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Let Us Count the Ways
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/27-7

Reduce Antibiotic Use in Food Animal Production
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/27-3



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US Wars: People vs Generals
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/26-2

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10 needed steps for Obama to start dismantling America’s gigantic, destructive military empire

AlterNet
by Chalmers Johnson

08/25/10

Excerpt from Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope, by Chalmers Johnson. “The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union...

http://tinyurl.com/24ux3bk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/26



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Wie früher beim Antisemitismus sind es die Konservativen, die älteren und weniger gebildeten Menschen, die stärker Angst vor dem Anderen haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/148269

By Janet Tavakoli

Much of poor America, especially in our major cities, has been Third World America for decades. Soon the urban middle classes and even upper classes will become better acquainted with that world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26248.htm



USA a failed state? It may be closer than you think

There's only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, China, Russia, the British Empire and others have all been there before.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/296444



Fed in Emergency Bid to Put Bailout Ruling on Hold

The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to delay implementing a ruling that would force the central bank to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38860972



For America's Middle Class, the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Americans are making due with less and don't have the money to put into stock funds, and many are taking money out of their investments to pay for basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter.

http://yhoo.it/9J4VzA


From Information Clearing House

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Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/26-4



The age of Mammon

Nolan Chart
by Jim Quinn

08/30/10

As our economy hurtles towards its meeting with destiny, the political class seeks to assign blame on their enemies for this Greater Depression. The Republicans would like you to believe that Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank and their Community Reinvest[ment] Act caused the collapse of our financial system. Democrats want you to believe that George Bush and his band of unregulated free market capitalists created a financial disaster of epic proportions. The truth is that America has been captured by a financial class that makes no distinction between parties. These barbarians have sucked the life out of a once productive nation by raping and pillaging with impunity while enriching only them...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7978.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Treasury Makes Shocking Admission

By Zach Carter

The Treasury Dept.'s mortgage relief program isn't just failing, it's actively funneling money from homeowners to bankers, and Treasury likes it that way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26251.htm



Corporate America, it's Time to Spread the Wealth

By Michael Hiltzik

Businesses are sitting on a record hoard of cash, but they're not using it to hire workers or pay existing ones better wages. Broadly distributing the fruits of economic growth is the only way to sustain that growth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26250.htm



28% of Ga. mortgages underwater

11 million, or 23 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages in the United States were in negative equity at the end of the second quarter.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2010/08/23/daily38.html?surround=lfn



One in 10 with a mortgage face foreclosure

One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2010-08-26-mortgages-foreclosure_N.htm



Rich no more: 700,000 wealthy people wiped out by the credit crunch

It also highlights how hard the recession has hit the value of savings and investments, which may take decades to recover their value.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306144/700-000-wealthy-people-wiped-credit-crunch.html



Desperate homeowners line up for mortgage modification marathon

Before dawn, with a plump white moon overhead, a line of desperate home­owners trailed around the outside of the building. They slept in beach chairs or on blankets on the ground, refugees from a bad economy, bad loans, or bad decisions.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/real-estate/desperate-homeowners-line-up-for-mortgage-modification-marathon-882338.html


From Information Clearing House

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Chase Bank and Obama's "Make Home Affordable" Scam
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/26-0

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Will financial crimes perps ever face justice?

Our Future Blog
by Mary Bottari

08/26/10

Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen — Woody Guthrie. Like mushrooms popping up in a damp basement, a slew of court settlements have been registered recently involving the big banks and their role in the financial crisis. An informal review of settlements over the last two years reveals about 16 multi-million dollar payouts from the big banks amounting to some $1.6 billion in fines and restitution and $13 billion in buybacks of auction-rate securities that were represented to be as safe as cash. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? But when fines are stacked up against an elite white-collar crime spree worth trillions, it is a little less impressive...

http://tinyurl.com/38y8qqu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber75.1.html

What Would Jim Rogers Do?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j113.html



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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

08/24/10

Much of the commentary so far has examined whether killing al-Awlaki violates the U.S. government’s assassination ban. Our Cold War flirtation with such tactics was a sordid tragicomedy of errors, including attempts to kill Fidel Castro with ‘a contaminated diving suit,’ ‘exploding seashells’ and Mafia thugs. But as law professor Kevin Jon Heller points out, ‘assassination’ isn’t the issue here: ‘The foreign-murder statute has to be the starting point’ for analysis. That law makes anyone — including a CIA agent — who kills a U.S. national abroad ‘presumptively a murderer’...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12085


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama's US Assassination Program?

By Chuck Norris

That's right. No arrest. No Miranda rights. No due process. No trial. Just a bullet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26246.htm



Sentencing Terrorism Suspects to Death Without Trial

By Anthony D. Romero and Vincent Warren

We simply cannot accept the proposition that the government should have unchecked authority to carry out extrajudicial killings, including of U.S. citizens, far from any actual battlefield. Nor can we accept the contention that the entire world is a battlefield.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26307.htm



The Triumph of Evil

By Prof. John Kozy

Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are necessary to combat evil. But the war against evil by the good cannot be won using evil tactics. Evil never yields goodness, and by using these evil practices, the amount of evil in the world increases both in amount and extent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26317.htm



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Political spying is nearly as bad now as it was during the Cold War. The ACLU reports that Americans are harrassed and under surveillance for exercising their First Amendment rights.

http://bit.ly/ccuFhd


From Information Clearing House

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Debating America’s surveillance state

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

08/26/10

[W]hile even the most hawkish Americans in the 1980s — facing the Soviet threat — understood that domestic eavesdropping should be conducted only with judicial warrants, the war cheerleaders of the current decade insist that the far less formidable threat from Muslim extremists means we must vest the Government with the power of warrantless surveillance — even on American citizens, on U.S. soil. That’s how far we’ve descended into the pit of fear-mongering and submission, thanks to the toxic mix of fear-mongers and the authoritarian cowards they exploit...

http://tinyurl.com/23acygq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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"Enron Accounting" Has Bankrupted America: U.S. Deficit Really $202 Trillion, Kotlikoff Says

By Peter Gorenstein

The "real" deficit - including non-budgetary items like unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the defense budget - is actually $202 trillion, the professor and author calculates or 15 times the "official" numbers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26242.htm



Morgan Stanley Says Government Defaults Inevitable

By Matthew Brown

Investors face defaults on government bonds given the burden of aging populations and the difficulty of increasing tax revenue, according to a Morgan Stanley executive director.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26244.htm

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Global economy death spiral
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/920.html

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The deficit is a symptom, spending is the disease

Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

08/25/10

Sometime in the next week or so, the U.S. national debt will exceed $13.4 trillion. To put that in perspective: If you earned $1 every second, it would take you 425,000 years to earn enough money to pay off that debt. And it’s not likely to get much better any time soon...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12088


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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