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Clearing out Gitmo

rudkla — 2008-08-29T09:31:00Z

CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

08/28/08

As part of its alleged desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantanamo prisoners had been transferred to Algeria. This follows the repatriation of two other Algerians Mustafa Hamlili and Abdul Raham Houari at the start of July, who were the first Algerians to be released from the prison in its six-and-a-half year history. Cynics could argue, with some justification, that the releases were less to do with benevolence than with the fact that the US administration has finally decided to clear out as much of the dead wood at Guantanamo as possible, following the US Supreme Courts momentous decision, in June, that the prisoners have constitutional habeas corpus rights; in other words, that they have the right to challenge the basis of their long detention without charge or trial before an impartial judge...

http://counterpunch.org/worthington08282008.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bankruptcy Filings Surge 29%

rudkla — 2008-08-29T09:13:00Z

Total filings rose to 967,831 from 751,056 a year earlier.
http://tinyurl.com/6qhjhp

U.S. Says Banks on `Problem List' Rose 30% in Quarter

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said its "problem list'' of banks increased 30 percent in the second quarter to the highest total in five years as more commercial real-estate loans were overdue.

http://tinyurl.com/65dymv

FDIC Is Broke?

Report: FDIC May Borrow Money From Treasury:

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) might have to borrow money from the Treasury Department to see it through an expected wave of bank failures, the Wall Street Journal reported.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/headlines/fdic/2008/08/27/125366.html

Analyst: FDIC Will Need Half A Trillon Dollars

Chris Whalen, managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, in an interview on CNBC, said: They need about a half a trillion dollars in borrowing authority, and they need a vehicle to own these banks while we triage them and sell them.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2008/08/analyst-fdic-will-need-half-trillon.html

From Information Clearing House

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Prozac army: 20,000 troops suffer stress

rudkla — 2008-08-29T09:03:00Z

One in six American soldiers in Afghanistan and one in eight in Iraq are taking daily doses of prescription antidepressants, sleeping pills or painkillers to help them cope with the stresses of combat, according to figures contained in a US Army mental health advisory team report seen by The Herald.

http://tinyurl.com/6hp6ox

From Information Clearing House

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

rudkla — 2008-08-29T08:57:00Z

The Keating Five

For anyone not aware of the Keating Five, here's a very simple summary:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20634.htm

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate.

By Tom Fitzpatrick

You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20635.htm

No End In Sight
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20637.htm

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It's Time for Real Change

rudkla — 2008-08-29T08:50:00Z

How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country

By Cynthia McKinney

Our country has been hijacked and the Democrats have proven themselves to have been in on the plan. When it came to the Constitution, the Democratic leadership showed us that aiding and abetting illegal spying on us was more important to them than protecting our civil liberties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20641.htm

An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Symbolism Alone Will Not Bring Change

By LEONARD PELTIER

Yet symbolism alone will not bring about change. Our young people, black and Native alike, suffer from police brutality and racial profiling, underfunded schools, and discrimination in employment and housing. I sincerely hope your campaign will inspire some hope among our youth to struggle for a better future.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20646.htm

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A Master-Slave Society

rudkla — 2008-08-29T08:48:00Z

Democrats in Denver Should Skip One of Their Parties and Read the American Monetary Act

By Richard C. Cook

The debt this nation owes to the banks, to foreign creditors, and to each other can never be paid off. - Nothing creates more debt than war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20636.htm

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+C.+Cook

Foreign Spigot off for US Consumers

rudkla — 2008-08-29T08:46:00Z

By Max Fraad Wolff

Alongside falling prices, rising mortgage rates, stricter credit conditions and general malaise, the structure that supports American home ownership is being condemned by market valuation. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have nose dived and been downgraded toward a smaller future - and these are more important names for your future than Joe, Sam, Kathy, Mitt, Meg ..

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20642.htm

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US Warns UK Against Releasing Information for Torture Case

rudkla — 2008-08-29T08:26:00Z

Duncan Campbell, The Guardian UK: "The US State Department yesterday warned that disclosure of secret information in the case of a British resident said to have been tortured before he was sent to Guantanamo Bay would cause "serious and lasting damage" to security relations between the countries."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-warns-uk-against-releasing-information-torture-case

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Both Parties Want Dictatorship

rudkla — 2008-08-29T07:33:00Z

On the evil of politics
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/longing-for-dictatorship.html

Reject State Lies
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer182.html

Barrys Monstrous Itch
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/mcdarby6.html

Police State Mission-Creep
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/mcpherson10.html

Federal Attitude Policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard59.html

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We remember what happened in New Orleans

rudkla — 2008-08-29T07:14:00Z

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/417.html

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The Land of the Silent and the Home of the Fearful

rudkla — 2008-08-28T21:27:00Z

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/08/28-1

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Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape

rudkla — 2008-08-28T20:18:00Z

New US Census Data: Same Reality

Alex Carter, Campaign for America's Future: "Newly released data by the United States Census Bureau continues to show how much President George W. Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape. Since 2000, median income has decreased 1 percent. That decline is magnified by the higher costs for energy, food and other items during that period; what families could buy for a dollar in 2000 now costs $1.25."

http://www.truthout.org/article/new-us-census-data-same-reality

Military Sending Foreign Fighters to Home Nations

rudkla — 2008-08-28T20:12:00Z

Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times: "The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to American military officials. The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by the Central Intelligence Agency since the Sept. 11 attacks to secretly transfer people suspected of being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned."

http://www.truthout.org/article/military-sending-foreign-fighters-home-nations

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Conflict in Georgia: It's About the Oil, Again

rudkla — 2008-08-28T16:53:00Z

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/235bcf23c9de20fc?hl=e

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Georgia
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Militarism and a Uni-polar World

rudkla — 2008-08-28T07:50:00Z

By Lenora Foerstel

Shortly before World War II, Hjalmer Schacht, a German banker, toured the United States soliciting American corporate support for Hitler's new fascist state. U.S. corporations not only agreed to support Germany against the socialist economic system of the Soviet Union, but also declared their opposition to the strong labor movement arising in the United States and Europe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20632.htm

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