World-News

How eTreppid won a no-bid, $30-million contract in 2004 for secret
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/09/Hillsborough/There_s_no_watchdog_f.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Government Wants To Give Intelligence Agency Right To Spy On E-Mail That Crosses Nation's Borders.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/08/world/main2549798.shtml


From Information Clearing House

VIDEO

Women soldiers face more than just the "typical" horrors of war, they have to contend with harassment, assault, and sometimes rape -- from those in uniform. The military, many say, is unhelpful when women attempt to report their experiences.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/48992/


From Information Clearing House

The administration once convinced more than half the American public that Iraq had WMDs, that Saddam supported al-Qaeda in 9/11, and that he was a threat to U.S. national security. Now it's Iran supplying weapons that kill Americans, Iranians infiltrating the borders, and the uranium enrichment program intended for weapons.

http://snipurl.com/1cn67


From Information Clearing House

“They killed the father of my children! The Americans killed my daughters!” she sobbed, sitting crumpled on the floor of Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City where rescuers had taken the victims, including her daughters, 9 and 11, and her son, 7.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17276.htm

By Mike Whitney

The truth is there’s a straight line from the founding of this country to the killing fields of Baghdad. That line may be interrupted by periods of enlightenment and peace, but it is still an unbroken stripe from the Continental Congress to Abu Ghraib, from Bunker Hill to Falluja, from Valley Forge to Guantanamo Bay. It all grows from the same root.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17277.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By Mahmood Mamdan

The history of colonialism should teach us that every major intervention has been justified as humanitarian, a ‘civilising mission’. Nor was it mere idiosyncrasy that inspired the devotion with which many colonial officers and archivists recorded the details of barbarity among the colonised – sati, the ban on widow marriage or the practice of child marriage in India, or slavery and female genital mutilation in Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17282.htm

Angry lawmakers on Friday threatened to amend the USA Patriot Act and limit the FBI's powers in the wake of a disclosure that agents had improperly obtained confidential records of people in the United States. A scathing report issued Friday by the inspector general of the Justice Department found widespread problems in how the FBI has used a form of administrative subpoena - known as a national security letter - to gather phone, bank and credit information on thousands of citizens without court oversight.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007Y.shtml

The Nevada Democratic Party on Friday canceled an August presidential debate in Reno that was to be co-hosted by Fox News, citing comments Thursday by the network's chairman. Liberal activists and bloggers had been protesting the debate plans, calling the channel biased.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007F.shtml

Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find. Faced with a military buildup in Iraq that could drag into next year, Pentagon officials are trying to identify enough units to keep up to twenty brigade combat teams in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007E.shtml

The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007C.shtml



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

"Anyone who wanted to believe that all Mr. Bush was seeking was a short-term security push - as part of a larger strategy to extricate American troops from this unwinnable war - now needs to face up to a far less palatable reality. What is under way is a significant and long-term escalation," says the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007A.shtml

Der Senat von South Carolina hat ein Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht, das Strafgefangenen vorzeitige Strafentlassung für das Spenden eines Organs anbietet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24812/1.html

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25412



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

http://tinyurl.com/2sgtjq

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On David Sirota, David Obey, and Never Mind Ending the War
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/19485


From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Obey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sirota

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0309-03.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0309-21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0309-20.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rosa+Brooks

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0309-04.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

A congressional investigation into the firings of eight US attorneys reached into the White House on Friday, with Democrats saying that they'll call in President Bush's former counsel Harriet Miers and other unidentified White House officials for interviews with the House Judiciary Committee. Lawmakers have been asking whether the federal prosecutors' offices have become tainted by partisan politics. Until Friday, the official inquiry had ended with the Justice Department.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+of+US+attorneys

Der besondere Fernsehtipp: Sendung von "Report München" zu Zwangseinweisungen und der Schwierigkeit, sich rechtlich dagegen zu wehren.

Titel: Ohne eigenen Willen - Zwangsbetreuung in Deutschland

Montag 12.03.2007
ARD 21:45 - 22:15 Uhr

Dienstag 13.3.2007
ARD 5.00 Uhr in der Früh und RBB um 10.45 Uhr

Report München beschäftigt sich in einem Beitrag mit der Frage der massiv zugenommenen Zwangseinweisungen und Zwangsbehandlungen, die durchgeführt werden, obwohl die Betroffenen mit eindeutigen Vorausverfügungen diese verhindern wollten. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie schwierig die Durchsetzung des Patientenwillens im Rahmen der gegenwärtigen Rechtslage tatsächlich ist.

Weitere Informationen über diesen Termin: http://www.br-online.de/daserste/report


Warum man unbedingt eine PatVerfü® braucht
http://www.patverfue.de/gruende.html


Werner-Fuß-Zentrum im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener
http://www.die-bpe.de



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

Hallo liebe Delfin- und Walfreunde;

Vor ein paar Wochen nahmen Sie an meiner ONLINE-PETITION zum Schutz für die Delfine und Wale teil. Dafür möchte ich Ihnen ganz recht herzlich danken.

Was ist daraus geworden? Wie angekündigt, reiste ich zur CITES nach Genf und zur UNO/UNEP nach New York und setzte mich dort mit allen meinen Möglichkeiten für den Schutz der Meeressäuger ein.

Infos zur UNO-Aktion ersehen Sie auf meiner Homepage: http://walschutzaktionen.de/44552.html

Wie geht es weiter?

Ein weiteres wichtiges Projekt steht im „Jahr des Delfins“ an! Es handelt sich um die Bedrohungen für die Meeressäuger im Mittelmeer. Mit einem Partner-Verein zusammen wollen wir die riesige Menge an Plastik-Müll, welcher für viele Meeresbewohner eine tödliche Gefahr darstellt, im Meer reduzieren.

Wir starten ein Pilot-Projekt in der Küstenregion von Livorno/Italien. Wenn es erfolgreich ist, dann kann es von vielen weiteren Regionen und Ländern übernommen werden. Bei diesem Projekt sind wir auf die Unterstützung von FÖRDERER und SPONSOREN angewiesen.

Wenn es Ihnen in irgendeiner Weise möglich ist, dann möchte ich Sie herzlich darum bitten, dieses Projekt für den Schutz der Delfine und Wale im Mittelmeer zu unterstützen.

Infos zur Aktion „Plastik aus dem Meer“ ersehen Sie auf meiner Homepage: http://walschutzaktionen.de/138201.html

Bei Fragen stehe ich Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung.


Eine Initiative zum Schutz der Delfine und Wale von:

Andreas Morlok
Haydnstr. 1
D-78315 Radolfzell
Telefon: 07732 14324
Internet: http://www.walschutzaktionen.de
E-Mail: walfahrt @t-online.de



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

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explains in simple terms how the American economy went from having the world's most dynamic middle class to being on the verge of a rich-poor state in only 30 years.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030907LA.shtml



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

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed federal help for communities faced with deteriorating sewage systems, ignoring White House warnings that the cost was too high.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030907EC.shtml

Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where President Bush kicked off a Latin American tour yesterday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles, providing ethanol. But a top UN environmental official is warns that an increase in ethanol production poses risks to Brazil's Amazon rain forest.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030907EA.shtml



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

A videotape showing Pentagon officials' final interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030907R.shtml



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

It's big news in the US that the FBI has overstepped its authority by spying on US citizens illegally.

What hasn't made it to the news - or did and was pulled after running as a story just once - is that while the FBI and other government agencies are spying on American citizens, a foreign country (and supposed US ally) is spying on the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/61.html

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Spying on Americans

The editors of The New York Times write, "Before making any new laws, Congress has to get to the truth about Mr. Bush's spying program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050207C.shtml



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

A TOP mover and shaker in the government of George Dubya Bush faces up to 30 years in jail for lying about the Iraq war.

http://snipurl.com/1cl6h



Libby set to win pardon and escape jail term

A White House official said last night that there was a "strong expectation" that President George W Bush would pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the disgraced aide.

http://snipurl.com/1cl6i


From Information Clearing House



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

Fourteen Guantanamo Bay prison detainees are due to face their first hearings before US military panels, without legal representation and with reporters barred from the proceedings.

http://snipurl.com/1cl6e


From Information Clearing House



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

The report mentioned several cases in Egypt including torture of prisoners and allegations of arbitrary arrests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6433613.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

The White House insists that the United States won't talk directly with Iran until Tehran suspends its nuclear program. But U.S. officials have been discreetly meeting their Iranian counterparts one-on-one for more than a decade, often under the auspices of the United Nations.

http://snipurl.com/1cl5x


From Information Clearing House

On a voice vote, the House backed a resolution calling for the "timely admission" to the alliance of Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, and two former republics of the old Soviet Union, Georgia and Ukraine.

http://snipurl.com/1cl5l


From Information Clearing House

Shiites, Sunnis say Tehran is winner of U.S. invasion
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/trib32.html


From Information Clearing House

Video Lecture - Q &A - Michael Klare

The Global Struggle Over Disappearing Petroleum

Real Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17273.htm



Ghawar Is Dead!

By Matthew S. Miller

The Wide-Spread Use of Advanced Extraction Techniques are Killing the Mother of All Oil Fields.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17266.htm



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

Video report

While working at AT&T headquarters in San Francisco, Klein discovered (and had the courage to speak out about) a secret eavesdropping room that all of the company's traffic was routed through.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17269.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping

A Documentary Film By Danny Schechter

The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17267.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Danny+Schechter

By Mike Whitney

Last week the stock market bull plopped down on an I.E.D. and wound up in intensive-care sucking food from a straw and drifting in and out of consciousness. That put Paulson on the road to South Korea, Japan and China where he’ll meet up with his foreign counterparts to strategize on the deteriorating state of world markets. It’s a daunting task.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17274.htm



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

By Andrew Stephen

America won't simply be paying with its dead. The Pentagon is trying to silence economists who predict that several decades of care for the wounded will amount to an unbelievable $2.5 trillion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17268.htm



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

By Stephen Lendman

Full-scale war on Iran may just be a concocted terrorist attack away from starting the "shock and awe."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17275.htm



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

Video Report

US Soldier Joshua Key has told Tony Jones about his new book, which concludes that American soldiers were behaving like terrorists in the Iraq war, as a result of their training.

Video and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17271.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Key

By Tim Dickinson

The war in Iraq isn't over yet, but -- surge or no surge -- the United States has already lost. That's the grim consensus of a panel of experts assembled by Rolling Stone to assess the future of Iraq. "Even if we had a million men to go in, it's too late now," says retired four-star Gen. Tony McPeak, who served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. "Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together again."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17270.htm

Sign PETA's international petition to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Our goal is to gather signatures from more than 50,000 people who want to tell the prime minister that "fashion" is no justification for spilling baby seals' blood.

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/seal_hunt07/



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

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364676.html


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

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Turn off the life support: America is dead
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/202/162/


Informant: bdpoe



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny