World-News

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8763


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/22/8462/

Murdoch's Newsday Deal Is Bad News for New York
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0422-12.htm



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In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080422/a_pollbox22.art.htm


From Information Clearing House

Malcolm Nance, who trained hundreds of US servicemen and women to resist interrogation by putting them through "waterboarding" exercises, demanded an immediate end to the practice by all US personnel.

http://tinyurl.com/52luw6



Tortured Explanations

Never before in the modern history of the United States has there been an officially sanctioned, government-wide system of inflicting torture and abuse on detainees. Until now.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/tortured_explainations.html


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on "sensitive issues," including the right to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/3ztvhe


From Information Clearing House

By Bob Herbert

Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it's widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19786.htm



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Bruce Fein and former United States Congressman Bob Barr

On his say so alone he can identify anyone in the United States as creating a "significant risk of undermining reconstruction program in Iraq, or political reform by creating a risk that an act of violence might be committed." And when he identifies you, he doesn't inform you. But you are instantly subjected to a financial death penalty. All your assets are frozen; no one then can do any business with you.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19783.htm



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By Steven Greenhut

Government officials are zealous about dealing with problems caused by average citizens, but they are far less interested in dealing with the excesses of fellow members of the privileged, government elite. There are rules for "us" and rules for "them" - us being the subjects and them being the rulers. Feel free to pound the table in anger now!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19784.htm



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By Mike Whitney

The Fed's loose money policies have put the dollar at risk of losing its role as the world's reserve currency. If the dollar falls from its perch, the empire will soon follow. The macroeconomic impact of Greenspan's low interest rates will be seismic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19787.htm



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Lolita C. Baldor reports for The Associated Press, "Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208I.shtml



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Matt Apuzzo writes for The Associated Press: "A federal appeals court sought compromise yesterday between a liberal group demanding the names of White House visitors and the Bush administration, which says releasing the names would erode the president's power. If released, the documents would show how often prominent religious conservatives visited the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence, allowing a glimpse into how much influence they exerted on government policy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208F.shtml



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Wallace J. Nichols, writing for Truthout, conveys his inspiration to take immediate action in response to global warming: "Today, we face [a] serious crises - loss of biodiversity, a warming planet, collapsing fisheries, looming food and water shortages, and pollution in every corner of the globe. Scientists forecast a '2050 Scenario' in which Earth is hotter, dirtier and overcrowded with nine billion people who are left to wage wars for what little remains."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208D.shtml

David D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Rutenberg, of The New York Times, write: "When Mr. Diamond wanted to buy land at the base, Fort Ord, Mr. McCain assigned an aide who set up a meeting at the Pentagon and later stepped in again to help speed up the sale, according to people involved and a deposition Mr. Diamond gave for a related lawsuit. When he appealed to a nearby city for the right to develop other property at the former base, Mr. Diamond submitted Mr. McCain’s endorsement as 'a close personal friend.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208C.shtml



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Writing for Truthout, Kelpie Wilson explains: "With food riots across the globe in the news, the immediate cause of food shortages is simply this: grain prices have doubled over the last year and poor people can no longer afford to buy enough food. There is no one single cause for the price rise; it is a combination of supply and demand."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208A.shtml



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Tom from the emfrefugee group sent these two links:

"Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8450

German Translation:

Welche Ziele verfolgt die international operierende Finanzelite? http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/2008/nr16-vom-1442008/welche-ziele-verfolgt-die-international-operierende-finanzelite/

I might be wrong but we could just be at the beginning of this global genocide?"

Dorothee



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/80e7fa1a5b382fce?hl=en



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Behind Sadr's warning to the US lies an unavoidable fact: He holds critical cards in Iraq.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?wc_mid=1664:886208&wc_rid=107480579

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Iraq's Sadr cannot be defeated by force: experts

Suddenly, after many months in which the news from Iraq has been mostly about falling violence, the country is reeling towards a rebellion by millions of Sadr's followers against a government crackdown on his black-masked Mehdi Army militia.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33157320080421


From Information Clearing House



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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Informant: Dorothee Krien

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1927911/Clinton_droht_Iran_mit_Ausloeschung.html



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Joby Warrick reports for The Washington Post, "Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208P.shtml

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Allegations of Drugging in US Interrogations
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0422-10.htm



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The Associated Press reports, "If the long-running Democratic presidential race were a play, Republicans would be clamoring for even more after the six-week intermission now giving way to the Pennsylvania primary."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208O.shtml

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Who won in Pennsylvania?

Pepe Escobar: They're fighting among themselves instead of fighting the Republicans.
http://tinyurl.com/4w4dk7



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CBS News reports: "The Department of Veterans Affairs came under fire again Monday, this time in California federal court where its facing a national lawsuit by veterans rights groups accusing the agency of not doing enough to stem a looming mental health crisis among veterans. As part of the lawsuit, internal e-mails raise questions as to whether top officials deliberately deceived the American public about the number of veterans attempting and committing suicide."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208M.shtml



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Truthout's Maya Schenwar interviews "All the Shah's Men" author Stephen Kinzer on Iran and the mentality behind US "regime change" operations worldwide.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8754


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8761


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8746


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Bericht: Auf Widerstand gegen Arbeitsplatzüberwachung folgt Kündigung

„In einem Callcenter in Essen, das zum Elektronikkonzern Medion gehört, soll etlichen Mitarbeitern gekündigt worden sein, weil sie sich gegen eine geplante Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz gewehrt haben. Dies berichtet Spiegel Online am heutigen Montag. Die Maßnahmen – mitgehörte Gespräche, Überwachung des E-Mail-, Brief- und Faxverkehrs – sollten den Angaben zufolge auf Druck des Großkunden Aldi eingeführt werden. Die rund 150 Mitarbeiter von AMS (Allgemeine Multimedia Service GmbH) hätten eine Zusatzvereinbarung unterschreiben müssen, in der die "neuen Qualitätsmaßnahmen" als Mittel "zum Erhalt der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und wesentlicher Kundenbeziehungen" bezeichnet werden…“ Kurze Zusammenfassung des Spiegel-Online-Artikels auf Heise-Online vom 22.04.2008. Der Spiegel-Artikel ist dort verlinkt. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bericht-Auf-Widerstand-gegen-Arbeitsplatzueberwachung-folgt-Kuendigung--/meldung/106810


Aus: LabourNet, 22. April 2008

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Arbeitsbedingungen in Call-Centern

1OgLinks.de, die News und Info-Seite für Callcenter Agents in NRW

„Herzlich willkommen beim 1OgLinks.de, der Infoseite für CCA´s in NRW. Hier kann man sich Informationen zur Arbeit in Callcentern holen, oder sich über die Arbeitsbedingungen verschiedener Callcenter-Dienstleister informieren. Hier sollen jedoch nicht nur kritische Stimmen zu hören sein, es gibt sicherlich auch Callcenter, die faire Arbeitsbedingungen haben. Es ist jeder willkommen, der Hilfe sucht oder sich an Diskussionen beteiligen möchte...“ Zur Seite 1OgLinks.de http://www.1oglinks.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009



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Financial Times
by Clive Crook

04/13/08

Competition for ‘most damaging legacy of the Bush administration’ is lively. Iraq is the front-runner, of course, but bear in mind the wreckage of fiscal policy — although to use that term is to imply that the US even has a fiscal policy, when it does not. It would be more accurate to talk of fiscal consequences or fiscal footprint (an apt metaphor) than to imply anything as deliberate as ‘policy’... [free registration required]

http://tinyurl.com/6xnk2d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

04/21/08

At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — the first large suicide bombing to target Americans — the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ since 9/11 made Americans safer? Although the Bush administration regularly boasts that its war on terror has been effective because no large terrorists attacks on U.S. soil have occurred since 9/11, such terrorism in North America has historically been a rare event. It’s like bragging that efforts to prevent lightning strikes have succeeded because a dwelling has not been struck or burned...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2175


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Senator Clinton should be careful where she throws bricks?
http://www.blackcommentator.com/274/274_clinton_udc.html


From Information Clearing House



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The Bush administration's support for the Iraqi government crackdown on Shi'ite militias risks drawing the United States into a dangerous confrontation between rival Shi'ite sects, analysts warn.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20080421-0836-usa-iraq-shiites.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Alexander Cockburn

McCain is probably the most unstable man ever to have got this close to the White House. He's one election away from it. Republican senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19777.htm



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7372/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

Gates: Iran Hell Bent on Getting Nukes

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes Iran is "hell bent" on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of the consequences of going to war over that.

http://tinyurl.com/4yczuf



Clinton: If Tehran "nukes" Israel, U.S. could 'totally obliterate' Iran

Hillary Clinton, facing a crucial primary in Pennsylvania Tuesday, said that if she were in the White House and Tehran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the United States would be able to 'totally obliterate' Iran.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976991.html



India Rejects US Call For It To Pressure Iran On Nuclear Bid

India on Tuesday told Washington to mind its own business after a U.S. official said New Delhi should urge Iran to curtail its nuclear program during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

http://tinyurl.com/3hxvdg


From Information Clearing House

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Who Gets Totally Obliterated, Iran Or the US?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/who-gets-totally-obliterated-us-or-them/


Informant: Duane Roberts

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Clinton: 'No Regrets' Concerning Threat to 'Obliterate Iran'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/05/8724/



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Douglas Quenqua, The New York Times, writes: "The Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a concerted way for the first time."

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



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According to Robert Pear of The New York Times, "The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states' ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday."

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



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Adrianne Appel of Inter Press Service reports: "US state governors say they are fed up with the George W. Bush administration's foot-dragging on climate change and will go ahead of - and around - the White House to reduce greenhouse gases."

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



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Truthout contributor Bill Quigley reports: "Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots worldwide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042108R.shtml

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Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family's reach

By Rory Carroll in Port-au-Prince

With little cash and import prices rocketing half the population faces starvation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20375.htm



Stuffed and Starved

By Ed Pilkington

Ed Pilkington meets the soothsayer of agro-economics and talks about what will happen when all the food finally runs out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20378.htm



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Alert participation is down. When we as global citizens work together we frequently achieve conservation victories. Is the Patagonian wilderness worth a few moments of your time? Please respond to these alerts.

g.b.


ACTION ALERT
PLEASE PARTICIPATE AND FORWARD WIDELY!

For Earth Day, Protest Home Depot's Complicity in Destruction of Patagonian Wilderness by Proposed Chilean Dams

By Forests.org, project of Ecological Internet http://forests.org/ April 21, 2008

TAKE ACTION Patagonia's wild rivers to be dammed, destroying ancient temperate forests, for 50 years of electricity; please let supposedly environmentally responsible Home Depot know they should not be doing business with the project's primary Chilean advocate.

http://forests.org/alerts/send.asp?id=chile_patagonia_dam

One of Chile's last true pristine and intact wildernesses is to be dammed and logged to provide hydroelectricity. The dams -- two on the Baker River and three on the Pascua River -- would irretrievably damage Patagonia, one of the Earth's wildest and most beautiful places. The HidroAysén project will flood river valleys containing several thousand hectares of ancient primary forests. The project's transmission line would require extensive clearcutting of additional pristine Chilean native forests, clearing more than a 1,500-mile swath that will impact fourteen national parks and wilderness reserves.

Shockingly, the main Chilean project proponent -- the Matte Group -- does extensive business with U.S. mega-corp Home Depot, broadly perceived as being "green". In consultation with International Rivers, Ecological Internet is working to get the Matte Group to withdraw from the project by highlighting their business interests with Home Depot. Please challenge Home Depot to live up to their green image on Earth Day 2008, and refuse to participate in the greenwashing of Patagonian wild river and ancient forest destruction. Insist Home Depot cease doing business with Matte until they withdraw from HidroAysén.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/alerts/send.asp?id=chile_patagonia_dam

DISCUSS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/04/alert-on-earth-day-protest-hom.asp



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