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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A federal court judge on Monday revealed that the brutal interrogation of an alleged 'war on terror' detainee imprisoned at Guantanamo for more than seven years was videotaped and she ordered the government to turn over the materials to the prisoner's lawyers."

https://www.truthout.org/1006095



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Truthout, NewsWire: "Robert Fisk, writing on Tuesday for The Independent UK, has reported that a number of Arab states, along with several major world powers, have been holding secret meetings to formulate a plan that would eliminate the US dollar as the main form of currency in international oil transactions."

https://www.truthout.org/10060911

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UN Calls For New Reserve Currency

By AFP

The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the "privilege" of building a huge trade deficit.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23655.htm

 

The Demise of the Dollar

By Robert Fisk

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23648.htm

 

Ditching the Dollar

An Interview With Robert Fisk

Al Jazeera has this exclusive interview with Robert Fisk and Steven King, chief economist from the HSBC Group.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23649.htm

 

Dollar Hysteria

By Mike Whitney

Yes, the dollar will fall, (eventually) but not for the reasons that most people think.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23647.htm

 

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

10/05/09

I like to believe that, despite studying Guantanamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama’s own party) voted for an idiotic, paranoid, and unjust motion proposed by Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ken.), which was designed to ‘prohibit the transfer of GITMO prisoners, period’ (those were his exact words). Just 163 Representatives voted against the motion, which, as JURIST described it, also supports ‘adding Guantanamo detainees to the federal ‘no fly’ list, and adopting Senate language forbidding the release of photos showing detainee abuse’...

https://www.fff.org/comment/com0910b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

10/06/09

The Democrats want to change the name of the PATRIOT Act to the JUSTICE Act. That’s the easy part — exchanging one Orwellian branding for another — much like earlier this year, when the new Obama administration insisted the government wasn’t waging a Global War on Terrorism, but an ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’ Save for the name, there hasn’t been one major transformation in the way the federal government is executing the Long War (the recent helicopter gunship execution of a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist in Somalia in September was completely in step with the old GWOT). And seeing how key Democrats are slowly caving on some of the most promising reforms to the PATRIOT Act in three years, it’s becoming clear the JUSTICE Act won’t be much of a metamorphosis, either...

https://tinyurl.com/ybekngr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails

The payment stems from the structure of a $3bn rescue finance package that Goldman extended to CIT on June 6 2008, about five months before the Treasury bought $2.3bn in CIT preferred shares to prop it up at the height of the crisis. The potential loss for taxpayers would be the biggest to crystalise so far from the government's capital injection plan for banks.

https://snipurl.com/scg8r



Report on Bailouts Says Treasury Misled Public

The inspector general who oversees the government's bailout of the banking system is criticizing the Treasury Department for some misleading public statements last fall and raising the possibility that it had unfairly disbursed money to the biggest banks.

https://snipurl.com/scg90



IG Report Finds Paulsen, Bernanke Misled Public on Bank Rescues

Report says then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other officials were wrong to contend that all nine banks receiving the first round of bailout support -- $125 billion -- were sound.

https://snipurl.com/scg96



Firms are getting billions, but homeowners still in trouble

The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of the very companies that judges or regulators have cited in recent years for abusive mortgage practices.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/76418.html



America is suffering a permanent destruction of jobs

Since the nadir of the last recession in November 2001, the U.S. has lost 839,000 jobs in the private sector, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- the first time that's happened over the course of a business cycle since 1980-82. Manufacturing and construction were particularly hard hit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aDx_Srx0Sv8Q


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