Wednesday 20 October 2010

News For October 20, 2010

We are waging a battle to save your sanity
Is Your Mind Worth Fighting For?
I need 295 people to stand with me.

Out of the Million Or so People who visit this website every month. I need 295 of you to step forward and support Information Clearing House in this effort to ensure that an alternative source of news and information exists to inform and cut through the distortions and lies told by a manipulative Main Stream Media.

Lies kill, lies maim children, blow up homes and work to destroy countless millennia of human progress and evolution.

Are we no more than laboratory rats programmed to behave according to a script written by those who see us as animals, whose only purpose is to be saddled and ridden according to their wishes.
Are we no more than slaves to our own desire for safety and comfort?

Is YOUR SANITY worth fighting for?
I will not tell you that we can stop a war, I will not tell you that we can end suffering, I will tell you that your contribution to Information Clearing House will ensure that tomorrow and the weeks following their will exist a place where sanity, common sense and a respect for all of humanity ensures that lies do not stand and that liars do not prosper.

Fight Back - Join Me Now!
To Use your credit card or check, click here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm
or if you prefer to send a check or money order, Information Clearing House, PO Box 365 Imperial Beach, CA 91933. USA.
Low income readers: DON'T send money, just encourage others to subscribe.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/subscribe.htm

Injustice in the Age of Obama

By Cindy Sheehan

From lies about WMD and connections to "al Qaeda," almost every institution of so-called authority - the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, FBI, all the way up to the Oval Office and back down - lie. Not white lies, but big, Mother of all BS (MOAB) lies that lead to the destruction of innocent lives. Continue

America's False Consciousness

By Charles Sullivan

Considering that the U.S. is the most conservative developed nation on earth, these are astonishing revelations. Continue

The War Upon Ourselves

By Jim Kirwan

We’re just weeks away from the coming selection on November fourth and despite the actual State of this Nation—the $4 to $6 TRILLION dollar wars (In Afghanistan & Iraq) have not even been mentioned on the so-called campaign trail, which was no oversight: Continue

WTF?: A Letter to Appalled and Puzzled European Friends

By Bernard Weiner

Dear Wolfgang and Jacqueline: Your recent email, wondering "what the f--- is going on" these days, questioning whether we Americans have taken "more than your usual amount of stupid pills," is well deserving of a considered response. Continue

Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State

By Francis Boyle

Netanyahu’s racist ultimatum would lead to the denationalization of the 1.5 million Palestinians who are already less than third-class citizens of Israel and set the stage for their mass expulsion to the Palestinian Bantustan envisioned by Netanyahu as the “final solution” to Zionism’s “demographic problem” Continue

This Peaceful Position Takes Courage

By Mel Frykberg

A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labelled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation. Continue

Whither Goes Our Loyalty
To Italy as Italians, or Israel as Jews?

By Bianca Ambrosio

Jews living in the Diaspora face a controversial dilemma when it comes to national sentiment: Is it better to prioritize the state in which we live or to focus on belonging to the State of Israel? Continue

Every Email and Website to be Stored

By Tom Whitehead

It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet. Continue

The "Cyberwar" Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won

By Tom Burghardt

A "Memorandum of Agreement" struck last week between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) promises to increase Pentagon control over America's telecommunications and electronic infrastructure. Continue

When Banks Are the Robbers

By Amy Goodman

The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. Continue

Why The Paperwork Appears "Sloppy"

By Neil Garfield

After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would be the Banks themselves. Yet that is what occurred. The purpose of this article is to show that it was not sloppy, it was intentional. And I will tell you why it was intentional.
Continue

Latin America:
Roads to 21st Century Capitalist Development

By James Petras

The regimes pursuing orthodox strategy, heavily dependant on declining US markets and on large scale military and police expenditures, have lost out on the lucrative markets of Asia, the Middle East and other regions. Continue

Bombs in Afghanistan kill more than 20 civilians: A vehicle headed to a wedding party and a school bus carrying students hit planted bombs in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding 20, authorities said.e
3 NATO Occupation Force Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan: Three NATO occupation soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and the third soldier was killed by gunfire.
British occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan: The British army says the serviceman lost his life when he was defusing explosive devices in the Nahr-e Saraj district of the restive southern Helmand Province.
Did US occupation force soldier kill prisoner? U.S. soldier in custody after death of Afghan prisoner: A U.S. soldier has been taken into custody after an Afghan detainee was found dead in his cell in southern Afghanistan at the weekend, apparently from a gunshot wound, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan annuls nearly a quarter of ballots: Afghanistan has thrown out nearly a quarter of ballots cast in last month's parliamentary elections because of fraud, according to full preliminary results released Wednesday.
Death toll rises in Karachi violence: Parts of Pakistan's largest city shut down on Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51 the number of people killed in four days.
Three Pakistani soldiers killed in bomb attack: A roadside bomb attack on a security forces convoy in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least three soldiers Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
'Iran has 30 kg of 20% enriched uranium': President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has several times noted that Iran would prefer to provide fuel for the Tehran reactor from foreign sources because enrichment at 20 per cent level was costly.
Iran Air says refueling stops may be necessary owing to fuel denial at Heathrow: The statement comes as multiple media outlets report that a number of Western fuel providers are unwilling to conduct business with the carrier following sanctions imposed on the Iranian government earlier this year by the UN, US and EU.
Chavez vows to back Iran 'under any circumstances,' hopes to bolster trade ties: : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed Tuesday to back ally Tehran “under any circumstances” as his Iranian counterpart and host praised Caracas for fighting sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Obama backs Venezuela's right to nuclear energy: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he had no objection to Venezuela developing nuclear power for civilian energy purposes, days after Caracas and Moscow signed a landmark deal.
Iran to try 'US spy suspects': Americans detained near border with northern Iraq will be charged with espionage and entering the country illegally.
No Knesset majority for loyalty oath for Jews and non-Jews: Only 56 of 120 MKs say they support the bill requiring Jews and non-Jews alike to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; Justice Minister: I'll quit if loyalty oath applies only to non-Jews.
Ripples Crossing: Video documentary: An American youth embarks on a journey to the Palestinian territories to see for himself what the situation is like there.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter: Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted'
Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military: One of the more disturbing election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private "guards" working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to answer.
French police open blockaded depots: President orders forced reopening of fuel depots closed by workers striking over planned pensions overhaul.
Live blog: French strikes and protests: Strikes continue to cause widespread disruption in France the day after one million people took to the streets in protest at Sarkozy's pension reforms
UK announces 490,000 job cuts: Harshest austerity measures since second world war unveiled as public spending is slashed to deal with country's debts.
Stiglitz Says U.S. Unemployment Is Likely to Increase: Video: Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy.
The Real Underemployment Figure Is 22.5%: Ever get the feeling that things are a lot worse than everyone is letting on?
Is the US system rigged for the rich?: The top 20 percent of wealth-holders own 84 percent of America's wealth. What's causing it? One factor is federal policy, says a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)
Wells Fargo Reports Record Profits: Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. home lender, reported record third-quarter profit that beat most analysts’ estimates as credit conditions improved, and said it’s not planning to halt foreclosures.
Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff:: Jim Rogers: Balance sheets at banks are "full of rotten stuff," they still need to sort out their "gigantic" problems and their stocks will be in a trading range over the next five to six years, Rogers predicted.
Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers: Allegations that some of the nation's largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal.
Will Bankers go to Jail for Foreclosure-gate?: So who is likely to go to jail? Obviously the first candidates are the robo-signers who were putting their names to documents that attested they had reviewed the loans documents when they hadn't. But here's the problem with just putting those people in jail.

No comments:

Post a Comment