OREO For 03 31 09
` ` OREO For 03 31 09 ` ` Newsstories of interest: many are dated March 30th ` ** = Important [in this edition: ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com ` Click ` ` ` ONE BRAVE IRAQI ` __MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI__ ` HAS PUT TO INDELIBLE SHAME ` ALL 500+ MEMBERS OF THE COWARD CONGRESS ` AND EXPOSED THEM ALL AS VICIOUS ACCESSORIES ` OF THE BU$H-GANG WAR CRIMINALS ` ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Food security still a problem as hunger rises ` Quote: ` A ` The number of chronically hungry people has been rising steadily --by 75 million in 2007 and an estimated 40 mil- lion in 2008. ` By the end of 2008, 963 million people were undernourish- ed, almost two-thirds of them in the Asia-Pacific region. ` THE SUPERPOWER'S RACIST STARVATION WARFARE... ` B ` Between 2006 and 2008, the FAO says, fertilizer prices rose 170 percent and seeds and animal feed by at least 70 percent, putting them out of the reach of small farm- ers. ` ...IS ACCOMPANIED BY ITS WORLDWIDE SOCIOCIDE ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52T2LT20090330?sp=true ` Click ` See below: SUPERPOWER | "Life in Mendota, Calif., where the jobless rate is 41 percent" ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` FACTBOX - Protests planned for London G20 summit ` Quote: ` APRIL 2: ` * One anarchist Web site has warned of unspecified action at the summit itself. ` OH, NO, NOT BROWN'S BEHEADING ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T2H220090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` SCENARIOS - What can the G20 realistically achieve? ` Quote: ` Some analysts say it is make or break time for Brown. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T28S20090330?pageNumber=2 ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Michael Hudson | Financing the Empire | Does US Face G20 Mutiny? | March 30, 2009 ` Quote: ` U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here [in Europe]...: how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: ` (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate take- overs; ` (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget deficit; ` and [>] most important (but most suppressed in the U.S. me- dia) (3) the [>] military character of the U.S. payments deficit and [of] the domestic federal budget deficit. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.counterpunch.org/ ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Arms Programs Way Over Budget | Development Costs Continue to Soar, GAO Report Finds ` Quote: ` because most major weapons systems involve costly advanced technologies and investments in factories and workers, and have no commercial market, contractors typically demand that the government cover their risk by reimbursing them for un- anticipated costs in 'cost-plus' contracts ` PERMANENT WAR ON THE WORLD RESULT: ` STATE MONOPOLY CAPITALISM FOREVER! ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033003027.html ` Click ` ` AND ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS | Assessments of Selected Weapon Pro- grams | Report to Congressional Committees | United States Government Accountability Office | GAO-09-326SP | 03 09 ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09326sp.pdf ` Click ` ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq, March 30 ` Quote: ` bomb attached to the car of...[a puppet] intelligence offi- cer in the [puppet] interior ministry killed him and another passenger ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52T2RN20090330 ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` FACTBOX - Hague conference on Afghanistan ` Quote: ` NATO,...OECD, European Union, Asian Development Bank, Inter- national Monetary Fund and World Bank are all sending dele- gates. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52T3UK20090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Mar 30, 9:39 AM EDT ` Suicide bomber in [puppet] police uniform kills 9 Afghans ` Quote: ` inside a police headquarters...killing nine people [= puppet cops] and wounding eight ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD9789TK00 ` Click ` ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` TIMELINE - Attacks destabilise strife-torn Pakistan ` Quote: ` March 30 - Militants armed with guns and grenades storm a [puppet] police training centre in Lahore. ` ` GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T26P20090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` [Liar] Obama: U.S. does not plan to put troops in Pakistan ` SUPERPOWER TROOPS HAVE BEEN THERE FOR OVER 5 YEARS ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T06H20090330?pageNumber=2 ` Click ` ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Chris Baldwin and David Sheppard - Analysis | Europe's oil refining set to shrink ` Quote: ` Vanishing gasoline demand from the United States and a long- term fall in local oil use mean Europe's refiners are shut- ting down capacity --for good. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/economyNews/idUKTRE52T3E820090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` ` World Bank says Russia must ward off social crisis ` Quote: ` 'The social situation has worsened so rapidly and so unex- pectedly that it is important to shift the focus of the anti-crisis policy to the population.' ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52T2TJ20090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` UK ` ` Five held under anti-terrorism powers in Plymouth ` Quote: ` A search of his home led to the arrest of three others for drugs offences, but detectives [duh] later found weapons and suspected imitations [of weapons?] and material 'relating to political ideology.'" ` BLAKE, MAYBE ` God wants not man to humble himself ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T35F20090330 ` Click ` ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` _____________________________________________________________ ` CUBA ` ` REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL | China: the future great economic power ` _____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/march/lun30/Reflections-29march.html ` Click ` ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` Life in Mendota, Calif., where the jobless rate is 41 percent ` Quote: ` In a large swath of the nation's most productive farming region, many struggle to fill their own cupboards. ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/65076.html ` Click ` See above: DISORDER | "Food security still a problem as hun- ger rises" ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules ` Quote: ` agency's practice of offering compensatory time off to its employees rather than overtime pay amounted to 'forced vo- lunteering' and was a knowing violation of the law ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033002901.html ` Click ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` Equal Employment Opportunity Commission" ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEOC ` Click ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` FACTBOX - Key details from U.S. autos task force findings ` Quote: ` expedited bankruptcy process to help GM and Chrysler elimi- nate unsustainable debt loads may be the best path ` ANY WAY YOU WANT, AS LONG AS IT'S IN THE BLACK ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T0S920090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` ____________________________________________________________ ` ` TIMELINE - Global car industry troubles ` Quote: ` ups and downs in the auto industry during the financial [?] crisis ` HOW ABOUT BAILOUT CRISIS ` ____________________________________________________________ ` http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T2AK20090330?sp=true ` Click ` ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` Click ` `
