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Trump, commenting on the economic bailout plan said the $700 billion plan is probably necessary

Real estate mogul Donald Trump says the proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial industry is a "black eye" for an American economy that was "rushing into one big depression."

Trump says the bailout is "probably needed" to stave off an economic depression brought about by "lots of bad policy by the Bush administration."

He says he’s endorsed John McCain for president.

Trump says the Republican candidate has smart people around him.

Trump spoke yesterday at the topping off ceremony for his Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. The 92-story commercial and residential development will be the second-tallest building in the city after the Sears Tower.
  
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By Seumas Milne

(source: Guardian)

The media may revel in a Mossad hit, yet Britain’s response to a plot that could threaten its own citizens has been craven

Imagine for a moment what the reaction would be if ­Iranian ­intelligence was almost ­unversally believed to have ­assassinated a leader of one of the organisations fighting the Tehran government in a western-friendly state. Then consider how Britain, let alone the US, might respond if the killers had carried out the ­operation ­using forged or stolen passports of ­citizens of four European states, including Britain, with dual Iranian nationality.

You can be sure it would have ­triggered a major international storm, stentorian declarations about the threat of state-sponsored terrorism, and ­perhaps a debate at the UN ­security council, with demands for harsher ­sanctions against an increasingly ­dangerous Islamic republic.

Read More »This is no ripping yarn but a murder to fan more conflict

(source: Kashmir Media Service)

The Executive Director of Kashmir Centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl has condemned the continued Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir.

Professor Shawl in a statement issued in London saluted the steadfastness and unwavering commitment of the Kashmiri people for continuing their liberation struggle. He expressed grave concern over the killing of civilians in indiscriminate firing of Indian police at Palhalan in Pattan.

The Executive Director asked the Indian government and its authorities in occupied Kashmir to release all the illegally detained Hurriyet leaders and activists including Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Aasiya Andrabi. He appealed to the international human organisations to raise their voice for bringing an end to India’s iron-fisted policy in the occupied territory.

Professor Shawl urged the pro-freedom leadership to forge greater unity among its ranks to defeat the nefarious designs of New Delhi to suppress the liberation movement. “The international media has taken a serious notice of the ongoing struggle which augurs well for the ultimate success. At this critical juncture cohesion and single-mindedness are very important,” he added.

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By Naom Chomsky

(source:  Voice of the Cape Online)

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.　It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition-except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany.

What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence-which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have.

Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.” Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

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