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Administration Won't Seek New Detention System

09/23/09

The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304427.html

 

Obama echoes Bush on state secrets?

Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

09/23/09

Is ‘the most transparent administration ever’ echoing the Bush administration’s position on a key transparency provision? On Wednesday, the Justice Department released new guidelines for how it will invoke the State Secrets privilege, a doctrine that allows the government to exclude information from legal cases when it believes its release could threaten national security. But the new rules are weak reforms to the way the doctrine was used during the Bush years, when it was invoked to shield government torture, detention, and rendition policies from outside scrutiny and frequently used to dismiss entire cases...

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Obama camp still talking about transparency

Main Street Radical
by James

01/06/10

On Monday, January 4th, BarackObama.com (the President’s campaign group) sent out a call for donations. These fundraising requests are nothing new, and appear regularly from the President’s camp. The interesting parts in Monday’s request are the reasons sited by organizer David Plouffe …. The donation request goes on to reference that money will be used to ‘improve transparency in Washington to elevate the voices of the American people.’ This is a curiously timed announcement, considering President Obama, along with the leaders of the House and Senate, made plans Tuesday to skip the formal conference committee for reconciling the Senate and House healthcare bills. Tuesday’s is the latest in a string of decisions to hide the healthcare debate behind closed doors and continues the process that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi have employed since the raucous townhalls of late summer...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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By Tom Eley

The power of the military-intelligence apparatus has grown continually since World War II, to the point where it constitutes a virtual "state-within-a-state." - The cowering of the Obama administration and Congress before it underscores the decay of American democracy and the growing threat to the democratic rights of the American people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23559.htm

 

Secret White House letter to G-20

By Greg Palast

I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with "The White House, Washington" on the letterhead. Even when--like the one I'm looking at now--it's about a snoozy topic: This week's G-20 summit. But the letter's content shook me awake and may keep me up the rest of the night.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23564.htm

 

US Govt May Fail In 5 To 10 Years

Interview with Marc Faber - By Bloomberg News

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'The Obama Administration Has Completely Failed'

Human rights lawyer Tina Foster talks to SPIEGEL about detainee abuses in the US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan and her disappointment with the Obama administration.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650324,00.html


From Information Clearing House

 

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Die Probleme der US-Hypothekenbanken sind noch gravierender als ohnehin erwartet.

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What’s a Consumer Economy Need in Order to Keep Growing?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner417.html

 

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Lawrence S. Wittner, Truthout: "During 2008, the nations of the world spent nearly $1.5 trillion on their military forces. That is what has been reported by the highly respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which noted that the five biggest spenders were the United States ($607 billion), China ($85 billion), France ($66 billion), Britain ($65 billion) and Russia ($59 billion). Adjusted for inflation, the total represents an increase of 45 percent in military expenditures over the past decade. And so the game of national military 'defense' continues, despite clear indications of its negative consequences."

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Maximum Alert: U.S. Troops Now Occupying America

Military readies checkpoints for swine flu pandemic after citizens are acclimated to accept presence of uniformed soldiers undertaking law enforcement duties

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Under the pretext of “helping” local communities short of police in difficult economic times, as well as preparations for a potential swine flu pandemic, U.S. troops are now occupying America as the country sinks into a state of de facto martial law.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/maximum-alert-u-s-troops-now-occupying-america.html

 

Pittsburgh National Guard Prepare For Crowd Control Duties

Troops train with Army and Air Force for G20 Summit as part of martial law acclimation

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

As military-run internal checkpoints rapidly multiply across the United States and the country sinks into a state of de facto martial law, it has been announced that no less than 2,500 National Guard troops will work with Army and Air Force personnel to undertake “crowd control” duties during the upcoming G20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "So how can the Dow be flirting with 10,000 when consumers, who make up 70 percent of the economy, have had to cut way back on buying because they have no money? Jobs continue to disappear. One out of six Americans is either unemployed or underemployed. Homes can no longer function as piggy banks because they're worth almost a third less than they were two years ago. And for the first time in more than a decade, Americans are now having to pay down their debts and start to save."

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