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The American Conservative
by Kelley Vlahos

09/17/09

There is such a lack of outrage for the way that private military contractors have pillaged and profiteered from our nearly-decade occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan that it leaves one speechless. Almost. Thanks to whistle-blowers — at the threat of their own security, professionally or otherwise — we have been informed of some of the basest, grossest behavior coming out of the contracting world on the taxpayers’ dime today. Whether it be soldiers electrocuted by cheap, poorly installed showers by KBR and Triple Canopy, the vodka-drug- fueled pimping frat boys from the Armor Group or the gang rape of a female American contractor by her fellow KBR employees, there is seemingly no end to evidence that the proliferation of privatization has created a runaway Frankenstein of venality, arrogance, avarice and corruption and downright evil, with no restraint that I can see, whatsoever...

http://tinyurl.com/l54l9j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Privatization Profiteering

By Ralph Nader

In Arizona, a new slide toward the pits is about to occur. Beset with a large state deficit, the state officials and their Governor refuse to end corporate welfare and corporate tax abatements and subsidies. Instead, get this, they have put "for sale" signs on Arizona's state buildings hoping to realize $735 million and then start paying the buyers rent!! (Breaking News--they've got a sale!)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24420.htm

 

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Yahoo! News

09/17/09

More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United States each year, but a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicates that many more give the idea serious thought. The new SAMHSA report is based on a survey of 46,190 people aged 18 and older. In the past, the question about suicide had only been asked of people who reported major depression but in 2008 it was added to all questionnaires. Other findings: * People 18 to 25 years old were far more likely to have seriously considered suicide in the previous year (6.7 percent) than those 26 to 49 (3.9 percent). * Just 2.3 percent seriously considered suicide among those 50 or older. * Among people with a substance abuse disorder, 11 percent had considered suicide, compared to 3 percent for people without such disorders..

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_us_suicide.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

What Reforms Will the United States Have as a Result of This Recession?

Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Corruption takes many forms in different countries and locations. Here in the United States it may not be as common to pay off a judge or a customs official as it is in most low and middle income countries, but we do have quite a bit of legalized bribery, especially in the form of electoral campaign contributions. The most obvious current case is that of health care reform, where the powerful insurance, pharmaceutical and other lobbies are in the process of vetoing some of the most important parts of the health care reform that most Americans want and need."

http://www.truthout.org/091709U?n

 

Laurent Joffrin, Christian Losson and Francois Sergent | Joseph Stiglitz: "Our Faith in Markets Blinds Us"

Liberation editor Laurent Joffrin and journalists Christian Losson and Francois Sergent interview Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, leader of a commission charged by the French government with reevaluating economic indicators. Their discussion ranges "over topics from the urgency of reconsidering how to calculate a nation's wealth to that of rethinking the reform of the capitalist system."

http://www.truthout.org/091709X?n

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Francois+Sergent

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/17-12

What the Government and Big Banks Have Failed to Learn
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/17-5

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Banks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+Flanders

Hütchenspiele unter der Lammfellmütze

Betrügereien, Korruption, Mangel an Legitimität: Karsais Wahlsieg verbessert die Taktik der Taliban und läßt den Westen planlos und schlecht ausehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/145451

 

Politischer Sprengstoff aus Kolumbien

Militärabkommen zwischen Bogotá und Washington sorgt für anhaltende Spannungen in Südamerika.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/145438

 

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul581.html

Lehman Died So TARP and AIG Might Live
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitney/whitney13.1.html

Every banker in America operates inside the protective envelope of the Federal Reserve
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood33.1.html

For Constitution Day
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/constitution-day-nullification.html

 

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The latest case accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of personally directing murders from a 24-hour remote monitoring "war room" at the private military company's Moyock, N.C., headquarters.

http://snipurl.com/rxv6b


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Erik+Prince

By Mike Whitney

The question is, how long can the Obama administration write checks on an account that's overdrawn by $11 trillion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23524.htm

 

It's A Cover Up, Not A Recovery

"We Are In The Early Stages Of A Revolution"

Video

Gerald Celente - the most trusted name in trends - sits down for an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina to talk about what the future holds for America during and after the Great Recession, gives advice to Obama, and forecasts the unexpected.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23525.htm

 

Who Really Crashed the Economy?:

The Wall Street corporations funding the front organizations that orchestrate these and other diversions hope we will forget that America's number one problem is Wall Street-and the overpaid Wall Street casino gamblers who destroyed our economy in a reckless test of the theory that markets can self-regulate and that the unrestrained pursuit of individual greed is beneficial to society.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/david-korten/blog-who-really-crashed-the-economy

 

Mixing the whitewash

US Panel Begins Inquiry Into Financial Meltdown

Four months after its creation, a congressionally appointed panel modeled after the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group is opening a 15-month investigation into the causes of last year's economy-crippling financial collapse.

http://www.wftv.com/money/20959051/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

 

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+meltdown
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Commando Raid in Somalia is Latest in Covert Operations

By Bill Roggio

The attack in southern Somalia that targeted and killed a senior "al Qaeda leader" wanted for several deadly attacks is the latest in a series of covert operations carried out by US and allied special operations. At least four other high-profile raids by ground forces took place in Pakistan, Madagascar, and Syria over the past several years, while others have gone unreported, according to US officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23521.htm

 

US Attack In Pakistan Kills 2

If their deaths are confirmed, Ilyas Kashmiri and Nazimuddin, alias Yahyo, would be two of several militant leaders killed in Pakistan by missiles fired by unmanned US drones.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/09/17/pakistan-alqaeda-commander-killed-us-strike.html

 

From Information Clearing House

 

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