World-News

Maureen Dowd, writing for The New York Times, says: "Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood. The dollar's crumpling, the recession's thundering, the Dow's bungee-jumping and the world's disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called 'The Most Happy Fella.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708I.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maureen+Dowd

Le Monde's Eric Le Boucher elucidates the global economic crisis and attempts to find its silver lining.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708G.shtml

Scott Helman, reporting for The Boston Globe, writes: "For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show. A sudden change of heart? Hardly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708D.shtml



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

E. Scott Reckard, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes: "Freelance financial watchdogs who examined the paperwork on subprime home loans being sold to Wall Street had an inside view of the boom in easy-money lending this decade. The reviewers say they raised plenty of red flags about flaws so serious that mortgages should have been rejected outright - such as borrowers' incomes that seemed inflated or documents that looked fake - but the problems were glossed over, ignored or stricken from reports."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708B.shtml



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

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on September 23.
Justice matters, stop the imminent execution of Troy Davis!

http://tinyurl.com/2gamch



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Troy+Davis

Während der Chaos Computer Club das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts so interpretiert, dass Online-Durchsuchungen in der Praxis fast ausgeschlossen sind, meint die Bundesregierung, sie könne das geplante BKA-Gesetz mit nur "marginalen" Änderungen zügig durchsetzen zu können. Unions-Bundestagsfraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) rechnet mit einer raschen Einigung der großen Koalition. "Die ersten Gespräche mit der SPD nach der Entscheidung des Gerichts waren sehr konstruktiv und sachlich", sagte Bosbach der Düsseldorfer "Rheinischen Post". "Ich bin optimistisch, dass es uns gelingen kann, das BKA-Gesetz im Bundestag bis zur Sommerpause zu verabschieden." Der bisherige Referentenentwurf müsse nur marginal geändert werden, sagte Bosbach. Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) wolle ebenso wie Innenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) jetzt ein rasches Ergebnis.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17513



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chaos+Computer+Club
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Online-Durchsuchung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bosbach
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/17/7728/



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http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,541884,00.html



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The Wages of Peace

Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier write for The Nation: "The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper than the squandered opportunities for vital public investments. Spending on Iraq is also a job killer. Every $1 billion spent on a combination of education, healthcare, energy conservation and infrastructure investments creates between 50 and 100 percent more jobs than the same money going to Iraq. Taking the 2007 Iraq budget of $138 billion, this means that upward of 1 million jobs were lost because the Bush Administration chose the Iraq sinkhole over public investment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708O.shtml

Carol Rosenberg reports for The Miami Herald: "In a rebuke to the government, an Army judge Friday issued five successive orders instructing the Pentagon to do more to help lawyers for Canadian captive Omar Khadr build a defense case. Khadr, 21, faces a trial by military commissions as an alleged al Qaeda terrorist. He is accused of throwing a grenade in a July 2002 firefight in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed a U.S. soldier. He was 15."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Omar+Khadr

Jeffrey Rosen reports for The New York Times: "Though the current Supreme Court has a well-earned reputation for divisiveness, it has been surprisingly united in cases affecting business interests. Of the 30 business cases last term, 22 were decided unanimously, or with only one or two dissenting votes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
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http://www.antislavery.org/archive/reporter/reporter_winter_2008.htm



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http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/10048/1/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
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„…Zu tun hat man es da mit einer Branche, in der den Unternehmern eine schier unerschöpfliche Arbeitskraftreserve zur Verfügung steht; ein Heer von angestammten und zugewanderten Arbeitslosen, die Arbeit um jeden Preis suchen; von Staats wegen noch verstärkt verfügbar gemacht durch die Hartz-4-Gesetze, welche die Betreffenden zwingen, die miesesten Jobs anzunehmen; und sofort einsetzbar für die zahllosen Handlangerdienste, die in diesem Gewerbe zu erledigen sind; für Jobs, die keine großen Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten voraussetzen; erledigt von Leuten, die auf ihrem Posten jederzeit ersetzbar sind. Um die gewerkschaftliche Vertretung von Arbeiterinteressen ist es in dieser Branche schon allein deswegen schlecht bestellt. Der zuständigen Gewerkschaft Verdi ist in den letzten Jahren ihr Tarifpartner weitgehend abhanden gekommen; viele große Unternehmen haben die Tarifgemeinschaft verlassen – sie sehen nicht ein, warum sie sich überhaupt noch mit einer Gewerkschaft auseinandersetzen und eine Tarifbindung akzeptieren sollen. Bei den Kleinkrämern um die Ecke, die es ja auch noch massenhaft gibt, hat die Gewerkschaft sowieso Hausverbot. Der Organisationsgrad im gesamten Einzelhandel liegt bei ca. 30%....“ Ein Beitrag aus GegenStandpunkt vom 14. März 2008 http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/08/1/Einzelhandel.html

video: konsumentInnenstreik bei real

„Gestern, den 29.02.08 haben zwanzig verärgerte KonsumentInnen während des Abendgeschäftes um ca. 17.30 Uhr den Verkauf bei „Real“ im Park-Center am Treptower Park, Berlin unterbrochen. Mit Einkaufswägen wurden sämtliche Kassen versperrt! Die Aktion galt der Unterstützung der dort Beschäftigten, die seit 8 Monaten für höhere Löhne und die Beibehaltung der Nacht- und Spätzuschläge streiken…“ Bericht von idap vom 02.03.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/03/209395.shtml

und das Video dazu bei KanalB http://kanalb.org/index.php?play_id=1978&modul=Clip&autostart=true

Siehe weitere Videos auf der Sonderseite mit Videos zum Streik im Einzelhandel bei KanalB http://kanalb.org/topic.php?clipId=261


Aus: LabourNet, 17. März 2008

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

03/14/08

I’ve been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there is something satisfying in seeing an insufferably self-righteous, politically ambitious, ham-handed, and ethically challenged former prosecutor lose his grip on power because he did what he used to prosecute other people for doing. On the other hand, he was caught in a victimless crime because the ludicrously named Patriot Act requires banks to inform the IRS when their depositors engage in ’suspicious,’ that is, unusual, financial activity...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1946


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Spitzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

03/16/08

Five rears after the invasion of Iraq the US and the Iraqi government both claim that Iraq is becoming a less dangerous place, but the measures taken to protect Mr Maliki told a different story. Gun-waving soldiers first cleared all traffic from the streets. Then four black armored cars, each with three machine gunners on the roof, raced out of a heavily fortified exit from the Green Zone, followed by sand-coloured American Humvees and more armoured cars. Finally, in the middle of the speeding convoy, we saw six identical bullet proof vehicles with black windows, one of which must have carried Mr Maliki. The precautions were not excessive since Baghdad remains the most dangerous city in the world...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick03152008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Boston Globe
by Linda Bilmes

03/16/08

The sixth year of the Iraq war begins this week. The war is now the second-longest in US history — longer than any except Vietnam. So far, 1.6 million US troops have served, more than a third of them for two or more tours of duty. Almost 4,000 US service personnel have been killed, and 60,000 wounded, injured or contracted a serious disease. Many survive with severe multiple injuries (’polytraumas’) that in previous wars would have almost certainly ended in death. One-third of the 780,000 troops discharged so far have been treated at veterans’ hospitals and clinics, including 120,000 treated for mental health conditions and 68,000 diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. This year alone the Department of Veterans Affairs expects to treat 333,000 returning veterans. The majority of these veterans will be eligible to receive lifetime disability compensation - 228,000 have already filed applications...

http://tinyurl.com/2d8r6n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=injuries
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Bilmes

Greensboro News-Record

03/16/08

Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act. At the same time, an audit by the National Security Archive found that Bush has provided citizens someone to talk to about how long it is going to take to get the government records they want or to be turned down...

http://tinyurl.com/yswyzv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Boston Globe

03/16/08

Liz Jackson’s eyes were fixed on a screen showing a live broadcast of anguished testimonies by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans describing what they had seen and done during their combat tours. Jeffery Smith recalled how his Army unit beat and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. Former Marine Bryan Casler recounted how fellow Marines urinated and defecated into food and gave it to Iraqi children. Former Marine Matthew Childers talked about how he used to humiliate Iraqi civilians during predawn raids on their homes. When he described turning away an Iraqi father who was asking American troops to help the badly burned baby he carried in his arms, Jackson began to weep silently. ‘These soldiers are saying: ‘I’m complicit,” said Jackson, 29, a community organizer from Cambridge. ‘But every American citizen who saw this happen and isn’t out there protesting is complicit. I include myself’...

http://tinyurl.com/3xzz9v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

USA Today

03/16/08

Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government, but three out of four view the federal government as secretive, according to a survey released Sunday. Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University conducted the survey in conjunction with Sunshine Week, a nationwide effort by media organizations to draw attention to the public’s right to know...

http://tinyurl.com/29q9s5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force - ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is being forced to throw out four decades of monetary history as the US financial system chokes on miscalculated risks and a deepening recession.

http://tinyurl.com/3crf4z


From Information Clearing House



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

The United States may well be heading into a recession and Europe faces further financial market turmoil too but developing countries are showing little signs of being hurt, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.

http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN648664.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
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Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in U.S. dollars and start using their own currencies from August, an official in charge of currency settlement at the Argentine Central Bank said here Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/2rzjve


From Information Clearing House



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

Venezuelan state oil giant PDVSA has decided to sign some oil contracts in euros in the face of a plummeting dollar, local media reported, citing officials.

http://tinyurl.com/2u3szu


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Venezuela
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Long after the war ends, America will continue to pay a staggering price.
http://www.thestar.com/article/346563


From Information Clearing House

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Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark

David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn

With 13 U.S. Troops Killed This Week, GOP Candidate Who Supports Bush's War Makes "Fact-Finding" Visit.

http://tinyurl.com/33ofhh


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
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More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe the American-led occupation forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=252016


From Information Clearing House

By Dr. Ellen Brown

The Irish were driven to America by debt, and they are leading the Western world in household debt today. The London Daily Telegraph reported on March 13, 2008 that household debt in Ireland has reached 190 percent of disposable income, the highest in the developed world; and that the Irish banking system is suffering such acute strains from the downturn in the housing market that it may have to nationalize its banks.1 The same may soon be happening in the United States, and for much the same reasons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19548.htm



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

By Mike Whitney

The subprime meltdown just got a whole lot bigger. As the massive cycle of deleveraging continues for the over-extended hedge funds; Triple A assets will be sold for merely pennies on the dollar sending the faltering banking system into a last, lethal swan dive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19542.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subprime+meltdown
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By David S. Broader

As the head of the Government Accountability Office, the auditing arm of Congress, Walker has been perhaps the most outspoken official in Washington warning of the fiscal train wreck that awaits this country unless it mends its ways.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19545.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Accountability+Office
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By Bloomberg

Atlanta: Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a member of the group that dates business cycles in the US, said the nation has entered a recession that could be the worst since World War II.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19547.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Martin+Feldstein

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19543.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Gannon

By Robert Fisk

Shut them up. Accuse them. Imprison them. Stop them talking. Why is it that this seems to have become a symbol of the Arab - or Muslim - world? Yes I know about our Western reputation for free speech; from the Roman Empire to the Spanish inquisition, from Henry VIII to Robespierre, from Mussolini and Stalin to Hitler, even - on a pitiable scale - to Mr Anthony Blair. But it's getting hard to avoid the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19549.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

By Bianca Jagger

The Iraq war was always illegal and unwinnable. Gordon Brown must now name the date for withdrawal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19546.htm



Brown promises public inquiry into Iraqi war

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq, prior to the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led war, The Independent newspaper said Monday.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/17/content_7808931.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
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By Noam Chomsky

The whole debate about the Iranian "interference" in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that "we own the world." If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied. So if you look over the debate that took place and is still taking place about Iranian interference, no one points out this is insane.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19540.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

By DPA

Hanoi is staging a weekend-long ceremony to mark the massacres, in which a company of US Army soldiers, unable to find any of the Viet Cong guerrillas they had been ordered to clear from the village, instead killed up to 504 defenceless men, women and children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19539.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=massacre
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Informant: osirismediany

Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service

Published: Thursday, January 31, 2008

Environment Canada has "muzzled" its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with "approved lines."

The new policy, which went into force in recent weeks and sent a chill through the department research divisions, is designed to control the department's media message and ensure there are no "surprises" for Environment Minister John Baird and senior management when they open the newspaper or turn on the television, according to documents obtained by Canwest News Service.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=277560


Informant: Paul Raymond Doyon

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-arent-we-furious.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul443.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
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Bailing Out the Power Elite
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitney10.html

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Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?

Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Why is the Fed, an agency of the government, using our tax dollars to keep Bear Stearns and its rich managers and shareholders above water? After all, the government supposedly doesn't have enough money to provide kids with health care and childcare, to guarantee families decent housing or to meet a long list of other needs. Why do we have the money to lend tens of billions of dollars to Bear Stearns at below market interest rates?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031708J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite
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By ine Kerr Political Correspondent

Monday March 17 2008

A fresh row over the location of mobile phone masts has broken out as the Irish Independent reveals that 29 state buildings now have the transmitters located on their rooftops.

The state is earning €600,000-a-year from facilitating 51 licences for 29 public buildings, including antennae for two mobile phone companies on top of the Department of Health headquarters in Hawkins House, Dublin.

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http://www.independent.ie/national-news/new-row-as-mobile-masts-net-8364100m-for-state-1319575.html

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