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Das Bundeskabinett verabschiedete am Mittwoch (25. Juni) in Berlin den 3. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung. Dem Bericht ist zu entnehmen, dass 2005 über 36 Prozent der Beschäftigten für Niedriglöhne arbeiteten. Die Armutsrisikoquote für die Gesamtbevölkerung Deutschlands habe 2005 bei 13 Prozent gelegen. Die Bundesregierung hob hervor, dass demgegenüber das Armutsrisiko im europäischen Durchschnitt bei 16 Prozent gelegen habe. Die Linksabgeordnete Katja Kipping wies allerdings darauf hin, dass dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) zufolge das Armutsrisiko in Deutschland bei 18,3 Prozent liege. Kipping erklärt die große Diskrepanz dadurch, dass "die von der Bundesregierung bei der Armutsberichterstattung bevorzugte Methode" dazu führe, dass Geringqualifizierte, Migranten und Familien mit kleinen Kindern "untererfasst werden". So käme die Bundesregierung, dass angeblich nur 13 Prozent der Bevölkerung von Armut bedroht seien, statt 18 Prozent. Außerdem kritisiert sie: "Die monatliche Armutsrisikogrenze sollte seriösen Auswertungen zufolge nicht wie im Entwurf des Armutsberichts bei 781 Euro sondern dem DIW folgend bei 880 Euro angesetzt werden."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18237



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

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=2457

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'Hospital risk' from radio tags
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7471008.stm


From Martin/Mast Sanity



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0625-09.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/25/9885/



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Zur Zeit wird vor allem von Seiten der CDU/CSU die Rettung des Klimas durch Atomkraftwerke gefordert. Wir haben schon beim Weltklimagipfel in Bali unsere Gegenposition vertreten.

http://www.umweltinstitut.org/bali_2007

Weitere Fakten zu Atomkraft und Klimaschutz finden Sie hier: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/klimaretter_atomkraft

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6. Juli 2008

Kein Ausstieg aus dem Ausstieg

DIE LINKE lehnt die von führenden Unionspolitikern erneut geforderte Verlängerung der Laufzeiten von Atomkraftwerken ab. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Wolfgang Methling:

Den von führenden CDU- und CSU-Politikern erneut geforderten Ausstieg aus dem Ausstieg aus der Nutzung der Kernenergie in Deutschland lehnt DIE LINKE entschieden ab. Die Kennzeichnung der Atomenergie als "Ökoenergie" ist zynisch. Die Forderung nach einem "Atomkonsens II" mit längeren Laufzeiten der Kraftwerke bedeutet vor allem höhere Gewinne für die Energiekonzerne und eine weitere Belastung der künftigen Generationen mit radioaktiven Abfällen. Die fortgesetzte Nutzung der Kernenergie verzögert den notwendigen Kurswechsel auf den Ausbau der Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien. In der LINKEN gibt es eindeutige Beschlusslagen zur Überwindung des nuklearen Energiezeitalters.

Quelle: http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/kein-ausstieg-aus-dem-ausstieg/

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68 Prozent wollen kein AKW, auch wenn Strom umsonst wäre

Wieder eine Meinungsumfrage zur Atomenergie: 68 Prozent der Bundesbürger würden den Bau eines neuen Atomkraftwerks in ihrem Wohnort selbst dann ablehnen, wenn sie dafür lebenslang kostenlosen Strom bekämen. Das geht aus einer am Mittwoch (16. Juli) veröffentlichten Emnid-Umfrage für das Magazin "Vanity Fair" hervor. Unter dem Eindruck der Unfälle im US-Atomkraftwerk Harrisburg (Three Miles Island) 1979 und Tschernobyl 1986 lehnen die Deutschen die Atomkraft weiterhin offenbar mit großer Mehrheit ab. Anfang Juli kam es in Frankreich zur Freisetzung von Radioaktivität aus der französischen Atomanlage Tricastin. Für öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit sorgte auch eine Studie im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz (BfS), wonach das Krebsrisiko von Kindern mit zunehmender Nähe ihres Wohnortes zu deutschen Atomkraftwerken ansteigt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18370



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Marjorie Cohn writes for Truthout: "To bolster his argument that the Guantanamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: 'At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo have returned to the battlefield.' It turns out that statement is false."

http://www.truthout.org/article/scalia-cites-false-information-habeas-corpus-dissent

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What Boumediene means

CounterPunch
by Joanne Mariner

06/25/08

The Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush was a nail in Guantanamo’s coffin. For the third time in four years, the Supreme Court sent a strong message that it disagrees with the Bush Administration’s detainee policies.The Court’s 70-page opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, holds that prisoners in US custody at Guantanamo have the right to challenge their detention via a fair process in federal court. Specifically, the decision says that the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which stripped the detainees of their right of access to the courts, represents an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The ruling overturned a lower court decision that found that the 2006 law was constitutional. Like the Court’s previous Guantanamo decisions, the ruling is a victory for individual rights. But viewed as a whole, along with the laws and executive orders that they address, the decisions also provide an interesting case study in the checks and balances, highlighting the complex power relationships among, and decision-making processes of, the three branches of government...

http://counterpunch.org/mariner06252008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/25/08

Somewhere, George Orwell isn’t smiling. He’d no doubt be appalled, and a little nonplused, by the accuracy of his speculations in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, you’ll recall, the deliberate impoverishment of the ordinary ‘proles’ and the Outer Party types was a matter of INGSOC policy, a theme underscored by the general shabbiness of Orwell’s dystopia, what with the constant shortages and the way thing always seemed to be literally and physically falling apart. Particularly striking is the Orwellian presentiment that the world of the future is bound to be poorer and, simultaneously, engaged in constant warfare. This prediction seemed, for quite a while, to be one of the few he got wrong. Yet Orwell, it turns out, was right; it’s just that the productive power of capitalism in the U.S. was so great that it coasted along for a long time on sheer momentum...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13046


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Political Report

06/23/08

[T]he Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign has announced that Cynthia McKinney, the frontrunner for the Green party presidential nomination, has signed on as honorary co-chair in the independent campaign to unseat Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan and McKinney have had an affinity in recent years in their opposition to the Iraq War and Congressional Democrats’ impotence in the face of it...

http://tinyurl.com/64r968


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McKinney
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28179/1.html



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Die Herstellung von hybriden Embryos zur Gewinnung von Stammzellen habe sich einfacher als erwartet erwiesen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/109903

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/f754529ae0fa668



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taser
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0624-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0624-24.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0624-13.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0624-05.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/24/9854/



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Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/24/9844/

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/24/9863/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoena
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Miers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Bolten

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/24/9855/



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Steve Sternberg, USA Today: "Tropical diseases that ravage Africa, Asia and Latin America commonly occur among the poor in the USA, leaving thousands of people shattered by debilitating complications including mental retardation, heart disease and epilepsy, an analysis showed Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-poor-are-vulnerable-neglected-diseases



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+poor

The Boston Globe's Brian C. Mooney reports: "Florida's election fiasco in 2000 prompted many states to adopt electronic touch-screen voting systems, but after a spate of malfunctions and meltdowns in 2004 and 2006, paper ballots are making a big comeback."

http://www.truthout.org/article/many-states-turning-paper-ballots-fall



Check That Vote

New York Times editors say: "Electronic voting is notoriously vulnerable to technical glitches and vote theft. By now, most states have passed good laws requiring paper records of every vote cast - an important safeguard. But that is not enough. States also need strong audit laws to ensure that machine totals are vigilantly checked against the paper records. That is the only way that voters will be able to trust electronic voting."

http://www.truthout.org/article/check-that-vote



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballots
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Funkchips stören Schrittmacher
http://tinyurl.com/6nbcfp

Forscher: RFID-Chips stören medizinische Geräte
http://www.zdnet.de/news/business/0,39023142,39192625,00.htm

RFID-Technologie: Bundesrat verabschiedet Bericht
http://www.baz.ch/news/rss.cfm?keyID=17CD2E0A-DF54-4CBB-95FF9E386784539B&startpage=1&ObjectID=BF5EBFA1-1422-0CEF-70840AB6BF7EBFB4

Studie: RFID-Systeme beeinflussen Medizintechnik
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Studie-RFID-Systeme-beeinflussen-Medizintechnik--/meldung/109971

RFID führt im Krankenhaus zu tödlichen Störungen
http://winfuture.de/news,40368.html

RFID-Chips können Klinik-Geräte ausschalten
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,561942,00.html

RFID könnte tödlich werden
http://www.theinquirer.de/2008/06/25/rfid_konnte_todlich_werden.html

Atemstillstand dank RFID
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28194/1.html

RFID-Systeme sind lebensgefährlich
http://www.silicon.de/silicon/analysen/auch-das-noch/0,39038900,39192700,00.htm

Studie: RFID-Etiketten können medizinische Geräte empfindlich stören
http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=32821

RFID-Chips in Klinik kritisch beurteilt
http://www.aerztezeitung.de/praxis_wirtschaft/klinikmanagement/?sid=501896



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Funkchip
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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/350.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt342.html

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Billion-Dollar Babies

Nick Turse writes for TomDispatch.com: "The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change ... Then there's a select group that are masters of the universe in the ever-expanding military-corporate complex, regularly scoring more than a billion tax dollars a year from the Department of Defense. Unlike Lockheed, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman, however, most of these billion-dollar babies manage to fly beneath the radar of media (not to mention public) attention. If appearing at all, they generally do so innocuously in the business pages of newspapers. When it comes to their support for the Pentagon's wars and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are, in media terms, missing in action."

http://www.truthout.org/article/billion-dollar-babies



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind141.html



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Ron Paul: Statement on FISA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul463.html

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Senator Feingold Will Filibuster FISA

On Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman interviews "Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin), who has been the leading Congressional voice against the Bush administration's warrantless spy program since it was exposed nearly three years ago."

http://www.truthout.org/article/senator-feingold-will-filibuster-fisa



Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote

Mike Lillis reports for The Washington Independent: "When scores of House Democrats joined Republicans last week to reauthorize a controversial White House spying program, many critics attributed that support to election-year jitters. But as liberal voters continue to bash Democrats on the issue, some campaign finance reformers charge that political contributions from the telecom industry, which benefited handsomely under the bill, probably also swayed votes."

http://www.truthout.org/article/telecom-donations-tied-fisa-vote

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Feingold: Is “farce” wiretap deal hiding “impeachable offense?”

Raw Story

06/23/08

The battle to protect Americans from warrantless wiretaps and hold telecommunications companies accountable is all but lost, Sen. Russ Feingold, a leading critic of President Bush’s likely illegal surveillance programs, said Monday. The ‘farce’ of a surveillance law deal heralded by House Democratic leaders last week could permanently hide evidence of an ‘impeachable offense’ on the part of President Bush, the Wisconsin Democrat said. Feingold spoke at the New America Foundation in Washington about the nation’s intelligence needs...

http://tinyurl.com/6heal8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush impeachment debate focuses on subpoenas

David Swanson: Refusing Congressional subpoenas is an impeachable offense.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1773

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Chris Dodd's Speech and a Glimmer of Hope for Stopping the FISA Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/25/9871/

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Joseph Galloway agrees: the president is a criminal
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7631/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Nidhi Sharma - AHN News Writer

Washington D.C. (AHN) - The use of radio frequency identification devices in hospitals can interfere with the functioning of certain lifesaving equipments of the patients, according to Dutch researchers.

Read More...
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011376338

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Radio frequency ID may hurt medical device
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/06/25/Radio_frequency_ID_may_hurt_medical_device/UPI-58361214367462/

Electromagnetic interference from some identification devices may pose hazards to medical equipment
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/jaaj-eif061908.php
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/299/24/2884

Radio frequency identification in hospitals could pose risks
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2451111220080624

Researchers Warn RFID May Disrupt Medical Equipment
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/4166/1/1/

Radio-Wave Devices May Play Havoc With Medical Equipment
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2008/06/24/hscout616833.html

Wireless Electromagnetic Devices Risk ICU Safety
http://medheadlines.com/2008/06/25/wireless-electromagnetic-devices-risk-icu-safety/

RFID Devices Can Interfere With Hospital’s Lifesaving Medical Equipment
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1449028/rfid_devices_can_interfere_with_hospitals_lifesaving_medical_equipment/

Study Warns: Electromagnetic Interference In Hospitals Risky
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Study_Warns_Electromagnetic_Interference_In_Hospitals_Risky_19527.html

Radio-Wave Devices May Interfere with Hospital ICU Equipment
http://www.informify.com/top-stories/48-health/264-radio-wave-devices-may-interfere-with-hospital-icu-equipment

'Hospital risk' from radio tags
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7471008.stm

Study: Is RFID Safe for Use with Medical Devices
http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/study-is-rfid-safe-for-use-with-medical-devices.aspx?googleid=242846

Dutch research highlights hospital RFID risks
http://www.ehealtheurope.net/news/3897/dutch_research_highlights_hospital_rfid_risks

RFID Can Have "Hazardous" Impact On Hospital Equipment
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/RFID/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802215



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

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/23/president-bush-uses-executive-privilege-to-block-subpoena-of-epa-documents/

Informant: sasha



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+privilege
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoena
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'This is the last chance': Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

http://tinyurl.com/3ts7px


From Information Clearing House

He said via video link to an investment conference in Johannesburg the chances of that economy falling into recession were more than 50 percent and a rebound was unlikely.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKJAT00371420080624



More bad news for US economy

US consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years while US home prices fell in April at the fastest rate in years, two economic reports have said.

http://tinyurl.com/4bk2nx


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greenspan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=consumer+confidence
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Hearings for terror suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo are going head despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed detainees have a right to challenge their detention in a civilian court.

http://tinyurl.com/3r5nu4



Greetings from Guantanamo Bay ... and the sickest souvenir shop in the world

Welcome to "Taliban Towers" at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on the planet.

http://tinyurl.com/4c2j7g


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+trials
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Amnesty International has today (24 June) accused European governments, including Ireland and the UK, of complicity and inaction over US-led rendition and secret detention, as it published a new report on European renditions and a 'Six-point Plan' for their prevention.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17797


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
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According to DOD, the number of trained troops includes personnel who are deceased or absent without leave.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/20-billion-later-iraq-sec_n_108919.html


From Information Clearing House

Gas-Pump Gouging: Just Don't Blame The Saudis

By Mike Whitney

I've seen this bad movie before. It's the Enron movie, which hit the West Coast power-markets like a bomb because the federal government was asleep at the switch. Now it's happening again with oil prices." Rep. Jay Inslee D-WA.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20167.htm



Gas Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Limiting speculation would push prices to fundamental level, lawmakers told

By Rex Nutting & Michael Kitchen

The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20166.htm



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By James Rothenberg

Which of these two "greater than zero" chances for dramatic change has the higher probability of success? Electing a Ralph Nader? Or convincing a critical number of Americans to return blank ballots as a signal that they are living under a government that has made voting meaningless?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20168.htm



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

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq

"The Iraqi-U.S. agreement contains several items that impinge upon the sovereignty of Iraq, including the right of the U.S. forces in Iraq to attack any nation and raid any Iraqi house and arrest people without prior permission from the Iraqi government," Khalaf al-Alyan, a member of parliament from the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20165.htm

http://www.zeit.de/news/artikel/2008/06/24/2558428.xml?from=rss

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Regierung plant Chipkarte für Arbeitnehmer

„Elektronischer Einkommensnachweis: Die Arbeitsdaten der rund 40 Millionen Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland sollen bald per Chipkarte gespeichert werden. Der digitale Schlüssel soll die Beantragung etwa von Kinder- oder Elterngeld erleichtern - und so viel Papier und Geld sparen…“ Meldung beim Spiegel online vom 23.06.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,561562,00.html

Aus dem Text „… Pro Jahr wird mit einer Entlastung der Unternehmen um 25 Millionen Euro gerechnet, wie aus dem Juni-Monatsbericht "Schlaglichter der Wirtschaftspolitik" des Wirtschaftsministeriums hervorgeht. Jede weitere in das Verfahren einbezogene Bescheinigung wird demnach zu einer weiteren Entlastung von rund fünf Millionen Euro führen. Die Kosten für die Chipkarte nebst digitaler Signatur müssen die Arbeitnehmer tragen. Dem Bericht zufolge liegen sie bei zehn Euro für drei Jahre. Menschen mit geringem Einkommen bekommen den Betrag auf Antrag über die Bundesagentur für Arbeit erstattet….“ Siehe dazu:


Broschüre zu „Elena“ beim Hersteller „informationstechnische Servicestelle der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (ITSG)“ (pdf) http://www.itsg.de/upload/ELENA_Broschuere_2007_1111.pdf


Elektronischer Einkommensnachweis ELENA nimmt Formen an

Artikel von Detlef Borchers bei heise news vom 24.06.2008 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Elektronischer-Einkommensnachweis-ELENA-nimmt-Formen-an--/meldung/109927


Datenschützer kritisiert ELENA

„Thilo Weichert, der Leiter des unabhängigen Landeszentrums für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), hat das Verfahren zum elektronischen Einkommensnachweis (ELENA) scharf kritisiert. Dieses Verfahren soll heute vom Bundeskabinett beschlossen werden. Mit ELENA werde nicht der schönen griechischen Göttin gehuldigt, sondern eine hässliche, datenschutzwidrige Großdatenbank in die Welt gesetzt, heißt es in der Stellungnahme des Datenschützers…“ Artikel von Detlef Borchers in Heise news vom 25.06.2008 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Datenschuetzer-kritisiert-ELENA--/meldung/109961

Aus dem Text: „…Nach einem Bericht der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung laufen die Arbeitgeber gegen diese "Stechuhr für alle" Sturm, weil der Verwaltungsaufwand für die individuelle Zeitdatenspeicherung sehr hoch sein soll. In jedem Fall würde er die Unfallversicherungen nur wenig entlasten. Sollte das "Konjunkturprogramm für die Hersteller von Zeiterfassungssystemen" (FAZ) kommen, könnte die Gefahr bestehen, dass die solchermaßen anfallenden Arbeitszeitdaten auch für ELENA-Meldungen benutzt werden…“


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juni 2008



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