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Falls in the value of financial assets worldwide might have reached more than $50,000bn, equivalent to a year's global economic output, the Asian Development Bank will warn on Monday.

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f9a2bd8-0c0e-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html



What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

https://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html


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Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, said that continuing the fight against insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul might lead to U.S. troops remaining in the city past a June 30, 2009 deadline for all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraqi cities.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7037897&page=1


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America must work on starting a new economy and not restarting the old one or it will resemble the former Soviet Union, says author and blogger Dmitry Orlov.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22178.htm



Social Collapse Best Practices

Video and Transcript

The mid-1990s all sorts of silly things were happening. Professor Fukuyama told us that history had ended, and so we were building a brave new world where the Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians provided customer support when these Chinese-made things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22183.htm



Debt Relief and Regulation

By Mike Whitney

Confidence is not built on inspiring oratory or personal charisma, but concrete actions to reestablish a rules-based system that penalizes crooks and fraudsters. Recovery isn't possible without a strong commitment to these basic changes.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22174.htm



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By Eric S. Margolis

While the United States was fighting for its economic life, Obama administration officials and the media issued a blizzard of contradictory claims over Iran's alleged nuclear threat, leaving one wondering who is really charge of US foreign policy?

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22176.htm



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Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post: "The world is falling into the first global recession since World War II as the crisis that started in the United States engulfs once-booming developing nations, confronting them with massive financial shortfalls that could turn back the clock on poverty reduction by years, the World Bank warned yesterday."

https://www.truthout.org/030909A



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- LYON (Francheville) 27 mars 2009.
- Conférence-Débat CEM et Antennes Relais : "Comment concilier Progrès et Santé"
- Participation de : CENDRIER Étienne, Me Bielle Siegfried, Me FORGET Richard,
Pr LEDOIGT Gérard, Dr Le RUZ Pierre, Pr OBERHAUSEN Daniel, PERRIN-GILBERT Nathalie, RIVASI Michèle, ROY Mireille, SARGENTINI Serge, Dr SOUVET Pierre.

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7:00pm Monday 9th March 2009

By Lynne Milford

CALLS have been made for a councillor to resign after a phone mast “debacle”.

Dennis Willetts (Con, West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green) said portfolio holder for planning Lyn Barton should resign after the council missed a deadline to reject plans for a mobile phone mast in Lexden Road, Colchester.

Residents and parents at nearby schools campaigned against the O2 mast, which the phone giant planned to put up at the junction of Lexden Road and Norman Way.

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Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/09-0

Safety Advocates Ask Court to Overturn Bush 'Midnight Regulation'
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/09-8

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John Yoo is sorry for nothing

Salon
by Gary Kamiya

03/10/09

Yoo has thrown down a challenge, a legal version of Bush’s ‘bring it on.’ If you chattering antiwar lefties read my memos, he is saying, you will be forced to recant your criticisms. This is a peculiar challenge, considering that Yoo’s memos have been completely discredited. Even the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel eventually repudiated all of Yoo’s opinions (a fact that he somehow omitted in his Journal piece), and the legal community has overwhelmingly rejected his arguments. But to be fair to Yoo, I decided to read not just the newly released memos, but his 2003 torture memo. What I discovered is that Yoo is an even more contemptible hack than I had ever imagined. As a government lawyer, Yoo was the equivalent of one of those doctors who did ‘research’ for Hitler...

https://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/03/10/john_yoo/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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John Yoo: UC Berkeley Is a "Magnet for Hippies, Protesters and Left-Wing Activists"

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "John Yoo doesn't have any regrets about the controversial legal opinions he wrote for the White House - many of which were later withdrawn and repudiated - that gave former President George W. Bush unfettered and unchecked power in the aftermath of 9/11. In a little known interview with the Orange County Register, published March 3, Yoo said he doesn't 'think he would have made the basic decisions differently.'"

https://www.truthout.org/031209A



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Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "The message is simple. Ever more Americans need food they can't afford. As tough economic times take their toll, increasing numbers of Americans are on tightened budgets and, in some cases, facing outright hunger. As a result, they may be learning a lot more about food banks and soup kitchens than most of them ever wanted to know. In recent interviews with TomDispatch.com, representatives from food banks - the non-profit organizations that distribute groceries to those in need via food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens - expressed alarm at the recent surge in need all across the country."

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Viva Presse - Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

Michèle Rivasi ne partage non plus pas du tout le point de vue de l’Académie de médecine sur le rapport BioInitiative, publié par l’Agence européenne de ...

https://www.viva.presse.fr/Antennes-relais-Michele-Rivasi_11648.html

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Téléphonie mobile, Michèle Rivasi n'est pas convaincue

LYonenFrance.com - Lyon,France "Monsieur Fillon n’a certainement pas pris connaissance du rapport «Bioinitiative» publié par l’Agence Européenne de l’Environnement qui a montré que les ...

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Vandals have attacked a controversial mobile phone mast in Telford as work was being carried out to get it up and running. It is the second time the mast at Malinslee playing fields has been targeted.

An engineer who arrived at the site to carry out some work discovered wires in the pole had been damaged.

Read More...
https://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/09/mobile-phone-mast-attacked/

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Nachricht von Deutsche Umwelt- u. Gesundheits-INITIATIVE (DUGI) e.V.

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Das Meer steigt

Klimawissenschaftler diskutieren in Kopenhagen über Risiken des Klimawandels.
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Scientists to Issue Stark Warning Over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/08-2

Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Rises in Sea Level
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/11-2

This is Not Youthful Rebellion. We See the Catastrophe Ahead
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/08-4

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Worst Case Climate Change Scenarios Realized

news.bbc.co.uk — The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the U.N. two years ago are already being realized, say scientists at an international meeting. In a statement in Copenhagen on their six key messages to political leaders, they say there is a increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climate shifts. Even modest temperature rises will affect millions of people, particularly in the developing world, they warn. But, they say, most tools needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions already exist. More than 2,500 researchers and economists attended this meeting designed to update the world on the state of climate research ahead of key political negotiations set for December this year. New data was presented in Copenhagen on sea level rise, which indicated that the best estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made two years ago were woefully out of date.

https://ga3.org/ct/i720pgF1sEps/

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Time to Change "Climate Change"

George Monbiot, The Guardian UK: "What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic."

https://www.truthout.org/031309EA



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Tondai Reinhold, Reuters: "Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now that a partial list of beneficiaries has been published. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that about $50 billion of more than $173 billion that the US government has poured into American International Group Inc since last fall has been paid to at least two dozen US and foreign financial institutions."

https://www.truthout.org/030809F

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A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout
https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/15/after_170b_us_bailout_aig_to_pay_100m_in_bonuses/



Bailouts for liars, illegal aliens, and undeserved bonuses

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

03/15/09

The insurance giant AIG, which is being bailed out by taxpayers at a cost of $170 billion, is using taxpayer money to pay executives who brought the company to the brink of collapse hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses! The Senate voted down an amendment by Jeff Sessions (R-AL) that would have kept federal ’stimulus’ money from being used to hire illegal aliens, resulting in up to 300,000 jobs being filled by illegal aliens that otherwise might have gone to citizens and legal immigrants...

https://tinyurl.com/crogn4


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Jährlich landen in deutschen Briefkästen 660.000 Tonnen Werbeprospekte. Weltweit werden hierfür jedes Jahr 2,7 Millionen Bäume abholzt.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741685491ms144,Gemeinsam+eine+Million+Baeume+retten,35,a12265.html



Werbesendungen ökologisch und ökonomisch fragwürdig

Ca. 1,3 Mio. Tonnen Werbesendungen landen jährlich in den Briefkästen der Bundesbürger. Mehr als die Hälfte wandert ungelesen in den Müll.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741685501ms144,Werbesendungen+oekologisch+und+oekonomisch+fragwuerdig,6,a12307.html



FAO: Unzureichende Strategien gegen Überfischung und Klimawandel

Die UN-Organisation für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (FAO) fordert die Fischindustrien und die Staaten deshalb dringend auf, die 1995 aufgestellten freiwilligen Richtlinien für verantwortliche Fischerei jetzt umzusetzen und noch auszubauen.

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Die aufhaltsame Expansion des Finanzkapitals.
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By William Pfaff

The documents currently being released by the Justice Department that demonstrate the Bush administration's view of the president's constitutional power in a "state of war" tell us things we suspected but didn't want to know.

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By Cori Crider

After the president's swift move to close Guantánamo, I thought Binyam Mohamed would soon be free. I fear we were deceived.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22167.htm

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Ex-Detainee Says UK Supplied Torture Questions to CIA

Stefano Ambrogi, Reuters: "A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner has accused British intelligence of feeding questions to the CIA that he says were put to him while he was tortured in Pakistani and Moroccan jails. The allegations by Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, looked set to fuel demands by human rights groups for a full investigation into whether Britain's support for the US 'war on terror' amounted in his case to complicity with torture."

https://www.truthout.org/030809Z



Detainee's Account Roils UK Leaders

Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post: "Opposition lawmakers on Sunday called for a judicial inquiry into allegations that British intelligence agents participated in the 'extraordinary rendition' and torture of a British resident who was held in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other locations for nearly seven years."

https://www.truthout.org/031009T



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There is a grave risk of a global L-shaped depression.

By Nouriel Roubini

Even with the $2 trillion of government support, most of these financial institutions are insolvent, as delinquency and charge-off rates are now rising at a rate--given the macro outlook--that means expected credit losses for U.S. financial firms will peak at $3.6 trillion. So, in simple words, the U.S. financial system is effectively insolvent.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22168.htm



This Is What A Financial Collapse Looks Like

Argentina's Economic Collapse

Video

Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22169.htm



Regression Is Not Progress

By Frank Scott

We have depended on foreigners buying our public debt in order to finance a murderous foreign policy, while denying housing, health care and education to millions of our people.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22173.htm



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Output suffers biggest slump in 25 years

By Gráinne Gilmore, Economics Correspondent

In a further sign of the struggles that are facing workers in America, the number of people forced into part-time work because their hours were cut or they were unable to find full-time work rose by 787,000 to 8.6 million last month. Yet despite the gloomy figures, analysts drew hope from evidence that the pace of job losses was easing.

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By Ralph Nader

Does anybody in the federal government know or could know "who, what, where and when" of the massive, complex, vertical, horizontal, global collapse of Wall Street and its planetary tentacles in over 100 countries abroad? Step forward if you exist! Uncle Sam needs you!

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article22171.htm



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