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Stars and Stripes: "Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters' coverage is being graded as 'positive,' 'neutral' or 'negative.' Moreover, the documents - recent confidential profiles of the work of individual reporters prepared by a Pentagon contractor - indicate that the ratings are intended to help Pentagon image-makers manipulate the types of stories that reporters produce while they are embedded with US troops in Afghanistan."

https://www.truthout.org/082709R?n

 

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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Among the treasure trove of documents released on Monday related to the CIA's detention and torture program is a 20-page background paper that, for the first time, describes in extraordinary detail the process of "rendition" and the torture prisoners are then subjected to when they are flown to 'black site' prisons. The document was turned over to the ACLU in response to the civil liberties group's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government late on Monday evening along with numerous others, including previously undisclosed Justice Department legal opinions."

https://www.truthout.org/082709I?n



Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture

Daphne Eviatar, The Washington Independent: "On the same day that the government produced the 2004 CIA Inspector General's report on interrogations, it also turned over seven more memos and letters from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. The memos released on Monday were the Justice Department's legal justifications for continuing to use those controversial interrogation techniques, despite a new law passed by Congress and an intervening landmark Supreme Court ruling that governs U.S. detentions overseas."

https://www.truthout.org/082709D?n



US Interrogators Back Torture Probe

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Support for a wide-ranging criminal investigation into the Bush administration's use of torture has grown to include a former top FBI interrogator and a career military intelligence officer with more than two decades of experience conducting interrogations."

https://www.truthout.org/082809A?n

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Closing In on the Torturers
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/27-3

ACLU: International Tribunal Takes Up Case of Innocent Victim of CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/27-9

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Federal Reserve Says Disclosing Loans Will Hurt Banks
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/fed-wants-secrecy.html

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Bernanke, Feats and Flaws

Jean-Marc Vittori, Les Echos: "The markets are big babies. They always need to be reassured, especially under the current circumstances. That's why the president of the United States has renewed Ben Bernanke's tenure at the head of the Federal Reserve. The announcement, which will have to be confirmed by the Senate, was welcomed with a 21-gun salute by the financial exchanges."

https://www.truthout.org/082709J?n

 

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Christian Science Monitor

08/26/09

The warning is dire: Up to 90,000 ‘possible’ deaths from a potential swine flu outbreak. But how did the president’s science advisers, who came up with the number, reach that estimate? It is based on complicated models of how such illnesses are transmitted, how they mutate, how prepared the healthcare system is, and what’s known from the patterns of past flu epidemics, such as the ones in 1918, 1957, and 1968. It even taps the so-called ‘virus detectives,’ a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that tracks, in the best Sherlock Holmes manner, the threats to America’s health — often traveling to remote parts of the world to study outbreaks. The problem with dire warnings, though, is that the complacency scientists are in part trying to break may be caused by the very studies they tout — the crying wolf syndrome. The avian bird flu predictions in 2005 included estimates of millions dead. Worldwide, 282 people died.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0827/p02s04-usgn.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


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Man will nur eher darauf achten, dass die Verschleppten nicht auch noch gefoltert werden.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/144274

 

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Audio interview: Chris Hedges
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Whitney predicts more than 300 bank failures:

Meredith Whitney, the analyst who predicted that Citigroup Inc. would cut its dividend last year, said the number of U.S. bank failures will quadruple as lenders struggle with bad loans.

https://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Whitney+predicts+more+than+bank+failures/1917263/story.html

 

From Information Clearing House

 

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