World-News

Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package
https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/17/executivesalaries-banking



War in Iraq took her son, Wall St. greed is about to take her home

Jocelyne Voltaire, a native of Haiti and a 20+ year resident of Queens Village just lost her son in Iraq and is in danger of losing her house on Friday, October 17th. This is another tragedy of the failed economic and foreign policies of the Bush Administration- lend your support TODAY to help Jocelyne keep her home.

https://tinyurl.com/6erayr


From Information Clearing House

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They Did It On Purpose: The Housing Bubble and Its Crash were Engineered by the US Government, the Fed and Wall Street

https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10654


Informant: Dorothee Krien



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+C.+Cook

By William Pfaff

The noteworthy thing about this National Defense Strategy statement is that it says nothing directly about American national defense. It is a strategy for intervening in other countries, and preventing others from blocking or resisting American interventions.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21048.htm

Payback's A Bitch

By David Michael Green

The number of sacrificial victims to the fragile ego of one George Walker Bush is astonishing to contemplate. It's staggering to imagine that one individual's personal childhood inadequacies could wreak so much havoc on an entire planet, but indeed they have.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21045.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/19-3



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=soldier+of+conscience

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/19-1



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bookman

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/18-3



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/18-1

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Massive Baghdad Protest

Shiites rally in Baghdad against a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, burning effigies of President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Marchers want Iraq's parliament to reject the agreement, letting troops stay until 2011.

https://tinyurl.com/62p27b



Opposition grows to proposed Iraq security deal

Al-Sadr said anyone who claims the agreement will end "the occupation of our land" or "tells you that it gives Iraqi sovereignty is a liar."

https://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/18/iraq-rally.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=+security+pact
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al-Sadr
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Haynes

https://wirtschaft.t-online.de/c/16/56/45/34/16564534.html

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"Den Spekulanten das Handwerk legen"

Der Schweizer Soziologe Jean Ziegler fordert Strafen für Wetten auf Nahrungsmittel und warnt vor den Wirkungen der Finanzkrise auf die armen Regionen der Welt. Das Interview von Matthias Thieme in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 21.10.2008 https://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/dokumentation/1616315_Den-Spekulanten-das-Handwerk-legen.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Oktober 2008



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Finanzkrise
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rettungspaket
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jean+Ziegler

https://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/24d4a63b41e2d403?hl=en



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/10/veterans-arrested-trampled-at-debate.html
https://indymedia.us/en/2008/10/34162.shtml
https://www.indymedia.org/en/2008/10/914757.shtml


Informant: Petros Evdokas

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Presidential Debate Unseen "Hidden Microphone" Footage

Police Arrest and Abuse Iraq Veterans Against the War.
https://tinyurl.com/6g2pv5


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Against+the+War

Bürgerrechtsaktivisten bereiten sich auch bei den kommenden Wahlen in den USA wieder auf Probleme vor.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28941/1.html

Missmanagement kostet 50 Mrd. Dollar jährlich.
https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684606ms124



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fischfang

Die vom Umweltministerium in Auftrag gegebene "Leitstudie 2008" zur Energieversorgung soll belegen, dass der Neubau von Kohlekraftwerken die Klimaziele gefährdet.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684589ms124



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kohlekraftwerk

Vor acht Jahren haben die reichen Industriestaaten versprochen, die Zahl der damals 830 Millionen Hungernder bis zum Jahr 2015 zu halbieren. Doch die brutale Wirklichkeit sieht ganz anders aus: 2006 hungerten 850 Millionen Menschen und jetzt im Jahr 2008 sind es 923 Millionen.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684583ms124



Welt-Ernährungstag

Kein Milliarden-Paket gegen den Hunger.
https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684596ms124



Weltrettungsfonds: eine Utopie, die alle Probleme lösen könnte

"Albert Einsteins Brief an die 10 Millionen Reichsten auf unserem Heimatplaneten". Klaudius Gansczyk machte sich Gedanken zur aktuellen Situation auf dem Erdball und richtet einen eindringlichen Appell an die Reichsten der Erde.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684585ms124