Montag, 7. Januar 2008

The Fog of War Crimes

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6217/



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The Humanitarian Crisis for Iraq's Children Continues

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6226/



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For Pentagon and News Media, Relations Improve With a Shift in War Coverage

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6224/



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Voter ID Laws Are Set to Face a Crucial Test

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6229/



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Pakistanis See US as Greatest Threat

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6232/



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Wahlkämpfer Roland Koch - Bootcamps in Deutschland?

http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/?em_cnt=1266925

Quelle: http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=2872

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8. Januar 2008

Keine Bootcamps in Deutschland

Zu Forderungen der Jungen Union nach "Erziehungscamps" für jugendliche Straftäter erklärt der jugendpolitische Sprecher des Parteivorstandes Sascha Wagener:

Sprache ist verräterisch: Mit ihrer Forderung nach "Erziehungscamps" machen die Konservativen deutlich, worum es ihnen geht. Sie wollen das amerikanische Konzept der Bootcamps auch für Deutschland. Die Junge Union liefert in einer Presseerklärung eine wortgenaue Beschreibung dieser amerikanischen Umerziehungslager. Ein ähnliches Camp gibt es bereits im hessischen Kreis Waldeck-Frankenberg. Hier hat der Staat seine Verantwortung in der Erziehung Jugendlicher an eine private Institution abgetreten, die Jugendliche durch das Brechen ihres Willens und ihres Stolzes zu besseren Menschen umerziehen möchte. Diese privaten Camps sind keine Alternative zum Jugendstrafvollzug. In den amerikanischen Bootcamps gehören seelische Misshandlungen zum Programm. Jugendliche können, das Einverständnis der Eltern vorausgesetzt, mit Gewalt zur Beteiligung an den Trainingsprogrammen gezwungen werden. Die Befürworter gehen davon aus, dass ein Straftäter nach dieser Tortur nicht mehr rückfällig werden will, um diese nie mehr durchmachen zu müssen. Mehrere Dutzend Jugendliche sind in den letzten Jahren in diesen Camps ums Leben gekommen. Ich kann keinen Unterschied zwischen den von der Jungen Union geforderten Erziehungscamps und dem System der Bootcamps erkennen. Ich fordere Angela Merkel als Vorsitzende der CDU auf, den menschenunwürdigen Vorschlägen der Jungen Union und des hessischen Ministerpräsidenten Roland Koch deutlich entgegenzutreten.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/keine-bootcamps-in-deutschland/



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Imperialist Propaganda

Chalmers Johnson, writing for TomDispatch.com, says, "I have some personal knowledge of Congressmen like Charlie Wilson (D-2nd District, Texas, 1973-1996) because, for close to twenty years, my representative in the 50th Congressional District of California was Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham, now serving an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence for soliciting and receiving bribes from defense contractors."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708G.shtml

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Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War

By Chalmers Johnson

It makes the U.S. government look like it is populated by a bunch of whoring, drunken sleazebags, so in that sense it's accurate enough. But there are a number of things both the book and the film are suppressing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19014.htm



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From Hype to Fear

Paul Krugman, writing for The New York Times, says: "The unemployment report on Friday was brutally bad. Unemployment rose in December, while job creation was minimal - and it's highly likely, for technical reasons, that the job number will be revised down, showing an actual decline in employment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708D.shtml



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"Hostile" Iranian Ships Hyped: US plays up murky naval confrontation with Iran in Strait of Hormuz

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/070108_iranian_ships.htm

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Iranian Boats 'Provoke' US Navy Ships in Hormuz
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/07/6223/

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US plays up murky naval confrontation with Iran in Strait of Hormuz
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7003/

US releases video of US-Iran encounter in Strait of Hormuz
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7005/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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U.S. Says Iranian Gunboats Harassed Warships

By Jim Miklaszewski - NBC News

Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military officials described as a "significant provocative act."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19013.htm



Iran warned against threatening US ships

Just hours before US President George W. Bush was to embark on his Middle East tour, the White House and US military in the region said Iran was engaging in "provocative acts".

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10180305.html



Iran Denies Threats Against U.S. Navy

Revolutionary Guards Dismiss U.S. Claims That Iranian Boats Threatened To Explode War Ships.

http://snipurl.com/1wxyb



Persian Gulf incident part of U.S. psyops: Iran's Majlis speaker

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has described U.S. reports about a confrontation between Iranian speedboats and U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf as "part of a psychological and propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic."

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/jan/1076.html



Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran

US warns Iran of consequences of any new naval crisis : U.S. President George W. Bush warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf and said all options were on the table.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09705818.htm



Video purports to show Iranian 'provocation' of US forces

The Pentagon has released footage of Iranian boats threatening three US ships in The Gulf, in what President George W Bush described as a "provocative act".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/wiran109.xml



Iranian TV: Pentagon Video, Audio Fake

Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7211334,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Iran: Pentagon sends up Gulf of Tonkin trial balloon

Bucyrus Telegraph Forum

01/08/08

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to ’something normal’...

http://tinyurl.com/39xuwp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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What Is This 'Iranian Provocation' BS?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/08/6256/



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Palmöl heizt das Klima an

Die EU beschleunigt mit ihrem Ziel, den Anteil von Agrosprit am Gesamtkraftstoffmarkt bis 2020 auf zehn Prozent zu steigern, die Zerstörung der letzten Urwälder Südostasiens.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/101302



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Nicht der Mensch, sondern der Überkonsum ist das Problem

Jared Diamond unterscheidet zwischen Erster und Dritter Welt und zeigt, dass unsere Verschwendung problematischer ist als mehr Kinder in den Dritten Welt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/101351



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Soziale Sicherheit oder Law and Order?

Die Union setzt auf innere Sicherheit und Ressentiments gegen Ausländer und Zuwanderung, nach einer Umfrage ist die Mehrheit der Deutschen von dem Wahlkampfthema nicht überzeugt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27002/1.html

Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed

ISIS Press Release 07/01/08

Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed

I am writing in response to your article defending the ‘new format’ of your Feature on Ermakova’s findings of adverse health and reproductive impacts on rats fed genetically modified (GM) soya, and on the validity of the ‘scientific criticisms’ of her work.

You are still being unfair to Ermakova, especially in allowing the panel of critics in your original Feature2 - all well known for their writings and public appearances if not in declared financial interests to be strongly pro-GM - to have the last word.

You asked for suggestions regarding the format you might use for Features of this kind. The real issue, however, is not the format but the journal’s policy on reviewing. When there is a debate or a controversy about an issue, reviewers must apply the same standards to papers on both sides, and that Chassy et al did not do. They explicitly wrote that Ermakova’s work should be judged by a more rigorous standard because it contradicts earlier work that showed no adverse effects from GM food. Yet the crucial earlier work that they repeatedly cited was indeed, not subjected to same rigorous standard they are demanding for Ermakova’s study; far from it. The same applies to other earlier research purportedly demonstrating that GM food is safe.

Read the rest of this letter here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NatureBiotechnologyLetterErmakova.php



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Nukes, Spooks, and the Specter of 9/11

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12166


Informant: Kev Hall

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Corrupt US Officials Sell Nuclear Secrets
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece?

Sibel Edmonds, Turkey, and the Bomb
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01072008.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Sibel 'names names' (in pictures!)

Over at Sibel's website, she has published "Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery" - twenty one photos of people.

http://snipurl.com/1wtwt



Sibel Speaks

Part II: Naming Names

I have decided that after years of not getting anyone to publish what I have found out about the Edmonds case, I am simply going to give you folks some names.

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/01/sibel-speaks-pa.html



Sibel Edmonds Speaks...

Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistle-blower who has been gagged for years by the Bush administration over intercepts she translated while at the bureau, was willing to go to prison to get her story told. She spent years trying to get her day in court, but the State Secrets gag against her prohibited her from telling her story even to a FISA judge.

http://snipurl.com/1wxyn


From Information Clearing House



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US Judge Chastises Department of Justice

Jonathan Saltzman reports for The Boston Globe, "The chief federal judge in Boston has urged the new US attorney general to crack down on prosecutors who commit misconduct and to force Justice Department lawyers to be truthful in court."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708O.shtml



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US Detention Center in Afghanistan Criticized by Red Cross

Tim Golden reports for The New York Times, "The American detention center, established at the Bagram military base as a temporary screening site after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is now teeming with some 630 prisoners - more than twice the 275 being held at Guantanamo."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708M.shtml

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Attorneys Call For Immediate Release of Civilians Held at Bagram
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0107-05.htm



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CIA Tapes Destroyed as Pressure Mounted

Truthout's Jason Leopold reports, "Harman's letter provides a more thorough account of the possible reasons CIA officials destroyed the videotaped interrogations, which, according to public accounts took place in November 2005, more than two years after Harman sent a letter to Muller voicing disapproval about purging the videotapes. It also suggests intelligence officials heeded prior warnings to preserve the videotapes and destroyed the videotapes only after evidence of the agency's covert interrogation practices were revealed publicly in news reports."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010708J.shtml



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Alarm on polluted oceans

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/01/07/he_sounds_alarm_on_polluted_oceans/


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Iowa's Numbers and New Hampshire

by Devvy Kidd

According to the counters, Ron Paul came in fifth in Iowa with an alleged 10% of the GOP vote. Many believe had Dr. Paul not been the target of a deliberate media smear (i.e., WorldNetDaily.com's news item January 5, 2008 with the caption ‘GOP gadfly’ in describing Ron Paul), he would have been in the high teens, possibly 20%.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd334.htm



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Wenig Lohn, wenig Rechte: Rückkehr der Lohnsklaverei in Deutschland

"Jeden Tag eine neue Filiale", so lautet das Motto des Textildiscounters Kik. 2500 Läden gibt es schon, 3000 sollen es künftig werden – der Profit ist offenbar verlockend. Hohe Umsätze, von denen auch die Arbeitnehmer profitieren könnten – doch offenbar ist das Gegenteil der Fall. Martina K., gelernte Einzelhandelskauffrau, arbeitet seit mehreren Jahren als Aushilfskraft bei Kik, ihr Stundenlohn: 5,20 Euro. Damit ist sie sogar eine der "Mehrverdienerinnen", einige Kolleginnen bekommen nur um die 4,50 Euro. Auch Lohnfortzahlung bei Krankheit oder bezahlten Urlaub hat Martina K. nie erhalten. Denn um expandieren zu können, spart der Billiganbieter bei der Belegschaft. Das deutsche Arbeitsrecht wird dabei häufig ignoriert. Die Video der Sendung Panorama vom 03.01.2008 über Lohndumping als Wettbewerbsprinzip. http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2008/t_cid-4491846_mid-4497542_.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Hauptsponsor des Vereins für Leibesübung (VfL) Bochum wegen Lohnwuchers angeklagt - Ver.di: KiK zahlt sittenwidrige Hungerlöhne

“Der Name KiK steht für ein einzigartiges Konzept, Textilien in guter Qualität zu vergleichbar dauerhaft niedrigen Preisen anzubieten.” So wirbt der VfL Bochum auf seiner Webseite für seinen Hauptsponsor “KiK”. Das ARD-Magazin “Panorama” berichtete gestern unter dem Titel “Wenig Lohn, wenig Rechte - Rückkehr der Lohnsklaverei in Deutschland” über die Praktiken der Firma KiK. Die Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di hatte bereits im November Strafanzeige wegen Lohnwuchers gegen KiK gestellt. Nach Ansicht von ver.di sind die Löhne des Textildiscounters sittenwidrig: “Sittenwidrige Löhne liegen immer dann vor, so die Rechtssprechung, wenn die ortsüblich Tarifvergütung um mehr als ein Drittel unterschritten wird. Der Tariflohn einer ausgelernten Verkäuferin beläuft sich in Nordrhein-Westfalen auf 12,30 Euro. Nach Abzug eines Drittel müsste er mindestens 8,21 Euro betragen. Damit nicht genug. Bei der weiteren Prüfung stellte sich heraus, dass es bei den KIK-Aushilfen scheinbar der Normalzustand ist, dass sie den gesetzlichen Urlaub von vier Wochen nicht erhalten. Sie werden lediglich unbezahlt von der Arbeit freigestellt.“ Meldung bei Bo-Alternativ vom 04.01.2008 http://www.bo-alternativ.de/2008/01/04/verdi-kik-zahlt-sittenwidrige-hungerloehne/


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Januar 2008

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Lohnwucher: Ver.di erstattet Strafanzeige wegen 2,71 Euro Stundenlohn

„Er war gelernter Maschinenbautechniker, doch das kümmerte eine Wuppertaler Zeitarbeitsfirma nicht. Sie bot dem Mann einen Stundenlohn von 2,71 Euro - die Gewerkschaft Ver.di hat deshalb Strafanzeige erstattet…“ Artikel in Spiegel online vom 03.12.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,594216,00.html


Porsche: Moderne Arbeitssklaven

„Leiharbeiter gelten als effektive Maßnahme zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit. Doch die Bedingungen, unter denen sie schuften müssen, sind teilweise skandalös. Der Arbeitsvertrag ist vier Seiten lang. Es sind vier Seiten, die mich bei der Lektüre ungläubig staunen ließen und zugleich schockierten. Sofort schoss mir der Gedanke durch den Kopf: Hierbei kann es nur um ein Arbeitsverhältnis in irgendwelchen Billiglohnländer wie Polen oder Rumänien gehen. Doch das Ganze spielt in Deutschland. Genauer gesagt im Leipziger Porsche-Werk. Dort, wo der Luxuswagenhersteller sein begehrtes Premium-Produkt Cayenne montieren lässt…“ Artikel von Kayhan Özgenc in Focus online vom 27.11.08 http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/oezgenc_oekonomie/porsche-moderne-arbeitssklaven_aid_351450.html


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Dezember 2008



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Kinder-Gulag zur psychiatrischen Zwangsbehandlung in Texas

http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-25548.html

Eine Mitteilung des Werner-Fuß-Zentrum
im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de



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Poland Signals Doubts About Planned U.S. Missile-Defense Bases on Its Territory

http://tinyurl.com/2vwx3v


Informant: Kev Hall



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Hands off Pakistan

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

01/04/08

‘The assassination of Benazir Bhutto was not an attack on this brave woman alone; it was an attack upon democracy, freedom and the United States.’ This statement by Asa Hutchinson, former undersecretary of homeland security, was typical of the reaction of the American political and media establishments. The claim that the assassination was an attack on democracy and freedom is dubious because Bhutto’s two spells as prime minister of Pakistan were not notable for either one...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0801a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Supporting the troops, but not the war

Liberty For All
by Rachel Mills

01/05/08

This is something I’ve never really quite subscribed to. You think the war is lousy and evil and counter-productive, yet you support the brave men and women in uniform fighting it. It’s a mantra these days. You have to add that caveat to any anti-war sentiment, lest you be declared un-American, and invoke imagery of the boys returning from tours of duty in Vietnam to spitting crowds of hippies...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1107


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The new slavery

Liberty For All
by R. Lee Wrights

01/06/08

For many years I labored under the false conclusion that the practice of human bondage had been abolished by the latter decades of the nineteenth century. But, as I grew older and began to pay closer attention to the political climate in the United States, I realized that slavery had not disappeared. It did fade from public view from the latter part of the nineteenth century into the early decades of the twentieth century. However, after the 1930’s we can actually find slavery rising again in society. It is a ‘New Slavery’...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1110


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Will global warming generate America’s Fourth Great Awakening?

TCS Daily
by John A. Baden, Ph.D.

01/04/08

We have just ended the season when every environmental group to whom we’ve contributed, the NWF, WS, Sierra Club, and others, sends appeals for more funds. If you have ever contributed to these groups, you’ve no doubt been approached to join the Global Warming Crusade. Will this crusade become America’s Fourth Great Awakening? The First Awakening fostered the American Revolution by providing pre-Revolutionary America with a radical and democratic social and political ideology. The Second applied Christian teaching to politics. Stressing social reform as part of God’s plan, it amplified abolitionist sentiments and helped precipitate the Civil War. The Third Great Awakening of the late 1800s and early 1900s gave rise to the reforms of the ’social gospel’ movement and fostered Progressive Era reforms...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=122607D


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Veterans: Home from Hell

Seattle Post Intelligencer
by staff

01/05/08

Soldiers returning from war don’t need to exhibit any scars on their bodies to be injured. Many — as many as 65 percent — have witnessed and survived the trauma of explosions and detonations. Those jolts and their aftermath can do a number on them, be it through brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder. The two afflictions are often linked. The long-term effects of a brain injury can be brutal and debilitating, while PTSD, left undiagnosed and untreated, can rob a person of peace of mind, sleep, the ability to maintain relationships, etc. And this is what our troops are up against after returning from their tour in hell. We can only imagine the shape they must be in when they’re redeployed...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/346117_vetsed.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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EPA should just get out of the way on emissions

Tennessean
by Jonathan Harwell

01/06/08

Listen closely to the descriptions of cars given away on The Price Is Right, and you’ll hear “California emissions” listed among the options. This is good news for Golden State contestants who can breathe easier knowing they can drive their new car home to the O.C. because it won’t just meet federal emissions standards but California’s more stringent laws, as well. You see, throughout most of the 44 years since the Clean Air Act was passed, California has exceeded national emissions guidelines, thanks to more than 50 waiver requests granted by the Environmental Protection Agency, but the state’s ability to lead the charge toward cleaner air has now been hampered by the very agency that should be cheering it on...

http://tinyurl.com/2ddmyg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Save Bialowieza Forest, Europe's Last Primeval Temperate Forest

ACTION ALERT UPDATE

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Forests.org a project of Ecological Internet
http://forests.org/
January 6, 2008

TAKE ACTION Demand the Polish government stop exploitation of the ancient Bialowieza forest, preserve the whole complex as a national park, and end permanently extensive logging that threatens Europe's last remnant old-growth northern temperate forests

http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=poland

Situated on the Polish/Belarussian border, the Bialowieza Forest is a priceless relic of lowland European forests, a place where the last fragments of primeval temperate old- growth forest on the Central European lowland have survived. It is home to many species extinct elsewhere including the European Bison, the largest terrestrial mammal of Europe; and also contains lynx, wolves and other threatened wildlife and plants. Yet approximately 90% of the forest remains unprotected... For many years environmental NGOs, scientists, concerned citizens in Poland and abroad have asked successive Polish governments to protect the forest, asking them to ban cutting of old growth and for enlargement of the Bialowieza National Park to protect the whole forest complex. Until now there has been little success. After the autumn elections Poland has a new government, so we are trying anew. Please help influence Polish politicians by sending the protest email below. After doing so please note the exciting update on our New York City rainforest timber campaign.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.ecoearth.info/alerts/send.asp?id=poland

DISCUSS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/01/alert-save-bialowieza-forest-e.asp



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Navy Must Cut Sonar Use off California

First the whales! Will the humans be next? Please read the story below.

Seeking a tempory injuction, may be a good method of stopping high exposure levels of electro magnetic pollution, when it is known that people and animals are being harmed by a particular source!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/04/6162/


Martin



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Aspartame on the NEWS

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Ron Paul missing from the FOX News Debates?

[ please forward widely ]

Ron Paul missing from the FOX News Debates?

No problem!... Watch it here and pass it on...

John Calvert


Ron Paul Town Hall Meeting
Manchester, New Hampshire
Jan. 6, 2008

Ron Paul Town Hall, part 1



http://youtube.com/watch?v=WxldrCsVByA

Ron Paul Town Hall, part 2



http://youtube.com/watch?v=8VQcpmfT0f4

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Unfair and Unbalanced Fox News

by Joe Kress

William (Bill) O’Reilly, stooge for Rupert Murdoch, mouths the thoughts of his master in his afternoon radio and nightly TV propaganda … “my explicative deleted.” It’s TV nightly program along with clueless Sean and second banana Colmes and their dog and pony show is just a speck or less tolerable than the ranting of loudmouth Bill. Fox at night exploits our society’s bottom dwellers. It provides nothing but mindless, cheap tabloid propaganda reflecting Rupert’s reputation for exporting sleaze.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kress/joe27.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murdoch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Kress

'The Urgency of Now': Our Politicians In Economic Denial

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/06/6204/



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

What's Next for FISA?

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium, writes: "The first year of the 110th Congress closed with a great deal of spilled blood, and few victories for liberals. In just the last weeks of the past session, Democrats fought a series of gladiator battles over issues like energy, the Iraq war, and government spending - and lost every one of them in the Senate. But on the one issue that Democrats had by-and-large decided to cede to their opponents, they were … still unable to get very far."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010608G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Beutler

Vengeance, Blackwater Style

US Military and Western Mainstream Media trying to conceal War Crimes committed in Fallujah.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/05/p22346


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater

Hillary seems to raise possibility of nuking terrorist 'safe havens'

Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night's Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on the US.

http://snipurl.com/1wqmt


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama

How US Business Shaft US Taxpayers

Video

U.S. universities are aiding the arms race with China and aiding America's industrial decline.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19012.htm

An American Soldiers Opinion on The war

Video

"I am outraged at what's going on"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19007.htm

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