World-News: 31 August 2011

Daniel Marans, Campaign for America s Future: 'The media have portrayed Governor Rick Perry s description of Social Security as a 'Ponzi scheme' at a recent Iowa campaign event as the latest extreme statement of an unconventionally candid, conservative presidential candidate. But Perry's full remarks reveal just as much about the Republican Party s strategy for cutting Social Security as they do about Perry himself.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perrys-iowa-remarks-reveal-republican-strategy-social-security/1314814133

Perry Donor Enabled to Leach Radioactive Waste Into 1.9 Million People s Water

Joe Conason, Truthout: 'Like so many Republican officials of the tea party persuasion, Rick Perry despises the Environmental Protection Agency - a feeling he has expressed repeatedly in speeches, lawsuits, legislation and even a book titled 'Fed Up!' Perhaps that is only natural for the governor of Texas, a 'dirty energy' state where the protection of air, water and human health rank well below the defense of oil company profits for most politicians.'

http://www.truth-out.org/perry-hates-regulators-theyre-bad-his-business/1314798796

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 22:25

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Tea Party Brings Environmental Meltdown to America

Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: 'For Tea Party zealots it is impossible to utter, hear, read or write the words 'freedom' and 'liberty' too many times. And, of course, to them, the antithesis of freedom and liberty is the federal government, which they swear they will 'take back.' For them, taking back the government means restoring the freedom to not be able to afford health care, restoring the freedom to be unemployed without any unemployment insurance, restoring the freedom to lose your home to mortgage fraud and your pension to criminal Wall Street bankers. That doesn't sound much like a 'Party' to me; that sounds more like a nightmare.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tea-party-brings-environmental-meltdown-america/1314802067

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 22:14

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CEO Pay Exceeds Company Tax Bill at Major Corporations

Starmail - 31. Aug, 22:05

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Obamas illegal assaults

In These Times
by Glenn Greenwald

08/26/11

Barack Obama has continued virtually all of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney s once-controversial terrorism and civil liberties policies, a fact now recognized across the political spectrum. Even the right wing acknowledges these policies have continued under the Obama presidency, which is interesting, because for decades Republicans have made political hay by accusing Democrats of being weak on national security (aka 'soft on terrorism') in this age of terror...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11787/obamas_illegal_assaults

Cheney s deceit of Shakespearean proportions

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

08/31/11

The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. ... Here is a man who ... trafficked in the campaign of deceit that caused tens of thousands to die, wasted trillions of dollars in resources and indelibly sullied the legacy of this nation through the practice of torture, which Cheney defends to this day. Still this villain claims that, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the horrid methods he endorsed were a necessary response to the threat of Osama bin Laden...

http://tinyurl.com/3zxqb2n

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
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Starmail - 31. Aug, 10:02

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Unequal Protection: Unequal Taxes

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'It costs money to run a government, and the more you want the government to do, the more it usually costs. One point to consider is how much do we want our government to do? Another is, who should pay for it? Tax policy is how government funds its services and also one way it fulfills the will of the people who elect it by providing tax incentives or disincentives for particular types of behaviors. Consider how home mortgage interest deductibility has fueled home buying, for example. As we have seen ... some companies have worked hard to get out of paying for anything, including taxes.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-protection-unequal-taxes/1314714610

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:52

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Making a Life on a Tough, New Planet

Bill McKibben, St. Martin's Griffin: 'The months after the initial publication of Eaarth saw some of the most intense environmental trauma the planet has ever witnessed ... For Americans, the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began on April 20, 2010, may have provided the most powerful images - there was, after all, an underwater camera showing the leak up close. (Leak? This was not a leak - it was a stab wound that BP inflicted on the ocean floor, a literal hole in the bottom of the sea. If you ever had any doubts about peak oil, all it took was one view of the extreme places and pressures the oil companies now had to endure to find even marginal amounts of crude. The well that BP was drilling would have supplied only about four days' worth of America's oil consumption.)'

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibbens-afterword-eaarth/1314648614

Truthout Interview With Bill McKibben

Mark Karlin, Truthout: 'Bill McKibben is one of the most venerable writers on the growing peril of climate change. Not content to simply write warnings of environmental implosion, McKibben is an inveterate activist. Most recently, he has been working with others to halt the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Disaster is not inevitable, McKibben believes. But it is likely unless saving our environment becomes a moral imperative upon which we act with urgency. Below is an exclusive Truthout interview with McKibben about his recent book, and current political actions.'

http://www.truth-out.org/truthout-interview-bill-mckibben/1314803404

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:47

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It is Official: Obama Not Serious About Economic Recovery

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/30-12

Message to Washington: 'Put America Back To Work'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/30-10

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Stop Obama from managing the economy

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/30/11

As the presidential campaign season gets into full swing, be prepared to hear the standard arguments as to which candidate and which party is better at managing the economy. The debate surfaces every four years. Republicans will cry, 'President Obama and the Democrats have made a mess of the economy. Elect us because we?re able to do a better job at managing the economy.'

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-30.asp

Who says Obama s bad for business?

Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

08/30/11

President Obama s critics like to say he s anti-business, and that he doesn t understand, nor even like, the military. He is a Democrat, after all, so how could he? Well, we can say that s fundamentally not true with only two words: Blackwater Worldwide...

http://bit.ly/n5LCG2

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:36

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Next-up News Nr 1798

- Le Conseil d'État ordonne la destruction d'un pylône d'antennes relais à Drongen (Be) à cause d'un risque pour la santé.

http://www.next-up.org/pages/Justice.php
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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:13

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Against the nomination of Tony Blair as 'President of the European Union'

We, European citizens of all origins and of all political persuasions, wish to express our total opposition to the nomination of Tony Blair to the Presidency of the European Council.

The Treaty of Lisbon provides for the new post of President of the European Council, to be elected by the Council for a mandate, renewable once only, of two and a half years. Under the terms of the Treaty: 'The President of the European.'

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopblair/sign.html

From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:06

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U.S. Wasted $1 For Every $6 Spent In Iraq And Afghanistan

Because the U.S. began operations in Iraq and Afghanistan without sufficient planning or oversight to track spending - it lost $1 out of every $6 spent.

http://read.bi/qpu87u

Panel Blasts DoD Over Waste in War Contracts

The Pentagon has wasted more than $30 billion on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan because of shoddy management and a lack of competition, an independent inquiry said Aug. 29.

http://bit.ly/nbzQDI

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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Starmail - 31. Aug, 09:02

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Squadron established to train air forces in Africa

A squadron of airmen with key skill sets, including air traffic control and civil engineering, is preparing for a mission to train air forces in Africa to deliver supplies and large numbers of troops into conflict zones.

http://1.usa.gov/p03bEU

U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts

The Libya action helped to establish two principles for when the United States could apply military force to advance its diplomatic interests even though its national security is not threatened directly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/world/africa/29diplo.html?_r=1

Libya down Syria next?

Obama has asked for the resignation of the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad. Assad has been criticized for using violence against his own people, but will Syria suffer the same fate as Libya?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuy902KsTlI&feature=player_embedded

Evidence of U.S. Effort to Arm Syrian Opposition Emerges

Lebanese Army investigators said they uncovered a connection between the smugglers and the political entourage of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who is backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

http://bit.ly/oCUNCI

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 08:54

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Pakistan: It was NATO raid not Afghans

ATTACK from across the border in Chitral on Saturday once again highlighted the fact that some sinister campaign is in the offing to further pressurize and destabilize Pakistan.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=111606

US kills 4 people in Pakistan

Local security officials say the missiles fired from a US drone targeted a compound and a vehicle in the Hisokhel village of North Waziristan tribal region. The death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/198594.html

US Kills Another 5 People In Pakistan

Five persons were killed and some others sustained injuries in a US drone attack on a house and a vehicle at Hasukhel village in Mir Ali subdivision in North Waziristan on Sunday, tribal sources said.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail..aspx?ID=8733&Cat=13

A killing machine called CIA

The CIA s drone attacks in Pakistan have killed a lot more innocent people than it does in more mundane day-to-day butchery, but the plain fact is that it has always been in the business of killing, and always will be.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/12/a-killing-machine-called-cia.html

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 08:46

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Deadliest month yet for U.S. in Afghanistan

Sixty-six U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan so far this month, making August the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly decade-long war.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/30/501364/main20099087.shtml

Afghan Taliban victory predicted in letter

A message allegedly written by the leader of the Afghan Taliban predicts imminent victory as more foreign troops die and Taliban fighters better understand NATO tactics, acquire more weaponry, shoot down more aircraft and kill more senior officials.

http://thesent.nl/qcEyeC

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 31. Aug, 08:40

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