13 percent among Latinos; Blacks earn only 57 cents for each dollar of White family income, Latinos earn 59 cents; and Blacks have only 10 cents of net wealth while Latinos have 12 cents to every dollar of net wealth that Whites have.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27258.htm



JPMorgan Chase profit soars 47%

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second-largest bank in Arizona by deposits, beat Wall Street estimates Friday with a 47 percent increase in fourth quarter profit to $4.83 billion, or $1.12 a share.

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2011/01/14/jpmorgan-chase-profit-soars-47.html



S&P, Moody's Warn On U.S. Credit Rating

With attention focused on sovereign-debt worries in Europe, two major credit-rating firms reminded investors again that the U.S. has debt problems of its own.

http://on.wsj.com/haSFnp



Foreclosure Filings in U.S. May Jump 20% From Record 2010 as Crisis Peaks

The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said.

http://bit.ly/ehCjge



Jobless claims hit a 10-week high

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly to 445,000 from 410,000 in the prior week, a Labor Department report showed. It was the biggest one-week jump in about six months and confounded analyst forecasts for a small drop to 405,000.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70A41H20110113


From Information Clearing House

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The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers, for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, the Fed came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, but the Fed has now delivered its ultimatum: there will be no 'quantitative easing' for municipal governments."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-fed-has-spoken-no-bailout-main-street66820



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bubble
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=housing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=credit+rating
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=credit+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Main+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bank+of+America
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=JPMorgan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jobless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wikileaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mary+Bottari
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
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By David Edwards and Stephen Webster

"I'd love to be proven wrong, but I suspect this is how reining in the growth of the surveillance state becomes an item perpetually on next year's agenda."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27256.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Edwards
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Webster
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e12.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pre-crime
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/peters-e
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/guard-dogs-of-power.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=journalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Charles+Glass
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/roberts-m3.1.1.html

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TSA makes 'nominal' payment to settle suit over exposing 24-year-old's breasts

"For an extended period of time" other agents made jokes about the incident. "One male TSA employee expressed to the plaintiff that he wished he would have been there when she came through the first time and that 'he would just have to watch the video.'"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/tsa-pays-woman-breast-exposure-suit/


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Transportation+Security+Administration
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=body+scanner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=roberts-m
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part 2

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

01/12/11

State capitalism prevails by allowing the privileged to unilaterally dictate the terms on which people who actually work have access to important resources, that is, through allowing some elite to make it impossible for you to subsist except on their conditions...

http://c4ss.org/content/5789


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+capitalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato
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Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/13/11

Most Americans seem detached from the U.S. government?s military actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere. U.S. forces not only engage in wanton killing and harsh treatment of prisoners, but also surveillance and other intelligence activities that might appall the American people if they were used at home...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101h.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence+activities
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+actions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

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The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

01/13/11

It's easy to forget just how bipartisan an issue closing Gitmo once was. Sure, Obama supported closure, but so did Sen. John McCain and America's most recognizable military leader, Gen. David Petraeus. In 2006, President George W. Bush, reeling from his mishandling of two wars and public and international outcry over his national-security policies, said he thought the prison should be closed. He went as far as to say that some of the 'cold-blooded killers' held there needed to be 'tried in U.S. courts'...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=endless_guantanamo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=McCain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Petraeus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gitmo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Serwer
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Jordan Flaherty, Truthout: "One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need. In fact, the nation's tragedy has served as an opportunity to further enrich corporate interests. The details of a recent lawsuit, as reported by Business Week, highlights the ways in which contractors - including some of the same players who profited from Hurricane Katrina-related reconstruction - have continued to use their political connections to gain profits from others' suffering, receiving contacts worth tens of millions of dollars while the Haitian people receive pennies, at best."

http://www.truth-out.org/one-year-after-haiti-earthquake-corporations-profit-while-people-suffer66822



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Haiti
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=contractor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporation+profit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jordan+Flaherty
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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10134/

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Wikileaks: Making things harder for Hillary

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

01/12/11

When governments can?t trust each other to keep dirty secrets, they are likely to adjust their behavior. If they hesitate to conspire, then they will be less able to work together to impose the wills of political elites. If they restrict their own lines of communication, then they will be less effective at doing dirty deeds. If they restructure for efficiency, which will be extremely difficult for institutions laden with entrenched bureaucracy and cultures of privilege and rank, then they will probably be less of a burden on citizens and less profitable for political cronies...

http://c4ss.org/content/5793


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hillary
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Assange
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Darian+Worden

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