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Thomas D. Williams, Truthout: "Barack Obama is now the fourth president facing the scientific and bureaucratic conundrum gyrating around mostly US created ongoing wartime hazards producing disastrous health complications for soldiers and civilians. Many of those sicknesses are known as the allegedly 'mysterious Gulf War syndrome,' but they carry over to haunt soldiers and civilians in Kuwait and Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/031909A



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The stench of human waste is enough to tell Falah abu Hasan that his drinking water is bad. His infant daughter Fatma's continuous illnesses and his own constant nausea confirm it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090318/wl_mcclatchy/3191674


From Information Clearing House

We Have Seen the Enemy...

By Timothy V. Gatto

When did political dissent become a reason to end up grounded at an airport because you found out at a most inconvenient time that your name had been mysteriously added to a "no-fly list"? When did the American government begin building FEMA camps and what exactly is their purpose? When did Congress become the rubber stamp for policies of reading the correspondence and listening in on the conversations of the American public?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22246.htm



Preparing for Civil Unrest in America

Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases

By Michel Chossudovsky

Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall Street, the administration's economic package, which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package for the financial services industry, coupled with massive austerity measures, contributes to precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22245.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts
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Restoring our Financial Sovereignty

A New Monetary System

By Nikki Alexander

Today the nation is essentially bankrupt and hoping Barack Obama's team of Wall Street advisors will forestall economic collapse. This expectation is equivalent to hoping that Al Capone will make our streets safe. Obama's economic recovery team is a Trojan horse filled with the same Wall Street racketeers that infected the global economy with a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, using deliberately deregulated mechanisms.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22247.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/19-12

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The "Card Check" Hullabaloo

By Mike Whitney

Big business has launched a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into believing that if the bill passes it will trigger higher unemployment and a deeper recession. According to opponents, there's even the threat of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice Act or so called "card check" simply makes it easier for unions to organize.

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- EDF Fondation "Recherche : Le cerveau centrale électrique"
"Le cerveau est une véritable centrale d'énergie électrique, chaque neurone jouant le rôle de générateur.
Tout dysfonctionnement du réseau électrique du cerveau provoque des maladies très invalidantes.
En France, 1,5 millions de personnes souffrent ainsi d'affection neurologique. Épilepsie, maladie d'Alzheimer, maladie de Parkinson, sclérose en plaques, sclérose latérale amyotrophique ou maladie de Charcot."

http://www.next-up.org/France/EDF.php#1

19 March 2009

By Ruth Scammell

Plans for a phone mast at a site where Nelson is rumoured to have met his lover for romantic trysts have been given the green light. Councillors yesterday allowed mobile phone giant O2 to put a mast up in the garden of Town Quay House in Gosport Road, Fareham.

Lady Hamilton is believed to have once lived at the house, and she is also said to have looked out across Fareham Creek for the mast of Nelson's ship when he returned.

But residents have raised concerns over the appearance of the 41ft mast, and the health risks from radiation waves.

Councillor Dennis Steadman said: 'I'm very disappointed. It's going to be so intrusive for people who live there.

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Nelson39s-meeting-spot-to-get.5088853.jp

“Im Gegensatz zu den Medien, die die Ursache für eine dramatische Zunahme von Hunger und Tod in Länder der "dritten Welt" in der Weltwirtschafts- und Finanzkrise entdecken, macht Vandana Shiva, Quantenphysikerin, Umweltschützerin, Feministin, Bürgerrechtlerin und Trägerin des Alternativen Nobelpreises und des „Blue Planet Award“ der deutschen Stiftung “ethecon“, die großen Internationalen Konzerne dafür verantwortlich. Die Globalisierungskritikerin ist in ihrer Heimat vor allem durch ihr Engagement für die Rechte der indischen Urbevölkerung bekannt geworden. Hier ein Vortrag, in dem sie auf einer Konferenz von “medico internatonal“ zum Kampf gegen die europäischen und US-Konzerne aufruft, die ihr Land regieren.“ Text des Vortrags von Vandana Shiva in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online-Flyer vom 25.02.2009 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=13486


Das Weltwasserforum in Istanbul: Allgemeine Appelle, konkrete Interessen

Artikel von Dieter Sauter, Istanbul, in der WoZ vom 19.3.09 http://www.woz.ch/artikel/inhalt/2009/nr12/International/17670.html

Siehe dazu auch:

die offizielle Seite zum Forum (englisch) http://www.worldwaterforum5.org/index.php?id=1870&L=0

Türkei will Gewässer privatisieren!

„Stoppt den Ausverkauf der Erde! Die Attac-Kampagne Suko/Türkeiwasser organisiert deutsch-türkischen Protest gegen den Verkauf von Flüssen und Seen in der Türkei - auch vor den Toren des Weltwasserforums, 16.-22. März in Istanbul!“ Die Kampagnenseite von und bei attac http://www.attac-netzwerk.de/wasser

Water makes money

„Helfen Sie mit, dass ein kritischer Film zu der täglich fortschreitenden Privatisierung unserer Lebensgrundlage WASSER entsteht!“ Internationaler Aufruf zur Unterstützung des Filmprojekts auf der Homepage zum Projekt (mit Trailer und weiteren Infos) http://www.watermakesmoney.com/

Aus dem Finanzierungsaufruf: „…Ein Film „von unten". Der Film „Water makes money " wird diese brisante aktuelle Entwicklung beleuchten. Er wird zeigen, was Paris und andere französische Gemeinden aus der Herrschaft von Veolia & Co gelernt haben und wie sie es schaffen, das Wasser in eigene Regie zurückzuholen. Beispiele aus Europa und Amerika ergänzen den Film zu einem Lehrstück für die ganze Welt! „Water makes money " wird Mut machen: Wasser in Bürgerhand ist möglich!...“


Krise sorgt bei Millionen Mietern für steigende Wohnkosten

„Der Deutsche Mieterbund befürchtet infolge der Wirtschaftskrise steigende monatliche Wohnkosten für Millionen von Mietern. In einem Interview mit der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ kritisierte Mieterbund-Präsident Franz-Georg Rips, ausländische Investoren, hauptsächlich aus dem angloamerikanischen Raum, die in Deutschland Wohnungen erworben hätten, schöpften „zunehmend sämtliche Mieterhöhungsspielräume aus, um die erwarteten Renditen zu erzielen“. Auch Instandhaltungen und Modernisierungen würden zurückgefahren, um Geld zu sparen...“ Artikel in der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“ vom 14.03.2009 http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/interviews/200903141.html


„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” - Studie zu Privatisierungsfolgen bei Wohnungen

„Wohnungsverkäufe in Bochum: Licht und Schatten” ist der Titel einer wissenschaftlichen Studie, die im Auftrag des Mietervereins erstellt wurde. Ausgangslage der Untersuchung ist, dass sich nach der großen Wohnungsnot der 90er Jahre das Geschehen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt deutlich verändert hat. Heute beherrschen Begriffe wie „Privatisierung“ und „Heuschrecken“ die Debatte. 1,5 Mio. ehemals öffentlicher oder werksverbundener Wohnungen sind seit der Jahrtausendwende an Finanzinvestoren verkauft worden, zum Teil an Firmen, die es vor zehn Jahren noch gar nicht gab. Doch anders als in vielen Nachbarstädten sind die großen Verkäufe an Bochum scheinbar vorbei gegangen - Eisenbahnerwohnungen, Gagfah, LEG hatten in Bochum kaum Bestände. Dennoch haben auch in Bochum im laufenden Jahrzehnt zahlreiche Siedlungen die BesitzerInnen gewechselt oder sind in Einzeleigentum „zerlegt“ worden. Die Auswirkungen dieses Prozesses untersucht die Studie. Sie ist beim Mieterverein als Broschüre und als PDF-Datei erhältlich (pdf) http://www.mieterverein-bochum.de/index.php?id=26&type=1&jumpurl=fileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fpdf%2Fverwertungsketten-endversion.pdf



Aus: LabourNet, 19. März 2009



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This is the Army, Mrs. Jones!

Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod

03/16/09

The biting winds of change are blowing through ObamaNation. The same ‘volunteerism’ that kept America running since the days of its founding, wiped out with the stroke of a pen, will no longer be volunteerism. It becomes forced labor and like the practice of another era, presses American citizens of all ages and creeds, unknowingly into military service. On paper, H.R. 1388 is the ‘Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act;’ the more innocuous sounding ‘The Give Act,’ for short. But ‘The Give Act’ is not part of Obama’s distant future for unsuspecting American citizens, because it hits the House floor tomorrow. … ‘The Give Act’ puts tow-headed school children and silver-haired seniors in the official uniform of the new State, and encompasses every walk of life in main-street America...

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9374


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

Legislation intensifies fears about Obama's civilian national security force

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 19, 2009

The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill.html



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MSNBC

03/18/09

Top aides to President Barack Obama are recommending that the United States combine a boost in military deployments with a steep increase in civilian experts to combat a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. Several hundred civilians from various U.S. government agencies — from agronomists to economists and legal experts — will be deployed to Afghanistan to reinforce the nonmilitary component in Kabul and the existing provincial reconstruction teams in the countryside, officials said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29763867/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Der "Krieg" gegen die Krise lässt den Krieg gegen den Terrorismus in den Hintergrund treten.

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Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?"

http://www.truthout.org/031809R



Recession-Weary Americans Outraged by AIG Bonuses

Andrea Hopkins, Reuters: "While US President Barack Obama tries to claw back bonuses paid to AIG employees, Americans facing pay cuts and job losses are outraged that some refuse to share the pain of the recession."

http://www.truthout.org/031809LA

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Perp walks, not bonuses

The Nation
by Robert Scheer

03/18/09

There must be a criminal investigation of the AIG debacle, and it looks as if New York’s top lawman is on the case. The collusion to save this toxic company in order to salvage the rogue financiers who conspired to enrich themselves by impoverishing millions is being revealed as the greatest financial scandal in US history. Instead of taking bonuses, the culprits should be taking perp walks. I’m not just referring to the swindlers in the Financial Products Subsidiary of AIG who devised and sold those insurance policies on derivatives that brought the world economy to its knees. They do seem deserving of a special place in h..., and presumably the same divine power that according to Scripture labeled usury a high moral crime and threw the money-changers out of the temple will consider that outcome...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/scheer



Government could’ve easily prevented AIG bonuses

Fox News Forum

by Ken Klukowski

03/18/09

The debacle over the AIG bonuses proves that opponents of the bailouts were on to something. There are at least three ways the federal government could have avoided this debacle, and now taxpayers are stuck with the bill. Insurance giant AIG is paying $165 million in performance bonuses (a stunning thought, given the circumstances). AIG says that these are legally binding contracts, so it has no choice but to pay them. Since AIG is living off government money right now, these bonuses are really being paid directly by American taxpayers. The reaction from our leaders in D.C. has been to howl in protest, and then suggest this could not have been prevented. Wrong. First, if AIG had been forced into bankruptcy, this latest outrage would not have happened...

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/18/klukowski_government_aig/



The real AIG conspiracy

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/18/09

Regarding qui bono, what does Sen. Schumer, Rep. Frank, Pres. Obama and other Wall Street sponsors gain from this public outcry? For starters, it depicts them as hard taskmasters of the banking and financial sector, not its lobbyists scurrying to execute one giveaway after another. So the AIG kerfuffle has muddied the water about where their political loyalties really lie. It enables them to strike a misleading pose — and hence to pose as ‘honest brokers’ next time they dishonestly give away the next few trillion dollars to their major sponsors and campaign contributors...

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03182009.html



AIG: Sinking money in a hole

Economics Junkie
by Nima

03/17/09

It’s time for our dear politicians to act surprised again. It’s time for Congress again to complain about the results of false policies that they themselves recklessly approved, against all warnings. It’s time again for Ben Bernanke to fire off mindless blather, platitudes and predictions that will, as always and without exception, turn out to be abysmally false. The AP has a shocking surprise for us, Taxpayers unlikely to be fully repaid in AIG mess …. Of course the taxpayer won’t get any of this money back. Is there a living creature with more than one brain cell that seriously expected the taxpayer would ever see this money come back?

http://www.economicsjunkie.com/aig-sinking-money-in-a-hole/



How the scam works

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

03/29/09

Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Treasury Secretary Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Bank stocks are soaring — thereby bidding up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as if the ‘financial industry’ really were part of the industrial economy. Why are the very worst offenders — Bank of America (now owner of the Countrywide crooks) and Citibank the largest buyers? As the worst abusers and packagers of CDOs, shouldn’t they be in the best position to see how worthless their junk mortgages are?

http://counterpunch.org/hudson03272009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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According to recently released legal memos from the Bush-Cheney administration, the former vice president believes that the federal government can ignore the First Amendment and suppress free speech and freedom of the press as part of its "war on terror."

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THREE Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush today when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

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The eye-popping national debt surpassed $11 trillion Monday, the largest in U.S. history.
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President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban leaders are orchestrating attacks into southern Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html?_r=1&hp



US spills Afghan war into Pakistan

From available indications, the key American objective is two-fold: optimally getting Pakistani help in the fight against terrorism and, secondly, reducing American expectations for military victory.

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Obama and the Democrats Deny an Age-Old Economic Lesson
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Congress Shrugged
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The FOMC's Plan to Buy $1.1+ Trillion of T-bonds, Mortgage Debt, and 'Other Financial Assets'
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