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A message from Sophia

Auszug Internetseite des Bundesamts für Strahlenschutz

Elektromagnetische Felder > Strahlungsarme DECT-Telefone

Strahlungsarme DECT- Schnurlostelefone

"Unter dem Aspekt einer vorsorglichen Reduzierung der Exposition ist zu fordern, dass die Basisstationen im Stand-by-Betrieb automatisch abgeschaltet und die Telefone mit einer bedarfsgerechten Regelung der Sendeleistung ausgestattet werden.

Diesen Forderungen sind mittlerweile einige Hersteller nachgekommen.

Zu Beginn des Jahres 2006 erschienen erstmals zwei Geräte (Hersteller: Orchid und Swissvoice) auf dem deutschen Markt, die eine Abschaltung bzw. Absenkung des Kontrollsignals zwischen Basisstation und Mobilteil ermöglichen. Hierzu muss sich das Mobilteil in der Basis befinden und es darf nur ein Mobilteil an der Basis angemeldet sein. Damit können diese Geräte als "bedingt strahlungsarm" bezeichnet werden. Strahlungsarme DECT-Telefongeräte sollten folgende Kriterien erfüllen:

* Abschaltung oder mindestens 100.000fache Absenkung des Kontrollsignals im Standby-Betrieb unabhängig von der Anzahl der angemeldeten Mobilteile, wobei sich das Mobilteil nicht notwendigerweise in der Basis befinden muß;
* Bedarfsgerechte Regelung der Sendeleistung des Mobilteils beim Telefonieren in mehr als 2 Stufen ähnlich der beim Handy;
* Bedarfsgerechte Regelung der Sendeleistung auch der Basisstation während des Telefonierens;
* Möglichkeit des Anschlusses eines Headsets an das Mobilteil;
* Möglichkeit der Einstellung / Begrenzung der Reichweite. "

In einer Tabelle sind die zurzeit bzw. in Kürze auf dem deutschen Markt erhältlichen "bedingt strahlungsarmen" DECT-Schnurlostelefone sowie Art und Ausmaß ihrer Strahlungsreduzierung aufgelistet.

Es ist eher unwahrscheinlich, dass der CT1+ Standart über 2008 hinaus verlängert wird, eher kann man sicher sein, dass der DECT Standart verlängert wird.

http://www.bfs.de/elektro/Strahlungsarme_Dect_Schnurlostelefone.html/



Liberale treten für eine Kennzeichnung strahlungsarmer Mobiltelefone ein
http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/033/1603354.pdf

Auszug

"Entgegen der öffentlichen Besorgnis könne es durch den Gebrauch von Handys und Mobiltelefonen eher zu einer hohen Exposition der Nutzer kommen als durch ortsfeste Sendeanlagen.

Für den mündigen Verbraucher ist es deshalb unerlässlich, eine technisch fundierte und souveräne Entscheidung darüber treffen zu können, welche Rolle die Strahlungsintensität bei seiner Kaufentscheidung spielen soll. Hilfreich ist in diesem Zusammenhang eine einheitliche Kennzeichnung der Geräte, um Käufer und Nutzer schon beim Erwerb über die Strahlungswerte aufzuklären."

Quelle: http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/hib/2006/2006_347/04


Mit freundlichem Gruß

Helmut Langenbach

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DECT - Gesundheitsschäden durch DECT-Telefone
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/322063/

Informations-Faltblatt DECT
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/dect.pdf

Selbst Heinrich Böll arbeitete jahrelang - möglicherweise unwissentlich - dem CIA zu.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24027/1.html

An Associated Press analysis suggests that big oil companies have been crimping supplies in subtler ways across the country for years. The analysis, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration, indicates that the industry slacked off supplying oil and gasoline during the prolonged price boom between early 1999 and last summer, when prices began to fall.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606X.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=big+oil

A message from Pilvi

Please sign for our oceans!! Just dive in and then sign... Its pretty cool..

PLEASE HELP OCEANS AND JUST DIVE IN !!!!!!
http://oceana.org/divein/

Thanks
Mylene

http://go.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/page.cfm?pageID=1009

Humankind in en route to extinction. Nothing is been done about it. We have known about it for decades (some would say centuries) but continue to do nothing...

Walt

Der deutsche Verbraucher- und Landwirtschaftsminister stimmte Ende September in Brüssel für den Import von gentechnisch verändertem Rapssamen. Das ist ein Skandal. Gentechnisch veränderter Raps gilt unter Experten als besonders "auskreuzungsfreudig". Der Raps ist für Bienen eine ganz zentrale Honig- und Pollenquelle, Gentech-Raps eine Katastrophe für alle Imker. Selbst hartgesottene Gentechnikbefürworter geben zu, dass diese Pflanze mit vielen verwandten wildlebenden Arten innerhalb kürzester Zeit unkontrollierbare Verbreitung erreicht.

Trotzdem stimmte Seehofer im Agrarministerrat für Deutschland jetzt für die Zulassung der GV-Rapssorten Ms8, Rf3 und Ms8xRf3 der Firma Bayer. Wenn dieser Vorgang auch die nächste Hürde, die Absegnung durch die EU-Kommission, nimmt, könnte dadurch erstmals gentechnisch veränderte Rapssaat in die EU gelangen.

Die 'Ausrede' der Bundesregierung, der gentechnisch veränderte Raps komme ja nicht auf die Äcker, sondern gelange als Importerzeugnis gleich in die Ölmühlen, zeugt angesichts der illegalen Gentechnik-Maisimporte 2005 und des jetzigen Reisskandals von großer Naivität. Oder hier liegt sogar eine bewusste Verunreinigungsstrategie vor. Weil niemand ausschließen kann, dass der Raps nicht irgendwann doch auf den Äckern wächst. In etlichen anderen Ländern wurden so schon Tatsachen geschaffen.

http://www.transgen.de/pdf/zulassung/Raps/MS8xRF3_summary_snif.pdf


Aus: Newsletter-Feldbefreiung vom 26.11.2006



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

Im Oktober erschütterten gleich mehrere Gentech-Skandale die Öffentlichkeit. Jede fünfte Probe Langkornreis in Europa enthält illegalen Gentech-Reis LL601 aus dem Hause Bayer. Das ergaben Testreihen bei europäischen Reismühlen. Kurze Zeit später wurde klar, dass der Reis längst im Handel ist. Nachdem Greenpeace eine kontaminierte Sorte bei Aldi ausmachte, räumte der Discounter vorsorglich die Regale aus. Daraufhin gab die EU-Kommission bekannt, dass in Lieferungen aus den USA auch die von Bayer hergestellte Genreis-Sorte LL 62 gefunden wurde. Diese Information ist von besonderer Brisanz, da der Konzern eine EU-Importzulassung für LL 62 beantragt hat und die Gefahr einer unkontrollierten Ausbreitung stets bestritten hat. Beide Reis-Sorten, LL 601 und LL 62 sind gegen das von Bayer produzierte Herbizid Liberty mit dem Wirkstoff Glufosinat resistent und in der EU nicht zugelassen.


Aus: Newsletter-Feldbefreiung vom 26.11.2006

Innerhalb der EU ist mal wieder eine gruselige Richtlinie in Arbeit - ein Geschenk an die Agrarkonzerne wie Monsanto & Co. Die Richtlinie könnte in Zukunft die strenge Bestrafung von Menschen und Unternehmen, die sogenannte "Geistige Eigentumsrechte" verletzen, ermöglichen. Das beginnt beim Herunterladen von Musik aus dem Internet und endet bei der Anklage gegen Bauern und Bäuerinnen, die selbst vermehrtes Saatgut aussäen, ohne Lizenzen oder Nachbaugebühren zu entrichten. Verantwortlicher ist EU-Kommissar Frattini, seine Richtlinie trägt den eingängigen Namen IPRED2. Reto Hilty, anerkannter Fachmann vom Max-Planck-Institut, hat den Entwurf näher begutachtet. Seine Bilanz im rechtswissenschaftlichen Fachblatt GRUR International ist alarmierend. Obwohl ein Strafverfahren für viele Landwirte schon existenzbedrohend werden würde, sieht die Richtlinie sogar vor, dass das gesamte Vermögen beschlagnahmt werden kann und die Ernte vernichtet wird. Der Richtlinienentwurf ("IPRED2") der EU-Kommission: "Richtlinie ... über strafrechtliche Maßnahmen zur Durchsetzung der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums, KOM(2006) 168" ist im Netz zu finden unter: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/de/com/2006/com2006_0168de01.pdf

Wer im Rechtsausschuss verantwortlich ist: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/committees/allMembers.do?committee=1247&language=DE

Wer im Industrieausschuss verantwortlich ist: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/committees/allMembers.do?committee=1240&language=DE


Aus: Newsletter-Feldbefreiung vom 26.11.2006

A message from Gwen

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/902244879

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5333/


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg

A message from Pam

This petition is new to me - if you have already signed, bear with me, and please forward to as many friends as possible. With the GREAT news of the cancellation of the Shanghai Animal Olympics, it is some encouragement to keep trying for these poor creatures.

Thank you.

Pam.


NEW Petition for Dogs in Korea. Friday, 2:54 AM

This important petition needs many more signatures!



http://www.dogaid.freeservers.com/how_help.htm


Thank you!

(posted by Karin.)

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.

That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.

And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet.

Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.

Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland:

** 71% of all Iraqis now want the U.S. out of Iraq.

** 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on U.S. troops.

Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be killed and maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not getting the hint.

There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it. You can also do it through nonviolent, mass civil disobedience. That's how India did it. You can get the world to boycott a regime until they are so ostracized they capitulate. That's how South Africa did it. Or you can just wait them out and, sooner or later, the king's legions simply leave (sometimes just because they're too cold). That's how Canada did it.

The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them? Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're going to do the liberating for them.

A country can HELP another people overthrow a tyrant (that's what the French did for us in our revolution), but after you help them, you leave. Immediately. The French didn't stay and tell us how to set up our government. They didn't say, "we're not leaving because we want your natural resources." They left us to our own devices and it took us six years before we had an election. And then we had a bloody civil war. That's what happens, and history is full of these examples. The French didn't say, "Oh, we better stay in America, otherwise they're going to kill each other over that slavery issue!"

The only way a war of liberation has a chance of succeeding is if the oppressed people being liberated have their own citizens behind them -- and a group of Washingtons, Jeffersons, Franklins, Ghandis and Mandellas leading them. Where are these beacons of liberty in Iraq? This is a joke and it's been a joke since the beginning. Yes, the joke's been on us, but with 655,000 Iraqis now dead as a result of our invasion (source: Johns Hopkins University), I guess the cruel joke is on them. At least they've been liberated, permanently.

So I don't want to hear another word about sending more troops (wake up, America, John McCain is bonkers), or "redeploying" them, or waiting four months to begin the "phase-out." There is only one solution and it is this: Leave. Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can. As much as people of good heart and conscience don't want to believe this, as much as it kills us to accept defeat, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage we have done. What's happened has happened. If you were to drive drunk down the road and you killed a child, there would be nothing you could do to bring that child back to life. If you invade and destroy a country, plunging it into a civil war, there isn't much you can do 'til the smoke settles and blood is mopped up. Then maybe you can atone for the atrocity you have committed and help the living come back to a better life.

The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in the end!

The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness. Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around, Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war another month. We will fight you harder than we did the Republicans. The opening page of my website has a photo of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, each made up by a collage of photos of the American soldiers who have died in Bush's War. But it is now about to become the Bush/Democratic Party War unless swift action is taken.

This is what we demand:

1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it.

2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they must be taken care of for the rest of their lives.

3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq. There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have atoned.

In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map. Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds. He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death.

But at our core we are a good people. We may be slow learners, but that "Mission Accomplished" banner struck us as odd, and soon we began to ask some questions. Then we began to get smart. By this past November 7th, we got mad and tried to right our wrongs. The majority now know the truth. The majority now feel a deep sadness and guilt and a hope that somehow we can make make it all right again.

Unfortunately, we can't. So we will accept the consequences of our actions and do our best to be there should the Iraqi people ever dare to seek our help in the future. We ask for their forgiveness.

We demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now.

Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint @aol.com

International Energy Agency calls for 200 new nukes

In a report just published, the International Energy Agency promotes nuclear power as the solution which will save us from global warming. But who will save us from nuclear power?

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d874168597ms21

Bananenrepublik Deutschland?

In der weltweiten Rangliste der Korruptionländer ist Deutschland von einem früheren guten Platz bereits ins Mittelfeld abgerutscht - hinter Hongkong! Das Ergebnis ist offensichtlich: Deutschlands Spitzenverdiener werden zum Standortrisiko Nummer eins.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d874168575ms21

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25726413.htm


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
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by Deanna Spingola

The government told Horvat to get a lawyer. Horvat, tired and with limited funds, cannot compete with the government and their unlimited use of taxpayer's funds. I personally believe that the government stole Horvat's invention. The circumstances strongly suggest it. The government and their big business accomplices will make trillions of dollars from a decidedly criminal act against a well-intentioned citizen.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna59.htm

"During the pause is the ideal time to listen to stories," says Alice Walker. "There are stories coming to us now from every part of the earth; and they are capable of teaching us things we all used to know.... They tell us that in their society men and women are considered equal but very different. Man, they say, has a destructive nature: it is his job therefore to cut down trees when firewood or canoes are needed. His job also to hunt down and kill animals when there is need for more protein. His job to make war, when that becomes a necessity. The woman’s nature is thought to be nurturing and conserving. Therefore her role is to care for the home and garden, the domesticated animals and the children. She inspires the men. But perhaps her most important duty is to tell the men when to stop."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506G.shtml

He knew there were problems. He didn't think he was one of them. At the time, Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent who had raised concerns about how the pre-9/11 arrest of al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was handled, was being hailed as a national hero. FBI Special Agent Mike German says he had also just received a mass email from FBI Director Robert Mueller, urging other whistleblowers to come forward. "I was assuming he'd protect me," German says. Instead, German says his accusations were ignored, his reputation ruined and his career obliterated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506F.shtml



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

Robert M. Gates, President Bush's nominee to lead the Pentagon, advocated a bombing campaign against Nicaragua in 1984 in order to "bring down" the leftist government, according to a declassified memo released by a nonprofit research group. In the memo, Gates, who was deputy director of the CIA, argued that the Soviet Union was turning Nicaragua into an armed camp and that the country could become a second Cuba.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Gates

For all the sound and fury in the last year, the National Security Agency's wiretapping program continues uninterrupted, with no definitive action by either Congress or the courts on what, if anything, to do about it, and little chance of a breakthrough in the lame-duck Congress.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506Y.shtml



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

On Wednesday, a coalition of 12 states, led by California and Massachusetts, will try to persuade the Supreme Court that the nation's environmental regulators have the legal authority and responsibility to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming - which many scientists describe as the biggest environmental threat to the planet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506X.shtml

Unterdrücktes Schluchzen
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24057/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Prekariat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=prekär

Der Irak versinkt in Grausamkeit, die die Welt anstecken könnte: tägliche Anschläge, Foltern bis zum Tode, bei lebendigem Leib Verbrennen, ethnische Säuberungen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24061/1.html

A message from Linda

Original Message

This year the Japanese fleet will kill already 1,000 whales off the coast of Antarctica, in what the whalers are calling a "feasibility study" for expanded "research" whaling. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) agreed to a moratorium on commercial whaling that came into effect in 1986. In 1987, Japan began its lethal "research" programme, and continues to sell the result of this "research" in shops and restaurants.

An opinion poll in Japan carried out in June 2006 by the Gallup affiliate, the Nippon Research Centre, showed that 95% of Japanese never or rarely eat whale meat and more than 70 percent of Japanese do NOT support whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Lack of support within Japan is mirrored by widespread condemnation from the world community.

GREENPEACE NEED YOUR HELP The new “Whales Campaign” needs you great idea. You just have to log in the web page:

http://whales.greenpeace.org .

Then, we’ll choose the best idea to make it real at the next Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctica (coming soon). The videos and photographs of the whale’s campaign will turn all over the world, trying to get Japanese people more conscious about whaling. We just need your help to generate public discussion about whaling!!!! How to do??

1) Help us design a direct action to save the whales (without alienating the whalers, who are just trying to make a living).We need your help to create an amazing campaign that accomplishes the unexpected – and triggers a positive and productive public debate both in Japan and all over the world. It’s especially important to win the campaign in Japan, where most people are against whaling in Antarctica.Imagine you are designing the direct action:What would you do?Tell us here!Suggest your actions. Post some images or even a small video that tell your friends to look at all the suggestions and vote for the best one.

2) Register.Get on board and be part of the biggest crew Greenpeace has ever sailed with.Sign up now, chose a screen name and an avatar.

3) Post your idea.To create the best and most creative Greenpeace expedition ever we need your ideas and ideas from thousands of people around the world like you. Give your action a name, describe it, and add some images, photos, or a video. (And tell your friends to vote for your idea).

4) Surf, comment and vote on all the ideas.“Defend the whales” is a world-wide community of environmental activists. Join it. Rate the action ideas. Tell us how to make them better. IMPORTANT TIPSWe don't want to blame the Japanese people for whaling. Remember these facts:-77% of the Japanese population does not support whaling in Antarctica,-61% haven't eaten whale meat since childhood, and-ONLY 1% eat whale meat more than once a month ... and-Japan has more than 4.800 tones of FROZEN whale meat in storage.We need the whole world to stand up for the whales and against the Japanese government's policy of killing them.Our campaign goal is to win back a majority of votes at the International Whaling Commission meeting next May 2007 in Alaska, and clearly show the world that most countries are working for whale species recovery and conservation.

*manatee*2 THANKS A LOT !!!!!!!



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

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

25. November 2006

Zum SPD-Papier über den "vorsorgenden Sozialstaat" erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der Linkspartei.PDS Dietmar Bartsch:

Mit seiner Agenda 2010 hatte der Ex-Kanzler Gerhard Schröder starke Einschnitte in das soziale Netz vorgenommen. Jetzt entdeckt die SPD in ihrer Programmdiskussion den Sozialstaat wieder neu. Der zukünftige Sozialstaat soll vorsorgend sein. Dem kann man nur zustimmen. Es ist immer besser, wenn es erst gar nicht erst zu sozialen Notlagen kommt. Selbstverständlich hat der Sozialstaat die Aufgabe, nicht nur Fehlentwicklungen auszugleichen und den Schwächsten zu helfen. Dass er auch die Aufgabe hat, die Gesellschaft zu gestalten, war schon immer die Auffassung der Linkspartei. Die SPD meint jetzt, dass der Sozialstaat erfolgreich sei. Der Sozialstaat gewährleiste den Zusammenhalt, der unsere Gesellschaft stark mache. Wenn das so ist, dann stellt sich die Frage, warum die SPD eine treibende Kraft war, ihn abzubauen. Wer Hartz IV verteidigt, ist hier unglaubwürdig. Was die SPD in der Vergangenheit getan hat, war nicht Umbau, sondern Abbau des Sozialstaats. Wenn die SPD jetzt einen grundlegenden Richtungswechsel vornehmen würde, wäre das nur zu begrüßen. Die Linkspartei geht davon aus, dass Vorsorge durch mehr und bessere Bildung, durch eine solidarische Gestaltung und Finanzierung des Sozialstaats und mehr Gerechtigkeit in ihren verschiedenen Dimensionen eine richtige Antwort auf die neuen Herausforderungen ist. Allerdings wissen wir, dass es in einer kapitalistischen Ökonomie, in der das internationale Finanzkapital dominiert, eine Illusion ist, alles durch Vorsorge ausgleichen zu können. Deshalb darf es unter der Losung vom "vorbeugenden Sozialstaat" nicht dazu kommen, dass Sozialleistungen weiter gekürzt werden.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34611

Jeff Stein writes: "With all the lawsuits over kidnapping and torture marching toward the Bush administration, you might think the top officials running the global war on terror would be worried ... Alas, no. Thanks to the legerdemain of Bush administration lawyers, a provision quietly tucked into the Military Commissions Act just before it was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush on October 17, would ease any worries they might’ve had. It not only redefines torture upward, removing the harshest, most controversial techniques from the definition of war crimes, it also exempts the perpetrators - interrogators and their bosses - from punishment all the way back to November. 1997."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+terror

A year ago, an NBC News investigation revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon database that included information on antiwar protests and American peace activists. Now, newly disclosed documents reveal new details on who was targeted and which other government agencies may have helped monitor Americans. "I fully intend to ask what's in those databanks, because many of them go way beyond any legitimate needs for our security," says Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406E.shtml



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

Nearly 15 months after the hurricane struck, the number of Katrina victims who will be spending Thanksgiving in FEMA trailers this year will paradoxically be far higher - roughly three times greater - than it was last year. The reason: Many people who were living with family members or staying in hotels at government expense last year have since moved out or been evicted. But they have been unable to return to their homes because they are still waiting for their houses to be repaired, their insurance to come through, or the water and electricity to be turned back on.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406B.shtml



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

As the death toll from a series of devastating car bombs in a Shiite district here rose today to more than 200, a powerful legislative bloc loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr threatened to withdraw from the government if Iraq’s prime minister attends a scheduled meeting with President Bush in Jordan next week.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406A.shtml

An inquiry into alleged multi-million dollar bribes paid to export wheat to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is set to recommend criminal charges against several senior executives.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5059736.html


From Information Clearing House

A Marine from New Jersey was deployed to Iraq this month despite being recommended for a military discharge by a hearing officer who agreed that the man should receive conscientious objector status.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/24/america/NA_GEN_US_Conscientious_Objector.php


From Information Clearing House

Sweden is the most democratic country, according to the research, with 9.88 average score. Ireland, 9.71 points, the Netherlands, 9.66, and Norway, 9.55 follow the Scandinavian kingdom. The US is ranked 17th while Japan is 20th and the United Kingdom 23rd.

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=9282


From Information Clearing House

The US involvement in Iraq will pass another sad milestone on Sunday, when it overtakes the length of America's engagement in World War II.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061123/pl_afp/usiraqwarwwiihistory_061123172950


From Information Clearing House

The prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, was forced to choose between his US protectors and an essential pillar of his coalition, when Moqtada al-Sadr declared his intention to walk out, potentially bringing down the government, if Mr Maliki went ahead with a meeting with President George Bush in Jordan next week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1956567,00.html


From Information Clearing House



Iraq Quickly Heading Toward Full-Scale Civil War

Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said. The fiery slayings in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Hurriyah were a dramatic escalation of the brutality coursing through the Iraqi capital, coming a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars. The attacks culminated Baghdad's deadliest week of sectarian fighting since the war began more than three years ago.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112506Z.shtml



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

By James Petras

Globalization, so-called, is a euphemism for the increasing importance of competing empires intent on redividing the world. Corrupting overseas rulers is central to securing privileged access to lucrative resources, markets and enterprises.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15728.htm

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy - Source: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire," 8/24/04

http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml



There is no God behind this war other than the god of money

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a "NO" which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the "NO" to war: Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03


From Information Clearing House



The Democrats and the Slaughterhouse

Head for the Exits, Now!

By Alexander Cockburn

Imagine a steer in the stockyards hollering to his fellows, "We need a phased withdrawal from the slaughterhouse, starting in four to six months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15727.htm



Humiliation As A Weapon Of War

Video

U.S. Occupation Forces Bring Clean Water to The Children Of Iraq.

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15726.htm



The US Empire –Beginning of the End Game

By K Gajendra Singh

"We are the leading nation, the most moral, born with the redemptive mission to create what the Puritan preacher Jonathan Winthrop called the 'City on the Hill', the democracy 'of the people and by the people' that originated the modern world with our repudiation of monarchy and inherited privilege.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15729.htm



The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism

By Howard Zinn

The notion of American exceptionalism—that the United States alone has the right, whether by divine sanction or moral obligation, to bring civilization, or democracy, or liberty to the rest of the world, by violence if necessary—is not new. It started as early as 1630 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15732.htm



The Current Crisis in the Middle East

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15730.htm



Our Shameless Unseen War & Occupation Of Iraq

A mosque employee prepares the body of Lamiamh Ali, 6. Four siblings were playing outside their home in Baghdad when a U.S. cluster bomb exploded. Two of the children died that day and their brother died later as a result of his injuries.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/11/24.html



US hawk judges ‘war on terror’ a mistake

Fred Iklé, a Nixon-era arms control veteran and mentor to the current generation of nuclear “hawks”, has an apocalyptic vision of the future.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/42f85512-7b23-11db-bf9b-0000779e2340.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

http://magazine.web.de/de/themen/computer/mobile/mobile-welt/3264858,cc=000005487500032648581kv0g5.html

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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/81545

Handy-Verbot an Schulen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1677088/

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/opinion/24krugman.html


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5328/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=42DAD4EF-23D1-4DC7-B064-99EF95BF882D


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/do0201.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/11/02/ixopinion.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance97.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laurence+Vance