World-News: 26 Januar 2011

Last Friday, U.S. regulators shuttered four more banks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Colorado, pushing up the failed U.S. banks figure to 7 so far in 2011. These were preceded by 157 bank failures in 2010, 140 in 2009 and 25 in 2008.

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/46392/Bank+Failures+Rise+to+7

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 22:33

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Excusing Torture at 'Justice'

By Ray McGovern

Catholics are more likely than the general U.S. population to favor the use of torture against suspected terrorists. More than half the Catholics surveyed said that torture could be often or sometimes justified, while another 27 percent said the practice could rarely be justified. Only 20 percent said it could never be justified.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27353.htm

Onward Christian Soldiers ... To Hypocrisy

By William Rivers Pitt

Make no mistake: this movement to turn the Armed Forces into a bastion of hard-core fundamentalist Christianity is as dangerous as any threat posed to the country by any outside force or enemy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27350.htm

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 22:23

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SOTU address: The real story of Obama and corporate America

The New Republic
by Noam Scheiber

01/25/11

The president isn t caving to business. He s co-opting it...
http://tinyurl.com/4z9ruvp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Post-SOTU Analysis
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson-brian/wilson-brian32.1.html

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What the 1% Heard During Obama s State of the Union Speech

Shamus Cooke, Countercurrents: Obama s state of the union address was such a speech, a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses; easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14741-what-the-1-heard-during-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=SOTU
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 10:10

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New Republicans, same old militarism

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Benjamin H. Friedman

01/24/11

As the 112th Congress gets under way, a key question remains about where tea-party influence will push the Republican caucus on foreign policy ? toward a more restrained stance on overseas commitments and Pentagon spending, or in the familiar trajectory of fiscally calamitous military adventures. Since the tea party took off last year, pundits have predicted that its anti-spending zealots would eventually target the Pentagon. Neoconservatives are clearly nervous about that prospect...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12727

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militarism
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Benjamin+H.+Friedman

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 10:03

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War is not moral

Liberty For All
by Wrights 2012 Staff

01/25/11

R. Lee Wrights: "You do not teach people it is wrong to kill people by killing people. You only perpetuate war and sentence our children to death on battlefields far from home. There is nothing moral about sending someone else?s loved one to fight for something in which you believe. I want to bring those loved ones home...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5482

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=perpetuate+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:58

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US November home prices down for fifth straight month

Reuters

01/25/11

U.S. single-family home prices fell for a fifth straight month in November and could plumb new lows soon, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.5 percent in November from October on a seasonally adjusted basis, though it was not as sharp as the 0.8 percent fall expected by economists...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN258222420110125

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=home+price
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:54

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Glenn Beck Incites Violence; Keith Olbermann Departs

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-2

Violence on the Right: More Evidence
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-4

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:42

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The Rhetoric of Fear Feeds Terror

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25-3

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amanda+Marcotte
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:39

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Obama to Push Bogus 'Competitiveness' Theme in State of the Union Address

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/25-6

White House Opposes GOP Attack On Public Financing, But Obama Makes Flawed Advocate
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/25-5

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:30

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The Next Robo-Signing Crisis?

It's the next big shoe to drop in the robo-signing foreclosure scandal. Call it part two.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41250862

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:22

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Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner and Victim of US Rendition and Torture Speaks

Video

"What they did to me, me and my family won't forget for 100 years," Madni says. "There are a lot of people like me that never did anything and were in Guantánamo Bay."

http://bit.ly/hjO57Z

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:18

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Tony Blair went to war without cabinet consent

Tony Blair has been accused by two former heads of the civil service of taking the country to war in Iraq without the approval of his cabinet.

http://bit.ly/gzlSWf

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:13

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Time to follow Fields' example and quit Afghanistan

Billions lost as fraud mars US plan to build

Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction: Fields said, thanks to widespread corruption and delays in projects, US troops will have to be in the war-hit country until the year 2025.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161846.html

U.S. watchdog warns billions invested in Afghan security at risk

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, retired Marine Gen. Arnold Fields, in what may be his final public event before he retires next month, painted a starkly pessimistic picture of what lies ahead in Afghanistan.

http://bit.ly/gn6mfX

Time to follow Fields' example and quit Afghanistan

The White House should draw a larger conclusion from the resignation of its corruption inspector for Afghanistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/11/us-military-usforeignpolicy

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 26. Jan, 09:08

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