World-News

US banking giant JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced a net profit of 4.8 billion dollars in the second quarter, up nearly 80 percent from the same period last year.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0715/jpmorgan-profit-leaps-80/



Economic "Recovery" Showing New Signs of Losing Steam

Investors got a strong dose of sobering economic news Thursday as several key manufacturing indexes show that the recovery is losing steam.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38258512



The U.S. Economy Is A Dead Horse And The American People Are Starting To Get Really Pissed Off And Frustrated

All our lives we have been taught that America is the richest and most prosperous nation on the planet, and that while there will always be times of "recession", things will always bounce back and be better than ever before. But this time things aren't bouncing back.

http://bit.ly/cDeydt



Banks repossess homes at record pace: RealtyTrac

Banks took control of 269,962 properties in the second quarter, up 5 percent from the prior quarter and a 38 percent spike from the second quarter of last year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100715/us_nm/us_usa_housing_foreclosures



Six bank failures bring 2010 tally to 96

Five more bank failures brought the total tally for the year to 96, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/five-more-bank-failures-bring-2010-tally-to-96-2010-07-16-1835260



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Claims that British soldiers used water torture on a badly beaten Iraqi man before unlawfully handing him over to US interrogators are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

http://bit.ly/dkUxmt



Torture and the UK: 2002-10

As evidence emerges that MI5 was complicit in the torture of some Britons overseas, see their cases and what is known of UK government or intelligence activities at the time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2009/jun/18/torture-uk-interactive



Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations

Letter reveals former PM was aware of guidance to UK agents which effectively led to torture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/tony-blair-secret-torture-policy



UK: The torture files: key passages

We highlight the key passages from the classified documents disclosed in high court proceedings - and what they show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/interactive/2010/jul/14/toture-files-key-passages



Paper trail points to Blair: Former PM 'sanctioned the abuse of UK citizens'
http://bit.ly/cL0Xai



Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret

Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million.
http://bit.ly/awP0By


From Information Clearing House



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Democracy Now!

In 2008, there were food riots in more than thirty countries. The global price of food rose over 80 percent. This had an effect not only on wheat, but on corn, on soy, on cooking oil, on rice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25955.htm



The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out: Here's the Stats to Prove It

By Michael Snyder

83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25953.htm



Calling All Future-Eaters

By Chris Hedges

Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians. And now we sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25962.htm



Misguided U.S. Economic Policies Drive Many Mexicans to Come Here

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha

Most immigrants would prefer to stay at home with their families and live their own culture, eat their own food, and listen to their own music.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25965.htm

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Inside the 'Class War'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/19-0

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The Food Crisis Is Looming
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j111.html

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Wheat Crisis Threatens Inflationary Timebomb, Food Riots

Global food prices skyrocketing as a result of devastating weather conditions, hedge fund speculation

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 9, 2010

Russia’s ban on wheat exports following widespread fires in the country sent food prices skyrocketing by 19 per cent in just a single week as fears grow that global volatility in foodstuffs and commodities could lead to a worldwide inflationary timebomb accompanied by widespread food riots.

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Der Vorsitzende des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), Michael Sommer, ruft zum energischen Protest gegen das geplante Sparpaket und die angekündigte Gesundheitsreform auf. Wenn der Sommer vorbei ist, wollen die Gewerkschaften offensiv mobilisieren, die schwarz-gelbe Bundesregierung, "soll den Druck der Menschen spüren", so der DGB-Chef. Von den Kürzungen im Sparpaket sind vor allem Geringverdiener und Hartz IV Bezieher betroffen. Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/dgb-chef-sommer-widerstand-gegen-schwarz-gelb-10296.php



Der Deutsche Mieterbund kritisiert die Wohngeldkürzung der Bundesregierung. Viele müssen dann zusätzliche Hartz IV Leistungen beantragen.

Der Deutsche Mieterbund hat die bevorstehenden Wohngeld-Kürzungen scharf kritisiert. Es sei zu befürchten, dass viele Hartz-IV Leistungen beantragen müssen. Der Vorsitzende des Mieterbundes bezeichnete die Wohngeldkürzung als "sozialpolitischen Kahlschlag". Lesen Sie weiter:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/durch-wohngeldkuerzungen-in-die-hartz-iv-falle-2011.php



Eskalation in der Hartz-IV Behörde. Erwerbsloser von Sachbearbeiter verletzt?

Zu einer handfesten Auseinandersetzung zwischen einem Hartz IV Betroffenen und einem Sachbearbeiter ist es in der Arge Schwalm-Eder in Homberg gekommen. Dabei wurde der Sachbearbeiter und Hilfeersuchende verletzt. Der Fall wurde bekannt, nachdem der Erwerbslosenverein "Oase" diesen Fall öffentlich gemacht hatte. Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/eskalation-in-der-hartz-iv-behoerde-0192.php

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Banken, Unternehmen und Reiche sollen zahlen
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/607acef40ecbc6a3?hl=de



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Raw Story

The truth about Watergate and Iran/Contra have been supressed by elements of government mind control operations rooted in Operation Paperclip that allowed ...

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0716/dcs-spooks-panic-mode-post-expose/



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'Israel convinces US with Credible military plan on Iran'

Have Israel's efforts to convince the US to threaten Iran with a credible military option paid off? According to recent media reports, the answer might be yes.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=181854



Congress Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran

By Jamal Abdi

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26007.htm



Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy

By Juan Cole

It is not impossible that the people behind this resolution are fervently hoping for the Judgment Day to come more quickly and look forward to a Middle East apocalypse as a step toward the Return of Christ and the end of that pesky but temporarily necessary Judaism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26009.htm



House OK's possible Israeli raid on Iran

Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136016&sectionid=351020101



Queen Nancy of the Robber Class: "Metrics"?

By Cindy Sheehan

You, Nancy-you don't even know the kind of pain you are causing all of the "Metrics" in the world, do you? The mothers in all the parts of the world that we are bombing, or helping other people to bomb don't even enter into your rarefied society. We wouldn't want to spoil your dinner parties/DNC fundraisers at your estate in Sonoma County, now, would we?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26082.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Iranian Scientist Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/19-5

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Iranian scientist would not play curveball

Information Clearinghouse
by Ray McGovern

07/19/10

Useful insights often must be seen through a glass darkly. But some can be pulled through the smoke and mirrors shrouding the wanderings of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who is now back home in Iran after 14 months in the U.S. as guest of the CIA...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25958.htm



The national security product

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

07/22/10

Those who are agonizing over whether Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was a double agent or just an agent or whether he was kidnapped or a defector are really missing the point. Amiri was just a small cog in the Greatest Show on Earth, the $100 billion a year US intelligence community. United States intelligence is a huge and expensive bureaucracy and the information it produces must be consumed even when it does not necessarily make Americans safer. More important than that, it is a product that must have enough bells and whistles to impress Congress, the media, and the White House to keep the money flowing...

http://tinyurl.com/29g2ank


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Assassin of Democracy
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/44.html

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Obama Preparing to Attack Iran

The Market Oracle

A few days before the B-52 escaped control of legally constituted US authorities, a group of antiwar activists issued The Kennebunkport Warning of August ...

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article21380.html

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Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel's "Bomb Iran" Campaign

Gareth Porter, Truthout: "Reuel Marc Gerecht's screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-real-aim-israels-bomb-iran-campaign61866



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The Money Supply Conspiracy
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Massive Money Printing by October?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber71.1.html

Just Say No
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods149.html

Secession, Nullification, and Passive Non-Cooperation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz9.1.1.html

Nullification and Subsidiarity
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Missouri vote puts health care back in crosshairs

Las Vegas Review-Journal

08/04/10

Missouri voters’ overwhelming opposition to requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance puts one of the least popular parts of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law back in the political crosshairs. Even if the vote sets no legally binding precedent, it will help mobilize foes of Obama’s agenda in the fall midterm elections, and that could make a difference in some states with close congressional races that could decide the balance of power in Washington...

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