World-News

Five US citizens held in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting attacks have alleged that US officials directed their torture to extract confessions.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8509027.stm



FBI Wants To Follow You Around The Internet

FBI chief Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track everything their customers do on the Internet, and keep those records for two years. The government plan would give the FBI access to "origin and destination information" for all users.

https://snipurl.com/uc8y0


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Mueller
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The largely mythical US success in Iraq is now to be replicated in Afghan towns like Marjah and skirmishes there will be heavily reported.

https://snipurl.com/uc8td


From Information Clearing House

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The battle for Marjah

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

02/11/10

The message the US military wants to send is that in Afghanistan it is fighting a winnable war and not blundering deeper into a quagmire. The press likes short wars. Its audience is never so eager for news as during an armed conflict. The first newspapers date from the wars of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Television likes the melodrama of exploding shells and blazing tanks. And it is this very eagerness to report the fighting that makes it so easy to manipulate. The US army successfully sold the “surge” in Iraq as a military victory so that the American public scarcely noticed that US troops were withdrawing, leaving Iraq in the hands of a government closely allied to Iran...

https://counterpunch.org/patrick02112010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/12-6



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By Niall Ferguson

US government debt is a safe haven the way Pearl Harbor was a safe haven in 1941.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24650.htm



The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have America's Money

By Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong

America's leading role in the international economy is waning as other world powers find themselves holding onto trillions in U.S. debt.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24653.htm



The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy

Audio Interview With Dr. Michael Hudson

We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24654.htm



You Think Greece Has Problems?

Latvia's Road to Serfdom

By Prof Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeff Summers

It is indeed time to start worrying about whether the Baltics may be a dress rehearsal for what we are about to see in the United States.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24688.htm



Goldman Sachs: the Greek connection

Goldman Sachs, the giant investment bank, is today at the centre of the row over the Greek government's finances, amid recriminations over complex financial deals that allowed the eurozone nation to skirt its debt limits.

https://snipurl.com/udn6s



Goldman Goes Rogue - Special European Audit To Follow

We learn - from Der Spiegel last week and today's NYT - that Goldman Sachs has not only helped or encouraged some European governments to hide a large part of their debts, but it also endeavored to do so for Greece as recently as last November.

https://snipurl.com/udn71



Commercial Real Estate Losses Could Hit $300 Billion

Losses from defaults on commercial real estate loans maturing in the next few years could go as high as $300 billion, threatening to topple nearly 3,000 community banks nationwide, a federal watchdog group has concluded.

https://snipurl.com/udn7e



US banks facing $1.4tn crisis over commercial property loans

America's fragile high street banks are bracing themselves for a fresh financial crunch as a wave of commercial property mortgages go sour on offices, shops and factories, causing losses of up to $300bn (£192bn) hitting nearly 3,000 small- and medium-sized financial institutions.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/11/banks-crisis-commercial-property-loans

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Michael Hudson discusses the 'neoliberal oligarchy' the U.S. has become
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9411/

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Speculators Playing with Debt

C.M., L'Humanite: "How speculators make their profits and accumulate fortunes on the backs of the Greek people. An invention of the financial witch-doctors, the CDS, or "credit default swap" finds its origin in insurance policies on loans, guaranteeing them against default of reimbursement by a state or an enterprise. They have now become the fatted calves for Anglo-American speculative hedge funds."

https://www.truthout.org/speculators-playing-with-debt56940

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Are US Taxpayers Bailing Out Greece?
https://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1830297/12759198/112380/0/



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By Washington's Blog

I don't know whether the official declaration of a "state of emergency" in effect from September 2001 to today was directly used for financial looting. But again, the fear of an existential threat to our country was used to justify the looting.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24651.htm

Beat The Chip

02/09/10

Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of ‘lobbyist privacy’ to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. As the court observed, ‘There is a clear public interest in public knowledge of the methods through which well-connected corporate lobbyists wield their influence’...

https://tinyurl.com/ylf6a7t


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mccullagh5.1.1.html

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Lobbyists Laughing at Obama 'All the Way to the Bank'
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/12-10



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Business Week

02/11/10

U.S. foreclosure filings rose 15 percent in January from a year earlier and exceeded 300,000 for the 11th consecutive month as modification programs failed to keep delinquent borrowers in their homes, RealtyTrac Inc. said. A total of 315,716 properties received a notice of default, auction or bank seizure last month, or one in 409 households, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a statement. Filings fell 10 percent from December...

https://tinyurl.com/yh6rd6j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/politicians-cause-disaster.html



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https://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland13.1.html

Secession in the Air
https://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan129.html

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Odious Debt

Refuse to Pay Government Debt Incurred for Unlawful and Oppressive Purposes

By Washington's Blog

There is an established legal principle that people should not have to repay their government's debt to the extent that it is incurred to launch aggressive wars or to oppress the people.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24662.htm



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https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9403-commentary-on-racism-and-the-tea-party.html

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Tea Partiers: Ron Paul Bad, ConAgra & Bombing Iran Good
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/paul-vs-palin-tea-parties.html

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The Tea Party's Radicalism

E.J. Dionne Jr., Truthout: "So what exactly is the Tea Party movement and why has it risen up? The ferocity of its opposition to President Obama is mystifying to political progressives. Most of the left simply doesn't see the current occupant of the White House as especially liberal, let alone socialist."

https://www.truthout.org/ej-dionne-jr-the-tea-party%E2%80%99s-radicalism56813

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Is Racism Still Alive in America?
https://act.commondreams.org/go/88?akid=11.124981.uDRIl3&t=22



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