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Die normale, billige und umweltfreundliche Glühlampe war in Neuseeland verboten worden, aber am Mittwoch, 17.12.2008 teilte die neuseeländische Regierung das Ende des Verbotes mit.

http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org/Lampen.505.0.html#6919


Peter Schlegel, Dipl. Ing. ETH/SIA
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Neuseeland hebt das Glühlampenverbot wieder auf


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- EHS USA : Mary Jodi Rell, gouverneur de l'État du Connecticut:
- "Le mois de la prise de conscience de l'Électro Hyper Sensibilité (EHS)"
.."... ATTENDU QUE, les symptômes de l'EHS incluent des changements dermatologiques, des engourdissements aigus et des picotements, des dermatites, des rougeurs, des maux de tête, des arythmies,
des faiblesses musculaires, des acouphènes, des malaises (vertiges), des problèmes gastriques, des nausées, des perturbations visuelles, des problèmes sévères neurologiques, respiratoires, des problèmes d'élocution et de nombreux autres symptômes physiologiques".

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/EHS.php#1

LES LEOPOLD

alternet.org — We're at the moment Wall Street has been waiting for: The time where we begin to forget who brought the economy down.

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JOHN DUNBAR AND DAVID DONALD

The Bad Guys of Subprime Lending Are Raking in Bailout Billions

alternet.org — The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or bankrolled by banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges.

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ADRIANNE APPEL

Banks in Recovery as Home Foreclosures Hit Record

ipsnews.net — The banks are selling stock and debt, and racking up excellent returns on mortgages, loans, high credit card rates and refinancings. Meanwhile, home foreclosures in April were 342,000 — the highest level yet — and average national unemployment rose to 8.9 percent, the highest level since 1983. Some communities are just barely hanging on.

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ART LEVINE

Corporations Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics

huffingtonpost.com — A definitive new look at the scope of employer ant-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.

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JOHN KAY

Bail-out Kings and Backbench Barons Beware

ft.com — We need to reassert the notion that roles of authority are positions of responsibility rather than declarations of personal merit and routes to personal enrichment. That notion goes with old-fashioned concepts of social obligation and public service. An insistence that power is a duty, not a prize, is probably the most important reason why some countries in the world are rich and others poor. The point needs to be brought home in equal measure to legislators, chief executives and bankers.

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AlterNet
by Marie Cocco

05/19/09

The partisan firefight over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary allegation that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ — torture — is a blessing. It turns the compelling case for a public inquiry into the Bush administration’s policies toward terrorism detainees into an urgent necessity. Americans must finally own up to what was done, at whose order, with whose acquiescence, and why. The United States government must at last hold accountable the architects of this calamity — not only the underlings like Lynndie England and Charles Graner and Janet Karpinski, those frontline military personnel who paid the price for bit roles in the scandal after the first stomach-turning photos of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison came to light...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/140108/time_for_a_truth_commission/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

05/19/09

Dick Cheney’s ‘Shut Up and Listen’ tour continued last week on CBS’s Face the Nation. There, the former veep reiterated his favorite theme: Obama is putting America at risk by ‘taking down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe.’ What in the world is Cheney talking about? Granted, Obama’s anti-terror policies are clouded by rhetorical ‘Hope’ and euphemism, and the new administration is less given to chest-thumping than its predecessor. Otherwise, Obama’s approach to terrorism is virtually identical to Bush/Cheney’s...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10217


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cheney's Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/22



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CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

05/20/09

As the Obama administration prepares to relaunch Dick Cheney and David Addington’s reviled Military Commissions (with claims that they will be used for less than 20 of the 241 prisoners still held), senior officials have been largely silent about the eventual fate of the rest of the prisoners, with the exception of a few recent remarks indicating that they are also thinking of pressing for a form of “preventive detention” for 50 to 100 of the prisoners.The irony — that all the prisoners have been enduring a form of “preventive detention” for over seven years — is apparently lost on the government, which has also maintained a resolute silence in response to a handful of habeas corpus cases (in which the prisoners are seeking to have their cases dismissed by the courts, as mandated by the Supreme Court last June) that have resulted in judges pouring scorn on the government’s supposed evidence...

http://counterpunch.org/worthington05192009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jane Arraf, The Christian Science Monitor: "On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits. Except that Iraqi and American military officials have decided it's not. As the June 30 deadline for US soldiers to be out of Iraqi cities approaches, there are no plans to relocate the roughly 3,000 American troops who help maintain security in south Baghdad along what were the fault lines in the sectarian war."

http://www.truthout.org/051909C?n



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "US Army soldiers in Afghanistan took dozens of pictures of their colleagues pointing assault rifles and pistols at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees and another photograph showed two male soldiers and one female soldier pointing a broom to one detainee 'as if I was sticking the end of a broom stick into [his] rectum,' according to the female soldier's account as told to an Army criminal investigator."

http://www.truthout.org/051909A?n



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Charlottetown, The Guardian - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

“Federal guidelines for allowable human exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell towers are hopelessly outdated,” said Peter Bevan-Baker, ...

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Every Household on the Hook for $109,887
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Housing construction, permits hit record lows

The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments fell 12.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units -- the lowest pace on records going back a half-century.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-construction-drops-apf-15288681.html?.v=6



Present Economy worse than Depression

Video

Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw


From Information Clearing House



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The Illinois Senate has jumped into the deep water of foreign policy by passing a resolution that criticizes President Barack Obama's plan to step up military efforts in Afghanistan.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/may/12/news/chi-ap-il-xgr-illinois-afgh


From Information Clearing House



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Terming drone attacks as a serious blow to Pakistan's sovergnity, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday made it clear that US must review its policy.

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By Glen Ford

Saving the finance capital oligarchy has emerged as President Obama's central mission - the guiding focus of his young administration. Obama has found new and myriad ways to go where no American president has ever gone before, in funneling somewhere around $13 trillion of national treasure to the parasitical class that goes by the shorthand, Wall Street.

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By Cindy Sheehan

To those of you who don't support me, sorry to tell you, I am not, or never will give up. If I survived burying my oldest son for lies, I can survive any crap you or the Robber Class throws at me. The system seriously underestimates the love and commitment of a mother wronged. There are two illegal occupations raging, still, and more than enough work to do to wrest our country out of the hands of militarists/corporatists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22656.htm



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By Jeff Sparrow
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By Robert Dreyfuss

Everyone knows 17,000 more troops can't win the war in Afghanistan. So what's the exit strategy?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22662.htm



Terrorism Breeds Terrorism

By Paul Balles
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22653.htm



Anti-American?

Ads You Won't See In The US Or Online

By Nicholas Carlson

History is written by the winners.
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A Call to Disarm

By William A. Cohn

In our fervor to fight, we are facilitating the most likely scenario for nuclear devastation.
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Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "'Shock Doctrine' author Naomi Klein and Al Jazeera host Avi Lewis discuss the workers who are taking over their factories and plants rather than lose their jobs, some to owners who owe money to bailed-out banks. They also address the latest news in the nation's global economic collapse amidst the White House and Democratic-led Congress's rejection of single-payer health care."

http://www.truthout.org/051909LA?n



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Robert Draper, GQ: "Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics - his administration peers - are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't pretty."

http://www.truthout.org/051909R?n



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Media Matters for America
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Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-7

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Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law - a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun? Security reasons were, of course, alleged, but they remain hard to take seriously."

http://www.truthout.org/051909B?n



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