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Informant: Dorothee Krien

Steven Rosenfeld, of Alternet, reports: "Two-thirds of Ohio counties have destroyed or lost their 2004 presidential ballots and related election records, according to letters from county election officials to the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. The lost records violate Ohio law, which states federal election records must be kept for 22 months after Election Day, and a US District Court order issued last September that the 2004 ballots be preserved while the court hears a civil rights lawsuit alleging voter suppression of African-American voters in Columbus."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107C.shtml

"Over the past six years, a quiet revolution has occurred in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing to corporations and away from the long-established practice of keeping operations in US government hands, with only select outsourcing of certain jobs to independently contracted experts ... The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed in May that 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors," writes R.J. Hillhouse for The Nation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107A.shtml



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Laser printer toner particle risk -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6923915.stm

(artjar)

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0731-02.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2877/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2890/



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Veteranen aus den Kriegen im Afghanistan und Irak klagen gegen die US-Regierung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25841/1.html

Gleitende Arbeitszeit
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25844/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nebeneinkünfte

Jenseits des Konfliktes um Krisenherde wie den Irak oder den Iran wächst in Europa der Unmut gegen die US-Außenpolitik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25852/1.html

Ein Konzern und die "gezielte Irreführung der Öffentlichkeit"
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/93635



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bertelsmann

By Louise Dunderdale

CONCERNED: Sarah Harding and the mast protest team in action

RESIDENTS staged a protest on Saturday against a proposal for a mobile telephone mast in Merley.

Mum-of-two Sarah Harding, of Lynwood Drive, said they were unhappy and they set up the Lynwood Drive Residents Group to fight the application.

Read More...
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1583726.0.protest_held_in_phone_mast_fight.php

"Federal agents searched the home of US Senator Ted Stevens on Monday, focusing on records related to his relationship with an oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation," reports Dan Joling for the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107L.shtml



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William Fisher reports for Truthout, "Amid claims of executive privilege by President Bush in the firing of US attorneys, a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties groups has published a new report charging that the administration's stonewalling is simply part of a six-year pattern of unprecedented government secrecy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107K.shtml



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Elana Schor and Susan Crabtree report for The Hill: "The Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, emerged from a crucial Monday briefing and gave the Bush administration 18 hours to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's congressional testimony ... Specter aides released a statement late Monday that suggested a bombshell to come on Tuesday afternoon."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107J.shtml



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„Was haben die Menschen verbrochen, dass man sie so ohne Lohn arbeiten lässt? Welches Vergehens haben sie sich schuldig gemacht, dass ein Aufseher darauf achtet, wie sie ohne Lohn im Schlamm und unter Tage arbeiten müssen? Warum bekommen die Einen ihre (oft leichtere) Arbeit bezahlt, und die Anderen nicht? "Oberhessischen Presse" vom 19.7.07. Wie in nebenstehendem Artikel zu lesen war, mussten seit 2006 HartzIV-Empfänger schwerste körperliche Arbeiten bei widrigen Wetterbedingungen ausführen - und bekamen keinen Lohn dafür!...“ Kommentar zu einem Skandal in Marburg auf der Sonderseite zu 1-Euro-Jobs bei verdi Mittelhessen.

http://mittelhessen.verdi.de/themen_von_a_bis_z/eineurojobs


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Juli 2007

Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

07/30/07

Historically, October has been the month for big financial busts. But this year, October could come early. Investors and ordinary citizens have good reason to worry about a perfect economic storm: a deepening loss of confidence in the dollar leading to higher interest rates; the higher rates bringing a crashing end to a hedge-fund, private equity, and merger binge that has depended heavily on cheap borrowed money; the boom in bait-and-switch mortgages ending in a morning-after of rising defaults and sinking housing values; inflationary pressures in food, oil, and other commodities leading to still higher interest rates — all unsettling stock and credit markets and putting a new squeeze on consumers borrowed to the hilt. The historical parallels aren’t comforting...

http://tinyurl.com/37gtkr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Kuttner

The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

07/30/07

When President Abraham Lincoln uttered these 11 words in his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, he could not have known they would be transformed into the popular perception of the Constitution for the United States. This perception has become so ingrained in the minds of modern Americans that it is almost sacrilegious to question it. Since the federal government derives all its power from the Constitution, and that government claims it was granted unlimited power over the lives of the people, the true nature of the Constitution should be important to every American. Therefore, the author decided to construct a simple 2 question quiz to help the reader determine if this perception is fact or fiction...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/07/30/greenslade.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Greenslade

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/30/07

What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact ‘experts’ to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment ‘experts’ now. Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time — this one in the NYT from ‘liberal’ Brookings Institution ’scholars’ Ken Pollack and Mike O’Hanlon...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/30/brookings/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brookings+Institution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

MSNBC

07/30/07

The number of U.S. homes facing foreclosure surged 58 percent in the first six months of the year, the latest sign of mounting problems in the mortgage industry, a data firm said Monday. In all, 573,397 properties across the nation reported some sort of foreclosure activity in the first half of this year, including receiving notices of default, auction sale notices or being repossessed by lenders, Irvine-based RealtyTrac Inc. said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20041753/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surge

"We could easily surpass 2 million foreclosure filings by the end of the year, which would represent a year-over-year increase of over 65 percent," said RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/30/ap3968151.html



More People Expected to Default on Mortgage: Subprime

"Alt-A", jumbo interest-only and option adjustable-rate mortgages account for about 25 percent of all outstanding mortgage debt - about $2.5 trillion. Of that amount, about $1.4 trillion is at serious risk of default, Zandi says.

http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007072702?OpenDocument


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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Jeff Barnard of The Associated Press says, "Acting on an agreement with the timber industry, the Bush administration has decided to quit looking for little-known snails, lichens and other sensitive species before selling timber in Northwest national forests, setting up another round of litigation over a plan created to protect spotted owls and salmon."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/073007EB.shtml



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Truthout's Jason Leopold reports: "David Iglesias, the former US attorney for New Mexico who was fired last year along with eight other federal prosecutors, will testify Wednesday before the House Ethics Committee about a phone call he received from Representative Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico), who queried Iglesias about the status of public corruption cases he was pursuing in the state."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073007R.shtml



An Unsolved Killing and the US Attorney Scandal

"Tom Wales was not supposed to be home on the night of October 11, 2001. Wales, an assistant United States attorney in Seattle, had planned to have dinner and spend the evening with his girlfriend, Marlis DeJongh, a court reporter who lived downtown. But that afternoon Wales called DeJongh and said that he had projects he needed to work on at home. In the evening, after leaving his office, near the federal courthouse, he returned to his Craftsman-style, wood-frame house in a quiet neighborhood known as Queen Anne," writes Jeffrey Toobin in next month's The New Yorker.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073007S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Iglesias
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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

in der Anlage erhalten Sie eine Presseerklärung der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V. zu Ihrer Verwendung.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/verkaufstrick_mobilfunkbetreiber.doc


Hans Schütz
Pressesprecher

Ein privates Handynetz für jedermann
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,497165,00.html

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Jeder kann sein eigener UMTS-Provider werden
http://derstandard.at/?id=2981089



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=UMTS

The Washington Post explores Gonzales' "decades of dishonesty", and explores his long relationship as Bush's human shield.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/58281/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Poll: 54 per cent of respondents think the U.S. will be safer from terrorism in the long run if it stays out of other countries' affairs in the Middle East, up five points since October.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16656


From Information Clearing House

If there were any doubt in your mind that some People of Influence in Washington think that a U.S. military attack on Iran is a reasonable proposition, consider this: the Heritage Foundation has just published a paper attempting to reassure policymakers that the economic fallout from a U.S. attack on Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/36ftrm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heritage+Foundation

The sources say the officials stressed the words "this year," meaning in 2007. That, however, does not rule out the possibility of military intervention in 2008, right until January 2009, when Bush's term in the White House comes to an end.

http://tinyurl.com/2tov5b


From Information Clearing House

The Army is now offering a $20,000 "QS" - or "Quick Shipper" -- bonus to new and prior service recruits joining, selecting any job and shipping out for training within 30 days.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/13766925/detail.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recruiting

The US agency overseeing reconstruction in Iraq has told the BBC that economic mismanagement and corruption there is equivalent to "a second insurgency".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6922347.stm


From Information Clearing House

The recess leaves Bush with little to show Americans after sending nearly 30,000 more troops to Iraq to give Iraqi leaders breathing space to reach a political accommodation.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30808071.htm


From Information Clearing House

In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/26/cheney/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

By Uri Avnery

Last week, James Wolfensohn gave a long interview to Haaretz. He poured out his heart and summed up, with amazing openness, his months as special envoy of the US, Russia, the EU and the UN (the "Quartet") in this country - the same job entrusted now to Tony Blair. The interview could have been entitled "A Warning to Tony". Among other revelations, he disclosed that he was practically fired by the clique of Neo-cons, whose ideological leader is Paul Wolfowitz.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18096.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uri+Avnery

A Review By Stephen Lendman

Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are corporations, more US-based ones than from any other country. Noam Chomsky calls them "private tyrannies." - They're run by wealthy and powerful figures comprising, along with other elites, the top 1% of the nation's affluent. Today they own 40 - 50% of the country's wealth in the form of stocks, bonds, land, natural resources, business assets and other investments. In contrast, 90% of American families have little or no net worth after mortgage and other debt burdens are taken into account.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18095.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

Hijack The Democrats

By David Michael Green

Huge numbers of Americans are disgusted with both the Republican and the Democratic parties right now, and are hungrily clamoring for a third alternative. I know, I know - imagine that! What's not to like about one party that stands for greed, murder and destruction, and another that stands by for greed, murder and destruction?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18094.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in "absolute poverty", according to a report by Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi groups.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18091.htm

Patrick Cockburn in Sulaymaniyah

Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War. Four million people, one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not they will be killed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18097.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=32990


Informant: NHNE

Lets get this happening in OUR cities!!

Bob Banner
HopeDance
Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope


From: Martin Greenhut

Subject: San Francisco Subsidized Home Food Gardening Program

VICTORY GARDENS

VICTORY GARDENS 2007+ calls for a more active role for cities in shaping agricultural and food policy. It is a concept currently in development with the city of San Francisco that would provide a subsidized home gardening program for individuals and neighborhoods. This program offers tools, training & materials for urban dwellers to participate in a city-wide transformation of underutilized backyards- turning them into productive growing spaces. The project draws from the historical model of the 1940's American Victory Garden program to provide a basis for developing urban agriculture as a viable form of sustainable food practice in the city.

The program is a two year pilot project that supports the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops and unused land into food production areas. VG2007+ has the mission to create and support a citywide network of urban farmers by (1) growing, distributing and supporting starter kits for home gardeners, (2) educating through lessons, exhibitions and web sites and (3) starting and maintaining a city seed bank.

The program seeks the power to reinhabit some of the original Victory Garden space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and perform the duties of development, maintenance, and operation.

http://www.futurefarmers.com/victorygardens/


Other urls to check out:

Cutting Out Fossil Fuels by Building Community
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/58/article4.html

The War Garden Victorious
by Charles Lathrop Pack (1919)
http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/52/article19.html

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/8546-july-23rd-salee-story

Please take the time to watch this very touching short video (link above) about Salee, a beautiful little ten-year old Iraqi girl who lost both legs in a U.S. missile strike on her house, as she was playing hopscotch outside. Her brother and her best friend were both blown to pieces in this same attack. She is now in Greenville, South Carolina for medical treatment. She was brought there by Cole Miller of NO MORE VICTIMS. Please support Cole and NO MORE VICTIMS by going to: http://www.nomorevictims.org - Cole has partnered with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on this video.

You can also watch Cole's excellent 15-minute film called NO MORE VICTIMS at: http://www.nomorevictims.org




Salee (Sally)

November 7, 2006 – Hasswa, Iraq: Salee, a ten-year-old girl, was playing outside her home with her brother, cousin and some friends. US jets circled overhead. Suddenly the jets fired three missiles, apparently at two passenger vehicles. One of the missiles hit Salee's home, killing her brother and blowing off both of Salee's legs.

No More Victims has arranged for Salee to receive surgical and prosthetics services in Greenville, South Carolina. This medical treatment is unavailable to her in Iraq.

Thanks to the generosity of Shriner’s Hospital and the hard work of community organizers Ann Cothran, Selena Franks, and a coalition of South Carolina groups, Salee will at last receive the medical care she so urgently needs.


Cole Miller - Director of No More Victims
http://www.nomorevictims.org - musicalcole @pacbell.net - 323-644-2889

http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/no-more-victims
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bravenewfoundation



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http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/david_hyde_alzheimer.htm



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http://prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/300707_b_Incarceration.htm


Informant: Neo Mulder



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=incarceration

http://ga3.org/ct/y120pgF1YX-8/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Scher
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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

Progressives must consider a new zeitgeist: An America of declining power and influence.

http://ga3.org/ct/yd20pgF1YX-i/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire

by Paul Harris, The Observer UK

Welcome to Richistan, USA, where the American Dream is a nightmare of inequality.
http://ga3.org/ct/h120pgF1YX-o/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Harris

The 'Genocide' Card
http://ga3.org/ct/Up20pgF1YX-n/



Coked Up

Fighting to end the Vietnam War was a boon to Democratic political fortunes. Why do our pundits still cherish the up-is-down argument that it was a bane?

http://ga3.org/ct/U120pgF1YX-U/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rick+Perlstein