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The ANSWER Coalition today sent the following statement to its supporters.
"We will not pay one penny for our First Amendment rights" Washington Post article and video of news coverage below
We want to thank the thousands of people who have called or e-mailed — and are still calling and e-mailing — government authorities in support of the ANSWER Coalition which was hit with $10,000 in fines on Monday. The government has said it is sanctioning us for putting up political posters calling (…)

By David Glenn Cox
The unraveling has begun, watching the talking heads the only thing they seem to agree on is the money being pumped in by central banks around the world isn’t getting to where it needs to go. That’s an easy one, everyone wants to help the leper’s but no one wants to go do it personally.
But for George Herbert Hoover Bush this is his moment in the sun, his hour of redemption. During hurricane Katrina Bush was accused of ignoring the suffering of the residents of (…)

Asian indices dropped sharply early today after reports of liquidating hedge funds caused more credit market-related anxiety and triggered a sell-off on Wall Street. Financial shares across the region were hit hard, with losses in banking issues such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group in Japan. read more :
– http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/n...
Video :
– http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/vi...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/video/newsvideo.php?autono=297376

By Robert Lindsay
The dollar fell against the yen this afternoon on reports Iran has asked Japan to stop paying for its oil in dollars
The dollar was driven down against the Japanese yen this afternoon, hit by the news that Iran had asked Japan to pay for its oil purchases in the Japanese currency and not in dollars.
Iran has sent a letter to Japanese refiners, signed by Ali A Arshi, the general manager of crude marketing and exports for Iran’s national Iranian Oil Company, according (…)

Now that the 18,000 Ginko Financial clients have been left in the cold it is ever more clear that there is a financial crisis in Second Life.
Real estate values are plunging as are the number of premium accounts. Do not forget about the funds stolen from the stock exchange.
It is clear that there is a large amount of corruption in Second Life still.
– http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/200...

World Against War Conference
The Stop the War Coalition will be holding an international peace conference in London on 1st December. The World Against War conference is a follow up to the successful international conference we hosted in 2005.
We expect peace and anti war groups from South America, the Middle East, USA, South Asia, Canada and Europe. The conference will discuss the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and opposition to any attack on Iran. It will also look at the broader (…)

by Trish Schuh
HARET HREIK, Lebanon - When he heard my American accent, the Hezbollah cabbie yelled "You are an American spy." He swings off the main road and onto a deserted lot. The interrogation begins. "What are you doing here? Why are you in Dahiyeh?"
Very late on a stormy January night I attended Ashura celebrations in Hezbollah’s shelled-out neighborhood in south Beirut. It was the annual Shia commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, and Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan (…)

“All of these people [in the Israel Lobby] are pleading a special interest. I am an American.” — President Harry S. Truman
Grant F. Smith’s latest book, “Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From The 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal,” reveals the controversial history of the influential lobbying organization, known as “AIPAC”. It comes on the heels of his insightful tome, “Deadly Dogma,” an expose’ of the Neocons, where he evidenced their (…)

Is the Perfect Storm Forming for Ron Paul?
by Murray Sabrin
What a week! The stock market took a dive to just over 13,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average from an all-time high of 14,000 less than a month ago. The world’s major central banks flooded the financial system with tens of billions of dollars to prop up the banks and the mortgage market.
Meanwhile, the unending wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to drain the U.S. military; the bills for the Bush-Cheney invasion of two (…)

by Brian McAfee.
Is the South Asia monsoon a harbinger of things to come and will we be ready next time around? The perennial monsoon floods that have devastated parts of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are said to be the worst in 30 years.
The death toll has surpassed 2,200. meanwhile, the event has made over twenty million people homeless and has resulted in massive crop failure, ensuring hunger, poverty and homelessness for millions of men, women and children in South Asia for some time (…)