World-News: 24 August 2011

One-Sixth of Debt Reduction Goal

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'By Thanksgiving, the Congressional 'Super Committee' is supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years. The Super Committee can include anything it wants in its package - short-term economic stimulus (like extending unemployment benefits and the payroll tax holiday), revenue increases from curtailing tax breaks, cuts in military or domestic spending, subject only to two constraints. To avoid automatic cuts, the package has to add up to $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over ten years. Also, to avoid automatic cuts, the package has to pass both houses of Congress in December, so the package has to have the property that it can pass the House and Senate.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ending-wars-time-would-save-200-billion-one-sixth-debt-reduction-goal/1314194678

Defense Contractors Are "Second to None" in Wasteful Spending

Ben Freeman, Project on Government Oversight: 'In what some are calling an 'unprecedented' campaign, defense contractors as an industry bloc are fighting reductions in national security spending to preserve their place on the government gravy train. Spearheaded by the reportedly enlisted the help of LMG Inc., a Washington public affairs firm, the conservative Heritage Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments to push its agenda.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dear-super-committee-defense-contractors-are-second-none-wasteful-spending/1314637409

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Poll: 87% in US disapprove of Congress

Baton Rouge Advocate

08/25/11

Americans are plenty angry at Congress in the aftermath of the debt crisis and Republicans could pay the greatest price, a new Associated Press-GfK poll suggests. The poll finds the tea party has lost support, Republican House Speaker John Boehner is increasingly unpopular and people are warming to the idea of not just cutting spending but also raising taxes - anathema to the GOP - just as both parties prepare for another struggle with deficit reduction...

http://tinyurl.com/3ov3avt

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 24. Aug, 22:29

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Next-up News Nr 1788+1788

- Yveline Frilay, GP in Paris: EHS EMF 'Anyone can be affected by pain'

- Dr Yveline Frilay EHS CEM 'N'importe qui peut être affecté par des douleurs'

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Corporations Receive Unequal Protection From Risk

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'When corporations gained the protections that had been written for persons in the United States, a substantial shift began in who bears what risk, resulting in an imbalance that now affects virtually all parts of the world. Most companies handle risk responsibly, but many corporations are legally allowed to avoid responsibility in ways that would never be permitted for an individual.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-protection-risk/1314109548

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Being Elected To Congress Continues To Be A Pretty Good Wealth Maximization Strategy

Our 50 richest members of Congress had an average net worth of $32mm, and saw a weighted average growth in their net worth of 17.7% (unweighted 26%). The S&P was up 12.8%.

http://bit.ly/oQO4YO

Mortgage Payments One Month Late Jump as Economy Weakens

The percentage of U.S. mortgages overdue by one month rose to the highest level in a year in the second quarter as homeowners who lost jobs were unable to make their payments.

http://bloom.bg/pFGa24

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Starmail - 24. Aug, 10:39

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European and US Working Class Politics: Right, Left and Neutered

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Mother Nature Sends Warning as Earthquake Strikes Where Reactors Sit

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/23-7

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Starmail - 24. Aug, 08:59

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Coming Home From Killing

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/23-4

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Starmail - 24. Aug, 08:56

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As Fighting Continues in Tripoli, A Look at Role of the US, NATO and Oil Firms in Libya Uprising

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/23

Too Soon to Declare Victory
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/23-0

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British Brains, Brawn and Bombs Bolster Libyan Rebels

By RT

On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28917.htm

Libya: New Information War

By Garibov Konstantin

We have encountered an explicitly mendacious group of world media, reporting facts that were never confirmed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28919.htm

NATO Tries to Control Libyan Revolution

By Real News

Hamid Dabashi: Neo-liberalism a greater threat to Libya than tribalism or extreme Islam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28921.htm

The Truth About the Situation in Libya

By Brian Becker

Cutting through the government propaganda and media lies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28925.htm

South Africa s Zuma says NATO campaign cost lives in Libya

'Those who have the power to bomb other countries have undermined the AU s efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya,' said Zuma, after talks with the visiting president of Ghana.

http://bit.ly/pOG53q

U.S. has nearly doubled air attacks on Libya in past 12 days

As the rebels in Libya push closer to ending the regime of embattled Col. Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. warplanes have been increasing their attacks on government positions as part of the NATO campaign.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/22/us.libya.costs/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The Libya War argument

By Glenn Greenwald

Shamelessly exploiting hatred of the latest Evil Villain to irrationally shield all sorts of policies from critical scrutiny - the everything-is-justified-if-we-get-a-Bad-Guy mentality - is one of the most common and destructive staples of American political discourse, and it s no better when done here.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/22/libya/index.html

How long before the dominoes fall?

We have spent far too much time honouring the courage of Libyan 'freedom fighters' as they scurried across the desert floor, far too little time examining the nature of the beast, the glutinous Transitional National Council whose supposed leader, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has still been unable to explain if his own chums connived in the murder of their own army commander last month.

http://ind.pn/n5jfzi

US Outsourcing Regime Change

NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says

American Forces Press Service

'It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future' US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28929.htm

Disaster Capitalism Swoops Over Libya

By Pepe Escobar

Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P ('responsibility to protect'). Instead of neo-conservatives, we had humanitarian imperialists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28931.htm

Turning Libya Into A New Afghanistan

By RT

'The majority of people who are fighting Gaddafi are Muslim extremists or people who believe they must create an Islamic state in Libya,'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28930.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Libya: Obama s Pyrrhic victory

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/24/11

In what could well be a premonitory moment, they evacuated the Pentagon when the Richmond earthquake hit. The Capitol was also cleared out, for fear its pylons would crash down upon the heads of our shaken solons. Perhaps it was His way of deflating the hubris of our Washington elite, as they giddily proclaim of the 'victory in Libya' narrative that has taken hold in the Imperial City even before America s housebroken 'rebels' take power...

http://bit.ly/oNVBQY

Obama s NATO war for oil in Libya

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/23/11

What do you call it when the full force of a U.S/NATO aerial bombardment is coupled with political support for a ragtag rebel group that, when victorious, promises to hand over its oil resources to its Western backers? A war for oil. Don t believe for one moment that the U.S. backing for Libya s opposition was about freedom...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162908/obamas-nato-war-oil-libya

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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On War, Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush
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Tar Sands 'Energy Security' Campaign is Big Oil Ruse

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/23-12

Tar Sands Action: Actors Margot Kidder and Tantoo Cardinal among at 60 Arrested White House Pipeline Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/23-2

Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/24

Tar Sands Action: Nation s Largest Environmental Organizations Stand Together To Oppose Oil Pipeline
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/24-7

'Planetary Emergency': Hansen Joins Tar Sands Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/29-8

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Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: 'Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House everyday for the next two weeks - 162 have already been arrested since Saturday. Also joining the protest are indigenous First Nations communities in Canada and landowners along the Keystone XL pipeline s planned route. An editorial in Sunday s New York Times joined in calling on the State Department to reject the pipeline, noting that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production.'

http://www.truth-out.org/over-160-arrested-ongoing-civil-disobedience-against-keystone-xl-tar-sands-oil-pipeline/1314113987

With 595 Arrested, Pipeline Protests Heat Up

Britney Schultz, Truthout: 'It is now day 11 of the protests in Washington, DC, against the Keystone XL pipeline, and according to Tar Sands Action, 595 people have been arrested so far for their participation. Environmental author and activist Bill McKibben has called the demonstration 'the largest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement in a generation,' and notes that it is not only the 'usual suspects' who are participating.'

http://www.truth-out.org/595-arrested-pipeline-protests-going-strong/1314810430

It s Time to Take Sides: Why I'm Protesting the Tar Sands Pipeline

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'The key political fact about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is this: at the end of the day, the decision of whether to approve the permit for the pipeline or not will be a political decision wholly owned by President Obama. The final determination on the permit will be based on whether approval would be in the 'national interest' of the United States. This is an inherently political determination. By denying the permit for the pipeline, President Obama can take a concrete action against climate chaos without securing one Republican vote, without spending one tax dollar, without getting approval from the Tea Party.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-im-protesting-tar-sands-pipeline-time-take-sides/1314814147

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Tell President Obama Tar Sands Pipeline Approval Will Alienate Green Base, Warrant Return of His Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=canada_tar_sands

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Tell the President there s no place for the world s dirtiest oil in our clean energy future!

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Call the White House and tell Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline
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