[MCM] 52 US banks closed so far this year

U.S. regulators close seven banks Fri Jul 3, 2009 12:15am EDT By JoAnne Allen http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE56165S20090703 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators closed seven institutions on Thursday, including six banks in Illinois controlled by one family and a small bank

[MCM] New evidence links Cheney/Bush to Plame's exposure

(After reading Jason Leopold's piece at Consortiumnews, see how the WashPost does the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203608.html) While shielding George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Justice Department lawyers let slip CIA leak case clues, reports Jaso

[MCM] Are we moving toward a cashless society?

>From Caroline Botsford: Hello, Mark, yes, they are closing the banks. Our financial system is being reorganized, wouldn't you agree? Aren't central bankers simply wringing in all the money to retool our banking system into a cashless society? There was something on the news earlier this week o

[MCM] Deadly incompetence

Here's a newscast from Las Vegas, about John Talley, a healthy 34-year-old killed by the swine flu virus. Note his friend's quote (in bold) in the penultimate paragraph. MCM Friend of Las Vegas H1N1 Victim Speaks Out http://www.lasve

[MCM] FEC disabled by the GOP

The FEC has been meticulously crippled by its three Republican commissioners. They've done so for the exact same reason that the GOP has blocked all efforts to conduct a thorough national census, and the reason why the Roberts Five are working now to neutralize the Voting Rights Act, and the rea

[MCM] Hard truths about Honduras

On June 30, the NYTimes ran an op-ed by Alvaro Vargas Llosa (son of the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa), in defense of the coup in Honduras: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/opinion/30Vargasllosa.html That piece was thoroughly misleading. Here, then, is a sharp response by John Gerassi, a profes

[MCM] Hundreds of CA homeless march for land rights (NPR)

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106226222&sc=nl&cc=ph-20090703>Now, this is more like it--the marching and the reporting. MCM Hundreds Of Calif. Homeless March For Land Rights by <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100569>Richa

[MCM] Charlie Savage on Obama's civil liberties record (Glenn Greenwald)

Salon Radio: Charlie Savage on Obama's civil liberties record (updated w/transcript) Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/07/02/savage/index1.html Back in February, The New York Times' Charlie Savage -- who won the Pulitzer

[MCM] Why Rumsfeld cut NO weapons systems

Book: Rumsfeld Didn't Cut Weapons Programs Because Of 'His Own Financial Situation' By Justin Elliott - June 30, 2009, 6:45PM Here's an intriguing detail from the new 685-page