World-News

Britons' confidence in the economy and their finances has suffered its biggest drop in close to 20 years, raising fears that the Government's austerity onslaught will set off a self-feeding downward spiral.

http://bit.ly/eo0oY1


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
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Congress did empower the president in 2001 to pursue al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But a decade later, where's the oversight?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/27/afghanistan-congress


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Ackerman
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CNBC anchor implies

CNBC anchor implies US must support dictators to keep cheap oil flowingCNBC contributor Erin Burnett said Friday that oil prices would skyrocket if countries in the ´ broke out from under the rule of brutal dictators.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/cnbc-anchor-implies-support-dictators-cheap-oil/


From Information Clearing House

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By Kristian Smith

"The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27369.htm



The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread

By Paul Craig Roberts

While people in Tunisia and Egypt have taken to the streets in attempts to gain their liberty, Americans are losing their liberty with minimal protest.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27368.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
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http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2011/01.htm
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MSNBC

01/27/11

The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday. As we reported last month, by May the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails...

http://tinyurl.com/62yhzqa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Palin
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Fox News

01/26/11

Arizona is expected to set off another seismic immigration wave on Thursday, when both chambers of its legislature expect to hear the introduction of bills denying citizenship to U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants. Republican State Sen. Ron Gould said he and Republican State Rep. John Kavanagh agreed on a day for each to introduce the legislation, but Gould said that timetables for consideration of the bills by the separate chambers will diverge at that point.

http://tinyurl.com/4gfoncz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arizona
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
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USA Today

01/27/11

Dozens of Guantanamo inmates are protesting their imprisonment with a sit-in and signs to mark the ninth anniversary of the prison camp's opening. The Center for Constitutional Rights says the prisoners are refusing to return to their cells for the required nightly lockdown and that they are sleeping in the recreational yard and other areas.

http://tinyurl.com/67bj8n6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Center+for+Constitutional+Rights

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Jim Hightower: "Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they're recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they've come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get America moving again. Ready? 'Win the future.' Takes your breath away, doesn't it? If you're old enough to remember Gerald Ford's hapless presidency, Obama's fabulous new slogan might have a familiar ring to it."

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-obama-inc67200

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The revolutionary wave

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/28/11

The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the myth of 'American exceptionalism.' We cannot and will not be excepted from the iron laws of economics, which mandate that you can?t consume more than you produce -- no matter how many Federal Reserve notes (otherwise known as 'money') you print. The implications for US foreign policy are radical, and unsettling...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/27/the-revolutionary-wave/



The state of the union is still a state of war

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

01/27/11

What was glaringly absent from President Obama?s state of the union address Tuesday night, as well as from the response from both the Republicans and the Tea Party movement, is an admission that the real state of the union is a state of war...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5487



For the budget crisis, a fake solution

Reason Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/27/11

The latest Obama plan would cut projected outlays by an estimated $400 billion in the next decade, and the Republican alternative would cut spending by $2.5 trillion. It's a measure of our predicament that these enormous sums wouldn't make a lot of difference, even if they were achieved. They're the equivalent of trying to empty a swimming pool with a tablespoon...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/27/for-the-budget-crisis-a-fake-s



The Human Rights Act: A crime against liberty

Spiked
by Jon Holbrook

01/27/11

The current debate about control orders shows how human-rights legislation actually aids the state in its attacks on our freedom...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10137/



Time now to step up the rhetoric

Fr33 Agents
by Szandor Blestman

01/26/11

Pretty words do not make up for up for ugly actions. A man who beats his spouse can tell her he loves her as he blackens her eyes and breaks her will. We all know who Mr. Obama really works for...

http://fr33agents.net/2011/01/26/time-now-to-step-up-the-rhetoric/



Freedom is not compatible with government?s initiation of force against innocent people

Liberty & Power
by Robert Higgs

01/26/11

[A] presumption in favor of freedom rules out virtually everything that modern governments do, certainly nearly everything they do in interfering in economic affairs. Redistribution of income, for example, requires that the government rob Peter in order to benefit Paul (and its own functionaries, who serve as middlemen in this transfer). This action is not freedom; it is a crime against Peter, a raw violation of his right to his own legitimate property...

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/135881.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Chapman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Szandor+Blestman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Higgs

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A continuing weak economy and last month's bipartisan tax cut legislation will drive the government's deficit to a record $1.5 trillion this year, a new government estimates predicts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41272983/ns/politics-more_politics/



Watchdog Says Bank Bailouts Made 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Even Bigger

Neil Barofsky, head of the group charged with overseeing the government's handling of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) says the "too-big-to-fail" problem has not been solved; in fact, it's gotten worse.

http://bit.ly/hF2A2N



Mortgage applications tumble 12.9% as refinancing activity falls 15.3%

The number of refinancing applications fell 15.3% last week to the lowest point in 12 months, according to the MBA. And purchase applications didn't fare any better dropping 8.7% to the lowest point since October.

http://bit.ly/gotH9x



U.S. Home Prices Keep Weakening as Eight Cities Reach New Lows in November

Prices are now falling - and falling just about everywhere. As S&P noted "eight markets - Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Portland (OR), Seattle and Tampa - hit their lowest levels since home prices peaked in 2006 and 2007".

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/01/case-shiller-us-home-prices-keep.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
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They worked at posh country clubs across South Florida, then returned to deceptively quiet houses in Boca Raton where they were captives -- and in the most dreadful cases, fed rotten chicken and vegetables, forced to drink muriatic acid and repeatedly denied medical help.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/23/2030710/modern-day-slaves-story-repeats.html


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=slaves
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The international community - including increasingly hostile public opinion in the European Union - needs to face the fact that Afghanistan will need support 'for the next 30 years rather than 30 months,' the bloc's envoy to Kabul has said.

http://bit.ly/ePK8Pv


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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A new report from the Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC) has reported that 2,043 Pakistanis have been slain in CIA drone strikes in the past 5 years, with the vast majority of them innocent civilians.

http://warisacrime.org/content/report-cia-drones-killed-over-2000-mostly-civilians-pakistan-2006


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
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By Agence France-Presse

The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27362.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=web+surfing
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By Andrew J. Bacevich

These four factors -- institutional self-interest, strategic inertia, cultural dissonance, and misremembered history -- insulate the military budget from serious scrutiny.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27360.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+spending
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
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By The Associated Press

Medvedev said, "the international community so far has no information that Iran is building nuclear weapons."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27355.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Medvedev
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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- Le Ministère de l'Energie Britannique confirme des discussions avec le Ministère de la Santé sur les risques des nouveaux compteurs d'électricité, du gaz et de l'eau.

http://www.next-up.org/France/ERDF_Compteur_mouchard_Linky.php#1
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker40.1.html

Replace Austerity With Freedom, Independence, and Prosperity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz20.1.html

Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead25.1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/whitehead
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Schmutziges Erdgas
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149149



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama

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Experten der Bundesregierung stellen Energiekonzept in Frage
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34092/1.html



Hundert Prozent bis 2050

Das Sondergutachten des Umweltrats beschreibt einen kostengünstigen Weg in den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energieträger.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149150



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brückentechnologie
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Schwarz+Gelb
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Unruhen in Ägypten: Die USA tun sich schwer damit, sich richtig zu positionieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149152

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