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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." : Abraham Lincoln - (1809 -1865) 16th US President = "The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man",: Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy (1922) = "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.": Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President - Source: letter 01/10/1917 = "The vested interests - if we explain the situation by their influence - can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent." Sir Norman Angell 1872 - 1967 === The Slow Death of Gaza By Andrea Becker === Moving Beyond Political Activism Deprivation and Desperation in Gaza By Joe Mowrey As conditions in the Gaza strip approach a catastrophic level of deprivation, the worldedia, and in particular the U.S. media, remain largely silent. The United Nations, whose truckloads of food and medical supplies continue to be denied entry into Gaza by Israel, appears to be one of the few international voices of dissent concerning the collective punishment of 1.5 million human beings. This, despite the fact that more than 50% of the population in Gaza is comprised of children under the age of 15. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21308.htm === "Nobody Is Watching " America's Hidden War in Somalia By Paul Salopek === War Of The Worlds By Yvonne Ridley === 7.7 Trillion Dollars And Counting The Cost Of "Rescuing" The US Financial System By Hamilton Nolan === You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet "The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them" Albert Einstein By Mike Whitney It is vital to realize that markets are never under some obligation to stop falling merely because they have already fallen by an ungodly amount. It also is vital to explore how bad the worst-case scenario can get and to think about how you would respond if it comes to pass. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21313.htm === Citibank Flips The Bird To American Taxpayers By The New York Crank Last week, while Congress was engineering a bailout package of the taxpayers' money to rescue Citibank and save the economy, Citibank was sending out notices to its cardholders of a new and usurious policy - a policy that could drown consumers and help sink the economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21316.htm === Citizens' Economic Stimulus Plan Stop Paying Credit Card Debt By Richard C. Cook Almost nothing has been done to help the consumers within the producing economy who have lost trillions of dollars in the stock market crash, seen the value of their homes fall in many cases below what they owe on their mortgages, and lost jobs or health benefits through the escalating recession. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21315.htm === What To Do When Your Party Sucks By David Michael Green What does it say when a buffoon like Sarah Palin, a would-be Il Duce in a skirt - only even more comical - can say and do and be anything idiotic and cringe-worthy, and column after column of the loyal troops will still adore her, perhaps even more so, marching off to war in her name? What it says to me is that this party is going nowhere ideologically. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21314.htm === 29 killed in occupied Afghanistan: US-led forces in Afghanistan said Sunday they had killed an Afghan civilian in a battle that also left two militants dead, as 26 other Taliban-linked rebels were reported killed in separate clashes. http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208274 === Pakistan: PPP leader, 27 others killed in clashes: Twenty-eight people, including a leader of the ruling PPP, a woman councillor and 25 militants, were killed in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province and nearby tribal belt. http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208274 === Are India and Afghanistan colluding to destroy Pakistan?: An article in The New York Times says that there is an "increasing belief" among Pakistanis, including members of the armed forces, that what the US really wants is the breakup of Pakistan, the only Muslim country with nuclear arms. http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=2808&sec=1 ===
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Deadly day of bombings kills 23 in occupied Iraq: A FEMALE suicide bomber blew herself up near an entrance to the United States-protected Green Zone and a bomb tore through a minibus carrying Iraqi government employees in separate attacks yesterday that killed at least 20 people, Iraqi officials said. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=381966&type=World === Iraqi parliament biggest bloc rallies behind US agreement: Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said Sunday the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) was fully behind the US-Iraq security agreement, and disclosed that special teams would be formed to convince parliamentary blocs to approve the deal. http://tinyurl.com/5q529c === 'Kill Ahmadinejad, halt Iran's N-drive': === Israeli retracts calls to kill Ahmadinejad: === Iran: We uncovered Mossad espionage ring : === Israel eases Gaza blockade temporarily: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said the deliveries were insufficient for long-term needs. http://tinyurl.com/5e68ag === Cash crunch leaves Gazans using tattered notes: Desperate Gazans crowded into banks on Monday, jostling to get to the front of lines as they raced to withdraw money from accounts that have become largely inaccessible due to Israeli sanctions. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27890651/ === Gaza Catholics without Sunday mass: === Hamas chief slams Arab states over 'Gaza tragedy': "What is happening in the Gaza Strip is a tragedy. Shame on those who stay silent on the criminal blockade that has been imposed on Gaza. Shame on Arab and Islamic regimes and on the international community," Khaled Meshaal told a meeting in Syria on the right of return for Palestinian refugees. http://tinyurl.com/5sywg9 === URGENT STATEMENT BY ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS WORLDWIDE: === Abbas says not one issue resolved in Mideast peace talks: === Rice: Israeli politics preventing peace: The fact that Israel and the Palestinians have not reached a peace agreement and will likely fail to do so by the end of 2008 is "largely due to" political turmoil in Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday night. http://tinyurl.com/6nnwsb === VIDEO / Policeman filmed head-butting Palestinian residents: The Justice Ministry's Police Investigation Department (PID) recently launched an investigation in efforts to locate a patrol police officer who was documented head-butting two Arab residents of East Jerusalem, a man and a woman, while evacuating homes slated for demolition. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1040584.html === Russia: World victim of missile shield: === In show of power, Russian warships head to Venezuela: The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela this week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status. http://tinyurl.com/6bkkek === Chavez Allies Win Majority in Venezuela Local Elections: === US drug enforcement agency complicit in drug trade, says Morales: === Britain set to slash tax on goods and services: Britain was Monday expected to announce a cut in value added tax (VAT) to 15 percent from 17.5 percent to stimulate spending on goods and services as the nation faces recession. http://tinyurl.com/63wvjw === Obama may delay tax-cut rollback for wealthy: - === Citigroup Gets U.S. Rescue From Losses, Cash Infusion : The $20 billion of new cash comes on top of a $25 billion infusion the bank received last month under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, passed by Congress to shore up the financial industry. http://tinyurl.com/5qk9t2 === All US Financials Will be Nationalized in a Year: Manager: It's not preferable, but all major U.S. financial companies will eventually be under government control because the alternative is so much worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday. http://www.cnbc.com/id/27835645 ==== US October home price drop is new record: Today's figures compare with the 4.86 million level reached in June, the lowest in a decade and 33 percent below the record reached in September 2005. Resales have fluctuated around a 4.96 million rate this year. http://tinyurl.com/6mycc6 === Let us work towards Peace and Joy Tom Feeley |
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