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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/07-8



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The U.S. poverty rate was 16 percent in 2010 measured under an alternative method, up from the official rate of 15.2 percent released earlier, according to the Census Bureau.

http://buswk.co/uY6SZU



Wealth gap between old and young becomes widest ever

While people typically accumulate assets as they age, this wealth gap is now more than double what it was in 2005 and nearly five times the 10-to-1 disparity a quarter-century ago, after adjusting for inflation.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/national/article_06bf8df6-9b5a-5f6e-96a9-7b465643fcd1.html



Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits

The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45174237



Large numbers of US households to be denied heating assistance this winter

The ongoing economic crisis has driven up the number of American households applying for home heating assistance this winter. Federal funds, however, are likely to be slashed virtually in half from last year.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/heap-n07.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Bottomless Self-Admiration
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed218.html



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Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist s playbook

CBS 60 Minutes

Abramoff: I was actually thinking of writing a book - 'The Idiot s Guide to Buying a Congressman' - as a way to put this all down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29647.htm



Congress Members Took Part in Insider Trading: Abramoff

By Eamon Javers

Legal analysts say that Wall Street insider trading laws do not apply to Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29688.htm



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By Frances Fox Piven

A moral economy for our own time would certainly take on the unbridled accumulation of wealth at the expense of the majority (and the planet).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29649.htm



Finding Freedom in Handcuffs

By Chris Hedges

I placed myself at the feet of these commodity traders to call for justice because the dead, and those who are dying in slums and refugee camps across the planet, could not make this journey.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29643.htm



Shot by police with rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland

Video

While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pX9LeE-g8&feature=player_embedded


From Information Clearing House

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Occupy the Polls: Tuesday s Critical Tests of Political Power
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/07-10

London Bankers: 'Rich-Poor Divide Too Wide'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/07-7

Occupy Protesters Reach Out to Credit Unions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/07-6

Occupy Atlanta Arrests on Bank Transfer Day
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/07-3

Educators Use Occupy Movement to Empower Students, Defend Public Education
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/07-0

Rural Farmers Unite to Feed Wall Street Protestors
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/07-1

Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/07-10

The World Is Revolting Against the US Economic and Business Model: A Call to Action
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/07-8

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The Pressure Is On: Thousands Encircle White House, Tell Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: 'Activists of all ages descended on the White House, including more than 1,000 young people. After surrounding the White House, a youth-led breakout march snaked through downtown Washington, DC, carrying the momentum of the Occupy movement along with an inflatable black pipeline replica as long as a city block.'

http://www.truth-out.org/pressure/1320678173



The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War

Dean Baker, Truthout: 'There is a commonly repeated view in Washington policy circles, based on no evidence whatsoever, that there will be a disaster if the supercommittee comes up empty handed. This means that members of the committee are feeling great pressure from the 1 percent to produce a package with big cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.'

http://www.truth-out.org/one-percent-turns-class-war-generational-war/1320680738



Poland Steps Into Arab Spring

Robert Stefanicki, Inter Press Service: 'Since mid-year, when Poland took over EU presidency, Polish initiatives aimed at North Africa have gathered speed. Many Polish VIPs now take the flights to Tunis, Cairo, Tripoli. And the representatives of the Arab revolutionaries are being invited to Warsaw.'

http://www.truth-out.org/poland-steps-arab-spring/1320679179



Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education

Henry A. Giroux, Campaign for the Public University: 'The global reach and destructiveness of neoliberal values and disciplinary controls are not only evident in the widespread hardships and human suffering caused by the economic recession of 2008, they are also visible in the ongoing and ruthless assault on the social state, workers, unions, higher education, students, and any vestige of the social at odds with neoliberal values.'

http://www.truth-out.org/beyond-limits-neoliberal-higher-education-global-youth-resistance-and-americanbritish-divide/1320688



The GOP War on Plaintiff Rights

Brad Friedman, Truthout: 'Yeah, I know, the GOP is at War against citizens rights to do just about everything that isn t US Chamber of Commerce approved these days. That s just one of the reasons citizens are finally taking to the streets to fight back. One of the ongoing Republican Wars getting very little attention is their War on the right of citizens to sue huge corporations for negligence, malfeasance, and other wrongdoing.'

http://www.truth-out.org/gop-war-plaintiff-rights/1320695303



Time for the Supercommittee to Fail

Robert Borosage, Campaign For America s Future: 'I have great respect for each of you individually, but collectively I am worried you are going to fail - fail the country,' former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, a co-chairman of President Obama s fiscal commission, sternly told the congressional supercommittee last week. Elite pressure is building on the committee to reach for a 'grand bargain' to cut trillions out of the budget deficits over the next 10 years. Last week 100 House members, including 40 Republicans, dispatched a letter urging 'a big, grand bargain' with 'all options' - code for tax hikes - 'on the table.'

http://www.truth-out.org/time-supercommittee-fail/1320770962



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By Pratap Chatterjee

Last Friday, I met a boy, just before he was assassinated by the CIA. Tariq Aziz was 16, a quiet young man from North Waziristan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29644.htm



Pakistan Drone Strikes Aided by Covert Emitters

A British lawyer has claimed that two innocent Pakistani youths were killed on October 31 in a strike that followed three days after one of them attended a protest meeting in Islamabad.

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US kills 7 people in Pakistan

A suspected US drone fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border early Tuesday morning, killing seven alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

http://arabnews.com/world/article533953.ece



US Kills 18 People in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan s tribal region killed 18 alleged militants Tuesday night

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/16/world/asia/pakistan-drone-attacks/index.html?hpt=ias_c2



U.S. kills at least 16 'militants' in Pakistan

The U.S. drone fired six missiles at a compound in the area, killing 16 suspected militants.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-108814.html



US kills 7 people in NW Pakistan

The US unmanned aircraft fired four missiles at a house in the remote Padam Shah village of Razmak area in the troubled North Waziristan district on Thursday.

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Pakistan: US kills 32 people in short span of three days

The predator planes killed as many as eighteen people when they targeted a house in Sararogha area, situated at the confluence of North and South Waziristan agencies, with a barrage of hell fire missiles.

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The drone mentality

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

11/05/11

Of course, nobody inside the U.S. Government is objecting on the ground that it is wrong to blow people up without having any knowledge of who they are and without any evidence they have done anything wrong. Rather, the internal dissent is grounded in the concern that these drone attacks undermine U.S. objectives by increasing anti-American sentiment in the region (there s that primitive, inscrutable Muslim culture rearing its head again: they strangely seem to get very angry when foreign governments send sky robots over their countries and blow up their neighbors, teenagers and children)...

http://salon.com/a/smRubAA



Pakistan: US drones kill 20

The Hindu [India]

11/17/11

The U.S. stepped up drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan adjoining Afghanistan this week with both North and South Waziristan coming under attack over the past two days, reportedly killing at least 20 terrorists. After targeting the Miranshah area of North Waziristan on Tuesday, the CIA-operated unmanned Predators struck at two compounds in South Waziristan in the early of hours of Wednesday, killing at least a dozen terrorists...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2633446.ece



Pakistan: Two Britons killed in US drone strikes

United Press International

11/19/11

Two British terror suspects have been killed in separate U.S. drone attacks in the Pakistan tribal region of south Waziristan, Britain s The Guardian reported. Citing reports from Pakistan, The Guardian identified the men as Ibrahim Adam, 24, who fled the United Kingdom with his brother four years ago, and Mohammed Azmer Khan, 38, the brother of Abdul Jabbar, who was killed in a drone attack last year...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Short Life and Drone-Delivered Death of Tariq Aziz

Neil Williams, Truthout: "Secure within the Margalla Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, I sat talking to 16-year-old Tariq Aziz, a schoolboy from the tribal regions in North Waziristan. 'How many drones do you see a week?' I asked, expecting him to say three or four. 'I see around ten or more, not a week, each and every day.'"

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19703-the-short-life-and-drone-delivered-death-of-tariq-aziz



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US-Umweltschützer protestieren erneut gegen geplante Keystone-XL-Pipeline, die den Teersand-Abbau in Kanada befördern wird.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150780



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Preismanipulationen oder legitime Marktmacht?
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/150783



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Teure Unterstützung der politischen Agenda.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35835/1.html



Staatstrojaner: Privater 'Vermögenswert' wiegt mehr als Grundrechte

Allein die jährliche 'Generallizenz' für den DigiTask-Trojaner kostet rund 200.000 Euro. Die Bundesregierung hält Geschäftsbeziehungen zu weiteren Herstellern von Überwachungssoftware für 'grundsätzlich geheimhaltungsbedürftig'.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35910/1.html



Vorratsdatenspeicherung für 5-10 Jahre? Tja, warum nicht?

Dass die VDS im Zuge der 'Neonaziaffäre' erneut gefordert wird, ist nicht wirklich überraschend. Aber die einseitige Berichterstattung der Medien ist erneut deprimierend.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/5/150893

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'Ich habe doch nichts zu verbergen!'

Irrtümer und Populismen zu Vorratsdatenspeicherung und Überwachung. Eine Broschüre des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom November 2011
(pdf) http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/Populismen-zu-vds-und-ueberwachung.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 10. November 2011

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Überwachungsstaat BRD: Arbeitnehmerüberwachung

'Es ist beängstigend mit welchem Tempo die Schwarz-Gelbe Regierung von Merkel (CDU) und Westerwelle (FDP) dabei ist, Deutschland in einen Überwachungsstaat um zu bauen. Haben wir gerade erst über Staatstrojaner und dann den Schultrojaner gesprochen, kündigt sich schon das nächste 'Meisterwerk' der Bundesregierung an. Wie der Blog 'Daten-Speicherung.de' berichtet, beabsichtigt die Bundesregierung den Datenschutz für Arbeitnehmer praktisch aufzuheben?' Artikel von Stefan Meiners vom 8.11.2011 bei xtranews http://www.xtranews.de/2011/11/08/uberwachungsstaat-brd-heute-arbeitnehmeruberwachung/

Siehe dazu auch: Beschäftigtendatenschutzgesetz: Umfassende Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz droht

Meldung vom 22. Oktober 2011 bei Daten-Speicherung.de mit weiterführenden Links http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index.php/beschaftigtendatenschutzgesetz-umfassende-uberwachung-am-arbeitsplatz-droht/


Aus: LabourNet, 15. November 2011

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EU-Vertragsverletzungsverfahren zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung endlich stoppen!

'Das von Bundesregierung und EU bisher unter Verschluss gehaltene zweite Mahnschreiben der EU-Kommission zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 27.10.2011 ist heute vom AK Vorrat veröffentlicht worden. EU-Innenkommissarin Malmström fordert die Bundesregierung darin auf, bis Jahresende eine sechsmonatige Vorratsspeicherung von Verbindungs- und Standortdaten aller Nutzer von Telefonfestnetz, Mobilfunk, Internet-Telefonie und E-Mail wieder einzuführen. Geschieht dies nicht, kann die EU-Kommission Klage vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof erheben. Dieser kann dann eine Strafzahlung verhängen?' Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) vom 22.11.2011, darin auch das Schreiben der EU-Kommission vom 27. Oktober 2011 im Wortlaut http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/509/79/lang,de/


Aus: LabourNet, 22. November 2011

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Ermitteln statt speichern: Totale Erfassung unserer Verbindungen und Bewegungen verhindern!

'Das Ausmaß an Überwachung in Deutschland dokumentiert ein 'Leitfaden zum Datenzugriff', den wir heute erstmals in voller Länge veröffentlichen. Die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München zählt in dieser 'Verschlusssache' die heute schon angewandten Methoden zur Überwachung unserer Telekommunikation und Internetnutzung auf - von der stillen Ortungs-SMS bis zur umfangreichen Abfrage von Nutzerdaten. Das brisante Dokument belegt einen fahrlässigen Umgang der Ermittler mit verfügbaren Daten und einzuhaltenden Rechtsvorschriften?' Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 29.11.2011

http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/494/55/lang,de/


Aus: LabourNet, 1. Dezember 2011

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Aktionstag 2011 gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung am 14. Dezember 2011

'Am 14. Dezember 2005 stimmte das EU-Parlament für die Einführung der EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, mit deren Hilfe jetzt eine neuerliche verdachtslose Vorratsspeicherung aller Verbindungsdaten in Deutschland erzwungen werden soll. Zum 6-jährigen Jahrestag am Mittwoch, den 14. Dezember 2011 wollen wir an dieses denkwürdige Ereignis erinnern und den Stopp der Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Deutschland und Europa fordern?? Aufruf und Infos beim AK Vorrat http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/510/1/lang,de/

Für Details zur Aktion siehe auch das Wiki http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Aktionstag_2011


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Dezember 2011



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