World-News

Elizabeth Williamson, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups and lawyers representing the makers of products linked to consumer hazards."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207D.shtml

Mike Soraghan, reporting for The Hill, writes, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attacked President Bush's legacy Thursday, saying he'll be remembered for an unfair tax code and a failed war strategy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207B.shtml



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Manu Raju, reporting for The Hill, writes, "Opposition in the Senate to President Bush's attorney general nominee continued to grow Thursday, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled the Senate would not consider the nomination if it does not clear a crucial vote next week in the Judiciary Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/021107_dollar_fall.htm



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Ein Bündnis von Medienverbänden hat sich in einem Brief an die Abgeordneten des Bundestages für eine Ablehnung der Reform der Telekommunikationsüberwachung ausgesprochen. Diese enthalte für Journalisten einen geringeren Schutz vor Ermittlungsmaßnahmen als für andere Berufsgeheimnisträger. Während Abgeordnete und Strafverteidiger in ihrer Funktion kategorisch von einer Telekommunikationsüberwachung ausgeschlossen seien, sehe das Gesetz bei Journalisten eine Abwägung zwischen der Pressefreiheit und der Schwere der aufzuklärenden Straftat vor. "Diese Aufteilung in Berufsgeheimnisträger erster und zweiter Klasse ist unter grundrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten nicht tragbar", heisst es in dem Schreiben.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16879



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Telekommunikationsüberwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung

Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) spricht sich für eine umfassende Nutzung von Geheimdienstinformationen durch die Polizeien von Bund und Ländern aus. "Ich sage mit großer Klarheit: Aus Sicht des Innenministers sind wir auf Information der Nachrichtendienste lebensnotwendig angewiesen", so Schäuble am 1. November auf einem Symposium des Bundesnachrichtendienstes in Berlin. Er verwies dabei auch auf Informationen ausländischer Geheimdienste, die zur Terrorbekämpfung in Deutschland schon hilfreich gewesen seien. Schäuble sagte, dass das oft zitierte "Trennungsgebot" von Polizei und Geheimdiensten keinen Verfassungsrang habe.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16884



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

Mother of Dead Marine, Nobel Laureate Call for Ban on U.S. Cluster Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1102-06.htm



Cluster Bombs and Teddy Bears

Bianca Jagger
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/05/5025



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cluster+bombs

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4986/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4968



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4987/



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpq16eGzqk


From Information Clearing House

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Impeachment 'Off the Table' Kucinich to Put It on the Floor
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4988/

Congressman Dennis Kucinich Will Introduce Privileged Resolution To Force Up Or Down Vote On Cheney Impeachment
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1102-01.htm



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Einblicke in die Denkweise des ehemaligen Pentagon-Chefs.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26530/1.html



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Robert Pear, of The New York Times, reports, "Talks seeking a bipartisan compromise on health insurance for low-income children were cut short on Thursday, and the Senate then swiftly passed a bill to provide coverage for 10 million youngsters, fully expecting President Bush to veto it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207L.shtml



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Laurie Kellman reports for The Associated Press, "President Bush sought to save Michael Mukasey's troubled nomination for attorney general Thursday, defending the retired judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding torture and warning of a leaderless Justice Department if Democrats do not confirm him."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207K.shtml



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Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "In the next few days, a Congressional conference committee will likely pass the largest defense spending bill in the history of the United States. Despite Democratic lawmakers' promises to stop issuing blank checks for war, the bill does not call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq or Afghanistan, nor does it prevent military action against Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207J.shtml



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http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv095.html



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By Lois Avery

MOBILE phone giant Orange has been given permission to put up a mast in Box to avoid the costs of an appeal.

The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Development Control Committee on Wednesday evening and councillors decided to give the mast the go-ahead.

The decision comes after the council received 11 letters of objection to the proposals from people living near by.

Read More...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1805742.0.phone_mast_plan_gets_goahead.php

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/c4b2d6d2f596d96a?hl=en



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Antikriegsdemonstration in San Francisco und in anderen Orten der USA - Tausende marschieren

Artikel von Jim Doyle im San Francisco Chronicle/ZNet vom 28.10.2007 in einer Übersetzung von Andrea Noll. http://zmag.de/artikel/antikriegsdemonstration-in-san-francisco-und


Aus: LabourNet, 2. November 2007

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,514015,00.html



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

2. November 2007

Die Pläne von SPD und CDU für eine sechsmonatige Vorratsdatenspeicherung sind ein verfassungswidriger Generalangriff auf Bürgerrechte und Datenschutz. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die Planungen der Bundesregierung zur Neuordnung der Vorschriften über die Telekommunikationsüberwachung und zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung sind ein weitere Schritt hin zu mehr Überwachung und stellt jede und jeden in diesem Land unter Generalverdacht. Das ist mit rechtstaatlichen Prinzipien nicht vereinbar, die immerhin einen Anfangsverdacht für so massive Grundrechtseinschränkungen wie die Telekommunikationsüberwachung verlangen. Alle Nutzerinnen und Nutzer von Telefon oder Internet sind potentiell betroffen. Die Orwell'sche Horrorvision der Totalüberwachung rückt damit ein weiteres Stück näher. Ob Vollzugriff auf Passbilder und Fingerabdrücke oder verdachtsunabhängiges Speichern von Telefonaten, Mails und SMS - das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung ist in Deutschland ein Auslaufmodell. Bürgerliche Freiheitsrechte sind ein unveräußerliches Gut, deshalb unterstützen wir die verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken der Datenschützer gegen die Pläne der Koalition.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/orwell-ante-portas/

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Wir verwandeln uns in eine Misstrauensgesellschaft

„Seit diesem Donnerstag werden für jeden deutschen Reisepass Fingerabrücke genommen, kommende Woche entscheidet der Bundestag über die Vorratsdatenspreicherung. Peter Schaar, Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz, über die neue Sammelwut des Staates…“ Interview von Steffen Heinzelmann in der SZ vom 01.11.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3m1/deutschland/artikel/82/140782/


Aus: LabourNet, 2. November 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
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Salon
by Mark Benjamin

11/02/07

The first fusillade at Hillary Clinton during the Democrats’ feisty debate on Tuesday night came, as expected, from Barack Obama. But it included an unexpected subject. Obama called Clinton a flip-flopper on torture. ‘She has taken one position on torture several months ago, and then most recently has taken a different position,’ he fired. At first blush it seemed like an odd attack on Clinton, who has emphasized her ‘clear’ opposition to torture. But while Clinton continues to inch closer to the rest of the Democratic pack in her positions on the subject, her stance on torture isn’t as ironclad as it appears...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/02/hillary/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/02/07

How do we account for the sudden rise of a new war hysteria, this time directed against Iran? While the administration has turned up the volume of its anti-Iranian rhetoric, and the mass media has duly — and largely uncritically — reported it, this is only part of the reason for the ominous uptick. The core reason is that we’re entering the political season, and none of the presidential candidates presented to us as ‘major’ will take war with Iran off the table: indeed, the Republicans — with one exception — seem to be competing with each other to see who can take the most ferociously provocative stance. When it comes to Iran, the Democrats are almost as bad — and, in the case of the putative frontrunner, perhaps even worse...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11846


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Raw Story

11/01/07

The Osama bin Laden video released this past September 7, just prior to the sixth anniversary of 9/11, has provoked widespread suspicions of fraud. In particular, bin Laden’s beard — which was grey and ragged in the video released just before the 2004 election — is thick, black, and neatly trimmed in the new footage. The video aroused widespread suspicions that bin Laden’s beard had been faked in some way, with former White House counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke even speculating that bin Laden had shaved in order to hide out in a country like Indonesia, where Muslim men do not wear beards, and had then pasted on a false beard for the video...

http://tinyurl.com/3xjl5p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden

http://rebellmarkt.blogger.de/stories/953455/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Weidenfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bertelsmann

Media Consolidation

As Big Media is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules, Bill Moyers Journal reports on the real-world consequences of media policy through the lens of how it affects minority media ownership in America.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107U.shtml



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John M. Broder and James Risen for The New York Times report on the legal, political and public relations attempts of Blackwater to save itself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107S.shtml



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A soaring number of U.S. homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments in the third quarter, with properties in some stage of foreclosure more than doubling from the same time last year, a mortgage data company said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_bi_ge/foreclosure_rates


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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A region-wide shift could catch investors unawares after months of market speculation that the United Arab Emirates or Qatar would break ranks with their neighbors and unshackle their currencies from the dollar as Kuwait did this year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL3068734920071030


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drop+dollar

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has defended the methods it uses to interrogate terror suspects.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7070483.stm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
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Oxfam warns poor farmers risk being forced off their land as industrial farmers cash in on the biofuel bonanza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7072386.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/60minutes/main3440577.shtml



Let there be doubt

I don't remember anyone questioning the intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. In hindsight we could have done with a heavy dose of scepticism.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_williams/2007/11/let_there_be_doubt.html


From Information Clearing House



Key Iraqi informant was 'crazy,' U.S. was told before war

Prewar claims by the United States that Iraq was producing biological weapons were based almost entirely on accounts from a defector who was described as "crazy" by his intelligence handlers and a "congenital liar" by his friends.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8425.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Curve+Ball

US troops could be in the Middle East for another 50 years, according to the longest serving commander of the Qatar-based US Central Command.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2203337,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

At least 887 Iraqis were killed in Iraq in October, ministry data showed on Thursday, slightly higher than September which saw a total of 840 people killed across the nation.

http://snipurl.com/1t148


From Information Clearing House

According to the VA, at least 283 combat veterans who left the military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and the end of 2005 took their own lives. In addition, 147 troops have killed themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began bringing the government count to 430.

http://snipurl.com/1t146


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18650.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joel+S.+Hirschhorn

Gov. Bill Richardson

It is a tragedy that in the midst of one failed war in Iraq, George Bush and Dick Cheney are pushing a second front of failure and gearing up to attack Iran. The "unilateral sanctions" recently imposed will hurt diplomatic progress in the region, and I find it disconcerting that so many Democrats supported President Bush in his saber-rattling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18649.htm



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

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18648.htm



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From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld

By Robin Wright

In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18647.htm

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Memos Prove Rumsfeld Directed Psychological Terror Campaign
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/021107_terror_campaign.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6784/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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RIPE residents who object to a scheme to build a 20-metre mobile phone mast in the village centre are staging a public meeting at the village hall at 7.30pm on Monday, November 5.

Operators O2 overturned Wealden planners' decision to refuse the scheme.
They won the right to build the mast on land at Church Farm on appeal, saying there was a need to plug a hole in the network.

Read More...
http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/509/Antiphone-mast-campaigners-to-hold.3433553.jp



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

by Jon Christian Ryter

What I find alarming in the hours of video footage I've viewed over the past four years, is how many cops used stun guns out of anger to punish people they were forced to chase on foot­not because the perp swung at them or resisted arrest, but simply because they had to chase them on foot and got winded. Stun guns are only slightly less dangerous than real guns. In the hands of an angry cop who thinks his "suspect" is still resisting because he's twisting in agony on the ground­and gives him another pulsating burst for good measure­a stun gun can be just as lethal as a gun.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon197.htm



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