North Koreans Launch Rocket Over the Pacific

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By CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER
NYTimes.com
Published: April 4, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort to prove it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead on a longer-range missile.

The launching took place at 11:30 a.m. local time, said an official at the Foreign Ministry of South Korea who spoke on condition of anonymity until the government makes a formal announcement.

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via North Koreans Launch Rocket Over the Pacific – NYTimes.com

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Reports: North Korea launches rocket

PressTV
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:17:12 GMT

The US State Department has confirmed that North Korea launched its rocket on Sunday.

“We have had a launch. I don’t know the type of missile,” US State Department spokesman Fred Lash told reporters on Sunday, adding that it is a “provocative act.”

Tokyo also said Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket that passed over Japan.

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via Reports: North Korea launches rocket

Mosaic News – 4/3/09: World News From The Middle East

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“You close one loophole and the slime oozes out of another hole” + The Lie of Omission by William Blum

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by William Blum
www.killinghope.org
Apr. 4, 2009

The Anti-Empire Report

Some thoughts about socialism

“History is littered with post-crisis regulations. If there are undue restrictions on the operations of businesses, they may view it to be their job to get around them, and you sow the seeds of the next crisis.”

– Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment analyst, CharlesSchwab & Co., a leading US provider of investment services.¹

And so it goes. Corporations, whether financial or not, strive to maximize profit as inevitably as water seeks its own level. We’ve been trying to “regulate” them since the 19th century. Or is it the 18th? Nothing helps for long. You close one loophole and the slime oozes out of another hole. Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. After all the stimulus money has come and gone, after all the speeches by our leaders condemning greed and swearing to reforms, after the last congressional hearing deploring the corporate executives to their faces, the boys of Wall Street, shrugging off a few bruises, will resume churning out their assortment of financial entities, documents, and packages that go by names like hedge funds, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, index funds, credit default swaps, structured investment vehicles, subprime mortgages, and many other pieces of paper with exotic names, for which, it must be kept in mind, there had been no public need or strident demand. Speculation, bonuses, and scotch will flow again, and the boys will be all the wiser, perhaps shaken a bit that they’re so reviled, but knowing better now what to flaunt and what to disguise.

Rachel Maddow: Why Gitmo Accountability Matters

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From The Rachel Maddow Show April 3, 2009.

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Britain’s Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction? by Andy Worthington

Abu Zubaydah: The Futility Of Torture and A Trail of Broken Lives by Andy Worthington

Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List by Andy Worthington

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Kucinich: Bonuses and Failed Banks

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Bill Moyers Journal: Glenn Greenwald & Amy Goodman + William K. Black on Fraud

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Noam Chomsky: Why bother celebrating NATO at all? + Obama and Israel

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Democracy Now!
April 3, 2009

Democracy Now! | Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine

We speak to Noam Chomsky, prolific author and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As NATO leaders gather for a sixtieth anniversary summit in France, Chomsky says, “The obvious question is, why bother celebrating NATO at all? In fact, why does it exist?” Chomsky also analyzes the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghanistan occupation and reacts to the new Netanyahu government in Israel. [includes rush transcript]

Bill Moyers Journal: Glenn Greenwald & Amy Goodman + William K. Black on Fraud

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Bill Moyers Journal
April 3, 2009

Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman

Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can’t be addressed in big corporate media. Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald are the first recipients of Park Center for Independent Media Izzy Award (named for I.F. Stone). Find out more about I.F. Stone’s life and legacy

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Britain’s Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction? by Andy Worthington

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by Andy Worthington
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4 April 2009

On Monday March 30, in a committee room in the House of Commons, Diane Abbott MP chaired a meeting entitled, “Britain’s Guantánamo? The use of secret evidence and evidence based on torture in the UK courts,” to discuss the stories of some of the men held as “terror suspects” on the basis of secret evidence, and to work out how to persuade the government to change its policies. A detailed report of the meeting is available here, and the profiles of five prisoners are available by following this link, but I thought it was also worth addressing a question posed by the meeting’s title, and to ask if it is fair to compare the bitter fruits of Britain’s anti-terror legislation with the iconic symbol of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror.”

In some ways, of course, it is not. The British government, while clearly complicit, to some extent, in the rendition and torture of prisoners by or on behalf of the Bush administration, and in interrogating them while they were held in illegal and unjustifiable conditions, was not directly involved in their industrial-scale rendition, in the establishment of a vast offshore prison devoted to coercive intelligence-gathering, or in the direct implementation of torture, under the cover of flawed legal advice which included blatant attempts to redefine its very meaning.