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Is the U.S. in Haiti because of Oil?

Michael: "Once I observed the mass–murder posse of Team Obama, Bush and Clinton begin circling the wagons and the rapid US militarization of Port au Prince, including the occupation of the Presidential Palace, to the tune of now almost 10,000 US boots on the ground, I began to get suspicious. Call me crazy. I know of the sad history of Haiti imposed upon the tiny former slave nation by one imperial power after the next. But when I see 10,000 American soldiers descend upon a nation in less than a week, my radar flies into the red zone".
Webmaster’s Commentary:  The number of US troops deploying to Haiti is now 20,000.
 
 
 

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Astonishing Report: We're Executing Gitmo Prisoners and Calling It Suicide
By Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog
The three "suicides" in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men were killed during interrogations in a secret prison block and the murders were disguised to look like suicides.
 
Taliban attacks strike at the heart of occupation
Morning Star
 
 
UN report: Afghan heroin killed 90,000 in 2009: Ivanov reiterated that since the US sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, the country has become the world leader in opium production and has outrun Morocco in terms of hashish production.
 
Israeli army crosses into Lebanon: "An intense Israeli build-up of forces during the past 24 hours has been observed along the eastern sectorof the Blue Line, with mobile and fixedpatrols," said NNA.

 

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AFRICA

Fighting in Somalia displaces 63,000
01/19/10 09:54 PM, EST
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity", the United Nations’ refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Tricky business – How Counterfeit Goods Strangle Africa’s Economy

MARKETS/ECONOMICS

Did The President FINALLY Wake Up?  I’m not sure I believe what I’m hearing on CNBC coming out of The President’s mouth. Is he really listening to Paul Volcker? Finally? Here’s what I heard that I liked – a lot »
1. Limit the Scope - The President and his economic team will work with Congress to ensure that no bank or financial institution that contains a bank will own, invest in or sponsor a hedge fund or a private equity fund, or proprietary trading operations unrelated to serving customers for its own profit. .
 
Economic Recovery Eh? Where’s My Rail Demand?. As I have said, freight volumes are one of the ‘tells’ for the economy that are hard to manipulate. Well, where is it?.
 
 
 
China and eurozone fears hit risk appetite Global Markets Overview: Monetary tightening in China and and worries about the eurozone periphery knock stocks and the euro, taking the shine off generally positive US earnings.
 
Israeli attack on Iran could be disaster — for U.S. economy. – But Americans should be aware that when Iran becomes the next target, it will be a blow to the U.S. economic recovery.
 
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BUSINESS

How To End Corporate Domination Of Government - And Our Lives

The Supreme Court yesterday allowed corporate executives to tap into their company's resources and use that money to directly influence elections instead of for the profitable operation of the company. This use of company funds isn't considered bribery because the company executives can claim they are only engaged is "speech" to promote good government, not influence public officials to bring a return to the company »

 

Shock Doctrine in Reverse: A Week of Setbacks, A Window of Opportunity

What a week. Call it the Shock Doctrine in reverse: The Massachusetts election and yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling may force the Democrats to move to the left to ensure their political survival. They're now faced with a choice they clearly didn’t want: forcefully reject the corporate agenda, or risk losing to opponents who can attract an unlimited flow of corporate dollars.

 
Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
By Mark Ames, AlterNet
How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.
 
‘Freefall’ Excerpt: Too Late To Fix The Biggest Banking Blunder In History?.
 
 

HEALTH

The FDA colluded with the chemical industry to suppress the scientific truth about BPA (Bisphenol-A),  the plastics chemical linked to health problems in humans. Read more in today's feature.
 
 
 
 
 
The Great Swine Flu Hoax of 2009  has finally fizzled out and taken its place in the history books as one of the greatest medical swindles of all time.
 
No, not just fluoride, which is bad enough - much of our drinking water, in the U.S., Canada and U.K. at least, is contaminated with Prozac and a "vast array" of other drugs.
We don't just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf.
 
 

HAITI

 
 
 

Doctor: Misinformation and Racism Have Frozen Recovery Effort at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince [video]

"There are no security issues," says Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health, reporting from the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, where 1,000 people are in need of operations. Lyon said the reports of violence in the city have been overblown by the media and ha...
 

Haiti TV coverage: Reporters saving lives is good, but selling it on TV feels bad

When the scope and intensity of the suffering among Haitians seems to grow by the day, spotlighting a single act by a visiting reporter - like Anderson Cooper of CNN helping a wounded boy across a barricade - feels uncomfortable and, to be blunt, self-serving. The aftermath...
 

U.S.

 
Obama slams ‘green light to a new stampede of special interest money’.
 
Obama, one year on
 
 
 

CANADA

 
‘Lethal force’ an option in Olympic Games airspace: Norad
Airport-like security for Olympic venues
As well, the Vancouver Sun is reporting the Canadian Forces are ready to shoot down planes that violate airspace-security restrictions during the Games.
 
School districts warn of teacher layoffs and school closures
Hall said he had not yet seen the report, but a copy leaked to The Vancouver Sun included recommendations for 13 school closures as well as school
 
 
New Brunswick news
 

AMERICAS

 
 
The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’ A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
 

MIDDLE EAST/ASIA/SO.ASIA

 
Turkey: Israel is strategic ally with shared interests
By Barak Ravid, Jack Khoury and Amos Harel
 
 
Iran's political winds are shifting,Loa Angeles Times
The opposition movement is gaining strength, and signs are emerging that the government could collapse
 

OP ED

 
Obama’s Election Struck a Huge Blow Against Racism, But He’s Kept the US War Machine "Set on Kill"
By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat, Democracy Now!
Author: "Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year."
 

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is often most unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments pt i, ch iii (1759).

SC/ENVIRONMENT

 
 
APPEAL: Natives fear oil company will be careless, harm sea life.
 
 
A VARIETY OF VIEWPOINTS ON COMMUNITY:
 
 
 
 
 
 
This image from the IPCC’s AR4 report was included with claims of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035. That claim has now been disproven. The image also shows that glacial retreat was occuring long before the industrial age.(IPCC)
 
The Costs of Community ~ Carolyn Baker
 
 
 
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U.S. One of Two Countries Where Kids' Educational Attainment is Lower Than Their Parents'
By Daniela Perdomo
U.S. students today are also less likely to earn technical degrees, courses of study are rising elsewhere with the advent of the digital age.
 
 
 
 

TECH

Microsoft to cut time it holds Internet search data

Software giant Microsoft said it would slash by two thirds the time it holds Internet users' personal data gathered from search queries. The US giant, behind the Bing search engine, called on market leader Google to do likewise during a Brussels press conference. "Microsoft...
 

China's Baidu sues US web firm over hacker attack

China's top Internet search engine Baidu said Wednesday it had sued a US web firm after its site was hacked, a new salvo in a growing spat after Google's threat to quit the country because of cyber attacks. Google, which trails Baidu in market share in China, said last week...
 
 

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from Frederick, HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg, Founder President :- Children of the World 2000 member of the International Peace Bureau World Peace Emissary   www.kyazanga.org/childrenoftheworld»
 
 
’Retired? No; Refired? Yes: ’On Call’
This is an interview with a fiesty Vermont hospice nurse who has decided to turn a rural in into a boarding house for the Second Great Depression. It is tremendously inspiring!
 
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr~

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