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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Attorneys and veteran's groups are alarmed by recent reports that two US Army soldiers imprisoned at the Fort Lewis Regional Correctional Facility (RCF) have been subjected to human rights abuses and violations of their constitutional rights."

https://www.truthout.org/1013098



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France: Report EHS Refuge Zone Health Zone Open Zone (free) and Faraday cages
https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Refuge_Zone.php#1

Reportage EHS Zone Refuge Zone Santé Open Zone (free) et cages de Faraday.
https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS_Refuge_Zone.php#2

Die irische Zustimmung zum Lissabon-Vertrag hat den Weg frei gemacht für eine neue EU. Aber kann das Projekt gelingen?

„Nun haben sich die Iren und Irinnen also doch besonnen – und halb Europa atmet auf. Ein entschiedenes Ja sei das gewesen, lobten die Regierungen der anderen EU-Staaten, immerhin hatten am letzten Freitag 67 Prozent der Stimmenden für die Annahme des Lissabon-Vertrags votiert. Mit dem einzigen demokratischen Votum – in allen anderen EU-Staaten wurden Referenden entweder abgesetzt oder gar nicht erst erwogen – ist die Ratifizierung des Vertrags sehr viel wahrscheinlicher geworden. Dem wachsenden Druck dürfte auch der tschechische Staatschef Vaclav Klaus nicht lange standhalten…“ Artikel von Tobias Pflüger in der WoZ vom 8.10.09 https://www.woz.ch/artikel/2009/nr41/international/18463.html


“Hier lesen Sie, was Sie NICHT wissen sollen, zum Beispiel zur Krise des
Finanzmarkts”

Ein argumentativer Flyer des NachDenkSeiten-Gesprächskreises Berlin Mitte-Kreuzberg (pdf) https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/091005_gespraechskreise_berlin_mitte_flyer.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Oktober 2009



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„Die Datenschutzbeauftragten von Bund und Ländern haben zum Abschluss ihrer 78. Konferenz in Berlin am heutigen Freitag die Politik aufgefordert, der "zunehmenden Überwachung" und der "ausufernden Verknüpfung von Daten in Staat und Wirtschaft" entgegenzuwirken. Der neugewählte Bundestag – aber auch die Landesparlamente – müssten eine "Generalrevision des veralteten und unübersichtlichen Datenschutzrechts" vornehmen und dieses "an die Herausforderungen der Informationsgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts anpassen", heißt es in einer Mitteilung des Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragten Alexander Dix. (…) Konkret pochen die Datenschützer in ihrer Entschließung zum "aktuellen Handlungsbedarf" rechtzeitig zur heißen Phase der Koalitionsverhandlungen zwischen Union und FDP darauf, gemäß dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu heimlichen Online-Durchsuchungen "die Integrität und Vertraulichkeit informationstechnischer Systeme zu gewährleisten". Die Möglichkeit für das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) zum Inspizieren von Festplatten sei generell genauso zurückzunehmen wie die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Auch die übrigen in den letzten Jahren verschärften Einschränkungen der Grundrechte durch Sicherheitsgesetze gehörten auf den Prüfstand…“ Meldung bei heise online vom 09.10.2009 https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Dringender-Appell-zur-Generalrevision-des-Datenschutzrechts-820138.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Oktober 2009



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Nolan Chart
by BS Kalafut

10/11/09

Neither the past omissions nor the weaker or more ephemeral awards put the Nobel Committee’s bona fides in categorical doubt. Each recipient won the award for some clear extraordinary substantiative accomplishment, had brought about at least temporary progress toward peace, international cooperation, or the securing of basic human rights. In contrast, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Barack Obama, received the award for insubstantial and profoundly ordinary acts, if he can be said to have won the award for any acts at all...

https://www.nolanchart.com/article6939.html



Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Christine Smith's Blog
by Christine Smith

10/10/09

Listening to numerous discussions on various talk radio shows across the nation about Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, I was struck by the observation that not one caller or host I heard ever mentioned what is to me the single most important (and obvious) objection to it: Obama is a warmonger. He has blood on his hands. The death toll his presidency is responsible for just keeps increasing. Rather than focus on the incongruity of awarding any prize with the term ‘peace’ in it to such a person, those who disagreed with it simply repeated phrases such as ‘It’s too soon,’ or ‘Not yet.’ Such comments imply there would be a time when it would be appropriate to consider giving Obama the prize, it’s just that ‘he hasn’t earned it yet’...

https://tinyurl.com/yzmd8gq



Long wars and peace prizes

AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber

10/13/09

A ’senior military official’ says McChrystal is concerned that some of Obama’s advisers are telling him the Taliban are not a threat to the United States. That would be tantamount to Obama’s advisers telling him the sun doesn’t rise in the West. The Taliban want us to leave their country, that’s all. They may or may not get back control of Afghanistan if we leave it, but why should we care? Afghans have been controlling their own affairs for thousands of years, and not once have they invaded Poland or France. The Times quotes the senior military official (he insisted on anonymity because he’s a sanctioned leaker) as saying, ‘The real question is, do you want the Taliban to be in power in Afghanistan? If you don’t, then they have to be addressed through a counterinsurgency campaign’...

https://tinyurl.com/yjhpxrf



American ignorance and Afghanistan

The American Prospect
by Courtney E. Martin

10/12/09

As President Barack Obama and his team deliberate about the best way forward in Afghanistan, they are compelled to incorporate a variety of voices on the subject. Military leaders advocate for an increase in troops — 40,000 strong — to continue the work that was started there nearly eight years ago. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, argues, ‘The situation in Afghanistan is serious, but success is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort.’ Peace activists argue passionately for the opposite, citing the variety of costs — economic, ethical, in human lives. Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, writes, ‘It will take the women of the world to rise up and say militarism is not working’...

https://tinyurl.com/ykg8dex



People say the strangest things

Redress
by Paul J. Balles

10/10/09

Some people say the strangest things. At a town hall meeting in Arizona, President Obama said, about the war in Afghanistan: ‘We must never forget this is not a war of choice, this is a war of necessity.’ Aren’t all wars those of necessity? What’s the necessity? Obama says: ‘If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.’ Of course, if Americans remain in Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency can be counted on to plot to kill Americans there just as they once plotted, with American help, to kill Russians when they were there. Doesn’t anyone in the administration ever ask why al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans? Why would anybody?

https://www.redress.cc/global/pjballes20091010



Partisan politics, a fool’s game for the masses

Liberty & Power
by Robert Higgs

10/12/09

Because I despise politics in general, and the two major parties in this country in particular, I go through life constantly bemused by all the weight that people put on partisan political loyalties and on adherence to the normative demarcations the parties promote. Henry Adams observed that ‘politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.’ This marshalling of hatreds is not the whole of politics, to be sure, but it is an essential element. Thus, Democrats encourage people to hate big corporations, and Republicans encourage people to hate welfare recipients. Of course, it’s all a fraud, designed to distract people from the overriding reality of political life, which is that the state and its principal supporters are constantly screwing the rest of us, regardless of which party happens to control the presidency and the Congress...

https://hnn.us/blogs/entries/118268.html



Your dollars are just Monopoly money

MSN Money Central
by Bill Fleckenstein

10/12/09

The likely outcome as we proceed down the road is liable to be more and more fear about what a dollar is actually worth (i.e., nothing). When Main Street psychology turns against the faith-based currency we call the dollar, it will be nearly impossible to get that genie back in the bottle. Of course, this is part and parcel of the funding crisis, though the dollar’s meltdown could start before all of this dawns on Main Street, as it appears already to be dawning on America’s creditors. So, if you’re not in the habit of thinking about the dollar and the effect its depreciation is having (and will have) on you, consider this: Basically, you are the frog that’s slowly being boiled in water, and at some point you’re liable to face a similar demise, financially...

https://tinyurl.com/yfrnlkt



Obama’s tax on the middle class

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

10/12/09

President Obama has no intention of keeping his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Hiding this will take some clever moves, but maybe, now that he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, he’s trying for an Olympic gold medal in mental gymnastics. The tax increase for the middle class will come as part of his effort to overhaul the 15 percent of the economy devoted to medical care. This became clear when the Senate Finance Committee bill’s price tag was disclosed...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com0910e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

10/12/09

President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized — and the Pentagon is deploying — at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials. The additional troops are primarily support forces, including engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Attleboro Sun Chronicle

Others have raised concerns about the possibility of negative health affects from the electromagnetic radiation coming from the tower.

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When it comes to scoring mega-military-related contracts, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's multimillionaire husband, Richard Blum, is right in the thick of things.

https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/27/BA284459.DTL



Democrats and Afghanistan: What’s at stake

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

10/13/09

[Dianne] Feinstein isn’t merely a typical (though particularly destructive) Democratic Senator, but also a very typical Washington insider, as her substantial personal wealth is tied directly to the very National Security State policies she relentlessly works in the Senate to expand. As her hometown San Francisco Chronicle put it in 2003 — in an article headlined ‘War brings business to Feinstein spouse: Blum’s firms win multimillion-dollar defense contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan’: ‘When it comes to scoring mega-military-related contracts, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s multimillionaire husband, Richard Blum, is right in the thick of things.’ The article described billions of dollars in military contracts received by companies in which Blum has a large stake from the War on Terror, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, and numerous other policies Feinstein works in the Senate to enable. Other than the Daschles and the Bayhs, it’s difficult to find a spousal team whose public and private activities feed off one another as synergistically as theirs do. In light of this long record, it should come as absolutely no surprise that, last weekend, Feinstein joined with GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia to apply public pressure on Obama to escalate further the war in Afghanistan …

https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/13/afghanistan/


From Information Clearing House



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Israel and the United States will hold their biggest joint air-defence exercise next week, the Israeli military said, testing missile interceptors that would serve as a strategic bulwark in any showdown with Iran.

https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120500.html



The Final Minutes: What A Nuclear War Would Look Like

Video
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23829.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Let's Get Real About Israel and Iran

Steve Weissman, Truthout: "The military option for dealing with Iran remains on the table, President Obama repeatedly reminds us. The Pentagon hustles to modify our B-2 stealth bombers to carry a newly developed bunker-busting bomb that can destroy hardened underground targets, such as Iran's newly acknowledged enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom. Israeli President Netanyahu promises that 'Iran will not acquire nuclear arms, and this implies everything necessary to carry this out.'"

https://www.truthout.org/1014096



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The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.

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From Information Clearing House



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As generals, politicians and pundits in Washington debate the next best step for America's eight-year war in Afghanistan, the Taliban takes new territory by the day, despite the record 64,000 U.S. troops here.

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Blame CIA for failure to catch terror leaders.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/12/pakistanis-say-us-hoards-intelligence/


From Information Clearing House



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By Michael Moore

The plane landed and I stepped into the cockpit. "Read this," the first officer said. He handed me a letter from the airline to him. It was headlined "LETTER OF CONCERN." It seems this poor fellow had taken three sick days in the past year. The letter was a warning not to take another one -- or else.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23704.htm



Food Stamp Use Soars

A program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Tom Burghardt

As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls "actionable intelligence."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23703.htm



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By Ye Xie and Anchalee Worrachate

Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23698.htm



A Dollar Rout Or More Bernanke Trickery?

By Mike Whitney

The only way to weaken the dollar further is through asymmetrical warfare, a disinformation campaign aimed at triggering a sell-off before the dollar strengthens when the stock market corrects and credit tightens even more. Is that what Bernanke has in mind?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23699.htm



'Benign currency neglect' could spell real danger for US economy

What's happening to the dollar? That's the question dominating the world's financial markets. Last week the US currency fell, on a trade-weighted basis, to a fresh 14-month low. The dollar's decline is now gaining momentum.

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US facing massive economic 'power shift' with dollar's downward spiral

The dollar's position as the world's leading reserve currency faces increased pressure as the financial crisis allows emerging economies greater influence on the world stage, analysts said.

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U.S. states suffer "unbelievable" revenue shortages

"It's crazy. It's really just unbelievable," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers, and called the states' revenue situations "close to unprecedented."

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091009/pl_nm/us_usa_state_budgets


From Information Clearing House



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Matt Renner, Truthout: "On January 21, Obama signed an executive order instructing all federal agencies and departments to 'adopt a presumption in favor' of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and promised to make the federal government more transparent ... But since that time, the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that civil libertarians say amounts to covering up crimes committed by the Bush administration."

https://www.truthout.org/10120912



The Myth of "America"

Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, Truthout: "In 1892, the National Council of Churches, the largest ecumenical body in the United States, is known to have exhorted Christians to refrain from celebrating the Columbus quincentennial, saying, 'What represented newness of freedom, hope, and opportunity for some was the occasion for oppression, degradation and genocide for others.' Yet America continues to celebrate 'Columbus Day.'"

https://www.truthout.org/1012091



Obama at the Precipice: Tough Guys Don't Need to Dance in Afghanistan

Willian Astore, TomDispatch.com: "It's early in 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson faces a critical decision. Should he escalate in Vietnam? Should he say 'yes' to the request from U.S. commanders for more troops? Or should he change strategy, downsize the American commitment, even withdraw completely, a decision that would help him focus on his top domestic priority, 'The Great Society' he hopes to build?"

https://www.truthout.org/1012092



The Price of Peace

Jerica Arents, Truthout: "While waiting to be processed at the Anacostia Park Police Station, I was drawn to a mounted, post-9/11, Bush-era FBI reward poster. 'The Cost of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance,' propagated the sign. The unrestrained madness is as prevalent today as it was eight years ago: Obama is continuing Bush's war folly."

https://www.truthout.org/1012099



He Won Because He Speaks of Peace

Andrew Stelzer, Truthout: "He won because he spoke about peace and people listened. That is rare. The whole world listened, and is still listening to this man who speaks of peace, who clearly believes in it, although his actions don't always seem to move towards that goal. Think of how few people have spoken about peace, from the heart, and had the world pay attention. It happens rarely. And it's part of why we fall so short of peace."

https://www.truthout.org/1012097



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Der Fall Hosam Maher Husein Smadi und eine große Sicherheitslücke in den USA.
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146329

'Naked' scanner in airport trial
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8303983.stm

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Airports face mounting pressure to introduce hi-tech scanners

Independent

State of the art "millimetre wave" scanners and "backscatter x-ray" machines use extremely high frequency radio waves or electromagnetic radiation to see ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/airports-face-mounting-pressure-to-introduce-hitech-scanners-1852812.html

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TSA tries to assuage full-body scan concerns

MSNBC

01/04/10

It has come to this. Already shoeless, beltless and waterless, more beleaguered air passengers will be holding their legs apart, raising their arms and effectively baring it all as they pass through U.S. airport security checkpoints. Add the ‘full-body scan’ to the list of indignities that some travelers are confronting in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era of vigilance.

https://tinyurl.com/yf8twx5



The naked truth about airport scanners

Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/07/10

To judge from the news accounts, Umar Abdulmutallab did everything to get himself caught except wear an Osama bin Laden T-shirt onto that Northwest Airlines flight Christmas Day. Yet the danger didn’t dawn on anyone until he allegedly set himself on fire while trying to detonate the explosives hidden in his underwear. So the solution being proposed is the one we hear whenever the government fails: Give it greater power...

https://reason.com/archives/2010/01/07/the-naked-truth-about-airport


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Mass Resistance To Implementation Of Body Scanners

Petitions, boycotts and lawsuits needed to halt latest manifestation of prison planet being constructed around humanity

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Radio talk show host Alex Jones is calling for petitions, boycotts and lawsuits en mass in an effort to block the nationwide implementation of full body scanners that represent a total violation of privacy, a health risk, and the next wave of tyranny being metered out against the American people and the people of the world under the phony pretext of fighting terrorism.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/alex-jones-calls-for-mass-resistance-to-implementation-of-body-scanners.html



Media PR Hoax Behind Useless & Invasive Body Scanners

Experts agree; Technology would not have stopped plane bomber, so why the rush to install privacy-busting virtual strip search?

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, January 7, 2010

With experts agreeing that airport body scanners would not have stopped the underwear bomber from boarding Flight 253, the rush to implement them has been driven not by necessity, but by a media orchestrated PR hoax insinuating that every plane will be blown out of the sky unless TSA thugs are allowed to ogle your naked body.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/media-pr-hoax-behind-useless-invasive-body-scanners.html



Inverted Body Scanner Image Shows Naked Body In Full Living Color

Claim that devices did not show details of genitals exposed as a lie

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 8, 2010

The full body scanners that President Obama last night authorized to be rolled out in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also display your naked body in full living color.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color.html



Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners

But historical record clearly shows that devices are a completely illegal violation of human rights

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Obama administration has announced that a further $215 million dollars will be spent on installing virtual strip search naked body scanners, meaning the devices will be in no less than half the nation’s airports by next year, but the historical record clearly shows that the scanners are a completely illegal violation of human rights.

https://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-pledges-another-215-million-for-virtual-strip-search-scanners.html

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The Airport Scanner Scam

By James Ridgeway

The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24332.htm

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Ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago

https://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100106/airline_scanners_100106/20100106/?hub=TorontoNewHome


From APFN daily update

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Full-body scanners used on air passengers may damage human DNA

Monday, January 11, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

https://www.naturalnews.com/027913_full-body_scanners_DNA.html

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Modern Security
https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/786.html

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Fear as a Money Machine

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Keep in mind that fear, wherever directed, is a remarkably profitable emotion to exploit. Just think of those controversial full-body-scan machines now being installed in airports at a cost of up to $170,000 each. One promoter of them is former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff, "who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems." He's part of a growing "full-body-scanner lobby" of ex-Washington politicos just made for our moment."

https://www.truthout.org/tom-engelhardt-fear-a-money-machine56143



Invasion of the Body Scanners

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "The concept of 'stimulus' may soon take on new connotations in the days ahead. The federal government is poised to emplace full-body scanners at airports across the nation, capable of peering under a person's garments. As noted by a former Cabinet member, this new technology 'will give us the ability to see what someone has concealed underneath their clothing.' The prurient implications of this startling revelation are obvious, and one can only marvel at the full cultural import of widely available 'x-ray vision' technology being deployed. Indeed, for those who remember the old X-ray Specs advertised on the back of comic books to see through women's clothes, it is apparently a longstanding boyhood fantasy now set to become national policy. This is essentially a form of high-tech voyeurism masking as security, and it portends more such incursions into liberty and privacy. How did it come to this, and so suddenly at that?"

https://www.truthout.org/invasion-body-scanners56324

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The State Lives to Control and Humiliate Us
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Billionen US-Dollar im Schwarzen Fed-Loch verschwunden?
https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31275/1.html



Fannie Mae und Freddie Mac brauchen weitere Staatshilfen

Mit 96 Milliarden US-Dollar ist es wohl längst nicht getan.
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It produces disease, including swine flu.
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The Nobel Prize, the Brand and the President

By Gilad Atzmon

Obama may have to find some other policies to pursue peace rather than killing Muslims. Time will tell whether the Nobel Committee gamble justified itself.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23701.htm

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On the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace

True/Slant
by Matt Taibbi

10/13/09

The Nobel Peace Prize long ago ceased to be an award given to people who really spend their whole careers agitating for peace. Like most awards the Prize has evolved into a kind of maraschino cherry for hardcore careerists to place atop their resumes, a reward not for dissidence but on the contrary for gamely upholding the values of Western society as it perceives itself, for putting a good face on things (in Obama’s place, literally so). Even when the award is given to a genuine dissident, it tends to be a dissident hailing from a country we consider outside the fold of Western civilization, a rogue state, ‘not one of us’ …. You never, ever get a true dissident from a prominent Western country winning the award, despite the obvious appropriateness such a choice would represent. Our Western society quite openly embraces war as a means of solving problems and for quite some time now has fashioned its entire social and economic structure around the preparation for war...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Against the Totalitarian Tide
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Smart meters could become a 'spy in the home' by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to concern at Britain's surveillance society.

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Here, then, are those principles that, to me, must never be surrendered. To surrender these liberties to Big Government would mean to commit idolatry. It would be sacrilege. It would reduce us to slavery. It would destroy our humanity. To surrender these freedoms would mean "absolute Despotism" and would provide moral justification to the proposition that such tyranny be "thrown off." The seven principles are........

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A Columbus Day Meditation - As Nobel Laureate Obama Decides Whether to 'Conquer' Afghanistan...

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The System Let Obama Be President. But He Still May Not Be Able to Beat It
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Brisbane Times Residents concerned with possible detrimental health effects from exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EME) have vowed to take the fight to Telstra, ...

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Watford Observer - Watford, England, UK

By Neil Skinner

A furious Chorleywood businessman who admits he is powerless to prevent the building of a 40 foot mobile phone mast just yards from his ...

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Local resident and pediatrician Fiona Macfarlane said there were people within the scientific community who believed electromagnetic radiation could cause ...

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by Attorney Jonathan Emord

Let there be no mistake mandatory vaccination is an assault on individual liberty. It offends the core definition of liberty that underlies our Constitution for a person, against his or her will, to be forcibly injected with a foreign substance. Sadly neither the federal nor the state governments provide any meaningful protection against mandatory vaccination. Instead, it is the rule of law everywhere in this country that everyone be vaccinated, thus subjecting the vast majority to a bodily intrusion that can have severe side effects for the sake of a minority who are or will become ill.........

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In den letzten Wochen vor der Bundestagswahl war es überraschend still um den sicherheitsbewussten Herrn Innenminister geworden. Kurz nach der Wahl ist er zurück - mit einer hübschen kleinen Wahrheit.

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What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/11-4

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Afghanistan: A War of Lies
https://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis165.html



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Obama and the Nobel Prize
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The international politics behind Obama’s Peace prize

Christian Science Monitor

10/10/09

The surprise decision to award President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize had much of the world scratching its head on Friday, even among the president’s most ardent fans. Less than a year into office, the young president has made lofty promises, committed his administration to diplomacy, and convinced the world that a less belligerent America is in the offing. But he is also the commander-in-chief for the Afghan and Iraq wars, as well as ongoing lower-scale US military efforts in Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Philippines. Later on Friday, Obama will hold a strategy session with his war cabinet that could lead to a commitment of more combat troops to Afghanistan. A commentator on Britain’s Sky News captured the mood well when he said it appeared Obama had won the prize for ‘not being George Bush’...

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The real problem with Obama’s Nobel

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

10/10/09

Obama probably deserves the prize as much as some previous recipients, like Henry Kissinger and Woodrow Wilson, but it is still obnoxious to see any warmonger get it. It says something perverse about what the establishment regards as pro-peace activism. The real problem with Obama’s Nobel is not that it might neuter him, but rather that it may embolden him. In the name of peace, he and previous presidents have kept America in a virtual state of perpetual war for three generations. The Nobel is a signal to Obama that he can keep talking like a man of peace even as he acts like a master of war...

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Eight years of big lies on Afghanistan

Future of Freedom Foundation
by James Bovard

10/09/09

It seems like only yesterday that President George W. Bush was bragging about having brought ‘freedom and democracy’ to 25 million Afghans, a key theme in his second inaugural address. For 8 years, the American people have been fed one big lie after another regarding Afghanistan. Now, when the Pentagon is saber-rattling to vastly increase the number of U.S. troops sent there, a refresher course on the Biggest Lies is in order...

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Get out now

In These Times
by G. Pascal Zachary

10/09/09

For all the talk of polarization and partisanship in U.S. politics, what’s remarkable is the extent to which President Obama has continued policies and practices of his predecessor, George Bush, in domestic economics and military affairs. Economically, Obama has continued the bailout of Wall Street, maintained Bush-era tax cuts, pursued ’stimulus’ through large deficit spending and re-appointed Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman who was a Bush favorite. In defense, Obama has broken with Bush on a few critical matters, notably by canceling expensive weapons systems and dropping (in September) an aggressive plan to impose a ‘missile shield’ in Eastern Europe that Russia intensely opposed. Yet Obama has carried over Bush’s secretary of defense, Robert Gates; essentially stuck with Bush timetables on Iraq; and maintained historically record levels of Pentagon spending. The president has continued the war in Afghanistan, raising the number of American combat troops...

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I hope Nobel members are pleased with themselves

The Guardian [UK]
by Michael White

10/10/09
https://tinyurl.com/ykofrdc



Did Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Nation
by Melissa Harris-Lacewell

10/10/09

My reaction to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize elicited some decidedly ‘un-peaceful’ responses from my friends and followers on social networking and blog sites. … I have been an ardent supporter of President Obama. … But my response to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement was not particularly celebratory. … I criticized the idea of awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a president whose short presidency has included drone attacks with devastating civilian casualities, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and a painfully slow response to the basic human rights issues facing LGBT communities. I respect the President’s accomplishments in diplomacy but believed these issues were relevant to assessing his record on peace...

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Afghanistan: The proxy war

Boston Globe
by staff

10/11/09

If the president approves the McChrystal plan he will implicitly: * Anoint counterinsurgency — protracted campaigns of armed nation-building — as the new American way of war. * Embrace George W. Bush’s concept of open-ended war as the essential response to violent jihadism (even if the Obama White House has jettisoned the label ‘global war on terror’). * Affirm that military might will remain the principal instrument for exercising American global leadership, as has been the case for decades. Implementing the McChrystal plan will perpetuate the longstanding fundamentals of US national security policy: maintaining a global military presence, configuring US forces for global power projection, and employing those forces to intervene on a global basis...

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Peace Prize to Obama. America: “Huh?”

The American Prospect
by Tim Fernholz

10/09/09

To sum up the the universal reaction, what the heck? … Adam may have said it best: ‘No joke, Obama should turn the Nobel Peace prize down until he’s finished with his two wars.’ Obama is doing pretty well as president, but it hasn’t even been a year yet! On the international peace front, he has made ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,’ but they are only efforts thus far. Far better to wait unto those efforts pay off to give him the prize. … Obama should accept the award on behalf of the United States and then recognize 10 or 15 underappreciated people working for peace around the world...

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Kent McManigal

10/11/09
https://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle540-20091011-02.html



Mr. Obama, get out of our way

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed
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Brother Obama’s Traveling Healing and Salvation Crusade

Classically Liberal
by CLS

10/10/09
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Accusing Obama critics of “standing with the terrorists”

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

10/10/09

What’s particularly bothersome about yesterday’s attacks is the premise that it’s improper, unpatriotic and even Terrorist-mimicking to do anything but cheer — have a ‘national celebration’ — when Obama is awarded the Nobel Prize. Whether Obama is actually pursuing policies of peace happens to be an extremely legitimate topic of debate. The same is true for whether he’s done anything meaningful yet to merit the award. … While there are arguments to make in his favor — I even made some myself yesterday in the first two paragraphs of what I wrote — there is something unquestionably bizarre about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a leader who did not merely ‘inherit,’ but is advocating, actively prosecuting and escalating, a major war that is killing large numbers of civilians with no plans to stop, while at the same time building prisons to house people who will have no due process...

https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/10/prize_reaction/



The Nobel Peace Prize has become a politicized joke

Nolan Chart
by Kenn Jacobine

10/10/09

The five-member committee that chooses the prize’s winners is selected by Norway’s Parliament. It has over time liberalized the selection process by choosing those that are not necessarily peacemakers but poverty, disease, and climate change foes. In other words, they have granted awards to warriors in some of their favorite causes. This year they really liberalized the process by selecting someone who has no accomplishments in any of the above...

https://www.nolanchart.com/article6944.html



Bizarro peace prize awarded to Obama

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/09/09

For years — ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks — I’ve been saying that the sheer force of the explosions that sent us hurtling into a nightmare world of color-coded terrorist alerts and hunts for ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ must have ripped a hole in the very fabric of reality. So that, today, we’re living in an alternate universe, where the laws of logic and reason are repealed — Bizarro World. For a while there I thought we might be heading back toward reality, or at least some more rational version of it, and that what I call the Bizarro Effect might be wearing off. However, this morning’s shocker — the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to an American president about to launch a decades-long military occupation, even as he promises (so far to little effect) to bring another occupation to an end — has dashed that hope beyond redemption...

https://tinyurl.com/yf447yg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Weapons Makers as 'Welfare Queens'
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/19



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The WHO Flu Scam
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Monday, 12 October 2009

Swinburne University, together with EM Software and Systems, has developed an online tool that will allow users to calculate exclusion zones around antennas where radiation levels exceed safety standard limits.

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