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Reporting for The Independent UK, Robert Verkaik writes: "The Government faces accusations that it has been duped by the US military after Foreign Office officials claimed that a UK resident held for four years in Guantanamo Bay without contact with other prisoners was not being kept in solitary confinement."

http://www.truthout.org/article/uk-officials-duped-us-over-guantanamo-torture-claim



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Carol D. Leonnig reports for The Washington Post: "A congressional leader pledged this morning to introduce legislation that would block an eleventh-hour effort by the Labor Department to make it more difficult to limit workers' exposure to chemicals on the job."

http://www.truthout.org/article/lawmaker-vows-prevent-bush-attack-worker-safety-laws



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Matt Renner reports for Truthout: "A scathing report accusing government auditors of corruption, issued by the government's top investigative body, prompted a freshman senator to call for firings 'by nightfall' on Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccaskill-takes-on-military-industrial-complex



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10587/

We're a Nation of Lemmings
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10605/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10607/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10590/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10593/

Greenpeace Activists Arrested Protesting Oil Sands in Northern Alberta
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10589/



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In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sabrina Eaton writes: "Impeachment backers including anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan and Republican constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein held a press conference this afternoon in anticipation of tomorrow's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the 'imperial presidency' of George W. Bush and possible legal responses to it. While Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers of Michigan is not billing the hearing as an effort to impeach Bush, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich will attend to make his impeachment case before the committee."

http://www.truthout.org/article/impeachment-backers-gear-up-congressional-hearing

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Impeachment Hearings Are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10614/

The Parade of 'Shrill, Unserious Extremists' on Display at Today's Impeachment Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/25/10608/

ACLU Hails Hearing on "Imperial Presidency"
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0725-01.htm

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Impeachment on the Table?
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0725-05.htm

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An Analysis of Kucinich's Impeachment Case Against Bush
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/an-analysis-of-kucinichs_b_106652.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Kucinich gets his day ANP: Hearing on allegations of Bush administration misconduct and cause for 'impeachment'.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1967



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For The Associated Press, Anna Jo Bratton reports: "Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge. Hagel didn't name names but aimed his remarks at Republican John McCain. McCain, while Obama traveled the Middle East, has attacked Obama for opposing the military escalation last year that increased security in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/article/hagel-chides-mccain-iraq

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Former Iraqi PM Says Surge Not So Great

Allawi describes security gains from the U.S military surge as fragile and possibly not sustainable. Calls fo "a time frame for reduction of U.S. forces".

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-24-voa1.cfm


From Information Clearing House



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Spencer Ackerman reports for The Washington Independent: "One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration's apparatus of torture became public today. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the Justice Dept.'s Office of Legal Counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency instructed the agency's interrogators on specific interrogation techniques for use on Al Qaeda detainees in its custody. Most of the 17-page memo is blacked out and unreadable. But at least one of those techniques is waterboarding, the process of pouring water into the mouth and nostrils of a detainee under restraint until drowning occurs."

http://www.truthout.org/article/new-torture-memo-shields-interrogators



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The Western Regional Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Westel and Celtel Mobile Communication Companies to stop work on the erection of their mast at Housing, Mangoase Residential area in Takoradi and secure permit before they go ahead with the project. The EPA has also directed Tigo, Ghana Telecom and MTN which already have their masts in operation in the area to stop operations and follow the same procedure for securing permit from the Agency.

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Der Albtraum Sicherheit. Europäische Sicherheitsforschung als Subventionsprogramm für die Rüstungsindustrie

"Die Entscheidung, ein EU-Programm zur Sicherheitsforschung (ESRP) einzurichten, wurde von der Europäischen Kommission 2003 informell gefällt. Es gab keinen offiziellen Vorschlag für einen Rechtsakt, wie es sonst bei der Schaffung von Budgets üblich ist, und somit unterblieb auch jede Beratung mit dem Europäischen und den nationalen Parlamenten in dieser Angelegenheit… Die Europäische Kommission beschloss, eine "Group of Personalities einzuberufen, welche die Entwicklung der europäischen Sicherheitsforschung begleiten sollte" So beschrieb Ben Hayes die Entstehung der Europäischen Sicherheitsforschung in seiner Studie Arming Big Brother. In dieser wird deutlich, wie sich die Rüstungskonzerne intensiv bemühten, die Sicherheitsagenda der EU zu beeinflussen und eine Förderung durch die EU zu forcieren, um für eine "nachhaltige und konkurrenzfähige technologische und industrielle Basis" der europäischen Rüstung Sorge zu tragen…“ Artikel von Christoph Marischka in telepolis vom 25.07.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28390/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juli 2008



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Published Date: 25 July 2008
By Staff Copy
By Vicky Carr

A CONTROVERSIAL phone mast in Bardsey will be taken down to make way for development.

Orange Personal Communications Services has been served a notice to remove its Scarsdale Ridge mast by the field’s owner, who plans to develop the land.

But Orange recently erected a new mast close to its existing one on the site although this has now been demolished.

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http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/wetherby/Landowner39s-bid-to-remove-phone.4323099.jp

Salon
by Tim Shorrock

07/23/08

The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into White House malfeasance that would be modeled after the famous Church Committee congressional investigation of the 1970s. While reporting on domestic surveillance under Bush, Salon obtained a detailed memo proposing such an inquiry, and spoke with several sources involved in recent discussions around it on Capitol Hill...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Während die USA das Raketenabwehrsystem an Russland heranrückt, droht Russland mit Gegenmaßnahmen, angeblich nun auch ausgerechnet mit der Stationierung von Langstreckenbombern in Kuba.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28399/1.html



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Ed Neubaum for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "After moving to Georgia from Florida, we attempted to obtain a Georgia ID. Based on the then-published requirements on the Department of Motor Vehicles Web site, we gathered proof of her new address (bank statement), birth certificate and valid Florida driver's license. At the DMV, we were told that as of May, the secretary of state required her marriage certificate because the name on her birth certificate did not match her driver's license. They would accept a passport with her married name, something she has never applied for."

http://www.truthout.org/article/photo-id-hassle-puts-one-moms-vote-ice



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Naomi R. Patton for The Detroit Free Press reports on "thousands of homeless young women in their late teens and early 20s nationwide who - never a part of the foster care system - find themselves on the streets without dedicated resources to help them."

http://www.truthout.org/article/homeless-shelters-young-women



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The Associated Press: "The Bush administration's push Tuesday to speed up development of oil shale in the Rocky Mountains runs headlong into Colorado and Wyoming leaders, who say the environmental costs are too high and the technology unproven."

http://www.truthout.org/article/colorado-wyoming-battle-bush-over-oil-shale



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Informant: Lew Rockwell



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Airbases in Latin American countries ensure the 'permanent presence' of Russia's strategic bombers near the US borders, says a Russian general.

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From Information Clearing House

The announcement was a setback for both the Bush administration and the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which hailed a preliminary election law passed earlier this year as evidence of political progress.

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From Information Clearing House



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It is distressing to see Obama succumb to the blitz of war propaganda over Afghanistan and adopt George W. Bush's faux terminology of terrorism. Before Obama urges widening America's war there, he should consider...

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The Real Power Behind the Throne-to-Be

As the United States election race enters the final stretch, Barack Obama as the candidate promising change is revealing his true colors, much to the despair of anyone actually expecting any change.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/the-real-power-behind-the-throne-to-be/


From Information Clearing House

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Obama, the Prince of Bait-and-Switch
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger66.html



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By Stephen Soldz, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo, Bryant Welch

Coalition for an Ethical Psychology

One prisoner was repeatedly locked in a fetal position; in a cage too tiny for him to do anything, other than to lie still in a fetal position. The cage was evidently designed not only to restrict movement, but also to make breathing difficult.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20354.htm



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Video - By Ron Paul

Ron Paul talks about the bailout out of the housing industry and how it really just destroys the dollar and adds enormously to the debt. Also, slipped into the bill, was the stipulation that ALL credit card transactions must now be reported to the IRS.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20356.htm

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Attack of the Global Bankers

By James S. Henry

In the last thirty years, fueled by the globalization of financial services, lousy lending, capital flight and mind-boggling corruption, a relatively small number of major banks, law firms, accounting firms, asset managers, insurance companies and hedge funds have come to launder and conceal at least $10 trillion to $15 trillion of private untaxed anonymous cross-border wealth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20348.htm

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Evidence of the US Banking System Teetering on the Brink of Collapse

The entire US banking system is insolvent.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5594.html



Ford Posts Loss of $8.7 Billion on Asset Woes

The Ford Motor Company, stunned by abysmal sales of its most profitable vehicles and a sudden shift in consumers' tastes, said Thursday that it lost $8.7 billion in the quarter, its worst ever, and would overhaul its North American plants to focus on small cars.

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From Information Clearing House

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The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w36.html



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By Mike Whitney

Last Wednesday, at an improvised press conference, George Bush gave what may have been the most comical performance of his eight year presidency. Looking like the skipper on the flight-deck of the Hindenburg, Bush tried his best to reassure the public that "all's well" with the economy and that everyone's deposits were perfectly safe in the rapidly disintegrating US banking system.

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The Mother of All Messes

By Paul Craig Roberts

The neoconned Republican Party is the greatest threat America has ever faced. Let me tell you why.

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By Daniel M Pourkesali

Sanctions are nothing short economic warfare that infringe on the most basic human rights and the very rule of universally accepted laws and must be abandoned as the last sanctuary of futility in foreign policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20355.htm



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By Ed Ciaccio

Conyers, Pelosi, and all members of Congress who oppose the impeachment of George W. Bush are betraying the oath they all swore when they took office and should be condemned for this betrayal. Following are the reasons why the impeachment of George W. Bush is necessary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20350.htm



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