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Pierre de Gasquet and Virginie Robert interview Nouriel Roubini for Les Echos: the noted economist evaluates the administration's rescue plan and maintains, "... pooling the rotten assets in a sequestration structure is totally useless unless we reduce individuals' debts. Because if they can't pay, we'll have a foreclosure tsunami and banks will go under. And if they go under, the economy will go with them."

http://www.truthout.org/092508F



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Thursday, September 25, 2008, 09:00

A DELAY of just 24 hours has meant a controversial mobile phone mast has been allowed to stay up in Swansea's Townhill area.

Assembly planing inspector Clive Nield ruled that Swansea Council was one day late in telling telecommunications giant Vodafone that permission for the mast to be installed on land at the junction of Dyfed Avenue and Ceiriog Road had been refused.

The delay meant that Vodafone could ignore the council's ruling and put the mast up anyway, and now has successfully appealed against a further council order to take the mast down.

In his report, Mr Nield said: "There is no doubt the council failed to meet the requirement for notification of its decision within the prescribed 56-day period. Thus, the development in question is deemed to have been approved."

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http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Delay-row-sees-phone-mast-stay/article-354414-detail/article.html

Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times: "Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency could legally use harsh interrogation techniques while questioning an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah, according to newly released documents."

http://www.truthout.org/092508K

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Rice Written Statement Confirms Participation in Torture Meetings
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/25-4

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Abu Zubaydah and the futility of torture

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/30/09

Reinforcing claims made over the last few years — by FBI agents, by author Ron Suskind, and by myself — that the supposed senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was less significant than he was made out to be, the Washington Post ran a front-page story yesterday, in which, drawing on interviews with ‘former senior government officials who closely followed [his] interrogations,’ Peter Finn and Joby Warrick reminded the world that Zubaydah was not actually a senior al-Qaeda operative and had no information about the inner workings of al-Qaeda.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0903m.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The truth about Abu Zubaydah

The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture.

http://snipurl.com/eylgv


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Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "Colorado Democrats accused a Republican county clerk Wednesday of falsely informing Colorado College that students from outside the state could not register to vote if their parents claimed them as a dependent on their tax returns."

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Tenerife News - Tenerife, Spain

Mobile phone masts make people see red. It’s as simple as that. Whether it’s in Newcastle or New Zealand, local residents are always up in arms when an ...

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Salisbury Journal - Salisbury, England, UK

By Annie Riddle

PARENTS and residents were delighted this week when Vodafone was refused permission to put up a mobile phone mast close to a Salisbury ...

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Shropshire Star - Telford, England, UK

Angry campaigners today accused telecommunications giant Vodafone of betrayal after a controversial mobile phone mast was erected on a Telford playing field ...

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/09/25/claims-of-betrayal-as-mast-erected/

Kenilworth Today - Leamington Spa, England, UK

Almost three years to the day Vodafone was refused planning permission to site a 15m mast on Caesar Road in Kenilworth, the mobile phone company has resubmitted the application.

Much to the dismay of residents, the new application is identical and despite a bitter battle in November 2005 by residents who won their fight, Warwick District Council will have to consider the plans once again.

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Hearing zu Hartz IV: Die Täter sind immer noch an der Regierung

“Am 12. September veranstaltete Rüdiger Sagel, MdL der Partei DIE.LINKE im Düsseldorfer Landtag, ein öffentliches Hearing zur gegenwärtigen und künftigen Situation von Erwerbslosen. Da der Landtag keinen Raum zur Verfügung gestellt hatte, musste die Anhörung bei Regen und Kälte unter einer Rhein-Brücke stattfinden. Das Umfeld erinnerte an den Aufstand der „Commune de Paris" gegen die Obrigkeit im Jahre 1871, der ebenfalls unter Brücken – denen von Paris – begann. In Düsseldorf war von Aufstand weniger zu spüren, stattdessen kamen Fachleute und Erwerbslose zu Wort…“ Bericht von Hans-Dieter Hey in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer Nr. 164 vom 17.09.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12892


Hartz IV: Nur Erfolg bei Lohnsenkungen. Die kommende Krise wird tiefer

“Wer sich über die zweifelhaften Erfolge von Hartz IV unabhängig von Regierungsparteien und Jubelmedien informieren will, kommt um die Rede von Prof. Rainer Roth vom 12. September auf der öffentlichen Anhörung zu Hartz-IV in Düsseldorf nicht herum. Hartz IV ist nämlich die Voraussetzung, damit die nächste Krise schlimmer wird. – Die Redaktion.“ Dokumentation der Rede von Rainer Roth in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer Nr. 164 vom 17.09.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12895

Siehe dazu auch sozialpolitische Aktionen und Proteste 2008: Hartz IV Hearing im Düsseldorfer Landtag http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2008/index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2008



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Studie zu EU und NATO Sicherheitspolitik. Soziale Bewegungen gegen die „globale Sicherheitsarchitektur“!

Eine Kritik der Militarisierung sozialer Konflikte. Studie zu den Strategiepapieren der „Future Group“ (zur zukünftigen EU-Innenpolitik) und von Militär-Strategen (zur „strategischen Neuausrichtung“ der NATO); Vorschlag einer Kampagne gegen die EU. Artikel von Gipfelsoli vom 17.09.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/09/227225.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2008



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„Europa ist auf neoliberalem Kurs – und entdeckt gleichzeitig seine soziale Ader. Nach der Verabschiedung der Dienstleistungsrichtlinie als uneingeschränktes Bekenntnis zur Globalisierung wird nun ein großzügiges Hilfspaket für die Benachteiligten derselben nachgeschoben. Deutschland will allerdings von derlei Hilfspaketen nichts wissen…“ Artikel von Holger Elias in telepolis vom 21.09.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28746/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2008



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Alarmierendes Geheimabkommen zur Datenauslieferung an die USA veröffentlicht

„Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung hat heute die bislang geheime Übereinkunft zur Auslieferung von Informationen über Deutsche an die USA veröffentlicht..“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 25.09.2008, darin u.a. auch das Abkommen im Wortlaut: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/253/1/lang,de/


Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2008



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National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff

09/24/08

The vast accumulation of toxic mortgage debt that poisoned the global financial system was driven by the aggressive buying of subprime and Alt-A mortgages, and mortgage-backed securities, by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The poor choices of these two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) — and their sponsors in Washington — are largely to blame for our current mess, says the Wall Street Journal. How did we get here?

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Let them go bankrupt; save a trillion dollars

Heartland Institute
by Jim Johnston

09/24/08

Congress, the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve are hell-bent to bail out the housing and financial industries and then regulate them into rigor mortis. All this with no judicial review and a bill for taxpayers on the order of $700 billion to $1 trillion, not including higher inflation. It makes the funding for the Iraq war look like chump change. Is there an alternative? The answer in one word is yes...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bailouts: the wound that will keep on hemorrhaging

by Devvy Kidd

Clearly, we have made huge strides in educating our fellow Americans about fiat currency and sound monetary policy, but without real newspapers in this country, most Americans don't know the truth. It's also crystal clear that members of Congress, with few exceptions, are clue less. I think it's safe to say that many of those who do know, don't have the courage to go up against the most powerful money cartels in the world; the rest are simply crooks who profit from a corrupted monetary system. Over the decades, Congress has been perfectly willing to forfeit their authority, violate their oath of office and.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd396.htm

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In case you missed it:

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

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Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk

09/25/08

Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year – after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers – and now he hopes one day he’ll be able to walk without his stick...

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-six-years-in-guantanamo-941479.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Pakistani Journalist Says US Destroyed His Life

"I was tortured and jailed for 11 months and 20 days for doing nothing," he added. "They have destroyed my future, my soul. I'll fight until they apologize to me and give me back what I have lost," he said.

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25. September 2008

Zu den Äußerungen des stellvertretenden Generalbundesanwaltes Griesbaum, auch Aussagen unter Folter sollten in Einzelfällen für weitere Ermittlungen verwendet werden dürfen, erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Halina Wawzyniak:

Voraussetzung für die Befähigung zum Richteramt ist die Kenntnis des Grundgesetzes. Nach den jetzt bekannt gewordenen Äußerungen ist zweifelhaft, ob dies auch für stellvertretende Generalbundesanwälte gilt. Knapp 60 Jahre nach dem ersten Zusammentreten des Parlamentarischen Rates, welcher das Grundgesetz erarbeitet hat, stellt Rainer Griesbaum das wichtigste Essential des Grundgesetzes zur Disposition. Das die Würde des Menschen unantastbar ist, ist eine der wichtigsten Lehren aus der Zeit des Faschismus gewesen. Die Würde des Menschen verbietet es, den Menschen zum bloßen Objekt staatlichen Handelns zu machen. Nichts anderes schlägt aber Herr Griesbaum vor. Damit stellt er sich gegen das Grundgesetz. Eine glaubwürdige Strafverfolgung ist mit ihm nicht denkbar. Wer an den Grundfesten der Verfassung rüttelt, kann nicht Verfassungsfeinde verfolgen. Die Bundesjustizministerin steht in der Verantwortung ihrer Dienstaufsicht nachzukommen.

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The $700,000,000,000 Power Punch
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The Financial Crisis: How and Why Congress Should Play for Time
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/24-3



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Irak: Der beinahe vergessene Surrealimus verschwundener Milliardenbeträge; das Dahinschwinden und Versickern von amerikanischen Steuergeldern im Sumpf der Korruption und betrügerischer Geschäfte.

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Die US-Regierung muss ihren Schriftverkehr archivieren, aber angeblich sind ihr Emails in unbekannter Zahl verloren gegangen, während Vizepräsident Cheney lieber gar keine Dokumente herausgeben will.

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Press Associates, Inc.: "Massive deregulation and federal failure to oversee and discipline markets led to the financial chaos and collapses that have hit the U.S. economy, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said. In separate statements, he also put much of the blame for the mess on pro-business politicians in Washington, targeting the Republicans."

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Friday on Bill Moyers Journal: "As financial fallout dominates the news, Bill Moyers Journal explores how the shifting national priorities that may be threatening what America stands for. Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich. Bacevich identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life."

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Ron Paul Against the Bailout
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Plus ça Change You Can Believe In
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The Idiocy of Wall Street: Applauding Its Own Demise
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Controlled Demolition of the Petrodollar Imperium
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