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By Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate

As the session begins, the detainee stands naked, except for a hood covering his head. Guards shackle his arms and legs, then slip a small collar around his neck. The collar will be used later; according to CIA guidelines for interrogations, it will serve as a handle for slamming the detainee's head against a wall.

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Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

By JOHN V. WALSH

Obama is an enormous gift to the Empire. Just as he has silenced most of the single-payer movement, an effort characterized by its superb scholarship exceeded only by its timidity, Obama has shut down the antiwar movement, completely in thrall as it is to the Democrat Party and Identity Politics.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23379.htm

 

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/obama-to-control-internet.html

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Martial law online

Fr33 Agents
by Brad Taylor

08/29/09

A draft bill in the US senate will give President broad powers in the event of a ‘cybersecurity emergency.’ An earlier draft of the bill, which explicitly allowed the White House to disconnect private computers and networks when deemed necessary, was widely criticized. Instead of granting precise powers, the new proposal from Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) would give the President the power to do whatever he deems necessary to ‘direct the national response to the cyber threat’ whenever he ‘finds it necessary for the national defense and security.’ This would presumably include the disconnection of suspicious users and vulnerable targets, with no clear guidelines on when this is appropriate. The emergency powers seem to be restricted to ‘cybersecurity threats’ to ‘critical private networks.’ While preventing malicious attacks on important networks is a worthy goal, the emergency powers remain deeply troubling...

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By Mike Whitney

It should be fairly obvious by now that US consumers are undergoing a generational shift and will not be able to lead the way out of the recession as they have in the past. Nor will they miraculously "bounce back" and provide demand for products made abroad.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23378.htm

 

Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage

Guns And Butter - Audio Interview

Dr. Michael Hudson on why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama's Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23386.htm

 

The Spend-And-Borrow Economy

By Nouriel Roubini

Governments will have to manage perceptions. Today investors remain willing to bankroll federal spending without any clear or firm indication of how the fiscal crisis--and it is a crisis of extraordinary proportions--is going to be dealt with. That won't last.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23383.htm

 

The Foreclosure Rescue Mirage

By Andy Kroll

How the government's flagship homeowner relief program hangs borrowers out to dry.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23380.htm

 

One In Nine Americans Uses Food Stamps

By Tom Eley

In all, 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal program that provides assistance to low-income people, an increase of more than 2 percent from the previous month, and a staggering increase of 6 million over the past year.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23382.htm

 

Hummel: The US Will Default On Its Debt

The flood of debt that the US is taking on in its efforts rescue to economy will combine with huge social insurance obligations--Medicare, MedicaidSocial Security--to create an unsustainable level of public indebtedness, economist Jeffrey Rogers Hummel argues in at length here.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hummel-the-us-will-default-on-its-debt-2009-8

 

1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO:

The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/32581463

 

Lefrak: Commercial Real Estate Will Kill 500 Small Banks

The Real Deal passes along this video of Harrison Lefrak predicting 500 bank failures resulting from commercial real estate problems.

https://snipurl.com/rgvbw


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Informant: Bob Banner

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Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine Deadlier Than Virus

Global revolt against dangerous untested jab builds momentum

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, August 28, 2009

According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination programs.

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Facts, and Understanding, Are Often in Conflict.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/27-4

We Don't Want to Rule the World
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/27-10

 

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Agence France-Presse: "After spending weeks dogging George W. Bush's presidential vacations, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is now trying to make life uncomfortable for President Barack Obama. Sheehan used to pitch a peace camp near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, becoming a symbol of the anti-war movement after her son Casey died in action in Iraq."

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