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The government has been accused of misleading parliament over the rendition of two alleged militants captured in Iraq and then turned over to the Americans to be secretly sent to Bagram in Afghanistan. One of the men has allegedly gone mad and is being treated for mental problems, according to the legal charity, Reprieve.

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Study faults Guantanamo death probe

Minimum standards 'not met' in investigation into alleged suicides of three detainees.
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U.S. President Barack Obama will not shirk from mentioning Afghanistan and his decision to send more troops to the war zone when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize this week, the White House said on Monday.

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By Ron Paul

One has to ask, if the people who elected these leaders so obviously do not want these wars, who does? Eisenhower warned of the increasing power and influence of the military industrial complex and it seems his worst fears have come true.

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Going South

By Ximena Ortiz

Disproportionate military spending threatens economic wellbeing. Industry has its hand so deep in the government's purse that private enterprise is becoming public property. The currency falters, the infrastructure crumbles. And a supine media, once a watchdog of the powerful, happily licks the strongman's hand.

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The United States, its abandonment of law and worse

By Christopher King

We have entered a period of government lawlessness, led by the United States, with inevitably serious consequences for everyone. Nuclear war is a possibility.

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Larry Summers is Steering the Economy Towards "Structural Adjustment"

By Mike Whitney

There's no fixed number of greenbacks in a vault at the Treasury which limit how much the federal government can spend. Since the US pays its debts in its own currency--it can print as many dollars as it pleases.

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By John Byrne

A British parliamentarian claimed in an report published Tuesday that an Iraqi cab driver was the source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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Am Briefkasten, nachts, um halb vier ... Kurzfristig eingeschobene Kündigungen

„Eine bemerkenswert rustikale Strategie verfolgte ein kurzentschlossener Arbeitgeber, der mit dem Betriebsrat vor Gericht in einem Vergleich ausgehandelt hatte, dass vor Weihnachten keine Kündigungen ausgesprochen und Verhandlungen über Kurzarbeit aufgenommen würden. Der Gerichtsvergleich war widerruflich geschlossen worden, so dass dieser erst am Folgetag um 12.00 Uhr wirksam würde. (..) Da dem Arbeitgeber der geschlossene Vergleich bis auf die Sache mit den Kündigungen zusagte, widerrief er nicht, sondern ließ noch in der Nacht allen 198 Beschäftigten noch vor der Frühschicht kündigen - teilweise durch Einwurf nachts um vier in den Briefkasten…“ Artikel von Markus Kompa in telepolis news vom 07.12.2009 https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146695


Stress im Job: Beschäftigte im Dauerstress

„In vier von fünf Betrieben arbeiten Beschäftigte dauerhaft unter hohem Druck. Das zeigen Auswertungen einer aktuellen Betriebsrätebefragung. Häufigste Ursache für den Dauerstress ist zu wenig Personal…“ Pressemitteilung der IG Metall vom 01.12.2009 https://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A456501-AF02B262/internet/style.xsl/view_2715.htm

Siehe dazu: Arbeitsbedingungen: Leistungspolitik stresst Belegschaft

„In Deutschlands Unternehmen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine neue Leistungspolitik ausgebreitet - und mit ihr Zeitdruck und seelische Belastungen. Hektik, Überlastung und die Angst vor dem Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes - solche Stressmomente sind in Unternehmen inzwischen weiter verbreitet als körperliche Belastungen. Selbst in Firmen mit einem hohen Anteil gewerblich Beschäftigter machen den Belegschaften vor allem psychische Probleme zu schaffen, berichtet Elke Ahlers. Die Arbeitswissenschaftlerin hat eine WSI-PARGEMA-Befragung von über 1.700 Betriebsräten zu Gesundheitsproblemen am Arbeitsplatz und den Ursachen ausgewertet. Dauerhafter Arbeitsdruck sei nicht mehr nur eine Angelegenheit der Führungskräfte. Er habe inzwischen den Kern der Belegschaft erreicht und erfasse vor allem mittlere Angestellte mit Fachausbildung. So arbeiten in 84 Prozent der Betriebe manche Beschäftigte ständig unter hohem Zeit- und Leistungsdruck; in 43 Prozent gilt das sogar für große Teile der Belegschaft. Von starken körperlichen Belastungen berichtet dagegen nur jeder fünfte Arbeitnehmervertreter. Laut ihrer Studie erklärten 79 Prozent der Betriebsräte, dass die seelischen Belastungen in den vergangenen drei Jahren zugenommen haben…“ Böckler Impuls 19/2009 https://www.boeckler.de/32014_102179.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Dezember 2009

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What do most of the British know that all those receiving the swine flu vaccine don’t?

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Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

12/07/09

As America’s founding fathers clearly understood war is a serious business and should only be engaged in when there is a threat to vital national interests. The US Constitution stipulates that there must be a declaration of war from congress, a safeguard inserted in the document to prevent presidents from going to war without a clear national consensus behind them. Nevertheless, even though the federal government has fought many wars in the past hundred years only two were preceded by an actual declaration by Congress, World War I and World War II. Every other war has been both illegal and unconstitutional, including the current involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on various fronts in the so-called global war on terror...

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Während die Arbeitslosigkeit gesunken sein soll, wurden erneut sechs Regionalbanken geschlossen.

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Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Hundreds Rally at W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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Obama Administration OKs Oil Drilling in Arctic off Alaska
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Obama Offshore Oil Plan a Disaster for Wildlife and Climate
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The real reason for drilling

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

03/31/10

Today, the President is set to announce his new energy plan which includes allowing oil drilling off Virginia’s shoreline – a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling: White House officials pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs — both politically popular ideas — but the president’s decisions also could help secure support for a climate change bill languishing in Congress. I applaud the President’s willingness to finally allow some drilling off America’s coasts but, let’s be honest: this is not going to make a dent in our ‘reliance’ on foreign oil. We consume 20 million barrels per day, and produce only 5. We could drill everywhere that we’re not allowed and we’d probably only goose production up to 6 million...

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "The United States has more than 15 million people unemployed. This is not their fault. It is the fault of really bad policy decisions by people who get paid more than almost all of the unemployed ever did or ever will. The failure of economic policymakers to recognize and attack an $8 trillion housing bubble led to the downturn. The continuing failure of economic policymakers to think creatively is why 15 million people remain unemployed."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "'The ground has been laid for another crisis, another shooting ... it's volatile here, nothing has been resolved,' Luther told Truthout from his home in Killeen, Texas, on the outskirts of Fort Hood. 'The average Joe on the street thinks things are resolved here, but they are anything but resolved. We are primed to have more soldier-on-soldier violence if something doesn't change right away.'"

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Is US Prepared to Care for More Casualties From Troop Buildup?

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "As the Obama administration ramps up the war in Afghanistan, veterans advocates say the government must develop a better plan to handle the wounded when they come home. Eight years of war have overtaxed the health care systems that treat service members and veterans, several said, and President Barack Obama's decision to deploy 30,000 to 35,000 more troops in Afghanistan will compound the stress."

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Veterans Group Calls On Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "In response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, with comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy. 'March Forward! calls on all service members to refuse orders to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq,' reads a press release from the group from December 3. 'We offer our unconditional support and solidarity. Join us in the fight to ensure that no more soldiers or civilians lose their lives in these criminal wars.'"

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers in testimony before Congress that a long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration on torture will be released at the end of the November."

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White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed

The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on national security issues.

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David Margolis: Hatchet Man for Holder/Obama on OPR Torture Memos Report Firedoglake (blog) ... a form of mind control. The phenomenon of "CP" was first observed in the post-traumatic reactions of Korean War military and civilian POWs. ...

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Neue Klima-, Handels- und Agrarpolitik gefragt

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The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan War
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The Bush-Obama War

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Now it's Barack Obama's war. After campaigning against "George Bush's War" in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America's forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different from that of his "conservative" Republican predecessor. While I was crisscrossing America during the campaign season last year, I repeatedly........

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Meanwhile...

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Ever since President Obama's speech last Tuesday, all media, political and public attention has been focused exclusively on the war in Afghanistan. The president mentioned Iraq a few times in the speech, mostly to blame that situation for the situation in Afghanistan. At one point, however, he seemed to be making the shocking claim that the war in Iraq has been a success. 'We have given Iraqis a chance to shape their future, and we are successfully leaving Iraq to its people,' he said. Hm."

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White House Chorus: We Will Occupy South Asia for 'Long Time'
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/07

Escalating Afghan War Mocks Hopes of Peace, Good Will
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Best performance in a farce

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/08/09

Within the last 11 months, while 500 coalition soldiers have perished and thousands have been wounded on the battlefields of Afghanistan, the Obama administration has treated the rest of us to an elaborate, Oscar-worthy performance of how to act in charge from the back seat of a car. In other words, instead of approving the tens of thousands more in reinforcements military leaders said they needed to win right away, the president spent most of 2009 trying to look deliberative and in charge — and pleasing no one. Turns out the escalation was hardwired from the beginning. He’ll do what the military wanted all along. It makes one wonder which is worse — the escalation itself, or leaving the operation foundering in virtual limbo for a year while this kabuki theater ran its course...

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The march of folly

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

12/07/09

It will be a long and unnecessary war. President Obama is sending 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to prove that the US can impose its will on the country and crush by military means what is still a relatively small scale insurrection. The real reasons for escalating the conflict are very different from those declared by Mr Obama...

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"Aucune des 432 antennes relais WiFi ou WiMax prévues ne sera installée dans les zones blanches" (vidéo HD)

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„Anlässlich der 2./3. Lesung des Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetzes im Bundestag sagte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Claus Matecki am Freitag in Berlin: „Mit diesem Gesetz wird nicht das Wachstum beschleunigt, sondern die öffentliche Armut. Gerade Krisenzeiten erfordern besondere sozialstaatliche Handlungsfähigkeit. Doch mit diesen gesetzlich verordneten Geschenken an Erben und Unternehmen wird die finanzielle Basis von Ländern und Kommunen weiter unterhöhlt, und die Daseinsvorsorge gerät unter Druck…“ Pressemitteilung vom 04.12.2009 https://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=3564

Siehe dazu: Stellungnahme des DGB zum Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz
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Schwarz-gelber Beschluss. Wieso das Steuergeschenk eine Farce ist

„Die Koalition hat die versprochenen Steuersenkungen durch den Bundestag geboxt - offizieller Name: Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz. Tatsächlich handelt es sich um ein Volksverdummungsbeschleunigungsgesetz. Eine Abrechnung in fünf Punkten…“ Artikel von Sven Böll in Spiegel online vom 04.12.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,665188,00.html


Sozial ungerecht, ökologisch fatal und ökonomisch blödsinnig. Attac kritisiert Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz

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Rettungspakete Strukturen werden konserviert. Studie untersucht Krisenprogramme der Bundesregierung

„Ein noch unveröffentlichtes Gutachten, das dem ND vorliegt, untersucht die Krisenpolitik der Bundesregierung. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Beschaffenheit der Rettungspakete für Banken und Konjunktur. Lassen sich strategische Versuche einer Abkehr vom derzeitigen kapitalistischen Modell darin erkennen, aus dem heraus die Talfahrt erst beginnen konnte?...“ Artikel von Ina Beyer im ND vom 05.12.2009 https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/160583.strukturen-werden-konserviert.html


Hilfsfonds für den Mittelstand – Peanuts im Vergleich zu dem, was wir Steuerzahler den gleichen Banken bei der Rettung ihrer faulen Forderungen gezahlt haben

„„Die Deutsche Bank will angeblich deutlich mehr in den von ihr vorgeschlagenen Hilfsfonds für den Mittelstand einbringen als bisher erwartet.“ „Deutsche Bank will 300 Millionen investieren“. So feiert der Spiegel mal wieder die Deutsche Bank und Josef Ackermann. Und die Bundesregierung freut sich über so viel Großzügigkeit. Das Gedächtnis dieser Herrschaften ist offensichtlich wie ein Sieb. Denn die 300 Millionen sind gerade mal ungefähr 15 % dessen, was die Deutsche Bank durch die staatliche Rettung der Hypo Real Estate (HRE) profitiert hat…“ Artikel von Albrecht Müller vom 4. Dezember 2009 bei den Nachdenkseiten https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=4387


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Oberschichtsbereicherungsgesetz

Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz in der Verhandlung

Noch scheitert das Steuergeschenk mit den 30 Buchstaben und dem Wachstumswahn im Namen an den Haushaltssorgen etlicher Bundesländer. Bis auch diese dem Entwurf der schwarz-gelben Koalition zustimmen, wird wohl von zusätzlich bereitgestellten Finanzhilfen abhängen. Dabei ist das Machwerk nicht nur ökologisch fatal und sozial ungerecht, sondern auch ökonomisch blödsinnig. Die kalkulierten Einnahmeverluste werden weiteren Sozialabbau nach sich ziehen, gleichzeitig aber kaum eine konjunkturelle Wirkung entfalten. Schätzungen zufolge wird es bis 2012 krisenbedingt rund 320 Milliarden Euro weniger Steuereinnahmen geben. In dieser Phase weitere 8,5 Milliarden an die eigene Wählerklientel zu verpulvern, ist inakzeptabel und zynisch - es zeugt von sozialer Kälte und wirtschaftspolitischer Unfähigkeit.

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Steuersenkungen: Nein danke!

Nach dem DeutschlandTrend sprechen sich ausgerechnet Geringverdiener stärker für das FDP-Allheilmittel aus.

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Das Lachen der Minderheit. Der Bundestag hat das deutsche Kriegsmandat verlängert. Es ist die Entscheidung einer politischen Parallelgesellschaft, die zeigt, was sie von der wahren Mehrheit hält

„Über den Ausgang der Entscheidung (hier die Liste der namentlichen Abstimmung) hatte es vorher keinen Zweifel gegeben: Die deutschen Soldaten bleiben ein weiteres Jahr in Afghanistan, der Kriegseinsatz, um den so viel Wortakrobatik betrieben wird, damit er nicht so genannt werden muss, geht weiter. Fortsetzung findet damit auch der politische Autismus einer Minderheit, die sich für eine Mehrheit hält: 446 Abgeordnete votierten für eine Verlängerung, 148 Parlamentarier stimmten dagegen oder enthielten sich…“ Artikel von Tom Strohschneider in Freitag vom 04.12.2009 https://www.freitag.de/politik/0949-afghanistan-bundeswehr-bundestag-debatte-mandat-verlaengerung


„Wir hassen diese Generäle“. Präsident Obama, es ist Zeit nach Hause zu kommen! Der Filmemacher Michael Moore hat einen Offenen Brief geschrieben. Der Krieg am Hindukusch geht trotzdem weiter

„Nach acht Jahren Krieg in Afghanistan setzt US-Präsident Barack Obama auf eine massive Militäroffensive. Anfang des Jahres sollen 30.000 zusätzliche US-Soldaten an den Hindukusch geschickt werden. Im Sommer 2011 soll dann – abhängig von der Sicherheitslage vor Ort – der Rückzug der Armee beginnen. Vor der Rede Obamas in der Militärakademie West Point hat sich der Filmemacher Michael Moore an den Präsidenten und das amerikanische Volk gewandt. Freitag.de dokumentiert seinen Offenen Brief, das Original findet sich auf Moores Webseite.“ Übersetzung des Offenen Briefs bei Freitag online https://www.freitag.de/positionen/0949-usa-afghanistan-krieg-moore-brief


"Demgegenüber setzen wir auf eine vorausschauende Friedenspolitik". "Aktionsvorschläge 2010"

Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag verabschiedet "Aktionsvorschläge". Im Wortlaut: Eine Agenda der Friedensbewegung für 2010, dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/schwerpunkte2010.html

Siehe auch die Sonderseite zum Friedensratschlag 2009 mit allen Dokumenten https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/rat/2009/Welcome.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Dezember 2009



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- Francia, antenas de telefonía y Bioinitiative: 16 localidades en experimentación con una irradación de 0,6 V/m

https://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/GrenelleEtCem.php#1

For those of you who hoped - or worried - that the Obama administration would mean a big cut to defense spending, think again.

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Six Banks Fail, Costing FDIC $2.6 Billion

After a brief holiday respite, bank failure Friday came back with a vengeance yesterday. The FDIC and its fellow regulators closed six institutions, bringing the total to 130 for the year.

https://www.propublica.org/ion/bailout/item/bank-failure-friday-roars-back-804



Bankruptcy Filings up 100 Percent from 2007

Americans Financially Unable to Meet Current Debt Payments. 85 Percent of Chapter 7 Filings are Classified as No-Assets.

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In fact, when it comes to U.S. policy in Latin America - as events this week in Honduras suggest - it's often hard to tell if George W. Bush isn't still President.

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The Man Who Wasn't There

By Brendan Coone

It's a dangerous precedent for the people of Latin America when President Barack Obama sides with coup-mongering oligarchs, as he did in recognizing the tainted presidential elections in Honduras. But it's an even more dangerous precedent for the world, because it shows how easily he caves in to right-wing extremists in Washington.

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In a similar poll 18 months ago only 55 percent were against the despatch of some 700 extra troops to Afghanistan.

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The action is being taken because six doctors are convinced that the original verdict of suicide is unsafe and should be overturned.

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David Kelly Post Mortem to be Kept Secret for 70 Years

Doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information

By Miles Goslett

The body of former United Nations weapons inspector Dr Kelly was found in July 2003 in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the Government's claims that Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, which could be deployed within 45 minutes.

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George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday.

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Obama Steals Bush's Speechwriters

By Matthew Rothschild

If you closed your eyes during much of the President's speech on Afghanistan Tuesday night and just listened to the words, you easily could have concluded that George W. Bush was still in the Oval Office.

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Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free?

By Bruce E. Levine

What forces have created a demoralized, passive, disCouraged U.S. population? Can anything be done to turn this around?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24126.htm



Helen Thomas Deviates From the Terrorism Script

By Glenn Greenwald

At a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows -- yet again -- that she's one of the very few White House reporters willing to deviate from approved orthodoxy scripts. She asks the prohibited question about the motives of Terrorists, and keeps asking as she receives complete non-responses, until they all just decide to ignore her.

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Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us

By Ray McGovern

Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24363.htm



Always Be Scared!

Video

Funny, yet sickening view of societies "ills", and loss of liberty.
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‘Obama’s war’ in Afghanistan could be politically precarious

Christian Science Monitor

12/05/09

As 1,000 US marines launched a combat operation behind enemy lines dubbed ‘Cobra’s Anger’ this weekend, it became clear that President Obama now ‘owns’ the war in Afghanistan. Though there was high symbolism of that fact in his speech at West Point Tuesday, Obama took control of the war months ago, escalating US military assets and aggressiveness in Afghanistan. He’s more than doubled the number of US troops there since he took office. And as the Monitor’s Howard LaFranchi reported, he’s greatly increased the US commitment compared to NATO and other non-US forces. At the same time, Obama has authorized an increase in the use of pilotless drone aircraft to strike targets — typically Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives — along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to a New York Times report...

https://tinyurl.com/yz4ys77



Nobel acceptance will be a tricky moment

Associated Press

12/06/09

He’s the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who just ordered 30,000 more troops into war. He’s the winner who says he didn’t deserve to win. He’s not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. This is President Barack Obama’s Nobel moment, an immense honor shadowed by awkward timing. When Obama leaves for Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday to be lauded for his style of international diplomacy, he goes knowing that the American people are more concerned about something else: peace of mind. The economy has left millions of them hurting. … Unemployment is in double digits even as the bleeding of jobs has slowed. Meanwhile, there’s no hiding the contrast of war and peace...

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US foreign policy and the cult of “expertise”

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/07/09

How do we account for the huge gap between the people and those who make policy in their name? To begin with, we have an entire class of people whose jobs, social prestige, and livelihoods are directly tied to our foreign policy of global intervention. These people are naturally inclined to favor militarism and meddling in the affairs of other nations. This group, while small in numbers, wields an outsized influence when it comes to such matters, and it can successfully defy popular opinion for quite a long time. It manages to hornswoggle the public with a number of scams, notably the cult of expertise, which Americans have traditionally been suckers for, and never more so than today, when confusion over the sheer complexity of some of the foreign policy issues being raised makes people particularly vulnerable to the argument from authority...

https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/12/06/the-cult-of-expertise/



This sure seems like Vietnam

Albany Times Union
by Helen Thomas

12/06/09

President Barack Obama insists that his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending in 30,000 more troops is not Vietnam all over again.Well, it sure reminds me of the perils and the price of that unwinnable war and the political chaos it wreaked at home. … Obama is too young to remember the national turmoil during the Vietnam War that resulted in the deaths of more than 58,000 Americans and thousands of Vietnamese. That war also ended the political career of President Lyndon Johnson, who decided not to seek re-election in 1968...

https://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=874151



The twin frauds of Obama

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/06/09

Of course, it is not really capitalism. It is an oligarchy or a financial plutocracy. In a failed state, the government’s priorities are totally separate from those of the people. The US can’t afford health care or a bailout for jobless homeowners, but it can afford a pointless war and multi-million dollar bonuses for banksters who wrecked the economy...

https://counterpunch.org/roberts12042009.html



Troop surge in Afghanistan a losing investment

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

12/04/09

President Obama’s decision to send another 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan during the next six months does not make sense. Hardly anybody has real enthusiasm for the plan. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are lukewarm, for the most part; some are stridently opposed. The military chiefs apparently support the plan, but surely the president can appease them in alternative, less politically risky ways. In explaining his plan, the president declares that ‘we must deny al-Qaida a safe haven. We must reverse the Taliban’s momentum … And we must strengthen the capacity of Afghanistan’s security forces and government’ because ‘it is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted.’ If these statements express the president’s actual thoughts, then he is much less astute than he is usually given credit for...

https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2674



Obama’s exit strategy

Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan

12/04/09

If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush’s wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by mid-2011 and the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan will, on that date, begin to get smaller and smaller. Yet the gap between the magnitude of the crisis he described and the action he is taking is the Grand Canyon...

https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34673



Peace prize protests scheduled

New York Times

12/06/09

It looks like President Obama is unlikely to get the Nobel Peace Prize without the occasion being marked by protests. At least one antiwar group is already calling for a midday march to the United States Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York’s Times Square to coincide with the award ceremony in Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, the date on which Alfred Nobel died. Days before the event protesters were already handing out leaflets headlined: ‘You Don’t End a War By Sending More Troops! Stop the Occupation of Afghanistan’...

https://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/peace-prize-protest/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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It’s Not Just Obama, It’s the System
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By Alexi Howk

Posted December 4, 2009 at 7:03 p.m.

PORT ST. LUCIE — Ron Colangelo lives within 100 feet of a 911 communications tower that sits in front of a fire station across from his home on Dalton Circle.

If the St. Lucie County Fire District gets its way at Monday night’s City Council meeting, Colangelo and other residents living in the vicinity of Dalton Circle, between St. Mary’s Court and Selkirk Lane, will be within feet of what they’re calling a “humongous” cell phone tower.

“What I’m hearing here doesn’t sit very well with me,” Dalton Circle resident Ed Leary said.

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Informant: Martin Weatherall