World-News

http://tinyurl.com/2nrwup



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5AKnLeDmMw


Informant: Frank



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

Patrick Cockburn, reporting for The Independent UK, writes, "Reconciliation between Sunni and Shia, seen by the US as essential for political progress in Iraq, is not happening."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508B.shtml



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

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30768


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Vor dem Hintergrund neuer Pannen im schleswig-holsteinischen Atomkraftwerk Krümmel kritisiert Grünen-Bundestagsfraktionschefin Renate Künast die deutschen Betreiber. "Der Brand im Pannenreaktor Krümmel entlarvt die falsche Werbekampagne der Atomlobby", sagte Künast der "Berliner Zeitung". Atomkraft sei ein unkalkulierbares Risiko und kein Klimaschutz. "Die Vorstände von Vattenfall, RWE, E.ON und EnBW können sich ihre Charmeoffensive sparen: Wir sind doch nicht blöd", sagte Künast.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17224



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Krümmel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomlobby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraft

UNINFORMED CONSENT, Washington DC.

Rep. Dan Burton, Chair of Gov Reform Committee comments on vaccines and mercury showing a video of an autistic child in full melt down. - Followed by Dr. Andrew Wakefield MD UK, well-respected scientist, whose discovery of the vaccine strain measles virus in the gut of autistic children set off an international frenzy from public health authorities attempting to marginalize Wakefield for their own irresponsibility in refusing to address these issues with vaccines. Many believe public health authorities have become fronts for big pharma who profit unlimited amounts from the illnesses produced by the delivery of contaminants contained in vaccines like mercury
(thimerosal).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1VTYzLYy4


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=autism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=thimerosal

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0205-07.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0205-02.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extraordinary+rendition

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6859/

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The Boom Was a Bust for Ordinary People

In The Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich says: "It begins to sound a bit naughty - all this talk about the need to 'stimulate' the economy, as if we were discussing how to make a porn film. I don't mean to trivialize our economic difficulties or the need for effective government intervention, but we have to face a disconcerting fact: For years now, that strange stimulus-crazed beast, the economy, has been going its own way, increasingly disconnected from the toils and troubles of ordinary Americans."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Ehrenreich

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6843/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6864/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6863/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6866/

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CIA Admits Waterboarding Three Detainees

Randall Mikkelsen of Reuters reports: "The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Mikkelsen

Carlotta Gall and Andy Worthington, of The New York Times, report: "Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999. But in 2003, Mr. Hekmati was arrested by American forces in southern Afghanistan when, senior Afghan officials here contend, he was falsely accused by his enemies of being a Taliban commander himself. For the next five years he was held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he died of cancer on December 30th."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carlotta+Gall
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington

In an Associated Press report, we learn "President Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws banning sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, a federal judge ruled Monday. Navy officials did not immediately respond to the ruling by US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper. Mark Matsunaga, spokesman for the Navy's Pacific Fleet, headquartered in Hawaii, said officials needed time to review it before commenting."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508O.shtml

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Navy Must Comply With No-Sonar Rule

According to The Associated Press, "Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020508EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sonar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=whales

Kevin G. Hall, of McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "President Bush took office in 2001 with a budget surplus, but his final budget proposal envisions federal deficits of more than $400 billion a year for the next two years. As big as those numbers are, experts think that the administration is lowballing the deficits, and they put little stock in Bush's vow to balance the budget by 2012. 'I think the promise that it will be balanced by 2012 is ridiculous,' said Chris Edwards, the director of tax policy for the Cato Institute, a libertarian policy research group."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+deficits
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+G.+Hall

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, writes: "after California ordered a switch to paper ballots from touch-screen voting machines for Tuesday's primary, election officials in the sprawling, 7,200-square-mile Riverside County had to decide the best way to pick up the ballots so they could be centrally counted on time: helicopter or truck? They chose land rather than air, because the last time the helicopter had been grounded by fog. But then they encountered another problem: 60,000 absentee ballots had begun to fall apart at the fold lines."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ian+Urbina

Global warming crisis
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=888842


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation

International Herald Tribune — With jobs shrinking, housing prices plummeting and debt levels swelling, the same nation that pioneered the no-money-down mortgage suddenly confronts an unfamiliar imperative: More Americans must live within their means.

http://www.ourfuture.org/news-headline/credit-crunch-changing-life


From TomPaine.com



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage

by Lynn Stuter

Our elected representatives are so elected to carry out the business of the people of the United States within the construct of their oath of office: to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The United States Constitution is a short but well-written document enumerating the powers and responsibilities of the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, establishing the God-given rights of the people as the masters of the elected, not as the servants of the government. Yet what we.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter117.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Stuter

By Alex Ross

VILLAGERS in Coalpit Heath are celebrating after winning a hard fought campaign against plans for a new mobile phone mast.

Hundreds of people in the village had shown opposition to plans by Vodafone to erect a 12 metre high mast at the junction of Badminton Road and Woodside Road.

Residents claimed it would be "an eyesore" too close to their homes and had raised concerns about the possible impact on their health.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2gdstj

IMI-Mitteilung vom 1.2.2008 als Flyer:
http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1692


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Februar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Reformvertrag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Militarisierung

Los Angeles Times
by Matt Welch

02/01/08

It’s no mystery why independents gravitate toward McCain. He’s a country-first, party-second kind of guy who speaks bluntly and delights in poking fellow Republicans in the eye on issues such as campaign finance reform and global warming. But there’s a bizarre disconnect in the warm embrace between McCain and the electorate’s mavericks. They hate the Iraq war, while he’s willing to fight it for another century. The most pro-war presidential candidate in a decade is winning the 2008 GOP nomination thanks to the antiwar vote...

http://tinyurl.com/22qoc9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Welch

BBC

02/05/08

MPs and human rights campaigners have warned that the government is proposing to remove juries from some inquests and keep key evidence secret. …. When the Counter Terrorism Bill was unveiled in Parliament last month the focus naturally fell on the government’s plans to hold suspects for 42 days. Few noticed a clause in the bill which would allow the home secretary to create special inquests, without juries, for “reasons of national security” or “otherwise in the public interest”...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7225830.stm



Is something bugging you?

Independent [UK]
by staff

02/05/08

A much-needed public debate about covert surveillance has begun, thanks to the allegation that counter-terrorism police officers secretly recorded discussions between the Tooting MP, Sadiq Khan, and a constituent, Babar Ahmad. Mr Khan was visiting Mr Ahmad in Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes, where his constituent is awaiting extradition to the US on charges of supporting terrorism. If their conversation was recorded, this was a breach of the so-called “Wilson Doctrine” which forbids the secret surveillance of MPs without explicit ministerial approval. So was it a cock-up or a conspiracy?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-is-something-bugging-you-778040.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+justice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance

CNN

02/04/08

The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. But it’s an issue that raises major privacy concerns — what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans...

http://tinyurl.com/35gwc7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020408_election_cancelled.htm


Informant: shane_digital

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Dam Breaks, ABC News Covers Willie Nelson 9/11 Story
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020508_dam_breaks.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Willie+Nelson

AlterNet's Joshua Holland says, "According to the latest Washington Post poll, there's been a dramatic shift towards John McCain following his victory in the Florida GOP primary, and he now leads Mitt Romney by 24 points nationwide. With a number of winner-take-all primaries on the Republican side, he has a very good shot at wrapping up the nomination on February 5. It looks like conservatives - with a few raving-mad, mouth-breathing exceptions - have gone through denial, anger, bargaining and depression and come finally to accept their insubordinate nominee."


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020408S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Romney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=primaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ef9210dd6a9b2ef?hl=en


Informant: Gomez



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=caucus

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/271.html



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

Famed investor Jim Rogers sees hard times ahead for the United States - and a big opportunity looming in China.

http://snipurl.com/1yzga



House Of Cards

Steve Kroft reports on how the U.S. sub-prime mortgage meltdown, in which risky loans drove a housing boom that went bust, is now roiling capital markets worldwide.

http://snipurl.com/1yzgc From Information Clearing House http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Rogers http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Kroft

Does it herald the dissolution of these United States of America?
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/illusionofchoice/


From Information Clearing House

McCain's little ditty about "bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran" - not to mention his willingness to maintain U.S. troops in Iraq for decades, if not centuries - must also appeal to the neo-cons' neo-imperial agenda.

http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=102


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Washington has rejected responsibility for the millions of people Vietnam says have suffered direct or second-generation disabilities due to Agent Orange, with US officials pointing to a lack of mutually agreed data.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/01/6791/


From Information Clearing House

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US “Agent Orange” Ruling Disappoints Vietnamese; Pleases Monsanto, Dow Chemical
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/23/7252/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Agent+Orange
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

Russia's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Sunday warned of a new confrontation between Warsaw and Moscow in connection with plans by the United States to base a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=31463


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel.

http://snipurl.com/1yzf9


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Iran was scheduled to inaugurate its Oil Bourse this coming week. That probably isn't going to happen because all internet access in Iran was cut over the weekend (the undersea cables were chopped).

http://www.energybulletin.net/39844.html



Internet cable cut in Middle East: Should Iran be worried?

There has been some concern that the undersea internet cables, that have been cut recently, are perhaps no accident?

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51085


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+bourse

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday he was making progress in finishing an inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by those powers mulling new sanctions.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=31533


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei

When the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday for the next fiscal year, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago -- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to cost.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0071.html


From Information Clearing House

By Patrick J. Buchanan

It was to be the year of change, of new ideas, a new politics. Yet, as of today, it appears the Republican Party will be led into the future by a Beltway favorite of the media and Washington insider who has spent the last quarter of a century on Capitol Hill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19285.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan

By Manuel Valenzuela

If you are not angered, indeed enraged, by the current state of the United States, then you have not been paying attention, or you just do not care enough about the future your children will inherit, and have to live in.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19279.htm



An Absence of Will

By Manuel Valenzuela

The Year of Living Dangerously is upon us. The sorrows of empire have arrived. In this struggle, America entire is Ground Zero. The clock is ticking, the time is wasting. Would we rather live in tyranny, or fight for freedom? Live in our America, or the corporatist Amerika? In this fight for our way of life, which citizenry will show up: yesterday's version of the People, or today's? The choice, as always, is ours.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19295.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Manuel+Valenzuela

By Joseph Nevins

The death of Suharto, the strongman who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, is cause for reflection in the United States, particularly as Americans choose our next president and wrestle with the question of our nation's proper role in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19281.htm



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

By Patrick J. Buchanan

McCain says we may be in Iraq a hundred years and warns, "there's going to be other wars." Take the man at his word.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19286.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan

By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON

American military forces in Iraq were authorized to pursue former members of Saddam Hussein's government and terrorists across Iraq's borders into Iran and Syria, according to a classified 2005 document that has been made public by an independent Web site.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19276.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Schmitt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+R.+Gordon

By Pam Martens

With Wall Street capital disappearing as fast as foreclosures are climbing, one foreign head of state had an epiphany. French President Nicholas Sarkozy advanced the idea recently that the global financial system is "out of its mind."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19283.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarkozy

By Mike Whitney

In the last two weeks, the Gulf leaders have watched nervously while the Federal Reserve has slashed rates by a whopping 125 basis points. The cuts are steadily eroding the $1 trillion of capital they have invested in US Treasuries and securities. Indeed, the price of friendship is quite high.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19280.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/6f3d36119880e478?hl=en



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2c89dd3f24228e8b?hl=en



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind135.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/lind

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kenny/kenny71.html



http://www.google.com/search?q=Bob+Dole
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kenny

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger143.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/hornberger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski199.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul433.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02042008.html


Informant: Gomez



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

DOUGLAS BICKFORD



http://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/626565
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6knBCfezLWw
http://tinyurl.com/2h7ckh

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/59a80952ef907650



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/hintergrund/287864



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