World-News

Lena Groeger, ProPublica: ''TSA body scanners continue their steady advance into our nation s airports, but another agency security initiative begins well before travelers ever reach a checkpoint. PreCheck, the TSA s nascent pre-screening program, allows some pre-approved frequent travelers to make it from check in to take off in record time, if they give the government access to lots of information in return.''

http://www.truth-out.org/speeding-security-tsa-wants-screen-they-scan/1325951710



TSA Now Traumatizing Disabled Toddlers in Strollers

Thom Hartmann, The Daily Take: Earlier this month, TSA officials at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport detained 3-year-old Lucy Forck, on her way to a family vacation in Disney World.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14786-tsa-now-traumatizing-disabled-toddlers-in-strollers

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Poll: One-Third of Americans Would Accept Cavity Searches By TSA

By Jonathan Turley

A particularly chilling measure of just how passive and accepting citizens have become to the new realities of our internal security system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33022.htm



12 year old driven to tears as TSA claims sick girl tests positive for bomb residue

Video

A 12-year-old girl in a wheelchair was detained for nearly an hour at DFW Airport while trying to get through security.

http://is.gd/2NLBOT



How Many Terrorists Has The TSA Caught

Video

Can you say ZERO?
http://is.gd/WtIFfT


From Information Clearing House



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Science with a Skew

Gayle Greene, The Asia-Pacific Journal: ''The media are saturated with a skilled ? effective advocacy campaign by the nuclear industry, resulting in disinformation' ? states the Worldwatch Institute. What is less well understood is the nature of the 'evidence' that gives the nuclear industry its mandate, Cold War science which, with its reassurances about low-dose radiation risk, is being used to quiet alarms about Fukushima and to stonewall new evidence that would call a halt to the industry.''

http://www.truth-out.org/science-skew-nuclear-power-industry-after-chernobyl-and-fukushima/1325956958



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Dispatch from Detention

Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines: ''Immigration detention centers claim their share of criminal abuses ? and rampant sexual assault by guards?. But for many detainees, the worst part of awaiting expulsion is not the acute trauma inflicted inside the jails. Most carry with them the unhealed wounds of violence from life on the outside that the humiliating baseness of life inside these jails reopens.''

http://www.truth-out.org/dispatch-detention-rare-look-inside-our-humane-immigration-jails/1325947813



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- 20 Minutes 06 01 2011: Vous avez interviewé Romain Gubert pour son livre «L'oligarchie des incapables»
''Je crois que les politiques sont conscients que cela ne peut plus durer. Ca va mal finir'', Romain Gubert auteur du livre de révélations inouïes: conflits d' intérêts, mensonges, copinage entre voyous et pire encore,...

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PublicationsDVD.php#1
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Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''A November 2010 article at Ice News reported how a memo released by WikiLeaks described an inquiry by 'a Danish Defence Ministry official' regarding 'what happened at the American Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after media reports of torture and abuse in 2003.' Subsequently, 'Danish soldiers continued to hand over prisoners to the facility, however, even after the torture was officially confirmed several months later.''

http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-nato/1325794053



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The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world s rich people.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm


From Information Clearing House



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'There are two losers: the US army and Marine Corps. US military contractors are the main winners in this new war for the shrinking US budget. The military industrial complex will be the main beneficiary of the troops downsizing and extension of the military s big ticket high tech items," says the military analyst.

http://rt.com/news/us-budget-china-army-301/



Obama s Leaner, Meaner Military

The president plans to shrink the Pentagon. But are we just swapping soldiers for drones, contractors, and reserve troops?

http://bit.ly/xFTz4b



Obama launches Bureau of Counterterrorism

President Obama s State Department announced, the creation of the Bureau of Counterterrorism, which will coordinate with United States entities such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and foreign governments to develop civilian counterterrorism strategies and operations.

http://bit.ly/zQAkvw


From Information Clearing House

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Obama s plan: less troops, more fire from the skies
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/obama-watch/obamas-plan-less-troops-more-fire-from-the-skies.html



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By Mike Whitney

If the Obama troupe doesn t change the present do-nothing policy, and take aggressive steps to keep people in their homes; we could see foreclosures triple before this thing is over.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30173.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/orig7/trotter10.1.html

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Santorum Becomes Millionaire After Senate Loss

''If he is claiming he is not an insider, this is the thing that insiders do, after public office they cash in,'' said Kent Cooper, a campaign finance expert and former Federal Elections Commission assistant staff director.

http://bloom.bg/yIPKNc



Santorum: Iranians' 'Principle Virtue' To Die For God
'Is An Encouragement For Them To Use' Nukes

By Eli Clifton

Santorum s Iran policy appears to be framed, in no small part, by his extremist views on Islam and a belief that the Islamic Republic s leadership is inherently irrational and suicidal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30191.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Rick Santorum: Republican candidate for Religious Bigot in Chief

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

01/05/12

Calling Rick Santorum an ultra-right-wing religious extremist is putting it mildly. Next to him, statist tyrants like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seem like timid moderates. That being the case, I don t envision Santorum coming close to capturing the Republican Party nomination, much less the presidency, but stranger things have happened in the course of history...

http://bit.ly/xnCnvg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rick Santorum has never heard of America
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2012/rick-santorum-has-never-heard-of-america.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett45.1.html

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Learn To Make Terror Your Friend

By Doug Casey

In a world of asymmetric war, that means the ''little guys,'' the outsiders, the disadvantaged, the groups most likely to make terror their friend, have much more going in their favor than ever before.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30185.htm



Homeland Security Monitors Journalists

By RT

The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use ''traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30189.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1082.html



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By Ray McGovern

We have forgotten that the Founders risked everything for liberty, not for 'safety'?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30166.htm
[ http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10817/ ]

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Freedom in USA

Grand Central Terminal Arrests: Two protesters mic check about the loss of freedom brought about by the passage of the NDAA and both are promptly arrested and whisked out of public sight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6ayc-w3bE&feature=player_embedded


From Information Clearing House



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Promoting War on Iran

By Stephen Lendman
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30171.htm



The US-Iran Economic War

By Pepe Escobar

Here s a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30172.htm

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Occupying Fears About Iran

Winslow Myers, Consortium News: ''Too many of us still refuse to see the practical relevance of such values either to international or personal politics?. We assume thousands of nuclear warheads in the control of a democratically elected leader are qualitatively different from the same weapons in the hands of a dictator ? 'Our' nuclear weapons are justified by our need for security, while 'theirs' indicate an unacceptable aggressiveness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupying-fears-about-iran/1325948517

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'Iran is being economically and financially strangled'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10811/



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/06-6

The West in Flames: The Oxygen Planet Struts Its Stuff
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/24-4

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Doomsday Clock a minute closer to midnight

As well, the major global challenge now was a warmer climate that threatens to bring droughts, famine, water scarcity and rising seas, said Allison Macfarlane, an associated professor at George Mason University near Washington, who chairs the group s committee that helps set the clock.

http://bit.ly/zrCSb6


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/06-1

Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-9

Ten Years and One Broken Promise Later, Guantanamo Remains
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-4

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Guantanamo detainees still endure harsh prison conditions

''You don t walk, you don t budge, you don t talk. It s forbidden.'' That s not to mention the sleep deprivation, with neon lights blazing 24 hours a day and air conditioning kept at bone chilling temperatures.

http://bit.ly/w80P6V



My Guantánamo Nightmare

By LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE

I went on a hunger strike for two years because no one would tell me why I was being imprisoned. Twice each day my captors would shove a tube up my nose, down my throat and into my stomach so they could pour food into me. It was excruciating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30198.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantanamo detainees? bleak future

CNN

01/08/12

Ten years after the arrival of the first prisoners captured by U.S. forces after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be in business for many more years, perhaps decades, to come, analysts say. For the 171 detainees still there, the future is bleak. GITMO, as the detention facility is commonly known, would have been emptied two years ago under a proposal introduced by President Barack Obama...

http://tinyurl.com/7lm4rxj



A tired obsession with military detention plagues American politics

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/06/12

Before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, there were only two ways of holding prisoners, either they were prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, or they were criminal suspects, to be charged and subjected to federal court trials. That all changed when the administration of George W. Bush threw out the Geneva Conventions, equated the Taliban with al-Qaeda, and decided to hold both soldiers and terror suspects as 'illegal enemy combatants' who could be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial, and with no rights whatsoever...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201c.asp



The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/08/12

As we head into Election Year, there is an increasingly common, bizarre and self-evidently repellent tactic being employed by some Democratic partisans against those of us who insist that issues like indefinite detention (along with ongoing killing of civilians in the Muslim world) merit high priority. The argument is that to place emphasis on such issues is to harm President Obama ...

http://bit.ly/wvGIfV


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew

Jason Leopold, Truthout: To mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison to house ''war on terror'' detainees captured after 9/11, Truthout will republish a handful of exclusive reports by Jason Leopold about the facility.

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-years-guantanamo-what-bush-cheney-and-rumsfeld-knew/1326049233



Ten Years of Guantanamo: One of the Prison s First Detainees Breaks His Silence

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Last year, one of the first detainees sent to Guantanamo when the prison facility opened in January 2002, broke his silence and spoke to Truthout about the brutal physical and psychological torture he suffered during the five years he was imprisoned.''

http://www.truth-out.org/exclusive-an-interview-with-former-guantanamo-detainee-david-hicks67818



Guantanamo: Ten Years Too Many

Peter Weiss, Truthout: ''Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was the first legal organization to perceive the danger which the legal culture of Gitmo posed to the idea of justice and to take on cases on behalf of detainees.... About 600 detainees have been released and sent to their home countries or other countries willing to accept them, partly as a result of CCR attorneys scouring the world for such countries.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-ten-years-too-many/1326134485



''It Was a Sunny Day''

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''A former Guantanamo guard ... reflects on a decade of lawlessness.... Neely did not know it then, nor did the public, but a vast majority of the prisoners who populated Guantanamo during the prison s first year in operation were innocent bystanders sold to US forces for hefty bounty payments or were captured and sent to Guantanamo because they wore the same style Casio watch that members of al-Qaeda wore.''

http://www.truth-out.org/it-was-sunny-day/1326292528

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Sign our global petition calling on President Obama to take action to close Guantánamo by ending indefinite detention. It s been ten years too long.

http://webmail.amnesty.org.uk/_act/link.php?mId=J8210924017288875034746193815&tId=54882369



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Mit der Jamaica-Koalition ist es im Saarland nun Schluss.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151171



Wenn die Argumente ausgehen

FDP-Chef Rösler und ein ehemaliges Nachrichtenmagazin aus Hamburg wetteifern, wer in Sachen Energiepolitik die größten Peinlichkeiten absondern kann.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/151169



Wulff darf auf Mitleid zählen, die FDP ist unten angelangt

Nach dem DeutschlandTrend hat Wulff als Person vom Interview profitiert, auch wenn weiterhin fast zwei Drittel ihn weder als ehrlich noch als glaubwürdig befinden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36196/1.html



Ein permanenter Rettungsfonds als Nebelkerze

Die Finanztransaktionssteuer kommt wohl auch nicht, doch die Euro-Finanzminister haben den permanenten Rettungsschirm (ESM) abgesegnet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36289/1.html

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10. Januar 2012

Merkel darf Europa nicht zur Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei machen

Die Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch, fordert von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch ohne die Zustimmung der FDP einzuführen. Eine parlamentarische Mehrheit gebe es dennoch, weil alle anderen Parteien für die Einführung seien. Wenn Merkel dennoch auf die Durchsetzung der Finanztransaktionssteuer verzichte, mache sie die Bundesrepublik und Europa zur ''Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei''. Gesine Lötzsch erklärt:

Es ist richtig, dass der französische Präsident jetzt die Blockade bricht und Frankreich zum Vorreiter bei der Einführung der Finanztransaktionssteuer macht. Wenn Deutschland ihm folgt, dann entsteht mit Sicherheit eine Dynamik, der sich die anderen Euro-Länder nicht entziehen können. Merkel sollte die Interessen des Landes vor den Koalitionsfrieden stellen und die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch ohne die Zustimmung der FDP einführen. Alle anderen Parteien sind dafür. DIE LINKE wird im Parlament für die Einführung stimmen. Wir brauchen die Einnahmen dringend, um Konjunkturprogramme gegen die Euro-Krise zu finanzieren. Die Bundesregierung tut hier zu wenig. Während der Weltwirtschaftskrise 2008 hat Deutschland konjunkturstützende Maßnahmen auf den Weg gebracht, die die Wirtschaft vor dem Schlimmsten bewahrt haben. Wir brauchen schnell ein Konjunkturprogramm für Wachstum und Beschäftigung. Wenn Merkel auf die Durchsetzung der Finanztransaktionssteuer verzichtet, dann macht sie Deutschland und Europa zur Geisel einer sich in Auflösung befindlichen Partei.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/merkel-darf-europa-nicht-zur-geisel-einer-sich-in-aufloesung-befindlichen-partei-machen/



19. Januar 2012

DIE LINKE steht wie eine Frau an der Seite der Kanzlerin

Die Kanzlerin muss die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch gegen die sich auflösende FDP durchsetzen, erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch:

Die Kanzlerin will offensichtlich nun endlich die Finanztransaktionssteuer auch gegen die FDP in Europa durchsetzen. Dabei hat sie unsere volle Unterstützung. Die Kanzlerin muss sich von der in Auflösung begriffenen FDP befreien, wenn sie Europa retten und ein Auseinanderbrechen der Europäischen Union verhindern will. Die FDP gibt scheinheilig vor, der Finanztransaktionssteuer zustimmen zu wollen, wenn diese Steuer in den 27 EU-Staaten eingeführt werden würde. Doch es ist klar, dass Großbritannien einer Finanztransaktionssteuer nicht zustimmen wird. Der Versuch, sich hinter den Briten zu verstecken, ist mehr als peinlich. Das Argument der FDP, dass mit der Steuer der Finanzplatz London auf unsere Kosten gestärkt wird, kann man entkräften. Das Österreichische Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung hat vorgeschlagen, dass die Steuer unabhängig vom Finanzplatz für alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger gelten muss und über die Finanzämter eingezogen werden kann. Dann ist es für einen deutschen oder spanischen Anleger egal, ob er in London oder in Frankfurt/a.M. handelt, er muss die Steuer auf jeden Fall bezahlen. Die LINKE weist aber darauf hin, dass allein mit einer Finanztransaktionssteuer die Finanzkrise nicht zu lösen ist. Wer glaubt, nur an einer Schraube drehen zu müssen, um den europäischen Motor wieder in Gang zu bringen, der hat die Komplexität des Problems nicht verstanden. Vor allem brauchen wir jetzt europäische Solidarität. Wer Griechenland, Portugal, Spanien und Italien dem Schicksal überlässt, wird selbst scheitern. Ein solidarisches Europa ist für alle besser.

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