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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "It's now over two weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away."

https://www.truthout.org/what-torture-is-and-why-its-illegal-and-not-poor-judgment57622



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Not From Central Casting

Eugene Robinson: "It took the case of 'JihadJane' to illuminate what should have been obvious by now: Anyone who claims to be able to identify a potential terrorist by appearance or nationality is delusional. There's a reason why all of us have to take our shoes off at the airport."

https://www.truthout.org/eugene-robinson-not-from-central-casting57592



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New round of foreclosures threatens housing market

The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize.

https://snipurl.com/ut153



Officials: 2.5 million Floridians on food stamps

More than 2.5 million Floridians are on food stamps, up from three years ago where 1.2 million residents received assistance.

https://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/10/1521776/officials-25-million-floridians.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Danny Schechter

Here's a story I was told about a middle class woman on Long Island, who happens to be Haitian. I am sure its not the worst case--and certainly not the best outcome. Read it and weep-but as you do remember this bell may toll for more of us.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24977.htm



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By Vlad Grinkevich

The current global financial and economic crisis once again confirms the fact that during economic upheavals the rich get richer and the poor become even more destitute. - As of late 2009, the number of billionaires soared from 793 to 1,011 and their total fortunes from $2.4 trillion to $3.6 trillion.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24979.htm



Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era

By Andy Kroll

Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24975.htm



Back to Market Fundamentalism

How champions of Neoliberal economics are reversing New Deal economics

By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

The New Deal and Social-Democratic reforms that evolved out of the Great Depression and World War II were not courtesy of "benevolent" capitalism, voluntarily bestowed upon the poor and working people.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24970.htm



The Most Powerful Corporate Business Club Most Americans Have Never Heard of

The Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs, is at the heart of the Economic Elite's power center.

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Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

By Jim Hightower

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you--and they are! "They" are the corporate powers that collect our consumer dollars and then, as hush-hush as possible, use that money to finance their interlocked array of right-wing foundations, think tanks, "scholars," media sparklies, political personalities, and other fronts.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25039.htm



Banker Bob's £63m jackpot: Anger and disgust as scale of City fat-cat culture hits new record

One of Britain's richest bankers has landed a record pay package of £63.3million. The extraordinary deal for Barclays president Bob Diamond sparked a major new row over payouts to banking fat cats.

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Cigna Gives $110.9 Million Compensation Package To Ex-CEO

The insurance giant Cigna last year gave compensation packages worth more than $120 million to two executives who left the company, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/cigna-gives-1109-million_n_506974.html


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Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not Enough?

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do executive salaries and bonuses have to be? How many houses or jets or artworks can be crammed into a life?"

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/11/10

President Obama has been so chastened by his failure to meet the pledge of closing Guantanamo prison within a year that Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, is trying to negotiate with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to gain Republican support for doing so. In exchange, Graham wants Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 attackers tried using a military tribunal instead of a civilian court and also wants unconstitutional legislation allowing the indefinite detainment of terrorism suspects without trial. Closing Gitmo is designed to revive a tarnished U.S. image abroad rather than being a substantive change in policy, and it now apparently may come at the expense of using unconstitutional and discredited means of holding and trying terrorism suspects...

https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2748



Gitmo becomes a gilded cage for informants

MSNBC

03/25/10

By the time Tariq al-Sawah, a veteran of the wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, reached Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in May 2002, there was no fight left in him. Injured by a cluster bomb in the mountains of Afghanistan, the middle-aged Egyptian was still recovering from wounds to his hands, back, thighs and buttocks when the Americans grabbed him. Three months later, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who had moved in radical circles in Germany, turned up at the U.S. military prison...

https://tinyurl.com/yzj9pe5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Real Americans on 9/11
https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/823.html

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The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Such is the hysterical disregard for the law in parts of the United States that when, on March 22, District Court Judge James Robertson ordered the release from Guantanamo of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a 38-year-old Mauritanian who was once described as the 'highest-value detainee at the facility,' Republican lawmakers were in uproar."

https://www.truthout.org/guantanamo-and-habeas-corpus-the-torture-victim-and-taliban-recruit58432



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Während in Europa gespart werden soll, steigt das US-Defizit auf immer neue Rekorde.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/national-worker-id-card.html

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The biometric worker ID card: Just two steps from a chip in your hand

First a national ID card. Then RFID spychipped national IDs, like they now have in China. After that? The chip gets implanted in YOU.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/10/immigration-reform-effort-emerges-new-senate/

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The criminal flaw in Obama’s immigration vision

In These Times
by Seth Wessler

03/25/10

President Obama finally put immigration reform on his agenda this month, inviting dozens of advocates to the White House and reaffirming his ‘unwavering’ commitment to change. Coincidentally or not, it’s also the month that thousands have marched on Washington to remind the president of his vows. But the question isn’t just when the administration and Democrats will focus on immigration; it’s what they’ll achieve. If the past 15 months are a guide, the answer is not much. The number of people deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actually increased in Obama’s first year in office, reaching close to 388,000, more than ever before in history...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency and Pass Immigration Reform

By Frank Sharry

Pandering to the extreme right wing with its insatiable - and unworkable -- appetite for deportation is a fool's errand.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25158.htm



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Job Creation Squeezed
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Government handouts? Just say “no”

Heartland Institute
by Maureen Martin

03/12/10

If politicians are addicted to giving handouts to the American people, it’s because the American people are addicted to receiving them. Just ask Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), who has barely survived furious attacks from Democrats and Republicans for defending fiscal responsibility. This is the fundamental reason government spending is out of control. It won’t be reduced until Americans renounce the handouts, let politicians know they don’t want them, and force politicians to internalize this concept...

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The lie of fiscal responsibility

Reason
by Peter Suderman

03/22/10

As Democrats made cable-news victory laps in the wake of securing the necessary votes to pass a massive legislative overhaul of the American health care system, there was much talk of history — making it, watching it, being part of it, answering its call. But Washington’s true attitude towards history is that of an abusive conqueror; it’s not something to learn from, it’s something to triumph over. And in that respect, Democratic health reformers deserve nothing but congratulations. Thanks to their dogged efforts, history — along with the popular will of the American public — has been thoroughly trounced...

https://reason.com/archives/2010/03/22/the-lie-of-fiscal-responsibili


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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