World-News

https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/nemko3.1.1.html

Central Banks Can't Stop Global Unraveling
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/global-unraveling.html

How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/in-a-depression.html

Is the Current Recovery a Piñata With No Candy Inside?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs141.html

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A Deceptive Job Recovery -- Real Unemployment at 16.8%
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/05-11

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Regulators close banks in four states

U.S. bank regulators closed four banks in as many states on Friday, bringing the number of failures so far this year to 26 as deteriorating loans continued taking a toll on financial institutions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6250DO20100306



15,000 S.F. workers given layoff notices

Newsom ordered the layoff notices be sent to most of the city's 26,000 workers and said the overwhelming majority of them will be hired back within two weeks to work 37.5 hours a week instead of their current 40 - meaning they'll see a 6.25 percent cut to their paychecks.

https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/03/06/BAJ11CBKHJ.DTL



Jobless rates rose in every state in '09

The sharpest rise occurred in Michigan, where the average jobless rate for 2009 was 13.6 percent, up 5.3 points from 2008's average of 8.3 percent.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2010/03/01/daily49.html



42nd US bank failure in '10 is South Carolina bank

Regulators on Friday shut down a bank in South Carolina, marking 42 bank failures in the U.S. so far this year amid mounting loan defaults, especially in commercial real estate.

https://snipurl.com/vew1h


From Information Clearing House



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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Iraq remains a mess from which the US military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it's never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to manage future wars so that they won't last longer than the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II combined?"

https://www.truthout.org/how-fight-a-better-war-next-time-three-fixes-american-way-war57333



Entering the Scary "Lacuna" of American Politics

Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: "I finally finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's latest brilliant novel, 'The Lacuna,' and it's the kind of book that engenders discussion on a wide variety of important topics. For those who haven't read it yet, the sweep of the book - which clearly was composed during the Cheney/Bush years, for good reason - is epic in scale. Dealing with several decades of Mexican and American history, from 1929 to the early 1950's, it touches on the end of empires, the pandering mass-media, the use of fear by demagogues to herd the sheeple..., and much more. (The title refers to the hidden entryways that can lead one to different levels of understanding.)"

https://www.truthout.org/entering-scary-lacuna-american-politics57342



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William Fisher, Truthout: "Defense Department agencies improperly collected and disseminated intelligence on Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group called the National Alliance, an Air Force briefing improperly included intelligence on an antiwar group called Alaskans for Peace and Justice, and Army Signals Intelligence in Louisiana unlawfully intercepted civilian cell phone conversations."

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Bill Quigley, Truthout: "Triple Canopy, a private military company with extensive security operations in Iraq and Israel, is advertising for business in Haiti. According to human rights activist and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, Triple Canopy took over the Xe/Blackwater security contract in Iraq in 2009. Scahill reported on a number of bloody incidents involving Triple Canopy, including one where a team leader told his group, 'I want to kill somebody today ... because I am going on vacation tomorrow.'"

https://www.truthout.org/mercenaries-circling-haiti57337



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Ellen Brown, Truthout: "In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a 'mandatory savings' tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the president's new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary, but will actually make matters worse. The push for 'fiscal responsibility' is based on bad economics."

https://www.truthout.org/deficit-fear-mongering57346



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Money for Wars and Weapons, While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger

By Jo Comerford

The latest federal budget opens the American public to yet more pain, while shielding the military and the rest of the national security establishment from the same.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24907.htm



Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

By Matthew Jaffe

Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis -- one that will be even worse than the current one -- is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24903.htm



Mass Layoffs Increase in January

Employers laid-off 182,261 workers, seasonally adjusted, in 1,761 mass layoff events last month, the Labor Department said Tuesday. A mass layoff is when a single employer terminates at least 50 people.

https://snipurl.com/umdti



Postal Service to shed another 30,000 jobs

The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce by another 30,000 positions and slash overtime this year in an effort to reduce costs.

https://snipurl.com/umdtq



15,000 S.F. workers face layoffs, shorter weeks

More than 15,000 San Francisco city workers across all departments will receive layoff notices Friday, and most of them will have the option of being rehired to work a shorter week, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/02/BA471C9UVR.DTL&tsp=1



More consumers file for bankruptcy protection

The economic recovery effort has not slowed consumer bankruptcy filings. They surged 14% in February compared with a year earlier, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

https://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-03-03-bankruptcy03_ST_N.htm


From Information Clearing House



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By Paul Craig Roberts

A desperate government, which has wasted $3 trillion invading countries that pose no danger to the U.S. and wasted more trillions of dollars combatting a crisis brought on by the government's failure to regulate the financial sector, is likely to steal people's pensions as well as to gut Social Security and Medicare.

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Video

Congressman Ron Paul speaks on the floor about assassinations of Americans by their own government.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24911.htm



Obama Authorizes Murder of US Citizen

Muslim cleric Aulaqi is 1st U.S. citizen on list of those CIA is allowed to kill

By Greg Miller

Because he is a U.S. citizen, adding Aulaqi to the CIA list required special approval from the White House, officials said. The move means that Aulaqi would be considered a legitimate target not only for a military strike carried out by U.S. and Yemeni forces, but also for lethal CIA operations.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25155.htm



Does the Flag Condone Murder?

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

If the killers were not waving US flags, they would be called murderers. Terrorists. Terrorizing civilians to achieve political change.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25159.htm



U.S.-born cleric added to CIA "kill list"

This makes al-Awlaki only the second U.S. citizen since 2001 whom CIA agents have authorisation to kill or capture.

https://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article390979.ece


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Deep background

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

Even in World War II, the United States did not attempt to assassinate U.S. citizens who went over to the enemy, but that has now changed with President Obama’s overseas contingency operations. On Feb. 3, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that the United States government has developed procedures for killing American citizens abroad who are ‘involved’ with groups threatening to carry out terrorist acts directed against other Americans. Three U.S. citizens have already been approved by the White House for summary execution as soon as actionable intelligence is developed to enable a pilotless drone’s hellfire missiles to do the killing... (for publication 04/01/10)

https://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/apr/01/00021/



Does the US government understand the terrorist threat?

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/31/10

Most Americans just assume that the U.S. government’s actions to protect them from terrorism, if not perfect, are rational, based on sound information and analysis, and undertaken with the intention to protect the most people possible. But the government’s response here to the tragic bombings on the Russian subway should raise questions about such assumptions...

https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2758



Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of US citizen

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

04/07/10

No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that. Instead, in Barack Obama’s America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens — and a death penalty imposed — is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone’s guilt as a Terrorist. He then dispatches his aides to run to America’s newspapers — cowardly hiding behind the shield of anonymity which they’re granted — to proclaim that the Guilty One shall be killed on sight because the Leader has decreed him to be a Terrorist...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Targets US Citizen for 'Kill or Capture'
https://act.commondreams.org/go/137?akid=17.124981.0dNHOc&t=2

Should Obama Have Authorized the Killing of a Muslim Cleric?
https://act.commondreams.org/go/162?akid=18.124981.AuEovH&t=16

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Obama Administration Authorizes CIA to Kill US Citizen

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a US citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year."

https://www.truthout.org/obama-administration-authorizes-cia-kill-us-citizen58358



Assassination of US Muslim Cleric Is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise

Bill Quigley, Truthout: "Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue, this is illegal, immoral and unwise."

https://www.truthout.org/assassination-us-muslim-cleric-is-illegal-immoral-and-unwise59363



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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Scientists to Congress: Don't Force the EPA to Ignore the Science, Global Warming Does Threaten Public Health

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/02-12



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