People are reflected on a share chart in Tokyo on November 6. Toyota Motor has slashed its profit forecast, warning the global auto industry faces an ‘unprecedented’ crisis as Asian stocks tumbled on fears the US is sinking deeper towards recession. (Image courtesy AFP)

Stocks slide, Toyota warns of ‘unprecedented’ crisis

Nov. 6, 2008 Toyota Motor slashed its profit forecast Thursday, warning the global auto industry faces an ‘unprecedented’ crisis as Asian stocks tumbled on fears the US is sinking deeper towards recession. The Japanese giant became the latest automaker to reveal plunging profits due to the financial crisis, following on the heels of BMW, Nissan and Honda.

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Not So Delicate Balance

New intelligence report says Pakistan is ‘on the edge’

By Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined with the Pakistani army’s reluctance to launch an all-out crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America’s key ally in the war on terror deeper into turmoil and violence, says a soon-to-be completed U.S. intelligence assessment.

AP Photo by LEFTERIS PITARAKIS 1 day ago: United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates, left, and his Czech counterpart Vlasta Parkanova, right, arrive for a signing ceremony of the SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) treaty and a bilateral declaration along with United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates, not seen, concerning the US radar base personnel based in the Czech Republic, on the margins of the NATO defense ministers’ meeting in London, Friday Sept. 19, 2008. SOFA stipulating the legal framework for the presence of U.S. personnel on Czech territory in connection with the U.S. missile defense radar facility.

Peace vigil held at Nato meeting in London

London, Sept 19, IRNA UK-NATO Meeting A peace vigil was being held outside an informal NATO meeting of defence ministers that started in London on Thursday evening. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), organizing the protest said that the US and Czech governments are expected to sign their controversial treaty on a planned US Missile Defence radar base near Prague.

Pool image by Mark Wilson / Getty Images / MCT Rather than producing valuable intelligence or keeping terror suspects off the streets, the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base practices radicalized detainees, and for many served as a ’school for Jihad,’ or holy war. (Photo courtesy McClatchy News Service DC)

SPECIAL REPORT — GUANTANAMO: BEYOND THE LAW

ABOUT THIS SERIES
An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.
‘The most comprehensive reporting and gathering of facts on the matter to date. Bravo McClatchy.’ — Free-4-Now

GIL SCOTT HERON-REFLECTIONS (Arista records 1981)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson.[1] He is associated with African American militant activism, and is best known for his poem and song ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’; and for writing ‘Home is Where The Hatred Is’ an eerie account of drug use that was a hit by the grammy-award winning R&B singer Esther Phillips in 1972. The song is also featured in the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV. Scott-Heron’s father, Giles ‘Gil’ Heron (nicknamed ‘The Black Arrow’) was a Jamaican football player who, in the 1950s, was the first ever black player to play for Glasgow’s Celtic Football Club.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scott Heron
Official promo for Gil Scott Heron’s collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then, published by Canongate Books Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House (Intro) in 2001. http://www.aptstudio.com/portfolio/

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Russia Today: U.S. citizen was among Georgian commandos
A U.S. passport was found in a building in South Ossetia occupied by Georgian troops, a Russian military spokesperson revealed on Thursday. After Russian peacekeepers cleared the heavily defended building, a passport belonging to a Texan named Michael Lee White was discovered inside

A poster on a wall in Tbilisi, Georgia

August 26, 2008, Michael Totten Report from Tbilisi –

Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.

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