World-News

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1892414,00.html


Informant: binstock

Stephen Rohde writes: "The Military Commission Act is breathtaking in its denial of fundamental rights under the Constitution and international law. The law re-establishes virtually intact President Bush's military tribunals, which were rejected by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106P.shtml

California Representative Richard Pombo has insisted he was never lobbied by Jack Abramoff. Records show the disgraced lobbyist billed a client for at least two contacts with Pombo a decade ago.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pombo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff

Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail write that the US military is deliberately turning a blind eye to sectarian killings committed by government security forces in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106K.shtml

Jimmy Carter writes, "What must be avoided is to leave a beleaguered nuclear nation convinced that it is permanently excluded from the international community, its existence threatened, its people suffering horrible deprivation and its hard-liners in total control of military and political policy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106J.shtml

11.10.06

Mit Empörung reagierte der rentenpolitische Sprecher der Linksfraktion, Volker Schneider, auf Forderungen aus der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, die Rentenansprüche für Hartz IV-Bezieher ganz zu streichen und Rentenansprüche für Menschen, die aus dem Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) I in das ALG II abrutschen, zu kürzen. "Das Papier der Union ist nichts anderes als Rentenklau durch die Hintertüre", meint Schneider. Trotz jahrelanger Beitragszahlungen sollten für Personen, die aus dem ALG I kämen und nach einem Jahr auf ALG II angewiesen seien, die Rentenleistungen gekürzt werden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14506

Hier kannt man schnell wechseln: http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/

Einen Weihnachtsgruß „Grüner Baum – grüner Strom“ zum Weiterverbreiten: http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/_files/asm-weihnachten.pps

Song „Weihnachten ohne Atom“
http://www.atomausstieg-selber-machen.de/_files/weihnachten-ohne-atom.mp3

Der Mord an der regimekritischen Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja wird bald kein Thema der offiziellen Politik mehr sein.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23732/1.html

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Ermordete Journalistin: Siemens-Chef Kleinfeld empfängt Putin - Bayerns Grüne nicht (11.10.06)

Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin traf sich am Mittwoch bei seinem Besuch in München mit dem bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Edmund Stoiber (CSU) sowie mit Spitzenvertretern der Wirtschaft wie Audi-Vorstandschef Martin Winterkorn und Siemens-Chef Klaus Kleinfeld. An dem Gespräch nahmen auch Bundeswirtschaftsminister Michael Glos (CSU) und sein russischer Amtskollege German Gref teil. Der Besuch Putins wird überschattet von dem Mord an der regierungskritischen Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja. Die Spitze der bayerischen Grünen-Fraktion hatte daher ihre Teilnahme am Staatsempfang für Putin abgesagt. Stattdessen nahmen die Fraktionsvorsitzenden Margarete Bause und Sepp Dürr "aus Protest gegen die besorgniserregende Situation der Menschenrechte in Russland" an einer Mahnwache für die ermordete Journalistin teil.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14508



Mord an Anna Politkowskaja: schwerer Schlag für die Pressefreiheit

Petition für unabhängige Untersuchung

Am 7. Oktober wurde die Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja, das "Gewissen Russlands", in Moskau ermordet. Reporter ohne Grenzen sammelt bis zum 30. Oktober Unterschriften für eine unabhängige Untersuchung des Mordes. Siehe dazu die Sonderseite von Reporter ohne Grenzen http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/kampagne-politkowskaja.html#431


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Oktober 2006



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Politkowskaja

Eine neue Studie kommt aufgrund ihrer Berechnungen zu weitaus höheren Opferzahlen, als bislang angenommen wurde.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23733/1.html

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650.000 Tote im Irakkrieg
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24393

Missy Comley Beattie writes: "Surely, it is time for all members of the clergy to call for peace. Surely, it is time for each of us to demand it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106H.shtml

Gene C. Gerard writes: "The First Amendment to the US Constitution stipulates that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' By funding the Northwest Marriage Institute, and other faith-based organizations, the Bush administration is violating the law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106G.shtml

"The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends" takes an unflinching look at the training and dehumanization of US soldiers, and how they struggle to come to terms with it when they come back home. This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle and their overjoyed returning faces as they reunite with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario that includes illness, amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most, "The Ground Truth" makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its characters simply as war statistics.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106F.shtml

Nearly one in five soldiers leaving the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has been at least partly disabled as a result of service. If the current proportions hold up over time, 400,000 returning service members may eventually apply for disability benefits when they retire.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106E.shtml

"Sometimes, paranoids are right. And sometimes even when paranoids are wrong, it's worth considering what they're worried about. I speak here of all who are worried sick that those new, fancy high-tech voting systems can be hacked, fiddled with and otherwise made to record votes that aren't cast, or fail to record votes that are," writes E.J. Dionne Jr.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106D.shtml

BP faced new questions about its conduct on Tuesday after a Congressional panel demanded to know why the oil major had not disclosed a five-year-old order to inspect the pipelines at its Prudhoe Bay oilfield in Alaska that leaked this year causing major shutdowns.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106C.shtml

The FBI is investigating whether a member of Senator Arlen Specter's staff broke the law by helping her husband, a lobbyist, secure almost $50 million in Pentagon spending for his clients.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106B.shtml

The US Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date than any Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106A.shtml

Conservative Pickpockets
http://ga3.org/ct/P720pgF1ZmuF/

City Councillor Colette Connolly has welcomed the City Council's decision to refuse planning permission to Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd for the continuance of use of radio antennas, point-to-point radio link dishes and associated equipment at St Enda's Road.

In its judgement the council found that "the proposed development would seriously injure the amenities of the area and property in the vicinity." The site in question was on top of an apartment block, adjacent to a Montessori school and close to a creche.

Cllr Connolly is PRO of the Shantalla Residents Association. She said that she was pleased that the resident's concerns had been addressed. "Mobile phone companies must respect the residential aspect of neighbourhoods and also residents' health concerns in relation to emissions from such masts. I will urge the planning department to ensure that all the equipment will be removed immediately."

She said she was glad that the council had taken notice of Department of the Environment guidelines, although they had violated them when the original application got the green light.

http://www.galwayindependent.com/news/8922.html

devon.editorial@archant.co.uk

11 October 2006

PROTESTERS are preparing to fight plans to site a mobile phone mast on Bideford Parish Church.

The Rector, the Reverend Mike Edson, confirmed that, following an approach by the company Q4, the parochial church council had expressed interested "in principle," on the understanding that they could withdraw at any time.

But following a meeting called by the church for its neighbours, some residents have expressed concern and are inviting others to join them.

Mrs Elizabeth Roberts, who is a church member, said: "There are many uncertainties over the risks to human health from these masts, but much statistical evidence that they are harmful to people and particularly to children.

"While there is any doubt at all over safety I feel that these masts should not be put up in centres of human habitation."

Tim Langdon, who lives in Church Walk, said his main concern was that a mast on the church tower would be in line and on the same level as houses up the hill in Buttgarden Street, just 50-60 metres away.

"It strikes me that this scheme was designed for rural churches where the towers are higher than the surrounding houses, not on the same level as people's windows."

A protest group was now being formed, he said, and they would make representations to the planning meeting of the council.

Mr Edson said Q4 had a duty to consult on the plans with householders within a 50 metre radius, but they had contacted 179 people living within 100 metres. Three responses were received in opposition.

When it was realised that some people in the immediate area of Tower Street and Church Walk did not get the consultation letters, which went out in May/June, a church meeting was called on September 27 for these neighbours to attend.

"There is a planning process to be pursued," he said. "If there is any proven evidence that there is the slightest risk to health, we would not proceed.

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

http://tinyurl.com/ozrdd

http://tinyurl.com/mp79x



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

Mother Jones
by Laura Rozen

10/06/06

This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of Richard Perle, the influential former Pentagon adviser who was a chief booster of Ahmed Chalabi in the run-up to the war in Iraq. As he had prior to the invasion of Iraq, Perle urged the Bush administration to shun appeasement and take an uncompromising stand toward Tehran; as with Iraq, he argued that a hard line was critical to help the population overthrow a brutal regime. And once again, Perle had an exile leader he wanted America to know about: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 'an Iranian dissident student leader who escaped first from Tehran's notorious Evin prison, then, after months in hiding, from Iran'...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/11/fakhravar.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Perle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fakhravar

AlterNet
by Chris Hedges

10/10/06

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it. War with Iran -- a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East -- is probable by the end of the Bush administration. It could begin in as little as three weeks. This administration, claiming to be anointed by a Christian God to reshape the world, and especially the Middle East, defined three states at the start of its reign as 'the Axis of Evil.' They were Iraq, now occupied; North Korea, which, because it has nuclear weapons, is untouchable; and Iran...

http://www.alternet.org/story/42774/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Dante Chinni

10/10/06

In a country that's often less than enamored of politics, there is a reason why the release of a Bob Woodward book is such an event. Mr. Woodward gets interviews and knows how to weave the inner workings of politics into page-turning narrative. It's exciting to feel as though you're a fly on the wall when, on July 10, 2001, then-CIA Director George Tenet tells then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that there is a 'compelling case' to be made that Al Qaeda is preparing for 'the big one.' And as a reader of State of Denial, Woodward's latest book on the Bush administration, there's frustration when you learn Mr. Tenet felt that he was 'not getting through to Rice' and she was giving him 'the brush off.' But then you wonder: Why didn't I hear this before now? It's 2006...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1010/p09s01-codc.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Woodward

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

10/10/06

It lacks the sex appeal of the Mark Foley scandal, but the most important political news of October is probably the U.S. Army's decision to finally try and implement a proper counterinsurgency doctrine in its training and planning. The move is, in a sense, long overdue. The American military's ingrained preference for equipment-heavy conventional war fighting has long been a problem, and since 9/11 it's become positively crippling. On the other hand, the way the issue is being framed -- as a response to the lessons of Iraq -- makes me worry. The idea that we should look at the fiasco over there, roll up our sleeves, and write up some new manuals about how to avoid these mistakes in the future is part-and-parcel of the 'can do' American spirit that, in many ways, makes our country an appealing place. At the same time, that very spirit has very much been part of our problem in Iraq...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12088


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boulder Daily Camera
by Nat Hentoff

10/10/06

Having achieved much attention for insisting that the president obey the Supreme Court and provide detainees with the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the three rebel Republican senators -- John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham -- nonetheless have voted in the 65-to-34 majority for the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Also approved by the House, this bill has George W. Bush's approval. But why do these would-be dissenters support it? Although these warriors for principle say they have now achieved their goal -- 'America can be proud,' adds Graham -- this unprecedented and far-reaching statute makes it impossible for our detainees anywhere in the world to protest in our courts that their conditions of confinement violate the humane standards of the Geneva Conventions...

http://tinyurl.com/ldl53


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

Hawaii Reporter
by Mazie Hirono

10/10/06

The current controversy surrounding the predatory behavior of Representative Mark Foley should raise questions in the mind of every voter about the ability of the Republican party to lead our nation effectively. Recent events demonstrate far more than the willingness of one man to abuse his position in order to prey upon those he pretended to protect. Revelations following his resignation have also shown us that Republican leaders in the U.S. House are all too willing to place their individual power, and the power of their party, above the well-being of young men and women whose welfare rested in the hands of our Congress...

http://tinyurl.com/zrva9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

National Review
by Byron York

10/11/06

'It' is what has become known as The List, a document naming allegedly gay Republican congressional staffers that has been e-mailed to a number of conservative groups in the last few days. According to a report by David Corn, a writer for the left-wing magazine the Nation, anti-Republican 'gay politicos' sent the list to several social-conservative organizations ... in hopes of setting off 'a civil war within the GOP, to turn the anti-gay social cons against the GOP's Velvet Mafia.' As it turned out, at least two organizations apparently deleted the e-mail, either as part of routine file upkeep or because they weren't interested in its contents. Others didn't open the attachment .... And some opened it up and didn't see much that was new. 'We work on the Hill,' says one conservative activist. 'There weren't a lot of surprises on the list.' So far, the much hoped-for civil war doesn't seem to be happening. But the campaign to spread The List is accomplishing something. It is offering clues about who is behind it...

http://tinyurl.com/mt7s9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/11/06

The rulers of the Hermit Kingdom have been planning this for some 50-plus years, and the question is: why now? There is, of course, the Iraq factor: one North Korean general said to a visiting American academic, 'We see what you're getting ready to do with Iraq, and you are not going to do it to us.' The possession of a nuke is an insurance policy against regime change. Yet the question is: why now? The answer is rising disaffection within North Korea, and a widening split with their Chinese allies...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9836


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Conservative
by Pat Buchanan

10/09/06

In the aftermath of 9/11, when President Bush ordered the U.S. military to remove the Taliban, who had given sanctuary to al-Qaeda and Osama, America was with him. When he identified Saddam as an integral part of an Axis of Evil hell-bent on America's destruction, the nation supported him. Now America is not so sure. Preventive war as the antidote to terror seems, now that Anbar province has become the world's newest base camp of terror, to have failed us. Democracy as the surest guarantee of U.S. security, now that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Moqtada al-Sadr are rolling up election victories, seems a less persuasive proposition...

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/buchanan.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar

CounterPunch
by Joshua Frank

10/10/06

On the same day, the Senate also overwhelmingly approved the dismantling of habeas corpus for 'enemy combatants.' Twelve Democrats sided with the Republicans to allow the US government to detain people arbitrarily and indefinitely. We shouldn't be all that surprised the Democrats didn't filibuster the awful bill, which also expanded the definition of 'enemy combatant' to include anybody who 'has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.' Whatever that's supposed to mean. No, the Democrats have long been on the frontlines of the federal government's assault on our civil liberties...

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank10102006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Reason
by Jeff A. Taylor

10/10/06

What alternate reality are we in where the 9/11 panel's perfunctory, at best, stenography of the 9/11 principals is some sort of partisan witch hunt? Welcome to the world of John Ashcroft, who is now emerging as the epicenter of the pre-9/11 'no warning' cover story. As Attorney General in 2001, Ashcroft was at the intersection of law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Contrary to the Ashcroft-constructed myth that a Clinton administration-built wall existed between law enforcement and intelligence agencies, info did pass back and forth between the two sides. Only believers in that myth would be surprised to learn that on or around July 17, 2001 Ashcroft was briefed by the CIA on terror threats. In keeping with the myth, Ashcroft denies ever getting such info...

http://www.reason.com/links/links101006.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft

The Loser

William Rivers Pitt writes: "George W. Bush is making some history of his own these days. When all is said and done, he will go into the books as the first American president to lose two wars at the same time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106Z.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1010-35.htm

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When Evil Doing Comes Like Falling Rain

UN reports estimate that one out of every four Iraqi children suffers from acute malnourishment. The colloquial word for this condition is "wasting."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2525.shtml


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1010-06.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

After being outhustled by Republicans in voter turnout drives in recent years, the AFL-CIO plans to spend $40 million nationwide on voter education and turnout, emphasizing swing states. In addition, just as conservatives used referendums on same-sex marriage to mobilize voters in 2004, labor has helped put measures to raise the state minimum wage on the ballot in Ohio and three other states, an effort that union officials hope will draw low-income voters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101006LB.shtml

With the echoes of the Institute of Medicine's unrestrained critique of the FDA last month still resounding, two more broadsides advocating major reform were fired today at the beleaguered agency. Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph.D. and lead author of one of the papers said he and his co-authors "put the blame on Congress for much of the current mess."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101006HA.shtml

The Bush administration should abandon its long-standing refusal to engage in direct talks with North Korea according to former US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, who is currently the governor of New Mexico. "I would engage directly in face-to-face talks," Richardson said on NBC's "Today" show. "That's when you deliver your toughest message."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006U.shtml

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/10/1355226


Informant: Martin Greenhut

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Kucinich: The Administration Is Preparing For War Again…This Time Against Iran
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=105758;show_archive=1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_military_nkorea_iraq


Informant: Kev Hall

Plan B and Plan B

Kelpie Wilson says: "Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives.... Interestingly, this retrograde movement comes at a moment when US population tops 300 million and ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth's life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006R.shtml

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24390
http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=24391

Video

A movie that might actually reach our complacent mainstream. No agenda. No finger-pointing. Just the facts and the "mysteries."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15250.htm

Chemical-laden goods outlawed in Europe and Japan are permitted in the American market.

http://tinyurl.com/j7dyn


From Information Clearing House

The freshwater boom is over.

Our rivers are starting to run dry: We can avert global thirst - but it means cutting carbon emissions by 60%. Sounds ridiculous? Consider the alternative.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1891588,00.html


From Information Clearing House

An independent 50 minute documentary on peak oil, 9/11 and the war on terror.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15264.htm

North Korea last night threatened a nuclear missile attack if trade and financial sanctions are not dropped, but also offered to return to negotiations about disbanding its atomic weapons program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15257.htm



Pentagon Assesses Responses, Including a Possible Blockade

Any unilateral effort by the United States to cordon off North Korea by sea and air could founder along the country’s lengthy land border with China.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15256.htm



North Korea 'could fire' nuclear warhead

Threatening to put nuclear warheads on missiles and conduct further nuclear tests, a North Korean official says his country will only return to disarmament talks if the US makes concessions.

http://tinyurl.com/g8rdv



White House Rejects North Korea Talks

The Bush administration rejected anew Tuesday direct talks with North Korea and said it would not be intimidated by a reported threat from Pyongyang that it could fire a nuclear-tipped missile unless the U.S. acts to resolve the standoff.

http://tinyurl.com/jbvgz



Russia, China urge calm on North Korea

China and Russia have said that they strongly opposed threatening North Korea with a military strike in response to Pyongyang’s announcement on Monday that it had conducted its first test of a nuclear bomb.

http://tinyurl.com/nsp9a



North Korea's nuclear policy is not irrational at all

We are heading towards another pre-emptive war and Japanese nuclear weapons unless pressure for disarmament revives.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1891454,00.html



US grants N Korea nuclear funds

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1908571.stm


From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi government has failed. It is also time to face the terrible reality that America's mission in Iraq has substantially failed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15249.htm



Iraq: Divide and Rule, 'Ethnic Cleansing Works'

Polls by the State Department and independent researchers show that Iraqis favor an immediate U.S. pullout, meanwhile, an "independent commission", according to the Sunday Times, "may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15263.htm

By James Petras

In a month in which the US Congress voted to legalize torture, discard the US Constitution by abolishing habeas corpus and increase the military budget to prolong the daily slaughter of hundreds of Iraqis and Afghanis, the big controversy among the mass media and elected officials is the sexual overtures of a Republican Congressman to adolescent boys employed by Congress.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15259.htm

By Terry Jones

George Bush should be congratulated - he has surely earned the right to join the ranks of despots.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15255.htm

Demands Prosecution of US Military and Civilian Leaders

The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq, can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and weapons being used to maintain the occupation. U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability documents these violations and calls on us all to demand investigation and prosecution of violations of international law by military and civilian leaders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htm

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Ann Wright and international networks join War Crimes Report
http://tinyurl.com/yhbmfu

Das Gesetz des Profits - Zur Logik des Personalabbaus im Finanzdienstleistungssektor

„Seit Wochen geht sie durch die Presse, die allgemeine Aufregung darüber, dass Konzerne wie die Allianz, die Dresdner Bank oder andere deutsche Banken und Versicherungen massenhaft Personal entlassen wollen. Und dies, da wird die Aufregung zur Empörung, obwohl diese Konzerne in allen Sparten haushohe, ja Rekordgewinne machen…“ Artikel von Bully, zuerst erschienen in der Direkten Aktion vom September/Oktober 2006. http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/bank/bully.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Oktober 2006

„Armutsforscher haben Kurt Beck vorgeworfen, Benachteiligte zu verhöhnen. Der SPD-Vorsitzende hatte gesagt, eine größer werdende Unterschicht finde sich lethargisch mit ihrer Situation ab. Experten entgegnen, die Politik der Bundesregierung lasse ihr kaum Chancen…“ Artikel von Anita Strecker in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 11.10.2006 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?em_cnt=986698


Hartz IV verkehrt: Behörden machen arbeitslos

„Die Arbeitsgemeinschaften der Arbeitsagenturen und Kommunen, kurz ARGE, kümmern sich um die Hartz IV-Empfänger im Lande - das ist bekannt. Doch kaum jemand weiß, dass die Behörden auch Berufstätige unter ihre Fittiche nehmen - oftmals gegen deren Willen…“ Text der Frontal21-Sendung vom 10.10.2006 von Hans Koberstein http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/14/0,1872,3985710,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Oktober 2006

Falsche Alternativen zur ersatzlosen Streichung von 1-Euro-Jobs

Beschäftigungseffekte einer Reform: Hartz IV kann 800 000 Jobs bringen

„Durch einen Umbau von Hartz IV zu einem so genannten Workfare-Konzept lassen sich mehr als 800 000 Langzeitarbeitslose in Beschäftigung bringen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt das Bonner Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) in einer noch unveröffentlichten Analyse, die dem Handelsblatt vorliegt…“ Artikel von Dorit Hess und Dietrich Creutzburg in Handelsblatt vom 9. Oktober 2006, 20 http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Politik/Deutschland/_pv/_p/200050/_t/ft/_b/1146862/default.aspx/hartz-iv-kann-800-000-jobs-bringen.html


Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung muss mehr als 1-Euro-Jobs sein – „Ehrlicher zweiter Arbeitsmarkt“ ist notwendig

Positionspapier von Geschäftsführender DGB-Bundesvorstand (A. Buntenbach) vom September 2006 (pdf) http://www.dgb.de/homepage_kurztexte/texte/buntenbach_arbeitsmarkt.pdf


„Hier kommt jeder mal dran“

Von Ein-Euro-Jobs, Statistiken und Lobbyisten. Artikel von Ingo Jäckels vom 26.09.2006 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/jaeckels.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Oktober 2006

DGB für neue Zuverdienstregeln

„Der Vorsitzende des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB), Michael Sommer, hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, die Zuverdienstmöglichkeiten für Hartz-IV-Empfänger drastisch zu reduzieren. "Ich halte es für richtig, die Zuverdienste weitgehend zu kappen", sagte Sommer der FTD. "Das bisherige System hat zu Fehlanreizen geführt." Sommer stimmt damit einem Vorhaben der Koalition zu. CDU/CSU und SPD wollen die bisherige Freigrenze, wonach die ersten 100 Euro Zuverdienst nicht auf das Arbeitslosengeld II angerechnet werden, deutlich senken. Damit soll ein Anreiz entstehen, mehr zu verdienen…“ Artikel von Maike Rademaker in der FTD vom 09.10.2006 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/120056.html


Mehr Einsatz wird belohnt. Koalition einigt sich auf neue Regeln für ALG-II-Empfänger

„Union und SPD wollen Langzeitarbeitslosen die Zuverdienstmöglichkeiten durch kleine Nebenjobs streichen. Darüber hat die Koalition Einigung erzielt. Bei höheren Arbeitseinkommen sollen die Betroffenen mehr von ihren Leistungen behalten dürfen…“ Artikel von Markus Sievers in Frankfurter Rundschau vom 11.10.2006 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?em_cnt=986699


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Oktober 2006

Empfehlungspapier" der CDU/CSU vom 5.10.06
http://tinyurl.com/zgwwt

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SGB II – „Optimierung“ die Xte

Empfehlungen der Arbeitsgruppe der CDU/CSU Bundestagsfraktion und der unionsgeführten Länder für die Arbeitsgruppe Arbeitsmarkt der Bundesregierung

Das vieldiskutierte und bisher geheime CDU/CSU-Empfehlungspapier vom
5.10.06 zu den von den Unionsparteien gewünschten Verschärfungen des SGB II bei Tacheles (pdf) http://www.harald-thome.de/media/files/Gesetzestexte%20SGB%20II%20+%20VO/Optimierungsgesetz/Empfehlungenendg374ltig3doc.pdf

Lesehinweis von Harald Thomé: „Ich empfehle allen Lesern vor dem Lesen nichts zu essen und danach sich darüber Gedanken zu machen, wie wir dem Projekt der Durchsetzung eines Niedriglohnsektors und Aberkennung bürgerlicher und demokratischer Rechte von 7 Millionen Menschen etwas entgegensetzen können.“

Siehe dazu als Zusammenfassung:

Union verlangt schärfere Sanktionen gegen Arbeitsunwillige

„Die Union dringt bei der geplanten Arbeitsmarktreform auf eine Verschärfung der Sanktionen für arbeitsunwillige Hartz-IV-Empfänger. Ihnen sollen die Sozialleistungen gekürzt werden, wenn sie ein Jobangebot ablehnen. In einem internen Papier von CDU/CSU, das der FTD vorliegt, heißt es dazu: "Ein Teil der Hilfebezieher erhält Leistungen zu Unrecht. Das muss sich ändern." Eine "Verschärfung der Kontrollen" und eine "Ausweitung der Sanktionen" seien dazu nötig. "Das werden wir versuchen, in der Koalition umzusetzen", sagte CDU-Generalsekretär Ronald Pofalla am Samstag. Bislang verhielten sich viele Arbeitslose "zügellos"…“ Artikel von Birgit Jennen in Financial Times Deutschland vom 7.10.2006 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/119825.html

und unser Zitat zum Thema:

„Kürzungsoptimale Nürnberg/München: Der Hartz-IV-Generalkürzungssekretär der CSU, Markus Söder, hat heute einen weiteren Vorschlag zur Kürzung der noch-nicht-Gekürzten eingebracht. Künftig soll ALG II-Empfängern nicht erst die Leistung gekürzt werden, wenn sie ein Vermittlungsangebot abgelehnt haben, sondern schon, bevor sie eines erhalten haben. Langfristig denkt Herr Söder übrigens daran, die Leistungen zu streichen, ehe ALG II-Empfänger auf die Welt kommen.“


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Oktober 2006

http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=667


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

Video of George Bush Saying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc60JmaLbE&NR


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http://www.nbc6.net/politics/10044775/detail.html


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15208078/


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hastert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis53.html

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Dear Leader Brings It On

"Over the past six years, our 'my way or the highway' president blew up a crucial nonproliferation agreement," writes Robert Scheer on US diplomacy with North Korea, "and then took every opportunity to personally insult the country’s reportedly unstable dictator because it played well politically at home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106N.shtml

by Edwin Vieira

America's federal system is a government of checks and balances. If Congress and the Executive Branch are temporarily in the clutches of the Forces of Darkness, there remain the Supreme Court, the States, We the People as the Electorate, and We the People.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin48.htm

New scientific study shows
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5177/
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/10/D8KM6GL80.html

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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655,000 Iraqis Dead Since US Invasion

Epidemiologists estimate that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. This is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106L.shtml

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Hopkins Research Estimates 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1011-06.htm

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Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

By David Brown

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm



2.5 percent of Iraqi’s population have died as a consequence of the U.S. invasion, war and occupation.

By Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Estimated 654,965 additional deaths in Iraq between March 2003 and July 2006.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm



Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey

By Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts

The number of people dying in Iraq has continued to escalate. The proportion of deaths ascribed to coalition forces has diminished in 2006, although the actual numbers have increased every year. Gunfire remains the most common cause of death, although deaths from car bombing have increased.

Read The Full Report [pdf] http://informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/lancet101106.pdf

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Excess Death in Iraq

Dahr Jamail writes, "655,000 Iraqis killed as a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq ... For over a year now, many Iraqis have been referring to what is happening in their country as genocide. With over 500 Iraqis being killed every single day as a direct result of the occupation, it is difficult to argue with them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206A.shtml

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Randi Rhodes Interviews Dr. Les Roberts; co-author of the Johns Hopkins Iraq Mortality Study

Audio

The Iraqi death toll has reached 655,000! Johns Hopkins University has just released the only truly scientific accounting on the matter since their 2004 report on the post-invasion death toll.

Click here to listen
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15275.htm

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Democracy Now! Interview:

Co-Author of Medical Study Estimating 650,000 Iraqi Deaths Defends Research:

Les Roberts joins us now from Syracuse, New York -- He is one of the main researchers of the study. He was with Johns Hopkins when he co-authored the study but has just taken a post at Columbia University.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/145222



Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?

By any objective standard, the report merits front-page coverage in every major newspaper in the country and extensive discussion and reporting on television news broadcasts. Yet the response of the US press has been to virtually ignore the report and limit its coverage to news accounts on inside pages.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/iraq-o13.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=655,000

Call your members of Congress at their local district offices!

In her new Lie/Die TV spot, you can hear congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo speaking out about the scary parallel between the lies they told us about Iraq, and the new ones about Iran. The drum beats are getting louder that the Bush administration in fact intends to launch an unprovoked carpet bomb attack on the sovereign nation of Iran, for the sole purpose of trying to influence the upcoming election in his favor. The entire Eisenhower strike force, including nuclear powered aircraft carrier is even now headed for the Persian Gulf.

You remember what they told us about Iraq, that they had to launch the attack because the assets were already place? Don't tell yourself they aren't that insane. They ARE that criminally insane. And don't think they won't stage a Gulf of Tonkin type phony attack to justify it all. They've done it before.

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As splendidly as the endless occupation of Iraq and the blitzkrieg on Lebanon have turned out, such a new war of aggression as a first response would be condemned by every civilized nation of the world, leading most likely to a fundamentalist coup in Pakistan, putting full fledged nuclear warheads in the hands of terrorists immediately. This is to not mention skyrocketing oil prices and lighting a powder keg of counter attacks against American troops and interests not just in the Middle East but all around the world.

Is there no foreign policy decision that the Bush administration is not desperately determined to mess up big time? As a result of Bush's saber rattling, North Korea took the U.N. seals (which were already in place) off of their nuclear facilities four years ago and have now detonated their first underground nuclear test, comparable to the first tests of India and Pakistan. Will they now bait and switch us to Iran, which experts tell us is at least 5 years away from testing such device?

Where are our members of Congress on this? They need to be giving campaign speeches speaking out to stop this insanity. This special action page below allows you to send all your members of Congress an email message in real time which they WILL get, and with one click you can lookup the LOCAL phone and fax numbers while they are campaigning in their districts. Please do both and speak out in every other way you can while there is still time.

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Die vergreisende Festung Europa

Telepolis - Germany

... sein, um von (präziser) "kinetischer" Gewalt überzugehen zu Angriffen auf Computernetze, zur Verwendung von elektromagnetischen oder Mikrowellen-Waffen und ... weiter unter: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23730/1.html

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Air_Force_Prepares_For_Cyber_Warfare_999.html


Informant: Kev Hall

"It is an indisputable fact that there has been a massive increase in inequality in the United States over the last quarter century," writes Dean Baker. "However, the apologists for the policies that have brought about this massive upward redistribution of income claim that the benefits to the country in the form of more rapid economic growth offset any harm done by the growth in inequality. They have no case."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006P.shtml

Tom Engelhardt writes: "You know a person by the company he or she keeps - so the saying goes. You could also say that you know an administration by the linguistic company it keeps; and though George Bush is usually presented as an inarticulate stumbler of a speech and news-conference giver, it's nothing short of remarkable how many new words and phrases (or redefined old ones) this president and his administration have managed to lodge in our lives and our heads."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006O.shtml

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George Bush's War of the Words

Tom Engelhardt on Mission Unaccomplished.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt230.html

As North Korea tests its first nuclear weapon we ask: is the objective survival - an attempt to make sure they are not the next Iraq? Bush, however, seems unlikely to try to talk and negotiate a peaceful coexistance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006L.shtml

Email 10 9 06 from Ivan Fraser

Hi Joanne

What a dreadful situation. [jcm comment 10-10-06]....I provided Ivan with information regarding my own two grandsons' rare immune deficiencies due to electric meter exposures as well as severe blood changes in guinea pigs w/same exposure.....]

Edward runs a website at: http://www.medicineandillness.com/

I'm sure you will find more information there of help.

His email address is enquiries(at)medicineandillness.com

Best wishes

Ivan


Together in Truth we can change the world!
http://www.truthcampaign.co.uk

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[jcm file notes 10-10-06:

Access to TOXIC OVERLOAD: BLOOD DISORDERS AND CANCERS RESULTING FROM EXPOSURE TO DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND RADIATION: http://whale.to/a/priestley.html

Edward Priestley is a UK activist who interacted with Parliament re importance of informing public and medical profession ....worked with his wife Patricia to discover how his own aplastic anemia was related to chemicals (with very little help from medical profession and they were discouraged from doing their own investigation)....... Toxic blood disorders incl myeleoprolif...agranulocytosis....aplastic anemia etc. PLUS the Priestely's comments re intereference from a national Leukemia charity in the UK.......medical profession pressure, etc.

Wrote to Ivan, the webmaster for Truth Campaign for contact info for the Priestley's....10 8 06]

10.10.06

Die Vorschläge der Union für schärfe Sanktionen gegen arbeitsunwillige Langzeitarbeitslose stoßen auch in den eigenen Reihen auf Widerstand. Einzelne Punkte der geplanten Änderungen am "Hartz IV"-Gesetz seien "wirklich nicht dazu geeignet, Probleme zu lösen", sagte der CDU-Sozialexperte Gerald Weiß der "Thüringer Allgemeinen". Dazu zähle etwa der Vorschlag, die Rentenbeiträge für Langzeitarbeitslose zu kürzen oder ganz zu streichen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14498

10.10.06

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat Polizei und Justiz in ungewöhnlich scharfer Form zur Beachtung der Verhältnismäßigkeit bei Durchsuchungen aufgefordert. In drei am Dienstag veröffentlichten Entscheidungen hoben die Karlsruher Richter teilweise willkürliche Durchsuchungsbeschlüsse auf und erklärten sie nachträglich für verfassungswidrig.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14495

A UN report documents the terrible violence against children that globally obtains today. "Every country in the world with the exception of two (Somalia and ... the United States) has ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006H.shtml

Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006F.shtml

Workers' rights have been severely crippled. On Tuesday, President Bush's National Labor Relations Board issued a decision that will deny the right to organize to as many as 8 million workers in 200 occupations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006G.shtml

About 17 percent of the first-time recruits, or about 13,600, were accepted under waivers for various medical, moral or criminal problems, including misdemeanor arrests or drunk driving, drug and alcohol problems, including those who may have failed a drug test or acknowledged they had used drugs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006E.shtml

US science signatories state, "We must refuse to accept a situation where scientific inquiry is blocked or its findings ruled out of order unless they conform to the goals of the government, to corporate interests and to the ideology of religious fundamentalists; where dogma enforced by governmental and religious authority takes the place of science; where the scientific approach of seeking natural explanations for natural phenomena is suppressed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006D.shtml

"Potential enemies may come to think that the best way to protect their nations against Bush's unilateralist policies and threats of invasions is to quickly add a nuclear bomb or two to the arsenal," writes Robert Parry. "In the past four years, Bush's tough-talkin' diplomacy has led the United States ever deeper ­ now neck deep ­ into the 'big muddy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006C.shtml

Wall Street and corporate America have found a potent champion in Washington to back their demands for reduced corporate regulation: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006B.shtml

Proposals to erect mobile phone masts in Bersted and Felpham have been turned down by Arun District Council.

Members of last week's development control committee went against recommendations by council officers to approve the prior notification of the works.

Instead they agreed that the design and siting of the proposed 02 mast, to enable the company to roll out its 3G digital mobile phone network, sited on land opposite the Hollies, in Chalcraft Lane would visually effect the residents in the area.

The committee also said that the plan was against both district council policies and the West Sussex structure plan.

The latest proposals which also received the thumbs down from Bersted Parish Council is the latest in 10 unsuccessful attempts to gain planning permission to erect a 30ft mast in the area.

Full report in the October 5 issue of the Bognor Regis Observer

10 October 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.chichestertoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=450&ArticleID=1808944

BY SOPHIE HAZAN

A LEEDS vicar has turned down a mobile phone company's £10,000 proposal to install a mast in his church bell tower.

Vicar Brunel James, of All Saints Church in Barwick-in-Elmet, shunned the lucrative scheme in a bid to unite his congregation.

The project had become a bone of contention among parishioners in the north Leeds village, who were aware that the money could be put to good use in the refurbishment of the church.

Health concerns were at the root of the concerns which had left many residents uneasy.

In a letter addressing his parish, the reverend tried to allay the fears. He said: "It remains our opinion that there is no evidence that the positioning of the O2 antennae and base station in the church tower would put the health of villagers at risk. However, we have been surprised by the strength of feeling against the O2 proposal.

"We respect and endorse the fact that people need to enjoy their homes and family life free from worry.

"There will be no antennae or base station in the church tower."

Rev James added: "This is an area for bad reception for networks.

"The more people use phones the more base stations they need as each can only handle a certain amount of calls.

"The church tower was desirable as it would have concealed the mast so it isn't a blot on the landscape."

But Rev James is now in a tight spot as essential repairs are still needed on the Grade II place of worship.

Ceiling repairs and interior redecoration are urgently required and there are plans to improve children's facilities by refurbishing several smaller rooms in the bell tower and to open All Saints each day of the week.

Rev James told the YEP: "We take an optimistic view of things and plan to start work here at the church in autumn 2007.

"One good thing has come out of all of this and that is a new group – Friends of All Saints – who have pledged to give regularly to our funds."

To support the refurbishment, write to Klaus Schottler, secretary of Friends of All Saints Church, c/o The Rectory, Main Street, Barwick-in-Elmet LS15 4JQ.

sophie.hazan@ypn.co.uk

10 October 2006

All rights reserved © 2006 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1813585

Failing On North Korea
http://ga3.org/ct/Ud20pgF1Kzux/

by David Bonior, TomPaine.com

How a little-known board made potentially millions of workers ineligible for union benefits.

http://ga3.org/ct/U720pgF1Kzu3/

Wanna Buy A Seat?
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Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

10/06/06

Exiles peddling back-channel intelligence, upstart advocacy groups pressing for regime change, administration hawks intent on remaking the Middle East -- the scene in Washington is looking eerily familiar as the Iran standoff grows more tense. Instead of Ahmad Chalabi, we have the likes of Iran-Contra arms-dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. A new Iran directorate inside the Pentagon features some of the same people who brought you the Iraq intel-cherrypicking operation at the Office of Special Plans. Whether calling for outright regime change or pushing 'democracy promotion' initiatives to undermine the Iranian government, an expanding cast of characters has emerged to promote confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. What follows is an abridged list of the individuals and organizations agitating to bring down the mullahs...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/09/iran.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

10/09/06

Throughout the Bush era, voters have not always connected the dots. The Foley scandal now enveloping the House Republican leadership offers a belated opportunity for voters to make some connections. Yes, the scandal is about the disgrace of a congressman sending disgusting messages to teenage pages, and the failure of leaders to act on escalating warnings. But it is so much more. Mark Foley was chairman of a House caucus on missing and exploited children. This was a party that literally put a pedophile in charge of pedophilia. Does that have a vaguely familiar ring? It should. It's the same party that put the oil companies in charge of energy policy, and invited the drug and insurance industries to write the Medicare prescription bill for their own maximum profit. ... So there is a consistent theme here of the fox guarding the chicken coop...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12087


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

10/09/06

Should Dennis Hastert resign as Speaker of the House? I hope not. He is the perfect symbol of everything that is wrong in a leader of the House of Representatives. He can't remember being told about one of the members of the closet caucus who had a special affinity for young boys. ... [W]hile there is no question that other members of the leadership were told, no question that top aides in the Speaker's office were told, no question that the Congressman involved was himself warned, it was apparently just not important enough a matter for the Leader himself to be concerned about. Keep that man right where he is for the next four weeks. What, or rather, who, could be a better symbol of the priorities of Washington DC than the man who can't remember?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218677,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hastert

AlterNet
by Marjorie Cohn

10/09/06

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush's 'unlawful enemy combatants.' Americans are certain to be among them...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/42458/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

Former Secretary of State James Baker appeared on This Week With George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to talk about his new book, Work Hard, Study ... And Keep Out of Politics. On Meet the Press, Bob Woodward talked about State of Denial. It's hard to say which of them did more damage to the president. Woodward we know about. The Bush team has aggressively worked to punch holes in his reporting and has all but turned him into a one-man White House enemies list. Baker, on the other hand, is supposed to be a family friend and loyalist...

http://www.slate.com/id/2151218


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Woodward

Common Dreams
by David Lindorff

10/09/06

[T]he management of the New York Times, which has lambasted veteran Supreme Court veteran Linda Greenhouse for a talk she gave to fellow Harvard alumni in which she condemned the Bush administration for creating 'law-free zones' in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Haditha and elsewhere around the world, and for 'assaulting women's reproductive freedom' and 'hijacking public policy' in the name of 'religious fundamentalism.' The paper, we learn, has an 'ethical guideline' saying that news staffers who appear on radio and TV 'should avoid expressing views that go beyond what they would be allowed to say in the paper.' (Never mind that Greenhouse wasnt speaking for broadcast, but at a private event at her alma mater.) ... Nothing infuriates me more, as a veteran newspaper reporter, than this repressive notion that reporters must not have personal politics or personal views, or that if they do have them, they must keep them strictly to themselves...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1009-25.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

http://tinyurl.com/f45zl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Libertarian Enterprise
by James Glaser

10/09/06

When it comes right down to it, no matter what George Bush says, he cannot have a war without the consent of the troops. If the young men and women in uniform stand up and say 'No,' it is all over. I know those troops we have in Iraq today have that little voice in the back of their heads saying what they are doing is wrong. It doesn't matter how many people thank them for what they are doing, because way deep down inside, they know it's wrong, and years from now they will pay the price for not doing the right thing...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Noemie Emery

Now in the sixth year of his crisis-wracked presidency, George W. Bush is perceived as being in desperate trouble, having spent the two years since his reelection falling all over his feet. His democracy project looks stalled, his drive to reform Social Security seems to have been a huge waste of effort, his response to Katrina was more like sleep-walking, his pick of his White House counsel to fill a Supreme Court vacancy caused cardiac arrest in his base. Opinions differ as to whether he is a dead duck, or merely a lame one. Democrats claim he is going the way of one-term fiascos Carter and Hoover, who not only failed in themselves, but also ushered in long years of dominance by the opposite party. History, however, suggests something different: that sixth-year pain is nothing but normal, and has been shared in some way by all two-term presidents; that the judgments made of presidents in their sixth years of office (and in their seventh and eighth years, for that matter) have not always stood up over time... (for publication 10/16/06)

http://tinyurl.com/fq985


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Conservative
by James Bovard

10/09/06

George W. Bush has made absolutism respectable among American conservatives. And no one has done more pimping for president-as-Supreme-Leader than John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who helped create the 'commander-in-chief override' doctrine, unleashing presidents from the confines of the law. At a time when Bush is pushing Congress to approve the use in military tribunals of confessions that resulted from torture, it is vital to understand the thinking of the Bush administration's most visible advocate of 'coercive interrogation.' Yoo’s new book, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror, reads like a slippery lawyer's brief submitted to a dim judge who gets all his information from Fox News.

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/review.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Liberty For All
by Garry Reed

10/07/06

What a relief. For a horrible moment or two there I thought that the long-anticipated dawn of an American-style version of 1984 was finally upon us. I came by this misbegotten notion after reading articles about how the Pentagon, in recognizing the need to treat all of us as terrorists in order to protect us from terrorists, plans to build the Mother of All Computer Databases that will monitor every purchase made by every citizen in the nation. Our masters in Washington call it Total Information Awareness...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=138


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor

10/06/06

President Bush has yet to sign into law Congress's new terror-detainee legislation, but defense lawyers are already asking federal judges to strike down key parts of the measure as unconstitutional. Two suits were filed this week in US District Court here. At issue: Whether the new antiterror legislation retroactively strips the courts of jurisdiction to hear detainee cases, and if so, would that amount to an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Lawyers rushed to file suit before the measure, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, was signed into law. 'By filing when we did, we wanted to make sure that at least we preserved the retroactivity argument,' says Michael Ratner of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed both suits...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p01s03-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

10. Oktober 2006

Helmut Scholz, Mitglied des Parteivorstandes der Linkspartei.PDS und politischer Koordinator des Vorstandes der Partei der Europäischen Linken erklärt zum gemeldeten nordkoreanischen Atomtest:

Der von der KDVR vermeldete Atomtest, ob nun vorgetäuscht oder echt, wird weltpolitisch und in der Region nachhaltige sicherheitspolitische Folgen haben. Absehbar ist eine spürbare militärische Aufrüstung in den Nachbarstaaten Nordkoreas bis hin zu Japan, das als einziges Land der Welt bisher den politisch motivierten militärisch sinnlosen Einsatz von Atombomben hinnehmen musste. Die neue japanische Regierung hat bereits den Ausbau ihres Raketenabwehrsystems angekündigt, andere Staaten Südostasiens werden nachziehen. Mit ziemlicher Gewissheit gehört dazu auch die Nuklearoption für weitere (südost-) asiatische Länder. Ziel und Geisel der nuklearen Kriegsdoktrin war und bleibt die Zivilbevölkerung - ein Fakt, der beim Denken in atomaren Szenarien der A-Waffenmächte auch heute seine traurige Richtigkeit behält. Angst und Abschreckung sollen Instrumente anmaßender Machtpolitik bleiben: anstelle demokratischer Verständigung zur Lösung von Problemen das Diktat der Interessen des vermeintlich militärisch Stärkeren als Kategorien auch internationaler Politik. Die neue Situation gefährdet letztlich also auch die vorsichtig begonnene Annäherungspolitik zwischen Nord- und Südkorea. Möglich wurde der Atomtest auch durch die zunehmende Schwächung des internationalen Regimes der Atomwaffenkontrolle und der politischen Ansätze zur Verhinderung eines neuen nuklearen Wettrüstens. Der Atomwaffensperrvertrag (NPT) von 1968 und die darauf aufbauenden NPT-Überprüfungsprogramme haben ihr Ziel, die Nichtweiterverbreitung von Kernwaffen und eine langfristige durchzusetzende atomare Abrüstung, nicht erreicht. Die nordkoreanische Führung hat durch ihren Ausstieg aus dem Atomwaffensperrvertrag und die fortgesetzte politisch-diplomatische Pokerpolitik um ihr Atomrüstungsprogramm ihren Anteil daran. Vor allem aber die Nichtbereitschaft der Atomwaffen besitzenden Staaten allen voran die 5 ständigen Sicherheitsratsmitglieder sich zu einem über den NPT-Vertrag hinausgehenden Schritt hin zu umfassender und realer atomarer Abrüstung zu verständigen und gemeinsam einen Fahrplan für entsprechende multilaterale Abkommen zu aufzustellen sind Auslöser für das Streben immer mehr Länder nach vermeintlicher militärischer Absicherung ihres gesellschaftspolitischen Kurses. und diesen dann unverzüglich in Angriff zu nehmen Die in Kapitel VI verfügte atomare Abrüstung wird vor allem von den USA und Frankreich verweigert und durch Entwicklung neuer Formen von Atomwaffen wie Mininukes ins Gegenteil verkehrt. Das verstärkt die Nichtakzeptanz des Vertrages durch andere Staaten. Internationale Politik ist heute gefordert: es muss ein neuer multilateraler Ansatz für den unverzüglichen Beginn eines neuen realen und umfassenden Abrüstungsprozesses gefunden werden. Dafür ist die gegenwärtig tagende 61.UN- Generalversammlung zu nutzen. Und vielleicht ist ja die vom UN-Sicherheitsrat bestätigte Kandidatur des Südkoreaners Ban Ki Moon für das Amt des neuen UN-Generalsekretärs in der Nachfolge Kofi Annans nicht nur Anlass für die neue Spirale in Nordkoreas Atompolitik, sondern auch Chance für einen neuen Anlauf im internationalen Verhandlungsprozess. Ich erwarte von der Bundesregierung auch im Rahmen der GASP der EU - einen aktiven Beitrag für einen Neuansatz in der internationalen Abrüstungspolitik, insbesondere die Unterstützung der Initiative der blockfreien Staaten und der New Agenda Coalition für eine Konvention zur Beseitigung von Kernwaffen unverzüglich in Angriff zu nehmen. Nur dies wird die jetzt zu beginnende Vorbereitung der nächsten NPT-Überprüfungskonferenz 2010 zum Erfolg führen können. Und die Welt für alle sicherer machen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34211

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

10. Oktober 2006

Gipfel entpuppt sich als Talsohle

Zu den Ergebnissen des zweiten Energiegipfels erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Der zweite Energiegipfel ist den hohen Erwartungen nicht gerecht geworden. Es gab weder verbindliche Absprachen für eine nachhaltige Energiepolitik noch für eine Entlastung der Verbraucher durch eine andere Energiepreispolitik. Die Antwort auf die zentrale Frage der Bürgerinnen und Bürger, wie auch in Zukunft eine preiswerte und für jedermann bezahlbare Energieversorgung gesichert werden kann, ist die Bundesregierung erneut schuldig geblieben. Ob das Bekenntnis der Kanzlerin zum Atomausstieg Bestand hat, bleibt abzuwarten. Erste Stimmen aus den Reihen der Union nähren die Befürchtung, dass auch hier das letzte Wort noch nicht gesprochen ist. Das gestrige Treffen machte vor allem eines deutlich: Die Bundesregierung ist vor allem mit sich selbst beschäftigt und verschläft so die neuen Anforderungen in der Energiewirtschaft. Sie setzt weiterhin auf wachsende Energieimporte statt auf erneuerbare Energien. Und es gelingt ihr nicht, die vier marktbeherrschenden Energiekonzerne in die Schranken zu weisen. Über Wettbewerbsfragen und den Energiemix soll erst beim nächsten Mal geredet werden. Ein nationales Energiekonzept wurde jetzt für den Herbst 2007 angekündigt. Die Erfahrungen mit der Gesundheitsreform lassen befürchten, dass man wohl getrost auch noch ein oder zwei Jahre drauf geben kann. Die gegenwärtige Situation auf Bundesebene zeigt einmal mehr, dass stabile Mehrheiten einer Großen Koalition noch lange nicht gleichbedeutend mit solider Politik sind.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34196

A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley's inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100906F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue on a mission of plunder for Spain," writes Mary Annette Pember. "When he arrived here, he commenced the virtual annihilation of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. A culture and nation founded on the murderous, exploitive philosophy of this act has two choices: apologize and make reparations, or cunningly twist the facts and make it an opportunity for celebration."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100906B.shtml

"As North Korea becomes the eighth confirmed nuclear power (Israel is not confirmed but considered the ninth) some of the blame has to go to the original five nuclear powers," writes Scott Galindez. "When the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect in 1970, the five countries who had nuclear bombs - the US, France, China, Great Britain, and the USSR - agreed to work to reduce and eventually eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Now, 36 years later, no disarmament talks are taking place between those countries."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100906A.shtml

Bills introduced in Congress to repeal 8-year restriction of 22nd Amendment
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52246


From Information Clearing House

VIDEO

The emails suggest criminal activity and CREW sent them to the FBI (3 different departments in fact) several months ago, but the FBI did nothing.

http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/42722


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

The Cold Test
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/030127fa_fact


From Information Clearing House

Director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3303.htm

PENTAGON hawks will try to persuade US President George W. Bush he should order immediate military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites.

http://tinyurl.com/lh5mu


From Information Clearing House

By Rodrigue Tremblay

Propaganda machines are dangerous, even more so in a democracy than in a totalitarian regime, because their goal is to confuse, disinform, lie, raise fear and manipulate the opinions of the people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15241.htm

By Mike Whitney

It took 6 years of relentless threats, sanctions and belligerence, but Bush finally succeeded in pushing Kim Jong-Il to build North Korea’s first nuclear bomb. Now, Kim can just add a few finishing touches to his ballistic-missile delivery system, the Taepo-dong ICBM, and he’ll be able to wipe out the 9 western states with a flip of the switch.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15240.htm

By Eric S. Margolis

North Korea has repeatedly agreed to junk its nuclear weapons provided the US does three things: 1. deal directly with Pyongyang, which Washington refuses to do; 2. provide security guarantees that the US will not attack North Korea; 3. provide economic aid. The Bush Administration’s hard-line neoconservatives refuse to ‘validate’ North Korea’s totalitarian regime through direct talks. Neocons are determined to overthrow Kim Jong-il.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15243.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1009-03.htm

Earth's Ecological Debt Crisis

Evidence is mounting that rapid population growth and rising living standards among the Earth's six billion inhabitants are putting an intolerable strain on nature. For the first time, a British think-tank has sought to pinpoint how quickly man is using the global resources of farmland, forests, fish, air and energy.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101006EC.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1009-05.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1009-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1009-36.htm

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Welcome to the nuclear club

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/10/06

Moments after hearing about North Korea's nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein's statement that 'there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world.' During the six decades since Einstein spoke, experience has shown that such understanding and insistence cannot be filtered through the grid of hypocrisy. Nuclear weapons can't be controlled by saying, in effect, 'Do as we say, not as we do.' By developing their own nuclear weaponry, one nation after another has replied to the nuclear-armed states: Whatever you say, we'll do as you've done...

http://www.antiwar.com/solomon/?articleid=9824


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/08/state-of-denial-cheney-cursed-out-woodward-over-kissinger-revelations/


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Woodward
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kissinger

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer146.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15196598/from/ET/


Informant: Werner Fuss Zentrum

by John Slagle

Citizens of this nation vote every four years, with the vast majority unaware of current events or any elected official’s performance in State or National Government. Many people say they are so disgusted with politics in general, they will not bother to cast a ballot in 2006.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Slagle/john11.htm

by Nancy Levant

If you hate Democrats for being Democrats or Republicans for being Republicans, and then vote based upon such loyalty, you’ve ended every possibility for the survival of this nation. I could end here, with this statement, but for the sake of bitter truth, onward we go.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy61.htm



What difference will the Democrats really make?
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5174/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5172/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

By Paul J. Balles

Where are the voices of moral righteousness that the world has always depended upon to rein in the evil forces of conquering warlords? The teachers and professors - why are they silent? The virtuous - the clergy and elders of church and mosque and synagogue - who covered their mouths with duct tape and broke their pens and keyboards?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15244.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800855.html


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/antiwarcandidates.php


Informant: ranger116

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Reuters_fires_reporter_over_Coulter_book_1009.html


Informant: ranger116

http://www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/NEWS0206/610060429/1309/MTCN04


Informant: ranger116

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5173/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news