World-News

Unemployment rose in 345 large metro areas during the month, according to the report.

http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/08/unemployment-rose-in-nearly-all-us-cities-in-june.html



Layoffs Explode Nearly 60% In July

A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according the latest report on downsizing activity released Wednesday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

http://www.businessinsider.com/challenger-layoffs-report-for-july-2011-8



Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US:

Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the US has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that consumer spending fell by 0.2 percent in June, the first monthly decline since September of 2009.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/econ-a03.shtml



The Tent City of New Jersey

Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forest

http://bit.ly/nUoKgc


From Information Clearing House

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The Wrong Medicine: Why Fiscal Austerity Is a Bad Idea for a Slumping Economy.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/04-9

What Everyone Should Know About the 'Debt Crisis' in the U.S.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/04-5

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Saved by a trillion-dollar coin?

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

08/04/11

Now that the 'crisis' over the federal debt ceiling has been averted, we can leisurely explore two of the wackier proposals that emerged during the state of panic. Not surprisingly, the schemes involved the Federal Reserve and its ability to circumvent, not just standard accounting, but also the traditional divisions of political power. It s worth studying the episode carefully because we will probably see one or more of these 'solutions' promoted as the only answer to another crisis in the not-too-distant future...

http://mises.org/daily/5515/Saved-by-a-TrillionDollar-Coin


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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With $14 trillion in the hole and a slew of wars seemingly no one wants America to be in, what better way for the United States to spend their money by putting $23 billion into spy planes? Each of the four dozen-plus spy crafts comes at a price tag of $218 million apiece - ten times the price of the largest armed attack drone.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-hawk-billions/


From Information Clearing House



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A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq.

http://bit.ly/qP762T



Most Muslim Americans See No Justification for Violence

Muslims Americans more likely than other faith groups to reject attacks on civilians.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148763/Muslim-Americans-No-Justification-Violence.aspx



'Half of US Muslims face prejudice'

Nearly half of American Muslims say they have experienced racial or religious discrimination over the past year, a new poll has revealed.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192096.html


From Information Clearing House

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Government Accountability Project: Seventh Circuit Rules Rumsfeld Can Be Held Liable for Torture of U.S. Citizens in War Zones
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/08-3

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Rumsfeld and others must stand trial
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/TellAFriend?msgId=6801.0&devId=10081

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More Evidence of Water Torture 'Depravity' in Rumsfeld s Military

Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: 'There have been a number of cases of detainees held by the Department of Defense (DoD) who have been subjected to water torture, including some that come very close to waterboarding, according to an investigation by Truthout. The prisoners have been held in a number of settings, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Guantanamo Bay.'

http://www.truth-out.org/more-evidence-water-torture-depravity-rumsfelds-military/1313618756

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Widow Confronts Rumsfeld Over Iraq War Lies
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-iraq-war/widow-confronts-rumsfeld-.html



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Nick Turse, TomDispatch and AlterNet: 'Last year, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post reported that U.S. Special Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries, up from 60 at the end of the Bush presidency. By the end of this year, U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Colonel Tim Nye told me, that number will likely reach 120. 'We do a lot of traveling - a lot more than Afghanistan or Iraq,' he said recently. This global presence - in about 60% of the world s nations and far larger than previously acknowledged - provides striking new evidence of a rising clandestine Pentagon power elite waging a secret war in all corners of the world.'

http://www.truth-out.org/uncovering-militarys-secret-military/1312465992

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The Myth of the Voluntary Military
http://lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker202.html



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By Leon Fisher

Elections are no longer effective as the promise of hope and change which in the last presidential election energized the electorate and won the White House for Barack Obama but as it turned out was nothing more than a slick and deceptive advertising campaign.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28731.htm



China Central Bank Chief Warns on U.S. Debt

The comments Wednesday by People s Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan came as the country's state media continued to condemn Washington over its debt problems, and as one of China s smaller credit ratings companies downgraded its sovereign rating for the U.S.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576485052384754400.html



Apple has more cash than US govt :

Keiser Report Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgCqSEpGBF4&feature=player_embedded



Has Americans for Prosperity election fraud been exposed in WI?

The billionaire Koch brothers have moved in and are attacking democracy in the state. With recall elections against Republican state senators just around the corner - the Koch-funded Astroturf group Americans for Prosperity is reaching into their bag of dirty tricks to keep their buddies in power at any cost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA9y9hoaF3A



Tycoons laughing all the way to the bank

It shows how a band of far-right Republican Tea Party extremists - financed initially by the billionaire Koch brothers - have managed to effectively take control of the U.S. political system and block the will of the American people.

http://bit.ly/qI074L



US company profits surge, even as economy slows

Of the companies in the S&P 500 list of large-cap firms which have reported their quarterly earnings to date, 72 percent have beaten analysts' forecasts, according to Standard & Poor s analyst Howard Silverblatt.

http://bit.ly/o44k4J



Why do the people of the U.S. stand for this culture of exploitation

By Phil Rockstroh

Moving beyond the debt ceiling canard; much more is at stake.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28740.htm



8 Reasons Young Americans Don t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

By Bruce E. Levine

The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28741.htm



Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28750.htm



Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: A Successful Con Game Explained

By Bruce A. Dixon

The object of the supposed 'crisis' was to short circuit public opinion, - in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We have been conned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28744.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Welcome to what recovery?

OpenMarket.org
by Jacqueline Otto

08/03/11

Today, August 3, 2011, marks the one year anniversary of Treasure Secretary Tim Geithner s op-ed in The New York Times, ostentatiously titled 'Welcome to the Recovery.' ... He might as well have printed that on a banner and hung it over a battle ship for how much he has likely grown to regret those words. 'We are on a path back to growth' Geithner declared, as he went to great lengths to justify and praise the stimulus package...

http://tinyurl.com/44nlt8s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Koch Spider Web

Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: 'Rick Boucher, a then-28-year incumbent Democratic Congressman from the Ninth District - the longest-serving Congressman in that district since the Civil War - was surprisingly defeated by Republican Morgan Griffith. The upset came as a shock to many, since an early October poll showed Boucher ahead by double digits, including one measure earlier in the month that put him ahead by 10 percentage points. C'est la vie. Such is political life. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent around $600,000 in ads, and the media framed the defeat as a Blue Dog, Boucher losing due to his support for cap-and-trade policies. Except, there was more to the story.'

http://www.truth-out.org/koch-spider-web/1312231636



The Fight for a Progressive America Begins Today - and Does Not End in 2012

Amy Dean, Truthout: 'If only 500 people are showing up for a rally, it s because the public doesn t care. In this case, it doesn t care about politicians bickering over the debt ceiling. America has a different agenda and Washington is missing it entirely. As has been often noted, we are not facing a debt crisis in our country. We are facing a jobs crisis. Working people desperately need the economy to improve and to start generating well-paying jobs. Less often noted is the fact that taking on America s real problems will require the president to behave differently, and it will require us to behave differently.'

http://www.truth-out.org/fight-progressive-america-begins-today-and-does-not-end-2012/1312478387



Nuclear War or Real Security?

Joseph Gerson, Truthout: 'In the months leading up to the debt deal struck on August 2, we grew accustomed to news of our government on the verge of bankruptcy, and news that failing to lift the debt ceiling would trigger a second recession - or worse - and that the best we could hope for was the nightmare of $2.7 trillion in cuts to Social Security benefits, Medicare and essential social services. Talk about national decline! When I return to Hiroshima to mark the August 6 anniversary of the atomic bombing that destroyed that city in nine seconds, people will ask, 'How can the US plan to spend still more to prepare for nuclear war?' Here's what I will have to tell them: We can invest to intimidate the world, but not to create jobs, keep people in their homes, or to build the 21st century infrastructure our children deserve.'

http://www.truth-out.org/nuclear-war-or-real-security/1312465072

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Is the New 'Super Congress' Constitutional?
http://lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem50.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/03-9

Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/03-10

Study: $1.5 Trillion of Big Bank Bailout Still Outstanding
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/03

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Debt Poses the Biggest Threat to U.S. National Security

By Ed O'Keefe

It is 'so important that the economy move in the right direction' in order to pay for more military spending, Mullen said at the time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28733.htm



The United Loony Bin Of America

By Sherwood Ross

Defense contractors are awash in profits while lines lengthen at soup kitchens, foreclosed families sleep in shelters, 20 million are jobless or underemployed, food stamp use sets records.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28737.htm



The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28730.htm



36% of Alabama s population on food stamps

45.8 million people (obviously an all time record) living on foodstamps which amount to the whopping $133.80 per person (an increase of $0.54 M/M) and $283.65 (an increase of $1.29) per household.

http://bit.ly/qd9ZRO


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/03-5

Tax Wall Street, Bail Out Public Education
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/03-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/03-8



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/03



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Der Deal steht, aber er ist faul. Auch wenn die drohende US-Pleite abgewendet werden konnte, stehen die Verlierer des Polit-Geschachers bereits fest und es sind wieder einmal die Ärmsten der Armen. Schuld an der Misere sind aber nicht nur die Republikaner?? Kommentar von Yascha Mounk vom 02.08.2011 in The European Magazin http://www.theeuropean.de/yascha-mounk/7569-us-finanzkompromiss#7569


Aus: LabourNet, 3. August 2011



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