Link: http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/Distrust-Media-Edges-Record-High.aspx

For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point.

Link: http://america-hijacked.com/2010/09/29/wake-up-america/

Let us suppose for a moment that an individual enjoying the full confidence and trust of the United States government was given access to the most secret information possessed by the US military, to include how it would react to an attack by an aggressor armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Let us further suppose that that individual violated his trust in the most egregious and vile fashion, offering to sell the information to anyone, but eventually settling on a nation ostensibly friendly to the US but not in any way a formal ally. The individual then proceeded to deliver defense secrets literally by the carload, not only information that might plausibly have been construed as relevant to the buyer’s own security, but also strategic defense information that could conceivably have led to the deaths of millions of American citizens.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/09/201092993840748931.html

Tracy Molm sometimes has a hard time paying rent, so it came as a surprise when American security forces banged on her door at 7am one morning, and searched her apartment under suspicions she provided material support to a terrorist organisation. Warrants indicate that investigators believe Molm and at least seven other activists from the Minnesota anti-war committee and other groups provided material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), groups the US considers terrorist organisations.

Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/texas.fort.hood.deaths/?hpt=T2

Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top of 14 other suicides on the base this year. Base officials called a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the problem of suicides at the huge base in central Texas.

Link: http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/aid-groups-gulf-experiencing-troubling-number-health-problems-compilation-video

All four members of Project Gulf Impact were in hospital after “CHEMICAL POISONING” (VIDEO). CHSL Radio program cancelled: Kindra Arnesen “very ill with staph”; Joannie Hughes in hospital, doctor “worried about neurotoxins” (VIDEO). 30% of coastal residents surveyed from Louisiana to FL said health “Significantly Affected” by oil disaster — Doctors didn’t realize problem would be “that big” (VIDEO). Things are getting worse, way worse… it’s just shocking — and no one is doing anything (VIDEO)

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-29/dollar-is-near-five-month-low-versus-euro-on-fed-debt-purchase-speculation.html

Brian Dolan, chief strategist at FOREX.com, a unit of online currency trading firm Gain Capital in Bedminster, New Jersey, talks about U.S. calls for China to allow its currency to appreciate. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation prodding China to raise the value of the yuan, as Democratic lawmakers pressed election-season proposals they said would increase factory employment. Dolan also discusses the outlook for the euro, dollar and yen. He speaks with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)
The dollar headed for its biggest monthly loss since 2008 versus the euro as signs the U.S. economy is slowing damped demand for the nation’s assets.

Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0929/Feds-radiating-Americans-Mobile-X-ray-vans-hit-US-streets

As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2010/09/29/the-time-has-arrived-is-rebellion-at-han

The countdown clock and the last chance for “The Founder’s Legacy” of patriotic Americans willing to lay it all on the line for a new Republic, has hit 0:00. Rebellion is no longer an option, a late night “what if” discussion around a bottle of good wine and snacks. It is now the mandated response of oath keeping citizens and Constitutional defending men and women who have heard Paul Revere in 2010. That “watchman,” who made the most famous call to prepare for rebellion in the history of the world, has come again, through all of us who have been riding across our land for several years and warned of the arrival of this most critical moment.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/pers-s29.shtml

Amid signs of increasing desperation in the nine-year US war in Afghanistan, Washington has simultaneously launched a major offensive against the country’s second-largest city, Kandahar, and stepped up its attacks in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), escalating the bloodshed on both sides of the border.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/cens-s29.shtml

Figures released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau reveal sharply worsening conditions for tens of millions of Americans under the impact of the economic crisis and the accumulation of vast wealth by a relative handful. Some of the figures, for particular states and regions, are simply staggering. Michigan residents experienced a 6.2 percent decrease in median income in the course of one year, from 2008 to 2009, while Illinois has suffered a 24 percent increase in poverty in the past decade. More than 36 percent of Detroit’s population officially lives in poverty.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/army-s29.shtml

Pre-trial military hearings began September 27 into atrocities committed by US Army soldiers over the past year in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In all, twelve soldiers face 76 charges, including murder, assault, dismembering corpses, filing false reports, drug abuse, and other crimes. Five of the soldiers were arrested in June for targeting civilians at random while out on patrol, killing them, then covering up the crimes by planting weapons on the victims, falsifying paperwork, and lying to superior officers.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/29/uk-us-fall-forbes-best-countries-business

Forbes study shows Denmark remains best country to do business in while Ireland takes sixth place from UK. Forbes's annual ranking of the Best Countries for Business has seen the US and UK fall to ninth and tenth place respectively. Denmark is still the best country in the world to do business, according to a Forbes report, but the US has dropped from second to ninth place, while Hong Kong has gone the other way. The UK has fallen from sixth to tenth place, replaced by Ireland, in Forbes's fifth annual ranking of the Best Countries for Business.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/148340/corporate_mortgage_scams_threaten_to_crash_an_already_shaky_housing_market/

The Great Recession may have ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, but U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner isn't buying it. And neither are recently revealed foreclosure and eviction scams at GMAC Mortgage, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other too-big-to-fail financial firms swimming in both American taxpayer cash and the Federal Reserve Bank's divine intervention.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/29/we-wont-settle-for-less

It's up to people outside Washington to build the struggles that will make a difference. "I'VE BEEN out of work since April, but there were a lot of people in line with me who were out longer than that," Larry Smizer told the Chicago Tribune as he stood alongside thousands of workers who lined up at 8 a.m. for a chance at one of the 400 jobs at a Chicago-area Ford plant this summer.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52996

"Sometimes, for a day or two we don't even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There's a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread or something simple, on credit. I owe them a lot of money for the food I've brought from them, but I still can't pay them."