World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/01/8007/



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In a Truthout translation of an article in Les Echoes, Paul Fabra writes: "... the devastating background to the drama being played out on financial markets in the United States... Every time the Fed lowers its interest rates, it weakens the dollar still further... American monetary authorities' room for maneuver only appears as large as it does because they've transferred their main responsibility onto other people: safeguarding the dollar."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108G.shtml



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Writing for The New York Times, William J. Broad reports on a new book "behind the Pentagon’s classified, or 'black,' budget that delivers billions of dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors. The book offers a glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens - patches - the kind worn on military uniforms."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108F.shtml

Randy Fabi of Reuters reports: "Fighting between Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite militiamen last month has driven civilian deaths in the country to their highest level in more than six months, government figures showed on Tuesday. A total of 923 civilians were killed in March, up 31 percent from February and the deadliest month since August 2007..."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108C.shtml



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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8483


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Caren Bohan reports for Reuters, "Democrat Barack Obama took aim on Monday at potential White House opponent John McCain on Iraq, saying the Republican senator could not offer a clear definition of success in the conflict and might leave US combat troops there for decades."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108O.shtml



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Greg Miller reports for The Los Angeles Times: "On the eve of a House vote on controversial wiretapping legislation last month, the nation's intelligence director, J. Michael McConnell, convened a secret weekend meeting in northern Virginia with members of the House Intelligence Committee. The two-day session was designed to promote a calmer atmosphere for discussing an array of intelligence issues, including the nation's eavesdropping laws. But participants said the event ended with a series of acrimonious exchanges."

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CBS News reports: "At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America's shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence that Kurnaz was an innocent man with no connection to terrorism. The FBI thought so, US intelligence thought so, and German intelligence agreed. But once he was picked up, Kurnaz found himself in a prison system that required no evidence and answered to no one."

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Mukasey Hints US Had Attack Warning Before 9/11

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

When Attorney General Mukasey delivered a speech last week demanding that Congress grant the president warrantless eavesdropping powers and telecom immunity, the question and answer session afterwards included one extraordinary but little-noticed claim.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19664.htm



The Reflecting Pool

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, patriotic American, independent thinker or voter, or just someone with bad memories of 9/11, you should make an effort to view The Reflecting Pool, a new independent movie. It is not about 9/11. It is about the credibility of the official government story about 9/11.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19670.htm

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Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Mukasey's 9/11 Story?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/03/8071/



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Konzerne für Olympia: Sponsoring im Schatten Tibets

„Trotz der blutigen Unruhen in Tibet halten ausländische Unternehmen wie VW, Adidas und McDonald's an ihrem Sponsoring der Olympischen Spiele in Peking fest. Doch der Druck auf die Konzerne, die nach Schätzungen von Branchenexperten bis zu 120 Millionen Dollar für das exklusive Werberecht mit den olympischen Ringen bezahlt haben, wächst…“ Artikel von Harlad Maass in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 26.03.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1308633


Ausbeutung von Wanderarbeitern in Peking: „One Year of My Blood“

„Wanderarbeiter, die das „Neue Peking“ errichten, werden regelmäßig ausgebeutet. Sie werden schlecht und unregelmäßig bezahlt, arbeiten unter gefährlichen Bedingungen, haben keine Unfallversicherung und keinen Zugang zu medizinischer und sozialer Versorgung, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht. Der 61-seitige Bericht „One Year of My Blood“ dokumentiert, dass die chinesische Regierung ihre oft wiederholten Versprechen, die Arbeitsrechte von Wanderarbeitern zu schützen, nicht erfüllt hat. Auch leiden die Arbeiter weiterhin unter den diskriminierenden Vorschriften des Systems zur Haushaltsregistrierung (Hukou). Die schätzungsweise eine Million Wanderarbeiter, die aus verschiedenen Teilen Chinas kommen, machen fast 90 Prozent der Arbeitskräfte in Pekings Bausektor aus. Ohne sie könnten die Infrastruktur und die Sportstätten für die Olympischen Spiele, die am 8. August 2008 in Peking beginnen, nicht rechtzeitig fertiggestellt werden…“ Pressemitteilung von Human Rights Watch vom 12.03.2008. Der Bericht “One Year of My Blood: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing” sowie weitere Links finden sich ebenfalls auf der Seite http://hrw.org/german/docs/2008/03/12/china18279.htm


Wirtschaft und Soziales in China: Ungeschminkte Fakten zur kapitalistischen Realität

Aus einer Zusammenstellung der IG Metall : Wirtschaft und Soziales in China zusammengestellt von Reinhold Schramm vom 07.03.2008 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/internationales/cn/schramm_wiso.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 1. April 2008



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„Was für die Zuseher des Schweizer Fernsehens (SF) ein Gewinn sein wird, ist für die Zuschauer des Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehens (ZDF) ein herber Verlust. Ulrich Tilgner, der langjährige Leiter des ZDF-Büros in Teheran und Sonderkorrespondent des ZDF für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, hat seinen diesbezüglichen Vertrag mit dem “Zweiten” nicht verlängert. Wie es hieß, um seine journalistische Unabhängigkeit zu wahren…“ Artikel von Claus-Dieter Stille in Readers Edition vom 29.03.2008 http://www.readers-edition.de/2008/03/29/journalisten-wird-wer-sich-nicht-einbetten-laesst-entsorgt


Aus: LabourNet, 1. April 2008

In These Times
by David Sirota

03/31/08

Google the phrase ‘Clinton firewall’ and you will come up with an ever-lengthening list of scenarios that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has said will stop Barack Obama’s candidacy. The New Hampshire primary, said her campaign, would be the firewall to end Obamamania. Then Super Tuesday was supposed to be the firewall. Then Texas. Now Pennsylvania and Indiana. For four months, the political world has been hypnotized by this string-along game, not bothering to ask what this Clinton tactic really is. The ‘just wait until the next states’ mantra has diverted our attention from the firewall’s grounding in race and democracy. But now, with only a few months until the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the firewall’s true composition is coming into focus. Whether Obama can overcome this barrier will likely decide who becomes the Democrats’ presidential nominee...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3597/the_clinton_firewall/



Nobody fears Hillary

Human Events
by Jennifer Rubin

03/31/008

Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain. Be afraid. Be very afraid, for if you don’t obey the Great and Powerful Oz will turn her wrath on you. Yawn. Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the ‘Wizard of Oz.’ But now, as the primaries clank along, her subjects are refusing to wear the green-tinted glasses and buy her act. She’s less and less terrifying every day, and fewer of those closest to her — her Senate colleagues — are intimidated. Despite their best efforts, the Clintons’ powers seem to have gone on the fritz, and those Democrats who know Hillary best have strayed off to follow a new, more congenial character. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. was the most recent U.S. Senator to endorse Barack Obama for President. But he certainly is not the only one...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25773


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tom Paine/Our Future
by Terrance Heath

03/31/08

Bear Stearns has been rescued, and its shareholders have been placated. Wall Street has several invigorating injections of billions of tax-payer dollars. Now that a great deal of public wealth has gone to prop up private wealth, maybe some of that public wealth can be used to help, well, the public. But only if the free market fundamentalists in the Bush administration stay out of the way, or trip over themselves while hurrying to offer their idea of a remedy. Clearly something’s up, because both the White House and Congress are racing to present plans to (finally) bail out homeowners stuck between impending forclosure. Congress is considering proposals. The Bush administration has ideas of its own. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s plan to overhaul regulation of Wall Street is coming under particular scrutiny, because of how much it probably won’t accomplish...

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/bailout-america


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Seattle Times

03/31/08

Washington state has passed some of the first laws in the country related to privacy and radio-frequency-identification (RFID) technology.
Last week, Gov. Christine Gregoire signed into law two bills protecting consumer privacy by making it a felony to possess information gained from an RFID-enhanced driver’s license, except when crossing international borders, or to maliciously scan someone’s identification remotely without their knowledge and consent.As a state with many travelers who cross the border frequently, Washington has become a test bed for RFID. It’s one of four states that have signed agreements with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to use RFID technology in optional-enhanced driver’s licenses that became available in January...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004316711_rfidside31.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

03/31/08

U.S. attacks on Islamic extremists in Somalia are undermining attempts to find a peaceful solution for the troubled Horn of Africa nation, a Washington-based aid agency said Monday. A shaky transitional government took over Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in the last days of 2006 with the help of Ethiopian troops, unseating an extremist Islamic movement that had reigned for six months over most of southern Somalia...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23883741/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03312008.html


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Delusionary, Dancing Bush
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/31/8000

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Ex-CIA analyst on Petraeus and Cheney

Ray McGovern: Was Cheney behind Iraqi army's failed Basra offensive?
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1323&thisview=item



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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Denounces Use of Flawed Secretive Guantánamo Commissions to Try Suspect.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0331-15.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/31/7988/



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RFID: erstmals Sicherheitslücke nachgewiesen
http://www.ecin.de/news/2008/04/01/11781/?rcol



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NEW DELHI: Rattled by recent media reports that prolonged cellphone use may lead to cancer? You may breathe easy. Even as recent studies in the UK have warned that ‘mobile phone usage could kill more people than smoking’, India is finally set to unveil a policy specifying safety guidelines to limit public exposure to radio waves from base stations and mobile handsets.

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The Washington Post's Keith B. Richburg and Ashley Surdin write: "State budgets have been hit hard by a worsening national economy, including rising costs for energy and health care. In addition, fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis - declining home sales, deflated property values and mounting foreclosures - has caused a slide in states' anticipated tax receipts. Revenue from property taxes, sales taxes and real estate transfer taxes is affected."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/033108LA.shtml



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"This week, NOW looks at a citywide plan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to make all their buildings more energy-efficient. Up to 80 percent of emissions in many urban cities comes from buildings. Cambridge hopes that this unprecedented effort to green its buildings will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ten percent in just five years, the equivalent of taking 33,000 cars off the road. If every major city in America took the same approach, it would have a significant impact on the carbon footprint of the US - and it would generate tens of millions of new 'green' jobs."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033108U.shtml

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/317726949aa7e557?hl=en



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From ufpj-news



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SYRIAN Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said overnight Damascus is prepared for all scenarios in its worsening relationship with Washington, including the use of US military force.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23458165-5001028,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Dick Cheney is making the same type of broad accusation that he made in the run-up to the Iraq war. This time, his target is Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/24bwsz


From Information Clearing House



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From Information Clearing House



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Video

This 4 minute video describes how Halliburton is poisoning the troops in Iraq through their water supply.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19645.htm



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Video Report

As a result of the Iraqi invasion many Iraqi girls have fled the violence to Syria. In order to survive and support their families many girls resort to prostitution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19644.htm



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An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.

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From Information Clearing House

NSA program upset the FBI and brought a flurry of tensions.
http://tinyurl.com/yr2bbb


From Information Clearing House



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Less Regulation, More Power to the Fed

By Mike Whitney

It is being billed as a "massive shakeup of US financial market regulation", but don't be deceived. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposals for broad market reform are neither "timely" nor "thoughtful" (Reuters) In fact, its all just more of the same free market "we can police ourselves" mumbo jumbo that got us into this mess in the first place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19657.htm



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By K Gajendra Singh

In its backyard Latin America, USA maintained its dominance under Monroe doctrine except for defiant Cuba under Fidel Castro .But Washington is losing its sway and total control, led against it by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and other leaders who represent and implement aspirations of their people and not of the old elites in cahoots with corporate interests in USA and Europe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19656.htm



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By Carl Coon

We need to lead by example, not threats. We need to listen to others, learn what their problems are, and exercise our talents and ingenuity toward finding solutions that help everyone to the extent possible. We need to take the dawning environmental crisis seriously and show that we're willing to make our share of needed sacrifices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19655.htm



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By Mark A. Goldman

The real issue is whether we are a nation of laws.. i.e., do we believe in the rule of law... or have we simply given up on the American Experiment and the Constitution itself. If we acknowledge that the war was illegal - that egregious crimes were committed in its execution - then it will follow that we must end the war. But what follows is much more than that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19654.htm



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By Walter Pincus

While public attention has been focused on Shiite-vs.-Shiite fighting in Basra and Baghdad, U.S. military leaders are taking a cold second look at the future intentions of the roughly 90,000 "Sons of Iraq" -- the locally recruited and primarily Sunni security forces that are armed and supported by the United States at $300 per person each month.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19649.htm



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Iran Brokers Call for Ceasefire;
Bush reduced to Irrelevancy in Iraq; Fighting Continues

By Juan Cole

A parliamentary delegation from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's own coalition (mainly now the Da`wa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq) defied him by going off to the holy seminary city of Qom in Iran and negotiating directly with Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr and with the leader of the Quds Brigades of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Qasim Sulaymani.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19650.htm



Iraq In The Balance

"The Iranians Are Killing Americans"
Senator Lindsey Graham

By Scott Horton

The U.S.-supported venture has probably actually increased Iranian government influence in Iraq, including inside the government. Tehran sees al-Maliki as a transitional figure, not likely to last long. It is intent on building a solid and broad base of support within the Iraqi Shi'a community, and it seems to be achieving its objectives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19647.htm



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From Global Network



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