World-News

Art Levine, The Huffington Post: "So much for the economic independence that's supposed to come with young adulthood. But when unemployment among young men workers is the highest it's been in 61 years, as noted by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, it's little wonder that workers under 35 are facing so many economic obstacles."

http://www.truthout.org/090309B?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Art+Levine

The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://snipurl.com/rkqom

 

Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans

The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0296cf1a-9594-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html

 

Bailout bank execs compensated nicely:

The 20 financial firms that have received the most bailout money from the government have, in the three years through 2008, awarded their top five executives pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/31/daily58.html

 

U.S. consumer bankruptcies up 24 percent in August

Bankruptcy filings by U.S. consumers rose 24 percent in August compared with a year earlier and could reach 1.4 million this year, according to an American Bankruptcy Institute and National Bankruptcy Research Center report released on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5815X020090902

 

Crooks, Computers, and the Coming Crash

As stocks continued to rally into September, one has to ask one's self, "just who's buying this rally?" The answer? Computers and no one else.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Summers/sep012009.html


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
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Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/02/cia-usa


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

One year after the global banking system collapsed the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) 16th Annual Executive Excess report -- "America's Bailout Barons" -- shows that the perverse system of executive compensation which contributed to the financial meltdown is still thriving for top bailout recipients.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23419.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking+system
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+meltdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina+vanden+Heuvel

By Mike Whitney

The best-informed market participants believe that the 6-month rally is beginning to fizzle out. The consensus is that stocks are grossly overpriced and the fundamentals are weak. Bernanke's strategy has improved the equity position of many of the larger financial institutions but, unfortunately, there's been no spillover into the real economy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23422.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By Pepe Escobar

The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa to western China. The cover story is the former "global war on terror", now "overseas contingency operations" under the management of President Barack Obama's administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23420.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

Gulf Daily News - Manama, Bahrain

By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI, Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009

ELECTRICITY could soon be cut off to illegal phone masts on rooftops in Muharraq to force out ... http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=258786

Have you ever wondered how new pandemic viruses keep showing up all over the world?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/03/WHO-Admits-to-Releasing-Pandemic-Virus-into-Population-via-MockUp-Vaccines.aspx

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pandemic
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu

Weiterhin werden Unterschriften für den Aufruf gesammelt!
http://www.sanktionsmoratorium.de/

Zusätzlich sind jetzt Unterschriftenlisten für alle Menschen abrufbar.
Damit auch die unterschreiben können die keinen Internetanschluss haben.
Wir bitten alle unabhängigen Beratungsstellen, diese den Betroffenen
zugänglich zu machen.
http://www.sanktionsmoratorium.de/html/themen/themen_text_2.php?zid=209

Schluss mit den Sanktionen bei Hartz IV. Die Sammlung von
Unterschriften für die Petition zur Streichung des Sanktionsparagrafen 31

Ziel der Sammlung von Unterstützerunterschriften für die Petition ist es
nun, mit möglichst vielen Unterschriften die Petition alsbald
einzureichen, damit eine baldige öffentliche Anhörung im Deutschen
Bundestag erreicht werden kann. Auf der Aktionswebsite finden sich die
Unterstützerlisten für die Petition mit Angaben, wohin sie ausgefüllt
geschickt werden können, die Erklärungen zu den Begründungen für die
Streichung des Sanktionsparagrafen 31 sowie die Materialien dazu
http://sanktionen-weg.de/


Workfare oder Workfair?

Beitrag von GEG vom 31. August 2009 bei Thomas Trueten
http://www.trueten.de/archives/5313-Workfare-oder-Workfair.html

Aus dem Text: „�Workfair statt Workfare muss die Devise lauten, welche,
Erwerbslose und Arbeitnehmer zukünftig fordern müssen. Dazu müssen sie
aber endlich aus ihrer Lethargie herauskommen etwas unternehmen ,
aufbegehren und sich einem Kampf stellen, welcher noch nicht mal richtig
begonnen hat. Hartz IV war nur der Vorbote, sozusagen zum gewöhnen an
einen erbarmungslosen Kapitalismus, welcher zum Schluss wirklich nur noch
die Alternative „friß oder stirb“ übrig lässt.“


Aus: LabourNet, 3. September 2009

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Workfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kapitalismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sanktion

Artikel von Alexandra Rau in WIDERSPRUCH 56 (pdf) – Exklusiv im LabourNet Germany! Wir danken der Redaktion! http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeitsalltag/gh/rau.pdf

Aus dem Text: „ Nach Dejours konnte so schließlich auch der Umgang mit Überlastung potenziell zu kollektivem Widerstand führen. Heute hingegen sei dies aufgrund von neuen Formen der Arbeitsorganisation, wie Zielvereinbarungen, Total Quality Management und der Evaluierung von Leistung u.a.m., nicht mehr möglich. Solidarität sei hier als Praxis verschwunden. Und zwar deshalb, weil diese neuen Formen der Arbeitorganisation zur Dynamik einer strukturellen „Zwangsindividualisierung“ führten, deren Effekt darin bestehe, Beschäftigte praktisch voneinander zu isolieren. Damit verknüpft seien neue Leiden, die Menschen unter diesen Arbeitsbedingungen dazu zwängen, Schutzmechanismen zu entwickeln, die nicht zuletzt darin bestünden, das Leiden anderer nicht mehr wahrzunehmen. Es fehlt eine Sprache des Leidens, die am Arbeitsplatz gesprochen wird und verstanden werden kann. Es fehlt jedoch auch an kollektiven Formen und Praktiken, dieses Leiden anders als durch Selbstmord sichtbar zu machen und es als gesellschaftliches zu politisieren;

WIDERSPRUCH Heft 56 (240 S., Fr. 25.-) ist dem Thema Krankheit / Gesundheit gewidmet mit über 25 Beiträgen zu den Aspekten der Sozial-, Arbeits- und Gesundheitspolitik, die wie immer auch auf aktuelle Analysen und Debatten Bezug nehmen und intervenieren. Siehe Inhalt und Editorial auf der Verlagshomepage – dort auch die Bestelladresse http://www.widerspruch.ch/56.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. September 2009

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

09/02/09

[H]uge swaths of the right-wing movement were devoted to an unprecedented veneration of George Bush. A whole industry on the Right was created to convert him into a warrior-deity, including truly creepy reverence books by National Review writers �. Some on the Right actually speculated that God intervened in our elections because he had hand-picked Bush to be our leader. Even Bill Kristol admitted that the GOP had turned into little more than a Bush-centered personality cult, telling the New York Times: ‘Bush was the movement and the cause.’ More than any single, discrete issue, what motivated me to begin writing about political issues was the warped climate of hero worship constructed — by the Right and the media — around George Bush as a ‘War President.’ If you search long enough on the Internet, can you find examples of random people or vapid celebrities guilty of excessive Obama worship? Obviously. One can find virtually anything using those methods. But the personalized veneration of George Bush, particularly during his first term, was systematic and engulfing...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/02/bush/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Kristol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

Daily Reckoning
by Byron King

09/01/09

The big problem — obviously, the headline issue — with the US economy is too much debt. (That’s the BIG problem. There’s a long list of other problems after that.) And the debt problem is getting worse, not better. Debt is ubiquitous across US society. Debt permeates the culture. Practically the whole nation has bitten off more than it can chew. Within the past two generations, the US economy has transformed from what Harvard historian Charles Maier calls an ‘empire of production’ (which is what won the Second World War, for example) to an ‘empire of consumption...

http://dailyreckoning.com/an-empire-of-consumption/

 

New bull, new bubble, new meltdown?

MSN MarketWatch
by Paul Farrell

09/01/09

Something’s in the air. You can feel it. A new bull. Hype? Maybe, but also a roaring new bull — and eventually another meltdown. Television is a metaphor for our cycles, so see how America’s becoming a huge ratings competition. Yes, Americans want another bull, another bubble, even another meltdown. Guess what? It’s already here, folks. The next big market-economic-business cycle has arrived ahead of schedule. This is what makes us America. We love challenges, risk-takers and winners. The nobody who suddenly becomes a big somebody is the biggest of all TV metaphors for who we are...

http://tinyurl.com/mwycqu



The undead of the banking world

Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

The world economy is recovering, or so people believe. Stocks are going up — led by the banks. But are the undead of the banking world really stronger? Ha ha … don’t make us laugh. But the world seems to believe it.” (09/02/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ll6lmx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bubble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=consumption
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recovery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Farrell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Bonner

In vielen Hinsichten sei die Vorstellung, der Iran stehe kurz davor, Atomwaffen zu haben, überzogen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144650

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-2

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/02-2

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Barrier+Reef

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/02-0

 

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bonus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Liberto

NOW on PBS: "On Friday, September 4, at 8:30 pm EDT on PBS, learn how Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a government prosecutor set on convicting alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamedou Ould Slahi, changed his mind after getting access to details of Slahi's treatment at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay. Couch, who was friends with a co-pilot of one of the jets hijacked on September 11, 2001, says Slahi was tortured."

http://www.truthout.org/090209Y?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mohamedou+Ould+Slahi

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to those anti-democratic forces in which religious, market, military and political fundamentalism thrived, casting an ominous shadow over the fate of United States democracy. During the Bush-Cheney regime, power became an instrument of retribution and punishment connected to and fueled by a repressive state, a bullying rhetoric of war, a ruthless consolidation of economic forces and an all-embracing free-market apparatus and media-driven pedagogy of fear that supported and sustained a distinct culture of cruelty and inequality in the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/090209R?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=authoritarianism
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux

Matthew Lee, The Associated Press: "State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide air support for US diplomats was temporarily extended because the firm chosen to replace it is not yet ready to take over. The contract was due to expire on September 3 and be taken over a day later by DynCorp International."

http://www.truthout.org/090209S?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Lee

Summerland Review

Published: September 02, 2009 4:00 PM
Updated: September 02, 2009 4:28 PM

Summerland Citizens Opposed to Radiofrequency Emissions (SCORE) recently sponsored two public meetings with a cumulative total of over 130 people in attendance.

SCORE wants Telus to halt construction of a microwave transmitter on Little Conkle Mountain in Summerland until Telus can show to Summerlanders that this technology is safe.

Read More...
http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/56756217.html

http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=23&ea.campaign.id=4257&ea.param.extras=Source:email

This is an important petition. Please sign. Just scroll down to the TAKE ACTION BUTTON Click it, and fill in your name, e-mail address, and country; It takes just a few seconds to do.

Earle

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz17.1.html

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/shirtz

On Keynesian poison from the state
http://www.lewrockwell.com/clancy/clancy17.1.html

Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend
http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1630130/12759198/98637/0/

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/clancy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north752.html

 

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