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"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code." - Carl Gustav Jung =
"All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic =
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice === India's Leaders Need to Look Closer to Home The Assault on Mumbai By Tariq Ali Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21345.htm === US is Funding Terrorism Deepak Chopra Blames Washington For Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Video and Text Chopra: What we have seen in Mumbai has been brewing for a long time, and the war on terrorism and the attack on Iraq compounded the situation. What we call "collateral damage" and going after the wrong people actually turns moderates into extremists, and that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21341.htm === Iraqi Academics Assassinated During the US-Led Occupation By Michel Chossudovsky The objective of these targeted assassinations is to "kill a nation", the destroy Iraq's ability to educate its people, to undermine its research and scientific capabilities in literally all fields of endeavor, to transform a nation into a territory, and ultmately to destroy civilization.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21343.htm === Iranian Radio Says Referendum Will Arm Iraqi Officials Against US 'Pressures' By Juan Cole === Kafka and Uighurs at Guantánamo By Ray McGovern I would add the suggestion that we as a country make an open apology and ask the rest of the world for forgiveness for our straying so far from the ideals upon which our country was founded. Then there can be true thanksgiving for real closure, and an end to a particularly disgraceful chapter in our country's history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21336.htm === The Custodians Of Empire Obama's "New" National Security Team Is Not Very New By Tom Engelhardt The next secretary of state looks to be Hillary Clinton, a hawk on the Middle East. During the campaign, she spoke of our ability to "totally obliterate" Iran, should that country carry out a nuclear strike against Israel. She will evidently be allowed to bring her own (hawkish) subordinates into the State Department with her. Her prospective appointment is now being praised by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Henry Kissinger.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21337.htm === Doves Keep The Faith as Obama Team Tilts Right By Jonathan Martin Leading opponents of the war have mostly been silent as president-elect Barack Obama, who first built his national image on the foundation of his early opposition to the Iraq war, assembles a group of national security hands that is anything but a team of doves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21344.htm === Learning to Lead By Dahr Jamail We in the United States have grown acclimatized to a system that first dehumanizes us and then inevitably feeds on our dehumanization, sucking away at our resources, our rights, and our resistance while we scamper frantically around in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21348.htm === Now I've Seen Everything A spy goes to work for a thinktank By Justin Raimondo Well, here's one for the record books: the Middle East Forum has hired Steve Rosen, once the head of policy development for the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen is accused of stealing highly classified information from the U.S. government and passing it on to Israeli government officials.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21338.htm === "This Hilltop and That Hilltop" Israel's Settlement on Capitol Hill By Robert Weitzel === Five Members of Congress Being Probed in Bribery Affair By John Byrne === New U.S. Mortgage Crisis Looms By MATT APUZZO === CEOs "Cashed Out" Prior To Economic Crisis By Tom Eley Balzac's maxim that "behind every great fortune lies a great crime" may yet prove a fitting epitaph for American capitalism. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal reveals that CEOs at major US financial and real estate firms converted tens of millions of dollars of overvalued stock into cash prior to the eruption of the current financial crisis, even as many of their corporations approached the precipice.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21335.htm === Peace: The Blessing of Renewed Hope This Thanksgiving By Joy Walker Having been drawn into research of the politics of war by despair following our military's attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, I became familiar with some methods of propaganda used to manipulate good people into supporting aggression against their neighbors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21342.htm === Least We Forget The War Prayer Don't Miss This - By Mark Twain O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17801.htm ===
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BRITISH gunmen seized in commando raids as death toll hits more than 150: As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London's July 7 bombers lived, one source said.
http://tinyurl.com/57m43u === === India blames Pakistan for Mumbai attacks, Islamabad rebuts charge: 'According to preliminary information, some elements in Pakistan are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks,' Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted as saying by the PTI news agency.
http://tinyurl.com/6quhf9 === Mumbai attacks: UK link played down: UK authorities played down reports that the terrorists included Britons as violence in the city continued for a third day.
http://tinyurl.com/6gfseo === Five hostages killed in Jewish centre-Mumbai police: "Five hostages have been killed and the place is yet to be fully secured, which we hope to do soon," Hasan Gafoor, the Mumbai police commissioner, said by telephone.
http://tinyurl.com/6ra9ns === India blames Pakistan for Mumbai attacks, Islamabad rebuts charge: 'According to preliminary information, some elements in Pakistan are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks,' Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted as saying by the PTI news agency.
http://tinyurl.com/6quhf9 ==== Propaganda, News? LeT terrorists trained to carry out marine terror ops: Police on Thursday arrested a man named Ismail, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist, in connection with a series of attacks across Mumbai's busiest and most opulent areas over the last two days.
http://tinyurl.com/5chp48 === 'Foreign militants entering Balochistan via Pak-Afghan border': === 13 killed in Pakistan attacks: === Coalition forces strike into heart of Zhari district - killing 21 Taliban: === 20 Killed As Taliban Ambush Afghan Troops: ==== Two UK occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ==== Afghans riot in Kabul after civilian killed: === Afghan anger over another civilian killed: === Karzai: Foreign troops have not made life better: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticised the seven-year Afghan war, complaining that the US and NATO troops have not made life better
http://tinyurl.com/6bdww9 === Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border: ==== UK All-Party Commission Rejects US Policy of Isolating Iran: The commission, co-chaired by former NATO secretary general Lord Robertson and former High Representative for Bosnia Lord Ashdown, also recommended bringing in Iran as well as Russia, Pakistan and China in a regional peace conference on Afghanistan.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208479 ===
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Iran says would welcome Obama talks: report: Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, the country's vice president said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency
http://tinyurl.com/5l3exs ==== U.S. accuses Syria of copying Iran nuclear cover-up tactics: === IAEA chief baffled over lack of Syria nuclear info: === Israel to bomb Iran through Turkey?: === Two Palestinians killed as Israeli tanks invade Gaza: ==== Israel violating international law by Gaza blockade, says UK: ==== Iraqi suicide bomber kills 12 atmosque: An Iraqi suicide bomber killed 12 people when he blew himself up outside a mosque for followers of "radical" cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
http://tinyurl.com/5gb96o ==== Thousands protest in Iraq against U.S. troops pact: Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=980995 ==== Sadr calls for three days of mourning: === The US-Iraq Deal Doesn't Bode Well: === US pact 'could mean torture': === Full Text The Agreement : === At least 3 killed in Somalia market blast: === Ethiopia to pull troops out of Somalia: === U.S. war on drugs has failed, report says: The United States' war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a former president of Mexico.
http://tinyurl.com/5pcah2 ==== China slashes interest rates as panic spreads: The People's Bank of China cut interest rates by more than 1pc point as the economy crumbles and millions of jobs are predicted to go ahead of Christmas.
http://tinyurl.com/68fjya ==== Financial Bailout Balloons to the Trillions: The government's financial bailout will be the most expensive single expenditure in American history, potentially costing around $7.5 trillion -- or half the value of all the goods and services produced in the United States last year.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6332892 ===
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Financial Bailout Balloons to the Trillions: The government's financial bailout will be the most expensive single expenditure in American history, potentially costing around $7.5 trillion -- or half the value of all the goods and services produced in the United States last year.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6332892 Totally. Insane. Printing money lays waste to economies. You'd think that saner heads would shut this stuff down. --L.B. |
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