WHO GOT BAILOUT MONEY SO FAR?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House NewsletterNews You Won't Find On CNN
November 13, 2008
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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.": Howard Zinn, historian and author = "The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.": Noam Chomsky === Click here to read this newsletter online
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,284,105"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,196
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$570,865,021,154

See the cost in your community
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=== Paulson the Bungler By Mike Whitney There's more pain to come, but the suffering can be mitigated by sound decision-making and Keynesian policies. That means public work programs, bankruptcy reform, and extensions on unemployment. Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman recommends a stimulus package of $600 billion. That's a good start, but it will take much more than that.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21212.htm === Crisis Is Beyond The Reach of Traditional Solutions By Paul Craig Roberts I cannot predict the future. However, I can explain what the problems are, how they differ from past times of troubles, and why traditional remedies, such as the public works programs that Reich proposes, are unlikely to succeed in reviving the U.S. economy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21218.htm === A Credit Crisis or a Collapsing Ponzi Scheme? The Two Trillion Dollar Black Hole By PAM MARTENS
Bloomberg News reporter, Mark Pittman, filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) with the Federal Reserve asking for detailed information relevant to whom the central bank was giving these massive loans and precisely what securities these firms were posting as collateral.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21218.htm === Who Got Bailout Money So Far? By Reuters The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has so far committed the following funding:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21219.htm === U.S. Military Fails To Learn An Ancient Military Lesson No Industrial Economy Equals No Army By Richard McCormack It wasn't long ago that the world watched the collapse of the Soviet Empire. At the time, the USSR had a mighty military force that was overextended throughout the world and was bogged down in Afghanistan. Within a flash in 1989, the Soviet Union came tumbling down, not because it could not produce tanks and nuclear warheads, but because it couldn't produce bread. The collapse happened so rapidly it even surprised the U.S. intelligence community.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21214.htm === Obama and the Crisis of Expecation By Shamus Cooke As the economic crisis deepens, Obama's first priority will be to save the financial institutions and major corporations by providing them with further bailouts, with working people continuing to foot the bill. But opposition has already broken out in response to this perversion of justice:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21216.htm === Et tu Obama:
Who will your Appointees Serve-Israel or America? By Mohamed Khodr Despite warnings from our founding fathers against the corruptive influence of a minority "faction/special interest group", our government has nevertheless surrendered, pandered, implemented, paid and died for the vital interests of a small foreign nation, Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21216.htm === In Case You Missed It Why Do You Kill Zaid? By Jürgen Todenhöfer The West is much more violent than the Muslim world. Millions of Arab civilians have been killed since colonialism began.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21217.htm === The Making of an Insurgent By Stuart Archer Cohen We all complain about politics, but have you ever wondered what makes a person pick up a gun and start violently resisting the government?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21211.htm === Obama and Latin America Video - Riz Khan Interviews Former President of Costa Rica, José María Figueres. A free trade agreement with the US has failed to materialise, aid to Latin America has been dwindling and the symbolic distance between North and South took a physical form with the construction of a wall along the border between the US and Mexico.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21209.htm === Could the First World War have been stopped? By George Monbiot. Faced, earlier in the century, with the possibilities of peace, the old men of Europe had decided that they would rather kill their children than change their policies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21213.htm === 19 killed in attack on U.S. convoy in Afghan market: Anti occupation forces, struck Thursday in the east of the country when an American military convoy was attacked in a crowded market, killing one soldier and 18 civilians, according to the United States military and Afghan police officials.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/13/news/afghan.php === Karzai to brief PM on secret Taliban talks: The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, will today brief Gordon Brown on talks being held with the Taliban with the aim of ending the conflict in his country, The Independent has learnt.
http://tinyurl.com/6axtrb === Taleban bring new fear to Peshawar: The city of Peshawar in north-west Pakistan faces a heightened threat from Islamist militants barely five months after a military operation cleared them from its outskirts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7727560.stm === Pakistan incurred $34.5 bn losses in war against terror: FM: Pakistan suffered huge losses, amounting to US $34.5 billion, since 2001 for its role in the war against terror and wants regional ownership of the crisis in a bid to bring peace and stability to the troubled region, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Wednesday.
http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Nov08/13/05.htm === China provides USD 500 million assistance to Pakistan: - Amid looming economic crisis forcing the country to look towards tough IMF bailout package, Chinese government has agreed to extend USD 500 million financial assistance to Pakistan.
http://tinyurl.com/6rabtx === Iran condemns kidnapping of diplomat in Pakistan: The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat in Pakistan, saying that the abduction was an act of "terror."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/13/content_10355133.htm === 3 Christian women killed, wounded in Mosul: Two Christian women were killed and another one, from the same family, was injured in an armed attack in northern Mosul, a police source said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=102938 === 2 gunmen killed in Ninewa: Two gunmen on Thursday were killed when they were attempting to carry out a suicide attack, western Ninewa, said a security source from the province.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=103033 === Iraqi soldier who killed US soldiers was mocked, witnesses say: The Iraqi soldier who killed 4 US soldiers on Wednesday was acting in anger after the Americans mocked him while he was praying, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/5cg279 === Bulgaria to pull troops from Iraq at end of year: Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said Thursday after a Cabinet meeting that "the presence of the Bulgarian military contingent on a humanitarian mission in Iraq ends on Dec. 31."
http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=46&sid=990060 === Who is Paying for the Iraqi National Intelligence Service?: The history of the Iraqi intelligence service is important because it shows the real distribution of power in Iraq rather than the spurious picture presented by President Bush.
http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick11132008.html === Israel forces UN to suspends food distribution in Gaza: The United Nations announced it was suspending food distribution to half of Gaza's 1.5 million people on Thursday after Israel failed to allow emergency supplies into the Palestinian territory.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1gGXwqABi1BMtPKmO03RClG0i_Q === Israel blocks foreign media from Gaza: Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip for a week, in a move media have assailed as a serious violation of press freedom.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/12/news/ML-Israel-Gaza-Blackout.php === Peres lauds Saudi king peace plan: The Saudi plan, proposed in 2002, calls for Israel to withdraw from occupied land in exchange for Arab recognition
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7726241.stm === UN says Congolese troops raped, pillaged: Hundreds of Congolese soldiers rampaged through several villages in eastern Congo, raping women and pillaging homes as they pulled back ahead of a feared rebel advance, the U.N. reported Tuesday.
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=450556 === Reports: Kremlin rejects US missile defense: The Kremlin has rejected a second set of U.S. proposals offered to assuage increasingly strident Russian criticism of plans for an American missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, news agencies reported Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_missile_defense === Russia offers US 'Zero Option' on nukes: Russia has offered to withdraw its nuclear missiles from European countries should the United States embark on the same move.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=75293§ionid=351020602 === Germany falls into recession: The figures indicate that Germany is in its worst recession for at least 12 years as the global financial problems curb exports and spending.
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/11/2008111375550548522.html === U.S. Foreclosure Filings Rose as Home Prices Fell: More than a quarter million U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in October even as state laws designed to protect property owners from losing their homes slowed the pace of defaults, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3SL4NiQK9bk&refer=us === 85,000 homes lost to foreclosure in October: As government and industry scrambled to stem the housing crisis, another 84,868 homes were lost to foreclosure in October, according to a report released Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/5zg3ct === Soros says deep recession inevitable, depression possible: Said hedge funds will be "decimated" by the current financial crisis and forced to shrink their portfolios by 50-75 percent.
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4AC5IN20081113 === Bush defends free market amid 'awful' US jobless figures: More than 500,000 Americans lost their jobs last week, representing the fastest rise in US unemployment since the terrorist attacks of 2001.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5149367.ece ===

Let us work towards Peace and Joy

Tom Feeley