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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have thrown post-traumatic stress disorder into stark public light. As of the end of March, 346,393 US veterans were being treated for PTSD, and that number continues to grow rapidly. However, PTSD symptoms don't always wait to emerge until soldiers return home. For active-duty soldiers like Airman Steven Flowers, stationed in Aviano, Italy, it can take years to receive even minimal care. And once treatment begins, the soldiers are often punished for revealing their problems."

http://www.truthout.org/071509R?n

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rudkla - 16. Jul, 10:44

Obama’s new euphemism

CounterPunch
by Joanne Mariner

07/14/09

In a high-profile national security speech he gave in May, President Obama asserted that the military prison at Guantanamo held some number of terrorism suspects who could not be convicted of a crime, but who were nonetheless too dangerous to release. According to a report in the Washington Post on Saturday, the Obama administration has now drafted an executive order that would allow such prisoners to be held indefinitely without charge. To disguise its plans for relying on a practice that is more characteristic of repressive governments than of constitutional democracies, the Obama administration has even invented its own euphemism. In his May speech, President Obama spoke only of ‘prolonged’ detention, not of indefinite detention, or preventive detention, or detention without charge...

http://counterpunch.com/mariner07142009.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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rudkla - 16. Jul, 10:35

Military developing half-robot, half-insect “cybug” spies

Fox News

Researchers are now experimenting with developing insect cyborgs or ‘cybugs’ that could work as spies. Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or ‘cybugs’ that could work even better. Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices. … Developing such robots has proven a challenge so far, with one major hurdle being inventing an energy source for the droids that is both low weight and high power. Still, evidence that such machines are possible is ample in nature in the form of insects, which convert biological energy into flight...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532511,00.html

The surveillance state threatens all of us

Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

07/16/09

When you hear the word ’security’ or ’safety’ watch out. They are the two buzz words that are most often used by the government, whether federal or local, to fearmonger. Fear can be used to drive bad policies that otherwise would be rejected. It has consequences, internationally, nationally, and locally. Around the world Americans fight wars because they are afraid that if they do not do so they will be attacked by terrorists. Nationally, the Department of Homeland Security grows and grows, compiling extensive data bases on citizens who have done no wrong...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=138

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
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rudkla - 16. Jul, 10:05

US foreclosures hit record 1.5 million in first half of 2009

Bloomberg

07/16/09

U.S. foreclosure filings hit a record in the first half, a sign that job losses and falling property prices deepened the housing recession, according to RealtyTrac Inc. More than 1.5 million properties received a default or auction notice or were seized by banks in the six months through June, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a statement. That’s a 15 percent increase from the year earlier. One in 84 U.S. households received a filing...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHAbmgVoHjA4

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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rudkla - 16. Jul, 09:52