Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN November 01, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   " Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. ... No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." Martin Luther King, Jr. === "Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony." -Noam Chomsky === Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590" Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,800 www.icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,792 = Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,271,712,500,092 http://www.costofwar.com/ =      =  Libya: Fears Grow for Law and Order 2 Killed as NATO Supported Rebels Turn on Each Other By Nick Meo Hundreds of "revolutionaries" fought each other at a hospital in Tripoli early on Monday, in the biggest armed clash between allies since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29576.htm === Terrorists Fight Terrorism... By Paul Balles "Terrorism" and "terrorists" are the key labels of warmongers working to instill fear into the public to justify military slaughtering.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29567.htm === Why Whitey Can't Vote American Racism: The Giant White Elephant in the Room By Bill Noxid The Confederates will not and cannot accept a Negro as President of the United States, because a Negro is not an equal man.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29568.htm === Argentina: Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses By James Petras Obama may be a one-term president, even with the billion dollar campaign funding from Wall Street, the military industrial complex and the pro-Israel power configuration. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29569.htm === Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits By Janell Ross "The big banks have actually figured out a way to make unemployed workers a profit center, one that only grows as things get worse," http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29580.htm === Members Of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession By Luke Johnson Members of the House and Senate have a collective net worth of $2.04 billion, up from $1.65 billion in 2008.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29579.htm === Listen Now A Warning to the Economic and Political Elites By Kevin Zeese Occupying Public Space is the Beginning of an American Revolt.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29566.htm === No More Bubble Gum Confront the Predators with their Victims By Mike Davis Listen carefully to the profoundly quiet people who have lost everything but their dignity.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29570.htm === Welcome To America Police Use Pepper-spray and Rubber Bullets at Occupy Denver Protesters Video The unnecessary show of force by the Denver Police Department was not only disproportionate and inflammatory, but a vastly excessive expenditure of public funds.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29573.htm === Empty Promises David Axelrod Feels the Pain of the 99% By Scott Cruickshank  "In the past, national conventions have too often focused on wealthy donors, corporations, and Washington lobbyists."  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29575.htm === The Republican 'Voter Fraud' Fraud By Diane Roberts All over the US, GOP lawmakers have engineered schemes to make voting more difficult. Well, if you can't win elections fairly... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29577.htm === How They Voted Palestine Granted Full Unesco Membership Video Amid loud applause and cheers for yes votes, Unesco members vote one-by-one on whether to allow Palestinians full membership.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29571.htm === U.S. Cuts Off UNESCO Funding After Palestine Vote By AP That decision will have an immediate effect: The United States won't make a $60 million payment scheduled for November, according to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29572.htm === Israel's Useful Idiots Israel: A True Ally in the Middle East By Robert D. Blackwill and Walter B. Slocombe Israeli contributions to U.S. national interests, underappreciated by many, include enhanced counter-terrorism, intelligence and technology useful in urban warfare.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29574.htm === A Glimpse Into Israeli Nuclear Madness By Gilad Atzmon Why does Israel need so many nuclear bombs? Why does it need 'transcontinental missiles'? Why does the Jewish State think it terms of 'second strike nuclear option'?  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29582.htm === European Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace By Jewish Federations of North America Results of a new poll commissioned by the European Commission show that Israel is believed by Europeans in 15 countries to be the greatest threat to world peace, greater than North Korea, Iran or Afghanistan.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29581.htm === Middle East Propaganda 101 By Glenn Greenwald When it comes to American propaganda about the Middle East, this New York Times article - detailing U.S. plans to bolster its influence in the region after it "withdraws" from Iraq - is a masterpiece.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29578.htm === 'Hundreds' killed in Sudan clashes: Hundreds of SPLM-North fighters were killed in clashes with the Sudanese army in South Kordofan state, local governor Ahmed Haroun said. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/11/2011103123262662976.html === US Kills 8 People In Somalia: At least eight people have been killed and several others have been wounded in a US assassination drone attack in Somalia, Press TV reports. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207818.html === Kenya Kills 5 People In Somalia: An air strike hit a refugee camp in southern Somalia, killing at least five people and wounding 45, most of them children, an international aid agency said on Monday. Kenya's military acknowledged carrying out an air raid but said it targeted only al-Shabab, an Islamist insurgent group in Somalia. http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/5-killed-dozens-hurt-in-somalia-airstrike-1.1169229 === US Kills 9 People In Pakistan: : A series of U.S. drone strikes targeting suspected militants in Pakistan's volatile tribal region killed at least nine people on Sunday and Monday, officials said. http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-98457.html === Pak teen who protested drone strikes killed in UAV hit: A Pakistani teenager, who recently joined a protest rally against US drone strikes, was killed in an attack by the CIA-operated spy planes in North Waziristan tribal region, a campaigner against the missile strikes said on Tuesday. http://goo.gl/MI1VD === Pakistan Supreme Court moved against drone attacks: A CONSTITUTIONAL petition has been filed in the Supreme Court Lahore registry seeking directions for the federal government to act to stop US drone attacks and other attacks into the country's territory. http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=75524&Cat=5&dt=11/1/2011 === Five killed in Afghanistan: -- Insurgents driving a suicide truck bomb and attacking on foot killed five people, including three United Nations employees, near the offices of the U.N.'s refugee agency in the southern city of Kandahar on Monda http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/nov/01/un-agency-struck/ === 4 Children Killed In Bomb Blast In Wardak, Afghanistan: - Four children were killed when a roadside bomb went off in Afghanistan's Wardak province with Maidan Shar as its capital 35 km west of capital city of Kabul on Monday, a spokesman for provincial administration said on Tuesday. http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=623881 === Six people killed in Syria violence: - Six people were killed on Tuesday as clashes between government forces and army defectors intensified across Syria, a rights group said. http://goo.gl/DIYQJ === Arming Syrian deserters: Analysts and activists have warned that the Syrian uprising, which started as a peaceful popular movement seven months ago, is slipping into a situation like that in Libya, where the rebels armed themselves to fight government soldiers. http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=327950&MID=0&PID=0 === Lavrov - Russia Won't Allow Syria To Become Another Libya: The Russian foreign minister was referring to the military intervention in Libya that came to an end yesterday. "We will not allow such things to happen again, http://goo.gl/btoU8 === NATO rules out Syria intervention: Speaking during a visit to the Libyan capital Tripoli, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said military action in Syria was out of the question. "My answer is very short. NATO has no intention (to intervene) whatsoever. I can completely rule that out," he told reporters. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/11/201111103948699103.html === Two Palestinians killed in late night raid: Two more Palestinians were killed at midnight Sunday in a fresh Israeli violation of the Egyptian brokered calm that supposedly went into effect for the third time at 10 pm Sunday. http://goo.gl/BxT0Z === Israeli Foreign Minsiter after UNESCO vote: Weigh cutting all ties with PA: "Today I contacted [US] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and called on them to act on their earlier statements and immediately halt all American funding to UNESCO," http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=243855 === "I Am Still Daddy": U.S. to UNESCO, But Is the World Listening?: The United States needs to show the world that it is still Daddy. It still controls the purse strings. No more allowance for naughty children who won't listen to it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandip-roy/unesco-funding_b_1069508.html === U.S. Defense Dept. paid Israel lobby's think tank director $77,883 for one-day conference on Iran: Not only can Israel get the Pentagon to swallow its anti-Iranian propaganda - it gets them to pay through the nose for it too. http://goo.gl/PWz24 === Tunisia issues warrant for Arafat's widow: Tunisian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Suha Arafat, widow of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as part of a corruption probe into Tunisia's former first family, the justice ministry said. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/10/2011103121344881566.html === Libya - Revenge Attacks : HRW: Video - The entire town of 30,000 people is abandoned -- some of it ransacked and burned -- and Misrata brigade commanders say the residents of Tawergha should never return. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SglSmWXtLX4#! === Propaganda alert: -- Dual U.S.-Libyan citizen chosen as prime minister of Libya: Abdurraheem el-Keib, a dual U.S.-Libyan citizen, was chosen by members of the Transitional National Council who deposited ballots into a transparent box. The televised session was a stark sign of the change from the 42-year dictatorship of Moammar Gaddafi. http://goo.gl/QPqRr === Russia Says chemical weapons in Libya good pretext: The chemical weapons found by the rebels in Libya are necessary for the USA and NATO to justify their further presence in that country, Russian defence expert General Leonid Sazhin said in his interview for the ITAR-TASS news agency. http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/31/59659389.html === Iraq Arrests More in Wake of Tip About Coup: The government of Iraq continued to respond vigorously on Monday to a tip from the new interim leaders in Libya that former members of Saddam Hussein's military and Baath Party were plotting a coup - so much so that critics are now saying that the information has become a pretext for arresting its political opponents. http://goo.gl/2GP4I === Iraq declines regional military training due to 'sensitivity of situation': Iraq declines offers from Turkey, Iran to train its forces, after failure of negotiations with US on post-2011 training mission. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48830 === Iran FM says US buildup near Iraq lacks 'prudence': U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said an estimated 40,000 U.S. troops will be stationed across the Mideast even after the Iraq withdrawal. http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq === WANTED Dead Or Alive: Terror suspect escapes assault in Sulu: Washington has offered a $5 million reward for the capture or killing of Marwan, a US-trained Malaysian engineer long hunted by US and Philippine authorities for his alleged role in past terror attacks. http://goo.gl/HhxOv === Greece to hold referendum on EU aid package: Prime Minister George Papandreou asks citizens to vote on whether country should adopt $140bn eurozone bailout deal. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/10/20111031181537820315.html === Eurozone crisis sinks Wall Street giant: US brokerage firm reveals $6.4bn of eurozone debt making it seventh-largest bankruptcy by assets in US history. http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2011/11/20111117555642766.html === Clients scramble for money after MF Global shock: MF Global failed to protect customer accounts by keeping them separate from the firm's funds, a top U.S. regulator said, as administrators to the collapsed brokerage's UK arm scrambled to close out billions of dollars worth of client positions. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/mfglobal-exchanges-idUSL5E7M12NY20111101 === Pull Your Money Out of BofA: Goldman, Sachs has become the great symbol of investment banking corruption, and other companies like AIG and Countrywide have become poster children for problems with businesses like insurance and mortgage-lending. But when it comes to commercial banking, Bank of America is as bad as it gets. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-weapon-for-ows-pull-your-money-out-of-b-of-a-20111028 === "Let us be peace and joy" Tom Feeley