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Soaring Unemployment and Double-dip Recession?

rudkla — 2009-11-26T23:39:00Z

Blame N.W.O. Larry

By Mike Whitney

Summers assignment is to bring the broader economy to its knees; to crush big labor by keeping unemployment high, to force state and local and governments to privatize more public assets and services, and to generate as much human misery as possible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24068.htm

A Surge in Demands on the Government for Jobs

By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer

The banks have been lobbying intensely for their own interests, and their efforts have been met with stunning success. We working people need to mount a campaign to pressure the government to respond our needs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24069.htm

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Obama's Fifth Category: The "Untriable"

rudkla — 2009-11-26T23:36:00Z

By William Fisher

The assertion that there are 75 detainees who are too dangerous to release, but can't be prosecuted, and therefore must be held indefinitely, defies common sense.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24070.htm

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Swine Flu Caused By Laboratory Escape

rudkla — 2009-11-26T22:40:00Z

http://groups.google.de/group/omeganews/t/f7e1cf88dc4ddb9f

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Why GMOs Are Bad

rudkla — 2009-11-26T22:31:00Z

ISIS Lecture 26/11/09

Science of the Organism & Sustainable Systems

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

Invited lecture, The Alternative View, 13-15 November, Grand Thistle Hotel, Bristol, UK

Abstract

Monsanto has surreptitiously withdrawn its high lysine GM maize LY038 for safety reasons under a shroud of secrecy. There are serious health hazards inherent to the technology, which apply to every GMO. In addition each GMO carries unique hazards. None of these has been addressed adequately so far, and there is now a stack of evidence indicating that GM food and feed are unsafe.

GM crops have had adverse impacts on farmers especially those in developing countries. The high costs of GM seeds and poor harvests led to spiralling debts and deaths. Between 1997 and 2007, the Indian government recorded nearly
200 000 farmer suicides, more than half due to Bt cotton introduced since 2002. GMOs are bad for health and the environment; they will severely compromise global food security and exacerbate global warming. Those foisting GM crops on farmers in developing countries are committing a crime against humanity.

Genetic engineering is the epitome of mechanistic biology, part and parcel of the dominant model of the world as machine that was becoming obsolete since the turn of the last century when the new science of the organism emerged with quantum theory.

The dominant neo-liberal economy of infinite unsustainable growth has brought the earth to the brink of irreversible climate catastrophe. It is driven by competition, profligate dissipation and waste. In contrast, natures circular economy (thermodynamics) of balanced sustainable growth is based on reciprocity and cooperation, which enables energy and material resources to be recycles while minimizing waste and dissipation. Natures economy applies most clearly to the highly productive agro-ecology systems innovated by farmers, or perfected over millennia.

We have all the appropriate science and technologies, abundant human creativity, and local initiatives that will enable us to exit the multiple crises of food, fuel and finance. The major stumbling block is our political leaders overwhelming adherence to the obsolete mechanistic model.

The complete text of this lecture with references and richly illustrated power point presentation are available for download. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/onlinestore/lectures.php#289

Other lecture downloads are available here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/onlinestore/lectures.php

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Datenschützer Schaar: "Totale Kontrolle wäre die Hölle"

rudkla — 2009-11-26T22:19:00Z

Bankdaten dürfen nicht wie geplant aus Europa in die USA fließen, fordert Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Peter Schaar auf FR-online.de. Das geplante Abkommen sei ein "massiver Grundrechtseingriff". Außerdem: die Macht von Google und das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung. Interview von Matthias Thieme in der FR vom 26.11.2009 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2103441_Datenschuetzer-Schaar-Totale-Kontrolle-waere-die-Hoelle.html

Datenschutz > indiskrete Datenautobahn zur CIA

US-Terrorfahnder: EU-Front gegen Datenweitergabe bröckelt

In der Europäischen Union wächst der Druck auf Deutschland und Österreich, dem umstrittenen Abkommen zur Weitergabe von Bankdaten an US-Terrorfahnder zuzustimmen. Frankreich und Finnland hätten ihre Datenschutzbedenken bereits "weitgehend aufgegeben", sagten EU-Diplomaten der FTD Artikel von Reinhard Hönighaus , Monika Dunkel und Sabine Muscat in der fdt online vom 23.11.09 http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:us-terrorfahnder-eu-front-gegen-datenweitergabe-broeckelt/50041413.html

Aus: LabourNet, 26. November 2009

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How Trillions of Dollars Were Stolen From U.S. Taxpayers

rudkla — 2009-11-26T21:33:00Z

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/7fe49f99d9a1df88

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Unhappy Thanksgiving

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Ten months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, those 'Yes We Can' and "Hope" slogans have begun to ring more than a little hollow. Of course, the man inherited a vast array of ongoing catastrophes from his predecessor, and it is a dead-bang certainty that ten months under a McCain administration would have left us in far worse shape than we find ourselves in today, but the realization that matters are only slightly better than they would have been under the worst-case scenario doesn't go very far anymore. Some things are better, but the fact of the matter is that some things are worse, and most things are exactly the same."

http://www.truthout.org/11260901

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NY Times Blows The Whistle On Drug Industry's Dirty Tricks

rudkla — 2009-11-26T21:25:00Z

http://groups.google.de/group/omeganews/t/fa4e2a9170463596

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Modekonzern näht Schnüffel-Chips in Kleidung

rudkla — 2009-11-26T18:50:00Z

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,663650,00.html

Funkende Etiketten bei Gerry Weber
http://tinyurl.com/ydfhztv

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Blackwater mit geheimen Tötungsauftrag in Pakistan für Obama?

rudkla — 2009-11-26T08:39:00Z

Obgleich die US-Regierung die Kooperation mit dem berüchtigten Söldnerunternehmen einstellen wollte, sollen Pentagon und CIA dieses weiter für geheime Operationen beauftragen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146612

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Wenn das Meer an den Küsten von Eismeer und Pampa nagt

rudkla — 2009-11-26T08:39:00Z

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31567/1.html

Washington will Todesstrafe für Folteropfer

rudkla — 2009-11-26T08:36:00Z

US-Regierung plant 9/11-Schauprozesse vor Zivilgericht in New York.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31556/1.html

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UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed's Torture to That of Abu Zubaydah

rudkla — 2009-11-26T08:24:00Z

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was tied in with a 'dirty bomb plot' that never even existed. After his ordeal in Morocco, he spent four months in the CIA's 'Dark Prison' in Kabul, and was then flown to Guantanamo in September 2004."

http://www.truthout.org/1125096

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Taxpayers Are "Involuntary Investors" in "Shaky" Banks

rudkla — 2009-11-26T08:10:00Z

Art Levine, Truthout: "As financial reforms face new delays in Congress, the chair of the Congressional oversight panel on the TARP program, Elizabeth Warren, told Truthout Tuesday that the nation's financial institutions still pose major risks for taxpayers - and the economy."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112509ms01

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Schweigen im Palais des Nations: X hört mit

rudkla — 2009-11-26T07:56:00Z

NZZ Online - Zurich, Switzerland

Letzterer ist ein Sende-Empfangs-Gerät, der Halbleiter mittels Mikrowellen eruiert und auch «schlafende» Apparate aufdecken kann. ...

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/schweigen_im_palais_des_nations_x_hoert_mit_1.4064501.html

Ron Paul: Operation Health Freedom

rudkla — 2009-11-26T05:00:00Z

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/5cb88b52ded20637?hl=de

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