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  DDP Attac activists stage a protest action at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany: ‘Disarm the Financial Markets!’ ‘We’re Not Paying For Your Crisis!’ Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls. Trade unions and globalization–critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: ‘We’re not paying for your crisis’. Alexis Passadakis, 31, an activist from the group Attac, tells SPIEGEL what’s wrong with the system. WORLD NEWSsubmitted by j.grub look once again at what Larry Summers and his Rubinomics gang did in Russia Egypt: Israel wrong to tie soldier to Gaza truce International Herald Tribune – 42 minutes ago
AP CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman says Israel’s latest demand that a captured Israeli soldier be released before a long–term Gaza truce deal with Hamas is struck is a blow to Egyptian mediation efforts between the two sides. Nation's food system nearly broke
As our government enacts a stimulus package and President Barack Obama announces bold initiatives to stem home mortgage foreclosures, disaster threatens family farmers and their communities.
US Combat Missions in Iraq Will Continue After ‘Pullout’
After the ‘pullout’, as many as 50,000 troops will remain on the ground, and despite being touted as a withdrawal of combat troops, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell conceded that some would continue to ‘conduct combat operations’, and Iraq would still be considered a war zone. The rest would be what he described as ‘enablers’.
i.e., what we called ‘Advisers’ in Vietnam.
Another 9/11 Truth Activist Found Dead
My good friend Paul Vigay was found washed up on the beach at Southsea on Friday morning, 20 Feb., after being reported missing the previous evening. Check out his brilliant 911 truth site ? which he put up and ran singlehandedly 911 Truth. ... I believe he was optimistic and buoyant with all his future plans, and don?t even think of his wanting to take his own life. Did he just happen to go for a swim in the middle of February, and get drowned by a shore where he had lived for years? I don’t think so?. More U.S.NEWS
CANADAsubmitted by Luc Majno Residential Schools: Murderous List submitted by Luc Majno No Olympics On Stolen Land submitted by Luc Majno Extending Measures of Control and Assimilation
Government assets could go on block Finance Department looking at ways to keep deficit down By Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service February 18, 2009 The Harper government, under pressure to prevent the federal deficit from ballooning, is pressing ahead with an asset review that could lead to the sale or privatization of several well–known Crown corporations, including Canada Post, Via Rail, the Royal Canadian Mint and the agency that oversees security at Canada’s airports. MIDDLE EAST/ASIAIran threatened with economic meltdown: The sharp downward spiral of oil prices has prompted economists to predict that Tehran is facing severe financial hardship within the space of a few months.
Most U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq By August 2010, Officials Say President Barack Obama plans to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said Tuesday, ending the war that helped define his upstart presidential campaign — although a little more slowly than he promised.
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There is no way it takes 19 months to get out of a country it took only three weeks to invade. This is a classic stall and as far as I am concerned violates the campaign promise Obama made. All wars end eventually. Keeping his promise means ending this one right now. SC/ENVIRONMENTEarliest modern gait found in ancient footprints discovered in Kenya~ More than a million years ago an ancient human ancestor walked across a sandy plain in eastern Africa, leaving footprints that scientists are now hailing as the earliest evidence of modern upright walking.
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Hundreds of people blocked roads and fought with police in southern Afghanistan on Friday over unconfirmed reports that Polish troops fired guns in a village mosque, in a protest underscoring Afghans’ growing mistrust of international forces. Army tanks roll toward Bangladeshi capital
Bangladeshi tanks rolled into the capital Thursday, according to local media reports, hours after the prime minister warned mutinous border guards she would ‘do whatever is needed to end the violence’.
AMERICASCongress Easing Restrictions on Cuba Travel~ Once signed by Obama, the legislation would allow Cuban-Americans to travel to Cuba once a year to visit relatives, spend up to $170 a day and visit for an unlimited duration. HEALTHBAD ECONOMY SENDS
MILLIONS TO MC DOO–DOO’S TO EAT THEMSELVES TO DEATH MARKETSIf High Taxes Led to Growth, The Most Taxed Countries on Earth Would be the Richest, Which They Are.
GOLD TO SPIKE TO $3000 JIM CRAMER, CNBC’S TOP ECONOMIST SAYS BANK NATIONALIZATION WILL LEAD TO SOCIAL
CHAOS, ALL WEALTH GONE, NO CREDIT CARDS, AND MONEY WORTHLESS
Detroit’s outlook falls along with home prices
Motor City on the brink of bankruptcy, but still 15 people want to be mayor By Ron Paul Ron Paul: On The Collapse Of Capitalism Nations will be redefined in this period. McDonald’s to charge more in poorer suburbs
McDONALD’S is lifting prices in poorer suburbs where it believes consumers are more likely to accept higher charges without complaint. Start complaining, people. OP ED5 Myths About All Those Nukes Out ThereWebmaster's Commentary:
With all the fear-mongering about nuclear weapons, the historical reality remains that one and only one nation has actually used a nuclear weapon against the people of another country, and that nation is the United States.
‘There will be blood’
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson predicts prolonged financial hardship, even civil war, before the ‘Great
Recession’ ends
Why the demise of civilisation may be inevitable DOOMSDAY. The end of civilisation. Literature and film abound with tales of plague, famine and wars which ravage the planet, leaving a few survivors scratching out a primitive existence amid the ruins. Every civilisation in history has collapsed, after all. Why should ours be any different? China’s Central Bank Says Downturn Could Worsen ~ Risk of Deflation ‘Downward pressure on economic growth is clearly increasing’, the People’s Bank of China said in a quarterly report. It warned that pressure for prices to fall was strong amid shrinking demand.
‘The risk of deflation is quite big’, said the report, issued Monday and posted on the bank’s website. AFRICA
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