Greeting Americans, I'm new here and I'm British, well English really. I thought I might post news items here to help Americans keep abreast of the real news going on. No need to thank me.
US loses most jobs since 1945:
The US economy lost more than half a million jobs in December for the second month running, new figures showed on Friday, making 2008 the worst year for job losses since 1945.
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Panic could herald dollar rout:
There is growing evidence that Washington is in a state of increasing panic. Despite its massive cash injections, market manipulations and "rescue" plans, the recession is clearly deepening and spreading.
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Illinois House impeaches Gov. Rod Blagojevich: -
The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for abuse of power, including allegations that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
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Israelis 'Bombs Civilian Shelter' Kills 30 People
By BBC
Israeli forces shelled a house in the Gaza Strip which they had moved around 110 Palestinians into 24 hours earlier, the UN quotes witnesses as saying. "Later, Israeli forces shelled the home repeatedly, killing approximately 30."
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Gaza Victims' Burns Increase Concern Over Phosphorus
By Michael Evans and Sheera Frenkel
Photographic evidence has emerged that proves that Israel has been using controversial white phosphorus shells during its offensive in Gaza, despite official denials by the Israel Defence Forces. - The use of white phosphorus against civilians is prohibited under international law.
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U.S. Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza
By Thalif Deen
The devastating Israeli firepower, unleashed largely on Palestinian civilians in Gaza during two weeks of fighting, is the product of advanced U.S. military technology. The U.S. weapons systems used by the Israelis -- including F-16 fighter planes, Apache helicopters, tactical missiles and a wide array of munitions -- have been provided by Washington mostly as outright military grants.
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US Senate Endorses Israel's War on Gaza
By Jeremy R. Hammond
The US Senate on Thursday passed a non-binding resolution promoted by the influential Israeli lobby AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee), effectively endorsing Israel's war on Gaza. The resolution, entitled "A resolution expressing solidarity with Israel in Israel's defense against terrorism in the Gaza Strip"
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Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel.
By Naomi Klein
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
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What Humanitarian Crisis?
Livni's Big Lie
By RANNIE AMIRI
In 1925, Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, defined 'The Big Lie'. He called it a lie so enormous that people "...would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."
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In case you missed it
John Pilger: "Palestine is Still the Issue"
Why Has This Documentary, Never Been Broadcast On U.S. Media ?
This is a must watch video
Twenty-five years ago, I made a film called Palestine Is Still The Issue. It was about a nation of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain. But Israel is backed by a very powerful friend, the United States. So in 25 years, if we're to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed. What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back.
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Open Letter to President-Elect Obama
By Ralph Nader
The Bush lawlessness and state terrorism are like a contagious disease. If you do not remove their sprawling incidence, you will become their carrier. This means you must move fast to eject the mantle of war criminality and repeated unconstitutional outrages committed in the name of the American people here and abroad.
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Peter Schiff : Economic Predictions
The Coming Collapse Of The The US Dollar
Video Interview
Barack Obama's policies will unleash a greater economic crisis than the world is now facing, believes US financial forecaster, Peter Schiff.
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The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse
By Jayati Ghosh
The financial debacle has drowned out coverage of food shortages. Where are the billion-dollar bailouts for the hungry?
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Israeli Attacks Kill 785 People, Leaving Most Gazans Hungry - UN Body:
"Eighty percent of the population is in need right now, maybe even beyond that," she said.
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UN: Israel kills 257 children in Gaza:
The United Nations says as many as 257 children have been killed in Gaza.
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Israel pounds Gaza during truce hours:
Israel has violated a three-hour truce declared to allow the passage of humanitarian aid, and has resumed attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza:
All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Israel: Rejects UN truce resolution :
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the Security Council resolution calling for an "immediate and durable" ceasefire as "unworkable".
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Israeli rejection of Gaza deal may topple Abbas:
At midnight Friday, according to Hamas' interpretation of the Palestinian constitution, the tenure of Mahmoud Abbas as President of the Palestinian Authority comes to an end.
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Hamas says U.S. is giving Israel more time in Gaza:
On Thursday the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but the United States unexpectedly abstained in the vote, saying talks on a truce were still under way through Egyptian mediation.
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U.S. Looking for Ammo Ships for Israel?:
On Dec. 31, just two days after Israel launched its current offensive against Hamas, U.S. Military Sealift Command issued a solicitation for two container vessels to ship ammunition from Greece to the Israeli port of Ashdod.
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AIPAC praises Senate support of Israel:
The AIPAC statement went on to "applaud" US President George W. Bush's recent statements in support of Israel.
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UK: Emergency national demonstration: Saturday 10 January :
Assemble 12.30pm Speakers Corner, Hyde Park: March to Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street, London W8
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Exposed media bias about the Israel -
Palestine conflict EXPOSED!
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British Gas, Israel to freeze Hamas out of $4b. gas deal:
Israel and the British natural gas company BG Group Plc will move ahead with controversial plans to drill for natural gas in the Gaza Marine field, despite Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip last month, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.
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10 civilians, 3 US occupation troops killed in Afghan bombings:
A bomb has killed three US soldiers in southern Afghanistan, hours after a suicide bomber killed 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen in a separate attack in the south, officials said.
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Pakistan Denies 'Official' Role in Mumbai Attacks:
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks, as U.S. vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived on a trip aimed at easing tension in South Asia.
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