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rudkla - 2. Nov, 08:42

Geheimabkommen zwischen Kolumbien und USA unterzeichnet

Entgegen der Verfassung wurde der Text, der den USA die Nutzung von sieben US-Basen erlaubt und US-Soldaten Straffreiheit sichert, nicht dem Parlament vorgelegt.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31420/1.html

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rudkla - 2. Nov, 06:23

Congress: Will They Be Receiving the Swine Flu Vaccine?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/congress-divided-flu-vaccine.html

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rudkla - 2. Nov, 06:17

Government Will Default on Its Debts

https://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north778.html

Dollar Meltdown
https://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french126.html

Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation ‘Gutted,’ Paul Says
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/fed-bill-gutted.html

The Lawless State
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/hess-k2.1.1.html

Clunkers: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 Per Car
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/looting-for-clunkers.html

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Ron Paul: Important News on Audit the Fed

rudkla - 2. Nov, 06:03

Sonntag, 1. November 2009

War Crimes Commission Hears Graphic Accounts of US Torture

By Maria J.Dass

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission today heard harrowing testimonies about the atrocities committed against the Guantanamo Bay detainees, which included psychological torture and routine humiliation.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23850.htm

Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails

By SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE

F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in September 2002 found prisoners "manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock," and a C.I.A. official wrote a list of questions for interrogators including "How close is each technique to the 'rack and screw,'

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23851.htm

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BUSH & Co. are WAR CRIMINALS - US GENERAL

rudkla - 1. Nov, 22:27

Americans' Income and Spending Drop, Despite Stimulus

Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor: "Household disposable income stagnated in September, and spending fell 0.5 percent, the government reported. The figures call into question the strength of the economic recovery."

https://www.truthout.org/1101094

How Goldman Secretly Bet on the US Housing Crash

Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in US housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting."

https://www.truthout.org/1101095

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Obama Goes Wobbly Over More Stimulus

By Mike Whitney

Unemployment swelled to 9.8 percent, "with nearly nearly 26 million workers-17 percent of the workforce-unemployed or underemployed," according to economist Mark Zandi. The economy remains extremely weak and is expected to lapse back into recession if the Obama administration fails to provide a second-round of stimulus.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23852.htm

Big Bad Government Is Coming to Get You

By David Michael Green

The right in America loves its canned tropes, but perhaps none so much as the 'government is evil' one. Ooooooohh! Look out. Big bad government is coming to get you.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23854.htm

Propping Up a Broken Capitalism

By Shamus Cooke

Five years ago it would be unthinkable that a harsh critique of capitalism would attract a mass audience. But this is exactly what Michael Moore's new movie - Capitalism: A Love Story - has done. The source of Moore's success is his willingness to focus on what the media ignores: the human faces behind unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosures, evictions, etc., and the faces benefiting from this misery - the corporate-elite sitting atop the financial system.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23859.htm

US consumer spending falls

US consumer spending fell for the first time in five months in September, official data has shown, in a sign that a recovery from the recession is likely to be sluggish.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/2009103020222166284.html

Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes

Unable to identify a lender, the couple could neither capitalize on a mortgage hardship provision that would allow them to defer some payments, nor on a state law enabling them to offset their debt against separate, investment-related claims against Goldman.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77841.html

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rudkla - 1. Nov, 22:12

Tortured Memories and the Culture of War

Henry Giroux, Truthout: "For the last decade, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends the lives of others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of politics and culture that simply became an extension of war, both at home and abroad."

https://www.truthout.org/1101092

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rudkla - 1. Nov, 22:07

Samstag, 31. Oktober 2009

Cheney Could Not Recall Key Events About His Role in CIA Leak

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A month before Valerie Plame Wilson's covert status as a CIA operative was revealed, Vice President Dick Cheney told his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and his press secretary, Cathie Martin, that Plame Wilson worked at the CIA. But according to a 28-page summary of Cheney’s May 8, 2004 interview with the special prosecutor probing the leak, Cheney did not recall having that conversation."

https://www.truthout.org/1031099

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Cheney Told FBI He Had No Idea Who Leaked Plame ID
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/31

Cheney and the Plame-Gate Cover-up
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/02-4

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22 things Dick Cheney can’t recall about the Plame case

Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann

10/30/09

Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn’t remember much of anything. Here’s a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn’t recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI’s notes …

https://tinyurl.com/yh73o3d

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cheney's interview on the CIA Leak
https://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/69099b2518368ad8?hl=de

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Cheney equivocated to the FBI

On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.

https://rawstory.com/2009/11/ap-admits-cheney-equivocated-fbi/

Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions

One has to wonder why Cheney wasn't subjected to "enhanced interrogation," including waterboarding, which he says is "very effective".

https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/02/politics/main5491257.shtml

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rudkla - 31. Okt, 22:07