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Lewis Seiler / Dan Hamburg
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/13/9596/

http://carolynbaker.net/site/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=534&pop=1&page=0#


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://www.constitutionaltv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=248


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Keith Olbermann on MSNBC Countdown: "Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on Senator John McCain's conclusion that it's 'not too important' when American forces come home from Iraq. Thoughts, offered more in sorrow, than in anger."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-should-know-better

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The death of US strategy in Iraq

Christian Science Monitor
by Robert Dujarric and Andy Zelleke

06/17/08

John McCain has set off a firestorm by suggesting that the timing of the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq is ‘not too important.’ What is important, he said, are the casualties in Iraq, pointing to long-term US troop presence in Japan, South Korea, and Germany. He should be commended for his ’straight talk’ in articulating what he believes, despite its unpopularity. But Senator McCain has yet to give the American people clear answers to three fundamental questions: What, exactly, are the political objectives of keeping large numbers of American soldiers in Iraq for years to come? What plausible outcome would benefit the United States enough to justify the wrenching costs of achieving those objectives? And what, concretely, is the strategy for getting there?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0617/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bosbach, Uhl und Wiefelspütz werben für Fingerabdruck im Personalausweis

Nach dem Koalitionskompromiss zum elektronischen Personalausweis werben Unions-Politiker für die freiwillige Registrierung von Fingerabdrücken. Von der zentralen Erfassung weiterer Daten wurde eher abgelenkt. Fraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) hob am Freitag (13. Juni) auf die Fälschungssicherheit ab, Innenexperte Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU) verwies auf "verschiedene praktische Nutzungsmöglichkeiten". Union und SPD hatten sich zuvor darauf verständigt, digitale Fingerabdrücke nur auf Wunsch des Inhabers im Ausweis zu speichern.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18171

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22. Juli 2008

Pläne des Innenministers beerdigen

Das Bundeskabinett will morgen über die Speicherung des elektronischen Fingerabdrucks im Personalausweis entscheiden. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte:

Der Fingerabdruck hat im Personalausweis nichts zu suchen. Dabei ist es egal, ob der Fingerabdruck freiwillig abgegeben werden kann oder wie beim Reisepass obligatorisch ist. Die Bundesregierung würde mit der Speicherung des Fingerabdrucks eine große Sicherheitslücke aufreißen. Durch die massenhafte Speicherung des Abdrucks würde eine kriminelle Fälschungsindustrie entstehen. Wie einfach es schon heute ist, sich fremde Fingerabdrücke zu beschaffen, hat der Chaos-Computer-Club (CCC) gezeigt. Mitglieder des CCC beschafften sich die Abdrücke Wolfgang Schäubles von einem Wasserglas. Heute sind im Internet Bauanleitungen für gefälschte Fingerabdrücke des Innenministers abrufbar. Jeder kann nun Schäubles Fingerabdruck überall hinterlassen. Die Speicherung des Fingerabdrucks würde den Personalausweis also nicht sicherer, sondern unsicherer machen. Zudem befürchte ich, dass die Fingerabdruckdaten künftig in einer weiteren Mega-Datenbank gespeichert werden könnten. Dieser Verdacht liegt nahe, denn der Innenminister hat sich bislang als Fanatiker in Sachen exzessiver Speicherung entpuppt. Die Bundesregierung sollte daher beim sicheren Personalausweis bleiben und die Pläne ihres Innenministers beerdigen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/plaene-des-innenministers-beerdigen/



23. Juli 2008

Unsicher, teuer, überflüssig

Das Kabinett hat heute die Einführung des neuen elektronischen Personalausweises beschlossen. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte (MdB):

DIE LINKE fordert, die Pläne für den elektronischen Personalausweis zu beerdigen. Die Einführung ist ein großer Fehler. Der Ausweis wird unsicherer, weil für alle verbindlich ein biometrisches Bild auf einem Chip gespeichert werden soll. Die sensiblen Daten können somit potenziell von Kriminellen ausgelesen und missbraucht werden. Problematisch ist auch die Speicherung der Fingerabdrücke. Zwar soll diese laut Innenminister freiwillig sein, jedoch ist zu befürchten, dass derjenige, der auf die Speicherung verzichtet, per se unter Verdacht gerät und Nachteile – beispielsweise bei Kontrollen – in Kauf nehmen muss. Damit ist die Freiwilligkeit eher fiktiv. Zudem gehe ich davon aus, dass die Bundesregierung schon jetzt insgeheim daran arbeitet, zentral auf die Fingerabdrücke zugreifen zu können. Es würde dem Politik-Stil von Wolfgang Schäuble entsprechen. Ich appelliere daher an alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger, auf die Speicherung des Fingerabdrucks zu verzichten. Zu allem Überfluss wird der neue Personalausweis auch noch teurer werden. Es ist mir unverständlich, wie der Innenminister den Menschen eine solch sinnlose Belastung auferlegen kann. Insgesamt ist der neue Personalausweis unnötig. Es gibt kein Sicherheitsproblem. Lediglich 88 Fälle von Ausweisfälschungen sind seit 2001 aufgeflogen, wie die Bundesregierung auf eine Kleine Anfrage der LINKEN hin zugeben musste. Es gibt auch keine internationale Verpflichtung für den neuen Ausweis, tatsächlich ist er ein nationaler Alleingang des Innenministers.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/unsicher-teuer-ueberfluessig/



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Nach der Grundsatzentscheidung des Obersten US-Gerichts zugunsten der Rechte von Strafgefangenen fordern deutsche Politiker die sofortige Schließung des US-Gefangenenlagers Guantanamo auf Kuba. Grünen-Chefin Claudia Roth sagte am Freitag (13. Juni) in Berlin, wenn der Oberste US-Gerichtshof nun feststelle, dass 'ein seit dem Mittelalter geltendes Grundrecht, das jedem Menschen die Anfechtung seiner Gefangenschaft vor einem Gericht erlaubt, auch für die Guantanamo-Häftlinge zu gelten hat', dann stelle es die Gesetzlosigkeit der Guantanamo-Politik von US-Präsident George W. Bush an den Pranger. Das US-Lager ist im Zuge des so genannten Krieges gegen den Terror eingerichtet worden, an dem sich die rot-grüne Bundesregierung intensiv beteiligte. Die Grünen-Führung setzte gegen den Widerstand von Teilen ihrer Basis und gegen den mehrheitlichen Willen der Bevölkerung Beschlüsse zur Kriegsbeteiligung Deutschlands - unter anderem in Afghansistan - durch. Im Zuge der offiziellen Anti-Terror-Politik wurden unter der rot-grünen Bundesregierung schrittweise auch zahlreiche Grundrechte eingeschränkt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18167



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Elliot Cohen for Truthdig: "John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is 'the end justifies the means,' and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons."

http://www.truthout.org/article/john-mccains-chilling-project-america



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Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "As Congress gears up to fund another year of war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is also readying a nearly half-billion-dollar aid package that would initiate a Columbia-like drug war in Mexico. The majority of funds would fuel the Mexican military, known for rampant human rights abuses and participation in organized crime. In May, the House and the Senate both approved versions of the drug-fighting legislation, dubbed 'Plan Mexico,' tucked into the 'Global War on Terror' supplemental spending bill. The House Foreign Affairs Committee simultaneously passed a bill authorizing $1.1 billion for Mexico over the next three years."

http://www.truthout.org/article/plan-mexico



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Ruling deals a severe blow to Bush administration.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1684



Guantanamo prisoners have rights - Supreme Court Michael Ratner: Ruling says US cannot move prisoners offshore to avoid constitution (1 of 2).

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1694

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A Victory for the Rule of the Law

Eugene Robinson writes for The Washington Post: "It shouldn't be necessary for the Supreme Court to tell the president that he can't have people taken into custody, spirited to a remote prison camp and held indefinitely, with no legal right to argue that they've been unjustly imprisoned - not even on grounds of mistaken identity. But the president in question is, sigh, George W. Bush, who has taken a chainsaw to the rule of law with the same manic gusto he displays while clearing brush at his Texas ranch."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-victory-rule-law

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Supreme Court ruling could free scores from Guantanamo

Some consequences are immediate, for a case that's big legally, politically and militarily. Within hours of the court's decision in the combined cases known as Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, attorneys were preparing to demand hearings for detainees long held without charges.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/40935.html



McCain: Guantanamo Ruling One of the 'Worst Decisions' in History

"These are people who are not citizens. They do not and never have been given the rights that citizens in this country have," he said. "Now, my friends, there are some bad people down there. There are some bad people."

http://tinyurl.com/5l7clz



Graham: Amend Constitution to overturn court's ruling

A dejected Sen. Lindsey Graham blasted the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday on Guantanamo Bay detainees, calling it "dangerous and irresponsible."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/40899.html


From Information Clearing House



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Common Dreams
by Saul Landau

06/12/08

Throughout the country, communities cope with tens of thousands of U.S. troops returned from Afghanistan and Iraq with blighted bodies and brains. As long as Bush’s wars continue — no candidate has pledged to withdraw all the troops — the country faces a growing collection of veterans, many of whom cannot function in family or work settings. They suffer from war wounds — physical and mental — that require expensive treatment...

http://counterpunch.org/landau06122008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Conservative
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

06/02/08

Surge supporters say the strategy accomplished its goal of reducing violence. To what end is still unknown. Stateside, the surge provided the Bush administration and its Republican foot soldiers with a valuable grace period, perhaps until the fall elections. For now, Americans are preoccupied with mortgages and miles per gallon. But a growing chorus from the highest echelon of the military suggests the surge was an elaborate farce that stuck a multi-billion-dollar Band-Aid on a gaping wound while escalating the disintegration of the Armed Forces...

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_02/article1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Government and Press/Media Cover-Ups

by Dennis Cuddy

Another example involves Iraq. The Bush administration keeps telling us about the success of the military surge. However, it fails to inform the public that after five years in Iraq, there are still water shortages and electricity only 2-5 hours a day. Garbage isn’t collected for days or weeks, and many Iraqi government employees want bribes to provide services........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis131.htm



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AlterNet
by Sam Pizzigati

06/10/08

Grand concentrations of private wealth, history tells us, have a nasty little habit of nurturing wasteful and witless speculation. Wasteful and witless speculation, news reports last week revealed, just happens to be the economic joker in the deck that’s turbocharging our current surge in crude oil prices. The speculation now doing so much damage at America’s gas pumps comes mostly out of hedge funds, those shadowy mutual funds on steroids open only to the deepest of deep-pocket investors...

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/87474/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by James Ross

06/13/08

For the third time in four summers, the U.S. Supreme Court has slammed the Bush administration’s detention policies at Guantanamo Bay — locking up terrorist suspects indefinitely and beyond the law. And this time, some real progress might even come out of it. In a 5-4 decision drafted by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that Guantanamo detainees have a constitutional right to habeas corpus — that is, to challenge the legal basis for their detention in a federal court...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/06/13/gitmo_bush/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Great Decision on Habeas Corpus
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/13/9605/

Witness Against Torture: Supreme Court Upholds the Rights of Guantanamo Detainees
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0613-02.htm



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US-Republikaner sorgen dafür, dass die Traumprofite der Ölindustrie unangetastet bleiben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/109364



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Michael T. Klare writes for TomDispatch.com about America's use of military force in protecting overseas oil supplies: "In reality, the use of military force to protect foreign oil supplies is likely to create anything but 'security.' It can, in fact, trigger violent 'blowback' against the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/article/michael-t-klare-challenging-militarization-us-energy-policy



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Report by Gordon Cook

CARNOUSTIE councillors led a vociferous opposition to a planning application for a 40-foot mobile 'phone mast and cabinet at Church Street, during Wednesday's meeting of Angus Council's planning committee.

Orange PCS had applied for permission for the mast on part of the public footpath in Church Street, seven metres from an existing 10-metre street light.

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British House of Commons backs longer detentions for terror suspects

In a 315-306 vote, the lower house of Parliament says suspects can be kept up to 42 days behind bars without being charged. The current cap is 28 days. The amendment now goes to the House of Lords.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0338.html



UK: Davis Resigns U.K. Parliament to Protest Terror Law

David Davis, the lawmaker in charge of home affairs policy for Britain's opposition Conservative Party, resigned his seat in Parliament to force an electoral contest over the government's new anti-terrorism rules.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=akbOepiGH3Kk&refer=europe



David Davis resignation: Shock move from experienced minister

Davis has always been a libertarian. He was unhappy with Howard's enthusiasm for identity cards, but when they served in the shadow cabinet together they agreed a compromise position and the divisions did not cause serious embarrassment to the party.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/12/daviddavis.conservatives3


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The only thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat, which is about enough wheat to make 1/2 of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/us-has-no-remaining.html


From Information Clearing House

If wasn't clear before it should be now: the Bush Administration can't afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813706,00.html?xid=rss-world



Israeli hawks pushing for strikes on Iran

Six months ago, after American intelligence agencies declared that Iran had shelved its nuclear-weapons program, the chances of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on the Islamic Republic before President Bush left office seemed remote.

http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_9561128?source=rss



Bush hints at military strike against Iran

President Bush on Wednesday raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran's presumed nuclear-weapons ambitions, speaking aggressively even as he admitted having been unwise to have done so previously about Iraq.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/12/20080612bush-europe0612.html



Nancy Pelosi Pulled Iran Bill

Video

Ron Paul: in a speech given on 06 June 2008, congressman Ron Paul, tells how speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, acting on behalf of Israel and AIPAC, 'deliberately' pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20081.htm


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By Dr. Bob Moorehead

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20075.htm

By Danny Fortson, Business Correspondent

The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20080.htm



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Will Share Data with "Foreign Partners"

By Matthew Rothschild

George Bush just issued a directive to expand the acquisition of biometric information, and to ensure that agencies across the executive branch share it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20074.htm

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"Big Brother" Presidential Directive: "Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9296


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The New York Times writes: "Congress is finally moving to ban one of the Bush administration's most blatant evasions of accountability in Iraq - the outsourcing of war detainees' interrogation to mercenary private contractors. Operating free of the restraints of military rule and ethics, some of these corporate thugs turned up in the torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison and walked away with impunity. Others are now believed to be in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency at secret prisons that remain outside the rule of law, exempted even from the weak 2006 rules on interrogating prisoners."

http://www.truthout.org/article/interrogation-profit



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Dion Nissenbaum, of McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "Six months ago, after American intelligence agencies declared that Iran had shelved its nuclear-weapons program, the chances of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on Iran before President Bush left office seemed remote. Now, thanks to persistent pressure from Israeli hawks and newly stated concerns by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the idea of a targeted strike meant to cripple Iran's nuclear program is getting a new hearing."

http://www.truthout.org/article/strike-iran-nuclear-sites-under-discussion-again

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Israeli Ministers Mull Plans for Military Strike against Iran

The Israeli government no longer believes that sanctions can prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. A broad consensus in favor of a military strike against Tehran's nuclear facilities -- without the Americans, if necessary -- is beginning to take shape.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,559925,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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