World-News

Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/world/la-fg-korea-torpedo-20100724


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheonan

By Conn Hallinan

The Afghan Taliban have never been a threat to the West, and the idea that fighting the Taliban would reduce the threat of terrorism is "complete rubbish." In any case, the al-Qaeda operatives who pulled off the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon got their training in Hamburg and south Florida, not Tora Bora.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26014.htm

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Here Be Dragons: In Bed With the US Army

Ann Jones, TomDispatch: "In the eight years I've reported on Afghanistan, I've 'embedded' regularly with Afghan civilians, especially women. Recently, however, with American troops 'surging' and journalists getting into the swing of the military's counterinsurgency 'strategy' (better known by its acronym, COIN), I decided to get with the program as well. Last June, I filed a request to embed with the U.S. Army."

http://www.truth-out.org/here-be-dragons-in-bed-with-us-army61919



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The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10731408



Deepwater Horizon alarms were switched off 'to help workers sleep'

Alarms and safety mechanisms on gulf disaster oil rig were disabled, chief technician at Transocean reveals.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms



Strippers, Booze and Race Riots

BP's Cleanup Workers Run Amok in Grand Isle.
http://bit.ly/cU3DAo



BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle

By Abe Louise Young

Hiring prison labor is more than a way for BP to save money while cleaning up the biggest oil spill in history. By tapping into the inmate workforce, the company and its subcontractors get workers who are not only cheap but easily silenced-and they get lucrative tax write-offs in the process.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26011.htm



BP fails to put money in promised escrow account

Ken Feinberg, who was appointed to administer oil spill claims out of the escrow fund, has said he "hasn't been able to start writing claims checks" because BP PLC has failed to deposit any money into the $20 billion fund it promised to create.

http://bit.ly/cbI9IK


From Information Clearing House

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Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well

Sara Kennedy, McClatchy Newspapers: "Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well - the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as 'plumes' and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday."

http://www.truth-out.org/researchers-confirm-subsea-gulf-oil-plumes-are-from-bp-well61662



BP May Be Trying to Hire Scientists to Protect Against Their Potential Future Testimony

Video

Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show: "Something just happened in the BP oil disaster that can really only be explained using a scene from season five of 'The Sopranos.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-tries-hire-entire-scientists-protect-against-their-potential-future-testimony61660



Disabled Oil Rig Alarm Points to Human Failures in Gulf Oil Spill

Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor: "As investigators probe the Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident, it's becoming clearer that human decisions regarding key safety equipment were part of the nation's largest oil spill. A disabled fire alarm and critical gas venting systems set to 'bypass' likely became part of a complex web of human errors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon accident at the heart of the nation's worst oil spill."

http://www.truth-out.org/disabled-oil-rig-alarm-points-human-failures-gulf-oil-spill61684

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Dr. Tom Termotto 's latest PRESS RELEASE has been published by Christiane Tourtet B.A. in the American Chronicle and its 21 Affiliates magazines:

" DR. TOM TERMOTTO : BP NUCLEAR OPTION SPELLS MEGA-DISASTER FOR GULF OF MEXICO"

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/171510

"DR. TOM TERMOTTO : ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH IMPACTS OF THE BP GULF OIL SPILL"

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/174426

"DR. TOM TERMOTTO : HAVE BP & THE US GOVERNMENT PERPETRATED YET ANOTHER FRAUD AGAINST WE THE PEOPLE?"

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/177958

"DR. TOM TERMOTTO; WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY PUTTING IN THE WATER ? "

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/179203

Please circulate this message internationally.Thank you.


Christiane Tourtet B.A.
Founder/President
International MCS/EMS Awareness
http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm

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Justice Department Considering Using False Claims Act to Recover Losses in Deepwater Horizon Disaster

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/26-10



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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a toll on minds as well as bodies, statistics released by the U.S. Army indicate. The Army said the number of U.S. soldiers forced to leave the military because of mental disorders increased by 64 percent from 2005 to 2009, USA Today reported Friday.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212313969.shtml?ref=rss


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Afghanistan/
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By Mike Whitney

Financial system instability is no accident. It's Central Bank policy. As financial institutions discover they can no longer count on organic growth in the real economy to increase profits, (because consumers are too strapped to spend freely) they will rely more heavily on dodgy accounting, bogus ratings, opaque debt-instruments, high-frequency trading and lax lending standards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25999.htm



Federal Report Faults Banks on Huge Bonuses

By ERIC DASH

With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners. Now, the federal authority on banker pay says that nearly 80 percent of that sum was unmerited.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26005.htm



Feinberg: Unfair to Ask Firms to Return Payouts

U.S. "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg on Friday declined to request 17 financial firms that doled out $1.6 billion in "ill advised" executive compensation to return the excessive payouts, saying to do so would be unfair to the companies and could trigger private lawsuits and additional Congressional investigation.

http://bit.ly/cd7jLi


From Information Clearing House

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Economic Warnings From Two Respected Analysts
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north870.html

Relax, This Will Hurt a Lot
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber72.1.html

Are Regulators Attempting to Kill Off the Money Market Mutual Fund Industry?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/wenzel10.1.html

The Grossly Problematic Gross Domestic Product
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/johnsson6.1.1.html

One Economic Chart That You Should Permanently Burn Into Your Memory
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/economic-horror.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/black-s4.1.1.html

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Ann Curry Focuses On 'Hidden America'

The Impoverished (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/ann-curry-focuses-on-hidd_n_657320.html


From Information Clearing House



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Im Senat wollten auch viele Demokraten nicht für eine Begrenzung der CO2-Emissionen stimmen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148068



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=CO2

Der US-Notenbankchef bezeichnet de Ausblick für die US-Wirtschaft als "außergewöhnlich unsicher".

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148062



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Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

07/22/10

Every society in history, since the rise of class domination (and of states as its instruments), has had a cultural reproduction apparatus. The purpose is to process newborn human beings into the kind of ‘human resources’ a given system needs to continue on a stable basis: People who accept the prevailing system of power as normal, and who dismiss fundamental challenges to the system of power as ‘radical’ or ‘extremist.’ But the Matrix we live in has its own glitches: Internal contradictions built into the system’s own propaganda, which act as stumbling blocks and regularly cause ideological ‘defects’ in the human resources being processed by the system. This is unavoidable. What the system does cannot be reconciled with what it says. What it says this week cannot be reconciled with what it said last week. And sometimes people notice, and put two and two together...

http://c4ss.org/content/3226


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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