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Ärzte und Psychologen, die an den Folterungen in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram und anderswo beteiligt waren, werden von der Menschenrechtsorganisation Physicians for Human Rights beschuldigt, Kriegsverbrechen begangen zu haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144726

 

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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."

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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.

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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

 

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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


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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.

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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.

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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

 

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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

 

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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...

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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)

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

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