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https://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/08/25

Holder and Obama Must Focus on Torture Accountability
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/25-7

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: US Playing a New Rendition of an Old Song-Torture
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/25-13



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Fuelled by President Obama's $787bn stimulus package and reduced tax revenues due to the recession, it compares with a $455bn deficit in 2008.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8221207.stm



White House, CBO debt forecasts challenge Obama

The U.S. national debt will nearly double over the next 10 years, government forecasts showed Tuesday. The White House projected a cumulative $9 trillion deficit between 2010 and 2019

https://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE57M0WV20090825



Obama re-nominates Bernanke to stabilize markets

US President Barack Obama has nominated Ben Bernanke to head the US Federal Reserve for a second term despite oppositions that he failed to fend off the economic meltdown.

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White House: $9 trillion in new government debt over next decade

Longview News-Journal

08/25/09

In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy. But before President Barack Obama can do much about it, he’ll have to weather recession aftershocks including unemployment that his advisers said Tuesday is still heading for 10 percent...

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By Bob Herbert

If we had a draft - or merely the threat of a draft - we would not be in Iraq or Afghanistan. But we don't have a draft so it's safe for most of the nation to be mindless about waging war. Other people's children are going to the slaughter.

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Is The USA A Sick Country Or What?

By Dave Lindorff

We've got a litany of horror and abuse here that sounds like the worst kind of stories that used to come out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or the Argentine Junta or Idi Amin's Uganda. About the only thing missing is word that the military and CIA torturers were eating their victims, or feeding them their own genitals, but who knows? Maybe we'll get there yet. It's hard at this point to rule anything out.

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The CIA's Post-torture Profits

By Tim Shorrock

Architects of a shameful chapter in the agency's history now reap rich rewards in the private sector. They must be held to account.

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Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "In a statement, Tom Parker, the policy director of Amnesty International’s American branch, said, 'Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Vice President Cheney's track record, the two CIA memos released today are hardly the slam dunk we had been led to expect. There is little or no supporting evidence in either memo to give substance to the specific claims about impending attacks made by Khaled Shaik Mohammed in highly coercive circumstances.'"

https://www.truthout.org/082509S?n

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Full inspector general's report on CIA interrogation
https://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/cia_report.pdf?


Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report

Inspector General Reportedly Discovered Three Died, Many Unaccounted For by CIA.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8410340



Cheney Slams Obama Administration Decision

"President Obama's decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security,"

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Urge President Obama and Congress to close the door on torture and illegal detention once and for all

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The Calm Before the Financial Storm?
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Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell
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The central bank's secret tricks
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Lawsuit required to force "transparency" and "change" Obama promised as Bernanke is re-appointed as Fed chief

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

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AntiWar.Com
by Jeff Huber

08/25/09

Those of you still hoping for ‘change’ can forget it. Young Mr. Obama is working the same number that young Mr. Bush pulled on us. In Obama’s address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Ariz., on Aug. 17, he made his commitment to war in the Bananastans irrevocable. It would be wonderful if public servants seeking to associate themselves with the military would cater to the agenda of the Veterans for Peace. For a president of the United States to pander to the VFW is a disgrace. While the VFW is not a pack of latter-day Brownshirts like the American Legion, the two groups possess a common value: they never saw an armed conflict they didn’t like. If they had to serve in a pointless war, everyone else should too...

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by Stephen Lendman

Global Research, August 24, 2009

Codex Alimentarius (CA) serves corporate interests
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A prominent banking analyst said Sunday that 150 to 200 more U.S. banks will fail in the current banking crisis, and the industry's payments to keep the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp afloat could eat up 25 percent of pretax income in 2010.

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Double-dip recession likely: Roubini

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the financial crisis, said the chance of a double-dip recession is increasing because of risks related to ending global monetary and fiscal stimulus.

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