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Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "The collapse of the housing market, the government bailout of Wall Street, record job losses, long-term unemployment, trillion-dollar deficits, shrinking retirement funds, growing government intervention, foreign economic competition and America's changing demographic landscape left many Americans angry at the direction of the country, confused about the source of their problems and fearful about the future."

http://www.truthout.org/092009A?n

Welcome to the National Asylum

Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: "Was there ever a society so saturated with lunacy as ours? One expects modulated nuttiness from the better element, particularly those inhabiting the corporate and legislative spheres, but these days, insanity is pervasive, spreading through all classes and walks of life. For years, we have been treated to pinstriped fugitives from the asylum like Pete Peterson urging the nation into ruin by slashing the deficit, but on Monday, there in Washington in tens of thousands were the sans-culottes screaming for fiscal propriety as though channeling the ruinous orthodoxies of Montagu Norman or Andrew Mellon."

http://www.truthout.org/092009E?n

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rudkla - 20. Sep, 22:08

Is the Recession Over?

We must stop the 'vulture funds' that feed on the world's poor

Would you ever march up to a destitute African who is shivering with Aids and demand he "pay back" tens of thousands of pounds he didn't borrow - with interest? I only ask because this is in effect happening, here, in British and American courts, time after time.

http://snipurl.com/rzqnh

Sen. Bernie Sanders: Is the Recession Over?

Today we have about 17 percent of our workforce - 26 million Americans - who are either unemployed, have given up looking for work because they no longer think a job is possible, or they are working part time when they want to work full time. That's 17 percent of our population.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/is-the-recession-over_b_291564.html

"Option" mortgages to explode, officials warn

The federal government and states are girding themselves for the next foreclosure crisis in the country's housing downturn: payment option adjustable rate mortgages that are beginning to reset.

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE58G5U320090917

From Information Clearing House

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Bernie Sanders: Memo to Wall Street: The Recession Isn't Over
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/24

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rudkla - 20. Sep, 08:18

C.I.A. Chiefs Ask Obama to Stop Abuse Inquiry

Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the new Justice Department inquiry into past abuses during interrogations of terrorism suspects, arguing that it "will seriously damage" the nation's ability to protect itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/world/19intel.html?_r=2&hp

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rudkla - 20. Sep, 08:09

The Secret Government

By Christopher Hayes

In our age, secret government crimes and plots are almost a cliché. Polling shows trust in government has returned roughly to its mid-'70s nadir. The danger now isn't naïveté but cynicism--that we just come to accept that the government will commit crimes in our name under the cover of secrecy and that such activities are more or less business as usual, about which nothing can be done. But something can be done. Something must be done. And Congress should do it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23538.htm

The Secret Government

By Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers, documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3281.htm

rudkla - 20. Sep, 06:20