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28 Nov 2011
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Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13 Billion 27 Nov 2011 The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.
Anonymous and Team Poison start Op Robin Hood --Steal from the banks, give to the 99 per cent 28 Nov 2011 Hackers Team Poison have joined forces with Anonymous to launch Operation Robin Hood, an assault on banks that should see funds channeled back to the disenfranchised 99 per cent. "We have watched our brothers and sisters being refused their hard earned money by the banks on top of being beaten and brutalized by officers during peaceful demonstrations. Congratulations banks, you have gotten our attention," says a message jointly signed by Team Poison and Anonymous.
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Google's Blogger needs 'terrorist' button 24 Nov 2011 Joseph Lieberman, the independent senator [sociopath] from Connecticut, sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page this week expressing his opinion that Google-owned blogging platform Blogger should provide a button that would let readers of Blogger-powered blogs flag "terrorist content," according to a report. In the letter, Lieberman says that alleged pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel, who was arrested by the New York Police Department last weekend, used a Blogger-based blog to spread hate-filled screeds and links to bomb-making instructions.
Mission accomplished! Iraq Signs Final $17.2 Billion Shell Gas Deal --25-year contract is one of biggest signed by Iraq in past two years 27 Nov 2011 Iraq Sunday signed the final $17.2 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corp. to capture and process flared gas from southern Iraqi oil fields, Iraqi and company officials said. The joint venture, which includes Iraqi state South Gas Co., is expected to help Iraq make use of more than 700 million cubic feet a day of gas that is being burned and help generate much-needed electric power.
Explosion at Iraqi prison gate kills 19 28 Nov 2011 At least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured in a car bomb explosion outside an Iraqi prison near the capital, Baghdad, officials say. The blast happened after an unknown attacker detonated his explosive-laden car at the main entrance to the al-Hout prison in the town of Taji, some 25km north of the capital, Monday morning. Authorities say the casualties include 10 policemen and the rest were civilians.
Iraqi MP injured in mortar attack, 2 dead 28 Nov 2011 At least two people have been killed and seven others, including one lawmaker, have been injured in an explosion near the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, the interior ministry said. The blast occurred after a mortar round hit the parliament's parking area in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Monday. The blast came as Iraqi lawmakers were questioning Baghdad mayor. "A mortar round landed near parliament's car park. One colleague, (MP) Muayid al-Tayyeb, was wounded," MP Ali al-Shila told AFP.
US Rep calls for bombing Iran refineries 28 Nov 2011 US Republican presidential candidate [sociopath] Newt Gingrich has called for a military strike against Iran's refineries to stop the country's peaceful nuclear program. The US should bomb Iran's refineries "as a last recourse," Gingrich said earlier in a 2012 presidential debate in Washington. The former House speaker opined that the US could break Iran within a year with "cutting off the gasoline supply to Iran and then, frankly, sabotaging the only refinery they have."
Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan, Israel 27 Nov 2011 Saboteurs blew up Egypt's gas pipeline to Jordan and Israel on Monday, witnesses and security sources said, a few hours before the country holds its first free election since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February. The explosion was set off west of al-Arish in Sinai, witnesses said.
Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza 27 Nov 2011 Israel warned on Saturday that it would cut the supply of water and electricity to the Gaza Strip if rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas form a unity government. "The foreign ministry is examining the possibility of Israel pulling out of the Gaza Strip in terms of infrastructure," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the daily Yediot Aharonot website.
Pakistanis burn Obama effigy and US flag 28 Nov 2011 Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis have taken to the streets across the country, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes. The Sunday rallies were organised by opposition and right-wing Islamist groups in major cities of the country of 167 million people, where opposition to the government's US alliance is rampant. In Karachi, the port city used by the United States to ship supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan, more than 700 people gathered outside the US consulate.
Pakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S. 28 Nov 2011 Pakistan's prime minister ruled out "business as usual" with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan. "Business as usual will not be there," Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told CNN when asked if ties with the United States would continue [after Saturday's incident]. "We have to have something bigger so as to satisfy my nation."
Two British terror suspects killed in U.S. drone attacks in remote region of Pakistan 19 Nov 2011 Two British terror suspects are believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan, according to their family and friends. Ibrahim Adam and Mohammed Azmir are thought to have died in a CIA missile strike in Waziristan, a remote and lawless region bordering Afghanistan. Adam's father confirmed that his son was killed by an American unmanned aircraft.
Director of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant stepping down due to illness --TEPCO: 'We cannot give you details of his illness because they are private matters.' 28 Nov 2011 The director of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is stepping down due to illness, the facility's operator said Monday but it was not clear if his condition is radiation-related. Masao Yoshida, 56, who has been on site at the plant since Japan's March 11 disaster, has been hospitalised for "treatment of illness," a spokeswoman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said. Mounted police ride over anti-nuclear activists in Germany 27 Nov 2011 A composite picture of six handout still images made available on Nov. 27 and taken from footage of a freelance video-journalist shows mounted police riding over anti-nuclear activists protesting a nuclear waste transport on the route of the 'Castor' train near Dahlenburg, Germany, on Nov. 26. By these recordings the anti-castor campaign 'Kampagne Castor Schottern' has made serious allegations against the police on Nov. 27, claiming they had severely injured anti-nuclear activists. Thousands of protesters assembled in and around the northern German town of Dannenberg to meet a train carrying nuclear waste to a nearby storage depot.
German police clear huge sit-in at nuclear protest --1,300 people were temporarily detained 27 Nov 2011 German police cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste and temporarily detained 1,300 people Sunday, officials said. Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country in the morning, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said. Activists said some 150 people were injured as police dispersed some protests with tear gas and batons over the weekend, the German news agency dapd reported.
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns 25 Nov 2011 British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain. As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible. Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis.
Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occupy camp 28 Nov 2011 Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment. Police managed to reopen blocked streets for morning rush-hour commuters after a tense standoff with protesters who had taken over a downtown intersection, but remnants of a crowd that had swelled to 2,000 overnight remained at City Hall. Four demonstrators were arrested during the brief confrontation, accused of being present at an unlawful assembly, before police ultimately pulled back from City Hall park.
Tensions grow at Occupy L.A. as deadline nears --City officials have set a 12:01 Monday deadline for protesters to leave their encampment outside City Hall, but more Occupiers arrive for a late rally. 27 Nov 2011 Activists and L.A. officials faced difficult choices over the next phase of the Occupy L.A. movement as a 12:01 Monday deadline approached for the departure of nearly 700 protesters from an encampment on City Hall grounds. On Sunday evening, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reiterated an ultimatum that the city's tolerance of the eight-week occupation would end at midnight.
Health officials on alert for outbreak of new swine flu strain 25 Nov 2011 U.S. health officials are on the alert for more cases of a new swine flu strain that was found in three children in Iowa this month. Ten people in the U.S. have been infected since July by S-OtrH3N2 viruses that picked up a gene from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. The new flu strain combines a rare influenza virus (H3N2) circulating in North American pigs and the H1N1 virus from the 2009 outbreak. [See: Killer flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 UK Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain known to have no effect on mice. Animals exposed to this composite were dying within days of symptoms similar to those found in human victims of the 1918 pandemic.]
Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain --Ginger White's exclusive interview with FOX 5 I-Team 28 Nov 2011 An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. "It was pretty simple," White said. "It wasn't complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship."
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank announces retirement 28 Nov 2011 Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress and a Massachusetts liberal whose name as well and fingerprints are on last year's sweeping bill regulating Wall Street, announced plans Monday to retire at the end of his current term, his 16th in Congress. "There are other things I would like to do with my life," the 71-year-old lawmaker said at a news conference. He added that his retirement plans were hastened by two years by reapportionment, which moved 325,000 new constituents into his district.
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank announces retirement 28 Nov 2011 Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress and a Massachusetts liberal whose name as well and fingerprints are on last year's sweeping bill regulating Wall Street, announced plans Monday to retire at the end of his current term, his 16th in Congress. "There are other things I would like to do with my life," the lawmaker said at a news conference. He added that his retirement plans were hastened by two years by reapportionment, which moved 325,000 new constituents into his district.
Number of N.J. residents receiving food stamps doubled in last four years 27 Nov 2011 The number of New Jersey residents receiving food stamps has doubled in the past four years and is at its highest level in more than a decade, state and federal data show. As of September, the most recent data released by the state Department of Human Services, more than 400,000 households and nearly 822,000 people were enrolled in the food stamp program, meaning nearly one out of every 10 residents in New Jersey receives assistance.
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