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In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806E.shtml

Vor einem Jahr zerstörte der Hurrikan Katrina New Orleans. Seitdem verhindern weiße Politiker und Baulöwen die Rückkehr schwarzer Flüchtlinge und planen eine Stadt der Reichen. Artikel von Mike Davis in Die Zeit vom 24.08.2006 http://www.zeit.de/2006/35/New-Orleans-August


Aus: LabourNet, 28. August 2006

"President Bush travels to the Gulf Coast this week, ostensibly to mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina." Frank Rich writes, "Everyone knows his real mission: to try to make us forget the first anniversary of the downfall of his presidency."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806O.shtml

The ousted head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, says the White House wanted him to lie about the response to Hurricane Katrina. The former FEMA chief cited what he called an email "from a very high source in the White House" that quoted the president at a Cabinet meeting saying, "Thank goodness Brown's taking all the heat because it's better that he takes the heat than I do."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806M.shtml

Scores of American troops are deserting - even from the front line in Iraq. But where have they gone? And why isn't the US Army after them? They are the US troops in Iraq to whom the American administration prefers not to draw attention. They are the deserters - those who have gone AWOL from their units and not returned, risking imprisonment and opprobrium.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806J.shtml

Eine Bundesratsmehrheit will einen Gesetzentwurf einbringen, wonach der Antrag auf Prozesskostenhilfe nur noch nach Zahlung einer pauschalen Gebühr gewährt werden soll. Siehe dazu:

Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Begrenzung der Aufwendungen für die Prozesskostenhilfe (Prozesskostenhilfebegrenzungsgesetz - PKHBegrenzG)
(Bundestagsdrucksache 16/1994) http://www.erlacher-hoehe.de/Arbeitsdateien_%20Web/PKHBegrenzG.pdf


Die Armen sind alle Verbrecher!?

„Die Neue Richtervereinigung (NRV) wendet sich vehement gegen eine Generalverdächtigung sämtlicher Bedürftigen in Deutschland, welche nun auch zur Beschneidung von Prozesskostenhilfe genutzt werden soll. Baden-Württemberg und Niedersachsen wollen ihre Justizhaushalte auf Kosten ihrer sozial schwachen Bürgerinnen und Bürger entlasten. Dazu haben sie im April 2006 einen Gesetzesentwurf in den Bundesrat eingebracht, mit dem die Aufwendungen für die Prozesskostenhilfe erheblich begrenzt werden sollen (BR Drucks 250/06). Dieser Gesetzesentwurf ist in vielfältiger Weise verfassungswidrig und geeignet, der deutschen Justiz und dem deutschen Sozialstaat dauerhaft erheblichen Schaden zuzufügen…“ Presseerklärung der Neuen Richtervereinigung (NRV) (pdf) http://nrv-net.de/downloads_presse/24.pdf


„Wer wenig im Leben hat, braucht viel im Recht!“ Eine Aktion der Erlacher Höhe http://www.erlacher-hoehe.de/7___Kampagne-Recht.htm


Das Recht wird für Arme zu teuer.

Artikel von Helmut Weidemann in Linksnet vom 26.8.06 http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=2570


Aus: LabourNet, 28. August 2006

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Prozesskostenhilfe soll kostenpflichtig werden

Zur Eigenständigkeit der Sozialgerichtsbarkeit

„Anlässlich der öffentlichen Anhörung zur Änderung des Sozialgerichtsgesetzes am kommenden Montag im Bundestagsausschuss sprechen sich die Mitglieder des Netzwerkes für die Eigenständigkeit der Sozialgerichtsbarkeit aus. (…) Entschieden sprechen sich SoVD, VdK und DGB auch gegen die im Hintergrund diskutierte Einführung von Gerichtsgebühren aus, die insbesondere diejenigen betreffen würden, die am Existenzminimum leben und auf diesen Klageweg angewiesen sind, um im Streitfall ihren Rechtsanspruch auf staatliche Leistungen durchzusetzen. Die Änderung der Prozesskostenhilfe soll ebenfalls im Bundestag beraten werden – auch hier soll der Zugang erschwert werden, so dass den Ärmsten der Weg zu ihrem Recht von allen Seiten immer stärker blockiert wird…“ Gemeinsame Erklärung vom 08.02.2008 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=3140


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008

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Prozesskostenhilfe: Änderungen bzw. Verschärfungen für die Bewilligung

„Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen, die geplanten gesetzlichen Maßnahmen zu den Änderungen bzw. Verschärfungen für die Bewilligung von Prozesskostenhilfe nicht durchzuführen…“ öffentliche Petition von Armin Kammrad zur geplanten Verschärfung für die Bewilligung von Prozesskostenhilfe (Abschlusstermin für die Mitzeichnung: Dienstag, 15. April 2008) http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/Bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=637

Siehe dazu auch:

Änderung des Arbeits- und des Sozialgerichtsgesetzes beschlossen

„Der Änderung des Arbeits- und des Sozialgerichtsgesetzes im Bundestag steht nichts mehr im Wege. Der Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales billigte am Mittwoch den Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung (16/7716), mit dem vor allem das sozialgerichtliche Verfahren gestrafft werden soll…“ Bundestagsmeldung vom 20.02.2008 http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/hib/2008/2008_050/03.html

Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Änderung des Sozialgerichtsgesetzes und des Arbeitsgerichtsgesetzes Drucksache 16/7716 vom 11.01.2008 (pdf) http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/077/1607716.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. März 2008



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

Zitat des Tages: „Hartz-IV-Empfänger als Volkssturm gegen El Kaida, da können sogar die Amerikaner noch was von uns lernen.“

Aus: „Arbeitslose auf der Jagd nach El Kaida. Regierung will Hartz-IV-Empfänger in Bussen und Bahnen patrouillieren lassen“. Kommentar von Maxim Leo in Berliner Zeitung vom 28.08.2006 http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/politik/581242.html

Siehe dazu:

„Tiefensee: Hartz-IV-Empfänger als Bus-Patrouillen“. Artikel bei Focus online vom 27.08.06 http://focus.msn.de/politik/deutschland/hartz-iv_nid_34347.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. August 2006

Best Friends Animal sanctuary (Utah) is such a good and reputable place!....I have dealt with them for many years.

PLEASE take the time and sign this petition which would allow the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary to help.... Save.... and evacuate animals from Lebanon.

THANK YOU ALL!

Annie


Subject: Petition for homeless animals in the Middle East

To view an online version of this email, click here http://editor.ne16.com/he/vo.asp?FileID=46946&MemberID=93232123&MailID=1527950 .


Dear Members Friends,

The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is quite fragile. And for the animals caught in the war zone, life is still very precarious. We urgently need your help in evacuating some of them to safety. Best Friends is working with groups in both Lebanon and Israel. This e-mail is about how we are organizing an evacuation of about 300 dogs and cats from around Beirut. The animals are in the care of BETA (Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) – a truly dedicated group and Lebanon’s only animal welfare organization. In the early days of the bombing, when their shelters were being damaged, BETA volunteers moved all the dogs to a farm in the hills outside Beirut. This looked like a safer situation. But now local people are complaining about the dogs and are threatening to poison them at night. This creates an increasingly urgent situation. Hundreds of people in the United States have offered to adopt these displaced pets, and Best Friends is acting on behalf of BETA to make this possible. The big challenge is organizing the transport. Several carriers have agreed to bring the animals to the United States, and at discounted prices. And we have now spoken with the Israeli Embassy about the possibility of lifting the blockade that is still unofficially in place so that we can get the transport under way.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: We have set up a respectful petition to the government of the State of Israel, supporting our request and asking them to lift any blockade that may be in place and that could prevent the evacuation of these homeless pets. Please view and sign the petition here http://www.ne16.com/t/1527950/93232123/18680189/0/ .

SPONSOR THE EVACUATION: We’re estimating a further cost of about $200 for each of the 300 cats and dogs who will be brought to the United States. (They’ll be coming to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for further health and behavior checks, and then on to new homes.) Your donation to this effort, large or small, will be a huge help. Basically, we can’t do this without you. So please go to http://middleeast.bestfriends.org and make whatever donation you can. This rescue effort is now moving into high gear. We’ll have updates throughout the weekend and next week on how it’s developing. So please check in regularly at http://middleeast.bestfriends.org . As always, thank you for caring. And let’s join together in the simple knowledge that kindness to animals can help us all reach beyond our human conflicts and bring us one small step closer to peace.

Michael Mountain
Best Friends Animal Society

P.S. We’re still gathering information on what the urgent needs are for displaced pets in Israel, and we’ll address this in our next e-mail. But there is only one animal rescue group in the whole of Lebanon, supply routes are blocked and the most critical need right now is to evacuate the group of dogs and cats in their care to safety. Thank you so much for being part of this.

This email was sent by:
Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, UT 84741

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5043/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

by Trita Parsi, TomPaine.com

Instead of dealing with the real challenge Iran poses, the White House focuses on 164 centrifuges.

http://ga3.org/ct/M720pgF14zuJ/

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

Why do so many Americans seem so unconcerned about our liberties being eaten away? I think there are a number of reasons, such as just not wanting to believe that our nation is in trouble, or, as I've said before, being so personally invested in one political party that they will deliberately blot out apparent truth. Feeling helpless, unable to have an effect is another reason, but the one reason that drives me crazy is the attitude that 'Bad things only happen to people who deserve it ... I'm law-abiding, so I'll be safe'... (originally published 06/27/03; posted 08/26/06)

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2006/08/im-law-abiding-ill-be-safe.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle
by Carolyn Lochhead

08/27/06

President Bush vowed last week that he would never abandon his goal of creating democracy in Iraq, but outside the White House, the foreign policy world is wondering how to contain a civil war that could engulf the Middle East. Even Bush acknowledged the debate. 'If you think it's bad now, imagine what Iraq would look like if the United States leaves before the government can defend itself,' he said Monday. Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine -- preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line -- has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation. Yet for all the criticism, neither the Democratic Party nor the foreign policy elite has devised an alternative for the post-Sept. 11 world, leaving U.S. foreign policy adrift...

http://tinyurl.com/m425a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tom Paine
by John Prados

08/25/06

More and more it appears that the pattern of manipulation and misuse of intelligence that served the Bush administration in the drive to start a war with Iraq is being repeated today for its neighbor Iran. Recently we reported on TomPaine.com one facet of the repetition -- that Congress, not the president, has had to ask for National Intelligence Estimates that would shed light on a key foreign policy issue on the front burner in the Bush White House. The demand described there pertained to Iraq, but Congress has also pressed for an NIE on Iran, where many worry that the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which denies it, is secretly conducting a nuclear weapons development program. Now that the Senate has called for the NIE, the first marker has gone down, in the form of a report released this week by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman Peter Hoekstra...

http://tinyurl.com/j5pj7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salt Lake Tribune
by Matthew D. LaPlante

08/27/06

When President Bush walked into the Salt Palace on Aug. 22, 2005, it was with the intention of launching a national campaign to reverse sagging support for himself and the war in Iraq. Bush will return to the Salt Lake City convention center Thursday having failed in that mission. Inexorably tied to successes and failures in Iraq -- a war Americans increasingly are seeing as contrary to the security of the country -- the president's popularity has plummeted even lower than it was last year at this time. ... Americans -- even those in Utah, where Bush continues to enjoy strong support -- are growing weary...

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4245780


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wichita Eagle

08/27/06

Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday ever-tighter political and economic control of the media is a major threat to democracy. Gore said the goal behind his year-old 'interactive' television channel Current TV was to encourage the kind of democratic dialogue that thrives online but is increasingly rare on TV. 'Democracy is under attack,' Gore told an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. "Democracy as a system for self-governance is facing more serious challenges now than it has faced for a long time...

http://tinyurl.com/ptxwl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"How could George W. Bush have blown the aftermath of Katrina?" wonders Jonathan Alter. "It's not as if he lacks confidence in the power of his office."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706H.shtml

Despite assuring Congress that career military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input on their key request, that any tribunals must give detainees the right to see the evidence against them, officials said. After the Supreme Court struck down the White House's military tribunals system in June, government lawyers began drafting legislation that would set new rules for trials of terrorist suspects.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706F.shtml

Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706E.shtml

Her birthday is August 19, her death day March 12. We cannot let this crime, too, pass into oblivion. When news surfaced that GIs allegedly stalked, terrorized, gang-raped, and killed an Iraqi woman, the US tried minimizing this latest atrocity by our troops—claiming the victim was age 25 or even 50, implying a rape-murder is less horrific if the victim is an older woman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706D.shtml

The wives of soldiers whose duty in Iraq was extended to add troop strength to Baghdad peppered US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with tough questions, some that he could not answer, at a closed-door meeting in Alaska on Saturday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706A.shtml

Die Kleine Anfrage der Fraktion DIE LINKE zur Ergänzung des Betreuungsbehördengesetzes ist als Deutsche Bundestag Drucksache 16/2355 im Internet veröffentlicht: http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/023/1602355.pdf

Die Stellungnahme der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener zu dem Gesetzvorschlag ist hier veröffentlicht:
http://www.die-bpe.de/index#stellungnahme

René Talbot und Uwe Pankow
Für den Vorstand der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. http://www.die-bpe.de


Nachricht vom Werner Fuss Zentrum

http://quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/index?id=000100003656

Verwanzte Mülltonnen
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77348

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5039/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

DEAR FRIENDS, RIGHT NOW NO MORE NEED TO CPOST ABOUT "JABAL" - DEAR KATHY G HAS JUST SENT ME A NM SAYING HE IS BEING RESCUED BY A NON-KILL SHELTER ON MONDAY. BUT WILL STILL BE NEEDING A FOREEVER HOME!!!! AT LEAST HIS LIFE IS SAFE FOR WE HOPE TO THE MOMENT HE FINDS A FAMILY! IF ALREADY CPOSTED, AM SENDING OUT A NEW 10/10 FOR 2 OTHER DOGS TO GO TO GAS CHAMBER ON MONDAY IF NOT RESCUED AND IN THE TOP OF THIS I MENTION THE ABOVE FOR "JABAL". THANKS FOR CARING, LOVE AND HUGS,

agnesC

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A message from NANCY

Original Message

ABOUT JABAL (MY EALIER CPOSTING TODAY) = NEWWS JUST RECEIVED AND GIVEN BY DEAR KATHY G = THANKS DEAR! = INFORM HE IS BEING TEMPORARILY BEING REMOVED TO A NON-KILL SHELTER BUT WILL STILL REQUIRE A FOREVERHOME! SO, PLEASE NOW HELP SAVE THESE TWO DOGS ...BELOW!!!! PLEASE, PLEASE !

Blog: 2 DOGS TO GO GAS CHAMBER 28.AUG.IF NOT RESCUED-PLEASE HELP!!!! PLEASE CPOST THIS?? THANKS.agnesC

(Received from Kathy G - thanks). THEIR TIME ENDS 28.AUG. - 4.30PM..PLEASE

PLEASE, SPREAD THIS. CPOST, HAVE IT IN GROUPS, MAKE SHARES - FOR THE 2 DOGS LISTED BELOW... PLEASE DO HELP!

NOW IT IS THE TIME TO TRY OUR BEST TO SAVE THESE TWO GREAT DOGS ! PLEASE LET US AVOID THEM GONG TO THE GAS CHAMBER !!!! PLEASE !!!

There are 2 great dogs that will die in this shelter on Monday if they are not rescued-(this is a gassing shelter)

Spalding County Animal Shelter Griffin, GA
http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/GA42.html
(770) 467-4772 animalshelter@spaldingcounty.com

Tinkerbell: Labrador Retriever Mix
Size: Medium Age: Adult Gender: Female ID: A06-2398

Notes: SPALDING ID A06-2398 THIS DOG IS SCHEDULED TO BE UNAVAILABLE AFTER 4:30 P.M. ON MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2006.

Tinker Bell is an owner surrender and is available NOW for rescue or adoption. She is already SPAYED and up-to-date on vaccinations!

If you wish to adopt this dog, please CALL (do not e-mail) the shelter IMMEDIATELY at (770) 467-4772 to arrange for the paperwork to be filled out (in person or by fax) PRIOR to 4:30 p.m. on the dog's listed date.

AND:

Ian: Boxer Mix
Size: Medium Age: Adult Gender: Male ID: B06-549

Notes: SPALDING ID B06-549 THIS DOG IS SCHEDULED TO BE UNAVAILABLE AFTER 4:30 P.M. ON MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2006.

ABOUT JABAL, NM I SENT JUST EARLIER = HE WILL BE TEMPORARILY REMOVED TO ANOTHER NON-KILL SHELTER BUT WILL STILL REQUIRE A FOREEVER HOME. WILL CPOST THE NEW DETAILS AS SOON AS IN HANDS. I THANK KATHY G FOR HAVING GIVEN ME THIS INFORMATION. If you wish to adopt this dog, please CALL (do not e-mail) the shelter IMMEDIATELY at (770) 467-4772 to arrange for the paperwork to be filled out (in person or by fax) PRIOR to 4:30 p.m. on the dog's listed date.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1858709,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.takistopdrawer.us/article_2006-June-10p.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

by Jeffrey Smith

The scientist dismissed these newly created proteins in the cotton plant as unimportant background noise, but Kirk wasn’t convinced. Proteins can have allergenic or toxic properties, but no one at Monsanto had done a safety assessment on them. “I was afraid at that time that some of these proteins may be toxic.” He was particularly concerned that the rogue proteins “might possibly lead to mad cow or some other prion-type diseases.”.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Smith/jeffrey14.htm