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By Kelly Fenna

PHONE POINT: T-Mobile can now go ahead to site mast at club

PROTESTORS have criticised an appeal decision to allow a mobile phone mast to be built at Hoylake Sailing Club, writes Kelly Fenna.

The 12m-high telecomm-unications pole - designed to mimic' the club's existing mast - was last year refused by Wirral's planning committee after fierce public opposition.

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http://www.thisiswirral.co.uk/display.var.1662982.0.government_overrules_council_mast_decision.php

Iraq: Seven Years in Hell
http://ga3.org/ct/c720pgF16mZT/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

The Associated Press reports, "New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Killings+of+Civilians

The Dirty Toilet Principle: The Fed and the Housing Bubble

Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Fortunately for them, central bankers are not like custodians: To a very large extent, they get to assign their own grades. As a result, the Fed folks are likely to suffer few consequences even as millions of people lose their homes, tens of millions lose most of their life's savings and the economy stumbles into a recession. Being a central banker is good work, if you can get it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407F.shtml


Recession Time! The Housing Bubble Bursts the Economy

Dean Baker says, "The downturn in jobs reported last month by the Labor Department provided evidence of an economic downturn that even the economy's greatest cheerleaders could not ignore. Healthy economies do not shed jobs."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

Jeffrey Rosen writes for The New York Times Magazine: "In the fall of 2003, Jack L. Goldsmith was widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament.... No one was surprised when he was hired in October 2003 to head the Office of Legal Counsel, the division of the Justice Department that advises the president on the limits of executive power.... Nine months later, in June 2004, Goldsmith resigned. Although he refused to discuss his resignation at the time, he had led a small group of administration lawyers in a behind-the-scenes revolt against what he considered the constitutional excesses of the legal policies embraced by his White House superiors in the war on terror."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeffrey+Rosen

The Associated Press reports, "Lawyers behind a California ballot proposal that could benefit the 2008 Republican presidential nominee have ties to a Texas homebuilder who financed attacks on Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential campaign."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Kerry
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

Elizabeth de la Vega writes for Truthout: "The truth is, the high-level decay and politicization of the DOJ that has been so starkly exposed in the past months did not begin with the arrival of Alberto Gonzales in 2005. It began with the arrival of Bush and Cheney in January of 2001. From the moment they moved into the White House, they set about to pervert the functions of the office of the attorney general to advance not only their own personal and political agendas, but also those of the Republican National Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Republican+National+Committee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elizabeth+de+la+Vega

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0904-02.htm



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

CODEPINK
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0904-06.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/04/3596/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

Time For Congress To Take A Stand
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/04/3601

Time to Take a Stand
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/07/3685/

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Interview With Rep. Barbara Lee

Truthout: "Barbara Lee (D-California) remains stoutly determined to drag her Congressional colleagues, as well as the Bush administration, away from continuing to support the long list of foreign and domestic policy decisions that have damaged the Unites States at home and abroad. In this video, she sits with William Rivers Pitt to discuss several of these issues in detail."

http://www.truthout.org/article/interview-with-rep-barbara-lee



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Lee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/04/3606



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Dejevsky

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/bribes_from_big_pharma.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Pharma

http://derstandard.at/?id=3021990



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

http://proliberty.com/observer/20070701.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=amalgam

Wie das Heimatschutzministerium mithilfe kirchlicher Gruppierungen und Scientology den "Ernstfall" probt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26089/1.html

Mike Collett-White reports for Reuters: "The scars from the Iraq war do not heal when US soldiers return home, says a powerful new film starring Tommy Lee Jones that keeps the conflict at the heart of the Venice film festival this year. After Brian De Palma's 'Redacted' stunned audiences with its reconstruction of horrific events in Iraq, Paul Haggis' 'In the Valley of Elah' brings a more nuanced, yet moving account of the brutality some soldiers bring back to the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407P.shtml

Edmund L. Andrews of The New York Times reports, "A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to 'dissolve Saddam's military and intelligence structures,' a plan that the envoy, L. Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi Army."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407N.shtml



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

Steven Levy writes for Newsweek: "Vulnerabilities in election machines are so severe that voters have no way of knowing for sure that the choices they enter into the touchscreens and ballots will actually be counted. 'The studies show that these machines are basically poison,' says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins computer-science professor and voting-security expert."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090407L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Avi+Rubin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ballots

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/040907_cheney_orders.htm

Fox News Responds To Cheney Call For Iran Attack PR Blitz
http://infowars.net/articles/september2007/050907Iran_war.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

Azerbaijan, Sheki / Тrend corr E. Guliyev / As a result of increasing electromagnetic radiation of Azerbaijan’s Gabala radar station, the population of nearby villages are requiring medical aid more frequently.

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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic+radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=radar

The Word according to Dubya
http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2007/08/top-50-bushisms.html


Informant: Gary

http://tinyurl.com/38ymhr
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/7b44ae1f7f008c9?hl=en



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

Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

09/03/07

This Labor Day, America’s working families do not have a great deal to cheer. According to the new Census report on economic trends in 2006, median earnings for fulltime year-round workers last year fell by about 1 percent, even with a booming economy. Only the most affluent one-fifth of US households had net income gains between 2000 and 2006. The rest had declines, despite productivity growth averaging about 3 percent per year. The share of people with health insurance provided by employers declined, as did those with guaranteed pensions. And all of this discouraging news happened before the current financial turbulence. Housing values have now gone into their worse tailspin since the Great Depression. Even if the Federal Reserve manages to contain the effects on the broader economy, America remains on a course where the biggest gains go to a narrow elite, and ordinary people face increasing insecurity...

http://tinyurl.com/yq6gtx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Labor+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Kuttner

The American Conservative
by Pat Buchanan

08/27/07

In his declaration of war on the United States, bin Laden listed three goals: expel U.S. forces from the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, stop the persecution of innocent Iraqis through U.S.-UN sanctions, and end the Israeli repression and dispossession of the Palestinian people. Not only do these goals have broad appeal to Arab peoples, bin Laden has achieved victory in the first. After 9/11, U.S. forces were pulled out of Saudi Arabia at the request of the king. And while Bush calls this an ideological struggle, the enemy has allied itself with some very powerful ideas. As did Mao and Ho Chi Minh, our enemy has captured the flag of nationalism: We fight to get your troops off our land! We fight to get your hooks out of our government! Leave us to rule ourselves! More importantly, our enemy has rooted his cause in a 1,400-year-old religion that has 1.2 billion adherents, has survived crusades, invasions and occupations, and is growing again in militancy and converts...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_08_27/buchanan.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan

AlterNet
by Michael Marx and Marjorie Kelly

08/29/07

Corporate power lies behind nearly every major problem we face — from stagnant wages and unaffordable health care to overconsumption and global warming. In some cases, it is the cause of the problem; in other cases, corporate power is a barrier to system-wide solutions. This dominance of corporate power is so pervasive, it has come to seem inevitable. We take it so much for granted, we fail to see it. Yet it is preventing solutions to some of the most pressing problems of our time. With global warming a massive threat to our planet and a majority of U.S. citizens wanting action, why is the U.S. government so slow to address it? In large part because corporations use lobbying and campaign finance to constrain meaningful headway...

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/61104/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+power

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

The destruction of America has been accomplished in the manner of a particularly skillful and diabolical con game: it has been done completely in the open. No one was fooled or misled. The ruling class has always stated explicitly exactly what they intended to do — and then they did it. You didn’t think they meant it, not really, not all the way down. But they did. They counted on the great majority of Americans not to believe what was directly before their eyes, or to identify its full, inevitable meaning. Most of you obliged. Most of you still oblige. They could not ask for more.”

http://tinyurl.com/2tp2z2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber

LewRockwell.Com
by David J. Theroux

According to an August 31st news release from the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), the ‘war on terror’ is being lost because of ‘compromise,’ ‘appeasement,’ and a ‘lack of self-esteem.’ For these Randians, America needs to ‘adopt self-interest and victory.’ The ARI appears to believe that the U.S. is just not tough enough and lacks the courage to kill and keep on killing, bomb and keep on bombing, torture and keep on torturing, tax and keep on taxing, etc. — all in the name of ‘reason’ and ‘liberty’ of course. Apparently, I have missed something here. It would appear that the supporters of preemptive war in Iraq and elsewhere have had anything but a ‘lack of self-esteem.’ Indeed, the very bravado and imperial adventure of invasion and occupation would seem utterly contrary to ‘compromise’ and ‘appeasement.’ … One wonders who exactly the ARI believes Bush is appeasing, other than interest groups who have pushed for and are benefiting from the neo-mercantilist spending and hegemonic bonanza of the war and the enormous explosion of federal government power?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/theroux2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preemptive+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=theroux

AntiWar.Com
by Alan Bock

09/04/07

For months — perhaps even a couple of years — I have been downplaying the likelihood that Bush would be so foolish as to start a war with Iran, especially in light of how much more difficult such a war would be than the war on Iraq and how thinly the military is stretched. It’s not that I don’t think the neocons want such a war or that Bush isn’t just irresponsible enough to do it. I have figured that the military would point out the logistical problems and simply let him know in no uncertain terms that it can’t be done. And I still think that’s a possibility, perhaps even likelihood. Over the last few weeks, however, I have to admit I’ve become a bit less certain...

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=11549


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Bock

http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/meere/mitmach_aktionen/aktion/protest_e_mail/islands_walfang_endgueltig_stoppen/?campaign



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

Bundesweite Demonstration gegen Abschiebehaft

„Am 02.09.2007 fand vor den Toren der Justizvollzugsanstalt (JVA) Büren eine bundesweite Demonstration gegen Abschiebehaft statt. Zeitgleich begannen 60 Abschiebehäftlinge in der JVA Büren einen Hungerstreik, um ihre sofortige Freilassung durchzusetzen…“ Bericht von Büren Gruppen Paderborn vom 02.09.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/09/193161.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 4. September 2007

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Wieder Toter in Berliner Abschiebehaft

„Wieder ein Toter in Berliner Abschiebehaft. 28-Jähriger starb am Neujahrsmorgen an den Folgen seines Suizidversuchs. Am kommenden Samstag findet deswegen eine Protestdemonstration vor der Berliner Abschiebehaftanstalt in Köpenick statt…“ Bericht von antifa aus berlin südost vom 02.01.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/01/204081.shtml

Siehe dazu auch:

Erster Suizid im Abschiebegefängnis Berlin-Köpenick. Pressemitteilung der Dokustelle Antirassistische Initiative Berlin vom 2.1.08 mit Hintergrundinfos http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/pdf/ari_suizid_020108.html

Infos zur Protestdemo http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/pdf/Demo_Koepenick_050108.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2008



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

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1272/135/


Informant: sasha karlik



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

Carolyn Baker

We have only begun to see the reverberations of the mortgage meltdown. They will be as sweeping and mindboggling as global warming or an earthquake measuring 10 on the Richter scale.

http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/109/



Former Subprime Leader Ameriquest Closes

Ameriquest Mortgage Co., once the nation's largest subprime lender, will close with barely a whimper, after the other assets of its parent company were sold Friday to Citigroup Inc.

http://tinyurl.com/3dmtsf


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carolyn+Baker

Audio interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States.

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=21767


From Information Clearing House



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

Interviews with journalists, psychologists and legal scholars attempt to peel away the layers of denial and secrecy that obscure the truth about a practice that is widespread, illegal, and ongoing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18294.htm



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

The blame game is led today by neoconservative pundits who often present Islam as the new villain to be confronted by American military power. They have consistently presented Muslims as incapable of democratic rule.

http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IN0708-3354


From Information Clearing House



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

Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, "SPIN: The Art of Selling War" is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American administrations of past and present.

http://tinyurl.com/ywwupm


From Information Clearing House

The Democrats have to stand up this week, loud, clear, and demonstrative, and declare that they will not get hustled into supporting a mindless, counterproductive attack on Iran.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/02/iraq_with_an_n_anatomy_of_a_rumor_that_has_to_be_taken_seriously


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

The current request for Iraq-related spending for 2008 is $116 billion, which would raise total Iraq war spending to $567 billion. Who's getting all that money?

http://tinyurl.com/ypl6ru



U.S. Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War

It is one of the most affluent countries in the world, but sill millions of people in the United States find it very difficult to put a nice meal on their dinner table.

http://tinyurl.com/22p3pl


From Information Clearing House

At a time when millions of Baghdadis outside the green zone receive only a couple of hours of water and electricity daily, Iraqis observe that this project has been completed on time, on budget, and is entirely self-sufficient with its own fresh water supply, electricity plant, sewage treatment facility, maintenance shops and warehouses.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2364255.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=embassy+Baghdad

US President George Bush has made an unannounced visit to Iraq on the day British troops completed their pull out of Basra.

http://tinyurl.com/yog32x


From Information Clearing House



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

By Gabriel Kolko

We are at an end of an era, living through the worst financial panic in many decades. Now begins global financial instability. It is impossible to speculate how long today's turmoil will last-but there now exists an uncertainty and lack of confidence that has been unparalleled since the 1930s-and this ignorance and fear is itself a crucial factor. The moment of reckoning for bankers and bosses has arrived.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18296.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gabriel+Kolko

Patrick Cockburn

The withdrawal of British forces from Basra Palace, ahead of an expected full withdrawal from the city as early as next month, marks the beginning of the end of one of the most futile campaigns ever fought by the British Army.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2921877.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

By Leading Article

The sad reality is that neither we nor the Americans will be leaving Iraq with much credit and attempts by either side to pass the buck are almost pointless. Worse, these futile quarrels are in danger of distracting attention from the real question; what in this terrible situation, mostly of our own making, can we now do for the suffering people of Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18298.htm



The Bases Are Loaded

Video

Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18295.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson

By WALTER BRASCH

Add faked photos to the list of lies told by the Bush/­Cheney Administration before its invasion of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18300.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=WALTER+BRASCH

By Simon Floth

On July 11 this year congress loaded and pointed a gun at Iran in the form of Lieberman's amendment to the Defense Authorization act (S.AMDT.2073, amending H.R.1585 and S.AMDT.2011). That was more than six weeks ago, yet the most pivotal feature of the amendment, and indeed of history in the making, has gone entirely unremarked: It is a demonstrable non-sequitur.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18301.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Simon+Floth

DAVID BALE

01 September 2007 07:56

Families are being urged to object to plans for a 15ft mobile phone mast on an industrial estate.

Campaigners tried but failed to halt the application for the mast on the Peruzzi scrap metal yards site in Waterworks Road before it reached the planning stage.

An application for the mast on a concrete base with two cabinets and ancillary equipment has been submitted for approval to Norwich City Council.

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http://tinyurl.com/2pog92

A council blunder resulted in a mobile phone mast being erected in Sunderland, despite the fact planning permission had been refused.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6977383.stm

by Lynn Stuter

Time and again, Americans have watched their fresh-faced, newly elected representative depart for Washington DC with the firm resolve to “make a difference” … “change the course of America” … “get America back on track.” Within a short time, the constituents no longer recognize that fresh-faced newly elected representative they sent off with the hope that “this one will be different.” What happens to change their elected representatives to the point they no longer recognize them?........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter110.htm



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

by Geoff Metcalf

The serial failures of our elected officials are largely a function of ego and laziness. Ego on the part of pols who assume a pretentious sense of entitlement and laziness on the part of we the people for not making the time or effort to hold them accountable for what they do and don’t do......

http://www.newswithviews.com/metcalf/metcalf228.htm



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

Tariq Panja reports for The Associated Press: "A second retired British general slammed the United States over its Iraq policy, saying in a newspaper interview published Sunday that it had been 'fatally flawed.' Major General Tim Cross, the most senior British officer involved in the postwar planning, said he had raised serious concerns about the possibility of Iraq falling into chaos, but said former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the warnings."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307F.shtml



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

Agence France-Presse reports: "Bush and his Democratic foes in Congress this week fire the opening shots in a long-brewing clash likely to seal the fate of US war strategy in Iraq. Lawmakers return from their summer break for a week of hearings and political theater to set the stage for Bush's critical progress report on the war, due by September 15."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307E.shtml

The Associated Press reports: "Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said Sunday that finding out whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied or otherwise misled Congress will help senators pick a worthy successor. Leahy has asked Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine to look into whether Gonzales gave inaccurate testimony about the firings of several US attorneys last year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy

Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "Until recently I assumed that the failure to find W.M.D., followed by years of false claims of progress in Iraq, would make a repeat of the snow job that sold the war impossible. But I was wrong. The administration, this time relying on Gen. David Petraeus to play the Colin Powell role, has had remarkable success creating the perception that the 'surge' is succeeding, even though there's not a shred of verifiable evidence to suggest that it is."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

Stephen Lendman writes for Truthout: "Labor Day has been commemorated on the first Monday in September each year since the first one was celebrated in New York in 1882. Around the world outside the US, socialist and labor movements are observed on May 1 to recognize organized labor's social and economic achievements and the workers in them. This day gets scant attention in the US, but where it's prominent it's common to remember the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886, in Chicago. It followed the city's May 1 general strike for an eight-hour day that led to violence breaking out on the Fourth."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307A.shtml



Travails of the Super-Rich

Barbara Ehrenreich writes for the Nation: "On Labor Day we customarily give a nod to America's underpaid and overworked blue- and pink-collar workers - janitors, flight attendants, forklift operators and the like. But this year let's go a step further and salute the most reviled and despised of the people who make our economy happen - the mere mention of whom causes the average forklift operator to spit on the floor. You are thinking, perhaps, of telemarketers, human traffickers and the friends who answer the phone when you to try to make a claim on your health insurance. But I'm talking about our CEOs."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090307G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Labor+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Ehrenreich

By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI

A STUDY into the potential health risks of mobile phone masts could be carried out soon in Muharraq. The proposed investigation was due to be discussed by the Muharraq Municipal Council yesterday, but has been postponed since only four of eight councillors showed up for its first meeting after the summer break.

It has been forced onto the council's agenda by 150 Busaiteen residents, who have signed a petition against phone masts in their area.

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http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=192800&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30168

http://tinyurl.com/35fovx

Truly religious people who think for themselves are making connections between the violations of our privacy and some of their Biblical warnings.

While we don't all agree on Bible issues, we do agree that it's as valid a concern for us as it is for them that we NEVER see the day when the government can basically "erase" our existence by making it impossible for us to buy anything if they "cut off" our money supply through this chip.

This is very dangerous and its implications go far beyond these four or five sentences. It is another great reason why Ron Paul is as much the logical candidate for anyone who considers themselves religious as someone, like me, who doesn't. We must work together.

Frank J. Gonzalez
Miami, FL
786-287-7491


"Ron Paul is the George Washington of the 2nd American Revolution. Still, thanks to Washington, Paul reconquered 232 years later with ballots instead of bullets."

--Me, 9/2/7



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http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/
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