Link: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m80875&hd=&size=1&l=e

Yes! It will be 100% voter turnout.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/bern-a27.shtml

In a much anticipated speech Friday before a gathering of central bankers and international financial officials, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke sought to reassure panicky markets while proposing no measures to ease the worsening jobs crisis in the US and internationally.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/pers-a27.shtml

NATO’s assault on Libya, a criminal imperialist war from its outset, has descended into an exercise in out-and-out murder as special forces operatives and intelligence agents hunt down Gaddafi.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/27

As rebels take Tripoli, foreign powers are eyeing the prize of Libya's high quality crude oil. It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical analysis. So, for instance, it is in this section that the Independent reports a "dash for profit in the post-war Libya carve up".

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2011/08/27/rebel-assassins-terrorizing-libyans#more12342

In his new article headlined, "9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?" Paul Craig Roberts said: "Today Americans are unsafe, not because of terrorists and domestic extremists, but because they have lost their civil liberties and no protection from unaccountable government power."

Link: http://www.henrymakow.com/lyme_disease_-_the_tick_that_a.html

Dr. Day, a Rockefeller offical, said there would be new diseases to appear which had not ever been seen before. Would be very difficult to diagnose and be untreatable -- at least for a long time. The incidence of Lyme Disease has DOUBLED since 1991. Let's say that we've got 500,000 cases a year for 20 years, since Lyme is under-reported and under-diagnosed. That means we're talking at least 10 million cases in the USA alone.

Link: http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/many-collapses-of-keynesianism189.html

It should be obvious to everyone but the most dedicated adherent of Keynesianism that the stimulus did not accomplish its end. The combination of outright spending by Congress, the desperate schemes to reflate the housing market, the attempt to transfuse bleeding firms with other people’s money, and the creation of trillions in artificial money, has not done a thing to lift the US economy.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2011/08/2011827162514362413.html

More and more people in Britain are now relying on the state and charities for a roof over their heads. Homelessness in one of the world’s richest country is on the rise. More and more people in Britain are now relying on the state and charities for a roof over their heads. In the second quarter of this year, around 9,000 homes were repossessed in Britain. Interest rates here are low at the moment but there are fears that when they do eventually rise, more families will struggle. And more will end up turning to the authorities to help provide a roof over their heads. Emma Hayward travelled to the city of Bristol to find out how the rising cost of living is affecting people from all walks of life.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/27-2

BAGHDAD - Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein’s 1991 crackdown in Iraq’s Shia south. "My bothers were sentenced to death, and the price to stop this was to offer my body," she says. Cast out for bringing ‘shame’ to her family, Rania ran away to Baghdad and soon fell into living and working in Baghdad’s red light district. Prostitution and sex trafficking are epidemic in Iraq, where the violence of military occupation and sectarian strife have smashed national institutions,