The New Dark Age

25 November, 2010 — Information Clearing House

WikiLeaks Release to Feature Corruption Among World Leaders, Governments
By Daniel Tencer
The imminent document dump will include reports from US diplomats on corruption within foreign governments and among world leaders.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26913.htm

Classified Papers Prove German Warnings to Bush

By Klaus Wiegrefe
It indicates steps by the German government to prevent the war and undermines claims in George W. Bush’s memoir that Gerhard Schröder indicated he would support the president should the US go to war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26912.htm

DeLay Convicted of Money Laundering Charges

By R.G. RATCLIFFE and PEGGY FIKAC
DeLay and two political aides were accused of arranging to trade $190,000 in corporate money with the Republican National Committee in 2002 in exchange a like amount of money raised from individual donations that the RNC gave to seven specified Texas candidates.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26911.htm

Wikiarguments
A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics

By Carmen Yarrusso
A government for sale to the highest bidder forces both moneyed special interests and members of Congress to not only participate in an obvious con game, but to compete among themselves (thus raising the stakes and ruthlessness) in this massive influence-peddling scam that robs the American people of billions each year.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26908.htm

Ireland’s Brutal Four-Year Economic Plan is Announced

By Rory Fitzgerald
Market insiders have called the plan “staggeringly austere” and the proof of their scepticism lies in the fact that bond yields widened further still after the plan was announced.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26910.htm

Memo to Ireland: “Tell the EU and the IMF to ‘Shove It’”

By Mike Whitney
The Irish people didn’t struggle through centuries of famine and foreign occupation so they could be debt-peons in the EU’s corporate Uberstate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26909.htm

Yemen suicide attack kills 17 Shias:

“The suicide bomber driving a four-wheel drive vehicle blew himself up alongside the procession,” “Among the dead was provincial tribal chief Hussein bin Ahmed bin Hadhban and his son.”
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/20101124104345751687.html

General, five others killed in Iraq attacks:

A senior Iraqi army general and five other people were killed and more than 20 people wounded in several bombings and gun attacks across the country on Wednesday, security officials said.
yhoo.it/iaVqC7

Maliki to be named Iraq PM:

President Jalal Talabani was to officially name Nuri al-Maliki to a second term as Iraq’s premier on Thursday, giving him 30 days to form a cabinet after an eight-month impasse since a general election.
bit.ly/ijLYp2

Turkey vows reaction to Israel threat:

“Does (Israel) think it can enter Lebanon with the most modern aircraft and tanks to kill women and children, and destroy schools and hospitals, and then expect us to remain silent?” AFP quoted him as saying in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
www.presstv.ir/detail/152617.html

Ethiopia PM warns of Nile war:

Meles Zenawi said Egypt could not win a war over the Nile river, and accuses Cairo of supporting his country’s rebels.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/20101124152728280839.html

NKorea warns of retaliation:

North Korea is warning of more “retaliation” if South Korea carries out “reckless military provocations.”
bit.ly/flCr4h

Anger as US aircraft carrier heads for Korean waters:

The nuclear-powered USS George Washington, which carries 75 warplanes and has a crew of over 6,000, left a naval base south of Tokyo and would join exercises with South Korea from Sunday to the following Wednesday, US officials in Seoul said.
bit.ly/dHJEll

U.S. warns Ottawa about fallout from pending WikiLeaks release:

U.S. officials say the documents may contain accounts of compromising conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians as well as activities that could result in the expulsion of U.S. diplomats from foreign postings.
bit.ly/g8bzEM

Irish government too optimistic on GDP: S&P:

The Irish government’s growth assumptions are too optimistic and Ireland’s economy will struggle to grow at all over the next two years, ratings agency S&P said on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AN4OF20101124

Economist: Ireland must leave the euro:

As the government unveils its economic stability plan, economist Richard Douthwaite has said Irish politicians must face four essential truths or else face ruin.
newswhip.ie/national-2/economist-ireland-must-leave-the-euro

Eyewitness: London students protest over fees:

The abiding memory of the student protests of 24 November 2010 will be of violence and vandalism in Whitehall – and waves of protests around the rest of the country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11834784

An alliance of opposites takes on Pentagon:

Frank, Ron Paul make a case for cuts in the defense budget
bit.ly/hrn0r0

WikiLeaks to release 3m secret US documents:

The WikiLeaks website has announced plans to publish nearly 3 million more secret United States documents in its next mass release of confidential material.
bit.ly/hQ8cZT

My TSA Encounter:

How to avoid both the naked body scanner and TSA gropes!
farmwars.info/?p=4672

Full-body scanners popping up at courthouses:

People heading to court to testify, get a restraining order, pay a ticket or answer criminal charges could also face a full-body scan at courthouses.
bit.ly/fCNQYJ

Guess What? Several Lawmakers Invested in Maker of Airport Body-Scanning Machines:

The individual investments are worth thousands, and in some cases tens or hundreds of thousands, of dollars.
www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/11/several-federal-lawmakers-invested.html

A Different Legal System for the Rich:

Imagine Getting Off Easy for Hit-and-Run Because You Run a Hedge Fund
www.alternet.org/story/148964/

Holiday cheer: Congress set to let jobless benefits expire:

Unless Congress acts by Nov. 30, an estimated 2 million people slated to receive extended benefits will not get them on time, if ever. And Congress is taking this week (Nov. 22-26) off for a Thanksgiving recess.
www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/23/104182/will-congress-let-jobless-benefits.html

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq ”1,421,933"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq:  4,745
icasualties.org/oif/
 
Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,230

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,112,387,667,896
www.costofwar.com/