World-News

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: America s fiscal problems are a direct result of the Billionaire Class working behind the scenes of our democracy and syphoning off massive amounts of wealth for themselves while paying lower taxes than they have paid in a half-century.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14011-exposed-how-the-billionaires-class-is-destroying-democracy



The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People

Ellen Brown, Yes! Magazine: We may rail against the banks and demand change, but change will not come until we realize that those who create the nation s money control the nation, and nearly the entire money supply today is created by banks in concert with the Federal Reserve.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14015-the-trillion-dollar-coin-a-debt-solution-for-the-people

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''We are Going to Kill the Dollar''

The Fed's Plan B

By Mike Whitney

This is the Fed s plan: Bail out the banks, transfer the banks bad bets onto its own balance sheet, hammer the greenback, slash wages (via inflation), boost exports, and pump as much money as possible into the unproductive, overbuilt black hole we call the US housing market.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33685.htm



The Politics of Debt in America

From Debtor s Prison to Debtor Nation

By Steve Fraser

Once again debt has emerged as both the central mode of capital accumulation and a principal mechanism of servitude. Warren Buffett (of all people) has predicted that, in the coming decades, the United States is more likely to turn into a ''sharecropper society'' than an ''ownership society.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33761.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/18-4

Don t Ignore the Drought: The One We are Seeing Is Bad, and It Is Not Going Away
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/18-12

Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change: Get the Coal Energy Facts
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/31-0

How Vermont Can Lead on Localizing the Climate Fight
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/31-8

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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five

Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now published in Climatic Change. In parts of Europe, Africa and southern Asia the number of monthly records has increased even by a factor of ten. 80 percent of observed monthly records would not have occurred without human influence on climate, concludes the authors-team of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Complutense University of Madrid.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416817343ms354

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Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change, it is far, far worse'

Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to economies as planet absorbs less carbon and is 'on track' for 4C rise.

http://is.gd/04uSNo



Bianca Jagger: Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon

Op-Ed

The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days?

http://is.gd/hqKJvg


From Information Clearing House

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The final call

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/27/13

Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein s Time Enough For Love, the 'Great Diaspora of the Human Race' began 'more than two millennia ago' and has spread to more than 'two thousand colonized planets.' The once 'lovely green planet' Earth is a slum planet barely able to support life where only the poorest live, Earth s natural capital having been consumed over two thousand years ago. Humans have found the ability to rejuvenate themselves and to live almost endless lives, but they are unable to rejuvenate the planets whose natural capital they devour...

http://tinyurl.com/babr5ml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Kim Carlyle

Foreign nationals are less valuable than Americans. Our losses are tragedies; theirs are collateral damage. The American public remains callously indifferent to the suffering of human ''others.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33652.htm



Clean Hands, Dirty Hands, No Hands

By Philip A Farruggio

This is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand more about the true history of this great nation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33653.htm



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