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Reporting from Paris: Europe Very Apprehensive About The Economic Turmoil

SOME THOUGHTS FROM PARIS

by Christian Science Monitor.

Oakland, Calif. - A promo for CNN’s citizen journalism site, iReport.com, reads: “You won’t believe what people are uploading.” Maybe readers should take that literally.

An anonymous writer posted a false story to the site claiming that Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, sending the company’s stock tumbling Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed Henry Blodget Monday that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the article.

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Fear and Panic As Market Drops Again: How Bad Is It? How Bad Can It Get?

THIS MORNING, A GLOBAL RESPONSE-CNN REPORTS

Federal Reserve, joining central banks worldwide, cuts key interest rate by half percentage point to 1.5 percent.

RIOT IN HONG KONG: AFP-- Furious investors clashed with police outside Bank of China's Hong Kong headquarters Wednesday and demanded the repayment of investments linked to failed US bank Lehman Brothers

by David Leppard
Times Online

Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain.

GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project.

Hundreds of clandestine probes will be installed to monitor customers live on two of the country’s biggest internet and mobile phone providers - thought to be BT and Vodafone. BT has nearly 5m internet customers.

by Jeff Stein, SpyTalk

The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

FBI Special Agents Mark Rossini and Douglas Miller have asked for permission to appear in an upcoming public television documentary, scheduled to air in January, on pre-9/11 rivalries between the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency.

We face extreme danger. Unless there is immediate intervention on every front by all the major powers acting in concert, we risk a disintegration of global finance within days. Nobody will be spared, unless they own gold bars

by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Investors will learn today whether the Paulson bail-out - fattened to $850bn (£480bn) by Congress - can begin to halt the death spiral in the credit system. So far, the response looks terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI

by Jim Miles

The Duel – Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Tariq Ali. Scribner (Simon & Schuster Inc.) New York, 2008

The Fresno County Peace and Freedom Party was founded on November 4, 2004 with the appointment of a County Central Committee chairperson by the State Central Committee. Though individuals in Fresno County have been active in the Peace and Freedom Party since its formation, it is unknown if there was any formal organization here prior to that date.