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By Carl Ginsburg

The word from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at last week's community meeting in the Bronx was disappointing, to say the least. After promising "good jobs" during a recent campaign, how could a man with so many billions, and now fresh from a re-election victory, oppose a $10-an-hour wage?

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The Economic Crisis And What Must Be Done

By Richard C. Cook

The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White House, Congress, the military, the mass media, the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the universities, etc.

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What Is Totalitarianism?

By Michael Kleen

If the United States came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, when many of us harbor fears that some time in the near future ideas such as freedom, liberty, and privacy will be alien to our society.

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UK: Recession 'is even worse than feared':

Chancellor predicts steepest slump ever.
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Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

While some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the Department of Agriculture finds the number of U.S. homes lacking "food security," meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year.

https://www.livescience.com/culture/091126-food-waste.html


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Bloomberg spent more than $100 million for reelection

Reuters

11/27/09

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s narrower-than-expected reelection campaign cost the billionaire some $102 million, or about $183 per vote, The New York Times reported on Friday evening, making him the top-spending self-financed politician in U.S. history. Data on the mayoral election released on Friday found Bloomberg’s run for a third term in office, which required special legislation overturning a city law that held the mayor to a maximum of two terms, was the most expensive campaign in municipal history, the Times said...

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Senate Bill Contains a Gift for Big Banks
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/30-7



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By Ron Smith

President Obama made the war in Afghanistan his war. The anti-war people are silent because he's their man. Leading Democrats in the House are proposing a "surtax" on income to be used for paying the mounting costs of battling insurgents on the other side of the world. And we're reduced to shouting "C'mon man" as we are driven over that cliff.

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Yasha Levine, AlterNet: "What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, predatory credit card rates, exorbitant bank fees and obscene Wall Street bonuses. But we're being robbed in other, sneakier ways, too. It seems that taxpayers in the poorest, most vulnerable parts of the county are getting plundered by the same institutions they bailed out. One example is AIG's underhanded fleecing of residents of rural Kentucky."

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AIG Executives' Promises to Return Bonuses Have Gone Largely Unfulfilled
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Blame N.W.O. Larry

By Mike Whitney

Summers assignment is to bring the broader economy to its knees; to crush big labor by keeping unemployment high, to force state and local and governments to privatize more public assets and services, and to generate as much human misery as possible.

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A Surge in Demands on the Government for Jobs

By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer

The banks have been lobbying intensely for their own interests, and their efforts have been met with stunning success. We working people need to mount a campaign to pressure the government to respond our needs.

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By William Fisher

The assertion that there are 75 detainees who are too dangerous to release, but can't be prosecuted, and therefore must be held indefinitely, defies common sense.

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Bankdaten dürfen nicht wie geplant aus Europa in die USA fließen, fordert Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Peter Schaar auf FR-online.de. Das geplante Abkommen sei ein "massiver Grundrechtseingriff". Außerdem: die Macht von Google und das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung. Interview von Matthias Thieme in der FR vom 26.11.2009 https://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2103441_Datenschuetzer-Schaar-Totale-Kontrolle-waere-die-Hoelle.html


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US-Terrorfahnder: EU-Front gegen Datenweitergabe bröckelt

„In der Europäischen Union wächst der Druck auf Deutschland und Österreich, dem umstrittenen Abkommen zur Weitergabe von Bankdaten an US-Terrorfahnder zuzustimmen. Frankreich und Finnland hätten ihre Datenschutzbedenken bereits "weitgehend aufgegeben", sagten EU-Diplomaten der FTD…“ Artikel von Reinhard Hönighaus , Monika Dunkel und Sabine Muscat in der fdt online vom 23.11.09 https://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:us-terrorfahnder-eu-front-gegen-datenweitergabe-broeckelt/50041413.html


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Unhappy Thanksgiving

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Ten months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, those 'Yes We Can' and "Hope" slogans have begun to ring more than a little hollow. Of course, the man inherited a vast array of ongoing catastrophes from his predecessor, and it is a dead-bang certainty that ten months under a McCain administration would have left us in far worse shape than we find ourselves in today, but the realization that matters are only slightly better than they would have been under the worst-case scenario doesn't go very far anymore. Some things are better, but the fact of the matter is that some things are worse, and most things are exactly the same."

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US-Regierung plant 9/11-Schauprozesse vor Zivilgericht in New York.
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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was tied in with a 'dirty bomb plot' that never even existed. After his ordeal in Morocco, he spent four months in the CIA's 'Dark Prison' in Kabul, and was then flown to Guantanamo in September 2004."

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UK: Miliband attacks judges over torture ruling

Independent [UK]

12/15/09

The Government has launched a damaging attack on the judiciary in its increasingly desperate legal battle to stop the public from seeing evidence of Britain’s involvement in torture. Lawyers acting for the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, yesterday accused two High Court judges of acting ‘irresponsibly’ when they delivered a ruling in favour of disclosure of sensitive material relating to the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, by US agents...

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