World-News: 28 September 2011

- Le Dauphiné Interviews EHS action au Conseil Général de la Drôme 'Notre pathologie nous oblige à fuir la ville'

http://www.next-up.org/France/Une_Terre_pour_les_EHS_2011.php
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Starmail - 28. Sep, 10:52

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In Afghanistan, 'Semi-Permanent' Bases Equal Fully-Permanent War

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/27-1

U.N. Reports Big Increase in Afghan Violence This Year
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/29

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Afghanistan s Dirty War

Why the Most Feared Man in Bermal District Is a U.S. Ally.
http://ti.me/qGvSbm

Thousands take to streets in Kabul to protest U.S. occupation of Afghanistan

Thousands of people took to the streets of Kabul on Thursday to protest against the decade-long U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and in support of the immediate withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/06/58267992.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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Starmail - 28. Sep, 09:15

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Austerity: The Human Cost of a Global Crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/27-4

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Starmail - 28. Sep, 09:03

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Occupy Wall Street spreads across America

Both Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois have both hosted demonstrators in the days since the first protest kicked off in New York, and now dozens of more locales across America are expected to be swarmed upon by citizens sick and tired of corrupt corporations.

https://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-wall-street-spreads-505/

Thousands Line Up In Philadelphia For Food Stamps

Thousands of people in Philadelphia are waiting in long lines for aid due to losses caused by Hurricane Irene; however, there is a lot of confusion over who exactly qualifies.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/09/27/thousands-line-up-in-philadelphia-for-food-stamps/

Record numbers seeking government aid, Sacramento welfare chief says

One in four county residents is served by the county s welfare agency, Wagstaff said.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/27/3943224/record-numbers-seeking-government.html

Protesters plan to occupy London Stock Exchange

A group of protesters are organising an occupation of the London Stock Exchange to bring attention to what they see as unethical behaviour on the part of banks, following a similar demonstration on Wall Street.

http://tgr.ph/nB0LDU

Thinking about Revolution

By John Spritzler and Dave Stratman

John Adams wrote in 1815 that the American Revolution was not the revolutionary war. The war was only 'an effect and consequence of the Revolution in the minds of the people, from 1760-1775.' This is the Revolution that we are here attempting to achieve.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29261.htm

From Information Clearing House

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'The Dream Is Collapsing'
http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w231.html

Saving the Country by Changing Minds
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/09/27/225-saving-the-country-by-changing-minds/

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Occupy Wall Street: Police Brutality, Arrests, MSM Blackout
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/27-1

What the Media Aren t Telling You About American Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/27-2

Wall Street Protests Reveal Slice of America s Barely Tamed Brutality
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/27-7

Community-Labor Groups Urge Super-Committee Members to Create Jobs, Make Wall Street Pay
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/27-2

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Corporations Couldn t Wait to 'Check the Box' on Huge Tax Break

Jeff Gerth, Megan Murphy and Vanessa Houlder, ProPublica: 'A simple rule meant to cut paperwork for U.S. companies has grown into one of the biggest multinational tax breaks around, costing the United States and other governments billions of dollars in lost taxes each year.'

http://www.truth-out.org/corporations-couldnt-wait-check-box-huge-tax-break/1317130121

Police Brutalize Peaceful Wall Street Protesters

Video

Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC: 'This weekend a few troublemakers turned a peaceful protest against Wall Street greed into a violent burst of chaos. The troublemakers carried pepper spray and guns and were wearing badges.'

http://www.truth-out.org/lawrence-odonnell-police-brutality-occupy-wall-street/1317150171

Onward to Wall Street

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'In case you haven't heard, there is an ongoing protest taking place on Wall Street. There is no shame in being ignorant of the event; the 'mainstream' news media has gone out of its way to ignore what is happening down there, Yahoo s email service was recently busted for blocking messages having to do with the protest, and Twitter - that bastion of protest messaging for the people who organized the Arab Spring movements - has reportedly been quashing Wall Street protest-oriented tweets out of hand. If a tree falls in the forest and the 'mainstream' news doesn t report it, did it happen? Of course it did. Ask the tree.'

http://www.truth-out.org/onward-wall-street/1317230850

The Revolution Begins at Home: Join the Wall Street Occupation

Arun Gupta, Truthout: 'At some point, the number of people occupying Wall Street - whether that s five thousand, ten thousand or fifty thousand - will force the powers that be to offer concessions. No one can say how many people it will take or even how things will change exactly, but there is a real potential for bypassing a corrupt political process and to begin realizing a society based on human needs, not hedge fund profits. After all, who would have imagined a year ago that Tunisians and Egyptians would oust their dictators?

http://www.truth-out.org/revolution-begins-home-join-wall-street-occupation/1317230496

The One Answer: Tax the Rich

Robert Parry, Consortium News: 'It is curious that the American Right, which waxes nostalgic for the happier days of the 1950s when the United States was supposedly more moral and more united, ignores one of the central reasons behind that middle-class era: very high taxes on the rich. Granted, some on the Right may love the Fifties because it was a time of racial segregation and second-class status for women. But what arguably made the era work was the fact that the U.S. tax structure 'disincentivized' greed by ensuring that excess wealth was mostly recycled back into the Treasury for use building the nation and supporting research and development.'

http://www.truth-out.org/one-answer-tax-rich/1317216395

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Politics as rich man s sport

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

09/25/11

Presumably, that is, judging from the terms of the debate, we re all supposed to implicitly recognize that politicians are corrupt to the bone, susceptible to purchase and sale like the judges and politicians Don Corleone carried in his pocket. Nevertheless, despite both this acknowledged fact and all of the eager cries for reform, for preventing corporate greed from shaping public policy, no one ever questions the hallowed assumption that we need people in positions of power and influence at all...

http://c4ss.org/content/8473

Is the United States a police state?

EconLog
by David Henderson

09/27/11

A police state, as I understand it, is not necessarily the same thing as a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is necessarily a police state, but not vice versa. I think of a police state as one in which the government can find a charge to put you in prison even though you did nothing wrong...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/09/is_the_united_s.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Police Brutality During Occupy Wall St. Protest
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/law-enforcement-corruption--abuse/police-brutality-during-occupy-wall-st-protest.html

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Starmail - 28. Sep, 08:17

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20,000 Missiles Reported Missing From Libya

Al-Qaida is active in the region, and security officials fear that the missiles will be used to target U.S. commercial planes. Due to the safety risk, some in Congress are now calling for all American passenger jets flying overseas to have the same protection as military planes.

http://bit.ly/ogvdPr

From Information Clearing House

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Failure in Libya

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

09/28/11

'Faster than you can say 'I told you so,' we ll have boots on the ground. No other course is possible, given what is unfolding in Libya at the moment. The country has no real government - a condition the Powers That Be cannot allow any longer than a few weeks. It could be that the National Transitional Council (NTC) will proclaim itself the 'official' government, having already achieved this recognition from the NATO powers and the UN. Yet the reality on the ground is and will continue to be quite different...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/09/27/failure-in-libya/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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Starmail - 28. Sep, 07:57

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Goldman Sachs rules the world

'Governments don t rule the world; Goldman Sachs rules the world'

Video

In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the 'Market is Toast.' Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29233.htm

US consolidated domination of global arms market in 2010

The United States consolidated its domination of a shrinking global arms market in 2010, signing 21.3 billion dollars in new weapons orders with foreign countries, according to the latest edition of an annual report on conventional weapons transfers by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/201463.html

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
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Starmail - 28. Sep, 07:45

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The Wonderful World of Tony Blair

Channel 4 Investigation

Since resigning in June 2007, Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any previous ex-prime minister. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29235.htm

Love or money? Affairs of Blair come under spotlight

Where did he get all that money?
http://goo.gl/eegY3

From Information Clearing House

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Unequal Wealth

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'In the absence of the controls recommended by the Founders and early state regulation, corporations have continued to grow in size and power without limit. But they haven t done it just by creating new wealth in the economy. Much of it, instead, has been accomplished by increasingly consolidating existing wealth, moving it out of the hands of the middle class and into the hands of the top few percent of Americans economically. Of course, some new wealth has been generated, but nowhere near enough to explain the observable facts.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-wealth/1317144293

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Starmail - 28. Sep, 05:37

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