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Our Future Blog
by Zach Carter

09/12/10

The Washington Post has published a very silly op-ed by Chrystia Freeland accusing President Barack Obama of unfairly ‘demonizing’ Wall Street. … The trouble is, Obama hasn’t actually deployed harsh words against Wall Street. What’s more, in order to avoid being characterized as ‘anti-business,’ the Obama administration has refused to mete out serious punishment for outright financial fraud. Complaining about nouns and adjectives is a little ridiculous when handcuffs and prison sentences are in order...

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/13/10

President Barack Obama was far from candid when he announced the end of combat operations in Iraq last month, but he did nothing to hide the fact that he is a neoconservative when it comes to the American empire. That was not lost on leading neoconservatives, who tend to prefer Republicans...

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Basel III

Damit Banken nicht mehr das Geld ausgeht

„Mit neuen Eigenkapitalregeln wollen die Finanzaufseher Banken fit für die nächste Krise machen / »Basel III« soll Geldhäuser zwingen, angemessen für schlechte Zeiten vorzusorgen. Die Privatbankenlobby konnte bei den Verhandlungen über eine »Basel-III«- Reform strenge Eigenkapitalvorschriften verhindern…“ Artikel von Kurt Stenger im ND vom 14.09.2010 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/179552.damit-banken-nicht-mehr-das-geld-ausgeht.html


Eigenkapital für Banken: Macht Basel III die Welt sicherer?

„Riskante Geschäft auf Kosten des Steuerzahlers - das soll künftig schwerer werden: Banken müssen besser vorsorgen. Aber genügt das, um die nächste Krise zu verhindern? Zehn Fragen und zehn Antworten…“ Artikel von Helga Einecke, Harald Freiberger und Markus Zydra in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 14.09.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/geld/eigenkapital-fuer-banken-macht-basel-iii-die-welt-sicherer-1.999299


Basel III: Bankenlobby setzt unzureichende Eigenkapitalregeln durch Internationale Aufsichtsorgane mit mehr Kompetenzen nötig

Pressemitteilung von attac vom 13.09.2010 http://www.attac.de/aktuell/presse/detailansicht/datum/2010/09/13/basel-iii-bankenlobby-setzt-unzureichende-eigenkapitalregeln-durch/?cHash=3a46c86acb910ad71c9da7671cdb1b4a


Weitere 40 Milliarden für die Hypo Real Estate

Die Bankenkrise, die Irland in Atem hält, wütet auch in Deutschland weiter, weshalb Staatsgarantien für die HRE auf 142 Milliarden Euro steigen. Artikel von Ralf Streck in telepolis vom 13.09.2010 http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148365

Siehe dazu auch: Eine kritische Einordnung der neuerlichen Milliarden für die HRE (Finanzkrise XLV)

„Am vergangenen Freitag wurde bekannt, dass die Münchner Hypo Real Estate eine zusätzliche Garantie von 40 Milliarden € erhalten solle. Die ersten Meldungen dazu waren vornehmlich Produkte des Verlautbarungsjournalismus. Es wurden die meist aus dem „Stern“ zitierten Erklärungen des Soffin, des Bankenrettungsfonds, einfach übernommen. Die Texte der Online-Seiten der Süddeutschen Zeitung, der Zeit, von Financial Times Deutschland und von Spiegel Online sind in Anlage 1 wiedergegeben, damit Sie sich ein Bild von dieser harmlosen Berichterstattung machen können. Wer die NachDenkSeiten bisher schon gelesen hat, weiß, dass wir in vielen Beiträgen seit Ende September 2008 auf die Vorgänge um die HRE eingehen. Im folgenden wird auf einige Zusammenhänge hingewiesen, ohne die man den neuerlichen Vorgang nicht einzuordnen und zu verstehen vermag…“ Kommentar von Albrecht Müller vom 13. September 2010 bei den Nachdenkseiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=6722


Aus: LabourNet, 14. September 2010

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Lehren aus der Finanzkrise

Verfügt ein Staat über eine eigene Währung, kann das Bankensystem immer gerettet und die Regierungen nie zahlungsunfähig werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33315/1.html



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In den USA gibt es immer mehr Familien, die in Notunterkünften Zuflucht suchen. Experten dämpfen Hoffungen auf eine deutliche wirtschaftliche Besserung.

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Ein Gespräch mit Wolfgang Lieb, einer der Betreiber der NachDenkSeiten, über die rechtskonservative politische Meinungsmache der Springer-Presse.

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Neuer Rechtskurs?

CSU-Chef Seehofer manövriert mit der Angst vor einer Partei rechts der CSU.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148363

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Zu Thilos Sarrazin: Deutschland schafft sich ab

Die Muslime sind unser Unglück. Ein Buch, das eigentlich in Deutschland nicht sein sollte. Von Rupert Neudeck

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Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious institutions and our dysfunctional political parties, which can be considered democratic.... The menace we face does not come from the insane wing of the Republican Party, which may make huge inroads in the coming elections, but the institutions tasked with protecting democratic participation.... Investing emotional and intellectual energy in electoral politics is a waste of time. Resistance means a radical break with the formal structures of American society. We must cut as many ties with consumer society and corporations as possible. We must build a new political and economic consciousness centered on the tangible issues of sustainable agriculture, self-sufficiency and radical environmental reform."

http://www.truth-out.org/do-not-pity-democrats63204



"Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama"

Thom Hartmann, Truthout: "'Backlash' is a brilliant overview of this most recent incarnation of the phony grassroots movements that arise or are funded - like the John Birch Society against Jack Kennedy and LBJ - to destroy Democratic presidents. From Tea Party to Tea Party, from Fox News to the reactive corporate media, Will Bunch has done a brilliant job of taking us inside this newest movement to preserve the rights, powers and wealth of the very, very rich."

http://www.truth-out.org/backlash-right-wing-radicals-high-def-hucksters-and-paranoid-politics-age-obama63192



Study Finds CEO Salaries Increase With Layoffs

Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Executives of the top 50 job-cutting firms in the US earned 42 percent more than their peers in 2009, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). As the country's economy continues to struggle, and American workers earn less in weekly wages than they did in the 1970s (adjusted for inflation), executive salaries have remained substantially, disproportionately high. According to the IPS study, 'Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession,' after adjusting for inflation, the average CEO pay in 2009 is more than four times its average from the 1980s and approximately eight times what it was throughout the mid-20th century."

http://www.truth-out.org/study-finds-ceo-salaries-increase-with-layoffs63222

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Government Lies
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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil.... The Tillmans and thousands of other fishermen and residents along the Gulf of Mexico are deeply concerned about local, state and federal government complicity in what they see as a massive cover-up of the oil disaster by using toxic dispersants to sink any and all oil that is located."

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Concerns Raised About Oil Spill Contaminants in Livestock Feed

Chris Rodda, Truthout: "Over the Labor Day weekend, the Perdido Bay Mullet Festival in Lillian, Alabama had to do something it's never had to do before - substitute catfish for mullet. Why? Because, according to event organizer Bill Cornell, the company that supplies the mullet for the annual festival 'didn't feel good about the fish' and 'won't sell them for human consumption.' The seafood supplier, Wallace Seafood, had found unusual white spots on some of the mullet being caught, and won't sell the fish until testing is completed to see if they're safe to eat."

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Lawsuit Asks if Science Was Manipulated in BP Oil Spill Estimates

Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers: "An environmental whistleblower group charges in a lawsuit that the Obama administration is withholding documents that would reveal why it issued an estimate on the gravity of the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that later was proved to be far too low."

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They died for Iran

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/16/10

More than 4,400 Americans have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nearly 32,000 Americans have been wounded. And despite what President Obama says, it’s not over yet. What did those men and women sacrifice for? Some war critics say it was in vain, but that’s not true. It was for Iran. Iran is the big winner in Operation Iraqi Freedom (and now Operation New Dawn)...

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Obama’s cure for malaise: More of the same

Washington Times
by staff

09/10/10

With the nation suffering from high unemployment, tepid growth and low confidence, President Obama on Friday made a bold change: he slightly rearranged his economic team. Austan D. Goolsbee, who has been at Mr. Obama’s side since his 2004 Senate campaign, now heads the Council of Economic Advisers. … Mr. Obama’s advisers, insulated from the effects of a recession that has devastated the private sector, have less reason to question the wisdom of diverting the nation’s wealth into the public sector...

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