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Die Ablehnung der Dollarschwemme wird immer größer, die Weltbank denkt über eine neue Leitwährung nach.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33645/1.html



Die Folgen der US-Geldpolitik

Deutschland und China ärgern sich zu Recht über die Währungspolitik des Dollar-Hegemons. Denn absehbar ist eine weitere Umverteilung von unten nach oben und in Richtung der USA.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33642/1.html



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http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/The-Insane-Prelude-to-the-by-Siv-O-Neall-101102-399.html



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http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=KR6y3k2j-iTNDEdZeYi2TA..

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The Dirty Business of Coal: How Our Addiction to an 18th Century Energy Source Is Killing Us

Joshua Frank, AlterNet: "Coal powers America. But at what cost to the environment and human health? That's the question documentarian Peter Bull and the Center for Investigative Reporting attempt to tackle in the new documentary, Dirty Business: 'Clean Coal' and the Battle for Our Energy Future. Coal has produced power in our country for over 100 years. It pulled us through the Industrial Revolution and has pumped electricity into the hearts of our cities, keeping us warm through winter and up and running throughout the day. It's also caused insurmountable death and destruction along the way, contributing more than its fair share to climate change, water pollution and worker fatalities."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-dirty-business-coal-how-our-addiction-18th-century-energy-source-is-killing-us64899

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Tell the EPA to Stand Firm in Restricting Mountaintop Removal
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5215

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Wendell Berry on the Kentucky Statehouse Sit-in to Stop Mountaintop Mining
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/15-0



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Sarah Lazare, Truthout: "During his mid-September leave from his second combat tour with the 101st Airborne Division, Jeff sought help from Fort Bragg and Fort Campbell military doctors for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and physical wounds sustained in battle. Yet, just as his treatment was getting started, his command interfered, insisting that his military health care providers grant him clearance for immediate deployment. His providers acquiesced, even though they had not completed preliminary testing."

http://www.truth-out.org/awol-soldier-refusing-deployment-because-severe-ptsd64831

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Afghanistan & Iraq Veteran Jeff Hanks Denied Mental Healthcare, Ordered to Redeploy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/11/10-5



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On Sunday, a military jury at Guantanamo handed down a 40-year sentence to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan.... Because the sentence negotiated as part of the plea deal is less than the one delivered by the military jury, the latter will stand only as a symbolic conviction, but it will be seized upon by those who have long wished to have Khadr convicted as a dangerous terrorist. In addition, the 40-year sentence confirms that, since last Monday, when Khadr accepted his plea deal at Guantanamo, two worlds - and two wildly divergent views of American justice - have coexisted unhappily."

http://www.truth-out.org/omar-khadr-jury-hammers-final-nail-into-coffin-american-justice64718

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No end to the shameful treatment of Omar Khadr

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

11/01/11

This week, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner, was supposed to leave Guantánamo after nine years and three months in U.S. custody. No one thought that he would return to Canada as a free man because he has another seven years to serve in a Canadian jail as part of a plea deal he made at Guantánamo a year ago; but it was reasonable to expect that he would be transferred to Canadian custody this week, as the plea deal was for an eight-year sentence -- with one year to be served in Guantanamo, followed by seven in Canada...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1111a.asp



Canada s shameful treatment of Omar Khadr

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

04/27/12

Last week, the Canadian government received a formal request for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Julie Carmichael, an aide to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, told the Globe and Mail, 'The government of Canada has just received a completed application for the transfer of prisoner Omar Ahmed Khadr. A decision will be made on this file in accordance with Canadian law'...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1204s.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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I Will Never Forget Omar Khadr

By Nulwee

The U.S. can choose to forget that it captured and tortured a boy for years, physically and psychologically.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32590.htm



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Für die Abhängigkeit der USA von Kohlestrom zahlt die Öffentlichkeit jährlich rund 345 Milliarden US-Dollar an versteckten Kosten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811454ms250



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Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, Truthout: "On Saturday, October 23, Truthout spotted what appeared to be massive areas of weathered oil floating near Louisiana's fragile marshlands in both East and West Bays along the Mississippi River Delta. In addition, at least two more oil leaks were spotted near oil and gas platforms along Louisiana's embattled coastline. Four days prior, federal on-scene cleanup coordinator for the BP oil disaster, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, declared there was little recoverable surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.truth-out.org/fishermen-report-louisiana-bays-filled-with-oil64564



Drill, Brazil, Drill

Erik German, GlobalPost: "This week Brazil is poised to start selling off its 'gift from God.' After billions of barrels of undersea oil were discovered off Brazil's coast in 2007, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva credited divine providence. 'God is Brazilian,' he said in a speech following the discovery, later calling the oil not only a divine gift, but his country's 'passport to the future.' That future arrives in part on Thursday. That's when Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, is set to announce the start of its commercial production of a small section of the Tupi field, one of several billion-barrel oil fields the company says are located offshore.... As the crude begins to flow, some industry experts say Brazil has understated the risks involved - made apparent by the deep-sea drilling that caused this year's disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.truth-out.org/drill-brazil-drill64581



Marine Toxicologist Riki Ott on the BP Oil Spill and Its Long-Term Effects

Rose Aguilar spoke with Riki Ott on the sixth-month anniversary of the BP oil disaster - one of the largest environmental disasters in US history. In 1989, Ott, a marine toxicologist who lives in Cordova, Alaska, experienced firsthand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster. She's spent five of the past six months traveling back and forth between Louisiana and Florida to gather information about what's really happening in the Gulf and share the lessons she learned about long-term illnesses and deaths of clean-up workers and residents. She's planning to return in January.

http://www.truth-out.org/riki-ott-environment-we-are-running-out-time64590

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Exxon Aims to Bail on Payments for Valdez Damage

In its filing to the US District Court in Alaska on September 30, the company argues that the agreement it reached with the government only covers 'restoration' work-not additional 'clean-up.'

http://bit.ly/plnADu


From Information Clearing House



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By Eric W. Dolan

A Tea Party-backed candidate who allegedly murdered two unarmed Iraqis could win a seat in the House of Representatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26689.htm

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What will Tea Party members do when the pols betray them?

Our Future Blog
by Dave Johnson

10/26/10

Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates ? many of them wealthy corporatists themselves ? are funded by big corporations (even foreign oil companies) and Wall Street. So the question is, once in Congress will they vote with their base or their owners? And when they vote with the people who bought them, what will Tea Party members do about it?

http://tinyurl.com/2639ele



Three things progressives and Tea Partiers can agree on

Fox News Forum
by Sally Kohn

10/26/10

Some Tea Party activists are complaining that their grassroots movement has been co-opted by the corporate mainstream Republican Party. Progressives are complaining that their hope-and-change president has been co-opted by pro-corporate, Democratic centrism. Books could be written about the myriad ideological divides between the Tea Party and Progressives, but I?m struck at this moment by our similarities. Perhaps it?s time for these populist insurgencies to unite in the short-term to topple the political status quo that hampers each of our long-term agendas...

http://tinyurl.com/36puw6v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Linn Washington Jr., This Can't Be Happening: "Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), head of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, constantly dismisses charges about racism roiling within the ranks of the Tea Party, despite her fingerprints frequently appearing on racism-tinged stink bombs."

http://www.truth-out.org/new-report-racism-still-pollutes-tea-party-ranks64509

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Is the Religious Right Taking Over the Tea Party?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/is-religious-right-taking-over-tea-parties.html

The War Prayer
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/twain1.html

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Tea Party Climate Change Deniers Funded by BP and Other Major Polluters
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/25

Tea Party, Big Money, Twisted Maps
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/10/23

The Tea Party Movement: Deluded and Inspired by Billionaires
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/25-10

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The people who own the country ought to govern it

Our Future Blog
by Digby

10/25/10

That?s founder and first supreme court justice John Jay. Obviously, Big Money has always been the most powerful influence in American politics (maybe all politics.) But until they adopted the Randian notion that they are so valuable to society that everyone must bow down and worship them like gods, they had the good taste to at least publicly pretend they cared about the country as a whole. That?s done now. Today they are just blatantly demanding that the 98% of Americans who don?t have the cash to buy in, shut up and do as they?re told. They seem very, very confident that it?s going to work out for them...

http://tinyurl.com/2cpgzdf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Atlantic
by David Freedman

10/21/10

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors ? to a striking extent ? still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science...

http://tinyurl.com/35fe5kb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Conflict of Interest in Drug Studies Sneaking Back

A McGill study analyzing 29 'studies of studies' (meta-analyses) found that important declarations of financial conflicts-of-interest in individual drug trials disappeared when those studies were combined in meta-analyses. Dr. John Ioannidis, a foremost expert on clinical trial methodology has identified various factors that, in one way or another, confound the integrity of medical research reports. He found that 'as much as 90% of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.' We believe that the single most potent factor undermining the veracity of medical research and meta-analyses is imbedded financial conflicts of interest.

Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6008#newspost



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