----- From: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 Subject: ICH: Who Can You Trust in America?
"How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. " : Henry David Thoreau = The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day : Theodore Roosevelt If the former chairman of Nasdaq is a crook Who Can You Trust in America? By Nicholas von Hoffman Madoff's fall has planted the seeds of suspicion. We now doubt those we have done business with for years. The presumption of trust is gone. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21501.htm === Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes By Marjorie Cohn Why is Cheney so sanguine about admitting he is a war criminal? Because he's confident that either President Bush will preemptively pardon him or President-elect Obama won't prosecute him. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21500.htm === The Superpower of Toilet Papers By Matthias Chang The US has been abusing its financial power by the use of its greatest invention, the "toilet paper printing press" (now, the modern "electronic printing press") to issue irredeemable fiat money. Now the world is flooded with trillions of this toilet paper, namely US dollars. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21503.htm === Capitalism Short Circuits Our Moral Hard-Wiring By Gary Olson Perhaps not since the 1930s have our citizens been more skeptical of received wisdom about our socioeconomic system. That is, the carefully manufactured narrative of market capitalist identity and its assumptions about human nature are now thrown into sharp relief. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21499.htm === Scorched Earth By David Glenn Cox American officials scoff as the American media turns a blind eye to what is taking place in Greece. In the 1920's it was Italy and the 1930's it was Germany, but the message is always the same, when the needs of the people aren't being met the arms of the people will be. It is easy to laugh them off just as the Polish government once tried to laugh off Lech Welensa and the American media once laughed off those crazy Germans marching in the streets with those ridiculous brown shirts. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21502.htm === One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe No one in 1967 thought the Arab-Israeli conflict would still be in progress 41 years later By Robert Fisk George W's infamous letter to Ariel Sharon, saying he could, in effect, keep large bits of the West Bank, set the seal on Johnson's deception. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21504.htm === My Expulsion from Israel By Richard Falk By attacking the observer rather than what is observed, Israel plays a clever mind game. It directs attention away from the realities of the occupation, practising effectively a politics of distraction. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21505.htm === A Short Path, from Gaza to Somalia By Daniel Levy The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is beginning to approximate that of Somalia, where 77 percent of the population requires emergency humanitarian support, and the rate of malnutrition is the world's highest. Food insecurity in Gaza currently runs at 56 percent and is deteriorating rapidly, 42 percent of the Strip's population is unemployed and 76 percent is receiving humanitarian assistance (all UN figures). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21498.htm === Report: India may attack Pakistan: Indian military has prepared operations against targets in Pakistan and awaits the signal to go forward, a US intelligence report says. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79031§ionid=351020402 === India gets set to mount diplomatic offensive on Pak: Armed with sufficient material on the terror attacks in Mumbai to nail Pakistan, India will mount a diplomatic offensive from Monday by convening a two-day closed door meeting in New Delhi [Images] with the heads of all foreign countries' missions in the national capital as part of strategy to get Pakistan declared as a 'terrorist State'. http://tinyurl.com/9fjank === 'Russian arms sales could help Iran obliterate Israel': "The deliveries of dangerous armaments to our enemies won't serve the interests of peace and, for instance, can help Iran wipe Israel off the face of earth," the Interfax news agency quoted envoy Amos Gilad was quoted as saying. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048251.html === Former US admiral says to Israel: Don't fear Iran: Israel is one of the strongest countries in the Middle East and needs to stop giving in to a "fear factor" with regard to the prospect of a nuclear Iran, Adm. (ret.) William Fallon, the former commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. http://tinyurl.com/7wd9hz === Fallon talks sense into Israel on Iran: A former senior US commander says Israel should overcome its "fear" that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to Tel Aviv. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78931§ionid=351020104 === Israeli Ex-Official: We Can't Defeat Iran: Israel's former National Security Advisor has warned the country's current leaders not to wage a military first strike against Iran. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/12/19/world/worldwatch/entry4676833.shtml === U.S. report: Hezbollah fought Israel better than any Arab army: A new report from the U.S. Army War College warns that the American military must learn the lessons of the Second Lebanon War, in which Hezbollah operated more like a conventional army than a guerrilla organization. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048056.html === UAE buys U.S. missiles in $3.3 billion deal: report: The U.S. Defense Department said in September it had proposed the sale of air defense systems and helicopters to the UAE with a total potential value of more than $9 billion. http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BJ0HG20081220?rpc=401&; === 'Greek Syndrome' is catching as youth take to streets: First it was Athens. Now the Continent's disillusioned youth is taking to the streets across Europe. John Lichfield reports http://tinyurl.com/9jknaf === John Dean: 'Serious consequences' if Obama doesn't prosecute torture: Vice President Dick Cheney's admission that he authorized waterboarding has focused attention on possible Bush administration war crimes, and former Nixon White House counsel John Dean believes there will be "serious consequences" if the Obama administration tries to avoid singling out those involved for prosecution. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/John_Dean_Serious_consequences_for_not_1219.html === Ill. governor claims innocence, won't quit: Blagojevich says he's 'dying to answer' corruption charges in court, not in '30-second sound bites' http://tinyurl.com/ay38xa === Illinois governor vows to stay in office, fight: "I have done nothing wrong. And I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob," a composed yet combative Blagojevich said Friday, addressing the public for the first time since his arrest 10 days earlier. http://tinyurl.com/72s2qv === Pin-Striped Pirates: Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world's taxation systems. http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/12/16/pin-striped-pirates/ === "It's Kristallnacht Two!" An Ethnic Cleansing in America : In terms of financial and psychological impact, Bernard Maddow's $50 billion heist certainly ranks as a major ethnic cleansing here in America, a hugely traumatic event for American Jewry. http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12192008.html === Calif. unemployment rate jumps to 8.4 percent: The jobless rate announced by the U.S. Department of Labor was up from 5.7 percent a year earlier, and 8.2 percent in October. Only Michigan and Rhode Island posted higher jobless rates than California. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D955VO800.htm === "The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world." : James Baldwin - From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976) = "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village." : Gandhi more here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
