World-News

"The Congressional Democratic leadership, eager to start investigations into the failures and cover-ups of their Republican predecessors, have a list; but so far, the 'black sites' of the CIA are far from a priority. But the president - who gave the CIA 'special license' in 2002 to operate outside the law in kidnapping suspected terrorists and sending them to torture prisons abroad for interrogation - has already protected its interrogators with provisions he and Dick Cheney inserted into the Military Commissions Act of 2006," writes Nat Hentoff.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nat+Hentoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act

President Bush, under pressure to change direction in Iraq, said Tuesday that he will not be persuaded by any calls to withdraw American troops. Recent US elections added fuel to the argument from Democrats that US soldiers need to come home. But Bush has resisted that, even while projecting the need for a different approach.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806A.shtml



Neighborhood by Neighborhood, Baghdad Descends Into Civil War

Sectarian violence has turned Baghdad into a deadly jigsaw puzzle of contested neighborhoods where armed bands of Shiite and Sunni Muslims battle daily for control, in fighting that is far more similar to an organized military campaign than is generally acknowledged.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806B.shtml

"The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has spurned 50,000 free DVDs of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and is squandering a golden opportunity to educate tens of millions of youth in the United States!" John F. Borowski asks why. When questioned, "The NSTA wrote that acceptance of the DVDs would place an 'unnecessary risk upon the capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=An+Inconvenient+Truth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Gore

"The age of US dominance in the Middle East has ended, and a new era in the modern history of the region has begun," writes Richard Haass. "It will be shaped by new actors and new forces competing for influence, and to master it, Washington will have to rely more on diplomacy than on military might."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806M.shtml

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The New Middle East

Less than 20 years after the end of the Cold War -- the American era in the Middle East, the fourth in the region's modern history, has ended.

http://tinyurl.com/y53hlp


From Information Clearing House

For months, the media have rejected the use of the term "civil war" to describe the descent into outright murder and torture in Iraq. Apparently the utter chaos and carnage of the past week has finally convinced NBC News and MSNBC to begin to use "civil war" without apology.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806L.shtml

"Even as Washington waits with bated breath for the Iraq Study Group to release its findings," writes Andrew Bacevich, "the rest of us should see this gambit for what it is: an attempt to deflect attention from the larger questions raised by America's failure in Iraq, and to shore up the authority of the foreign policy establishment that steered the United States into this quagmire. This ostentatiously bipartisan panel of Wise Men (and one woman) can't really be searching for truth. It is engaged in damage control."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806K.shtml

impf-report Newsletter Nr. 42/2006
http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2006/42.htm

Die Vogelgrippe kommt wieder - The Dangers of Vaccinations
http://omega-news.livejournal.com/294272.html

http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/281106BB.htm

Big Brother achtet nun auch auf aggressive Stimmen
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24088/1.html

By Eran Gabay

If Israel's cellular carriers are forced to fully indemnify municipalities for the drop in property values caused by proximity to cellular antennas, then there are obviously going to be fewer antennas, warned the CEO of one carrier in a conversation with TheMarker. That means that the radiation emitted by cell phones will actually increase, he said. Moreover, the CEO said, the companies will simply build their antennas in low income neighborhoods. "You can understand for yourself that we aren't talking about areas where rich people live," he added. The Forum of Cellular Companies, a body that comprises Israel's three main cellular carriers - Pelephone Communications, Partner Communications and Cellcom - is handling the companies' response to the indemnification demand.

They have already spent NIS 10 million over the last year convincing the public that there is no danger in cellular telephone radiation, and are planning on at least doubling that amount next year. Part of this money, the companies decided, will be used to establish a national visitors center about the cellular industry. And the effort seems to be paying off: Recent surveys that the forum commissioned have shown a decrease in the public's worries about cellular radiation.

Two weeks ago, the forum scheduled a meeting with the Education Ministry to discuss how to explain properly to teachers, parents and students that placing an antenna at a school would actually significantly reduce the radiation emitted by the students' cell phones. The companies argue that the more antennas there are in a given area, the less powerful they need to be, and thus the lower the radiation produced by the cell phone.

The CEO of the cellular operator confirmed that the topic of antennas at schools arose at the forum. The forum also intends to try to recruit the Environment Ministry's support for its position, in order to show that it this position is not based solely on commercial considerations.

Yesterday, TheMarker reported that the effort to set the level of indemnification for decreases in property values is stuck fast, as none of the parties involved is actually interested in making progress at this time. Currently, cellular operators are required to provide 100 percent indemnification.

There are now about 6,700 cellular antennas in Israel, and Pelephone's decision to build a third-generation network will mean the addition of 700 more.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793442.html


Informant: Iris Atzmon

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/409398086


A message from Elena

http://comebackalive.com/site3.php


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news



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

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General announced Monday that it will immediately launch a probe into the agency's involvement with the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, raising suspicions among Democrats, who believe the timing of the investigation is an attempt by the Bush administration to circumvent Congressional hearings into the issue when they assume control of the House in January.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+surveillance

at http://www.ncadp.org/execution_alerts.html

December 5: Jerome Henderson, OH http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6018

December 8: Percy Walton, VA http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3864

December 13: Angel Nieves Diaz, FL http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6019

By Asma Ali Zain

25 November 2006

DUBAI — Mobile phone experts have requested the Ministry of Health to classify mobile phones as potential health hazards due to the high amounts of radiation that electronic gadgets emit.

At a meeting organised at Al Bustan Rotana Hotel by Bauer Biotech recently, the experts discussed the harmful effects of electronic gadgets, especially cell phones, on human health.

David Furlong, international therapist and author as well as a health practitioner, said that even a simple act such as keeping a mobile phone in a chest pocket could affect the energy fields in the body and cause disturbances in the body’s resonance.

Attendants of the meeting suggested that the MoH should treat mobile phones as harmful as cigarettes and label the gadgets as harmful to human health.

“We are not aware of the effects of radiation on our bodies,” he explained, adding that though the use of electronic gadgets cannot be ruled out entirely, the effects could be neutralised. “Today, a number of research studies from around the world prove conclusively that the enhanced usage of cell phones, beepers, Ipods, laptops and other modern electronic devices have the possibility of harming the human body,” he added.

Furlong said that only a few people could feel the effects of radiation immediately. “They have obvious symptoms such as disturbances, depression, headaches, reduced concentration, hot spots in the brain, overheating of eyes (leading to eye tumours), heart problems and cataracta,” he said.

“But there are only a few people who head to doctors with related symptoms. Tests have proved that radiation might have been the cause,” he added.

He also said that prolonged usage of the mobile phones increased body heat and blood pressure, impotency among men, exhaustion, genotype disturbances and blood formulations. “Tests have also proved that 90 per cent of tumours are related to radiation,” added Furlong. Friedrich J Bauer from Bauer Biotech, who is in Dubai to introduce the Green8 which neutralises the electromagnetic fields, said that there has been a dramatic increase in radiation in the world over the years.

Giving figures Bauer said that there were over 120 million mobile phones in Europe alone and 191 million in the Middle East region. “Until 2005 the number of cell phones expected worldwide was 2,000 million,” he said.

Describing experiments, Bauer said that two Russian journalists cooked an egg in 65 minutes with the cell phones. “It only takes two minutes of speaking on a cellular phone for the radiation to cross the protective Blood Brain Barrier,” he explained.

© 2006 Khaleej Times All Rights Reserved.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2006/November/theuae_November688.xml&section=theuae


Informant: Mark G.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistleblower-translator_x.htm?POE=click-refer


Informant: rafeswhiterose



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

http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=5130


Informant: Mark G.

Just plug in the wifi
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35986


Informant: Mark G.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wireless+networks
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=wireless+networks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wi-fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=wi-fi

http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=503


Informant: reggie501

From ufpj-news

Liberty For All
by Matthew Holmes

"A few weeks ago in an article titled, 'Conscription, Standing Armies, and Love of Country' I wrote that the Federal Government had outlawed the state militias mentioned in the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was incorrect. The state militias have been 'nationalized' into the 'National Guard' and are now being used unconstitutionally for foreign occupations. Governors across the country are complaining to the Bush administration that their National Guard units are being depleted for the War in Iraq, and that they do not have enough manpower to handle emergencies in their home states... (written 07/29/04; posted 11/27/06)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=397


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Sridhar Pappu

11/27/06

To watch Dobbs work, to trust him, as many do, the way we once trusted Walter Cronkite, is to see America as a nation under siege. We are, if we're to believe Dobbs, suffering from policies that have encouraged undocumented workers to cross the Mexican border only to depress wages, overwhelm public schools, and blaze the way for infiltrating terrorists. At the same time, we are under attack from within, he says, from multinational corporations: the same grand companies that once provided the middle class with decent jobs and pensions but now find it easier and cheaper to ship out jobs to India and China.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/dobbs.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lou+Dobbs

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

11/28/06

Except when the survival of the nation is at stake, all military missions must be judged according to a cost-benefit calculation. Iraq has never come close to being a war for America's survival. It was an elective war -- a war of choice, and a bad choice at that. How much are Americans willing to pay in blood, treasure and toil to try to prevail in Iraq? The costs have already been staggering. We have spent more than $340 billion, and the meter is running at more than $7 billion a month. The loss of life is even more horrific. Nearly 2,900 American troops have perished, and the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 of its citizens have died in the carnage. And there is no end in sight...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6788


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Galen+Carpenter

One of Europe's last areas of unspoiled forest is facing an unprecedented threat from the construction of a road through some of Romania's most precious and diverse countryside. Environmentalists have warned the route could prove catastrophic for endangered species of animals and plants living in the southern Carpathians. "This road will be the beginning of the end," said Gabriel Paun, program campaigner for Greenpeace. "It is a disaster."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112706EC.shtml

David Miliband writes: "Climate change raises issues of science, economics and politics. By the month the debate moves on: 2007 will be a key year. And the science is now unambiguous. At the recent 12th Annual United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi, no country challenged the consensus: climate change is man-made, it is happening now, carbon levels already in the atmosphere are dangerous, and if we carry on catastrophic climate change will become more, rather than less, likely."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112706EB.shtml

The dollar plunged with startling ferocity late last week, driven by heavy selling. This was very bearish action that signals panic, and the probable onset of a severe downtrend. A break below the crucial support at 80 on the dollar index is expected to mark the transition from a clandestine unloading of dollar assets to an all-out stampede to “get what you can for them” before it’s too late.

http://news.goldseek.com/CliveMaund/1164561623.php


From Information Clearing House

The Justice Department's internal investigations division said Monday it has opened an inquiry into the agency's use of information gathered in the government's warrantless surveillance program.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/27/america/NA_GEN_US_Domestic_Spying.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless+surveillance

The story of the serial wars since the end of the 19th century is but a narrative - a narrative that carefully avoids the underlying corporate and economic reasons for war. The details are hidden in plain sight, but are never presented as a continuum.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5131


From Information Clearing House

Biden discussed his plans for stabilizing Iraq by creating a federal system of three autonomous regions—Kurd, Shiite and Sunni—and for addressing Iran’s nuclear program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15747.htm

Video

Former senior member of the Special Forces Major Peter Tinley is calling for the immediate withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15751.htm

Congressional leaders displayed eroding patience in the Iraqi government on Sunday, adding pressure on President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to find a faster path to peace when they meet this week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq


From Information Clearing House



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

A security expert says he believes coalition forces face the prospect of defeat in Iraq with serious consequences. Former soldier and military historian Robert O'Neill says it is likely the coalition will pull its troops out early.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1798632.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

"The amount of death that's on the streets of Baghdad for U.S. forces and for the Iraqi people is at an astronomical level," he said. "So, to some degree, what we're seeing is sanitized."

http://tinyurl.com/y6aom9


From Information Clearing House

By Associated Press

Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15750.htm

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War Protestor's Public Suicide in Chicago Unnoticed by Media

Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose ... "Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country," he wrote in his suicide note. "... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country." There was only one problem: No one was listening.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706T.shtml



The quiet death of Malachi Ritscher

Malachi Ritscher wrote in a suicide note that his fellow Americans had become "more concerned with sports on television and ring-tones on cellphones than the future of the world".

http://tinyurl.com/y44ed4


From Information Clearing House

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Self-Immolation as Anti-War Protest
http://counterpunch.org/deraymond11292006.html


Informant: Mitchel Cohen



Malachi Ritscher, 1954-2006
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5353/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anti+war

"Investivlohn"

Soziale Kapitalpartnerschaft – für mehr Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung an Gewinn und Kapital

Antrag des Bundesvorstandes der CDU Deutschlands an den 20. Parteitag am 27./28. November 2006 in Dresden (pdf) http://www.dresden2006.cdu.de/download/060904_antrag_pt_mitarbeiterbeteiligung.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Gesellschaftsrechtliche Beteiligungen sind als voll haftendes Eigenkapital Risikokapital; es entspräche nicht ihrem Charakter, sie abzusichern…“

Hieraus auch unser Unwort des Tages: „Soziale Kapitalpartnerschaft“

Demgegenüber unser Zitat zum Thema:

„Beteiligung Die große Koalition will neue Regeln für die Beteiligung von Beschäftigten an Unternehmensgewinnen schaffen. – Eigentlich überflüssig, weil Beschäftigte schon immer an den Unternehmensgewinnen beteiligt sind: durch ihre Arbeit.“ Aus: Deutscher Einheit(z)-Textdienst von Werner Lutz 12/2006

Und unsere gewerkschaftliche Empörung des Tages:

„Soll außer dem Risiko des Arbeitsplatzverlustes auch noch das unternehmerische Risiko von den Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern getragen werden?“

DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Dietmar Hexel in der DGB-Pressemitteilung vom
23.11.2006: Hexel: Gewinnbeteiligung nur zusätzlich zum gesicherten Einkommen http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=2873

Mitarbeiter-Kapitalbeteiligung: Metallindustrie sieht Investivlohn kritisch

„Die Idee des Investivlohns stößt bei den Tarifparteien der Metallindustrie auf deutliche Vorbehalte. Zwar haben weder IG Metall noch Arbeitgeber etwas dagegen, die Beschäftigten stärker am Unternehmensgewinn zu beteiligen. Neue Regelungen für eine Beteiligung der Arbeitnehmer am Kapital ihres Unternehmens sehen aber beide Tarifparteien skeptisch…“ Artikel von Dietrich Creutzburg in Handelsblatt vom 28. November 2006 http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Politik/Deutschland/_pv/_p/200050/_t/ft/_b/1175129/default.aspx/metallindustrie-sieht-investivlohn-kritisch.html

Aus dem Text: „…Daneben steht die zentrale tarifpolitische Streitfrage, zu wessen Lasten eine Kapitalbeteiligung aufgebaut werden soll. Gesamtmetall hält die Grundidee zwar für durchaus interessant – aber vor allem dann, wenn sie freiwillig bleibt und aus regulärem Arbeitslohn aufgebaut wird: Denkbar sei eine tarifliche Öffnungsklausel, in deren Rahmen Unternehmen „Tarifentgeltbestandteile für eine Kapitalbeteiligung nutzbar“ machen könnten. Eine solche Anrechnung lehnt die IG Metall jedoch von vornherein kategorisch ab. Doch sind nicht alle Gewerkschaften so reserviert. Vor allem die Chemiegewerkschaft IG BCE und die Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG) werben schon lange dafür, die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die Mitarbeiterbeteiligung zu verbessern. IG-BCE-Chef Hubertus Schmoldt schließt zumindest nicht aus, dass auch zukünftige Tarifsteigerungen teilweise zum Aufbau von Kapitalanteilen genutzt werden könnten…“


Mitarbeiterbeteiligung: DGB will mehr Arbeiter zu Aktionären machen

„Auch Gewerkschafter sollen Eigentümer werden: Der DGB unterstützt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und will mehr Arbeiter zu Aktionären machen. Dafür sollen als Lohn gezahlte Aktien begünstigt werden und bis 2000 Euro im Jahr steuerfrei sein…“ Artikel in Spiegel online vom 25. November 2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,450678,00.html


Investivlohn - Trostpflaster für Lohnverzicht?

„Die CDU hat wieder einmal den Investivlohn entdeckt. Es wäre ja nicht schlecht, wenn Unternehmer zusätzlich zum Tarif die Beschäftigten am Unternehmen beteiligen würden. Genau darum geht es Merkel und Co. nicht. Beschäftigte sollen auf einen Teil des Lohns verzichten. Und dieser Verzicht heißt dann Investivlohn…“ ver.di-Wirtschaftspolitische Informationen 05/2006 (pdf) http://wipo.verdi.de/wirtschaftspolitische_informationen/data/06_05_Investivlohn.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Beim Investivlohn erhalten Beschäftigte statt festes Einkommen lediglich eine Art Lotterielos: Ob es ein Gewinn wird, bleibt offen. Nicht einmal der Einsatz ist gesichert. (…) Gängige Investivlohn-Modelle sind mehr Vermögenseinbildung als Vermögensbildung….“


Lohnsenkung als Staatsprogramm: Kombilohn, Mindestlohn, Investivlohn... Der Lohn ist Standortfaktor und kein Lebensmittel

Dokumentation eines Vortrages des GegenStandpunkt-Verlags vom Juni 2006 aus Frankfurt/Main http://www.kommunismus.net/2006/07/lohnsenkung_als_staatsprogramm_kombilohn_mind_1.html

Und weil die Forderung ja nix Neues ist, erinnern wir an einen Text im LabourNet:

„… Und wie sieht es mit den über 10 Millionen kleinen Aktionären, Pensionsfondsinhabern und Inhabern einer Belegschaftsaktie aus? Entsteht hier eine neue Zwischenklasse, oder gar die Auflösung des Klassengegensatzes, weil jede und jeder Einzelne zugleich auf beiden Seiten steht? – Objektiv wohl kaum. Denn bei fast allen von ihnen ist der Kapitalbesitz zu geringfügig um mehr als ein Zubrot zum Erwerbseinkommen zu bringen. Wäre er groß genug, um die Abhängigkeit von Erwerbsarbeit aufzuheben, würde im übrigen das ökonomische System zusammenbrechen. Die Werbung von Staat und Unternehmern für mehr Mitbesitz soll deren Rückzug aus sozialstaatlicher Verantwortung abdecken: Der einzelne soll für sich selber sorgen und trägt zudem noch das unternehmerische Verlustrisiko, wenn er mit seiner Aktie auf das falsche Pferd gesetzt hat. Der Kleinaktionär teilt aber mit den Großaktionären nicht die Möglichkeit, über Sinn und Ziel seines Geldeinsatzes zu bestimmen. Die Ziele der Produktion, die Richtung, in der sich die Ökonomie entwickelt, sind weiterhin vom Großbesitz bestimmt. Ändern kann sich allerdings die Situation für die Interessenvertretung jener Belegschaften, die Lohnabhängige bleiben und zugleich Kapital-Teilhaber geworden sind…“

Aus: „Thesen zur Zukunftsdebatte der Gewerkschaften“ des Gesprächskreises Politische Gewerkschaften der Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt und der Arbeitsstelle Gewerkschaftspolitik am Otto-Suhr-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin vom 18. Juni 2001 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/berlin.html


Grundinformationen zum Investivlohn:

Investivlohn - Pro und Kontra (verdi) http://www.verdi-bub.de/standpunkte/archiv/investivlohn

Investivlohn bei Wikipedia (mit vielen weiterführenden Links) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investivlohn


Aus: LabourNet, 28. November 2006

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/nyt-n28.shtml


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

28.11.2006

Eine US-Universität erforscht mit Unterstützung des Pentagon die Entwicklung einer nichttödlichen Waffe, die mit Mikrowellen auf nichtthermische Weise Muskeln lahm legen soll.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24083/1.html

Groups Across Country Plan for Human Rights and Impeachment Day on Sunday, Dec. 10; Many Events Already Planned, More in the Works

December 10th is Human Rights Day, and this year we're making it Human Rights and Impeachment Day. Here's our slogan: "Putting Impeachment on the Table."

This is a chance to get organized locally and learn what's needed to lobby the new Congress for the investigations and impeachment hearings that will restore the rule of law to America.

You can sign up to attend a town hall forum, rally, vigil, training session, or house party in your area.

Or create a new event and post it online for others to sign up and attend.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10

If you choose to organize a new event or to help organize one that's already being planned, you'll want to check the list of available speakers and the many useful resources (petitions, information sheets, talking points, tools for honoring fallen troops, dramatic plays, videos, songs, imPEACHment food, shirts, signs, puppets) linked here:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10

New Resources

The resources provided now include sample media advisories, sample flyers, and a brief guide to how you can BE the media, including where you can post videos of your events online.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10

Events Already Planned

Events already planned include, on December 9 in NEW YORK, NY, a town hall forum with former Congress Member Elizabeth Holtzman, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace Cindy Sheehan, and Co-Founder of Democrats.com, ImpeachPAC.org, and ImpeachForChange.org Bob Fertik. And on December 10 in SANTA BARBARA, CA, a rally with Colonel Ann Wright, David Swanson, Rae Abileah, Elizabeth De la Vega, Dennis Loo, and Geoff Millard, followed by a march and a demonstration at Arlington West with Carlos and Melida Arredondo; in SAN FRANCISCO, CA a Human Rights/Impeachment Day Rally with The World Can't Wait, Codepink, Answer, Moveon, SF GREENS, Actsagainsttorture, and Impeachbush-cheney.com; in LOS ANGELES, CA an Impeachment Workshop providing materials for people to become media/street heat activists on the topic of Impeachment; in the SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA, an Impeachment Town Hall that will provide pro-impeachment individuals with the talking points necessary to counter those who disagree with impeachment. Confirmed speakers include Assemblyman Paul Koretz; author of "U.S. v. Bush", Elizabeth de la Vega; and political science professor, Dennis Loo; in CHULA VISTA, CA a Town Hall Forum on Presidential Accountability: Invited are Congressman Bob Filner, 49th CD Candidate Jeeni Criscenzo, and incoming president of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn; in CHICAGO, IL an Informal Impeachment Rally: People who want Bush and Cheney impeached should come out with signs, banners, and whatever else, indicating that you demand impeachment; in TALLAHASSEE, FL a Rally for War Crimes Trials with speakers, petitions, and fact sheets, held in conjuntion with Tallahassee's Eternal Peace Vigil; in GAINESVILLE, FL an Impeach, Indict, Imprison! event; in JACKSONVILLE, FL a rally to demand impeachment of Bush and Cheney; in WASHINGTON, DC a panel-led discussion and multi-media presentation; in WAYNE, NJ a Holiday Forum and Party: Why New Jersey Must Impeach the Bush Gang; in PROVIDENCE, RI a Rally and March; in CAMBRIDGE, MA a forum with notable musicians, activists, and orators; and an event in SEATTLE, WA with details to come.

Sign up to attend any of these events, or organize your own event, large or small:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10


Congressional District Impeachment Committees (CDIC) Keep Growing

We're up to 59 CDIC's! http://www.democrats.com/cdic-find
Don't see your CD? Start a CDIC here: http://democrats.com/cdic

Organizers are out in the streets collecting petitions. In Sioux Falls SD, Mike Mills went petitioning with his dog Sandy and was written up in the state's leading newspaper! Impeachment Organizer Makes News

Together we have collected over 31,000 signatures on our way to 1 million. Sign it today and spread the word! http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88


Moveon Write-in Campaign for Impeachment

Moveon just emailed all their members to choose their priorities for the Democratic Congress. Non-members can also participate here: http://pol.moveon.org/mandateforchange/survey2/index.html

We urge everyone to persuade Moveon to add impeachment to their priorities through a write-in campaign for "Impeach Bush and Cheney". You can write-in next to these questions:

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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Today's column is written primarily for the benefit of my fellow Christians and pastors. More than 31 years as a minister of the Gospel qualifies me to broach this subject. We Christians profess to trust in God. We preachers instruct people to trust in God. Furthermore, "In God We Trust" has been our national motto ever since the passengers of the Mayflower sewed the saying into the sail of their ship. However.....

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Hier können sich alle Menschen eintragen, die die Einführung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens unterstützen möchten.


Elisabeth Wilcke
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Antrag zur Einführung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens von 1200 Euro

„Die Höhe des Regelsatzes von 345 Euro für ALG-II-Bezieher wird abgelehnt, weil sie zur Sicherstellung eines kulturellen Existenzminimum nicht ausreicht. Der Satz führt zu Existenzangst, Armut, Ausgrenzung und Entmündigung. Die Mitgliederversammlung fordert daher alle gewerkschaftlichen Gremien auf, sich für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen von 1.200 Euro (für den Haushaltsvorstand) monatlich einzusetzen. Entsprechend sollen die Aktivitäten innerhalb von ver.di und dem DGB ausgearbeitet werden, um dieser Forderung zur politischen Durchsetzung zu verhelfen…“ Der Antrag wurde am 2.11. 2006 bei der Landesbezirkserwerbslosenkonferenz NRW mit 31 Stimmen dafür, dagegen 1 und 3 Enthaltungen angenommen. Der Antrag wird bei der Landesdelegiertenkonferenz ver.di NRW im März und im Februar bei der Bundeserwerbslosenkonferenz ver.di zur Abstimmung stehen. (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/existenz/antrag_nrw.pdf


Problematisch: Die Haltung der Gewerkschaften und traditionellen Linken zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen

Interview mit Mag Wompel, Labournet, zur aktuellen Rolle der Gewerkschaften und insbesondere ihrem Verhältnis zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen. Erschienen im Newsletter des Netzwerkes Grundeinkommen Nr. 9 vom November 2006 (pdf) http://www.archiv-grundeinkommen.de/netzwerk/newsletter-nov-2006/wompel.pdf


Newsletter Nr. 9 vom November 2006 des Netzwerkes Grundeinkommen (pdf) http://www.archiv-grundeinkommen.de/netzwerk/newsletter-nov-2006/nl9.pdf


Götz Werner und Kritik an seinem Konzept

"Hartz IV löst nur Leid aus"

Interview mit Götz Werner von Jens König und Hannes Koch in der taz vom 27.11.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/11/27/a0146.1/text

Aus dem Text: „…Wir brauchen kein Recht auf Arbeit, jedenfalls nicht auf weisungsgebundene, sozialversicherungspflichtige Erwerbsarbeit. Das ist nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Wir brauchen ein Recht auf Einkommen. Auf ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen…“


Schlaraffenland in Bürgerhand. Wie der "Verteilungssozialismus" mitten im Kapitalismus funktionieren kann, bleibt nicht nur bei Götz Werner ein Rätsel

„Im Interview (Freitag 44/06) begründete vor zwei Wochen Götz Werner, Inhaber der Drogeriekette "dm", weshalb er sich für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen einsetzt. Umstritten ist sein Vorschlag, zur Finanzierung eines neuen Sozialmodells eine reine Konsumbesteuerung einzuführen. Dann würden - so die Kritik - die Unternehmen die großen Gewinner sein, da sie von jeglicher Steuerlast befreit wären. Nur diese kapitalfreundliche Schlagseite in Werners Vision zu bemängeln, reicht nicht aus, meint nun der Ökonom Ulrich Busch und fahndet nach der volkswirtschaftlichen Logik des Hoffnungsträgers Grundeinkommen…“ Artikel von Ulrich Busch in Freitag vom 17.11.2006 http://www.freitag.de/2006/46/06460701.php


"Das Grundeinkommen schafft Vertrauen"

Würde ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen dazu führen, dass viele sich einfach nur hängen lassen? Nein, meint der Arbeitssoziologe Günter Voß. Es wäre vielmehr die Basis für ein sinnvolles, selbstverantwortliches Leben. Interview von Barbara Dribbusch in der taz vom 2.12.2006 http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/12/02/a0171.1/text


"Grundeinkommen ist nicht gleich Grundeinkommen" Warum ein genauer Blick auf die verschiedenen Modelle sich lohnt

Presse-Erklärung der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Grundeinkommen in und bei der Linkspartei.PDS vom 1. Dezember 2006 http://www.die-linke-grundeinkommen.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=2


Existenzgelddebatte in Österreich

Im Reich der Freiheit

„Grundeinkommen ist nicht an sich fortschrittlich, nur wenn es umverteilend und sozial gerecht gestaltet wird.“ - Christian Fuchs
(AttacGrundeinkommen) im MALMOE-Gespräch. Interview von Günther Hopfgartner in der österreichischen Zeitschrift Malmoe vom 20.11.2006 http://www.malmoe.org/artikel/verdienen/1314


Befreiung von Arbeit?

“Unter den gegebenen Bedingungen wäre ein Grundeinkommen für Frauen nicht zielführend.” - Die Ökonomin Gabriele Michalitsch im MALMOE-Gespräch. Gabriele Michalitsch ist Politikwissenschafterin und Ökonomin und hat derzeit die Aigner-Rollett-Gastprofessur an der Universität Graz inne. Interview von Günther Hopfgartner in der österreichischen Zeitschrift Malmoe vom 20.11.2006 http://www.malmoe.org/artikel/verdienen/1316

Siehe auch das Netzwerk Grundeinkommen Österreich http://www.grundeinkommen.at/


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006



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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Sends Letter To DOJ Urging Investigation Into Speaker Hastert's Land Deal

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By Paul Holden

A mobile phone company plans to turn a church spire into a phone mast.

But the suggestion has sparked protests from people living near St Mary's Church in Goring, Worthing.

Hampshire company QS4 said in a letter to residents that the scheme was the "preferred local option".

John Horsey, church relationship manager of QS4, wrote: "The installation might well reduce the number of aerials required locally."

But Simon Barwick, of Ilex Way, said: "We are totally against this and aim to fight it, not only because we live right next to the church but we are thinking of all the children and adults who live in the area near to the church and who use the church and church hall everyday.

"According to the letter the church spire is the preferred local option'. No it is not. I don't know anyone with a mobile who has a signal problem around here."

Mr Horsey said: "Mobile phone companies are seeking to improve reception for mobile phone users and to provide the new 3G services.

"The installation would be managed and built by QS4, which has a thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the industry.

Safety

"They are committed to the highest standards of health and safety and respect for the life and mission of the church.

"It is likely that one installation inside the church would do the job of several lower masts sited more conspicuously around the neighbourhood.

"Base stations are already installed in several churches around the country without any problems.

"The installation would have no visual effect on the neighbourhood, with the antennae inside the spire.

"The equipment cabinets would be either within the spire or discreetly located close to the spire."

The Rev Andrew Tremlett, vicar of Goring, said: "We are at a very early stage of the proposal. We have taken the initiative and tried to find out people's views.

"Obviously there will be those for and against.

"I understand that people will have concerns but millions of people are using mobile phones every day.

"The income from it is not huge, about £5,000 a year, about three or four per cent of our income. It would certainly help but it is not a make or break situation."

Final approval for the scheme would have to be given by the Diocese of Chichester.

People are being asked to submit their comments by December 4.

St Mary's dates back to the 12th century although most of the existing church was built in 1837.

Worthing Borough Council said it had not yet received an application.

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by Berit Kjos

Most of these mighty elites have chosen to live in the shadow of the mainstream media they control. Not so Rick Warren. Yet his global ambitions and magnetic leadership skills would serve them well, and Warren knows it. "Billions of people suffer each day from problems so big no government can solve them," Warren told the cheering crowd at Los Angeles' Angel Stadium back in 2005. "The only thing big enough to solve the problems of spiritual emptiness, selfish leadership, poverty, disease, and ignorance is the network of millions of churches all around the world.".....

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From: JCMPelican
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:37:35 EST
Subject: Alz file....10 hz flicker improves recognition memory...Uk 2006

1: BMC Neurosci. 2006 Mar 5;7:21.

10 Hz flicker improves recognition memory in older people.

* Williams J, * Ramaswamy D, * Oulhaj A. *
OPTIMA, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, OX2 6HE, UK. Jonathan.Williams@pharm.ox.ac.uk

BACKGROUND: 10 Hz electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha rhythms correlate with memory performance. Alpha and memory decline in older people. We wished to test if alpha-like EEG activity contributes to memory formation. Flicker can elicit alpha-like EEG activity. We tested if alpha-frequency flicker enhances memory in older people. Pariticpants aged 67-92 identified short words that followed 1 s of flicker at 9.0 Hz, 9.5 Hz, 10.0 Hz, 10.2 Hz, 10.5 Hz, 11.0 Hz, 11.5 Hz or 500 Hz. A few minutes later, we tested participants' recognition of the words (without flicker). RESULTS: Flicker frequencies close to 10 Hz (9.5-11.0 Hz) facilitated the identification of the test words in older participants. The same flicker frequencies increased recognition of the words more than other frequencies (9.0 Hz, 11.5 Hz and 500 Hz), irrespective of age. CONCLUSION: The frequency-specificity of flicker's effects in our participants paralleled the power spectrum of EEG alpha in the general population. This indicates that alpha-like EEG activity may subserve memory processes. Flicker may be able to help memory problems in older people.

PMID: 16515710 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Comment:

One can't help but wonder if a 10 hz flicker improves recognition memory WHY can't anyone prove other frequencies/oscillations/pulsations, etc. can actually cause harm? We know the answer, of course -- THEY don't want to acknowledge that which causes serious adverse health effects but rather, acknowledge only "biological effects" which are claimed to be meaningless!!! How much longer do scientists think they can continue to report therapies, etc. without admitting there are limits beyond which adverse health effects definitely occur?

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Re: Fwd: Alz file....10 hz flicker improves recognition memory...Uk 2006 From: Olle Johansson
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:01:58 +0100
To: JCMPelican

A very good and important comment, dear Joanne!

Best regards

Yours Olle
(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden)

Technology Review - Germany ... Die können erstens die Elektronik von empfindlichen Geräten stören und werden zweitens von vielen Menschen als Elektrosmog gefürchtet...

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Die Gefahren von Mobilfunk und Wireless LAN
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Laptops machen unfruchtbar
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WLAN Funknetz als Strahlenschleuder?
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Strahlend ins Internet-WLAN
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Funk-Netzwerke
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WLAN
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WLAN in Schulen
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Mit dem Laptop in den Unterricht
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WLAN via Laptops
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Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
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A Report by Rebecca MacNeice

Opponents of the School of the Americas think that with the new make-up of Congress, they might have the votes to shut down the controversial training center for foreign military officers. Last weekend, thousands of protesters returned to Fort Benning, Georgia, for the 17th consecutive year to call for the closure of the school, whose training manuals advocate torture, extortion and execution. Rebecca MacNeice was there and filed this report for Truthout.

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From Britain to China, Bush is the "go-it-alone cowboy" to much of the world, leading the United States in the direction he wants, regardless of what anyone else thinks.

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"One of the great hazards of the way electronic voting has been introduced in the United States is that it could end up undermining democracy by producing unreliable election results that cannot be truly audited or corrected. This month, that nightmare became a reality," write the editors of the New York Times. "Voting machines in a Congressional race in Florida - where else? - may have swallowed about 18,000 votes, far more than the nominal winner's razor-thin margin of victory. Because those votes were in the loser's strongest county, if there was a computer glitch it probably changed the outcome of the race."

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William Fisher writes: "The scene is a Federal Grand Jury room. There, impaneled ordinary citizens listen intently as a veteran federal prosecutor asks them to return an indictment unique in American history. The charge is Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. And the defendants are President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, outgoing defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former secretary of state Colin Powell."

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More than 3 years after President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq, which his supporters proclaimed would be a "cakewalk," American troops were engulfed in a wave of sectarian bloodletting yesterday that threatens to destroy the Iraqi government and may jeopardize a crisis summit this week with Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister.

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Chris Floyd writes: "There is a general misconception that the US military has always turned out plans like these to cover almost every possible contingency, every country; thus you're bound to run across off-the-wall scenarios, such as an invasion of Canada, that would never be implemented. But this is just a myth. In fact, war plans at this level of detail are never drawn up unless there are very serious policy considerations behind them. For example, the now-advanced plans for an airstrike on Iran are not simply contingency exercises churned out by Pentagon analysts, they were ordered directly by George W. Bush, as were the pre-war plans for the Iraq invasion."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706K.shtml

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Lou Dobbs and the Dead-End of White Anti-Corporate Populism

Ted Glick writes: "Dobbs is deeply concerned about the security of the USA in this post-9/11 age, and this is certainly understandable. But his insular, parochial, USA-first, narrow understanding of the world prevents him from appreciating what people all over the world and many US Americans do get: it is US foreign policy and a massively unjust world social order that is at the root of why a small number of people turn to al Qaeda-type terrorism."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706G.shtml

Cheney bypassed acts of Congress as defense secretary in the first Bush administration. And his office has been the driving force behind the current administration's hoarding of secrets, its efforts to impose greater political control over career officials, and its defiance of a law requiring the government to obtain warrants when wiretapping Americans. Cheney's staff has also been behind President Bush's record number of signing statements asserting his right to disregard laws.

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Lawmakers Lose Patience With Iraq Government

"It is not too late. The United States can still extricate itself honorably from an impending disaster in Iraq," Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said in urging for a planned withdrawal of US troops. "If the president fails to build a bipartisan foundation for an exit strategy, America will pay a high price for this blunder - one that we will have difficulty recovering from in the years ahead."

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27.11.06

Einem Bericht des ARD-Magazins "Report Mainz" zufolge sollen Verschleppungen in das US-Gefangenenlager Guantánamo auch im US-Hauptquartier Europa (EUCOM) in Stuttgart-Vaihingen geplant und koordiniert worden sein. Unter anderem soll es um die Verschleppung von sechs Algeriern im Januar 2002 aus Bosnien gegangen sein, berichtet das Magazin am Montag unter Bezugnahme auf einen EUCOM-Lagebericht. Die Männer seien über die Türkei in das US-Gefangenenlager auf Kuba gebracht worden, wo sie bis heute ohne förmliche Anklage inhaftiert seien. Nach Darstellung von Report arbeiten im Stuttgarter US-Hauptquartier auch deutsche "Verbindungsoffiziere".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14816

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US-Kidnapping-Aktionen wurden bei Stuttgart geplant

Neues Deutschland - Germany ... Hier in den Patch Barracks siedelt das US-Hauptquartier für Europa (EUCOM). Ein 95 Meter hoher Stahlgitter-Funkmast zeigt, dass man weltweit Verbindung hält...

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Keine Auskünfte : 75 Millionen für die Erben von Milliardär Flick

27.11.06

Nach Darstellung der Linksabgeordneten Barbara Höll soll das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen 75 Millionen an die Erben des Milliardärs Friedrich Karl Flick zurückzahlen, weil sich das Verfahren seit 1997 "hinzieht und die Steuerhinterziehung inzwischen verjährt ist". Obwohl die öffentlichen Kassen voraussichtlich dafür geradestehen müssten, erfahre die Öffentlichkeit "keinerlei Hintergründe über die Verantwortung für diesen Skandal". Das zeige die Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine Kleine Anfrage der Linksfraktion im Bundestag: Auf neun detaillierte Fragen, etwa worauf die Regierung die Länge des Verfahrens zurückführe und welche Defizite bei den Instrumenten der Behörden bestünden, habee das Finanzministerium lediglich mit dem folgenden Satz geantwortet: "Wegen der Verpflichtung, das Steuergeheimnis zu beachten, ist der Bundesregierung die Beantwortung der Fragen verwehrt." Anfang der 1980er Jahre erschütterte der so genannte "Flick-Skandal" die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. E s ging um Parteispenden und Vorwürfe der politischen Einflussnahme.

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"Hartzreise"

Text von Dieter Hildebrandt beim DGB, dem neuen Buch "Ausgebucht - Mit dem Bühnenbild im Koffer" von Dieter Hildebrandt entnommen, das am 14. September im Münchner Karl Blessing Verlag erscheinen wird. http://www.dgb.de/themen/hartz/umsetzung/hartz4/hildebrandt.htm/ Aus dem Text: „Warum heißt Hartz IV Hartz IV? Weil ein Hartz allein nicht so viel Unheil anrichten kann wie vier. (…) Mit Hartz IV sind vier Millionen Menschen in diesem Lande unter Generalverdacht. Vorverknackt. Auf Bewährung. Tägliche Meldepflicht. Was er hat, muss er verkaufen, wenn er was hat, was er nicht haben darf, wenn er was haben will. Den Schmuck seiner Frau, ein Theaterabonnement, Omas Silber. Und wenn er eine Fremdsprache spricht, wird ihm die als geistiges Guthaben von der Sozialhilfe abgezogen. Um das alles in den Griff zu bekommen, werden 80 000 Schnüffologen neu eingestellt, die als Staatsvermögensschutzpolizisten die verbotenen Nebeneinnahmen kontrollieren. Der Wohnungsinhaber hat dem Schnüffelinspektor einen Wohnungsschlüssel auszuhändigen, so dass der Beamte zu jeder Stunde Tag und Nacht hinein kann…“


Unzitat des Tages

"Das Prinzip, dass jemand, der lange Beiträge gezahlt hat, auch längere Zeit das Arbeitslosengeld I bezieht als ein junger Säufer, der nichts geleistet hat, ist richtig und sozial."

Karl-Josef Laumann, Vorsitzender der Christlich-Demokratischen Arbeitnehmerschaft (CDA) lt. Pressemitteilung der WAZ vom 24.11.2006: Westdeutsche Zeitung: CDA-Chef Laumann: "Junger Säufer" hat weniger Arbeitslosengeld I verdient http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=905539&ressort=2

Siehe dazu auch:

Trotz scharfer Kritik. Laumann verteidigt "Säufer-Vergleich"

„Trotz scharfer Kritik hat der nordrhein-westfälische Arbeitsminister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) seine Äußerung zu jungen Arbeitslosen verteidigt. Laumann hatte junge Menschen ohne Job indirekt mit Säufern gleichgesetzt. Der CDU-Politiker erklärte, er habe auf eine "gewaltige Rechtssicherheitslücke" in Deutschland aufmerksam machen wollen…“ Artikel in Rheinische Post online vom 27.11.2006 http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/politik/deutschland/380563


Aus: LabourNet, 27. November 2006

Militarizing Immigration For Profit
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Congressman Henry Waxman has spent the last six years waging a guerrilla campaign against the White House and its corporate allies, launching searing investigations into everything from military contracts to Medicare prices from his perch on the Government Reform Committee. In January, Waxman becomes committee chairman - and thus the lead Congressional hound of an administration many Democrats feel has blundered badly as it expanded the power of the executive branch.

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A message from Vida

Signed and forwarding.

Original Message

"Barbados Pets and Livestock Need Your Help!" petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/109837800

I lived a long time in this part of the Caribbean and saw heartbreaking cruelty, day by day. I am very thankful that finally some action is taken to change the situation down there. Please sign and crosspost the petition !

Thanks.

Monika

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Original Message:

STOP OFFICIAL CRUELTY AGAINST THE ANIMALS IN THE ANTI-RABIES CENTERS! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/822386383 PLEASE ALSO SEND LETTER. Subject: urgent help needed for the dogs and cats electrocuted by animal control in México!

It is very important! our friends from Mexico are fighting against the cruel killing of dogs, few days ago the mexician Tv shows across the country the way it is killed the dogs and cats in the pounds http://www.chetumail.com/news.php?newsid=3707 . Now the spokeman of the animal protection society, Antemio M. Pindter, ask we to send a message of support to the declaration against the cruelty. Please, send your message and spread to your lists and friends.

Thanks a lot!
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After seeing the video showing the cruelty by the personnel of the Animal Pound in Mexico, I add my voice of support to the declaration of the APAs, which urges the Mexican Government to stop all the cruel killing of domestic animals and to implement massive and free/low cost spay and neuter campaigns, as the only ethical and effective method to control the population of domestic animals.

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CounterPunch
by Gabriel Kolko

11/26/06

The failure of socialist theory is much more than matched by the failure of capitalism because the latter has the entire responsibility for keeping the status quo functioning-and it has no intellectual basis for doing so. The crisis that exists is that capitalism has reached a most dangerous stage in destructiveness -- and no opposition to it exists. This malaise involves foreign affairs and domestic affairs -- vast greed at home and adventure overseas. If the foreign policy aspects are largely American-originated, the rest of the world tolerates or sometimes collaborates with it. Its downfall is inevitable, perhaps imminent. The chaos that exists will exist in a void. No powerful force exists to challenge, much less replace it, and therefore it will continue to exist -- but at immense and growing human cost. Alternative visions are, for the moment at least, mostly cranky...

http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko11252006.html


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NewsDay
by Carolyn Eisenberg

11/26/06

Our pugnacious president visited Vietnam last week and found the lesson for Iraq: 'We'll succeed unless we quit.' In this reading of history, the United States was defeated in Vietnam because of a failure of will. If George W. Bush has his way, this won't happen again. U.S. troops are staying in Iraq. In his rigidity, Bush sounds eerily like President Lyndon Johnson, who could not acknowledge until too late his Vietnam policy was in shambles. But in the aftermath of the midterm elections, the calls for 'phased withdrawal' -- coming out of Congress, the Pentagon and the leaky Iraq Study Group -- evoke errors of the Nixon years...

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Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

11/26/06

War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war. In this prolonged stage, most people have grown tired of the war. They have surrendered their prior illusions about the glorious outcomes it was supposed to bring. They have come to understand that for them it is worse than pointless, that its costs have been real and its benefits a chimera, and that it seems likely to damage them further as it continues. Yet the war goes on and on, with no end in sight. We are now well into this stage of the war in Iraq...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

11/26/06

As a gray dawn broke, hundreds of 3rd Infantry Division soldiers gathered on a Georgia marching ground this month and listened to a long list of names of fallen comrades. Taps rose mournfully above rows of young redbud trees planted for each of the division's 317 soldiers who have died in Iraq. Col. John Charlton, commander of the division's 1st Brigade, which next month begins its third Iraq tour in four years, stepped forward. 'Be thankful for your families, your health, and for every day that you're alive,' he advised...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15898612/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

11/26/06

A leading Republican senator called Sunday for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq, declaring that a U.S. pullout is needed to head off 'impending disaster' in the nearly 4-year-old war. 'There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq,' Sen. Chuck Hagel wrote in Sunday's edition of The Washington Post. Instead, he said, President Bush should use the upcoming report from a bipartisan panel led by former Secretary of State James Baker to begin laying the groundwork for a 'phased withdrawal' of U.S. troops...

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Calgary Sun [Canada]

11/24/06

Innocent until proven guilty will no longer apply to people charged with serious gun crimes, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced yesterday. The Tory PM, flanked by Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller, said anyone charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping and extortion while using a gun will have to make the case for their freedom under proposed bail rules. The Criminal Code rules, as they exist now, force the Crown to offer up evidence on why the accused should not be granted bail. 'This is unacceptable,' Harper said. 'Our legislation will reverse the onus so that people charged with serious gun crimes will have to demonstrate to the courts why they should not stay in custody until their trial'...

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/11/24/2474003-sun.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

After six years of technological research, more than $4 billion spent by Washington on new machinery and a widespread overhaul of the nation's voting system, this month's midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts.

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



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Arlen Parsa writes: "Never before in American history has such a costly war been fought with so little immediate sacrifice asked of all Americans. Less than one year into his first term, President Bush made clear the terms of his war: every other country was either with us, or against us... and that America is once again a participant in a grand 'struggle for civilization.' This rhetoric should come as no surprise considering that the commander-in-chief has already likened himself to other wartime leaders such as Winston Churchill and compared his 'War on Terror' to World War II. Yet, for such a war with so much in the balance, our leaders have asked surprisingly little of us."

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



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Iraq's Shiite prime minister, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Iraq into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Shiite and Sunni Arab leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with President Bush next week. On Saturday, a prominent Sunni religious leader warned that Iraq's escalating sectarian violence will spread throughout the Middle East unless the international community withdraws support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki 's government.

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


A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?

"Is Iraq in a civil war?" asks Edward Wong. "Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of American and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq meets the standard definition of civil war. The common scholarly definition has two main criteria. The first says that the warring groups must be from the same country and fighting for control of the political center, control over a separatist state or to force a major change in policy. The second says that at least 1,000 people must have been killed in total, with at least 100 from each side."

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



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While Americans were busy digesting their Thanksgiving feasts, the rest of the world was barfing up dollars. As a result of our massive trade deficits, foreigners certainly have their bellies full of them.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Schiff/nov242006.html



US dollar 'will keep falling

The US dollar has reached a 'tipping point' as foreign exchange markets wake up to the threat that the Federal Reserve will have to slash interest rates in the new year to stave off recession, analysts say. After a sharp sell-off on Friday took the greenback to 18-month lows against the euro, and pushed the pound to $1.93, economists warned that there was worse to come for the US currency.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956925,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Santa Barbara Chapter of Veterans for Peace revealed to be a Pentagon surveillance target.

http://www.ksby.com/home/headlines/4738066.html



State police eyed as hubs of terrorism data network

A new plan from the U.S. intelligence czar will use intelligence centers run by state police as the hubs for a national network of officials from different agencies and levels of government sharing information about terrorism.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061123-111736-4657r.htm



Whistle-blowers tell of cost of conscience

In 2002, decorated FBI Special Agent Mike German was investigating meetings between terrorism suspects. When he discovered other officers had jeopardized the investigation by violating wiretapping regulations, he reported what he found to his supervisors, in accordance with FBI policy.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistle-blowers_x.htm


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From Information Clearing House

I never saw neighbours driven out of their homes just for their sect. And I never saw entire families being slaughtered and killed'.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2470188,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Catherine Rampell

"Immediately (after 9/11), numerous government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to happen?' " Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. "The truth is, they did know."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15735.htm

By Howard Zinn

Whether you call yourself a totalitarian state or you call yourself a democracy, it works the same way, and that is, the leaders of the country are able to cajole or coerce and entice the people into war by scaring them, telling them they’re in danger, and threatening them and coercing them, that if they don’t go along, they will be considered unpatriotic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15739.htm



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By Mike Whitney

There are no “accidents” in Middle East politics. This week’s assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister, Pierre Gemayel can only be understood in the context of the ongoing struggle between the competing political forces in the region. Presently, the United States is the big loser in this regard due to its failed campaign in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15733.htm

Part 1

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D.

As I have mentioned many times before, the power elite's favorite means of controlling people is the dialectical process. This often involves creating a "threat" to a particular population. For example, the terrorist threat after 9/11 caused Americans to be willing to give up certain of their freedoms which they had been unwilling to give up before 9/11.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis83.htm



Part 2

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D.

In 1952---John D. Rockefeller III and John Foster Dulles found the Population Council to fund population control measures.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis84.htm



Part 3

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

Rockefeller Foundation gives $2 million to Hua Lian Pharmaceutical in Shanghai to upgrade its factory, which has been for years producing the RU-486 abortion drug as a key ingredient in China's population control strategy......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis85.htm



Part 4

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D.

President Bush has also long supported a Free Trade Area of the Americas, and if you look at the FTAA website, you can see its purpose is to "unite the economies of the Americas into a single free trade area." Once all the nations of the Americas have their economies united, it will be impossible for the U.S. not to be effected by economic problems in any Latin American nation. This will mean American independence will be negatively impacted......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis87.htm



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