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Mittwoch, 11. November 2009

We Are Heading Toward A New World Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SEOMMdZ1sI

From APFN daily update

rudkla - 11. Nov, 08:47

China's Premier Warns Obama to Get America's Deficit to an "Appropriate Size"

A clear message to the leader of the world's largest debtor nation from its largest creditor.

https://snipurl.com/t6aha

Commercial mortgage lending down 54%

Commercial and multifamily mortgage lending in the U.S. fell 12 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter and is down 54 percent from year ago levels, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

https://snipurl.com/t6ahn

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=America+deficit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage

rudkla - 11. Nov, 06:08

Torture Memos Author John Yoo Withdraws from Federalist Society Panel

John Yoo, author of the most infamous of the "torture memos" withdrew as a speaker at the conservative Federalist Society Convention where Alliance for Justice and human rights supporters are scheduled to take action.

https://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoo-withdrew-amidst-growing-call-for.html

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo

rudkla - 11. Nov, 06:04

What Will It Take to Break Our Trance?

By Doug Page

We are a nation of millions of brainwashed individualists, living, working, and acting under false perceptions of reality as if we were all "Manchurian Candidates." We have forgotten that government is the only effective institution that we have to protect us from the brute force of the Law of the Jungle. If we do not very quickly awaken from our trance, and act together in a cooperative human community, millions of us will perish.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23938.htm

rudkla - 11. Nov, 05:58

Denying Responsibility for the Wars One Cheers On

By Glenn Greenwald

The NYT columnist who has supported 4 wars on Muslims in 6 years decries the Islamic disregard for human life.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23934.htm

Can Attacks on a Military Base Constitute "Terrorism"?

By Glenn Greenwald

If attacks on soldiers now qualify, how is it possible to exclude many American actions?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23933.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

rudkla - 11. Nov, 05:49

Guantanamo Conditions 'Deteriorate'

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/10-0

A Word, Mr. President
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/10-7

ACLU: 9/11 Families Want Guantánamo Detainees Prosecuted In Federal Court
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/10-2

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11+families
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

rudkla - 11. Nov, 05:39

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

11/10/09

Veterans Day arrives tomorrow, and with it, the anticipated harvest of heartbreaking anecdotes driving the press coverage and our ever wandering attention back to less desirable realities: the disfigured but persevering hero, the homeless warrior, the unemployable sergeant, the father or son or daughter who came home a stranger and cannot be reached. Usually, there is nothing more powerful than a personal story to pound home the cost of eight years of war overseas, but I think today there is something even more disturbing to bear. It’s the number 90,591...

https://tinyurl.com/yb5bjra

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Day
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=casualties
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos

rudkla - 10. Nov, 09:37