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A message from Gwen H.

Tom Engelhardt writes: "Think of the ISG as the clean-up-crew version of the Blue Team of Millennium Challenge '02. Before they even began, Bush family consigliere Baker and cohorts ensured that while the ISG would be filled with notable movers and shakers from numerous previous administrations, no one on it, nor any expert 'team' advising it, would represent the one point of view that a majority of Americans have by now come to support - actual withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq on a set timeline."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306I.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

House Democrats are seriously exploring the creation of an independent ethics arm to enforce new rules on travel, lobbying, gifts and other issues that Democrats intend to put in place on taking power next month.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306H.shtml

The incoming Democratic chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306F.shtml



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

Bush, cool to both of the Iraq Study Group's central ideas, had been expected to follow his information-gathering with a pre-Christmas announcement of his own altered blueprint for US involvement in Iraq. But the White House, citing the president's request for more time to refine and game out new policies, said Tuesday that Bush would wait until early next year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group

The editors of the New York Times write: "Mr. Bush has no more time to waste on 'listening tours' and photo ops. The nation is in a crisis, and Americans need to hear how he plans to unwind the chaos he has unleashed in Iraq. If the president is delaying because he is searching for a good option, he can stop. There are none."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306C.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5406/


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A message from NANCY

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"Save The Rare Abyssinian Lion Cubs" petition at
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Bush v. The Two Majorities
http://ga3.org/ct/Ip20pgF1VmE9/

"The refusal by the National Science Teachers Association to distribute Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' has ignited a firestorm of controversy and an avalanche of inquiries that the NSTA continues to mishandle," writes John Borowski.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306O.shtml



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

Mission (Un)accomplished

Sari Gelzer interviews Tom Engelhardt about his new book, Mission Unaccomplished. Gelzer writes, "The collection of interviews surpasses the usual mainstream media's soundbytes and the reader enters the realm of intimate discussion with some of the most interesting and intelligent peace activists, former military personnel, scholars, journalists, and everyday Americans."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306K.shtml

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Mission accomplished

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/03/06

The announced war aim of the Bush administration was to rid Saddam of his alleged 'weapons of mass destruction,' and when the WMD myth was finally and definitively debunked, they told us we were there to install a functioning democracy. That didn't pan out, either -- unless one considers Shi'ite death squads, and a campaign of ethnic cleansing that puts the one supposedly initiated by Slobodan Milosevic to shame, legitimate expressions of the demos. America's real war aims are another matter entirely, and they are coming into focus as the situation on the ground develops. After all, why assume that what is currently happening in Iraq isn't part of the program? Surely the Americans knew the dismemberment of the Iraqi state would have to mean Shi'ite hegemony, an empowered Iran, and the prospect of a regionalized conflagration. It defies belief that they didn't: our rulers may be evil, but they sure as heck aren't stupid (and I'm not talking about the president, who is a genuine dolt)...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10253



Mission unaccomplished

The Nation
by Tom Engelhardt

05/01/07

It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted an S-3B Viking sub reconnaissance Naval jet onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Scott Sforza, a former ABC producer, had ‘embedded’ himself on that aircraft carrier days before the President landed. Along with Bob DeServi, a former NBC cameraman and lighting specialist, and Greg Jenkins, a former Fox News television producer, he had planned out every detail of the President’s arrival — as Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times put it then — ‘even down to the members of the Lincoln crew arrayed in coordinated shirt colors over Mr. Bush’s right shoulder and the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner placed to perfectly capture the president and the celebratory two words in a single shot. The speech was specifically timed for what image makers call ‘magic hour light,’ which cast a golden glow on Mr. Bush’...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=191466


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush's Mission Accomplished?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/22



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Natural Resources Defense Council's

CALIFORNIA ACTIVIST NETWORK ACTION ALERT

NRDC's California Activist Network was formed to mobilize and provide action tools to Californians and others concerned with protecting the state's extraordinary wealth of natural treasures and the health of its citizens.

December 13, 2006

Urgent alert: Help protect California's coast from Navy sonar
Take action now at http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nrdcaction_121306

California has a crucial opportunity this week to protect whales and other marine life along its coast from Navy sonar, and we need your help to ensure that this opportunity is not missed. The Navy will appear this Friday before the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco, asking for the commission's approval to conduct major sonar exercises off the southern California coast. This will be the commission's first-ever opportunity to weigh in on mid-frequency sonar training.

As you may already know, whales around the world have been found dead or dying following encounters with mid-frequency military sonar. Although the Navy itself has acknowledged the lethal impacts of this technology, which floods vast areas of the ocean with ear-splitting noise, it has made no assurances that it will take common-sense steps necessary to protect marine life. The Navy fails to explain, for example, how it will protect migrating gray whales along California's coast; how it will conduct exercises at night or in other conditions of low visibility; or whether it will enforce robust "safety zones" around sonar vessels to avoid exposing whales to dangerous sound. The Coastal Commission has required these and other protective measures of the Navy and other noise-producers in the past, and it should demand no less here.

== What to do == Send a message right away urging the California Coastal Commission to do all it can to protect whales and other marine life from harmful Navy sonar.

== Contact information == You can send a message to the Coastal Commission directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nrdcaction_121306 Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

If you live in the San Francisco area and would like to do more, please attend the California Coastal Commission public hearing this Friday morning (details below) and speak out to make sure the Navy protects marine life when it trains with sonar off California's coast. NRDC attorney Cara Horowitz will be speaking during the hearing, and will be available to answer questions if you choose to attend.

== When and Where == Friday, December 15, 9:00am Hyatt Regency Embarcadero
5 Embarcadero Plaza San Francisco

California Coastal Commission, Att'n: Mark Delaplaine
45 Fremont Street Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94105-2219 Email: mdelaplaine @coastal.ca.gov


== Sample letter ==

Subject: Protect California's coast from Navy sonar

Dear Mr. Delaplaine and members of the commission,

I urge the Coastal Commission to do all it can to protect whales and other marine life from harmful Navy sonar training along California's coast.

This is the commission's first-ever opportunity to weigh in on the Navy's mid-frequency sonar training. As you know, whales around the world have been found dead or dying following encounters with mid-frequency military sonar, and the Navy itself has acknowledged the lethal impacts of this technology, which floods vast areas of the ocean with ear-splitting noise. Although training like this has been conducted for decades, we are only now beginning to understand the serious impacts it is having on whales and other coastal resources around the world, and in our own backyard.

That's why the commission must not approve the Navy's proposed training without assurances that the Navy will take all steps necessary to protect marine life. In its application, the Navy fails to explain, for example, how it will protect migrating gray whales along California's coast; how it will protect whales during nighttime exercises or in other conditions of low visibility; or whether it will enforce robust "safety zones" around sonar vessels to avoid exposing whales to harmful sound. The commission has required these and other protective measures of the Navy in the past, and I urge it to stand strong and demand no less here.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

Please also forward this message to your friends and co-workers who live in California, and urge them to contact the Coastal Commission as well.

Thank you!



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

Entwurf für eine Volksinitiative vom Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2007/volksini.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006

„Von Ende Januar bis Anfang März 2007 läuft der Liedermacher Heinz Ratz von Dortmund nach München, um auf die oft sehr verzweifelte Situation von Obdachlosen in Deutschland aufmerksam zu machen. Es ist damit auch ein Lauf gegen den zunehmenden Abbau von sozialen Einrichtungen und die Kürzungen von Sozialleistungen, die eine zunehmende Armut bewirken und ein wachsendes Gefälle zwischen Arm und Reich. Er bewältigt die gesamte Strecke zu Fuß und tritt jeden Abend in wechselnder Besetzung mit seinem Programm „Strom & Wasser“ auf. Die Auftritte sind eintrittsfrei, um auch mittellosen Zuschauern zu ermöglichen, durch einen Besuch des Konzerts ihren Protest gegen den Sozialabbau in Deutschland und ihre Unterstützung für den Lauf auszudrücken. Während der Konzerte werden Spenden gesammelt, welche direkt in die lokale Unterstützung von Obdachlosen fließen. Als special guests treten bei den Konzerten oft bekannte Kollegen auf, welche die Aktion unterstützen. Mit dabei sind z.B. Konstantin Wecker, Götz Widmann und Gerburg Jahnke (ex-„Missfits“)…“ Ausführliche (und immer aktuelle) Informationen gibt es auf der Aktionshomepage http://www.laufgegendiekaelte.de

Siehe dort auch: „Wie kann ich helfen?“ http://www.laufgegendiekaelte.de/start/helfen/


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006

Überarbeitetes und mit Anmerkungen und Literaturverweisen versehenes Manuskript von Michael Wolf in UTOPIEkreativ zum Thema »Erfahrungen aus der lokalen Umsetzung des SGB II – Strukturen, Leistungsprozess, Handlungsbedarfe« http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=2754


Was tun?

„Den KollegInnen in den Betrieben wird zunehmend klar: „Kein Arbeitsplatz ist mehr sicher. Der Stress nimmt ungeheuer zu. Und was wir produzieren, macht nicht viel Sinn. Nach Feierabend ist der Rest des Tages immer noch von unserer Erwerbsarbeit bestimmt: Abhängen, Passivität, Kräfte regenerieren, Drogen konsumieren. Wo kommen wir in unserem Leben eigentlich noch vor? Unsere eigentlichen Fähigkeiten kommen gar nicht zur Geltung, werden gar nicht gebraucht. Oder wir halten sie bewusst zurück, weil wir keine Perlen vor die Säue werfen wollen. Ist dem nichts entgegenzusetzen? Ist unser einziges Ziel, gesund in Rente zu gehen? Wollen wir erst nach der Erwerbsarbeit leben?“ Viele akzeptieren das nicht, arbeiten mit innerer Kündigung und machen sich bei der Arbeit einen schlauen Lenz und genießen das Leben. Nach Feierabend werden sie erst richtig kreativ und produktiv, in ihren Hobbys, Schreibergärten, Nachbarschaften. Das lässt sich ausbauen, organisieren, zum Erfahrungsaustausch. Menschen, die nicht mit ihrer Firma verheiratet sind, tun sich zusammen, um Erfahrungen auszutauschen, wie mensch die Zwangsarbeit verträglich machen kann…“ Diskussionsbeitrag von Karl-Heinz Thier http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/prekaer/wastun.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006

Hartz IV: Leistungen und Auswirkungen

Wenn der Weihnachtsmann nicht kommt. Umfrage: Hartz IV-Betroffene haben kein Geld für Weihnachten - Bundesregierung täuscht die Öffentlichkeit bewusst

Pressemeldung des Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland vom 07.12.2006 http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/wenn_der_weihnachtsmann_nicht_kommt.htm


Übersicht über Leistungen der sozialen Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende

Broschüre des Evangelischen Bildungswerkes und des Arbeitslosenzentrums Dortmund vom November 2006 (Stand 25.7.06) (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/05_soziales/sgb_ii/2006_11_00_bruhn-tripp.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006

Gesetzliche Grundlagen der Lohnersatzleistungen

Vergifteter Köder. Im Rüttgers-Antrag, der vom CDU-Parteitag angenommen wurde, war ein pikantes Detail versteckt

„Jürgen Rüttgers hat es hervorragend eingefädelt, sich mit seinem Vorschlag zur Verlängerung der Bezugsdauer des Arbeitslosengeldes I (ALG I) als Vorkämpfer eines sozialen Flügels der CDU zu inszenieren. Das konnte dem NRW-Ministerpräsidenten nur gelingen, weil der eigentliche Sprengsatz im seinem Antrag, den der CDU-Parteitag vergangene Woche schließlich angenommen hat, nicht diskutiert wurde. Dort steht nicht nur, dass diejenigen, die viele Jahre in die Arbeitslosenversicherung eingezahlt haben, entsprechend längeren Anspruch auf ALG I erhalten, sondern auch, dass die Bedingungen für Hartz IV-Empfänger spürbar verschärft werden sollen…“ Artikel von Gaby Gottwald in Freitag vom 08.12.2006 http://www.freitag.de/2006/49/06490603.php


Sozialleistungen: Staatliche Hilfe nur noch gegen digitale Unterschrift

„Millionen Bürger, die eine staatliche Sozialleistung beziehen, müssen dafür sich künftig eine neue Karte mit einer elektronischen Unterschrift besorgen. Die Regelung soll nach Informationen der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung für alle Staatsleistungen gelten, die vom Arbeitseinkommen abhängen…“ Artikel von Andreas Mihm in der FAZ vom 06. Dezember 2006 http://www.faz.net/s/RubEC1ACFE1EE274C81BCD3621EF555C83C/Doc~E2A14BD1EBAFF42589EAE6A19F4D249B4~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2006



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

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/456440372


From Linda H.

Free Market News Network
by Tibor R. Machan

12/12/06

Why do we need values? Because we, humans, are just the sort of living beings that lack instincts. We are born with the instinct to suckle and that is about it -- the rest is a matter of learning. And it isn't only the kind of learning that most higher animals need, namely, being trained in some skills. It is learning on one's own, to figure out ideas, to form principles about life and its innumerable facets. That is what all the fuss is about when we talk about the ethics of merchants, lawyers, doctors, politicians, parents, etc. And while some of this has become submerged in the discipline of psychology -- so that for example such chintzy public forums as the Oprah show and The View will rarely talk about ethics and focus, instead, on psychological problems -- it is still quite inescapable...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/117/6556/america.asp?nid=6556&wid=117



Natural rights as derived from ethical egoism

Rebirth of Reason
by Edward W. Younkins

12/11/06

Unlike Rasmussen and Den Uyl, prominent philosopher of human flourishing, Tibor R. Machan, approaches the derivation of natural rights by way of ethical egoism. For Machan, rights are a moral concept rather than a metanormative one. His strong case for natural rights and the legitimacy of the minimal state rests on a classical egoist account of morality. Building upon the thought of Ayn Rand and Aristotle, Machan argues in a series of books that each person should pursue his rational self-interest as a matter of his primary moral responsibility. He explains that it is from this responsibility that every other moral principle, including the principle of natural rights, gains its justification. Rights are identified by an understanding of human nature as having a moral dimension...

http://tinyurl.com/yc8mgt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+Machan

As President George W. Bush agonizes over which bits of last week's Baker-Hamilton report to adopt for his forthcoming "new way forward in Iraq" announcement, another consensus is emerging in Washington on how to handle the situation: Blame the Iraqis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baker-Hamilton+report

In October 2005, less than two months after Hurricane Katrina struck, Pedro Parra-Sanchez was arrested for allegedly stabbing a man with a broken bottle during a fight. With the city's prison damaged by flooding, he was taken to a makeshift jail at the Greyhound bus station, then transferred to a correctional facility about 70 miles away, and later to a prison in southwest Louisiana. That's where Parra-Sanchez sat for more than a year - never seeing a lawyer or setting foot in a courtroom. By law, the district attorney should have brought Parra-Sanchez to court to formally charge him within 60 days. Instead, "he disappeared," said Pamela R. Metzger, director of Tulane University's Criminal Law Clinic. "The system failed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206S.shtml



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

US representative Gary Miller has allegedly made a number of moves over the years in which he brought his congressional muscle to bear on personal business matters, according to the former staff members and the correspondence from Miller's congressional office - handwritten notes, letters on Miller's congressional letterhead and emails.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206R.shtml



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

Fed in bind as Paulsen, Bernanke head to China.
http://tinyurl.com/y4sms5



Greenspan sees more declines in dollar

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the dollar will continue to drift downwards on growing signs that OPEC nations are shifting their assets out of the US dollar towards the euro and yen.

http://tinyurl.com/yywsga


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decline+dollar

Oil producing countries have reduced their exposure to the dollar to the lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into euros, yen and sterling, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/277471c2-8889-11db-b485-0000779e2340.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=shun+dollar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decline+dollar

Half of the bank's 29 highest-level executives have departed since Wolfowitz, the former U.S. deputy Defense secretary and an architect of President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, took office in June 2005.

http://tinyurl.com/tn88k



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

Video

Former Guantanamo prisoner talks about his life and treatment by the US forces.
http://tinyurl.com/y4s4wj



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

President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, the White House said on Tuesday amid polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12333199.htm


From Information Clearing House

Only 4 percent say the U.S. should keep fighting as it is doing now.
http://cbs4.com/topstories/topstories_story_345202005.html


From Information Clearing House

Donald Rumsfeld allowed just one U.S. journalist to accompany him on his taxpayer-funded farewell tour to Iraq: Fox News' Sean Hannity. And when Rumsfeld sat down for an interview with Hannity, it seems that he didn't have much to say.

http://tinyurl.com/yy7n6z



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

In this compelling docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, the 'Tipton Three' narrate their own experiences in America's controversial offshore detention camp. Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque horrors that awaited them there, until finally they were released without charge or apology.

http://tinyurl.com/y4njho



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

By K Gajendra Singh

It was the Iraqi resistance in Iraq which exposed the limits of US military power sending a resounding warning to aggressors and occupiers of other people's lands.

http://tinyurl.com/y58rb4



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gajendra+Singh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=quagmire

Joel S. Hirschhorn

The Bush administration successfully talked up the global threat from terrorism while it pursued domestic and foreign policies promoting economic apartheid, a far greater and more pervasive threat to national and global stability.

http://tinyurl.com/yx6ypn

By Mike Whitney

Should we build a little park with Sycamore trees and disabled access so the thousands of amputees, paraplegics and trauma victims can huddle together while they try to cope with the surge of emotion; or amble about in stunned silence trying to make some sense of what they’ve done, or what they’ve seen, or what they’ve lost?

http://tinyurl.com/y5ungd



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

http://www.net-tribune.de/article/131206-06.php

Vodafone und Telekom decken mit UMTS-Netz weite Teile Deutschlands ab
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/loberfeld4.html

On the American dogs of war
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nlnews @archant.co.uk

13 December 2006

HARINGEY Council makes more than £250,000 a year from mobile phone masts situated on its land and buildings.

The council charges rent on the 25 mobile phone mast sites in the borough on its land, each raking in more than £10,000 in rent per year and totalling £257,000, which the council puts into "central funds".

This is on top of the business rates it earns from all 125 masts sited in the borough, which are collected by central government and redistributed across the country, based on local populations.

The council is now considering turning the tables - approaching mobile phone companies itself and offering its land and buildings for rent, anticipating one new mast will bring in another £10,000 per year.

Anti-phone mast protestor Sarah Purdy, who lives close to Fortismere School, Muswell Hill, argues the money should be ring-fenced to fight company appeals against council decisions to refuse their mast applications.

She said: "One of the reasons the council give for not refusing a phone mast application is that they say, 'Well, they will only appeal and win anyway and it is costly for the council'. So, we're saying, 'Look, you're getting this money from rent so why not use it for the appeal and not have it come from other sources. What are they doing with the mast money anyway?"

A spokesman for Haringey Council said: "As this income is provisional and therefore not guaranteed, it has not yet been allocated to a specific project or scheme and will go into central funds.

"This kind of income helps keep Council Tax bills down and provide much-needed services."

He added: "Potential litigation is speculation at this stage and even if it did occur, we have insurance cover for such situations, therefore there is no need to ring-fence this money.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Purdy

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1212-04.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1212-22.htm

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1212-29.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1212-02.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1212-01.htm



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http://harpers.org/jrm-centrist-democrats-3402838.html


Informant: Duane Roberts

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

13. Dezember 2006

Zum morgigen fünften Jahrestag des rot-grünen Beschlusses zum Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie erklärt der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linkspartei.PDS Wolfgang Methling:

Die Linkspartei hat vor fünf Jahren den Beschluss der damaligen rot-grünen Bundesregierung als Schritt in die richtige Richtung gewürdigt. Wenn auch damals wie heute gilt: Wir hätten uns eine kürzere Übergangsfrist gewünscht, denn es geht schon heute keine Lampe aus, wenn sofort alle AKW vom Netz genommen würden. Die Störfälle in AKW der letzten Zeit zeigen deutlich: Atomenergie ist nicht beherrschbar und der Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie keine nationale Angelegenheit. So wendet sich die Linkspartei auch gegen den EU-subventionierten Bau von AKW ins Süd-Osteuropa. Wir lehnen die Wiederaufarbeitung atomarer Brennstoffe ebenso ab, wie die grenzüberschreitenden Atommülltransporte. Der Druck der Energiegiganten auf die Bundesregierung mit der Forderung, den Atomausstieg rückgängig zu machen, zeigt, wie notwendig es ist, auch im Interesse der Verbraucher, der Versorgungssicherheit der Bevölkerung und im Hinblick auf zu hohe Energiekosten, die Macht der Stromkonzerne zu begrenzen. Sichere Energieversorgung aller Menschen zu sozialverträglichen Preisen ist ohne jede Einschränkung auch ohne Atomstrom möglich. Deshalb ist die Linkspartei für den generellen Vorrang von erneuerbaren Energien vor allen anderen Energieträgern.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34768

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Informant: Duane Roberts



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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/05/18335222.php


Informant: Duane Roberts



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Despite the mainstream media's sound and fury, many analysts say the Iraq Study Group report has little to do with leaving Iraq any time soon. Instead, they fear the report's diligent research and assiduous recommendations serve to obfuscate the depth of the US-created crisis, change the nature of the occupation, pave the way for multinational privatization of Iraq's resources, and distract from increasingly stentorian calls for immediate withdrawal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206A.shtml



A Peace Prize for Iraq: The Economist's Solution to the War

Dean Baker writes: "The events of the last week should have dashed any hopes that the Iraq Study Group's plan would lead to a quick US withdrawal from Iraq and an end to the violence. President Bush has made it clear that he will not accept the ISG plan for a phased withdrawal of troops. Even if he did accept the ISG plan, it is not clear how much longer US troops would remain in Iraq, nor that the plan would lead to an end to the civil war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206E.shtml



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As you may have read in the news, the violence in Darfur is spreading into the neighboring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic.

I hope you'll take a moment to sign the petition to President Bush and the UN Secretary-General.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014501MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML


Bob Fertik


Dear Friend, Help Save Darfur

Millions of people face death, rape, torture, starvation and disease.

Please don't wait any longer to get involved.

Click here now to sign the petition to President Bush and the UN Secretary-General.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014502MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Did you know that 2.5 million people have already been driven from their homes in Darfur, Sudan?

Each day, these people face threats that are hard for many of us to even imagine -- rape, murder, disease, torture, and starvation.

These people need our help to stop this genocide and they need it NOW.

Please click here to sign the Save Darfur Coalition's petition urging President Bush and the UN Secretary-General to take immediate steps to stop the killing.
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Together, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people in the region who desperately need outside help.

Please join the Save Darfur Coalition in urging the international community to prevent further killings, displacement, and rape by:

* Deploying the UN peacekeeping force that has already been authorized;

* Strengthening the understaffed African Union force that is already in Darfur;

* Establishing a no-fly zone;

* Increasing humanitarian aid; and

* Ensuring access for the delivery of food, medication and other essential supplies.

Please do not stand by while the violence continues – you can make a difference. Click here now to take the first step by signing our petition.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014504MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you.

Thank you for your help.

All the best,

David Rubenstein
Save Darfur Coalition

The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 175 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of more than two million people in the Darfur region. To learn more, please visit http://www.savedarfur.org/.



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12.12.06

UNO-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan hat zum Abschluss seiner Amtszeit scharfe Kritik an der Regierung von US-Präsident George W. Bush geübt. In einer Rede im Präsident-Truman Museum in Independence im US-Bundesstaat Missouri warf Annan der US-Regierung erneut vor, den Irakkrieg gegen "den internationalen Willen" begonnen zu haben.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14927

12.12.06

Die deutsche Bundesregierung möchte weiterhin eine gemeinsame Verfassung für Europa durchsetzen. Während des deutschen EU-Ratsvorsitzes im kommenden Jahr möchte sie "dem Verfassungsprozess neue Impulse verleihen". Die Bundesregierung will aber einem Beschluss vom Dienstag zufolge offenbar weder eine Neuverhandlung des Vertragstextes noch eine Abstimmung über nur einen Teil des bestehenden Verfassungsentwurfs. Eine "Verfassung light" könne man sich nicht als Ergebnis der deutschen Ratspräsidentschaft vorstellen, hieß es in Regierungskreisen in Berlin. Vielmehr wurde das Ziel erneuert, bis 2009 zu einem Abschluss über die erste EU-Verfassung zu kommen - scheinbar in der bisherigen Version, die in Referenden in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden förmlich gescheitert ist.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14934

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/opinion/11schlosser.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


Informant: NHNE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1970086,00.html


Informant: Marlene Martin



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Changing The Nation's Climate
http://ga3.org/ct/M120pgF1KRh4/

Taking Back The Pentagon
http://ga3.org/ct/Mp20pgF1KRhv/

by Danny Schechter, TomPaine.com

The Bush administration says don't worry about our debt to China. Don't believe them.
http://ga3.org/ct/Md20pgF1KRhr/

AlterNet
by Maureen Webb

12/12/06

The story which broke last week about a traveler risk scoring system called the Automated Targeting System, or "ATS," evokes an image of an Orwellian world in which the State compiles a secret dossier on every individual and sorts the population according to secret criteria, assigning each person a "risk score." The individual has no recourse to challenge his risk rating, and he has no way of correcting any false or incomplete information about him. In fact, he will never know what information is being used against him, or even the criteria on which he has been judged a risk to the State. It is a disturbing image, and the fact that the government has been conducting the ATS program in secret for four years has shocked many people. However, the ATS is hardly a surprise to those who have been keeping track of similar programs...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/45285/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Automated+Targeting+System

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

12/11/06

This holiday travel season, Santa Claus is not the only one who is checking to see whether you've been naughty or nice. For the last four years, the U.S. government has been snooping by computer into people's travel records and assigning them a risk score for being terrorists or criminals. Of all the government's violations of civil liberties since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System (ATS) is probably one of the worst in terms of numbers of people affected...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1867


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

12/12/06

When I started No Force, I decided that there were already enough people writing and reporting on the War in Iraq, and I didn't want the war to obliterate attention to other relevant issues. An update is, however, appropriate in looking back. As of today, 2,931 Americans have lost their lives in Iraq, another 21,778 are wounded, and the conflict is still escalating. The latest surveys now show that less than 30% of Americans approve of the way Bush is handling the war. Nearly 2/3 of us do not think Iraq will end up with a stable, democratic government, and only 9% think we will exit with a clear-cut victory...

http://tinyurl.com/wceyt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith

MSNBC

12/11/06

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, urged the United States not to abandon its democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism. In remarks Monday at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Annan also said the Security Council should be expanded. 'Human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity,' Annan told a packed crowd that included international media...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16153753/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12turt.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

"Having used Latino and labor votes to recapture control of the US Congress, some influential Democratic Party power brokers now seem intent on attacking the very base that produced their victory," writes David Bacon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206K.shtml

Chris Floyd begins, "Like the two entwining strands of the double helix, law and power form the genetic structure of government. Law is nothing but empty verbiage without power to back it up, enforce it, embody it. And power without law is nothing but a mad ape, baring its teeth, thumping its chest, raping and beating where it pleases, taking what it wants: a bestial thing, born in the muddy swamp of our lowest, blindest, rawest biochemical impulses. Disconnect these strands and things fall apart, as Yeats says; the center literally cannot hold, and the blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon the world."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206J.shtml



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Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78831/


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/wissenswertes_zum_umgang_mit_handys.doc


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

Howard Zinn: „Krieg gegen den Terrorismus wird selbst zum Terror“. Der populäre US-Historiker in der amerikanischen Nachrichtensendung Democracy now!

„Eine gemeinsame Welt existiert nur in der Vielfalt ihrer Perspektiven“, befand die politische Theoretikerin Hannah Arendt. Der renommierte Historiker Howard Zinn leistet mit seinen kritischen Gesellschaftsanalysen wohl einen Beitrag dazu, jene gemeinsame Welt zu erschaffen, von der Arendt sprach. Als er Anfang Oktober mit dem Haven Center’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship ausgezeichnet wurde, hielt er zu diesem Anlass eine Rede, in der er den Irak-Krieg kritisch hinterfragt und einen Kampf gegen den Terrorismus, der selbst als Krieg auftritt, verurteilt. Das Nachrichtenprogramm Democracy Now! strahlte die Rede Zinns jüngst aus…“ Siehe dazu die Pressemitteilung des Verlages Schwarzerfreitag (pdf), wo derzeit Howard Zinns „Geschichte des amerikanischen Volkes in 9 Taschenbüchern“ erscheint. In der Pressemitteilung finden sich neben einer deutschen Zusammenfassung der Rede Zinns auch Hintergrundinformationen zur Person, der Link zu Democracy now und weitere Infos zu Buchreihe http://www.labournet.de/irakkrieg/zinn.pdf

Siehe dazu auch: Eine Geschichte des amerikanischen Volkes Band 1: Kolonialismus, Rassismus und die Macht des Geldes

Die Vorstellung der Buchreihe im LabourNet Germany unter Internationales > USA > Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/leben.html

und dort die Leseprobe: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/zinn.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Dezember 2006

Artikel von Karl-Heinz Heinemann in Freitag vom 1.12.06
http://www.freitag.de/2006/48/06480402.php


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Dezember 2006

Rente mit 67 ... Wir sagen NEIN! Protestkundgebung gegen Rente mit 67 in Cannstatt am Donnerstag, den 14. Dezember

Aufruf vom Aktionskreis Cannstatt für soziale Gerechtigkeit zur Kundgebung in Cannstatt, Marktstrasse vor dem alten Rathaus am Donnerstag, den 14. Dezember um 16.30 Uhr (pdf). Im Aktionskreis haben sich Betriebsräte und gewerkschaftliche Vertrauensleute aus Cannstatter Betrieben mit Arbeitslosen und Cannstatter Bürgern zusammen geschlossen, um den Widerstand vor Ort gemeinsam und langfristig aufzubauen. http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/rente/rente67_cann.pdf


Letzter goldener Handschlag. Gesetzesentwurf für die Rente mit 67: Programmierte Altersarmut mit Ausnahme-Zuckerl

Artikel von Robert Kurz in Freitag vom 8.12.06 http://www.freitag.de/2006/49/06490102.php


Die Rente mit 67 ist erst der Anfang

Die Regierung treibt den späteren Ruhestand voran. Experten erwarten nichts weniger als eine wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Revolution. Dossier von Timo Pache in Financial Times Deutschland vom 11.12.2006 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/140292.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Dezember 2006

Gesundheitsreform 2006 – weiterer Ausstieg aus der Parität

Früh übt, wer morgen Zähne zeigen will

"Soziales Kapital" stärkt die Gesundheit, sagen Gesundheitswissenschaftler - und kritisieren harsch die geplante Gesundheitsreform. Artikel von Ulrike Baureithel in Freitag vom 8.12.06 http://www.freitag.de/2006/49/06490401.php


Teuer und krank – unser Gesundheitswesen

Referat des Medizinsoziologen Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Deppe bei einer isw-Veranstaltung am 13. Oktober 2006 in München. Es setzt sich mit grundsätzlichen Fragen des Gesundheitswesens im neoliberalen Kapitalismus als auch mit dem aktuellen Stand der Gesundheitsreform Stichwort: Gesundheitsfonds – auseinander. (pdf) http://www.isw-muenchen.de/download/deppe20061013.pdf


Gesundheitsreform 2006 – ein Beitrag zu sozialer Gerechtigkeit?

Die Entscheidung für eine Stärkung der sozialen Gerechtigkeit im deutschen Gesundheitssystem ist – wieder einmal – vertagt worden. Artikel von Kai Mosebach und Rolf Schmucker in spw – sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft vom 05.12.2006 http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=2752


Kapitalverwertung macht krank: Wer krank macht, soll zahlen!

KLARtext entwickelt zur Zeit Thesen zur Gesundheitsreform. Sie stellen einen noch unfertigen Entwurf ins Netz, damit sich Mitglieder und Freunde von KLARtext an der Diskussion beteiligen können. Thesenentwurf zur Gesundheitsreform vom 03.07.2006 (pdf) http://www.klartext-info.de/rauenthal06/Gesundheit_thesenentwurf060703.pdf

Rückmeldungen, Vorschläge, Kritik und auch Beiträge zu den noch offenen Punkten an: info @klartext-info.de


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Dezember 2006

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1208/p02s01-usju.html



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Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

"While President Bush points to low unemployment and a resurgent stock market as signs of a strong economy, most Americans don't feel so bullish," say Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill. "Median incomes are flat, healthcare costs are soaring, pensions are being de-funded and corporate employers are threatening to shred the social contract with their employees that has prevailed for 60 years. The balance of economic power has become increasingly one-sided, and one reason is that a key institution — the National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief arbiter of labor disputes — remains solidly in anti-worker hands."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121106LA.shtml

A federal climate scientist in Boulder says his boss told him never to utter the word Kyoto and tried to bar him from using the phrase climate change at a conference. The allegations come as federal investigators probe whether Bush administration officials tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and attempted to censor their research.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121106EA.shtml

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration to re-examine a policy that authorizes only 500 Iraqis to be resettled here next year. The official US policy has been that the refugee situation is temporary and that most of the estimated 1.5 million who have fled to Jordan, Syria, and elsewhere will eventually return to Iraq. But US and international officials now acknowledge that the instability in Iraq has made it too dangerous for many refugees, especially Iraqi Christians, to return any time soon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106T.shtml

Niall Ferguson writes: "Last week saw the publication of a masterpiece of persuasion. But whom will it persuade? And with what sticks and carrots? Most commentators have interpreted the report of the Iraq Study Group as a well-crafted admission of defeat.... Rather, the report's aim is to convince legislators that withdrawal from Iraq - no matter how much their constituents may yearn for it - is not an option."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5395/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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By Tim Andersen

We will be remembered as the Americans who insulated themselves from reality and remained self-absorbed, concerned with their own personal comfort and privilege while our government wrecked havoc on the world and destroyed our own culture.

http://tinyurl.com/y3s5sn



650,000 Iraqi dead given voice in Congress

The briefing was to discuss the October 2006 study Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey, which appeared in the British medical journal The Lancet. This study estimated that 655,000 more Iraqis had died (”excess deaths”) since the invasion than would have died if the prewar rate of death (mortality) had continued. It further estimated that about 600,000 of these had died from violence.

http://tinyurl.com/t3sm6



Sunni and Shiite Resistance Remain Mystery to U.S., Iraq Report Charges

Nearly four years after the invasion of Iraq, the United States still does not understand the enemy that American troops are fighting, according to last week’s report by the Iraq Study Group.

http://tinyurl.com/wcf9k



Iraqi President Calls U.S. Security Training a Failure

President Jalal Talabani said Sunday that the American program to train Iraq’s security forces had been a repeated failure and he denounced a plan to increase the number of American advisers working with the Iraqi Army, saying it would subvert the country’s sovereignty.

http://tinyurl.com/yyc3pe



Lawmakers seek to oust Iraqi prime minister

The talks are aimed at forming a new parliamentary bloc that would seek to replace the current government and that would possibly exclude supporters of the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a vehement opponent of the US military presence.

http://tinyurl.com/vg9dj



White House denies move to oust al-Maliki

The White House is flatly denying a report that key Shiite leaders are maneuvering to oust Iraq's prime minister.

http://tinyurl.com/yxuhau



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The militarily organized practice of torture, the sexual abuse, and all other abuses of men and women, clandestine incarcerations and forced disappearances, are not new in the history of the Third World, and of Latin America in particular. It has been instead an historical constant of colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal domination.

http://tinyurl.com/y55v68



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By Patrick Cockburn

Manipulation of facts was often very crude. As an example of the systematic distortion, the Iraq Study Group revealed last week that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence".

http://tinyurl.com/y6rlje



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Is It Ignorance Or Misplaced Trust?

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

For the life of me, it is difficult, even exasperating, to understand how my fellow Christian ministers can excuse and condone the un-American and un-Christian actions and policies of modern politicians. What in the world is going on? Are they blind to what is happening, or do they just not care?.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin335.htm



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What We Leave Behind

"Indiscriminate weaponry like cluster bombs hides who is responsible and removes culpability," writes Frida Berrigan. "Without responsibility, how can there be law? The big bomb releases the little bombs, which might kill a soldier tomorrow, a farmer next month, or a child a year from now. Cluster bombing is different from strafing a village, massacring a family or executing a suspected militant. Hands and consciences remain clean while bodies are shredded and pulped. There is no My Lai massacre or No Gun Ri atrocity with cluster weapons. Rather, a permanent state of terror is created where all human activity is dangerous and costly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cluster+bomb

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1211-26.htm



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Small Nuclear War Could Severely Cool The Planet
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/12/MNGE5MTRI31.DTL


Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/y92345


Informant: Bob Banner



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

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53271


Informant: ranger116

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Informant: ranger116

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5396/


Informant: jensenmk

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