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Biggest drop in new homebuilding in 27 years Drop of 24.8 percent in 2007 from prior year second-biggest on record The Associated Press updated 6:42 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2008
WASHINGTON - The steep slump in housing intensified at the end of last year, pushing home construction down by the biggest amount in nearly three decades.
Analysts forecast more bad news in the months ahead with the big question remaining whether the housing slump will be severe enough to push the country into a (…)

Nature is an oxymoronic creature. On the surface it can be breathtaking in its beauty and panoramic displays of life. Yet its very existence depends upon death. Herbivores kill and consume plant life in order to survive. Carnivores kill and consume other animals. And omnivores kill and consume both.
Although their position at the top of the food chain has caused most humans to become omnivores, this dominant position has also compelled them to exploit plants and animals not simply for (…)

Global Research, January 13, 2008
by Felicity Arbuthnot
"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency’. Theodore Roosevelt.
’He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn’t live his childhood’. Ali Ahmed Said, Victims of a Map, Saqi Books
Photo: www.informationclearinghouse.info (An Iraqi man and his wife have been shot dead in front of their five children by US soldiers who fired on the car in which the family was travelling.)
Three years before the invasion of Iraq, (…)

ISR Issue 57, January–February 2008
The policy is divide to rule
IF THE U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq.
This propaganda, like others of its ilk, gains ground, substance, and reality due largely to the ignorance of those ingesting it. The snow job by the corporate media on the issue (…)

The Roof, The Roof is on Fire By David Glenn Cox
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke with Congress today and his message was as precise as it was clear. It was given in his normal demeanor of calm intellectualism but to those of us trying to read the tea leaves while in the cup of the real world the message was one of panic. Again and again Bernanke was asked by the members of Congress wholly partisan questions and again and again his message was, quickly! Now! Quickly! His message was in (…)

Nat Hentoff
What the CIA Had to Destroy
The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle
by Nat Hentoff
January 15th, 2008 6:14 PM
So what was on those videotapes destroyed by the CIA? Let’s put a face to it. Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and, after being shot in the groin while trying to escape, was sent to recover in a CIA secret prison. He would be the first of the CIA’s many "ghost prisoners"—and also the first to test the value of what the president (…)

This story needed to be covered so I’m posting the following videos from the National Diet of Japan held on 10 January 2008, where “Councilor Yukihisa Fujita of Democratic Party of Japan questioned 9/11”.
The ‘official’ story of 911 that the US government has been peddling is completely falling apart, and the world is waking up to the reality that something is very wrong with the so-called ‘War on Terror’. When will Americans accept the truth of 911 and begin to hold those who committed (…)

The segregation wall built by the zionist jews, is a 27’ high concrete barrier in some places, complete with guard towers, cameras, and gates. This illegal wall was built on confiscated Palestinian land, in many cases by the destruction of Palestinian homes, agricultrual land, and businesses. This apertied wall has severely limited the ability of the Palestinian people to go to work, school, or to visit friends.
Wall of Shame: Israels Apartheid Wall in Palestine: Video Part 1 (…)

Although nearly no space has been given to the following news I report it for you benefit:
"The POPE has been heavily contested with an occupation of the University Senate rooms by autonomous students at "La Sapienza" university in Rome. He will not go and give a speech at the university for the inaugural celebration of the Academic Year".
This of course is a great victory for academic freedom in Italy.
The right of reply has been given to the students and they took it and they made (…)

There are many ’known unknowns’ about the Bush Years, but there’s one thing we know for sure, the Democrats are not going to end the war. Before the 2006 elections they told us they needed to get control of Congress, then we’d see some action.
Well that hasn’t happened. In fact, they just passed a $696 Billion defense bill, with another $70bil cherry on top for lil Bushitler last week. They are now in open defiance of upholding their oath of office. Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers and the (…)