100 Slaves 100 Enemies

• #musicmonday Henry Rollins on KCRW: http://21361.com/website/hrkcrw/ #
• Talking Points Memo's health care coverage: http://bit.ly/175e6y #
• New Post: Ellsberg & Solomon on Afghanistan http://bit.ly/ZVNQo #
• RT @jeremyscahill @allisonkilkenny uh, wtf?! http://bit.ly/MzymT Blackwater Founder implicated in murder – looks like the page has crashed #
• RT @jeremyscahill – Common Dreams has it, too: http://bit.ly/31KVUz #
• New Post: Scahill on Olberman Di… http%3A%2F%2Fwww.100slaves100enemies.net%2F2009%2F08%2F05%2Fscahill-on-olberman-discussing-blackwater%2F #
• Scahill discusses Blackwater on Olberman (video) & Democracy Now (this morning) http://bit.ly/41GDlW #
• RT @glenngreenwald Bolton: a creepy high school poli-sci teacher who thinks policies that kill people = after school detention. #

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New York City has been constructing a park in the sky. What used to be a structure for freight trains that would run overhead has now been transformed into The High Line.

The Beatles catalog has been remastered.

Dean Baker reminds us that anyone who did as bad a job as The Federal Reserve (e.g. causing 10 million people to lose their job) would be fired.

Glenn Greenwald discusses the depressing fact that Attorney General Eric Holder will only be investigating low-level interrogators instead of the authors and enablers of the torture memos. And in an unrelated update at the end of this post Greenwald reiterates:

last month, the Obama White House adopted the Bush/Cheney view of White House secrecy to insist on its right to conceal the identity of coal executives visiting the White House to discuss clean air policies. The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent today notes that the Obama White House is now doing something similar but worse: namely, refusing to disclose the list of health care industry executives with whom White House officials have been meeting to discuss health care policy — even as Obama’s vows of “White House transparency” remain on the White House website.