World-News

Michael Winship, Truthout: 'Gingrich personifies everything rotten about the ATM machine we call Washington: the merchandising of favors and votes; the conversion of past incumbency into insider information, making your contacts and the ability to play the system available to the highest bidder; the archetypal revolving door between government service and shilling for corporate America.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dc-atm-newt-ultimate-beltway-swindler/1322418811

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Foreclosure Fraud in a Nutshell

How Newt Gingrich Abetted the Theft of Average Joe s Home.
http://lewrockwell.com/butler-b/butler-b14.1.html



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Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times News Service: 'Over the past 30 years, as the gap between wealthy and poor grew ever wider, total philanthropic giving almost tripled, according to annual estimates published by the Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. In an age of widening partisanship and plummeting trust in government, this outpouring of philanthropy has produced a distinct breed of philanthropist: The policy-making billionaire.'

http://www.truth-out.org/policy-making-billionaires-privatizing-public-policy/1322410134



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nicholas+Confessore
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Shahid Buttar, Truthout: 'Congress has a deserved reputation for cluelessness. Our leaders have a habit of ignoring real crises like housing, education, mass incarceration, and climate change, while contriving distractions like the budget debate that essentially froze Washington, DC for the past year.... On Monday, the Senate will grapple with Congress? latest bipartisan foolishness, the National Defense Authorization Act. Ironically opposed by both the White House and the Pentagon, it would expand preventive and arbitrary detention beyond Guantánamo Bay and the CIA s shuttered black sites, importing it into the domestic United States.'

http://www.truth-out.org/military-detention-vs-we-people/1322380800



When the World Outlawed War: An Interview With David Swanson

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet: 'David Swanson s recently released book, When the World Outlawed War, tells the story of how the highly energized peace movement in the 1920s, supported by an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens from every level of society, was able to push politicians into something quite remarkable - the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. The 1920s 'War Outlawry' movement in the United States was so popular that most politicians could not afford to oppose it.'

http://www.truth-out.org/when-world-outlawed-war-interview-david-swanson/1322408217



Senators Have Ideas for Cutting the Military Budget

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'You might not know it from national press reports, but there are plenty of members of Congress of both political parties who think that cutting the military budget is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and have concrete ideas for doing so.'

http://www.truth-out.org/senators-have-ideas-cutting-military-budget/1322758188



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

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By Paul Craig Roberts

The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29817.htm



Budget cuts may hit needy Americans

By Al Jazeera

Advocates for the poor and often hungry in the US say that problems for the nation s needy could intensify if the agriculture department bows to pressure from congress to reduce food-assistance schemes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29813.htm



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10708/

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Karzai says NATO strike killed seven Afghan civilians

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday accused NATO-led international forces of killing up to seven civilians, most of them children, in an air strike in the south.

http://bit.ly/rzWCZI


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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By Naji Al Ali

It s way past time for Michele Bachmann to be ridiculed into the obscurity she so richly deserves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29809.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michele+Bachmann
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By Abayomi Azikiwe

United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in Somalia. Despite Washington s denials, the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29811.htm



U.S. intensifies its proxy fight against al-Shabab in Somalia

The Obama administration is intensifying its campaign against an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia by boosting the number of proxy forces in the war-torn country, expanding drone operations and strengthening military partnerships throughout the region.

http://wapo.st/runIzG



US kills 18 people in Somalia

According to a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) officer, the incident occurred in an al-Shabab training camp in the town of Badade.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212652.html



US kills 4 people in Somalia missile strike?

A missile strike killed four foreign ''Islamist militants'' south of Somalia's capital on Friday, an intelligence official said, a day after the country's prime minister called for foreign air strikes against the al Shabaab rebel group. The United States never comments officially on drone strikes in Somalia.

http://reut.rs/zfl1nr


From Information Clearing House



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

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Pablo Solon at the UN Climate Talks in Durban: Occupy Movement Is a Source of Hope
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/28-1

Cry, the Beloved Climate
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/30-1

Bankrolling Climate Change: New Study Ranks Top 20 Climate Killer Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/30-10



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Der Bericht der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde ist umstritten, aber er macht auf die ausländische Atomhilfe für den Iran aufmerksam.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35944/1.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
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Das Märchen von der gescheiterten Integration. Gerne in Deutschland leben und als Deutscher. Zu dem Anti-Sarrazin Buch des Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler. Von Rupert Neudeck

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813699ms293



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Je intensiver die Wissenschaftler vor der Klimakatastrophe warnen, desto geringer waren bisher die Erfolgsaussichten der Weltklimakonferenzen. Und das seit 20 Jahren! Gilt diese pessimistische Prognose auch für die nächste Konferenz, die vom 28. November bis zum 9. Dezember mit über 8.000 Teilnehmern in Durban/Südafrika stattfindet? In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Situation des Weltklimas dramatisch verschlechtert - wie der Umweltjournalist Franz Alt beobachten konnte. Eine Reportage von Franz Alt zur Weltklima-Konferenz in Südafrika.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813697ms293



Agrarexperte: Politik und Medien verschweigen Ursachen der
Hungerkatastrophe und mögliche Auswege

Hunger ist die Alltagsrealität für ein Sechstel der Menschheit und - hungerbedingte Krankheiten mitberücksichtigt - die Todesursache für 10 Millionen Menschen jährlich. Spätestens seit der Explosion der Nahrungsmittelpreise 2007/2008 ist klar, dass das Milleniums-Entwicklungsziel, den Anteil der Menschen, die Hunger leiden, von 1990 bis 2015 zu halbieren, nicht annähernd erreicht werden wird. Statt zu einer Reduzierung kam es 2008 zu einem Anstieg der Zahl der Hungernden. Dabei wird Jahr für Jahr genügend produziert, um - statistisch betrachtet - alle Menschen mit ausreichend Nahrung zu versorgen. Kommentar von Peter Clausing

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813698ms293



Deutschland macht teuersten Dreck

Die Europäische Umweltagentur (EEA) veröffentlichte am Donnerstag den Bericht 'Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe' über die Kosten industrieller Luftverschmutzung in Europa.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813713ms293



Deutsches Stromnetz: Ausbau zu langsam

Experte kritisiert mangelndes Interesse der Länder.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813706ms293



Politik belastet Kleinverbraucher: falsche Signale für Energiewende

Als Netzbetreiber und bundesweiter Ökostromanbieter wehren sich die Elektrizitätswerke Schönau gegen die Befreiung energieintensiver Unternehmen von den Netzkosten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813721ms293



Europa zögert beim Energie sparen

Zur Kasse bitte: Verbraucher müssen mehr zahlen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813722ms293



Für alle eine CO2-Card!

Das von der Bundesregierung angepeilte Ziel einer Reduktion der CO2 Emissionen um 40% bis 2020 ist mit den derzeit beschlossenen Maßnahmen nicht erreichbar.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813726ms293



Fatales Signal der Bundesregierung zur Effizienzrichtlinie

Energie-Verschwendungsminister Rösler hat sich durchgesetzt.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813731ms293



Rösler energiepolitisch rückwärtsgewandt

Schwarz-Gelb zückt Rotstift bei Erneuerbaren Energien.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813732ms293



Milliardengeschenke an die Industrie

Kurz vor Verabschiedung des Energiepaketes im Sommer haben Energieexperten der schwarz-gelben Regierung für eine Milliarden schwere Entlastung der deutschen Industrie gesorgt.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813733ms293



Stellt sich Bundeswirtschaftsminister Philipp Rösler gegen die Energiewende?

Der Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft e.V. fordert Bundeswirtschaftsminister Philipp Rösler auf, sich klar zur Energiewende zu bekennen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813738ms293



Erneuerbare Energien sind keine Preistreiber für Industriestrom

Die zunehmende Einspeisung Erneuerbarer Energien ins Stromnetz wirkt sich auf dem Markt preisdämpfend aus.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416813742ms293

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'Wir müssen der Welt zeigen, dass wir in der Lage sind, das Klimaproblem zu lösen'

Konferenzauftakt in Durban.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35961/1.html



Pakistan und Russland sind traurige Spitzenreiter

Weltklimakonferenz in Durban, 2. Tag: Das Ranking der Länder, die im vergangenen Jahr am stärksten vom Klimawandel betroffen waren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35970/1.html



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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

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CIA won t disclose involvement in crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street

Many of the occupiers suspect the CIA has been aiding local law enforcement to try to thwart the movement. The Partnership for Civil Justice filed a Freedom of Information Act request to try to see if the CIA was involved in the OWS crackdowns, but the PCJF was denied the information. Is the CIA covering up evidence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0BSF3kzgQ&feature=player_embedded


From Information Clearing House



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From EMR-Updates



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10707/

Afghanistan supply routes closed as fury mounts in Pakistan at lethal US strike
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10710/

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NATO Kills 28 Pakistani Troops, Outrage in Islamabad

By PTI

NATO helicopters and combat jets fired on two border posts in the country s northwest, prompting army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to direct his troops to prepare for 'an effective response' even as authorities cut off all supplies for US forces in Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29819.htm



Pakistan: US Must Vacate Suspected Drone Base

Pakistan stops NATO supplies after deadly raid

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT

The government issued the demand Saturday after NATO helicopters and jet fighters attacked two Pakistan army posts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29820.htm



Pakistan Has Had Enough

By Simon Tisdall

The belief that weak, impoverished, divided Pakistan has no alternative but to slavishly obey its master s voice could turn out to be one of the seminal strategic miscalculations of the 21st century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29826.htm

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Pakistan says NATO ignored pleas during raids that killed 24

'The NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers went on for almost two hours and continued even after Pakistani commanders had pleaded with coalition forces to stop, the army claimed on Monday in charges that could further inflame anger in Pakistan...

http://bit.ly/sjXjyH


Pakistan puts US on notice after NATO strike kills 24 troops

Hindustan Times [India]

11/28/11

An outraged Pakistan on Sunday slammed [a] 'senseless' Nato airstrike on its borders with Afghanistan, which left 24 soldiers dead. ... Following the cross-border strike, Islamabad shut down the crucial Nato supply lines to Afghanistan and asked the US to vacate within 15 days the Shamsi air base inside Pakistan, which is reportedly being used by the CIA for drone strikes...

http://bit.ly/ve7jaa



Rage grips Pakistan over NATO attack

Fury spread in Pakistan on Sunday over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the US effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan. Sunday night in Pakistan, more than 40 hours after the incident, many questions remained.

http://bit.ly/vdiwKe



Pakistan: US begins exit from Shamsi drone base

Fox News

12/04/11

U.S. personnel have started leaving Shamsi air base in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan Army official confirmed to Fox News on Sunday. ... The move comes after Pakistan told the U.S. last month to leave within 15 days following a drone strike that U.S. and Afghan officials say was ordered to protect troops being fired upon at the Afghan-Pakistan border...

http://fxn.ws/vxXdDb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. plays with fire infuriating nuclear Pakistan
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-middle-east/nato-gangsters-us-plays-with-fire-infuriating-nuclear-pakistan-.html

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Anger Soars Over Pakistan Attack

Ashfaq Yusufzai, Inter Press Service: 'The attack Saturday by helicopters from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Pakistani border posts in Mohmand tribal region along Afghanistan s border has elicited a barrage of protests in the Pakistani population against NATO - that most people equate with the U.S.'

http://www.truth-out.org/anger-soars-over-pakistan-attack/1322414471



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