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Informant: Dorothee Krien

What would happen after the first of these successful attacks would be oil trading at astronomical highs: $150 to $200 a barrel. Or roughly two to three times what is has been trading at during the Iraq war. Six to nine dollars a gallon at your local pump.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18489.htm



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A plan by the Bush administration to launch surgical strikes on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has won the support of Gordon Brown, according to a US report, although a presidential "execute order" required for such an operation has yet to be issued.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3018375.ece


From Information Clearing House



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The number of Iraqis driven from their homes by war and sectarian violence could be far larger than official estimates of the country's deepening humanitarian crisis, some experts say.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01324071.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Carolyn Baker

This parallel world remains unseen in the daily struggles of most of humanity, but, believe me, it is there: a cesspool of duplicity and lies and double-speak and innuendo and blackmail and bribery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18494.htm



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By Joel S. Hirschhorn

After many years of political disappointment, more progressives, liberals and conservatives - and certainly moderates and independents - know in their hearts that voting for Democrats or Republicans is a waste. Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting a broken and corrupt political system and rejecting what has become a delusional democracy.

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Addressing the origins of the Whose-Your-Daddy Nation

By Phil Rockstroh

When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck power emanating from an insular and arrogant elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as holding a tea dance in a tsunami.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18491.htm



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Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Die Emissionen nehmen rasch zu, das arktische Eis noch schneller ab, aber Vattenfall will weiter die ostdeutsche Landschaft auf der Suche nach Braunkohle umpflügen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26316/1.html



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Der US-Senat hat die Iranische Revolutionäre Garde zur Terrororganisation erklärt, das iranische Parlament erklärte im Gegenzug die CIA und das US-Militär dazu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26318/1.html

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„Ein Berliner Gericht hat dem Bundesjustizministerium in einem Grundsatzurteil untersagt, das Verhalten der Besucher des Internetportals des Ministeriums aufzuzeichnen. Ein Urteil mit Folgen für Internetbranche und Politik. (…) Das nunmehr rechtskräftige Urteil hat Signalwirkung für die gesamte Internetbranche, in der die personenbeziehbare Aufzeichnung des Nutzerverhaltens weithin üblich ist (sogenannte "Logfiles" oder "Clickstream"), etwa bei Großunternehmen wie Google, Amazon und eBay. Der Jurist Patrick Breyer, der das Verfahren initiiert hatte, stellt auf seiner Internetseite Daten-Speicherung.de eine Musterklage bereit, mit deren Hilfe sich jeder gegen die Protokollierung seiner Internetnutzung wehren kann…“ Pressemitteilung vom 01.10.2007 bei Daten-Speicherung.de mit den Urteilen und weiteren Informationen http://www.daten-speicherung.de/?p=197

Siehe dazu auch:
Die Musterklage: http://www.daten-speicherung.de/?page_id=198


Ermittlungen gegen alle, die die Internetseiten aufgerufen haben

„Während der Marsch der Mönche in Myanmar tagelang die Schlagzeilen prägte, wurde die Demonstration gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Berlin von Medien wie den großen Tageszeitungen und dem Spiegel weitgehend ignoriert. Mehr Erfolg hatte die Bürgerrechtsbewegung auf dem Rechtswege, wo das Amtsgericht Berlin Mitte die Speicherung von personenbezogenen Daten beim Besuch von Webseiten untersagte. Gestern wurde außerdem die Aufklärungskampagne "Wir speichern nicht" gestartet. Wir befragten Patrick Breyer, Jurist, Datenschützer und Mitbegründer des AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung zu den Ereignissen der letzten Wochen…“ Interview von Peter Mühlbauer in telepolis vom 02.10.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26314/1.html


Prinzip Honigeimer: BKA linkt Linke

„Das Bundeskriminalamt richtet eine Internetseite zu einer terroristischen Vereinigung ein, wartet dann auf Besucher dieser Website, registriert deren IP-Adresse und lässt die entsprechenden Personen dann vom Provider identifizieren. Ein Zukunftszenario? Mitnichten…“ Artikel von Mirjam Hauck in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 01.10.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,ra12l1/computer/artikel/902/135638/


Kampagne für anonymes Internet gestartet

„Mit einer Kampagne namens "Wir speichern nicht" klärt der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung Anbieter von Internetportalen darüber auf, wie sie ihren Nutzern ein vollständig anonymes Surferlebnis ermöglichen können. Zur Belohnung winkt ein Gütesiegel…“ Pressemitteilung vom 01.10.2007 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/146/1/lang,de/

Siehe dazu die Aktionsseite http://www.wirspeichernnicht.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Oktober 2007

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2. Oktober 2007

Wir speichern nicht!

Zum jetzt bekannt gewordenen Urteil eines Berliner Amtsgerichtes, welches Webseiten-Betreibern das Speichern von personenbezogenen Daten verbietet, und zur Kampagne "Wir speichern nicht" des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Das Urteil eines Berliner Amtsgerichts, das es dem Bundesjustizministerium untersagt, die Zugriffe auf seine Internetseite in einer Weise zu protokollieren, die eine Identifizierung von Besuchern ermöglicht, ist eine schallende Ohrfeige für die Pläne der Bundesregierung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Das Gericht geht davon aus, dass über die Aufbewahrung von Kommunikationsspuren wie IP-Adressen das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung verletzt wird. Das Urteil stützt die Position der LINKEN gegen die vom Justizministerium geplante allgemeine und verdachtsunabhängige sechsmonatige Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Im Gegensatz zu Websites des Bundes und der Länder verzichtet DIE LINKE auf derlei Aufzeichnungsverfahren, so dass sich Interessenten und Nutzer unseres Internetauftritts unbeschwert über die Arbeit der Partei informieren können. DIE LINKE hat sich deshalb mit ihrer Interseite http://www.die-linke.de um das Gütesiegel "Wir speichern nicht!" des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) beworben und fordert alle Gliederungen der Partei auf, sich dieser Initiative anzuschließen. Generalverdacht statt Unschuldsvermutung ist die verfassungswidrige Kurzform der von der Koalition unter dem Vorwand der Terrorbekämpfung vorangetriebenen rigiden Einschränkungen des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Bürgerliche Freiheitsrechte sind ein unveräußerliches Gut, deshalb unterstützen wir die verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken der Datenschützer gegen die Pläne der Koalition.

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Toronto Star
by Craig and Marc Kielburger

10/01/07

Inspired by Gandhi, millions of men and women have joined forces to win rights for the brutally oppressed, end wars, defeat communism and topple empires. But the movement is changing. Technology has begun putting non-violence at our fingertips. With a few mouse clicks, citizens can find out about human rights abuses around the world, connect with others to sign online petitions, write blogs and contact their local politicians. That’s made the movement more personal, convenient and accessible...

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/262141

AntiWar.Com
by John Taylor

10/02/07

History will not be kind to Condi Rice. The United States has had a number of distinguished secretaries of state since World War II, but she will not be counted among them. Although it would be unfair to compare Rice to George Marshall, the architect of the Marshall Plan, which began economic integration in Western Europe, her performance pales in comparison to the independence, integrity, and leadership of a Dean Acheson or a James Baker. Condi Rice will be remembered chiefly for her unswerving personal loyalty to George Bush and her unstinting efforts to sell the neocons’ dysfunctional foreign policy to an increasingly skeptical nation and hostile world...

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CBS News

10/01/07

Democratic aides on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are experts at framing a hearing, and they didn’t pull any punches for Blackwater USA. The committee released a 15-page memo Monday afternoon, on the eve of a Tuesday hearing about Blackwater, chronicling a string of alleged abuses by the security firm in its work for the State Department since 2003. Blackwater has been involved in 195 ‘escalation of force’ incidents since 2005 in which guards for the firm fired shots, according to the report. Contractors for the firm fired the first shots in an overwhelming majority of those incidents. Documents released by the State Department also suggest the agency allowed Blackwater to fly a contractor out of Iraq shortly after that contractor, during a drunken episode, shot a guard for the Iraqi vice president...

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Writing for The New York Times, Peter Applebome says, "Once upon a time, the question was plastic or paper, which had its own somewhat uncertain calculus of virtue and waste. Now, it has begun to dawn on people that you don't need either. Most supermarkets these days sell sturdy, reusable bags for 99 cents that people can use instead of plastic ones. Except almost no one does."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/100107EC.shtml

Reuters reports: "Cutting emissions from deforestation will be key to curbing climate change and should be agreed upon in December's climate talks in Bali, a leading Indonesian forestry researcher said on Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/100107EB.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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The New York Times's David Stout and John M. Broder say, "Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilians and have sought to cover up the incidents, sometimes with the help of the State Department, a report prepared for a Congressional committee said today."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107T.shtml



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Anne Flaherty, The Associated Press, writes: "Powerless in their effort to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats were on track Monday to help pass a defense policy bill that would authorize another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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Congress raised the limit once again as U.S. debt nears $10 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every U.S. resident.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/256336.html


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US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain moved Sunday to calm controversy over an interview in which he said he would prefer to have the US president be Christian rather than Muslim.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071001/ts_alt_afp/usvote2008religionmccain


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Australia, Britain and Israel have "expressed interest" in a US campaign to launch "surgical" bombing raids on Iran targetting the Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities, according to one of America's leading investigative reporters, Seymour Hersh.

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From Information Clearing House

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White House Intensifying Plans to Attack Iran
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84471


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The U.S. government quietly gave a $485 mln security contract for Iraq to a private British firm within the week that U.S. contractors were accused of opening fire on and killing Iraqi civilians.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01380420.htm


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By Harold Meyerson

The American middle class has toppled into a world of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, and retirement without security.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are content with whatever crimes their government commits as long as the justification is Americans' safety.

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David Rose

Published 27 September 2007

British intelligence has long used clandestine "deniable briefings" to release information real and false to tame hacks including David Rose...

http://www.newstatesman.com/200709270026


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All Constitutional Rights are Your Legal Tools

by Nancy Levant

All executive orders and signing statements must be dissolved as they are illegal having DESTROYED the Constitutional rights of every American citizen. The Federal Reserve Corporation must be dissolved and the gold standard reinstated. The entire taxation system must be dissolved and constitutionally reinstated.........

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Is humanity so resistant to change that we will tamper with the biosphere's workings to construct a "Frankensphere"; rather than reducing population, consumption and emissions?

Earth Meanders, http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ By Dr. Glen Barry

October 2, 2007

It is being widely suggested that humanity can "geo-engineer" a global solution to climate change; that is, modify the Earth's biosphere at a planetary scale. Many methods are suggested. Most include either reflecting additional solar radiation away from the Earth, or using the ocean to store more carbon.

Radical geo-engineering proposals emerge largely from a sense of desperation as the world fails to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, and an unwillingness to make necessary societal and personal changes in response to deadly climate change. To some the extreme action of taking the Earth's ecological systems into techno-human hands seems sensible given indications that global heating is proceeding more rapidly than thought, as shown by unexpectedly quick melting of Arctic sea ice.

Risky climate geo-engineering schemes include giant vertical pipes in the ocean to increase ocean circulation and thus marine carbon sequestration, similarly growing vast blooms of ocean plankton by fertilizing with iron, erecting giant mirrors above the earth to reflect the sun's energy, and dropping sulfur particles from balloons at high altitude to do the same.

Two rogue US companies are moving forward with plans to fertilize the ocean with iron to create plankton blooms to suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They are motivated by profits from the growing carbon credit market, rising public demands for action, and politicians eager to avoid painful reductions in emissions. There is little that can be done to stop them, as no applicable laws or treaties exist.

Such efforts to "manage" Gaia are absolute madness – betting the planet and humanity on something as complex as artificially regulating a biosphere. Radical geo-engineering proposals could just as easily worsen the situation if these projects fail or are suddenly halted. And it is highly likely that unintended consequences of widespread implementation of such schemes would outweigh possible benefits. Failure could destroy the Earth.

There has been little research on the potential impacts upon marine ecosystems. The powerful greenhouse gas nitrous oxide may be released as marine organic matter decomposes. Oxygen may become depleted in the deep ocean, killing fish and throwing already troubled marine ecosystems into further turmoil. Even James Lovelock, the British scientist that first conceived of Gaia as a self-regulating organism, has fallen victim to favoring human technology over proven Earth processes.

Gaia, the Earth System, is a finely honed creature with unbelievably complex and ancient existing systems of planetary regulation. Messing with ocean carbon storage and solar radiation levels will affect ocean currents and acidity, atmospheric circulation and weather. Almost certainly there will be a whole host of follow-on effects, and dependable climatic patterns are likely to be further seriously diminished.

It is unfathomable to me that after millennia of ecological ignorance and unconstrained global ecological change leading to our current ecological crises, that a handful of scientists and business people could be so egotistical as to suppose they can play God and refashion a planet. Once geo-engineering is embraced, we could never stop, or the carbon would be re- released. Again, to propose human management of the biosphere is so egoistical and dangerous; and wrong on so many levels.

These may be desperate times, but governments have not even acted yet to set mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The skeptics have only just gone from denying the problem to minimizing its importance. Rather than embracing known sufficient policies that could solve the problem by transforming our energy and transportation systems, it is human nature to seek the easy way out. Yet reducing emissions of CO2, population, and consumption; and restoring global ecological systems, is so much more likely to be effective.

So much nature remains -- that could be enlarged, reconnected and regenerated -- that it is wrong to give up on natural ecosystems' processes to embrace a techno-industrial "Frankensphere". A failing biosphere can never be managed in any real sense to mimic a healthy biosphere. It is simply too complex.

If SUVs and coal plants are still spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, clearly risky geo-engineering is unjustified. Humanity is unable to eliminate exotic species, live peacefully, end deforestation, or stop having so many babies; yet it is going to take the global ecosystem into its management? Geo-engineering cannot succeed and it is terribly misguided to suggest it can.

Geo-engineering represents the shameless extreme nature of societal refusal to cut energy use and emissions. We have not even really tried in earnest as a human family to do so through conservation, efficiency and alternatives. Yet, before we have even begun, we are going to bet the human family's future on technological fixes that we hope will allow us to continue consuming, and pumping out babies and emissions, without end?

I am furious; absolutely certain with every thread of my ecological knowledge, intuition and being that no good and a large amount of harm will come from geo-engineering. Proposed global scale experimental environmental fixes will be disastrous. Under no circumstances may untested planetary manipulations commence until all other options have failed. The seeds of an operable biosphere remain, they must be given time and space to reestablish themselves; and humanity challenged and aided by all means to embrace necessary radical change.

The biosphere belongs to all people and tribes, and should it come to wild once off experiments with the Earth, the decision must be made by United Nations consensus. Until then, government prohibitions on unsanctioned activities must be implemented with all haste. Given the lack of regulation against such planetary scale climate experiments, direct action to stop arbitrary and capricious geo-engineering implementation is warranted and necessary.


Dr. Barry is founder and President of Ecological Internet; provider of the largest, most used environmental portals on the Internet including the Climate Ark at http://www.climateark.org/ and http://www.EcoEarth.Info/ . Earth Meanders is a series of ecological essays that are written entirely in his personal capacity. This essay may be reprinted granted it is properly credited to Dr. Barry and with a link to Earth Meanders. Emailed responses are public record and will be posted on the web site unless otherwise requested.



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