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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/01

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Geoengineering, like banking, can affect the whole world, and again like banking, has no international regulation, which is urgently needed

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Skyhook_to_save_the_climate.php

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Starmail - 1. Dez, 22:37

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The Demonstration to Close the School of the Americas

John Grant, This Can't Be Happening!: "It was the fifteenth time I'd trekked to Columbus, Georgia, to the gate of Fort Benning, for the annual November demonstration to close the School of the Americas. Since 1989, following the murder of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by graduates of the SOA, the effort to close it down has been led by Mary Knoll priest Father Roy Bourgeois, a Vietnam veteran and a priest who served in Bolivia during a very violent period hostile to priests sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The school is used to train foreign soldiers."

http://www.truth-out.org/presente-the-demonstration-close-school-americas65525

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Starmail - 1. Dez, 09:10

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Factory Farm Nation: Map Charts Unprecedented Growth in Factory Farming

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/11/30-2

Factory Farms Are Concentration Camps for Animals
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/24-5

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How to Stop the Next Pandemic: End Factory Farming

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: Factory farms are the perfect storm environments for the emergence and spread of super-strains of influenza, such as the deadly and contagious form of bird flu, H5N1.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13961-how-to-stop-the-next-pandemic-end-factory-farming

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Starmail - 1. Dez, 06:17

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Montag, 29. November 2010

FDIC's Bair fears federal debt will be 'next crisis'

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairwoman Sheila Bair would seem to have enough to worry about, with 149 bank failures so far this year and 860 more banks on the agency's "problem" list.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/11/sheila-bair-fdic-federal-debt-oped-banks.html

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 29. Nov, 05:32

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Donnerstag, 25. November 2010

WikiLeaks Release to Feature Corruption Among World Leaders, Governments

By Daniel Tencer

The imminent document dump will include reports from US diplomats on corruption within foreign governments and among world leaders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26913.htm

Wikiarguments
A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics

By Carmen Yarrusso

A government for sale to the highest bidder forces both moneyed special interests and members of Congress to not only participate in an obvious con game, but to compete among themselves (thus raising the stakes and ruthlessness) in this massive influence-peddling scam that robs the American people of billions each year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26908.htm

U.S. warns Ottawa about fallout from pending WikiLeaks release

U.S. officials say the documents may contain accounts of compromising conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians as well as activities that could result in the expulsion of U.S. diplomats from foreign postings.

http://bit.ly/g8bzEM

WikiLeaks to release 3m secret US documents

The WikiLeaks website has announced plans to publish nearly 3 million more secret United States documents in its next mass release of confidential material.

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC101124-0000040/WikiLeaks-to-release-3m-secret-US-documents

WikiLeaks may show US has helped terrorist group

Several of the documents set to be published by WikiLeaks this weekend are believed to show the US has been helping Turkey's Kurdish separatist movement the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party. - The documents also say US forces in Iraq have given weapons to the PKK.

http://bit.ly/gYgtEJ

From Information Clearing House

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US government braces for more Wikileaks

The Age [Ausralia]

11/26/10

Australia has been briefed by the US about the imminent release by WikiLeaks of a massive tranche of secret diplomatic cables, which sources say contain allegations of corruption and embarrassing behaviour by politicians around the world. ? Yesterday Reuters reported the views of several State Department sources, who said the corruption allegations in the cables were major enough to ?cause serious embarrassment for foreign governments and politicians named in them.? At the same time, a State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, confirmed the imminent release and said the US had been contacting foreign governments about the issue...

http://tinyurl.com/29z8pw5

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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WikiLeaks: Panic Growing In Diplomatic Circles
https://groups.google.com/group/freepage-news/t/2e3b988689eb87aa?hl=en

The Feign Before The WikiLeaks Storm
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/94c29f7ae74ca601?hl=de

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Tensions Rise as WikiLeaks Release Nears
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/26-0

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Mittwoch, 24. November 2010

Pentagon, Military Actively War Gaming 'Large Scale Economic Breakdown' and 'Civil Unrest'

http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo23.1.html

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'Large Scale Economic Breakdown' and 'Civil Unrest'

CNBC Video

The Army, through training exercises dubbed "Unified Quest 2011," is actively pursuing strategies to deal with a variety of scenarios including large scale economic breakdown, domestic order amid civil unrest.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27212.htm

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Starmail - 24. Nov, 06:21

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Samstag, 20. November 2010

The Attack on Human Dignity

http://www.lewrockwell.com/mccarthy/mccarthy12.1.html

Airport Body Scanners Are 'Just as Likely to Kill You as Terrorist Bombs'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/scanners-can-kill-you.html

Selling Out Americans' Privacy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/selling-out-privacy.html

Senator Rockefeller to TSA Chief John Pistole: ?I Think You?re Doing a Terrific Job?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/senator-praises-tsa.html

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A Bizarre Tale of Graft and Sleazy Political Opportunism

By Michael Collins

Chertoff was caught red handed shilling for full body scanners on behalf of a company that was a client of Chertoff's consulting company.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26871.htm

The First Victory Against The Police State May Come Against The TSA

By Saman Mohammadi

This opportunity must be seized because another one may not come for a long time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26878.htm

Welcome to America: Airport staff 'exposed woman's breasts, laughed'

A WOMAN is suing over an incident where airport staff allegedly pulled down her top and joked about her breasts in public view.

http://bit.ly/aToDBM

Airports consider congressman s call to ditch TSA

In a climate of Internet campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and veteran pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, some airports are considering another way to show dissatisfaction: Ditching TSA agents altogether.

http://bit.ly/dgJbRL

TSA is Delivering Naked Insecurity

By Ralph Nader

To the Department of Homeland Security: If you thought this week was bad, brace yourself for a tsunami of protests in the days ahead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26886.htm

$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs

Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest.

http://bit.ly/d6smMp

Palm Beach Prepared To Detain TSA Security Defiers:

Palm Beach International Airport travelers who refuse to submit to a full-body scanner or a pat down, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday.

http://www.wpbf.com/r/25855931/detail.html

Chertoff: Rendition was 'more efficacious' for CIA

Chertoff talks to Tim Franks about the extraordinary rendition of terror suspects and US co-operation with regimes that may have used torture.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9589899.stm

From Information Clearing House

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Lawmakers jump late into airport-scanner uproar

Seattle Times

Those scanners, which produce revealing body images and emit X-ray-like ionizing radiation, are among the more controversial of two systems in place. ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travelwise/2013474414_trpucci19.html

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Exposed: Michael Chertoff's junk
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/983.html

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US tries to quell uproar over invasive pat-downs, scanners

Agence France-Presse

11/21/10

The Obama administration tried Sunday to quell an uproar over pat-downs at US airports, with air travelers in revolt against the new security measures described by some as invasive and humiliating. ? A loose network of groups are calling for a boycott of the full body scanners on November 24, the day before Thanksgiving ? a protest that threatens to gum up the works at airports across the nation on one of the biggest travel days of the year...

http://tinyurl.com/2a5589m

Humanizing air travel

LiberaLaw
by Gary Chartier

It would be truly exciting if ordinary people managed to persuade the USG to retreat by ending the pat-downs and pornoscanners. But it would be very unfortunate if, should they win this battle, passengers abandoned the quest for more decent traveling conditions. Yes, the TSA has gone too far; but it?s never not gone too far...

http://liberalaw.blogspot.com/2010/11/humanizing-air-travel.html

Groping toward Gomorrah

Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut

11/21/10

The Transportation Security Administration knows with 100 percent certainty that John Tyner, the 31-year-old Oceanside man who refused to submit to one of those embarrassing body scans or be searched by TSA groin-grabbers during his recent attempt to fly from San Diego to South Dakota, poses no security threat to the United States or anywhere else. He is not a terrorist, just a citizen frustrated by the growing intrusiveness of TSA screening procedures. Nevertheless, after Tyner refused to complete his screening process, a TSA official told him that the agency is likely to sue him. If it did, Tyner could face $11,000 in fines and a possible ban from air travel ? not because he did anything wrong, but because he refused to submit to the authorities, which used to be a proud tradition in our society...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/government-276918-security-tsa.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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TSA Chief Admits He Withheld Information on Pat-Downs

Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said on Monday that he disregarded internal advice to the contrary and decided not to tell the public in advance about aggressive new screening and pat-down procedures for airline passengers, fearing terrorists could try to exploit the information."

http://www.truth-out.org/tsa-chief-admits-he-withheld-information-patdowns65346

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Starmail - 20. Nov, 08:02

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Freitag, 19. November 2010

The TSA is bringing the war home

Why the TSA gets to grope us

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/19/10

The Transportation Safety Administration is bringing the war home ? and the American people don t like it one bit. Stories of TSA outrages are everywhere, from the 'Don t touch my junk' guy to that photo of a nun in full robes being searched by a TSA thuglet. Talk radio is up in arms, Judge Napolitano is having a conniption, and both liberals and conservatives seem to be uniting around a general consensus that this level of intrusiveness cannot be allowed to stand. Yet what is to be done?

http://tinyurl.com/354hvo9

An invasion of privates

Chicago Tribune
by Steve Chapman

11/18/10

When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself. The federal government responds with new rules that erode privacy, treat innocent people as suspicious and blur the distinction between life in a free society and life in a correctional facility. And we all tamely accept the new intrusions, like sheep being shorn. Maybe not this time. The war on terrorism is going to get personal. Very personal...

http://tinyurl.com/24lmoz2

Why we are angry at the TSA

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

11/18/10

The Transportation Security Agency s new airport passenger-screening procedures, which force airline passengers to submit to a full-body scan or an invasive frisk, is turning Dick Cheney s biggest fans into latter-day Ben Franklins. 'Hatred of the TSA makes for strange bedfellows, with some conservatives now sounding like card-carrying members of the American Civil Liberties Union.' The amount of freedom Americans have handed over to their government in the years since the 9/11 attacks is difficult to convey...

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Full frontal nudity doesn t make us safer

Campaign For Liberty
by Art Carden

11/18/10

The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President s health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I am talking about the Transportation Security Administration...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1205

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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