World-News

"What's really striking about Mr. Bush's remarks is the tone. The stuff about providing 'incentives' to buy insurance, the sneering description of good coverage as 'gold plated,' is right-wing think-tank jargon," writes Paul Krugman. "In the past Mr. Bush's speechwriters might have found less offensive language; now, they're not even trying to hide his fundamental indifference to the plight of less-fortunate Americans."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207F.shtml



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

"A disturbing new report shows that with health care costs continuing their sharp rise," writes Bob Herbert, "low- and middle-income patients are reaching for their credit cards with alarming frequency to cover treatment that they otherwise would be unable to afford. This medical debt, to be paid off in many cases at sky-high interest rates, is being loaded onto consumer debt that is already at dangerously high levels. Many families have been crushed by the load, driven from their homes, forced into bankruptcy, and worse."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

Adam Hochschild writes: "If we needed more evidence that those surrounding President George W. Bush have a tin ear for the lessons of history, it came ten days ago, when National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley referred to increasing the number of American troops in Iraq as 'the big push' that would bring victory closer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207D.shtml

Senator John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush's call for a troop increase in Iraq, a move Bush administration officials have scrambled to avoid.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

22.01.07

Fischereivertreter haben am Montag in der westjapanischen Hafenstadt Kobe mit Beratungen über Maßnahmen gegen den Rückgang der Tunfischbestände begonnen. Der Tunfisch gilt als einer der begehrtesten, und deshalb stark gefährdeten Fische. An den Beratungen nehmen Vertreter der Fischfangindustrie, Umweltschützer und auch der regionalen Regulierungsbehörden für den Atlantik, den Pazifik und den Indischen Ozean teil. Die Konferenz vom 22. bis 26. Januar führt erstmals die fünf regionalen Kommissionen zum Tunfisch-Schutz zusammen. Gastgeber Japan ist eine der Nationen mit dem höchsten Tunfischverbrauch. Umweltschützer hatten japanischen Fischern wiederholt vorgeworfen, die Tunfischbestände zu überfischen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15163

22.01.07

Die Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) betrachtet die europäische Klimaschutz-Politik im Bereich der Autoabgase als gescheitert. Hauptverantwortung dafür trügen die deutschen Autohersteller mit ihren "spritdurstigen Klimakillern", sagte DUH-Geschäftsführer Jürgen Resch am Montag in Berlin. Zur Forderung der DUH nach einer höheren Firmenwagensteuer sagte der Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA) in Frankfurt am Main, diese Forderung diene weniger dem Umweltschutz, sondern spiele auf der "Klaviatur des Sozialneids".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15164

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"Erst unter Druck reagieren": Umwelt-Staatssekretär kritisiert Manager der Automobilkonzerne

29.01.07

Der Parlamentarische Staatssekretär im Bundesumweltministerium, Michael Müller, wirft den Managern der deutschen Automobilkonzernen mangelnde Bereitschaft zum Umweltschutz und fehlende Weitsicht vor. "Die deutschen Autobauer, die gern mit den hohen Leistungen ihrer Produkte werben, wollen ausgerechnet beim Umweltschutz auf die Bremse treten", so Müller. Dass sie die Interessen ihrer Konzerne vertreten, sei verständlich. "Nicht verständlich ist dagegen, dass die Automobilbranche die Zeichen der Zeit verkannt hat. Denn tatsächlich wird seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten über die Reduktion der Kohlendioxid-Emissionen zum Schutz der Umwelt gesprochen." Der erste Klimabericht des Deutschen Bundestages, der dies konkret gefordert habe, sei 1990 veröffentlicht worden. "Man hat offenkundig die Entwicklung verschlafen", meint der Staatssekretär.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15216

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Automobilindustrie zeigt ihre Muskeln, EU-Kommission unterwirft sich

Am 7. Februar beschloss die europäische Kommission verpflichtende Ziele für Autoabgase. Statt der 120g/km, die Umweltkommissar Dimas gefordert hatte, wurde beschlossen das Ziel auf wesentlich weniger ambitionierte 130g/km herab zu senken. CEO aus Amsterdam, eine Partnerorganisation von LobbyControl auf EU-Ebene, hat nun in einer Kurzstudie zusammengestellt, wie dieser Vorschlag als Ergebnis einer jahrelangen, intensiven Lobby-Kampagne zu Stande kam.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=408

Russland, der Sieger mit dem schlechten Image http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24484/1.html

Marathon des psychologischen Krieges
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24487/1.html

http://www.savethemales.ca/001887.html


Informant: Neo Mulder

http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/704


From ufpj-news



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

by David MacMichael, TomPaine.com

One Marine asks Congress to take its powers seriously and start bringing troops home before they commit more crimes.

http://ga3.org/ct/Kp20pgF1qRlc/



Bizarro World

You say you want the troops to come home? Okay, I'll send more troops!
http://ga3.org/ct/Kd20pgF1qRle/
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/land.html

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com

Do not relax: the Bush administration is not backing away from limitless surveillance.
http://ga3.org/ct/K120pgF1qRl3/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aziz+Huq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
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by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com

Don't expect Bush to face up to an economy gone to flab and getting worse.
http://ga3.org/ct/Z120pgF1qRlB/



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

http://www.etherzone.com/2007/nath012207.shtml


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Common Dreams
by Jacqueline Marcus

01/21/07

As I was standing in line at the market the other day, I looked up and noticed between the tabloid magazines, bubble gum and chocolate bars, the cover of Time Magazine: a young boy in a combat helmet who looked no older than fourteen. … During the recent televised interviews, George W. Bush referred to our soldiers as ‘kids.’ He was smiling, completely unaffected by the unconscionable fact of his assertion. No one says a word, including Hillary Clinton, who was proud to announce that she called a young boy’s mother in New York from an Afghanistan military medical camp to let her know that her son is getting good medical assistance. … Bush’s ’surge’ is a military euphemism for sacrificing twenty thousand CHILDREN into his Iraq’s purgatory. And should his ’soldier-kids’ survive Iraq’s purgatory, many will return without legs, arms or faces severely deformed beyond recognition...

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0120-23.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/22/07

You’ll recall that we had scads of intelligence coming at us, including on the front page of the New York Times, such that even most war opponents — present company excluded — conceded that Saddam undoubtedly did have ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ but that, for other reasons, we ought to at least delay attacking him. There was, however, as some of us pointed out at the time, no hard evidence of Iraq’s fabled WMD. Like tales of the Yeti and the Loch Ness monster, breathless stories of the Saddam Bomb, ubiquitous since the early 1990s, turned out to be utterly false, imaginative narratives spun by Ahmed Chalabi and his fellow ‘heroes in error,’ with a little help from Judith Miller. I suppose it takes a libertarian to fully appreciate the irony of how American taxpayers paid for their own deception. Once again, we are seeing the victory of ‘intelligence’ over solid evidence, this time in the run-up to war with Iran...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10368


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Price of Liberty
by Doug Newman

01/22/07

Does the Bill of Rights still serve as a guarantee of God-given rights against arbitrary abuses of government power? Or is it just a 215-year-old piece of paper that can be disregarded at the whim [of] the authorities? These are the central questions in the case of Mr. Hollis Wayne Fincher [ http://tinyurl.com/28pq6d ], 60, of Fayetteville, Arkansas. If you are not familiar with this case, you need to be. What happened to Mr. Fincher could happen to you...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/01/22/newman.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Newman

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein

01/12/07

For over a year, we have been warning that the U.S. and global economies could go into recession at any time. It now seems that recession is likely before the end of 2007, despite the rosy predictions of many establishment economists. It may be mild, but it could well be severe. Here’s why …

http://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/economic-storm.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Defense Department officials have laid off most of their case workers who help severely injured service members.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207O.shtml

Czechs Give Go-Ahead for US "Son of Star Wars" Base

The Czech government has announced that it wants to host a large US military site for the Pentagon's much-criticized missile shield system, confirming for the first time that Washington had asked Prague for permission to build a radar site for the national missile defense program. Russia had warned earlier this month that any extension of the US missile project to eastern Europe would force it to review its own missile defenses.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207N.shtml

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Russia sees threat from US plan for missiles in eastern Europe

A top Russian general warned that a missile defense system that the United States wants to deploy in eastern Europe would pose a "clear threat" to his country.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=160056



Russian defense minister bristles at U.S. missile defense plans

Russia's defense minister on Wednesday harshly criticized U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in central Europe, saying that Moscow doesn't trust American claims that they are intended to counter missile threats posed by Iran and North Korea.

http://tinyurl.com/2evcvm


From Information Clearing House

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US reveals proposed site for Czech missile defence radar
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_reveals_proposed_site_for_Czech__01252007.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Fighter-jet parts and other sensitive US military gear seized from front companies for Iran and brokers for China have been traced in criminal cases to a surprising source: the Pentagon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207M.shtml

Senate Democrats are building support for a bipartisan resolution opposing Bush's war strategy in Iraq, cautioning that division over whether it goes far enough could spell defeat. "The worst thing we can do is to vote on something critical of the current policy and lose it," said Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. "The public doesn't support his policy, a majority of Congress doesn't support his policy. If we lose it, the president will use the defeat of a resolution as support of his public policy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012207K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Die Natur hat jedem Wachstum Grenzen gesetzt. Nur wollen es die Menschen nicht wahr haben und glauben im Geld und dem damit verbundenen Zinseszinz dieses Gesetz brechen zu können. Dies ist jedoch ein Irrglaube, der die Menschen immer wieder in Katastrophen führt. Nur ein sorgfältiger Umgang mit dem Geld wird den Menschen auch eine unbeschwerte und gesicherte Zukunft bescheren. Ein Beitrag von Lothar Großer.

http://www.gesellschaft-und-visionen.de/Wirtschaft.htm

Zum Inhalt
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Download als PDF
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Video Debate

Noam Chomsky vs. William F. Buckley
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16240.htm



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THE United States is undermining international law by unilaterally rejecting demands to grant detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp protection against mistreatment and torture, an influential committee of British MPs has warned.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=107542007


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett admitted Friday in a written response to a parliamentary question that Britain was "aware of the existence of a secret US detention program" prior to a September speech by President Bush acknowledging the existence of CIA-operated secret prisons.

http://tinyurl.com/2nexfq



Guantanamo "fails to meet basic British standards"

The U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo fails to meet even basic British standards for prisoners, MPs who visited the base said on Sunday.

http://tinyurl.com/36b7ab


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
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The U.S. is again battling leftists in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua. This time, the fight is being waged not with guns and guerrilla warfare, but with free tractors, health clinics and donated electrical plants.

http://tinyurl.com/33mmm8


From Information Clearing House

Current CIA chief General Michael V. Hayden revealed President George W. Bush had requested his agency “pay more attention” to the activities of President Hugo Chávez and his government in Venezuela.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2196



Chávez accuses telecom of spying

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Friday accused his nation's main telecommunications company of spying on him and suggested it was at the bidding of the United States.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/16504256.htm


From Information Clearing House

"I think people ought to think about the risk of further sanctions. The United States is clearly sanctioning Iranian banks and our laws are very tough on those who deal with banks that we have sanctioned."

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10098429.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice

The Pentagon has hidden at least $1.4 billion in other agencies' accounts instead of returning unspent money to the U.S. Treasury, the Defense Department's internal watchdog told Congress Wednesday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-17-pentagon-funds_x.htm


From Information Clearing House

I cannot imagine in any other democracy that the person who made this statement would not immediately be told to resign from his non-elected high office of influence.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/16/9288/25225


From Information Clearing House

By William Greider

If Congress can protect the rights of dogs and cats in foreign trade, will it do the same for the young girls -- some as young as 11 -- who work in sweatshops? They stitch garments for as little as 6 cents an hour and typically work twelve- to sixteen-hour days, sometimes longer and often in brutal conditions.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/37/1/

By Ramzy Baroud

I am certainly not a fan of tyranny. I've spoken out against human-rights violations since my early years. In Cairo, I stood in alliance with students protesting government crackdowns; in Seattle, I marched for equal opportunities for African-American students demanding the preservation of affirmative action.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/36/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saddam+Hussein

By Robert Fisk

Did we really think that after we had impoverished them and destroyed so many of their children; after a generation of Iraqis had been "physically and morally crippled", they were going to welcome our "liberation"? From this wreckage of Iraq was bound to come the insurgencies and the hatreds now tearing its people apart and destroying the presidency of George W. Bush and the prime ministership of Tony Blair.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16243.htm



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PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BILL by getting the word out!

BREAKING NEWS: Major New "End the War" Bill Introduced Take Action Now / Forward this Email Yesterday, Reps. Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters introduced H.R. 508: The Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act, taking up the President's challenge to come up with a plan for Iraq. Thirteen additional members have already signed on as co-sponsors. The bill would bring our troops home in six months. It's up to PDA activists to spread the word - to friends, relatives, co-workers, other activists.and to media of every type, including independent blogs and websites. H. R 508 is a concrete plan - not just a symbolic, non-binding resolution - that progressives and Democrats can rally around.

Email your member of Congress http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9264251&type=CO

Email Speaker Pelosi http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9264341&type=CU


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by Cindy Sheehan
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Sheehan21.htm


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Click:

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From Supreme Law Firm

„Anlässlich des alljährigen Wiederkehren des World Economic-Forums (WEF) in die Schweizer Berge erwacht auch alljährlich der Widerstand gegen das Treffen der Bonzen und Wirtschaftsführer. Am gestrigen Samstag fanden verschiedene Aktionen in der Schweiz statt…“ Artikel von „gert“ vom 21.01.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166570.shtml

Viele Wege führen nach Davos

Sonderseite bei indymedia Schweiz http://ch.indymedia.org/de/2006/12/45382.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 22. Januar 2007

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Anti-Wef-Demo: Auf Krücken in den Knast

„Eine späte Bewilligung, dann das Verbot. Präventive Festnahmen und «Personenkontrollen». Festnahmen von Journalisten, ein massives Polizeiaufgebot und dann doch eine Demo in der Altstadt. Eindrücke eines verwirrenden Samstagnachmittags in Bern…“ Artikel von Heiner Busch und Carlos Hanimann in der WoZ vom 24. Januar 2008 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2008/nr04/schweiz/15879.html


Anti-Wef-Demo: Zehn Minuten Panik

„WOZ-Reporter Dinu Gautier wurde am Samstag in Bern zusammen mit einem anderen Journalisten verhaftet. Sein Bericht von der Festnahme und aus dem Gefängnis…“ Artikel von Dinu Gautier in der WoZ vom 24. Januar 2008 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2008/nr04/schweiz/15880.html


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Januar 2008

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5607/


From ufpj-news

Informant: Charles Jenks

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5608/


From ufpj-news

Informant: Charles Jenks



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5609/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/fabig_buch.pdf


Nachricht von Helmut Breunig

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Fachgespräch: Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3216962/

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2175028.ece


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

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CONFIRMED: ISRAEL ATTEMPTED WWIII AIR ASSAULT ON IRAN
http://tinyurl.com/37me6s



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

by Tom DeWeese

The Truth. On March 23, 2005, President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin met at the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas in what they called a "Summit." After the meeting, the three heads of state then drove to Baylor University to announce their "signing" of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America......

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom73.htm



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Our Country's Tough Guys and Their Moms and Dads
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