World-News

Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/426781


From Information Clearing House

The attorney general's evasions on waterboarding are repugnant, and set a dangerous global precedent.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0074.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey

ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said a military strike to settle the Iranian nuclear issue would complicate the situation and send the Middle East region into a vicious cycle of violence.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/05/content_7572483.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

The current military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan will have long-term implications for US defence strategy as Washington will find it increasingly difficult to recruit allies for extended campaigns, a key defence analysis report said Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/1z4ld


From Information Clearing House

Amos said that many Iraqis capable of transforming the country have left. "Two million people have fled Iraq,'' which she described as "still in shambles.

http://snipurl.com/1z4l5


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. commander in Iraq's central province of Diyala has said he has witnessed no hostile act from the Iranian side in the region over the past 10 months, a French weekly reported on Monday.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=162746


From Information Clearing House



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

Republican White House hopeful John McCain yesterday insisted the US must maintain a long-term presence in Iraq and accused Democratic rivals of caving in to the forces of "evil".

http://snipurl.com/1z4l1



McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire.

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


From Information Clearing House



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

The Iraqi government is inviting major oil multinationals to participate for the first time in the development of the oil industry, without waiting for the passage of crucial but controversial hydrocarbons legislation.

http://snipurl.com/1z4ky


From Information Clearing House



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

By Leon Hadar

President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons - and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran before the November election could constitute another failure of imagination. Cato's Leon Hadar suggests questions the press should ask the presidential candidates about what they think the American response should be to various scenarios in the region - including a Gulf-of-Tonkin-like alleged provocation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19296.htm



Iran General Staff fear U.S. attack while Bush in power

"While Bush is in power, that is throughout 2008, U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic is still likely," Gholamali Rashid said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080206/98564293.html


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0206-12.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0206-08.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=maverick

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6868/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6877/

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The Machine Gun of Capitalism

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new home sales across the nation are plummeting faster than Britney Spears' serotonin levels. A nasty recession is either creeping or flooding in, depending on your perspective and how recently you purchased your home and/or tried to dump your Google stock.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19298.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Morford

Bad Boys, Nasty Boys
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6869/

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Some Grim Statistics
http://www.michaelparenti.org/HiddenHolocaust.html

The Stolen Presidential Elections
http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html

Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy
http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/dr-michael-parenti-terrorism-globalism-and-conspiracy/

Michael Parenti Discusses Contrary Notions
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7301033851356115963&q=michael+parenti&ei=5EQ7SKO8AoGkigKglIFU


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6872/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+LaMarche

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6882/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6886/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6871/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture+flights
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Egelko

From In These Times, Chris Toensing writes: "Quick: Who is the strategic victor, to date, of the war in Iraq? Nearly everyone outside the Bush administration (and perhaps some within it) would answer: the Islamic Republic of Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608H.shtml



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

For Truthout, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III writes: "On January 28, 2008, President Bush gave his final State of the Union Address in which he was long on articulating issues and problems facing America but short on real solutions. He talked about difficult decisions between peace and war, keeping America competitive in the global economy, providing healthcare for all Americans and the overall welfare of American citizens. Unfortunately, very little, if anything that the President has done or proposed has made the average American safer, more competitive, or improved their long term health and financial well being."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

Paul Elias, writing for The Associated Press, reports, "Bush administration lawyers cited national security concerns Tuesday in urging a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Boeing
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Elias

Die Bundespolizei wird Presseangaben zufolge künftig automatisch Zugriff auf die Daten von 29 Millionen Schiffspassagieren haben, die pro Jahr einen deutschen Hafen ansteuern oder von dort abreisen. Das sehe das Gesetz "zur Änderung seeverkehrsrechtlicher, verkehrsrechtlicher und anderer Vorschriften mit Bezug zum Seerecht" vor, dem der Bundestag jüngst zugestimmt hat, so die "Frankfurter Rundschau".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17238

http://tinyurl.com/3bancg

HLV INFO 10/AT
6-02-2008

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/ct/m7AJ1Fs14zQq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank

Neil Irwin and Tomoeh Murakami Tse, of The Washington Post, report: "the stock market plummeted yesterday after a report that businesses that account for a vast portion of the US economy are shrinking. A key index of activity at non-manufacturing businesses fell in January to its lowest level since the 2001 recession, as a downturn that began in the housing and financial markets spread to industries including hospitality, banking, insurance, telecom and retail."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stock+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing

Anne Flaherty, of The Associated Press, reports: "the military's top uniformed officer says U.S. forces are 'significantly stressed' by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan while simultaneously trying to stem the tide of violent extremism elsewhere. 'The pace of ongoing operations has prevented our forces from fully training for the full spectrum of operations and impacts our ability to be ready to counter future threats,' Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mullen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anne+Flaherty

Richard Simon, of The Los Angeles Times, writes: "scores of climate change bills are stacking up in the legislative queue. Numerous hearings, the most recent on the polar bear, are highlighting the issue. And some regulation-averse corporate executives have even called on Congress to step in. But despite the dramatic shift in the Capitol in favor of doing something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming legislation remains a long shot for this year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Simon

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020608_gook_comments.htm



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6. Februar 2008

Wie jetzt gemeldet wurde, sind die Sanktionen gegen Hartz IV-Beziehende binnen eines Jahres um fast 60 Prozent gestiegen. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Hartz IV ist nicht nur Armut per Gesetz, sondern auch Repression und Schikane gegen Erwerbslose und muss daher überwunden werden. Arbeitslosigkeit ist kein individuelles Problem, sondern ein gesellschaftliches. Wenn die Bundesregierung durch ihr Konzept des Förderns und Forderns dieses zum Motivationsproblem der einzelnen Erwerbslosen erklärt, schiebt sie die Verantwortung dafür ab. Sie zwingt Erwerbslose in Armutslöhne und prekäre Beschäftigung, was nicht nur den Druck auf die Erwerbslosen, sondern auch auf die Beschäftigten in diesen Bereichen weiter erhöht. Durch die von der großen Koalition unternommenen Verschärfungen des Sanktionsregimes bei Hartz IV verstärkt sich diese Spirale aus Druck, Schikane und Armut. Die Bundesregierung kann sich nicht damit herausreden, dass die Sanktionen eine Entscheidung der Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen der ARGEN sind. Die Beschäftigten werden von der Bundesebene zum Einsparen verpflichtet – koste es was es wolle an menschlichem Leid. Schuld sind die Zielvereinbarungen, die die Bundesagentur für Arbeit mit den Jobcentern abschließt und die vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit mit erarbeitet werden. Diese sehen Einsparungen von bis zu acht Prozent vor. Diese Zielvereinbarungen müssen daher dringend geändert werden. Die Bundesagentur hat zu aller erst einen sozialpolitischen Auftrag. Statt Erwerbslose mit immer drakonischeren Sanktionen zu traktieren, muss endlich eine Politik gemacht werden, die die Arbeitslosigkeit an ihren Wurzeln packt und die Würde von Erwerblosen wie Beschäftigten respektiert. DIE LINKE fordert deshalb eine repressionsfreie, bedarfsorientierte soziale Grundsicherung, eine Politik für gute Arbeit und einen öffentlichen Beschäftigungssektor.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bessere-arbeitsmarktpolitik-statt-repressionen-und-schikane-gegen-erwerbslose/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grundsicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
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National Animal Identification System: Update

by Doreen Hannes

To help get all animals (and your real estate) into the program, the USDA will be focusing on having all the breed registries roll their identification into NAIS beginning in March of 2008. I have checked out the American Dairy Goat Association site and on the USDA link it will show a beautiful placement of AIN USAXXXXXXXXXXXX (it is indeed 15 characters) for your registered dairy goats. Also of note, membership numbers are conveniently seven digit numbers. I guess it's a good thing all of my registered goats died in a horrible barn fire........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hannes/doreen6.htm



Most People Don't Want to Hear the Truth

by Doreen Hannes

Finally there are people who don't want to look at the elephant even though it's standing on their foot. We all have plenty of these people in our lives. When told about something like the NAIS with all of its effects on choice for consumers, loss of rural jobs and businesses, privacy issues, consolidation of agriculture and effects on property rights, they say things like "I want to be sure my burger is free from terrorism." These people will trade your real liberty for their false sense of security in a heartbeat. They think they get the truth from the evening news, believe that you can't understand issues without a doctorate, and that the government gives us rights. They are absolutely sure there are no absolutes.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hannes/doreen7.htm



Doreen Hannes on the National Animal Identification System

Doreen with Carl Wilson discussing how government wants to control the food
http://www.kajo.com/features/talk_shows/programs/kajo080213.mp3


From NewsWithViews.com



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Animal+Identification+System
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USDA
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America’s Gulag and the good war

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

02/05/08

The long-running ‘progressive’ stance on America’s 21st century imperial adventures can be reduced to this simple dichotomy: Afghan war good, Iraq war bad. And for all progressives who want to be regarded as ’serious,’ the Iraq war is bad because it has distracted us from the real war, the good war, in Afghanistan. This theme has been sounded over and over by the ‘progressive’ candidates throughout the presidential campaign. It is the opinion of a sizable majority of the U.S. population, which has clearly repudiated the Iraq war but still supports the Afghan war...

http://counterpunch.org/floyd02052008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gulag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

02/05/08

High rentals and purchase prices for commercial real estate increases costs for enterprise, which reduces its profits, and thus results in less economic investment. In a global economy, many enterprises cannot raise prices by as much as the increase in costs. Furthermore, even though the Fed has lowered short-term interest rates, the huge mortgage loan losses has drained banks of loanable funds, and borrowing has become riskier, which reduces credit availability. All these elements point to a crumbling of the commercial real estate market in 2008. Even in the booming Manhattan real estate market, the rise in office rentals has slowed, and the credit contraction has made it more difficult to obtain loans for purchasing condominium offices. Apartment rentals have risen as folks who now can’t buy a house are renting instead. But as unemployment rises, then those laid off will move to more crowded and less expensive dwellings, vacancies will rise, and the price of apartment buildings will fall. Less business will also result in less hotel use. Lower sales volumes will reduce rentals and prices for shopping centers...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003219.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+slowdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=real+estate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+E.+Foldvary

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

02/05/08

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!147.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan

MSNBC

02/05/08

President Bush will veto terrorist surveillance legislation pushed by Senate Democrats that doesn’t give retroactive legal protections to telecommunication providers who let the government spy on e-mails and phone calls involving people in the U.S., officials said Tuesday. The veto threat, detailed in a 12-page letter from Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, was sent to the Senate as lawmakers grapple with how to update a 1978 surveillance law without violating privacy rights...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23012645/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush veto threatened for US surveillance bills that do not protect telecommunications companies

President George W. Bush issued a veto threat Tuesday in the debate to update terrorist surveillance laws, rebuking Democratic plans to deny retroactive legal protections for telecommunications providers that let the government spy on U.S. residents after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://snipurl.com/1z4mj


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+McConnell

USA Today

02/05/08

Cases of racial harassment filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission increased 24% last year, a time of racial turmoil that included the Jena Six controversy and an outbreak of noose displays. At the same time, state and city lawmakers have stepped up efforts to make it a crime to intimidate someone with a noose. And the Justice Department, which set up a network to link investigators reviewing noose incidents, has indicted a Louisiana teen on hate crime charges for dangling a noose from his pickup and driving past demonstrators after a protest in Jena, La., in September...

http://tinyurl.com/274ygd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jena+Six
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hate+crime

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/270.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+jails

According to CNN's Chris Isidore, "A growing number of top economists believe that the US economy has now toppled into recession."

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



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2540a4460a15ba50?hl=en



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

https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=19340598



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7141/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hayden

http://www.lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli11.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north601.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs74.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Higgs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/higgs

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7145/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d65891385cd6df23?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Diebold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp

Das US-Maut-System dient auch der Überwachung.
http://tinyurl.com/2p7xy8



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/af0c9f3f443b5620?hl=en

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US acknowledges use of waterboarding

Cañon City Daily Record

02/05/08

Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators. Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects. In congressional testimony Tuesday, CIA Director Michael Hayden became the first administration official to publicly acknowledge the agency used waterboarding on detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...

http://tinyurl.com/26ksd6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://tinyurl.com/327wn8



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
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In a sharp departure from U.S. policy, a leading French diplomat has called on the international coalition sponsoring U.N. sanctions against Iran to support a larger Iranian role in the Middle East.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41064


From Information Clearing House



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

Bush asked for $70 billion as an "emergency allowance" for war costs for the first part of the budget year, which begins Oct. 1. The White House said it would request more - probably at least another $100 billion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7280577


From Information Clearing House

By Seymour M. Hersh

"'You are aware of the recent Israeli statements about Syria. The Israelis are extremely serious about Iran and its nuclear program, and I believe that, if the United States government is unsuccessful in its diplomatic dealings with Iran, the Israelis will take it out militarily.' He then told the envoy that he wanted him to convey this to his government-that the Israelis were serious.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19294.htm



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

Does This Video Confirm That Bush Intends To Attack Iran?



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19293.htm



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

By Stephen Soldz

Congress should demand access to these documents to determine the extent to which attacks resulting in civilian casualties were authorized, potentially providing insight into who was responsible for possible war crimes committed in the course of the occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19290.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Soldz

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

When Saad Tawfiq watched then-US Secretary of state Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, he shed bitter tears as he realized he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19291.htm



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