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From: Information Clearing House
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Subject: ICH: Swine Flu? - A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:
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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
April 30, 2009
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda
system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless,
that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam
Chomsky
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Spanish Court Opens Investigation of Guantánamo Torture
Allegations
Allegations include sexual abuse and beating
By Giles Tremlett in Madrid and agencies
Judge Baltasar Garzón, an investigating magistrate at the
National Court in Madrid, said he would investigate allegations made by four
detainees who were held at the centre and later released without charges,
according to a court document quoted by the Spanish press.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22519.htm
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Torture Memos Expose Dark, Imperial Presidency
By Robert S. Becker
This was not a happy week for the torture lobby, nor its
defenders, derailing months of charm offensive by Bush-Cheney legacy boosters.
A wary President Obama backed off attempts to defuse the torture parade -
fretting over divisive investigations and hard-to-win court convictions.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22520.htm
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Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon:
When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal
By Cenk Uygur
Condoleezza Rice was recently speaking at Stanford when
students asked her an excellent question on waterboarding and torture. They
have her answer on tape and it isn't pretty. Condi Rice absolutely pulls a
Nixon.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22523.htm
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Somalis Say Illegal Fishing By Foreign Trawlers Drove Them To
Piracy
By SHASHANK BENGALI
The international community is shouting about piracy. But long
before this, we were shouting to the world about our problems," said Eid, a
bony-cheeked former lobsterman with a bushy goatee. "No one listened."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22522.htm
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DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu Quarantines
Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a
$250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.
By Declan McCullagh
A Defense Department planning document summarizing the
military's contingency plan says the Pentagon is prepared to assist in
"quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease
during an influenza pandemic" and aiding in "efforts to restore and maintain
order."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22524.htm
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Swine Flu?
A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:
By Simon Jenkins
Health scares enable media-hungry doctors, public health
officials and drugs companies to benefit by manipulating fright.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22521.htm
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Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan?
Obama Says Pakistan's Government Is 'Very Fragile':
The government doesn't "seem to have the capacity to deliver
basic services: schools, health care, rule of law and a judicial system that
works for the majority of the people," Obama said at a White House news
conference last night.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ahRFijhU0pvQ&refer=politics
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Taliban Advance in Pakistan Prompts Shift by U.S.:
New consideration is being given to a long-dormant proposal to
allow U.S. counterinsurgency training for Pakistani troops somewhere outside
the country, circumventing Pakistan's refusal to allow American "boots on the
ground" there.
http://snipurl.com/h3apr
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Osama still alive, suggests Obama:
Addressing a town hall meeting in the central state of
Missouri, the US President also reiterated his administration's position that
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban "are the single most direct threat to our national
security interests."
http://news.rediff.com/interview/2009/apr/30/osama-still-alive-suggests-obama.htm
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Britain ends combat operations in Iraq:
The British military formally ended combat operations in Iraq
on Thursday after six years of conflict by handing over control of its main
base in Basra to an American brigade.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/30/britain-iraq.html
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Peres: Bombing Iran may not be the 'best solution':
"I'm not sure that bombing the nuclear facilities is the best
solution. You know, the moment there are centrifuges, you can destroy the
centrifuges. You cannot destroy the know-how to create centrifuges. You can
postpone," he told Channel 10.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081918.html
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Ahmadinejad: West's claims of democracy "sheer lies":
"The recent anti-racism conference in Geneva ... proved that
the West's claims of freedom of expression and democracy were sheer lies,"
Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/30/content_11291115.htm
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Court rebuffs feds, reinstates torture suit:
A federal appeals court rebuffed the Obama administration's
assertion of secrecy Tuesday and reinstated a lawsuit by five men who say a Bay
Area subsidiary of Boeing Co. helped the CIA fly them to foreign countries to
be tortured.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/MNC417AH7A.DTL
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Obama: 'I believe waterboarding was torture, and it was a
mistake':
Barack Obama has rejected the former US vice-president Dick
Cheney's defence of waterboarding, citing the refusal of the then British prime
minister, Winston Churchill, to resort to torture even at the height of the
Blitz in the second world war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/30/obama-waterboarding-mistake
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US Attorney General says 30 current Guantanamo detainees
approved for release:
Holder spoke hours ahead of a speech appealing for Europe's
help in closing the military detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
He said the U.S. is weeks away from asking certain countries to take detainees.
http://snipurl.com/h3axb
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Mass. Senate approves pandemic flu prep bill:
The new Senate version would allow the public health
commissioner - in a public health emergency - to close or evacuate buildings,
enter private property for investigations, and quarantine individuals.
http://snipurl.com/h3ays
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World flu alert goes higher; Mexico plans shutdown:
Mexico took even more drastic action to squelch a swine flu
epidemic, ordering a suspension of private business activity and non-essential
federal government activities, as the World Health Organization ratcheted up an
alert, warning that "all of humanity" is threatened.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-30-swineflu-world-thursday_N.htm?csp=34
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Swine Flu Devastates Mexico's Tourism Industry:
The airports are empty. The beach you could have to yourself.
The hotel staffs are washing their hands every half-hour when they're not
sanitizing the doorknobs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042904650.html
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Peru suspends flights to and from Mexico:
Peru suspended from Thursday all flights to and from Mexico
over the ongoing flu epidemic, in a decision that Prime Minister Yehude Simon
described as "painful but necessary."
http://snipurl.com/h3b0w
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Swine flu spreads to Netherlands:
The case was reported hours after the World Health Organisation
(WHO) warned that the world is on the brink of a pandemic, saying "all humanity
is under threat".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/200943011236516712.html
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UN says Egypt pig cull real mistake:
Clashes were reported in Khanka, 25km north of Cairo, with pig
farmers setting up road blocks and smashing the windscreens of veterinary
services' vehicles as they sought to take people's pigs away.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/04/200942923217637747.html
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Will pandemic be mild, or kill millions?:
Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's acting assistant director-general, said
that swine flu appeared very similar to normal seasonal flu, a disease that is
rarely fatal for healthy adults but can kill the elderly and infirm. - Chan
acknowledged that the disease may well cause more discomfort than death, noting
that many patients infected in the United States have recovered on their own
and without medicine.
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=15304
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U.S. Commerce Department: U.S. economy worst in 50 years:
It's official. The United States is mired in its worst economic
downturn in half a century, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
Data released by the department show that the U.S. economy shrank by 6.1
percent during the first three months of the year - a full percentage point
worse than what analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been predicting.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/04/27/daily42.html
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Chrysler to File for Bankruptcy:
U.S. officials had offered Chrysler's secured lenders $2.25
billion in cash if they would agree to writedown the $6.9 billion in secured
debt that the company owed. But a small group of hedge funds refused the
11th-hour deal, forcing an imminent bankruptcy.
http://snipurl.com/h3b46
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U.S. March Consumer Spending Fell More Than Forecast:
Purchases decreased 0.2 percent after a 0.4 percent gain in
February that was larger than previously estimated, the Commerce Department
said today in Washington. Incomes fell for the fifth time in the last six
months.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_oglDHVKGyI&refer=home
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