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Keine Zusatzleistungen für heißes Wasser

Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld II müssen notfalls kalt duschen. Die Kosten für heißes Wasser seien grundsätzlich im Regelsatz von 347 Euro im Monat enthalten, entschied am 27. Februar das Bundessozialgericht in Kassel. Zusätzliche Leistungen gebe es dafür nicht. Wenn die Warmwasserbereitung - wie in einer Vielzahl der Fälle - über die Zentralheizung erfolge, könnten die Arbeitslosen daher auch nicht die vollen Heizkosten erstattet bekommen (Az.: B 14/7b AS 64/06 R).
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17373

Katrina Vanden Heuvel writes in The New York Times: "The White House will do everything it can to push its reckless, European-based missile defense plan forward. Not only is there growing citizen opposition in the host countries to the proposed ten interceptor missiles in Poland and radar military base in the Czech Republic, but the system fuels a new arms race and militarism that is a far greater threat to our national security than any nuclear missile from Iran it would purportedly defend against."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022708H.shtml



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Jad Mouawad, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "Gasoline prices, which for months lagged behind the big run-up in the price of oil, are suddenly rising quickly, with some experts saying they could approach $4 a gallon by spring."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022708C.shtml



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Demand that the administration reverse its misguided decision and continue protecting Greater Yellowstone wolves under the Endangered Species Act

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David Cho and Lyndsey Layton report for The Washington Post, "Congressional leaders yesterday gathered support for aggressive changes to bankruptcy laws that would help troubled homeowners, even as the Bush administration threatened to veto the plan and emphasized its opposition to any program that would risk tax dollars."

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The Associated Press reports, "Some high-ranking career staffers concerned about the reputation of the Environmental Protection Agency believed that Administrator Stephen Johnson would have to consider resigning if he turned down California's request to reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, newly released documents show."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022708M.shtml



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Ross Tuttle reports for The Nation, "William J. Haynes, the Pentagon's chief legal officer and overseer of Guantanamo's Military Commissions, is stepping down, amid mounting controversy over the tribunal process, so he can 'return to private life,' the Department of Defense announced late on Monday.... Haynes will leave behind a commissions process that is embattled and discredited - and he bears much of the blame."

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by Sarah Swain

HUNDREDS of people who opposed plans for a 60ft mobile phone mast in their community have won their fight.

Springboig Bowling Club was considering renting part of its site to mobile firm 02, which is having to move its current phone mast in Springboig Avenue due to building work.

Local residents who live near the club opposed the plan to move it to the club's land saying they were concerned over health fears.

They claimed the club would get £20,000 for allowing it to be moved and collected 200 letters against the plan.

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27. Februar 2008

Zum Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes über Online-Durchsuchungen erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Einerseits hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht mit der Schaffung eines Grundrechts auf "Gewährleistung der Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme" den vom Bundesinnenminister geplanten Online-Durchsuchungen klare Grenzen gesetzt. Dieses Grundrecht sollte jetzt ausgeweitet werden auf das prinzipielle Recht auf unbeobachtete Kommunikation, um dem immer massiver werdenden Drang der Sicherheitsbehörden nach Telefon- und Telekommunikationsüberwachung entgegenzutreten. Andererseits hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht Online-Durchsuchungen unter strengen Auflagen erlaubt. Jetzt gilt es diese Beschränkung auf die Gefährdung von Menschenleben und die Sicherheit des Staates zu untersetzen. Sonst besteht die Gefahr, dass sie zum schwammigen Catch-All-Begriff werden, mit dem letztendlich alles zu begründen ist. Der Kampf gegen den Terror wird von Bundesinnenminister Schäuble für eine zunehmende allumfassende Überwachung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger missbraucht. DIE LINKE bleibt dabei: Der Schutz von Bürgerrechten muss Priorität haben. Die Trennung von polizeilicher und geheimdienstlicher Arbeit darf nicht beseitigt werden. Alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger müssen das Recht haben, über persönliche Daten zu bestimmen. Unbeschadet vom heutigen Urteil bleiben wir bei unserer prinzipiellen Ablehnung von Online-Durchsuchungen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/urteil-muss-konsequenzen-fuer-telefon-und-telekommunikationsueberwachung-haben/

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Urteilsverkündung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes in Sachen "Online-Durchsuchung"

Vorschriften im Verfassungsschutzgesetz NRW zur Online-Durchsuchung und zur Aufklärung des Internet nichtig

Pressemitteilung vom 27. Februar 2008 zum Urteil vom 27. Februar 2008 – 1 BvR 370/07; 1 BvR 595/07 http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg08-022.html

Leitsätze zum Urteil des Ersten Senats vom 27. Februar 2008 http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rs20080227_1bvr037007.html


Freude über Urteil zur Online-Durchsuchung

„Heute hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die umstrittene Online-Durchsuchung in NRW gestoppt und hohe Hürden für den geplanten „Bundestrojaner“ aufgestellt. Das Gericht bezeichnet das nordrhein-westfälische Verfassungsschutzgesetz in der derzeitigen Form als nicht mit dem Grundgesetz vereinbar…“ FoeBuD-Meldung vom 27.2.08 http://www.foebud.org/datenschutz-buergerrechte/urteil-online-durchsuchung


Bundesverfassungsgericht schafft neues Grundrecht auf digitale Intimsphäre

„Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat heute dem nordrheinwestfälischen Verfassungsschutzgesetz, das die sog. Online-Durchsuchung von Computern und anderen informationstechnischen Systeme erlauben sollte, eine deutliche Absage erteilt. Zugleich definierten die Richter ein neues Grundrecht, das den Bürger in seinem digitalen Leben weitgehend vor dem Zugriff des Staats schützt…“ CCC- Pressemitteilung vom 27. Februar 2008 http://www.ccc.de/updates/2008/trojaner-notschlachten?language=de


Aus für Bundestrojaner? ”Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte” begrüßt Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zur PC-Online-Durchsuchung

Pressemitteilung vom 27.2.2008 http://www.ilmr.de/?p=103


Schlechte Karten für "Bundestrojaner". Das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, das Verfassungsschutzgesetz in Nordrhein-Westfalen für nichtig zu erklären, ist salomonisch und listig

„Das Urteil gestattet allen Beteiligten, das Gesicht zu wahren. Erst im Kleingedruckten - in der ausführlichen Begründung - wird deutlich, dass die juristischen Hürden für die vom Bundesinnenministerium gewünschten "Online-Durchsuchungen" fast unüberwindbar hoch sind…“ Artikel von Burkhard Schröder in telepolis vom 27.02.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27387/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Februar 2008

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Benneter hält Überprüfung der Geheimdienstgesetze für nötig

Nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu heimlichen Online-Durchsuchungen hält der SPD-Innenpolitiker Klaus Uwe Benneter die Überprüfung der gesetzlichen Grundlagen für die Geheimdienste für erforderlich. "Bei der Überwachung aller Kommunikationswege und -mittel wird das Urteil eine Rolle spielen", sagte Benneter, der dem Vorstand der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion angehört, der "Berliner Zeitung". "Deshalb müssen wir auch die Arbeit der Geheimdienste überprüfen, die weit im Vorfeld von Ermittlungen agieren." Er habe seine Zweifel, dass das noch gehe. "Geheimdienste dürfen nicht einen Angriff auf informationstechnische Systeme starten, sondern nur dort, wo der Zugang offen ist", sagte der SPD-Politiker.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17390



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Fremont Tribune

02/26/08

In an about-face, Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed with Democrats to advance an anti-war bill because they said the debate would give them time to hail progress in Iraq. The change of heart came after months of blocking similar measures. But unlike most of last year, security conditions in Iraq have improved, and Republicans say they now feel they have the upper hand on the debate...

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USA Today

02/26/08

The Army’s top general said Tuesday he hopes to reduce combat tours for soldiers in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months this summer and would not go back to the longer tours even if President Bush decides to suspend troop reductions for the second half of the year. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, told a Senate panel that the Army is under serious strain from years of war-fighting and must reduce the length of combat tours as soon as possible...

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The number of homes facing foreclosure jumped 57 percent in January compared to a year ago, with lenders increasingly forced to take possession of homes they couldn't unload at auctions, a mortgage research firm said Monday.

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One in 10 Home Loans Under Water

One-tenth of U.S. homeowners hold mortgages that are larger than the worth of their homes, Moody's Economy.com said Friday.

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THE world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years.

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World Grain Demand Straining U.S. Supply

Consumers usually reduce their purchases of goods and services if prices become too high. Buyers of United States corn, soybeans and wheat seem to be ignoring that economic principle, however, as the nation's grain stocks reach critically low levels.

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Why are wheat prices rising?

Wheat prices have hit record highs and tight supplies of the staple crop have ignited concern about rising food costs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7264653.stm


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French and UAE officials are denying a link between the timing of these exercises and the stand off with Iran, explaining these drills were planned a year in advance.

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Bush and his top associates have a tradition of selectively disclosing intelligence findings that serve their political agenda -- while aggressively asserting the need to keep secret the information that would tend to discredit them.

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US officials are quietly planning to expand their presence in and around the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan by creating special coordination centers on the Afghan side of the border where US, Afghan, and Pakistani officials can share intelligence about Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, according to State Department and Pentagon officials.

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Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the first confirmed Turkish military ground operation in Iraq in about a decade was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

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Turkey says military operation in Iraq might last a year

According to the Turkish military 230 PKK fighters, 24 Turkish soldiers and three state-employed village guards have been killed since Turkey launched 'Operation Gunes' on the night of February 21.

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Iraq Press Roundup: Turkey Invades Iraq

"These demands through diplomatic channels mean little in comparison to the deep Turkish penetration, which, according to international relations and political measurement, is a declaration of war," it said.

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By Dominic Lawson

His speeches are studded with religious rhetoric. A chapter in his book is entitled 'Faith'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19424.htm

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The emptiness of the charisma candidate

Frontiers of Freedom
by Joe Bell

02/26/08

Illinois Senator Barack Obama is increasingly looking like he will be the Democrat’s candidate for the White House. His personal magnetism and call for ‘change’ have resonated with large numbers of people who apparently see no need to delve beneath the attractive exterior. When one looks at the record it becomes clear that Obama is not offering change but is determined to repackage the politics of divisiveness and exhume the remains of policies that failed to work in the past...

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Feb 27 2008

By Craig Mcqueen

Modern Gadgets That Unmask The Cheats

LIPSTICK on collars or smelling of a strange perfume used to be how cheating husbands got caught out.

But in these days of big divorce settlements, spurned partners are gathering evidence the hi-tech way.

One US firm has produced a SIM card reader that opens text messages AFTER they've been deleted - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Other surveillance gadgets used today would look at home in spy films.

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By Michael Scheuer
Special to The Washington Post

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell warned the Senate intelligence committee earlier this month that al-Qaida is regrouping, not retreating - and boosting its capacities for launching another attack inside the United States. So how does the war on terrorism look these days through our enemies' eyes?

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Through Middle East Eyes

By Manuel Valenzuela

Empires continuously seek to maintain and grow, not slow down and shrink. For this reason America will not slow down its imperial ambitions, just as it will only demand that its hegemony be allowed to expand. It will seek to crush all competition, just as will try to grow at the expense of the rest of the world.

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By Cynthia Fuchs

Anything Goes: "Taxi to the Dark Side"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19423.htm

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Taxi to the Dark Side



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Taxi to the Dark Side
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/28/7362/
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/286.html



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Divide and Rule

Jon Henley and Ed Pilkington report for The Guardian UK: "British law protects the right of workers to belong to a trade union, but in the US, union-busting is a lucrative business. So should we be worried that aggressive 'union-avoidance' consultancies are increasingly at work here?"

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Cornelia Dean, The New York Times: "Researchers who studied a string of Pacific Ocean atolls are painting the first detailed picture of pristine coral reefs and how they can be disrupted by people - particularly, they said, by fishing."

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James Randerson for The Guardian UK reports that "The guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are the 'overlooked victims' of America's controversial detention facility in Cuba, according to a psychiatrist who has treated some of them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022608T.shtml



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Vikas Bajaj for The New York Times, "Two worrisome trends for the economy - falling house prices and the rising cost of everything else - picked up speed in data reported on Tuesday, putting policy makers in an increasingly tough position."

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Avni Patel for ABC News reports that "A public broadcasting activist is accusing Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign of lying in its statements rebutting last week's New York Times story about McCain's connections to Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman."

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By Michael Cleggett

Concerned members of the community held a meeting last week to oppose plans for mobile phone antennas at Faulconbridge.

A group of parents have voiced their opposition to a set of mobile phone antennas planned for a site close to Faulconbridge Public School.

Last week the Gazette revealed a Vodafone and Optus proposal which sought to use private land occupied by the Ugg Boot store in Faulconbridge for the three new antennas.

The school’s P & C has since indicated it will oppose the installation at this site, holding a meeting last Thursday night to discuss the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted from mobile phone towers.

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