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Cost Of Bailout Hits A Whopping $24 Trillion Dollars
$80,000 for every American

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, July 20, 2009

According to the watchdog overseeing the federal government’s financial bailout program, the full exposure since 2007 amounts to a whopping $23.7 trillion dollars, or $80,000 for every American citizen.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cost-of-bailout-hits-a-whopping-24-trillion-dollars.html



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Paul Harris, The Guardian UK: "America is bracing itself for a series of investigations that could see top officials from the administration of President George W. Bush hauled in front of Congress, grilled by a special prosecutor and possibly facing criminal charges. Several investigations will now cast a spotlight on Bush-era torture policy and a secret CIA assassination program, examining the role played by big names such as the former Vice President Dick Cheney and the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."

http://www.truthout.org/071909S?n



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20. Juli 2009

Zwischenfall ist die logische Konsequenz der weiteren Eskalation des Krieges

Zum Tod zweier afghanischen Zivilisten durch Schüsse von Bundeswehrsoldaten erklärt Christine Buchholz, Mitglied im Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstand der Partei DIE LINKE:

Je tiefer sich die Bundeswehr in den Krieg begibt, desto wahrscheinlicher werden solche Zwischenfälle. Als Reaktion auf den Tod von drei Bundeswehrsoldaten, erlaubte die Bundesregierung vor zwei Wochen deutschen Soldaten, schneller ihre Waffen einzusetzen. Folgender Satz aus den so genannten „Nationalen Klarstellungen" zum Nato-Operationsplan wurde komplett gestrichen: "Die Anwendung tödlicher Gewalt ist verboten, solange nicht ein Angriff stattfindet oder unmittelbar bevorsteht." Der Zwischenfall ist die logische Konsequenz der weiteren Eskalation des Krieges. Der Tod der beiden Zivilisten wird zu weiterem Unmut gegenüber der Bundeswehr führen. Damit wird das Leben für die Soldaten UND für die Bevölkerung unsicherer. Die LINKE wiederholt ihre Forderung nach einem sofortigen Truppenrückzug.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/zwischenfall-ist-die-logische-konsequenz-der-weiteren-eskalation-des-krieges/



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CounterPunch

by Missie Beattie

07/19/09

Barack Obama entered DC, riding a hope train. Spirits soared all over the globe. Supporters were high with the drug of anticipation, an injection to heal a sick country. Almost immediately after taking the oath, Obama began to reject his promises. Clearly, the Obama cure is just a placebo...

http://counterpunch.org/beattie07172009.html



Many predict US financial collapse in September

Heny Makow.Com
by Charles

07/18/09

Let us contemplate the day in the near future when the consequences of financial chicanery finally outpace the ability of the governments, central banks and big media to cover up and obfuscate the truth. Many respected voices have now gone on record that September 30 or thereabouts will be that day...

http://www.henrymakow.com/perhaps_we_should_prepare_for.html



Government monopolies really “stink!”

Strike the Root
by Patrick Ryan O'Neill

07/17/09

After centuries of man’s need to control individuals that they group into packs, society still insists on the draconian method of force and subsidizing unproductive institutions in order to solve economic or social problems — solutions that do not solve the problems and cause greater social and economic problems in return...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/oneill/oneill1.html



What can failures teach us?

Boston Globe
by Andrew Lippman

07/19/09

Our institutions are cracking at the edges. Each day, we hear about another failure that causes us to question the role and efficacy of government, industry, and social structures. But all too often the debate focuses on the specific problems of a particular sector … On closer examination, we can identify a consistent set of causes that apply across the board. The first systemic problem is simply a matter of scale. Too many organizations have grown without limit … and no correction has been made to accommodate their size. This is a common problem in engineering: We design things with some implicit size in mind, and then are expected to extend that design bit by bit until the parameters are so out of whack that the whole enterprise collapses...

http://tinyurl.com/nwly66


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama and the Bush Years

Doyle McManus, The Los Angeles Times: "Whenever he's asked about the scandals of America's war on terror - the torture, the wrongful detentions, the legal corners cut - President Obama has responded with some version of this statement: 'We have to focus on getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past.'"

http://www.truthout.org/071909U?n



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AlterNet
by Matt Taibbi

07/17/09

So what’s wrong with Goldman posting $3.44 billion in second-quarter profits, what’s wrong with the company so far earmarking $11.4 billion in compensation for its employees? What’s wrong is that this is not free-market earnings but an almost pure state subsidy. Last year, when Hank Paulson told us all that the planet would explode if we didn’t fork over a gazillion dollars to Wall Street immediately, the entire rationale not only for TARP but for the whole galaxy of lesser-known state crutches and safety nets quietly ushered in later on was that Wall Street, once rescued, would pump money back into the economy, create jobs, and initiate a widespread recovery. This, we were told, was the reason we needed to pilfer massive amounts of middle-class tax revenue and hand it over to the same guys who had just blown up the financial world. We’d save their asses, they’d save ours. That was the deal. It turned out not to happen that way...

http://tinyurl.com/l3x9pv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Goldman and JPMorgan - The Two Winners When the Rest of America Is Losing

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Besides Goldman Sachs, the Street's other surviving behemoth is JPMorgan. Today it posted second-quarter earnings up a stunning 36 percent from the first quarter, to $2.7 billion. The resurgence of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs gives both banks more financial clout than any other players on the Street - allowing both firms to lure talent from everywhere else on the Street with multi-million pay packages, giving both firms enough economic power to charge clients whopping fees, and bestowing on both firms even more political heft in Washington."

http://www.truthout.org/071909T?n



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Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

07/19/09

American government controlcrats are absolutely in love with RFID chips. They want to embed radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags in everything, passports, ‘enhanced’ driver’s licenses (ELD), PASS cards required for travel to nearby countries, other types of identity documents and credentials, and in the ears of all farm animals (but that latter is an article for another day). The justification for all of this emanates from Homeland Security. They just want to speed up border crossings, foil counterfeiters and identity thieves, and keep terrorists from sneaking into the country. But that’s just the ‘for your own good’ news. One major drawback is that GPS-equipped ’spy chips’ make everyone trackable without their knowledge...

http://tinyurl.com/lotkut


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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George Orwell's Animal Farm

Video

Animated barn animals act out human faults in life and politics in Orwell's captivating tale.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24368.htm



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/20/09

If President Obama is serious about getting out of Iraq, and if he truly respects Iraqi sovereignty – if his ascension to the presidency is really all about changing our imperial foreign policy — then Gen. Bolger should be called on the carpet and summarily canned. It hasn’t happened, and it won’t happen, for the simple reason that Iraqi sovereignty is a myth as long as the U.S. occupation force remains. The fact that a single U.S. commander can unilaterally decide to break the SOFA and essentially tell the Iraqis to go screw themselves indicates that the American Raj is not ready to withdraw just yet. Was withdrawal from Iraq just another campaign promise, made to be broken – like Obama’s pledges on government secrecy and other civil liberties issues? The president’s record, so far, does not bode well for an answer in the negative...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/19/back-to-iraq/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Liberty Papers
by tarran

07/18/09

One of the most pernicious beliefs held by Americans is the conflation of the state with society. This belief is causing them acquiesce to government actions that threaten the destruction of American civilization if not stopped...

http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/07/18/government-is-not-society/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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WOZ [Switzerland]

07/16/09

Soon the authorities watch, if suspicious persons in the Internet surf. The measure should have remained actually secret. Confidential documents, which the WOZ is present, show: The federation plans the complete monitoring of Internet traffic of suspicious persons. Starting from 1 August the Internet provider, thus, must rig the offerers of internet accesses technically. In the future they are to be able to transfer the Internet use of their customers directly to the authorities... [German language site in English translation; hat tip — WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Switzerland:_real-time_internet_interception_to_start_on_August_1,_2009]

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Silla Brush, The Hill: "The top watchdog over the financial bailout package said the Treasury Department is rejecting 'common sense' by not requiring banks receiving billions of dollars in government money to say how they are using the money. In a report to be released on Monday, Neil Barofsky said banks that have received money from the $700 billion bailout package passed last year are able to indicate how they are using taxpayer money and that Treasury should require banks to be more transparent."

http://www.truthout.org/071909E?n



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Mike Tharp, McClatchy Newspapers: "Once the cradle of agriculture for civilization, the Land Between Two Rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates - has become a basket case for its farmers. Just ask Naji Habeeb, 85. His family has been growing rice in this village 135 miles southeast of Baghdad for generations. Thin green shoots stick out of the flat paddies, shin-deep in brown water. The Iraqi government, he claims, still owes him half of what he's due from last year's crop."

http://www.truthout.org/071909F?n



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The bankruptcy of General Motors, and the organization of a "new" auto company in its place, is being carried out at the expense of tens of thousands of active and retired auto workers, along with dealerships, other small businesses, and entire communities.

http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/auto-j17.shtml



Unemployment tops 10 percent in 16 states in June

The national unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, a 26-year high, and is expected to hit 10 percent by year-end.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99G8T580&show_article=1


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Padilla vs. Yoo: An Update

There are two interesting developments in Jose Padilla's lawsuit against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, who was one of the authors of the infamous torture memos.

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Mr. President, we are still torturing?

The Bagram detention center itself has continued to operate with currently more than 600 prisoners and is being planned to expand its capacity to more than 1,100 as President Obama sends more troops into Afghanistan.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10361



Caught on Camera

40 prison guards kick and punch juvenile inmates... already handcuffed
http://snipurl.com/nioo7


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Another US missile strike on Friday killed six people in North Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan.

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The deaths and "life-changing" injuries suffered by British troops in Afghanistan are rising relentlessly as the political battles over whether the force is properly equipped continue to rage in London.

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By Don Monkerud

Wages for most Americans didn't improve from 1979 to 1998, and the median male wage in 2000 was below the 1979 level, despite productivity increases of 44.5 percent. Between 2002 and 2004, inflation-adjusted median household income declined $1,669 a year. To make up for lost income, credit card debt soared 315 percent between 1989 and 2006, representing 138 percent of disposable income in 2007.

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By Tom Eley

The main thrust of president Barack Obama's speech before the centenary meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Thursday was to blame working class African-Americans for the social crisis engulfing them.

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By Jeremy R. Hammond

Setting aside the platitudes that comprised most of Clinton's speech and looking closely at her remarks that actually spoke meaningfully towards U.S. policy under the Obama, a picture emerges, one not of a change of course from Bush but rather of near perfect continuity between the two administrations.

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Lots of vague news about some kind of assassination program run out of the Oval Office during the Bush II administration.

You've got to hand it to Congress, the news media and even the "alternative" press for being so clueless.

What kind of people does the White House hit team go after - and why?

It's no mystery.

Details:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/673.html



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- EHS Refuge Zone Free (active): photos report
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS.php#2

A new U.S. government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation’s climate will be like by century’s end. By Michael D. Lemonick, reposted with permission from Yale’s.

http://tinyurl.com/lcw4yj

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Study: World to Warm Faster Than Predicted
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/27-9

Climate Change to Force 75 Million Pacific Islanders From Their Homes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/27-1

Climate Change Seen as Threat to US Security
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/09-1

Die Botschaft ist ja dem Grundsatz nach schon angekommen: Fossile Energieträger, sowohl Öl als auch Koh­le und Gas, werden knapp. Und zwar viel schneller als bisher angenommen. Die Prognosezeiträume haben sich in den letzten Jahren mehrfach halbiert. Rettendes Uran ist ebenfalls nicht in Sicht. Gastkommentar von Hans Kronberger http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686395ms163,Energiewende+oder+der+Untergang+des+Abendlandes,5,a13272.html



Ältere Atomkraftwerke vor der Wahl vom Netz nehmen

NABU: Union und SPD sollen sich jetzt für mehr Sicherheit einsetzen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686421ms163,Aeltere+Atomkraftwerke+vor+der+Wahl+vom+Netz+nehmen,6,a13294.html



Verheerender Uranabbau

Der Atomkraftlobby kommt der Klimawandel wie gerufen. Hat sie doch endlich wieder einen Vorwand, ihre Energie ins Spiel zu bringen und den Ausstieg vom Atomausstieg zu fordern.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741686429ms163,Verheerender+Uranabbau,6,a13276.html



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