"those directly responsible for Argentina's 2001 failure, and today's in Europe and the United States, are still trying to force the world to swallow the same medicine"  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina

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"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as 'international bankers.' This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and] seizes...our executive officers... legislative bodies... schools... courts...  newspapers and every agency created for the public protection." -- John F. Hylan (1868-1936), Mayor of New York City (1918-1925), nicknamed "Red Mike"

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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." -- Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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UK: Antiwar Mass Assembly 8 October 2011: Trafalgar Square · Not signed the pledge to be there yet? Sign it now...
http://www.antiwarassembly.org/index.php/timetable

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What you have is three hugely ambitious men, none of whom are averse to violence, using the honest aspirations of protestors as cover for their own goals.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29254.htm

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The U.S. has used NATO to continue the occupation of post-Second World War Europe. It will now use AFRICOM to occupy Africa and create an African NATO.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29255.htm

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"Right now there is a very serious threat to global peace: a new cycle of colonial wars, which started in Libya, with the sinister goal of refreshing the capitalist global system, within a structural crisis today, but without any limit to its consumer and destructive voracity," Moros said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29252.htm

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Now is as good a time as any to ask whether US policy hasn't created more terrorists than the CIA has managed to kill?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29262.htm

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Napoleon Bonaparte called history "A set of lies agreed upon."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29260.htm

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John Adams wrote in 1815 that the American Revolution was not the revolutionary war. The war was only "an effect and consequence of the Revolution in the minds of the people, from 1760-1775." This is the Revolution that we are here attempting to achieve:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29261.htm

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With the full backing of the Obama administration, US and foreign-based corporations are exploiting levels of mass unemployment and poverty not seen since the Great Depression in order to transform the US into a cheap labor platform in direct competition with Mexico, China and other low-wage countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29253.htm

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I will be the first to admit that I faded the whole idea of this "Occupy Wall Street" protest.  I had already seen several failed attempts at protest in NYC come and go and I just sadly assumed the spirit of that once great city had died forever.  I am extraordinarily happy to report that I was wrong.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29257.htm

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NYPD officer Anthony Bologna faces two investigations as video emerges of a second pepper-spray incident.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29259.htm

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Protest police brutality, media whoredom or governmental corruption all you want, but if you're willing to overlook the fact that our money supply is controlled by an elite group of criminal bankers, nothing will change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29258.htm

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Martin Sheen, narrates , a feature-length documentary which explains how today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29256.htm

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On September 15, 2011, Noam Chomsky shared remarks on the pitfalls of humanitarian intervention with the Williams College community.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29241.htm

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Official sources said that the militants staged an attack on security personnel engaged in a search operation in upper Orakzai. One soldier was killed while three others were injured in the clash, sources added.
http://tinyurl.com/6yqmwvh

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Support is growing in the U.S. Congress for expanding American military action in Pakistan beyond drone strikes already used to target militants in Pakistani territory, a senior Republican U.S. senator says.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-pakistan-usa-graham-idUSTRE78S0CZ20110929

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U.S. accusations that Pakistan is supporting Afghan insurgents have triggered a nationalist backlash and whipped up media fears of an American invasion, drowning out any discussion over the army's long use of jihadi groups as deadly proxies in the region.
http://tinyurl.com/6edsbbk

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U.S. military action against insurgents in Pakistan would be unacceptable and the country's army would be capable of responding, intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a meeting of political leaders in Islamabad, according to media reports.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/pakistan-warns-against-us-attackmilitants_592251.html

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington is close to deciding whether the Haqqani network should be designated as a foreign terrorist group. The organisation is believed to have strong ties in Pakistan.
http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/29/stop-the-blame-game-pakistan-pm-warns-us/

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Adm. Mike Mullen's assertion last week that an anti-American insurgent group in Afghanistan is a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's spy service was overstated and contributed to overheated reactions in Pakistan and misperceptions in Washington, according to American officials involved in U.S. policy in the region.
http://tinyurl.com/66veldc

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Carney said that Mullen's statement is "not language I would use." But he said the comment is "consistent with our position" and tried to dismiss questions about it as a "matter of semantics."
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-wont-second-mullen-pakistan-170559172.html

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Save the Children, which was not linked to the scheme, flew workers out of the country after US warnings about their safety
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/28/aid-agency-pakistan-cia-vaccination

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Two Afghan policewomen and a civilian were killed by a mine on their way to work on Thursday, a day after another five Nato soldiers died in the 10-year war against the Taliban.
http://tinyurl.com/6732uup

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Afghan and foreign forces killed 19 civilians, including women and children, during an operation on Sept. 20 in eastern Nuristan province, a parliamentarian said on Wednesday.
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/09/28/19-civilians-killed-nuristan-operation-mps

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Four people were killed Thursday in the Yemeni capital Sana'a and the southern city of Taiz in fresh fighting between troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his opponents, according to medical and media reports.
http://goo.gl/Xv3GY

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A suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has killed at least three people and injured 65 others, security sources said Thursday.
http://goo.gl/ysBep

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The US army says an American soldier has been killed in northern Iraq, marking the first such death in the country in more than two months.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201880.html

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The World's Biggest Embassy (104 acres, 22 buildings, thousands of staff members, a $116 million vehicle inventory), physically larger than the Vatican, was a sign of our commitment, at least our commitment to excess. "Along with the Great Wall of China," said the ambassador
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/baghdad-peter-van-buren-we-meant-well

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The Turkish Army's fighter jets bombed Amidi and Matin regions in Iraq's Northern region for one hour last night, the agency says.
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/1937402.html

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A deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday the force had killed more than 180 Kurdish rebels in a summer offensive along the northwestern border with Iraq, Fars news agency reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-offensive-kills-180-kurdish-rebels-guards-165748782.html

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"Turkey is reverting to the U.S. and European line on Syria," said foreign policy expert Semih Idiz. "The relationship with Syria has collapsed and it is heading for a freeze."
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/28/idINIndia-59593120110928

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Refugees from the Libyan coastal city of Sirte report that thousands have died as a result of relentless NATO bombardment and shelling by the the Western-backed "rebels."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/liby-s29.shtml

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Equally fierce resistance from loyalists in the desert town of Bani Walid, Muammar Gaddafi's other remaining bastion of support, has stalled a final assault by National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters, said commanders, who called on NATO to increase its air support
http://goo.gl/9RIzC

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Somali officials have confirmed U.S. aerial attacks on Thursday morning in an area between Kismayu and Dhoobley cities, according to Press TV.
http://presstv.com/usdetail/201795.html

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A defected brigade called al-Harmoush claimed in a recorded public statement on Wednesday that it killed 80 people in the Syrian regime's security forces and the Shabiha elements.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/29/169224.html

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Scores of officers and thousands of soldiers have defected in recent weeks, according to one former lieutenant, amid a mounting death toll and reports of brutality against protesters by government forces.
http://goo.gl/reB3Q

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Angry supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime hurled tomatoes and eggs at the U.S. ambassador to Syria on Thursday as he entered the office of a leading opposition figure and then tried to break into the building, trapping him inside for three hours.
http://goo.gl/2ASPp

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PLO secretary general Yasser Abed Rabbo says Palestinians eager to restart talks, but Israel has to first impose settlement freeze.
http://goo.gl/NcXnx

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War criminal: Report:
Tony Blair romantically linked to Ofra Strauss:

Britain's Daily Mail reports former British prime minister closely associated with one of Israel's richest women. Ofra Strauss's spokesman denies affair rumors
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4127145,00.html

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Where did he get all that money? And why's he so friendly with that divorcee in Tel Aviv?
http://goo.gl/eegY3

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In case you missed it:
The Wonderful World of Tony Blair:

Since resigning in June 2007, Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any previous ex-prime minister. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29235.htm

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The study of the Missile Gap period is especially relevant because it relates to today's situation in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran, said historian and author Fred Kaplan and Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and a former Harvard student.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/27/gap-missile-cia-soviets/#.ToOeNYsw8IQ.email

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Not signed the pledge to be there yet? Sign it now...
http://www.antiwarassembly.org/index.php/timetable

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What's emerging in Japan six months since the nuclear meltdown at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant is a radioactive zone bigger than that left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://goo.gl/0rn63

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Alarming slump could put pressure on coalition to approve controversial shale gas projects
http://goo.gl/3FbvO

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Federal prosecutors allege in court documents that Rezwan Ferdaus outlined an elaborate plan to undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda operatives that involved the use of three drone aircraft carrying deadly payloads to attack and destroy the iconic federal government landmarks.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-09-28/DC-terrorist-plot-drone/50593792/1

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Martinez, 22, allegedly tried to detonate with a remote-controlled device the inert vehicle bomb, supplied by agents in a sting, after parking it outside the Armed Forces Career Center in Catonsville.
http://goo.gl/Qj1fN

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The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia is warning American citizens that a terrorist group may be planning to kidnap Westerners in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576599141882051806.html

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Police said Tuesday they had been given until midnight Sunday to charge the men, release them or apply for a further extension.
http://www.policeone.com/news/4444839-6-charged-in-British-terror-plot/

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A businessman arrived at a Citibank office in Indonesia to pay his debts. Hours later, a family friend found him sprawled on the floor of a Citibank interrogation room with his nose bleeding, bruises on his head and abdomen, and foam in his mouth.
http://www.credit.com/blog/2011/08/citibank-collection-agents-implicated-in-debtors-death/

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Delivering the starkest comments yet by a senior British minister, the foreign secretary claimed Germany would have to accept they are going to subsidise weaker members, such as Greece, for 'the rest of their lifetimes'.
http://goo.gl/mfTMD

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"those directly responsible for Argentina's 2001 failure, and today's in Europe and the United States, are still trying to force the world to swallow the same medicine" Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentine
http://goo.gl/9kO44

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"It is a more dangerous situation...to the global financial system than the collapse of Lehman Brothers..." the 81-year old investor said. "Even if a catastrophe can be avoided, one thing is certain: the pressure to reduce deficits will push the euro zone into prolonged recession. This will have incalculable political consequences."
http://goo.gl/9jyvX

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 "We've had close to 10 percent unemployment now for a number of years and, of the people who are unemployed, about 45 percent have been unemployed for six months or more. This is unheard of."
http://goo.gl/kQ3vE

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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the nation's unemployment rate as a "national crisis," to finally hear those words from the man George W. Bush and Barack Obama both appointed to lead us out of the great recession is a bracing reminder of how markedly the policies of both those presidents have failed:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_men_we_trusted_to_lead_us_20110928/

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A standoff near Wall Street between protesters opposed to what they say is corporate greed and police may drag on into winter, with a march on police headquarters the likely next test of whether tensions escalate.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1061898--wall-street-protesters-in-for-the-long-haul

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Tom Feeley