World-News

" The number of billionaires in the UK now stands at 73 - up from 53 last year and almost matching the record of 75 reached before the recession when the collective wealth of the top 1,000 was £413bn.

http://tinyurl.com/4ysr9yk



Florida Cuts Unemployment Benefits To Pay For Corporate Tax Cut

Conservative lawmakers in Utah falsely claimed that cutting jobless benefits would be 'motivation for people to get back to work,' while Michigan gutted its unemployment insurance system despite having one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/08/florida-benefits-corporate/


From Information Clearing House



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A complaint will be filed in the coming days in Brussels, Belgium, against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for 'crimes' committed in Libya, including the killing of the Libyan leader s son and his three grandchildren, French lawyer Philippe Missamou, announced Thursday to PANA.

http://bit.ly/lH8QRw


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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By Mike Whitney

While the public has been focused on Bin Laden, America s debt ceiling day of reckoning has been drawing ever closer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28060.htm



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

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By Yvonne Ridley

'..all that really happened in Pakistan is that a small group of American soldiers shot and killed an ageing, sickly man in a mansion, who was the nominal head of a small and increasingly fractured terrorist organization..'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28059.htm



Western Moral Authority Died in Abbottabad

By Joan Smith

For most of last week, the United States government seemed to be operating from a series of bellicose scripts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28055.htm



Doubts grow on US version of strike against bin Laden

The head of the CIA has admitted that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden s compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/doubts-grow-on-us-version-of-strike-against-bin-laden-20110505-1eaah.html



Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House
http://bit.ly/kpPQCE



Pakistan Prime Minister to warn US over Osama bin Laden raid

Pakistan s prime minister will on Monday warn the United States it will defend its air space if American forces mount another raid on terrorists suspected of hiding inside the country.

http://bit.ly/m7LIZG


From Information Clearing House



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

Extrajudicial killings by U.S. military forces have become the new norm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28057.htm

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The high cost of cheap war

In These Times
by David Sirota

05/06/11

It seems only fitting that in the very month the Terminator sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized artificial intelligence, The Guardian reported on a British Ministry of Defence analysis warning that drone warfare may be creating an 'incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality.' The report s life-imitating-Skynet idea of robots ultimately making combat decisions is certainly scary ? but still a bit fantastical. The more frightening part of the analysis was its look at how roboticized war may already be prompting governments to 'resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously'...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7280/the_high_cost_of_cheap_war/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
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http://www.i-sis.org.uk/African_Union_to_Support_Organic_Farming.php

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Conventional farmers won t eat their own food
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=2B8905351E28D05F8B2A7A0FF65BBEF2


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/2011/05/wir-wollen-wissen-wer-bezahlt-aktion-gegen-verschleierung-von-politiker-nebeneinkunften/

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Wir wollen wissen, wer bezahlt!

Die Parteien im Bundestag wollen Politiker-Nebeneinkünfte bis 10.000 Euro pro Auftraggeber nicht mehr offenlegen. Interessenkonflikte und politische Einflussnahme von Konzernen blieben unentdeckt. Helfen Sie, diese Pläne zu stoppen!

http://www.campact.de/transparenz/sn1/signer

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'Dem Wähler wird Sand in die Augen gestreut'

Interview mit Jochen Bäumel über die beabsichtige Änderung der Untergrenze bei der Veröffentlichung von Nebeneinkünften der Bundestagsabgeordneten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34715/1.html

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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/06/11

It was easy to ignore Paul s jeremiads against the Empire in the heyday of the financial bubble, and the concomitant bubble of American supremacy. Now that the bubble has burst - as Paul said it would - Americans are coming face to face with something they have so far assiduously evaded: reality. The economic and social reality of a bloated, over-extended colossus, an empire rotting at its metropolitan core and besieged on every far-flung frontier...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/05/05/empire-or-solvency/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

05/08/11

U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan are experiencing some of the greatest psychological stress and lowest morale in five years of fighting, reports a military study. 'We are an Army that s in uncharted territory here,' says Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Army vice chief of staff, who has focused on combat stress. 'We have never fought for this long with an all-volunteer force that's 1% of the population'...

http://tinyurl.com/3drj8jy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/stockman7.1.1.html

Is the 10% Market Correction Upon Us?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber108.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer235.html

Rule of Law?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/05/09/200-rule-of-law-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-rule-of-law/

Media Scrambles as bin Laden Story Crumbles
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/bin-laden-story-crumbles.html

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The politics of assasination

CounterPunch
by Ray McGovern

05/08/11

As America s morbid celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden begin to fade, we are left with a new landscape of risks - and opportunities - created by his slaying at the hands of a U.S. Special Forces team at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. ... If the Post s neoconservative editors get their way and the U.S. military is officially transformed into a roving assassination squad - a global 'Murder, Inc.' - it may turn out that future historians will view this as bin Laden s final victory...

http://counterpunch.org/mcgovern05062011.html



Blowback

Reason Reason
by Peter Suderman

05/06/11

It took nearly a decade after 9/11 to catch and kill Osama bin Laden. During that time, America launched two wars and a new cabinet-level security agency while funneling money into the defense budget at record levels. This was the United States government s response to bin Laden, yet very little of it contributed to his capture. We know what bin Laden cost us: thousands of American lives, a sense of safety and security for millions more. But now, with bin Laden finally dead, America and its leaders must also come to grips with what we have chosen to spend reacting to his acts of terror - and the sad fact that most of it wasn t worth the price...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/05/06/blowback



It s all about Pakistan

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/09/11

In a sense, the War Party is facing the same prospect they faced when the Soviet Union collapsed: total and complete irrelevance. That is particularly true at this conjuncture, with the US hurtling toward economic catastrophe and Americans getting noticeably restive in the face of cutbacks and severe economic straits. What s a warmonger to do? Simple: come up with a new enemy, a fresh face - or, better yet, an entire nation that can be demonized and made to play the role of stand-in for bin Laden. That nation, as you have probably already guessed, is Pakistan...

http://tinyurl.com/3dzz42w



The American prison state

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Daniel J. D'Amico

It is time to take prisons seriously. The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world today and throughout history. The financial costs are tremendous and rising. One in every one hundred Americans is jailed within this so-called land of the free. Many have committed no violent crimes. Not a few are in for supposed political crimes. Some are wholly innocent of both yet languish in captivity. What are the sociological, political, economic, cultural, and historical consequences of incarceration?

http://mises.org/daily/5259/The-American-Prison-State



Revisiting the Obama Doctrine

The American Prospect
by Joshua Foust

05/06/11

President Barack Obama began his term defining his foreign policy very simply: Tone down the rhetoric of President George W. Bush, focus on humanitarian issues, and reduce American militarism. Analysts, commentators, and pundits have tried to codify this general approach into an Obama doctrine, a set of coherent ideas that define and explain the president s policies. Two years later, however, it s difficult to say what, exactly, Obama s doctrine actually is. It is even more difficult to see a departure from President Bush s foreign policy...

http://tinyurl.com/6apnfpz



Bin Laden s free pass

In These Times
by Gareth Porter

05/05/11

When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid-October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden s terrorist career for the next nine years. The al-Qaeda leader was able to escape into Pakistan a few weeks later, because the Bush administration had no military plan to capture him...

http://tinyurl.com/3lbusys


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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'Neue Blasen stehen vor der Tür'

Roland Benedikter über kulturelle Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Finanzkrise 2007-10.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34509/1.html

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Profiteure der Krise

Die Finanzkrise hat weltweit Vermögen in Billionenhöhe umverteilt. Die Existenz von Millionen von Menschen wurde bedroht, ihre Arbeitsplätze und ihre soziale Sicherheit vernichtet. Wie hoch die Folgelasten für die öffentlichen Haushalte schlussendlich sein werden, ist momentan noch nicht einmal absehbar. Noch viele Generationen werden an den Kosten und der Zinslast zu tragen haben. Im Jargon der Finanzmärkte hat sich das Geld einfach 'in Luft aufgelöst' oder es wurde 'verbrannt'. Dass diese Einschätzung falsch ist, zeigt das Beispiel des Hedgefonds-Managers John Paulson. Im letzten Jahr 'verdiente' Paulson die stolze Summe von 5 Milliarden US-Dollar ? das höchste jemals bekannt gewordene Einkommen der Welt. Ein Teil dieses Geldes stammt dabei auch aus deutschen Steuergeldern, mit denen die Folgen der IKB-Pleite bezahlt werden?' Beitrag von Jens Berger auf den Nachdenkseiten vom 4. Mai 2011 http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=9297#more-9297


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Mai 2011

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Gegen die neoliberalen Rezepte und Sparauflagen der EU-Kommission regt sich breiter Protest

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/af49f1dbba65da55?hl=de



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Regierung verweist auf drohendes Mega-Erdbeben und fordert den Betreiber zum Herunterfahren auf.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149803



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