Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
October 21, 2010
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"[In] Democratic societies
... the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's
much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to
control what you think. ... One of the ways you control what people think is by
creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, but making sure that that
debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both
sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out
to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system,
then you can have a debate". - -Noam Chomsky (24/10/1986)
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In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid 'physical labor,' and wrote of the
need to 'keep elevating the threat,' 'link Iraq to Iran' and develop 'bumper
sticker statements' to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular [Iraq]
war. - Robin Wright, Washington Post
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"Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task
of propaganda to discover intellectual truths". -Joseph Goebbels(09/01/1928)
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"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're
about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to
cover. -Al Franken
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Number Of Iraqis
Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,366,350"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/
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Number of U.S.
Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On
Iraq: 4,743
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,167
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Cost of War in
Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,095,630,687,870
http://www.costofwar.com/ [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Injustice in the
Age of Obama
By Cindy Sheehan
From lies about WMD and
connections to "al Qaeda," almost every institution of so-called authority - the
Pentagon, State Department, CIA, FBI, all the way up to the Oval Office and back
down - lie. Not white lies, but big, Mother of all BS (MOAB) lies that lead to
the destruction of innocent lives.
http://www.
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America's False
Consciousness
By Charles
Sullivan
Considering that the U.S.
is the most conservative developed nation on earth, these are astonishing
revelations.
http://www.
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The War Upon
Ourselves
By Jim Kirwan
We're just weeks away from
the coming selection on November fourth and despite the actual State of this
Nation-the $4 to $6 TRILLION dollar wars (In Afghanistan & Iraq) have not even
been mentioned on the so-called campaign trail, which was no oversight:
http://www.
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WTF?: A Letter to
Appalled and Puzzled European Friends
By Bernard Weiner
Dear Wolfgang and
Jacqueline: Your recent email, wondering "what the f--- is going on" these days,
questioning whether we Americans have taken "more than your usual amount of
stupid pills," is well deserving of a considered response.
http://www.
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Jewistan: Finally
Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State
By Francis Boyle
Netanyahu's racist
ultimatum would lead to the denationalization of the 1.5 million Palestinians
who are already less than third-class citizens of Israel and set the stage for
their mass expulsion to the Palestinian Bantustan envisioned by Netanyahu as the
"final solution" to Zionism's "demographic problem"
http://www.
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This Peaceful
Position Takes Courage
By Mel Frykberg
A former captain in the
Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his
family in the Holocaust, has been labelled a psychopath and denounced by many
Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation.
http://www.
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Whither Goes Our
Loyalty
To Italy as Italians, or Israel as Jews?
By Bianca Ambrosio
Jews living in the
Diaspora face a controversial dilemma when it comes to national sentiment: Is it
better to prioritize the state in which we live or to focus on belonging to the
State of Israel?
http://www.
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Every Email and
Website to be Stored
By Tom Whitehead
It will allow security
services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a
phone or the internet.
http://www.
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The "Cyberwar" Is
Over and the National Security Agency Has Won
By Tom Burghardt
A "Memorandum of
Agreement" struck last week between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and the National Security Agency (NSA) promises to increase Pentagon control
over America's telecommunications and electronic infrastructure.
http://www.
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When Banks Are the
Robbers
By Amy Goodman
The big banks that caused
the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of
dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale
fraud against homeowners and the courts.
http://www.
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Why The Paperwork
Appears "Sloppy"
By Neil Garfield
After centuries of lending
money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for
screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of "loans" would be the Banks
themselves. Yet that is what occurred. The purpose of this article is to show
that it was not sloppy, it was intentional. And I will tell you why it was
intentional.
http://www.
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Latin America:
Roads to 21st Century Capitalist Development
By James Petras
The regimes pursuing
orthodox strategy, heavily dependant on declining US markets and on large scale
military and police expenditures, have lost out on the lucrative markets of
Asia, the Middle East and other regions.
http://www.
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Bombs in
Afghanistan kill more than 20 civilians:
A vehicle headed to a
wedding party and a school bus carrying students hit planted bombs in
southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding 20,
authorities said.
http://bit.ly/divrBT [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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3 NATO Occupation
Force Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan:
Three NATO occupation
soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers were killed
by a roadside bomb and the third soldier was killed by gunfire.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
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British occupation
force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
The British army says the
serviceman lost his life when he was defusing explosive devices in the Nahr-e
Saraj district of the restive southern Helmand Province.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/
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Did US occupation
force soldier kill prisoner? U.S. soldier in custody after death of Afghan
prisoner:
A U.S. soldier has been
taken into custody after an Afghan detainee was found dead in his cell in
southern Afghanistan at the weekend, apparently from a gunshot wound, the U.S.
military said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/
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Afghanistan annuls
nearly a quarter of ballots:
Afghanistan has thrown out
nearly a quarter of ballots cast in last month's parliamentary elections because
of fraud, according to full preliminary results released Wednesday.
http://wcfcourier.com/news/
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Death toll rises
in Karachi violence:
Parts of Pakistan's
largest city shut down on Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51
the number of people killed in four days.
http://gulfnews.com/news/
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Three Pakistani
soldiers killed in bomb attack:
A roadside bomb attack on
a security forces convoy in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least three
soldiers Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/
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'Iran has 30 kg of
20% enriched uranium':
President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has several times noted that Iran would prefer to provide fuel for
the Tehran reactor from foreign sources because enrichment at 20 per cent level
was costly.
http://bit.ly/9XYbuM [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Iran Air says
refueling stops may be necessary owing to fuel denial at Heathrow:
The statement comes as
multiple media outlets report that a number of Western fuel providers are
unwilling to conduct business with the carrier following sanctions imposed on
the Iranian government earlier this year by the UN, US and EU.
http://bit.ly/bRRn0u [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Chavez vows to
back Iran 'under any circumstances,' hopes to bolster trade ties: :
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez vowed Tuesday to back ally Tehran "under any circumstances" as his
Iranian counterpart and host praised Caracas for fighting sanctions against the
Islamic Republic.
http://dailystar.com.lb/
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Obama backs
Venezuela's right to nuclear energy:
US President Barack Obama
said Tuesday he had no objection to Venezuela developing nuclear power for
civilian energy purposes, days after Caracas and Moscow signed a landmark deal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
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Iran to try 'US
spy suspects':
Americans detained near
border with northern Iraq will be charged with espionage and entering the
country illegally.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
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No Knesset majority for
loyalty oath for Jews and non-Jews:
Only 56 of 120 MKs say
they support the bill requiring Jews and non-Jews alike to pledge allegiance to
Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; Justice Minister: I'll quit if loyalty
oath applies only to non-Jews.
http://bit.ly/cd9gpw [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Ripples Crossing:
Video documentary:
An American youth embarks
on a journey to the Palestinian territories to see for himself what the
situation is like there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter:
Editor-in-chief of
controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda
and is not to be trusted'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Joe Miller's
private "guards" were active-duty military:
One of the more disturbing
election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private "guards"
working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a
journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to
answer.
http://www.salon.com/news/tea_
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French police open
blockaded depots:
President orders forced
reopening of fuel depots closed by workers striking over planned pensions
overhaul.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
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Live blog: French
strikes and protests:
Strikes continue to cause
widespread disruption in France the day after one million people took to the
streets in protest at Sarkozy's pension reforms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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UK announces 490,000 job
cuts:
Harshest austerity
measures since second world war unveiled as public spending is slashed to deal
with country's debts.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
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Stiglitz Says U.S.
Unemployment Is Likely to Increase: Video:
Nobel Prize-winning
economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz discusses the
outlook for the U.S. economy.
http://bit.ly/dC7uQe [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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The Real
Underemployment Figure Is 22.5%:
Ever get the feeling that
things are a lot worse than everyone is letting on?
http://consumerist.com/2010/
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Is the US system
rigged for the rich?:
The top 20 percent of
wealth-holders own 84 percent of America's wealth. What's causing it? One factor
is federal policy, says a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development
(CFED)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/
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Wells Fargo
Reports Record Profits:
Wells Fargo & Co., the
largest U.S. home lender, reported record third-quarter profit that beat most
analysts' estimates as credit conditions improved, and said it's not planning to
halt foreclosures.
http://bit.ly/b0aloG [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Bank Balance
Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff:: Jim Rogers:
Balance sheets at banks
are "full of rotten stuff," they still need to sort out their "gigantic"
problems and their stocks will be in a trading range over the next five to six
years, Rogers predicted.
http://yhoo.it/cPuDLy [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Fraud Task Force
Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers:
Allegations that some of
the nation's largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures
and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal.
http://bit.ly/cx2i5P [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?
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Will Bankers go to
Jail for Foreclosure-gate?:
So who is likely to go to
jail? Obviously the first candidates are the robo-signers who were putting their
names to documents that attested they had reviewed the loans documents when they
hadn't. But here's the problem with just putting those people in jail.
http://curiouscapitalist.
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"Let us be peace
and joy"
Tom Feeley
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