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Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "Even as a wrongful-death lawsuit moves forward against the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater, the firm seeks to renew its contract with the State Department to guard diplomats when the deal expires next year. And the State Department shows no signs of ruling the company out of competition, despite a high-profile incident in 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Sergio Kochergin, back home from his second deployment in Iraq, held a gun in his mouth, trying to muster the courage to pull the trigger. Untreated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and accompanying nightmares and insomnia, heavy substance abuse, and several failed attempts at self-medication had taken their toll on him."

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My 1933 Nightmare

By David Michael Green

Can we really live in a country populated by so many fools, people who can so readily, proudly and belligerently be made into tools of their own destruction? Can the greatest political, economic, cultural and military power on the world's stage possibly be so incredibly backward at its core?

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Antennas to be hidden in flag pole

Published: 11/08/2009

A MOBILE phone giant hopes to disguise masts in a flag pole at an Aberdeen bar.

Vodafone has applied for permission to install the masts at The College bar on Aberdeen’s Alford Place.

The proposal is to remove the existing flag pole and replace it with a replica, suitable for holding three masts.

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Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian UK: "Questions are being raised as to whether the policy of jump-starting the economy through a massive fiscal stimulus has failed. Has Keynesian economics been proven wrong now that it has been put to the test?"

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Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts - in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London - to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay."

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Published Date: 10 August 2009

By Ross Robertson

Inspectors have rejected a second bid to build a mobile phone mast next to a neigbourhood pub.

Planners at Sunderland City Council rejected Vodafone's scheme to build the 3G mast next to the Three Tuns pub in High Street, Easington Lane, in January.

They said the 12metre-high column, which would have three antennae, would have a negative impact on the appearance of the area.

Hetton Town Council also objected to the mast because of the site's nearness to Easington Lane Primary School.

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New York Daily News
by Mort Zuckerman

08/09/09

Obama’s spending and borrowing leaves U.S. gasping for air …. The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the comfortable notion that American and Western capitalism would dominate the world economy. In turn, the financial meltdown threatening another Great Depression has been the rationale for a phenomenal expansion of government spending to prop up demand and fend off economic disaster...

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Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

08/11/09

Ever since the financial crisis began in 2007, there has been a tension between recovery and reform. It seems to make sense to get the economy back on track now and worry about reforms later. But a time of financial crisis, when Wall Street needs big-time government help, is the rare moment when government has the leverage to demand fundamental change. Otherwise, the moment is lost and the cycle of risky practices and taxpayer bailouts continues. Despite the infusion of massive taxpayer funds, however, it’s back to business as usual on Wall Street…. Here’s one new abuse that should be stopped before it spreads: Big private equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks...

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BBC News [UK]

08/10/09

Torture victims should be able to sue foreign governments in the UK courts, a committee of MPs and peers have said. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called on the government to take an international lead, saying the plan would help rehabilitate victims. Minsters have argued that they are bound by a state immunity convention and have suggested the move could cause international tensions. But the committee said practical concerns were of secondary importance...

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Tortured logic

Salon
by Digby

08/10/09

We weren’t sure he was going to even go this far, but according to news reports over the weekend, Attorney General Holder has decided on a ‘narrow’ investigation into torture. In fact, it’s so narrow that it won’t investigate any of the torture that was authorized by DOJ functionary John Yoo at all. Using inverted pretzel logic, they are apparently going to go after those who failed to follow John Yoo’s directives. For instance, according to the LA Times, Holder will not investigate allegations of waterboarding in themselves, but rather if they failed to properly follow their waterboarding instructions to the letter …

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ABC News

08/10/09

In a dramatic change of policy ordered by the Obama administration, the U.S. military has been given approval to ‘kill or capture’ 50 Taliban-connected drug lords whose names are on a classified ‘kill list’ being circulated to commanders, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by ABCNews.com. Military officials expressed anger today that the ‘classified program’ had been revealed in the Senate report...

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Afghan Drug Lords: Targeted Until Proven Innocent

By Stephen M. Walt

This is a formula to escalate the cycle of violence in Afghanistan, not to end it. For anyone who's been awake and watching the many failed strategies in the US war on drugs at home, it just looks stupid.

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Urgent information to protect yourself and your loved ones … get informed before the swine flu vaccine craze comes to your town.

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A large portion of the revenue is likely to come from the most financially stretched consumers, according to the paper.

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State unemployment rates continue to climb

The most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics continue to paint a bleak picture for unemployment rates. According to the most recent unemployment rate press release, unemployment rates rose in 38 states.

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Guess What? Unemployment's Really at 16.3 Percent

How is it possible for the unemployment rate to essentially remain unchanged when 247,000 jobs have been lost? Because the number of people who gave up and stopped looking for work rose dramatically.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/08/07/john-lott-unemployment/



Battered women forced to search for new housing

As California officials wrestle with a $26.3 billion state budget deficit, their continued cuts to social service programs have forced the closure of 96 battered women's shelters across the state.

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The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease.

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A Rancid Deal with Big Pharma

The drug industry agrees to deliver $80 billion in future savings and the president promises the government will not use its awesome purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices.

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AS THE US expands its involvement in Afghanistan, military experts are warning that it is taking on security and political commitments that will last at least a decade and a cost that is likely to eclipse that of the Iraq war.

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By Mike Whitney

Those days are over. The world is changing and the US role is getting smaller. As US markets become less attractive to foreign exporters, the dollar will lose its position as the world's reserve currency. As goes the dollar, so goes the empire. Want some advice: Learn Mandarin.

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How Corrupt is the Economic System of the U.S.A. Today?

By Bob Kendall

The 30 nation survey of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2008 placed the poverty rate of the U.S.A. only above Mexico and Turkey.

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A Cure for an Ailing Economy: Taxing the Rich

By Shamus Cooke

When a country is in as much debt as the U.S., - $12 trillion and counting - the tasks at hand seem all but unachievable. And this is exactly what many politicians would like you to believe.

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By Geff Gates

Wars are won by those skilled at creating consensus opinions. Where is modern-day warfare waged? Not on the ground; nor in the air or on the seas. The shared mindset is this combatant's theater of operations. Their battlefield is the shared field of consciousness. Deceit is not new to warfare. What's new is the technology that enables psyops on a global scale.

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Netiquette zum x-ten

Nachdem sich Frau von der Leyen schon für Verhaltensregeln im Internet stark macht, schlägt Thomas de Maizière in die gleiche Kerbe. Das Internet ist zu frei, lautet die Botschaft. Wo eigentlich?

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Der Medienmogul und Regierungschef sieht als den beliebtesten und effizientesten Staatsmann des Westens.

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In den USA versuchen Politiker, mit sicherheitspolitischen Argumenten klimapolitische Veränderungen durchzusetzen oder künftige Militärinterventionen zu legitimieren?

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Das US-Innenministerium stellt einen Bericht über einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren vor, in dem das Abschmelzen als Beleg für die Klimaerwärmung gesehen wird.

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Im Verteidigungsministerium werden neben Plänen zur Abwehr von Wirtschaftsspionage, Terrorismus oder Cyberwar auch solche für die Bekämpfung der Grippepandemie ausgearbeitet.

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Wish You Weren't Here
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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

As people read my columns all across America, I have had numerous readers contact me, saying that they have personally witnessed the transportation of construction materials used for internment camps, have actually worked in and around them, or have personally seen such camps. These eyewitness testimonies have come from very credible people, including law enforcement and military personnel, as well as airline pilots and construction workers. Just a few weeks ago, I was........

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