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The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

06/24/10

America is facing a crisis of confidence in government, with the nation unable to win its wars, balance its budgets, control its borders, stop the bleeding of its manufacturing base or plug a hole in the ocean floor. Should the sovereign debt bombs start going off, as they have lately threatened to do in Greece, bringing on another financial crisis to dwarf the one we have lately gone through, the crisis of democratic governments will become a crisis of democracy itself. Perceived to have failed the country, the Bush Republicans were summarily dismissed in 2006 and 2008. Obama’s Democrats go to the wall in November. Republicans will inherit the windfall. Yet few harbor great hopes that the GOP has the cure for what ails America...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/24/a-failed-president-or-two/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US-Präsident Obama entlässt renitenten General McCrystal, will aber alles bei verfahrener Afghanistan-Strategie beim Alten lassen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32846/1.html



In Afghanistan steigt der Drogenkonsum drastisch an

Nach einem Bericht der UN-Drogenbehörde nehmen 8 Prozent der Erwachsenen Drogen zu sich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147882



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Sticking the Public With the Bill for the Bankers’ Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/28-1

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Banks 'Dodged a Bullet' as Congress Dilutes Rules

Legislation to overhaul financial regulation will help curb risk-taking and boost capital buffers. What it won't do is fundamentally reshape Wall Street's biggest banks or prevent another crisis, analysts said.

http://tinyurl.com/22mw4fv


From Information Clearing House

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Lawmakers Move to Curb Risky Trading by Commercial Banks

Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers: "Rushing to deliver the broad strokes of an overhaul of the financial regulatory system before leaders of the world's major economies meet in Toronto over the weekend, lawmakers Friday morning partially reinstated a ban on risky betting by commercial banks."

http://www.truth-out.org/lawmakers-move-curb-risky-trading-commercial-banks60764



Wall Street Congratulates Washington: A Job Well Done

Dean Baker, Truthout: "New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is well known for pretentious columns that consist of letters that he suggests some prominent person write. I licensed Friedman's literary tool in order to present the following letter from the Wall Street CEOs to the political leadership in Washington."

http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-congratulates-washington-a-job-well-done60845

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Clemency for Wall Street Criminals, Prison for the Powerless
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w155.html



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