Mosaic News – 12/15/08: World News from the Middle East

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“Iraqis Distribute Candy and Calls Shoe Hurler: Hero,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Baghdadiya TV: Our Journalist was Practicing his Freedom of Expression,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Ahmadinejad Rejects French President’s Snub,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Nasrallah Urges Arabs to Break the Siege on Gaza,” Press TV, Iran
“Protesters Demand Access to Shalit,” IBA TV, Israel
“58 Killed in Traffic Accident in Egypt,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“What Can Carter Do in Lebanon?” New TV, Lebanon
“Iranian Demonstrate in Solidarity With Palestinians in Gaza,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
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“The Fed Who Blew the Whistle”

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Democracy Now!
Dec. 16, 2008

The whistleblower behind the exposure of the Bush administration’s domestic spy program has revealed his identity. In an interview with Newsweek, former Justice Department official Thomas Tamm says he personally called the New York Times from a Washington, D.C. subway pay phone in 2004 to tell them about the program. Tamm was working as an attorney in the Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. The secretive unit oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets. [includes rush transcript]

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Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent for Newsweek. He has the cover story in the latest issue of the magazine. It’s called ‘The Fed Who Blew the Whistle’

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DN!!! LEGENDARY  WHISTLE BLOWER!!!

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Obama, Iran and control of the Middle East

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Gareth Porter: US must acknowledge that Iran has a broad influence that no US policy can alter Pt3/4

Iraqi gov’t leaders fear Obama?

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Franck Biancheri: Understanding the Next Phase of the Global Systemic Crisis

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ICH
Dec. 16, 2008
KPFA
Dec. 10, 2008

Audio By Guns And Butter

Interview with Director of Research for the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, Franck Biancheri. We discuss the global systemic crisis leading to a Very Great Depression in the United States. Each month, the Bulletin brings its unique analyses of the upcoming stages of the collapse of the world order created after 1945, as well as numerous strategic recommendations for decisions in the political, economic and financial fields. Visit their websites at www.leap2020.eu and www.europe2020.org.

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The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

The Reconstruction of America by Andrew Hughes

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by Andrew Hughes
Global Research, December 15, 2008

As 2008 comes to an end after a brain curdling descent in to an economic abyss, what is on the to-do list for 2009? Will the same mistakes that were made to try and ease the impact of the crisis be repeated in 2008? All indications are that addressing the root problems is still not on the agenda and the predilection for Keynesian stimuli will only exacerbate the fallout from a fundamentally unwinnable war. Unwinnable in the sense that the definition of victory is the restoration of a failed Economic model.

The injection of $3 Trillion in to Commercial paper, mortgage, banking and auto markets has not even touched the onslaught of Economic Armageddon. The credit, so earnestly hoped for, never materialized as recapitalization outbid exposure in the financial world. There is a long, long way to go before the deleveraging Genie is put back in the bottle, and only then after a carnage never seen before in the history of the free market.

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Cheney Admits Authorizing Detainee’s Torture

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By David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
ICH
December 16, 2008 “Raw Story”

Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be

Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.

When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against a so-called “high value prisoner” at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, Mr. Cheney, in a break from his history of being press-shy, admitted to giving official sanctioning of torture.

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“I supported it,” he said regarding the practice known as “water-boarding,” a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding, a practice which the outgoing Bush administration attempted to enshrine in policy.

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Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation by F. William Engdahl

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by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, December 15, 2008

The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Their lawyers resorted to the bizarre argument that they did so to protect ‘trade secrets.’ Is the secret that the US financial system is de facto bankrupt? The latest Fed move is further indication of the degree of panic and lack of clear strategy within the highest ranks of the US financial institutions. Unprecedented Federal Reserve expansion of the Monetary Base in recent weeks sets the stage for a future Weimar-style hyperinflation perhaps before 2010.

On November 7 Bloomberg filed suit under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting details about the terms of eleven new Federal Reserve lending programs created during the deepening financial crisis.