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http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=LsbrCV7x5cCf6ECAcUyNEQ..

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0303-04.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7434/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=House+Democrats
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

By Craig Kielburger/Marc Kielburger
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7437/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+victims
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kielburger

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7436/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+arms

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7433/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7421/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=refugees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

Die Kosten für den geplanten Irak-Krieg seien Peanuts, sagte das Weiße Haus 2002, Nobelpreisträger Stiglitz schätzt jetzt die Kosten alleine für die USA auf 3-5 Billionen Dollar.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27412/1.html



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

FOX News Whistle blowers



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWcqxrQgcc&feature=related


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bovine+growth+hormone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://www.medien.diagnose-funk.org/033ea29a1209b6106/033ea29a560e9d701.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elektrosmog
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Elektrosmog

Bock und Gärtner
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27415/1.html

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Das System der Arzneimittelstudien gerät zunehmend unter Beschuss
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4615209da5831831?hl=en

Noch genießt die ältere Bevölkerung einen vergleichsweise hohen Lebensstandard. Doch neben erheblichen Einkommensunterschieden zeichnen sich schon die Abwärtstrends der kommenden Jahre ab.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27368/1.html

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Altersarmut steigt rapide an. Immer mehr ältere Menschen rutschen in die Altersarmut ab und sind von Hartz IV abhängig

Eine neue Studie des deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) belegt: Immer mehr Menschen sind mit zunehmenden Alter von Hartz IV Leistungen abhängig. Seit Einführung der Hartz IV Arbeitsmarktreform im Jahre 2005 ist die Zahl der älteren Sozialleistungsempfänger bis Ende 2007 um fast 22 Prozent gestiegen. Der Anstieg der älteren Hilfebedürftigen ist damit im Vergleich zu anderen Altersgruppen doppelt so. Der DGB spricht schon jetzt von einem alarmierenden Ergebnis: "Das ist ein bedrückendes Ergebnis, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels", so Wilhelm Adamy vom Vorstand des DGB.

Lesen Sie weiter: http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e19a920c5d501.php



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

Dean Baker, writing for Truthout, says: "Forget about trying to get more kids health care insurance by expanding SCHIP or increasing government funding for child care. The new way the politicians plan to help moderate-income families is to have them pay a special 18 percent income tax to live in a home in which they have no equity."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030308F.shtml



Foreclosure Plans Benefit Banks

Dean Baker, reporting for The Center for Economic and Policy Research, writes: "Many of the recent proposals to help homeowners facing foreclosure provide little relief for most of the families at risk of losing their home, according to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Under these rescues, taxpayers end up underwriting a bailout that could reap billions of dollars in profit for banks and mortgage holders."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030408H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+care+insurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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Robert B. Reich, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, says: "We're finally reaping the whirlwind of widening inequality. A recession looms because most consumers are at the end of their ropes and can't buy more. Median hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, are no higher than what they were three decades ago. Since then, most of what's been earned in America has gone to the richest 5 percent. But the rich won't buy much more because they already have most of what they want - after all, that's what it means to be rich."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030308E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+B.+Reich

Peter Bergen, reporting for Mother Jones, writes about the CIA's "extraordinary rendition program and the bungled abduction of would-be terrorists."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030308D.shtml

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Kidnap and Torture American Style

Video - Channel 4 - UK

Kidnap and Torture American Style follows the stories of terror suspects. Some of them are British residents, who have been snatched from streets and airports throughout the world before being flown to the Middle-East and Africa. In countries such as Syria and Egypt, they undergo agonising ordeals before being incarcerated, without ever facing an open trial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11314.htm



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This just in from a friend in SA...Please, let's help her get a ton of signatures.

Thanks Earle


------Original Message-------

From: Natashja
Date: 3/3/2008 10:04:09 AM
To: Earle Bingley
Subject: Kittens being killed


I started up this petition and please send it along to your friends and whoever. Please take a moment to add your name to the list.

http://www.petitiononline.com/kittens9/petition.html

A cruel fate is bestowed upon Kittens in South Africa, which makes me ashamed to call myself an South African.

What some people do to make money is, they take kittens, they hold the kittens in the air by either their necks or legs, and they sell the kittens for a lot of money. If the people (walking by or seeing this) does not buy the kitten then this person kills the kitten in front of them (mostly by breaking their little necks)

The SPCA has been phoned on many occasions and they simply stated that they can not do anything about this matter (to the persons responsible). The public have been warned NOT to buy these kittens because if we do then we will start up a new market and inspire more people to do this kind of sickness because they see its working (to make money, out of people who can’t stand to see these kittens be killed).

I am starting up this petition so that the SPCA will have more power to do something about this (by taking up the government and demand actions to be done.) Will this help? I do not know, but it is worth a try.

Help us, help those Kittens from such a cruel fate.


Natashja Singleton
for Cats9Lives
http://www.cats9lives.co.za/

http://www.countercurrents.org/spence030308.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Emily+Spence

http://infowars.net/articles/march2008/030308Recession.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Buffett
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1060&thisview=item
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1072&thisview=item



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Die internationale Kampagne „Krieg ist illegal“ kann in vielen Sprachen online unterschrieben werden. Der deutsche Aufruf und die Forderungen finden sich auf der Web-Seite der Kampagne. http://www.bushtrash.com/illegalwar/german.php


US-Westküsten Hafenarbeiter: 1. Mai Arbeiter-Aktionen zum Stopp des Krieges

Die International Longshore &Warehouse Union (ILWU) in San Fransisco hat ein Aktionspapier für den 1.Mai 2008 vorgelegt. Es liegt nun auch in Deutsch bei unseren KollegInnen vom LabourNet UK vor. http://www.labournet.net/docks2/0803/ilwu1may1g.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 3. März 2008

„Dem Bundesverfassungsgericht wurden heute in Karlsruhe die Vollmachten von über 34.000 Bürgerinnen und Bürgern übergeben, die sich gegen die sechsmonatige Sammlung ihres Telekommunikations- und Bewegungsverhaltens zur Wehr setzen wollen. Gegen die seit 1. Januar 2008 eingeführte Überwachungsmaßnahme richtet sich damit die größte Verfassungsbeschwerde in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Die 102 Aktenordner und 12 Umzugskartons füllenden Vollmachten der Beschwerdeführer wurden heute für den Berliner Anwalt Meinhard Starostik beim Bundesverfassungsgericht eingereicht…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 29.02.2008 mit vielen weiteren Infos (Grundtexte, Fotos und Reden) http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/202/55/lang,de/


Aus: LabourNet, 3. März 2008



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

„Auf der Frühjahrstagung des Europäischen Rates im März sollen im Rahmen eines „neuen Zyklus der Lissabon-Strategie“ weitere "Reformen" beschlossen werden. Die Lissabon-Strategie, verabschiedet im März 2000, verfolgt das Ziel, die EU bis 2010 zum „wettbewerbsfähigsten und dynamischsten wissensbasierten Wirtschaftsraum in der Welt" zu machen…“ Artikel von Annette Groth http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/wipo/lissabon_ag.html

Siehe dazu auch im LabourNet das Special zur Flexicurity-Debatte unter Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik der EU http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/sopo/flexicurity.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. März 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neoliberal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lissabon

Aufruf gegen Bertelsmann 2007: Keine Zusammenarbeit mit Bertelsmann! Aberkennung der Gemeinnützigkeit für die Bertelsmann-Stiftung!

„Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung ist eine der mächtigsten Denkfabriken im Lande und als solche Leitakteur für ähnlich operierende Berater und Stiftungen. Sie greift aktiv in die Politik auf allen Ebenen von Regierungspolitik bis zur Kommune und zu Netzwerken von Einzeleinrichtungen ein. Dabei versucht sie, wesentliche Bereiche der Gesellschaft betriebswirtschaftlichen Modellen und manageriellen Motivationstechniken zu unterwerfen…“ Der Aufruf gegen Bertelsmann 2007 (pdf) bei Anti-Bertelsmann http://www.anti-bertelsmann.de/2007/AufrufBertelsmann2007.pdf

Siehe dazu

Bertelsmann - nicht Teil der Lösung , sondern Teil des Problems!

Auf ihrer LandesvertreterInnenversammlung am 1.3.2008 hat sich die Gew-Bayern mit sehr großer Mehrheit dem "Frankfurter Appell gegen Bertelsmann" angeschlossen und den Gew Hauptvorstand aufgefordert, Transparenz in seine Kontakte zum größten Politikberater Deutschlands und stärksten neoliberalen "Reform"-Motor zu bringen, sie zu überprüfen und während dieser Zeit auf Eis zu legen. Siehe dazu den Beschluß der Gew-Bayern (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/branchen/medien-it/bertelsmann/gew_baylv08.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 3. März 2008



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

by Devvy Kidd

Back in 1994, the American people yelled, "We want change!" Out went forty years of big spending Democrats and in came the Republicans with their slick marketing mantra: The Contact with America. After eleven years of bigger spending Republicans and these unconstitutional, immoral invasions of non threatening foreign countries, the American people once again said they wanted change. In 2006, with the exception of a few faces, the voters put the same old crowd and agenda right back in power because they bought a different version of the same lies. Now the American people are being bombarded with Obama's empty slogan: "Change you can believe in." I guess it depends on how you define change.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd346.htm



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

by NWV News

The multi-billion dollar corporation GlaxoSmithKline and one of its key executives are facing possible manslaughter charges stemming from allegations that the company failed to fully disclose side effects from an anti-Hepatitis "B" vaccine distributed between 1994 and 1998. Also being investigated is the French-based drug company Sanofi Pasteur, which also sold doses of the Hepatitis "B" vaccine........

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news35.htm

Nolan Chart
by Kipper Mathews

03/02/08

Never before in the history of this country has a President had so many ’secrets’ that later slipped out as they have with G.W. Bush. From the very beginning of his presidency he has tried to sneak stuff past the watchful eyes of the American public. While there is most likely many more that he has gotten away with and no telling what they might be, once in a while somebody catches him at one of his little secrets...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article2995.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AlterNet
by Annalee Newitz

02/27/08

Over the past eight years, the lives of millions of people in the United States and beyond have been endangered by the US government. No, I’m not talking about the war in Iraq. I’m talking about the quiet, systematic war the government has been waging against science...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/78056/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Annalee+Newitz

Mother Jones
by Eric Umansky

02/29/08

There’s a reason material support has become such a popular charge, a reason it’s central to many of the government’s most questionable cases: The laws are a prosecutor’s dream. They don’t require evidence of a plot or even of a desire to help terrorists. They give the government a shot at convictions traditional criminal laws could never provide. ‘The administration adopted the preventive paradigm, i.e. ‘We’ve got to stop people before they’ve done something wrong,” says David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor who’s the author of several books about the effect of anti-terror laws on the justice system. ‘There’s tremendous pressure to expand grounds of criminal activity, to prosecute people who might represent a threat. The material-support provisions have been the principal vehicle for pushing that envelope.’ The question is whether that approach has made us any safer...

http://tinyurl.com/27wvvw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

02/29/08

If you vote for Barack Obama, your children are going to die in their beds. This is the message of the latest Clinton television ad running in Texas. The spot starts with a moonlit shot of a blond toddler in the warm tangle of her sheets and then cuts to a close-up of an infant also in deep REM sleep. For the next 15 seconds, the images shift from one cherubic sleeping face to another. You’d think you were watching a Baby Ambien ad if the narrator weren’t giving you nightmares: ‘It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing. Something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call. Whether it’s someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military — someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world’...

http://www.slate.com/id/2185492/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

03/03/08

Civil rights activist Dorothy Tillman claims she was brutalized by hospital security and police as she sought medical attention for her ailing aunt. Tillman was arrested Sunday at a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, and charged with trespassing. The arrest came after a confrontation with officials at Jackson Hospital over access to medical records for Tillman’s 86-year-old aunt...

http://tinyurl.com/27w6j5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+brutality

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/3d6e938a941853ca



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alzheimer
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Alzheimer

http://books.google.com/books?id=YQnKGQAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Chalmers+inauthor:Johnson&ei=o63LR8_5BJvEzATUm_SuCw

http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Chalmers+Johnson&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=author-navigational&hl=en


Source: http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=117551;show_parent=1

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Last days of the American Republic?

Chalmers Johnson: USA must cut back on military spending and build green infrastructure or face ruin.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=237



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+spending
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson

Maude Barlow on 'the inconvenient truth of water'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7219/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maude+Barlow
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Live Poultry Market Not for Fainthearted
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112300148.html

This just came in from my friend. Please sign and pass it along to all of your contacts.

See petition at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-philadelphia-live-poultry-markets


Thanks, Earle

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article2.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kenny/kenny77.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sunwall6.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french78.html



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