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This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/03/2010 11:01 -0500
Agency Paper American International Group Bank of Japan Bank of New York Barney Frank Ben Bernanke Breaking The Buck Bridgewater Capital Markets Citadel Citigroup Commercial Paper Councils CRAP European Central Bank Fail Federal Reserve Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve Bank of New York Geoffrey Batt Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson Henry Paulson (…)

Formal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel & Climate Genocides.
The following detailed formal complaint was sent on 8 January 2010 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over various US Alliance involvements in ongoing genocidal atrocities against Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Muslims, and Australian Aboriginals, and against the Developing World in general through the worsening Biofuel (…)

“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” - Old German Proverb
On Jan. 6, 2010, Baltimore City’s Mayor Sheila Dixon, age 56, copped a controversial plea deal with the State Prosecutor on the criminal charges pending against her. As a result, she will vacate her office on Feb. 4, 2010. You could almost seeing it coming. After she was convicted by a jury on Dec. 1, 2009, of stealing $530 worth of gift cards, which were slated for the “poor and needy” of the city, the people began to (…)

The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out!
Canada is using the Olympic Torch Relay to hide their terrible human rights record in regard to Indigenous Peoples here in Canada and internationally...
http://mostlywater.org/node/78820
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Blowback Effect: The World in 2020
by Michael T. Klare, January 6, 2010
As the second decade of the twenty-first century begins, we find ourselves at one of those relatively rare moments in history when major power shifts become visible to all. If the first decade of the century witnessed profound changes, the world of 2009 nonetheless looked at least somewhat like the world of 1999 in certain fundamental respects: the United States remained the world’s paramount military power, the (…)

by Arthur E. Rowse
The program in Italy was aimed at the threat that communists might mount an insurrection or gain a share of political power through the ballot box. An insurrection was unlikely, however, since nearly all posts in the bureaucracy were filled after the war by solidly anticommunist veterans of Mussolini’s forces, with Allied approval.
During the war, most Americans considered themselves heroes who freed Western Europe from its brutal Nazi and fascist rulers. It wasn’t (…)

****January 05, 2010 11:29 PM Breaking News - Viva Palestina convoy facing crisis point in Egypt - urgent action needed***** To all friends of Palestine
Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish.
This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles into Gaza. _ He left two hours ago and did (…)

U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution
5 JANUARY 2010, by James Petras*
President Chavez’s election in 1998 marked a decline of US hegemony in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. In this study, James Petras reminds us that Washington’s chief interest in overthrowing Chavez was political, not economic, and revolved around his steadfast opposition to the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" doctrine. Washington feared that Chavez’ dissent might provide an alternative (…)

The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
3 JANUARY 2010, by James Petras*
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on an article recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between two strategic (…)

How Russia Is About to Dramatically Change the World
ROBERT MORLEY | January 5, 2010 | From theTrumpet.com
In a remote corner of the world, a port bristles with cranes, smokestacks, mammoth ships—and trouble for Europe. Over the next few days, Russia will change the world. It has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global (…)