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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/14/8289/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/14/8265/



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Die Grünen weisen Warnungen vor drohenden Energieengpässen bei einem Verzicht auf ausreichende Kraftwerksneubauten entschieden zurück. Grünen-Chef Reinhard Bütikofer sprach am 14. April in Berlin nach Beratungen des Parteivorstandes von einer "Stromlücken-Lüge", mit der versucht werde, der Öffentlichkeit "etwas einzureden, das durch die Fakten nicht gedeckt wird". Kronzeuge der angeblichen Lücke sei dabei die Deutsche Energie-Agentur (Dena). Diese habe bei Vorlage eines entsprechende Szenarios die Annahmen gezielt so gewählt, dass eine "Stromlücke gar nicht vermeidbar ist", bemängelte der Grünen-Chef. Hier werde mit der Sorge der Öffentlichkeit um eine gesicherte Stromversorgung "in böswilliger Absicht Schindluder getrieben". So werde im Monitoringbericht die Bundesnetzagentur nach einer Befragung der Kraftwerksbetreiber von einer Stilllegung von 2400 Megawatt bis 2020 berichtet. Die Dena nehme dagegen mehr als das Zehnfache an.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17727



"Gezielte Kampagne": SPD sieht Stromüberschuss statt Stromlücke

Die in den vergangenen Wochen entfachte Diskussion über eine bevorstehende "Stromlücke" ist nach Auffassung des umweltpolitischen Sprechers der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Marco Bülow, "nichts anderes als eine gezielte Kampagne". Mit der Panikmache vor einem "Black-out" in Deutschland versuchten einige Verantwortliche von großen Energiekonzernen einen "Stimmungswandel" zugunsten der Atomenergie herbeizuführen. "Damit soll zudem suggeriert werden, dass die Erneuerbaren Energien und die Steigerung der Energieeffizienz keinen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Versorgungssicherheit leisten koennen", kritisierte Bülow. Die Kampagne sei nichts weiter als "heisse Luft". Die Versorgungssicherheit in Deutschland werde auch durch den Atomausstieg nicht gefährdet. Dies bestätige unter anderem eine aktuelle Studie des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA).

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17758



Stromkonzerne und Dena ernten mit "Stromlücken"-Debatte Widerspruch

Eine Gruppe von Bundestagsabgeordneten, Energieforschern und Umweltschützer widersprach am 20. April in einem gemeinsamen Aufruf der von der Energiewirtschaft verbreiteten Behauptung, es drohe eine "Stromlücke", wenn Atomkraftwerke stillgelegt und neue Kohlekraftwerke nicht gebaut werden würden. In dem von Umwelt-Staatssekretär Michael Müller (SPD) initiierten Aufruf, der von Josef Göppel, Bundestagsabgeordneter der CSU, mitgetragen wird, werden die Stromriesen EnBW, E.on, RWE und Vattenfall angegriffen. Sie würden den erforderlichen Umbauprozess durch eine effizientere Stromnutzung, Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung und erneuerbare Energien nicht voranzutreiben. Hinter der Debatte über eine angebliche Stromlücke stehen nach Auffassung der Autoren "die Verteidigung marktbeherrschender Stellungen auf dem Strommarkt und von Eigeninteressen". Die Behauptung einer Stromlücke beziehe sich auch auf eine Studie der Deutschen Energieagentur (dena), "die weder alle Kabinettsbeschlüsse zum Klimaschutz noch die wirtschaftlich realisierbaren Potentialstudien hinreichend berücksichtigt." Zuletzt habe das Umweltbundesamt die Vereinbarkeit von Klima-schutz, Atomausstieg und Versorgungssicherheit deutlich gemacht, heißt es in dem Aufruf, der offenbar auch von dem ehemaligen Bundesumweltminister Prof. Klaus Töpfer (CDU) grundsätzlich unterstützt wird.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17809

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"Stromlücken-Debatte" soll die Bevölkerung ängstigen

Besonders offenkundig werde der eigentliche Kern der energiepolitischen Auseinandersetzung durch die Position der Energiekonzerne zu den erneuerbaren Energien.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683459ms96



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Regulierung der Finanzmärkte: Linke fordert Stopp der Spekulation auf Währungen, Rohstoffe und Lebensmittel

Nach der Tagung von IWF und Weltbank wirft die Links-Abgeordnete Ulla Lötzer den Industriestaaten vor, ein entschlossenes Vorgehen gegen explodierende Lebensmittelpreise und die Finanzkrise zu blockieren. Die Linke fordert ein internationales Aktionsprogramm zur "Reregulierung der Finanzmärkte" und ein koordiniertes Ausgabenprogramm zur Stabilisierung des Binnenmarktes. "Die Spekulation auf Währungen, Rohstoffe, Lebensmittel und mit unseriösen Finanzprodukten muss umgehend gestoppt werden", meint Lötzer. Die G7-Staaten sei für das Chaos auf den Finanzmärkten verantwortlich. "Sie haben in den letzten Jahren die Finanzmärkte dereguliert und damit die Spekulation auf Rohstoffe angeheizt. Und sie haben mit der Verwendung von Nahrungsmitteln für die Produktion von Biokraftstoffen die Preise steigen lassen."

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Linkspartei-Chef Oskar Lafontaine kritisiert die Beobachtung seiner Partei durch den Verfassungsschutz. "Die Praxis, insbesondere Parlamentarier durch den Verfassungsschutz überwachen zu lassen, kennzeichnet Bananenrepubliken", sagte Lafontaine der Zeitung "Die Welt". Über ihn selbst werde in seiner Heimat nach Aussage der saarländischen Landesregierung keine Verfassungsschutzakte mehr geführt. "Sehr wohl aber schnüffeln die Verfassungsschützer anderen Mitgliedern unserer Fraktion hinterher", sagte er.

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Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund befürchtet eine dramatisch zunehmende Altersarmut in Deutschland. DGB-Chef Michael Sommer sagte der "Bild"-Zeitung, derzeit lebe "die letzte Rentner-Generation, in der die allermeisten noch ein auskömmliches Einkommen haben". Das werde schon in wenigen Jahren anders sein. "Wir werden spätestens in 15 Jahren Millionen Rentner haben, die - wenn nichts passiert - von Sozialhilfe leben müssen", sagte Sommer. Das Thema Altersarmut werde völlig unterschätzt. "Ein Beispiel: Für ein Jahr 'Hartz IV' bekommt man später 2,19 Euro monatliche Rente", sagte er.

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Mit scharfer Kritik hat das globalisierungskritische Netzwerk Attac auf die gemeinsame Erklärung des Internationalen Währungsfonds IWF und der Weltbank zum Abschluss ihrer Frühjahrstagung reagiert. "Es ist an Zynismus kaum zu überbieten, wie sich hier zwei Sensenmänner über das gefallene Gras wundern und die gestiegenen Lebensmittelpreise bedauern," kritisierte Pia Eberhardt von Attac. IWF und Weltbank stünden seit Jahrzehnten für eine systematische Vernichtung kleinbäuerlicher Existenzen. So habe der IWF die Entwicklungsländer mit Strukturanpassungsmaßnahmen gezwungen, ihre gesamte Landwirtschaft auf den Export auszurichten und für billige Importe zu öffnen. Großflächige Monokulturen hätten den Anbau für den Eigenbedarf sowie lokale Märkte verdrängt, so Eberhardt. "Billigimporte taten ihr Übriges, um den Landwirten im Süden ihre Existenz zu rauben."

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Writing for The Boston Globe, Anna Badkhen states: "Across the country, hundreds of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who aided the US war effort and then fled their homelands fearing for their lives are struggling with little help from the government, according to private groups assisting translators from the war zones. After granting them refuge, the United States has done little to assist in the transition to a foreign culture where the translators have few connections, few prospects for employment, and little access to healthcare."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408C.shtml



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Writing for Truthout, Dean Baker examines the housing crisis: "Momentum is building in Washington for a large-scale housing bailout. It is virtually certain something will happen. The big questions are how large will the package be and will it be designed to help homeowners or to bailout out the banks? The latter question will be determined primarily by whether the government steps in to try to prop up bubble-inflated housing markets in places like California, Florida and the East Coast cities."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408A.shtml



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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/04/for_the_american_military_iraq.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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Und keiner nennt es Korruption http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27714/1.html



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Informant: HG

 

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Gretchen Morgenson reports for the International Herald Tribune, "It was the lending institutions and mortgage originators that got the United States into this credit mess, but it is the American consumers, taxpayers and those companies' shareholders who will end up shouldering most of the costs. The latest example of this is in the mass freezing of home equity lines of credit going on across the United States. Reeling from losses on their wretched loan decisions of recent years, lenders are preventing borrowers with pristine credit and significant equity in their homes from tapping into credit lines that they paid dearly to secure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408O.shtml



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The editors of The New York Times write, "President Bush said last week that he told his Iraq war commander, Gen. David Petraeus, that 'he'll have all the time he needs.' We know what that means. It means that the general, like the Iraqi government, should feel no pressure to figure a way out of this disastrous war. It means that even after 20,000 troops come home there will be nearly 140,000 American troops still fighting there - with no plan for further withdrawals and no plan for leading them to victory."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408K.shtml



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Project Update

William Rivers Pitt writes for Truthout, "It has been more than ten years now since [Project for a New American Century] first introduced itself by way of its letter to Clinton. Over this decade, PNAC's ideology and foreign policy mandates became the center of gravity for America's military and diplomatic practices and priorities.... To many, the current situation in Iraq represents a prime example of the folly and failures of George W. Bush and his administration. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. From the PNAC perspective, their presence within US government and control over US policy has been a great success."

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Italiens Gewerkschaften fordern steuerliche Entlastung für Beschäftigte. Ein Interview von Micaela Taroni mit Guglielmo Epifani, Vorsitzender des Gewerkschaftsverbandes CGI (Die »Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro« hat mehr als fünf Millionen Mitglieder), in der jungen Welt vom 12.04.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/04-12/030.php


Beppe Grillo: Weblogger und italienisches Enfant terrible

„Am 13. und 14. April sind in Italien Parlamentswahlen. Nachdem die Mitte-Links-Regierung von Romano Prodi gescheitert ist, müssen die Wähler erneut an die Urnen. Viele Bürger sind darüber nicht gerade begeistert, kündigt sich immerhin der neunte Regierungswechsel seit 1992 an. Einer, der den chronischen Unmut vieler Italiener aufgreift und bedient, heißt Beppe Grillo und ist populärer Komiker und erfolgreicher Weblogger. Mithilfe des Internet kämpft er für ein sauberes Parlament und für mehr Demokratie von unten. Für den 25. April ruft er Italiens Bürger zum zweiten Mal zu einem Aktionstag auf, dem sogenannten "Vaffanculo-Day"…“ Artikel von Christian Marx auf telepolis vom 12.04.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27619/1.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Beppe Grillo’s Blog

Die englische Seite seines Blogs mit Videos etc. http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/


"Nur Arme müssen Gesetze einhalten"

Der italienische Komiker Beppe Grillo prangert seit Jahren die landläufigen Übel Korruption, Parteiensumpf und Vetternwirtschaft an. Ein Gespräch über scheinlebendige Politiker und die Medien. Ein Interview von Aureliana Sorrento mit Beppe Grillo in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 08.04.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/?em_cnt=1315333&em_cnt_page=1

Darin die Antwort auf die Frage: „Laut Umfragen wären Sie aber der einzige ernsthafte Konkurrent Silvio Berlusconis. Warum treten Sie nicht selbst als Ministerpräsidentenkandidat auf?“: „Ich? Ich bin doch nicht bescheuert. Diese Idee des politischen Führers - die gehört zu einer Vorstellung von Politik, die nur für den Kindergarten gut ist. Den Führer, den sollen wir vergessen.“


Aus: LabourNet, 14. April 2008

Slate
by John Dickerson

04/09/08

How many points do you get for just showing up? John McCain will get an idea at the end of the month when he travels to venues where Republicans don’t usually campaign. McCain is planning to speak in inner cities, heavily African-American sections of the South, and poor sections of Appalachia. Most of his stops will be in areas where voters have traditionally supported Democrats. Can McCain win over many new voters in these areas? Probably not. … That’s OK, though, because the McCain tour is not aimed at winning a host of black votes. Nor is it primarily about the next obvious play: showing independents that he cares about minorities and the underprivileged, a traditional bank shot candidates take in order to make themselves appealing to moderate voters. The tour, which will include lots of freewheeling town halls, is more like performance art, an attempt to show off authenticity and the unfiltered McCain...

http://www.slate.com/id/2188582/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor
by Charles Derber & Yale Magrass

04/14/08

In his first national campaign ad for president, John McCain is shown reciting his rank and serial number as he lies in a Vietnamese hospital bed as a prisoner of war. The ad describes him as ‘a real hero.’ … But inextricably tied to the idea of the war hero for president is a discussion that goes beyond individual soldiers or prisoners of war, such as McCain, to the wars they fight and what their role in the war says about their moral merits as national leaders. This turns out to be surprisingly problematic. We need to distinguish the war hero from the war. Fixed ideas about war heroes get into what we call ‘morality wars,’ crucial struggles about which values should prevail, who should be admired and for what qualities...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0414/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Heroes or Dupes?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance140.html

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Rethinking 'War Hero'

"624787." In his first national campaign ad for president, Sen. John McCain is shown reciting his rank and serial number as he lies in a Vietnamese hospital bed as a prisoner of war. The ad describes him as "a real hero."

http://tinyurl.com/4qmba7


From Information Clearing House



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Consortium News
by Ivan Eland

04/12/08

Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration’s Orwellian double-speak on the Iraq War, President Bush recently gave an upbeat speech in Dayton, Ohio, extolling the progress in Iraq and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s military offensive in the southern oil port of Basra against “criminal” elements...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/041208a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Onion Magazine
by Bill McKibben

04/13/08

Cheap fossil fuel has made us what we are. Which is to say: rich, powerful-Look at us! We can make the ice caps melt! The oceans rise! But something else too: cheap fossil fuel has made us the first people on Earth with no need of our neighbors. Think, in the course of an ordinary day, how often you rely on the people who live near you for anything of practical value. Perhaps carpooling your kids to school or soccer. If you live in a rural community, there may be a volunteer fire department, which keeps your insurance affordable. But your food, your fuel, your shelter, your clothes, and your entertainment most likely come from a distance and arrive anonymously at that. A meteorite could fall on your cul-de-sac tomorrow, disappearing your neighbors, and the routines of your daily life wouldn’t change...

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2874


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent [UK]
by Steve Connor

04/14/08

A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce “designer” babies. Scientists who used the procedure to create baby mice from the skin cells of adult animals have found it to be far more efficient than the Dolly technique, with fewer side effects, which makes it more acceptable for human use’...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/now-we-have-the-technology-that-can-make-a-cloned-child-808625.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Klonen von Menschen durch die Hintertür?

Die als Alternative zur Verwendung von embryonalen menschlichen Stammzellen angepriesene Methode des Umprogrammierens von Körperzellen ließe sich auch in der Reproduktionsmedizin anwenden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27730/1.html



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Christian Science Monitor
by Barbara Cook Spencer

04/12/08

Much as bullies demoralize themselves when they dominate or ride roughshod over those who are meek, vulnerable, or defenseless, it should be obvious that human beings are the ones demoralized by the commission of inhumane acts. …. In fact, when we abuse childlike qualities in animals - when we take advantage of trust, sweetness, simplicity, or innocence, for example - we are well on our way to the abuse of children. For decades researchers, child and animal protection professionals, and educators have been pointing to the correlation between the treatment of animals and the treatment of children...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0411/p09s01-coop.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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About 1,821 current or former soldiers committed suicide in 16 states in 2005, the most recent year of available data, according to the report published today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost half were diagnosed with depression and a third left suicide notes.

http://tinyurl.com/3jwx9y


From Information Clearing House



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George Bush has admitted that senior US officials including Dick Cheney had approved CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on key al-Qaeda suspects.

http://tinyurl.com/5m3bk3



The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See

Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/81406/


From Information Clearing House

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Bush’s torture quote undercuts denial

Consortium News
by Jason Leopold

04/15/08

President George W. Bush’s comment to ABC News – that he approved discussions that his top aides held about harsh interrogation techniques – adds credence to claims from senior FBI agents in Iraq in 2004 that Bush had signed an Executive Order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/041508a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cheney cold-shouldered
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"Iran is very active in the southern part of Iraq. They are training Iraqis in Iran who come into Iraq and attack our forces, Iraqi forces, Iraqi civilians. There are movements of equipment. There's movements of funds," Hadley said. "So we have illegal ... militia in the southern part of the country that really are acting as criminal elements that are oppressing the people down there."

http://tinyurl.com/5zhz42


From Information Clearing House

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AFP looks skeptically at US's new rationale for being in Iraq, the
Iranian 'threat'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7350/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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CBS Video Report

Remote Area Medical was founded to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world, but now also helps thousands of Americans who have no health insurance or are underinsured. Scott Pelley reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19732.htm



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By Mary Pitt

We lose our jobs, we lose our homes, we lose our sons in the war without end, and now many of us are losing our tempers! Some are old enough to remember the miseries of the Great Depression and we feel another one coming on as history is repeating itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19727.htm



Bitter? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics

By Robert Reich

We're heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19758.htm

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Bitter? You should be!

The Nation
by Nicholas von Hoffman

04/15/08

Last week Barack Obama, destiny’s tot, suggested blue-collar Americans are feeling bitter about their financial condition, which has been on a bit of a decline during the last five, ten, fifteen, twenty years or so. Rival politicians immediately pounced and they’ve been whaling on him ever since. How dare Obama suggest people are bitter? Americans are not bitter! Americans are happy, proud, peppy, content and optimistic! Maybe. But if millions of them are not bitter and/or angry at this point, there is probably something wrong with them...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080428/howl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Wage That Meant Middle Class

In The New York Times, Louis Uchitelle says, "Whatever Senator Barack Obama meant by his less than artful remarks about small-town Pennsylvanians 'bitter' over lost jobs, he certainly turned a lot of attention last week to the decline of the American worker, bitter or not."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042108LA.shtml



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By Carolyn Baker

The world we wanted to have is not within our reach; the world we deeply dread is upon us. Meanwhile, the world we have known, ugly as it may be but nevertheless familiar, is vanishing before our eyes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19731.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=collapse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carolyn+Baker

By Mike Whitney

A specter is haunting Wall Street---the specter of insolvency. One major player, Bear Stearns, has already gone under, and from the looks of it, another may be on the way. It's getting ugly out there.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19723.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bear+Stearns
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By Sharon Smith

Wall Street millionaires have spent months mourning their losses from once ridiculously over-valued investments. Yet these same free market cheerleaders remain blissfully unaware of the magnitude of the crisis facing the real victims of the unfolding global meltdown they so enthusiastically enabled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19728.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sharon+Smith

By Chris Gelken

Former Senator blasts US occupation during lively television debate on Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19722.htm



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

By Robert Fisk

Now he's gone a stage further. After announcing victory in Iraq in 2003 and "mission accomplished" and telling us how this enormous achievement would lead the 21st century into a "shining age of human liberty", George Bush told us this week that "thanks to the surge, we've renewed and revived the prospect of success".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19726.htm



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

By Charley Reese

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended some years ago. In Iraq, the war ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein's government; in Afghanistan, with the fall of the Taliban government. What's been happening since is occupation and resistance to occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19721.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=occupation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charley+Reese

Khaleej Times Editorial

LATEST movements in Washington's war lobby indicate a reassessment of the Iraq policy with Iran slowly replacing Al Qaeda as the prime terrorism threat as officials juggle with justification for continued surge level troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19724.htm

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

by Deanna Spingola

Oil greed generates war! International banksters, in London and New York, had quickly recognized that control of petroleum was essential to power and profit. After Britain's Rothschild-orchestrated depression of 1873 (coincided with the U.S. stock market crash of September 18, 1873), a growing divergence existed "between the depressed economy of the British Empire and the emerging industrial economies of Continental Europe," especially the very proficient German Reich. Crashes, depressions, recessions, deflations or inflations (elastic dollars) are all contrived cash manipulations that allow the banksters to subtly seize public and private resources at fire-sale prices.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna88.htm



The Power Elite Playbook: Oil War One, 1914-1918

by Deanna Spingola

Most Americans, a large percentage of whose ancestors were German, were neutral until propagandized by a barrage of German atrocity stories through pamphlets produced by the U.S. government. The U.S. resisted war, even after the devised Lusitania incident on May 7, 1915 when 785 out of 1,257 passengers perished, 128 of them Americans. Several months before that ill-fated voyage, Winston Churchill, a Rothschild minion, described Lusitania as.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna89.htm



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

http://www.radioliberty.com/pca.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=population+control
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dr.+Stanley+Monteith

http://www.radioliberty.com/aiduntld.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dr.+Stanley+Monteith

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/be1e0b168f37ce2b?hl=en

 

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

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/04/bipartisan-brotherhood-of-plunder.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Grigg

http://www.mises.org/story/2908


Informant: Lew Rockwell

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=jihadism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Gordon

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts244.html

 

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

http://www.radioliberty.com/kjos3.htm

THE U.N. PLAN FOR GLOBAL CONTROL
http://www.radioliberty.com/kjos1.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+control
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Berit+Kjos

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/first-major-nationally-coordinated-911-truth-effort-break-corporate-media-blockade

Informant: Dorothee Krien

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

http://americabestill.com/200406121/Latest/We-must-demand-change.html


Informant: Gomez

http://www.lewrockwell.com/huff/huff14.html




http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com%2Fhuff

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7346/



Informant: jensenmk

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