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Frum Forum

12/09/09

Cracking jokes about Congressional thievery is something of a national past-time. But the results of the newest Gallup poll will likely startle even the cynical news dorks that have read enough of these polls to know that the American people don’t think highly of their government. For the first time since Gallup began conducting its annual ‘Honesty and Ethics of Professions’ poll, a majority (55%) of Americans responded that they believe the honesty and ethical standards of ‘members of Congress’ are ‘low’ or ‘very low.’ The American people don’t think senators are particularly upstanding citizens either: 49% said Senators have ‘low or very low’ ethical standards...

https://www.frumforum.com/congress-less-trusted-than-ever


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bloomberg

12/10/09

Foreclosure filings in the U.S. will reach a record for the second consecutive year with 3.9 million notices sent to homeowners in default, RealtyTrac Inc. said. This year’s filings will surpass 2008’s total of 3.2 million as record unemployment and price erosion batter the housing market, the Irvine, California-based company said...

https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6aLuu9zxbcM


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der Chef der US-Notenbank warnt vor "Gegenwinden" und vor einem weiterhin schwachen Arbeitsmarkt.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146710



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "For anyone who has studied Guantanamo's military commissions closely over the last eight years, it was obvious that their revival last week, in a supposedly new and improved form, was bound to be a disaster."

https://www.truthout.org/1209093



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Half-baked Homeland Security is spending millions to develop sensors capable of detecting a person's level of 'malintent' as a counterterrorism tool.

https://snipurl.com/tmo4w


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterterrorism

Friends of The Earth
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/09-9

Greenpeace Statement on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/09-8

Congressman Dennis Kucinich Circulating Privileged Resolutions to End Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/09-5

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Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Is This a Joke?

By Mehdi Hasan

The cult of Obama has elevated him to a godlike, saint-like, superhuman position in the global political landscape. He is a celebrity, he is an icon, he is a political phenomenon.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24156.htm



Obama is a Disaster

Video

Robert Fisk makes a few observations about Obama, Imperialism, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24151.htm



Kucinich plans to force vote on US withdrawal from Afghanistan

For congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement Tuesday that his country would need the US's military support for another 10 or 15 years seems to have been the last straw.

https://rawstory.com/2009/12/kucinich-vote-withdrawal-afghanistan/



Afghans angry at Obama's Nobel win

Video

From Kabul, Steve Chao reports.
https://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/2009121073039786647.html



Obama awarded Nobel because he's a Democrat, liberal and black

He will be awarded the prize even though he is personally responsible for scores of targeted killings and much slaughter of civilians in aerial bombardments. He will be awarded the prize even though he has just decided to escalate one of the two ineffectual wars he is conducting.

https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134048.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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On George W. Obama war and imperialism.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/blum3.1.1.html



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https://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund28.1.html



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FreedomWorks
by Matthew Clemente

12/08/09

This morning, President Obama held a press conference to outline his second multibillion dollar stimulus proposal. Unlike the administration’s $787 billion ’stimulus’ bill which has fallen short of its goal to ’save or create’ millions of jobs, this proposal aims to really ’save or create’ jobs. And, as is to be expected from the Obama White House, the plan to solve the problem that $787 billion in spending could not fix is to throw even more taxpayer money at it...

https://tinyurl.com/y9krkun



Moody’s tells US: Put your financial house in order

Main Street Radical
by James

12/08/09

On the eve of Obama’s trip to Denmark, in which he may announce new spending plans for developing countries, Moody’s is poised to send a warning that America’s triple-A credit rating is at risk. For generations the country has relied on deficit spending and the strongest credit rating to manage the country’s finances. This new chink in our fiscal armor is a direct result of the fact that our government faces a trillion dollar deficit for the next 10 years, and sends a clear message that Congress, the President and the American people must rein in deficit spending. A reduction in America’s credit rating can only lead to higher interest rates as the Treasury will have to make our debt more attractive to lenders...

https://tinyurl.com/yeqgoa7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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The Nation
by William Greider

12/08/09

The sales pitch for financial-reform legislation pending in the House claims it would put an stop to ‘too big to fail’ bailouts for the leading banks. The reality is the opposite. The federal government would instead be granted unlimited authority to spend whatever it takes to prop up the big boys when they get in trouble. Only in the next crisis, Congress won’t have to be asked for the money. The financial rescues will be funded by the secretive Federal Reserve, not the Treasury, with money the Fed itself creates. And the emergency lending could be pumped into any financial institution in trouble. … This sounds nutty and it is. A permanent security blanket for big boys of finance will further inflame public opinion. Only the public isn’t likely to know...

https://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/greider


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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