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Hawaii Reporter
by Christopher G. Adamo

06/30/09

With so much coverage of the current debate on Barack Obama’s attempt to impose nationalized healthcare on America, it may seem that little else can be said on the subject. Yet it needs to be discussed, and its manifold dangers explained to the American people. It is impossible to overstate the significance of this battle. If successful in establishing this pinnacle of his socialist agenda, Obama will unleash a ‘change’ on the country from which it may never recover. Clearly, he is aware of the governmental power he has the potential to accrue with the passage of this single atrocious new entitlement...

http://tinyurl.com/krrboy

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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rudkla - 1. Jul, 11:40

Detainees from 20+ nations still at Gitmo

Agence France-Presse

06/30/09

Approximately 229 detainees from ‘about two dozen countries’ are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures, provided to AFP. Of the remaining detainees, the largest group — about 100 men — is from Yemen. The next most represented nationals are Afghans and Algerians, with about 20 from each country, according to the US Department of Defense. In addition, the Pentagon said there are roughly 10 Saudi detainees and 13 Chinese Muslim ethnic Uighurs left at the detention facility in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. There are between five and 10 detainees each from Libya, Pakistan, Syria and Tunisia, according to the figures...

http://tinyurl.com/mupnph

Guantanamo: Charge or release prisoners

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

06/30/09

So what’s happening now? According to a joint Washington Post/ProPublica article on Friday, ‘The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely,’ according to ‘three senior government officials.’ The administration moved swiftly to refute the story, with the Justice Department maintaining that it would not comment on specific plans until after July 21, when the administration’s inter-departmental Guantanamo Task Force is scheduled to complete its review of all the Guantanamo cases, and an unnamed official telling AFP that ‘no such draft order existed, though internal deliberations were taking place on how to deal with those inmates who could not be released or tried in civilian courts’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0906m.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 1. Jul, 11:22

Bullying Congressional Progressives: Creepy, Revealing Quote from White House Staffer

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/30-8

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

rudkla - 1. Jul, 10:45

Fordlandia and US Imperialism

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/06/30

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism

rudkla - 1. Jul, 10:41

Stop Indefinite Detention

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1625

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rudkla - 1. Jul, 10:05

The U.S. and the U.K. Will Both Default on Their Debt by the End of Summer 2009?

This evolution is likely to catch large numbers of economic and financial players on the wrong foot who decided to believe in today’s mainstream media operation of “euphorisation”.

http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-36-is-available!-Global-systemic-crisis-in-summer-2009-The-cumulative-impact-of-three-rogue-waves_a3359.html

Economy shrinks at fastest pace in 50 years

Britain's recession-battered economy shrank at its fastest pace in more than 50 years in the first quarter of 2009 in the worst global slowdown in decades, revised official data showed on Tuesday.

http://www.france24.com/en/20090630-british-economy-shrinks-fastest-pace-1958-record-GDP-contraction

U.S. housing misery poised to enter new phase

Big risk factors that could spur more foreclosures include expectations of rising unemployment and the forecast resetting of interest rates on 2.8 million subprime and Alt-A mortgages in the next two years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE55P51I20090626

From Information Clearing House

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
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rudkla - 1. Jul, 09:56

U.S. Economic Stats Lie

True or False

By Jack Hough

Surveyors collect the nation’s data and statisticians compile and report it. Politicians naturally want the numbers to show improvement. Not being able to change the facts, they focus on the handling of facts, pressuring statisticians to change their measurements. It’s not quite one grand conspiracy but decades of minor ones compiled. Today’s reports are so perverted, the theory holds, that the numbers have detached from common experience.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22948.htm

rudkla - 1. Jul, 09:49