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The following will remain the top post for the next few days. It is an update of “10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III ”, which in turn was an update of “7 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 7 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III.”
For those who have been following this series, minor updates were made to events 1 through 10 and the Implications section, and event 11, the (…)

A near-riot and parliament besieged: Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch
24 November 2008
By Omar Valdimarsson in REYKJAVIK THOUSANDS of Icelanders have demonstrated in Reykjavik to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and Central Bank governor David Oddsson, for failing to stop the country’s financial meltdown. It was the latest in a series of protests in the capital since October’s banking collapse crippled the island’s economy. At least five people were injured (…)

The Bush Pardons
by Scott Horton
Global Research, November 24, 2008 Harper’s Magazine - 2008-11-22
How does the George W. Bush presidency most resemble that of his father, George H.W. Bush? It may be best to wait to the last, agonizing days of reign of Bush the Lesser before making any call. Recall that Bush 41 left office with a flurry of highly controversial pardons, affecting a large number of individuals who were caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal. In December 1992, while (…)

The Ten Worst Corporations of 2008
by Robert Weissman
Global Research, November 24, 2008 Multinational Monitor
The financial meltdown and economic crisis illustrated that corporations will destroy even themselves in search of profit.
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor’s annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.
In the 20 years that we’ve published our annual list, we’ve covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We’ve (…)

By Giorgio Agamben
TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?
On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and “accused of criminal conspiracy with (…)

TheRealNews
Ajoutée : 22 novembre 2008
The President-elect’s calculation: valuable asset Senator Joe Lieberman should be kept in the fold .
Comments by Pepe Escobar
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25090300.html

GEAB N°29: Phase IV of the Global Systemic crisis: Breakdown of the Global Monetary System by summer 2009
November 17, 2008
The G20-meeting held in Washington on November 14/15, 2008, is in its essence a historical indicator that the Western - above all Anglo-Saxon - monopoly on global economic and financial governance, is coming to an end. Nevertheless, according to LEAP/E2020, this meeting also clearly demonstrated that this kind of summits is doomed to inefficiency because they (…)

On Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, an “End the Fed” rally was held in Washington, D.C., across the street from the Federal Reserve, at 20th St. and Constitution Ave. Kevin Zeese was one of the speakers at the event. He is an attorney and the Executive Director, and co-founder of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, whose projects include the Prosperity Agenda, VotersforPeace, Climate Security and TrueVote.
For background, please see: http://breakthebailout.com/ and (…)

Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq - A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan
http://s3.amazonaws.com/corpwatch.org/downloads/L-3TITANreport.pdf
Enterprise "Titan" - if secret services outsource tasks ...
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Many people are aware that Google censors the Internet access of the people of China. However I suspect that many people are unaware of a more general Google censorship and how Google censors the Internet for everyone in the world.
Thus, as detailed below, Google censors Churchill’s Crimes (notably his murder of 6-7 million Indians in the man-made 1943-1945 Bengal Famine) and the British Indian Holocaust (1.8 billion avoidable Indians deaths under the racist, genocidal British Occupation, (…)