World-News: 29 Dezember 2010

Starmail - 29. Dez, 23:12

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US Drone Attacks Are No Laughing Matter, Mr. Obama

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-7

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 23:01

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US house prices fall in October, set to tumble further still

Christian Science Monitor

12/28/10)

House prices fell across the US in October and have dropped roughly 2 percent nationwide since June, according to data released by Standard & Poor's Tuesday. The news sent a sharp reminder that real estate remains a weak spot in the recovering US economy, and that the price declines that began four years ago probably aren't finished. One potential reason for the decline: the impact of a temporary tax credit designed to lure home buyers has faded...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 09:53

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Next-up news Nr 1545

- Salud Pública: Película Full Signal, operación sensibilización países de América del Sur.
- Ayudas para asociaciones de militantes que están en lucha contra las irradiaciones de las microondas artificiales producidas por la telefonía móvil sobre la población.
- Envíos gratuitos de DVDs de la película Full Signal en español a las asociaciones para sensibilizar.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Antenas_Telefonia_Movil_Espana.php#1
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Starmail - 29. Dez, 09:47

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NGOs, military and intelligence officials refute Obama's claims of progress in Afghanistan

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10100/

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 08:38

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The Christmas Truce of 1914: 'Threat to National Security'?

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "As we celebrate Christmas 2010, 100,000 US troops languish in Afghanistan, and Bradley Manning sits in 'maximum custody' in Quantico for the alleged crime of disclosing classified 'secrets' about US foreign policy - 'secrets' like the video of US troops killing two Reuters employees in Iraq, a video that the US military refused to release to Reuters. It is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Season of Peace, just as it is a particular stain on our country to be at war during the Olympics. 'Peace on Earth' should stick in our throats a bit this holiday season, when our own government is bombing other people's countries, a practice which we have, so far, been unable to stop."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-christmas-truce-1914-threat-national-security66325

US to Vatican: Genetically Modified Food Is a "Moral Imperative"

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "Secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks detail efforts to promote genetically modified (GM) crops and biotechnology across the globe, including the Vatican, where US diplomats pushed the Roman Catholic Church to support biotech food in developing nations. Cables from embassies in Spain, Austria and even Pakistan reveal the US diplomats have clearly sided with the biotech industry, even as court cases and public debates over GM food raged in the US and abroad."

http://www.truth-out.org/us-vatican-genetically-modified-food-is-a-moral-imperative66369

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The treasonous US government

Strike The Root Strike the Root
by Scott Lazarowitz

12/28/10

The ongoing WikiLeaks affair has been an expose of who really understands the principles that define America, and who is truly confused. The 'classified' leakers and their publishers ... are merely attempting to expose the State and its crimes as well as its outright ridiculousness and irrationality. The ones who defend the State?s intrusions abroad, the killing of innocents, the occupations of foreign lands, the removal of due process through renditions, indefinite detentions and assassinations without cause or even suspicion, are the ones who want to suppress any exposing of those State crimes...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/treasonous-us-government

State lawlessness on the rampage

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/28/10

The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the US government of US law, international law, the Constitution, and truth, more suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility from the rest of the world, and new heights of media sycophancy...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts12282010.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Capital's War Against WikiLeaks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-11

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 06:10

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Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy

Milagros Salazar, Inter Press Service: "The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study. More than 1,000 km of roads will have to be carved out of primary and secondary forests to build the dams and power plants and put up power lines, says the report, carried out by engineer Jose Serra for ProNaturaleza, a leading conservation organisation in Peru."

http://www.truth-out.org/sacrificing-rainforest-altar-energy66333

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 06:02

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Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a less-reported and potentially more sinister measure is set to take effect on January 1, 2011. This new law, which was passed by the conservative state legislature at the behest of then-School Superintendent (and now Attorney General-elect) Tom Horne, is designated HB 2281 and is colloquially referred to as a measure to ban ethnic studies programs in the state. As with SB 1070, the implications of this law are problematic, wide-ranging and decidedly hate filled."

http://www.truth-out.org/arizona-bans-ethnic-studies-and-along-with-it-reason-and-justice66340

Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal in Arizona as of January 1

Lourdes Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor: "A controversial Arizona law targeting ethnic studies in public schools will take effect come midnight.... The law bans classes that promote the overthrow of the United States government and resentment toward a race or class of people. Also outlawed are courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group and those that advocate ethnic solidarity rather than treat students as individuals. In Arizona, critics claim that the law ? along with the partially suspended immigration law ? threatens to make the state a "new South" of discrimination against minorities."

http://www.truth-out.org/ethnic-studies-classes-illegal-arizona-jan-166457

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More states following Arizona on Know-Nothing appeasement

Bloomberg News

12/29/10

Arizona?s get-tough approach to illegal [sic] immigration has sparked court challenges likely to take years to resolve. Randy Terrill, a Republican state lawmaker from Oklahoma, won?t be waiting to see what judges decide. Terrill is among dozens of state legislators drafting measures that match or go further than the Arizona law, which requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped for questioning...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 29. Dez, 05:55

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