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by Clarence Hummer
Need proof that the economy is collapsing. Deflation of prices is a a sure sign. How about a computer for under a C-note?
If you want to see what your surroundings will look like in an economic depression, consider electronic gadgets "then", in the 1930s Great Depression, and now.
Back then, a radio was the must-have gadget, and makers came out with low-priced, low-performance so-called "midget" radios. Now comes a "depression era" computer or PC, the midget (…)

U.S. Support Commitee for the Tarnac 9 Formed Sunday, November 30 2008 @ 04:53 PM CST Contributed by: Anonymous
On November 11th 2008, French Anti-Terrorism Police arrested around twenty people in connection with five incidents in the preceding weeks in which electric train lines were shut down, causing delays.
Nine of these were subsequently accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”, four of them were released on bail and five remain in custody. Because (…)

UN team warns of hard landing for dollar
By Harvey Morris in New York Published: December 1 2008 08:48
The current strength of the dollar is temporary and the US currency risks a hard landing in 2009, according to a team of United Nations economists who foresaw a year ago that a US downturn would bring the global economy to a near standstill.
In their annual report on the world economy published on Monday, the economists said the dollar’s sharp rebound this autumn had been driven (…)

The issue of Indian Residential Schools and genocide is so important that it’s colonization by doubtful and dubious elements is perhaps the most dangerous threat to exposure and decolonization. When a member of the same group that perpetrated the atrocities becomes a spokesperson - be afraid be very afraid...
http://londonontario.indymedia.org/...

By David Glenn Cox
All of us, no matter who we are or what we are, have an inner belief that we have some redeeming value in our life. Or as John Kennedy once said, “We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future and we are all mortal.” I use this quote as a touchstone, a milepost, to remind me of a time when our political leadership valued us for our intrinsic human value.
I was doing some research on outsourcing and after just a few (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Palestinian – Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter- Palestinian divide.
Commitment or non-commitment to what the Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russian mediators in Middle East peace – making described as the “Annapolis Process” in a statement they released after their meeting in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on (…)

The interregnum should be used to put pressure on Obama to do what we want him to: investigate 9/11 properly. If we fail to do this it will be the final proof that the leading figures in our "truth movement" are not on our side at all, but only shills.
Therefore I propose something that no one can disagree with: a new 9/11 Truth Commission headed by David Ray Griffin.
Nothing more or else, because anything more or less would give too many people too many things to argue about and (…)

Obama to be next neocon US president?
Global Research, December 1, 2008 Press TV
The next US government might not be able to keep its promise on ’Change’ and might turn into a war-oriented administration, a prominent historian says.
President-elect Barack Obama, who inspired Americans during his presidential campaign, defeated his Republican rival John McCain thanks to the new slogans in a historic election last month.
During his transition time, Obama has been trying to name his (…)

When the Big Three CEOs recently descended on Washington in their fancy corporate jets with inflated egos and high hopes for a juicy piece of the government’s $8.6 trillion corporate welfare pie, they were sent home hungry to do their homework and to write an essay about how they plan to spend bailout funds.
Undoubtedly, the executives will travel business class when they come back this week; they will each have a business plan in hand, and Congress will give them $25 billion of taxpayer (…)

CEOs “cashed out” prior to economic crisis
by Tom Eley
Global Research, December 1, 2008 World Socialist Web Site - 2008-11-28
Balzac’s maxim that “behind every great fortune lies a great crime” may yet prove a fitting epitaph for American capitalism. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal reveals that CEOs at major US financial and real estate firms converted tens of millions of dollars of overvalued stock into cash prior to the eruption of the current financial crisis, even as (…)