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SPD-Vize Andrea Nahles hat die Forderung ihrer Partei nach einem flächendeckenden Mindestlohn erneuert. Es gehe "nicht nur um Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, sondern auch die Qualität von Arbeit", sagte Nahles am Mittwoch (2. Juli) in Saarbrücken. Menschen, die arbeiten, müssten von ihrer Arbeit leben können. Ihren Angaben zufolge verdienen 4,6 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland weniger als 7,50 Euro in der Stunde. Daher seien flächendeckende Mindestlöhne zwingend erforderlich.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18286



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A Devil's Bargain

For Truthout, Carolyn Eisenberg writes: "With the president's signature now affixed to the bill, the clever deal is done. In exchange for another 'blank check' for a year of war, the Democrats have wrested from their Republican colleagues and the White House a host of domestic benefits ... Depending on their source of news, few Americans may be aware that Congress has now allocated another $162 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until next summer. In many media outlets, the only coverage pertained to the new educational benefits for soldiers. But even when the war funding received nominal attention, one would be hard-pressed to find in the mainstream media, or for that matter in the halls of Congress, any critical discussion of this political deal."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-devils-bargain



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„Wir sollen nicht ständig mit dem Handy herumlaufen“
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Printed in New York Times 7/3/08
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0703-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/03/10066/

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Rove's Third Term

In The New York Times, Paul Krugman says, "The latest fake scandal fit the usual pattern as an awkwardly phrased remark, lifted out of context and willfully misinterpreted, exploded across the airwaves. What General Clark actually said was that Mr. McCain's war service, though heroic, didn't necessarily constitute a qualification for the presidency. It was a blunt but truthful remark, and not at all outrageous - especially given the fact that General Clark is himself a bona fide war hero."

http://www.truthout.org/article/roves-third-term



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James Glanz and Richard A. Oppel Jr., of The New York Times: "Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a Congressional committee has concluded. The conclusions were based on e-mail messages and other documents that the committee released Wednesday."

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Der Sommer ist da und viele Menschen planen ihren Sommerurlaub. Vielleicht haben Sie ja ein paar freie Tage, an denen Sie uns helfen können.

Bis Mitte Juli haben wir noch Zeit, für unsere laufenden Kampagnen in Thüringen und Berlin Unterschriften zu sammeln. Wir haben schon viel geschafft, aber wir müssen bis zum Schlusspfiff alles geben. Bitte helfen Sie uns mit einem Aktionsurlaub, denn Demokratie lebt vom Mitmachen.

Die Ansprechpartner und Infos zu unseren beiden Kampagnen finden Sie unten.

Es grüßt Sie freundlich
Ronald Pabst

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Volksbegehren Thüringen

Bislang sind schon über 135.000 Unterschriften für unser Volksbegehren in Thüringen beisammen. Bis zum 19. Juli haben wir noch Zeit, um die restlichen 65.000 zu sammeln. Unser Ziel ist es, die Hürden für Bürgerbegehren und -entscheide in den Städten und Gemeinden zu senken.

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Volksbegehren Berlin

Seit Anfang April sammeln wir Unterschriften für ein besseres Wahlrecht. Wir wollen, dass der Bürger mehr Einfluss darauf bekommt, welche Politiker ihn im Parlament vertreten. Wir wollen das System der sicheren Listenplätze und der sicheren Wahlkreise aufbrechen. 20.000 Unterschriften müssen bis Mitte Juli zusammenkommen.

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Christian Science Monitor
by Gary Watts

07/03/08

Is freedom a virtue or a vice? That question goes to the heart of some of the past century’s most violent conflicts. And it seems to be driving much of the criticism against the US today. But as it’s described in the quintessential work on freedom — the US Declaration of Independence — liberty is worthy of all the world’s admiration. Essentially, the signers declared: We believe that it is true beyond any doubt that every human enters the world with the right to live and with the freedom to pursue happiness. But since it’s a jungle out there, few people are actually able to enjoy these freedoms. The sole purpose of the people-elected government is to protect these basic rights. Detractors argue that this government-protected liberty licenses a lust for the kind of greed responsible for much of the world’s misery. To satisfy this lust, they say, Americans, or their proxies, kill, steal, and destroy other cultures — and then justify this behavior on the basis of ‘freedom’...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0703/p09s02-coop.html



Tyranny of the Pinheads

Last Free Voice
by Steve Kubby

07/02/08

These days, Americans find their government increasingly concerned with limiting not just their freedom, but their very thoughts. A new cult of punishment and authoritarianism has turned society upside down with mindless pinheads on top and society’s brightest and most intellectually gifted, on the bottom, under virtual house arrest. Everywhere we look, we see swarms of retarded Pinheads micro-managing our lives to the lowest and most banal level, unfettered by ambiguous notions like due process or constitutional rights. Self-righteous Pinheads are constantly telling us how we should live, what we should think, and how important their parasitic, non-productive, bureaucratic activities are to our well-being. At every level of government, pompous Pinheads wallow at the public trough, ever more arrogant, resentful and ignorant of the people they pretend to serve...

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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, writes: "Across the country and on the Republican National Committee web site, a handful of GOP officeholders and party officers are trying to discredit recent voter registration drives and record-setting turnout by Democrats in 2008 primaries, saying efforts seen as benefiting Democrats are rife with 'voter fraud.'"

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Let's help the whales. Please click on the link below; it only takes a couple of minutes.

Earle

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IWC 60 Outcomes: Threats to Whales Mount, Whaling Nations Dig In
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/breaking_news/2008_iwc_wrap-up.html



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Informant: Lew Rockwell

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The Darkness of This House Has Got the Best of Us
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/03/10071/

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Bush's Legacy and the Damage Done
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/df3b76efde409a50?hl=en

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Wm. Scott Harrop and R.K. Ramazani: "A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind"

For Truthout, Wm. Scott Harrop and R.K. Ramazani write: "Irony abounds in President George W. Bush's decision to speak at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, on the last July 4th that he will occupy the Oval Office. For it was Jefferson who wrote in America's Declaration of Independence that 'a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires' the colonies to set forth the reasons for their rebellion before a 'candid world.' America's founders agreed - international legitimacy mattered. Two hundred and thirty-two years later, the conscious disregard for the 'opinions of mankind' has come to define the Bush presidency."

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-decent-respect-opinions-mankind

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THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER
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Protesters Interrupt Bush at Independence Day Ceremony

"That man is a fascist!" one protester yelled. Another swore at him.
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Rep. Ron Paul Assails Congress's

"Virtual Iran War Resolution"

By Congressman Ron Paul

This is unbelievable! This is closing down Iran. Where do we have this authority? Where do we get the moral authority? Where do we get the international legality for this? Where do we get the Constitutional authority for this? This is what we did for ten years before we went into Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20226.htm



Virtual Iran War Resolution

Full Text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 22, 2008

Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20227.htm



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A disorderly decline in the dollar remains a possibility as losses on U.S. assets pile up and the current-account deficit triggers "a sudden rush for the exits,'' the Bank for International Settlements said.

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Mortgage ruling could shock U.S. banking industry

A lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin couple against their mortgage lender could have major implications for banks should a U.S. appeals court agree that borrowers can cancel their loans en masse when their lenders violate a federal lending disclosure law.

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What Time Is It?

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Industrial Civilization Is Coming To An End
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Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Wednesday warned against the possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, saying that it would plunge the already volatile area into deeper chaos and added that it would be very stressful on the United States.

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U.S. Covert Operations In Iran

Terry Gross Interviews Seymour Hersh: Audio: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh believes that the United States may be closer to armed conflict with Iran than previously imagined.

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CIA 'ignored Iran nuclear evidence'

A former CIA agent has alleged that the US intelligence agency ignored evidence Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb, a US newspaper has said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/20087122240417154.html


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Chairman of Joint Chiefs warns against Iran attack as Israeli calls strike 'good for US'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7667/


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Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the US-backed Iraqi Army, according to current and former US officials.

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Rapporteur condemns rights abuses at home, too

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS: After a two-week fact-finding tour of US prison and detention facilities, a UN human rights investigator has blasted the administration of President George W. Bush for a rash of shortcomings in the country's flawed justice system and continued violations of the rule of law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20222.htm



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Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter'

By Robert Parry (A Special Report)

As historians ponder George W. Bush's disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20216.htm



Hey Y'all Watch This!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20217.htm



How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

Video

Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm



Deception

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

A re-born Christian, the world's most powerful president believes: "Behind all of life and all of history, there's a dedication and a purpose, set by the hand of a just and faithful God." His tyranny disguised, he continues his barbaric assault on humanity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20219.htm



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