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Wednesday, 16. June 2010

The White House Orders a Forgery

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/white-house-orders-forgery.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Suskind

America's Municipal Debt Racket

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/municipal-debt-racket.html

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Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit

"Perceptions of a large U.S. borrowing capacity are misleading," and current long-term bond yields are masking America's debt challenge.

http://tinyurl.com/2bpg65j



California on 'verge of system failure'

Golden State, like many others, is nearly bankrupt and desperately needs a bailout.

http://tinyurl.com/23xeknm



Inside the Dire Financial State of the States

Falling prices for stocks and real estate have made mincemeat of often underfunded public pension plans. Unemployed workers have swelled the demand for welfare and Medicaid services.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1997284,00.html#ixzz0rLmInpFH


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Greenspan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=debt
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
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Busted: Governments, Pensions, Unions

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north855.html



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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=com/north

BP's Alaska Oilfield Plagued By Major Safety Issues

http://www.truth-out.org/documents-employees-reveal-bps-alaska-oilfield-plagued-by-major-safety-issues60470



Cultural Extinction

Jordan Flaherty, Truthout: "As BP's deepwater well continues to discharge oil into the Gulf, the economic and public health effects are already being felt across coastal communities. But it's likely this is only the beginning. From the bayous of southern Louisiana to the city of New Orleans, many fear this disaster represents not only environmental devastation, but also cultural extinction for peoples who have made their lives here for generations."

http://www.truth-out.org/cultural-extinction60450



BP Is a Corporate Criminal

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you're a strutting peacock - the next day, you're just another gasping, oil-covered bird. In early April, BP was strutting about in full corporate splendor, showing off the $9 billion in profits that it had soaked up in just the first three months of this year."

http://www.truth-out.org/jim-hightower-bp-is-a-corporate-criminal60476



This Modern World

Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow features the character "Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market-Man," who explains to taxpayers why they are going to be taking care of BP's mess.

http://www.truth-out.org/files/images/Tom%20Tomorrow%206-16.png



Investigation Shows BP Cut Costs Before Blowout

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "House Democrats are asking BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward about risky cost-cutting and time-saving measures identified by a Congressional investigation that appear to have increased the risk of a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-blame60485

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No we can't -- chaotic failure of efforts to protect Gulf coast
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9735/

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Documents reveal BP's missteps before blowout

BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes of the disaster.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37695879/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf



BP Lines Up War Chest

Sky News has exclusively learnt that BP is lining up a £5bn war chest from banks to help meet the costs of the oil spill.

http://tinyurl.com/28juxcd


From Information Clearing House

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On the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/15-0

Closing BP's Escape Routes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/15-7

Center for Biological Diversity: Legal Petition Filed to Reform Policy That Allows Oil Drilling to Evade Environmental Review

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/15-14

Rainforest Action Network: Oil Lobbyists and Lawyers Crowd out Public in Today’s Oil Hearing

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/15-6

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The Gulf spill, the financial crisis and government failure

Cato Institute
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.

06/12/10

The Gulf oil spill and the global financial crisis both demonstrate the failings of big government. Partisan politics obscures the linkage, with the consequence that each political party repeats the mistakes of the other as its turn to govern arrives...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11892



Who’s liable for the Gulf oil spill? You are

Reason
by Ronald Bailey

06/15/10

BP has repeatedly promised to pay all ‘legitimate claims’ for loss and damage as a result of the Gulf oil spill, now vying for the title fourth biggest oil spill in history at 2.3 million barrels of crude over the past two months. And that’s exactly as it should be. But how can the company pay off all the claims it faces?

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/15/whos-liable-for-the-gulf-oil-s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Gulf of Mexico Deja Vu
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/867.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alaska
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Kinzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Weissman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gerald+P.+O'Driscoll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ronald+Bailey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jordan+Flaherty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Hightower
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Ludwig

Tuesday, 15. June 2010

Supreme Court: No Day in Court for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/14-0

Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-0

Maher Arar: In Refusing to Hear My Case, the Supreme Court Has Put the World's Peace and Order in Danger
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/29-8

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The US wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/14/10

The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though — as everyone acknowledges — he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar’s attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.

http://tinyurl.com/28eqtnu



Nowhere to hide

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

06/16/10

This week the Supreme Court denied, without comment, the appeal of Maher Arar, a dual citizen of Canada and Syria who was arrested in transit through JFK airport in 2002, then shipped off to Syria and tortured for 10 months. Arar’s abuse allegedly included repeated beatings with electrical cables and confinement in a cell the size of a grave. When they realized they had the wrong guy — the really, totally, and utterly innocent guy — Arar was released without charges. He was then completely exonerated of any link to terror by the Canadian government, which impaneled a commission to investigate the incident, issued a 1,000-plus-page report on the matter, held its own intelligence forces responsible for their role in the screw-up, then apologized and paid Arar $9.8 million. Whereas the U.S. government — as Glenn Greenwald observes — has never apologized, never acknowledged any wrongdoing, never held anyone responsible, and, on President Barack Obama’s watch, has only redoubled its efforts to prevent Arar from having even a single day in court...

http://www.slate.com/id/2257211/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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High court dismissal of Maher Arar's suit confirms US executive officials are above the law

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9740/

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The Arar Case: Wrong and Unapologetic

William Fisher, Truthout: "So, where was Barack Obama when contrition was being handed out? What does he/we have to be contrite about? Well, just this: Back in 2002, a young computer engineer was passing through New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on his way back to his home in Canada. But he never made it. Instead, he was 'rendered' by US authorities to a Syrian prison, where, for the next ten plus months, he was held without charge and without family notification."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-arar-case-wrong-and-unapologetic60534

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The Tyranny of Judges
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard233.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahlia+Lithwick
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89.4% of Bush-Era Emails Were Never Archived

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/14-12



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails

Obama and Progressives

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/14-0



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

US-Behörden fordern Zugriff auf Datensammlungen der EU-Polizeiagentur Europol

Europol wird internationaler Daten-Marktplatz


Mitten im Gezerre um das strittige SWIFT-Abkommen fordern US-Behörden Zugriff auf umfangreiche Datensammlungen der EU-Polizeiagentur Europol.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32792/1.html



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The Criminal Legacy of Alan Greenspan

http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken132.html

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Another look at Enron

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

06/16/10

The response from journalists and politicians across the country was unanimous: Enron was a fraudulent entity and a number of executives and employees got what they deserved by going to prison. However, I have been among the critics not only of the verdicts, but also of the government’s conduct throughout this sorry affair. Thus I am part of a larger public effort to tell people there is another side to the story. Before going further, however, let me say that Enron’s demise should not have been a surprise, as it was a product of the Federal Reserve’s late 1990s boom. Alan Greenspan’s easy-credit regime permitted Enron and other firms to boost their stock prices to levels well above where the fundamentals said they should have been...

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/not-so-fast/enron/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greenspan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Enron
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/mcmaken
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+L.+Anderson

Default, Civil Unrest, WWIII?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2010/06/14/153-we-aint-seen-nothin-yet-2/

Creating Artificial Stupidity
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/sowell6.1.1.html

Forcing Politicians to Listen
http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead13.1.html

Creating Money Out of Thin Air
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy169.html

Bailing Out Politicians Now?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan141.html

Toxic Citizens?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/toxic-citizens.html

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Obama's Treasury Dept. Works Against Volcker-Lincoln Reform
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/14-7

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In jail for being in debt

"They have no right to do this to me," said the 57-year-old patient care advocate, her voice as soft as a whisper. "Not for a stupid credit card."

http://www.startribune.com/investigators/95692619.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+unrest
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