World-News

Le Monde writes: "The resignation of John Negroponte, national intelligence director, is the latest phase in the interminable crisis of American intelligence services."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907G.shtml



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

Ann Wright writes: "On January 9 to 13, 2007, I will be a part of an international delegation of former prisoners, families of current prisoners, US lawyers and human rights activists who will march to the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay to demand that the prison be closed. The march is a part of the January 11 International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907E.shtml



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

Seth Sandronsky writes: "NAFTA is an example of Uncle Sam intervening in the global and national marketplace. This intervention has adjusted wage levels of most US workers downward, with a mandated increase in the federal minimum wage as a response to such a trend. To wit, a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press 'found that Americans expressed far more doubts about trade than saw it as advantageous.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=minimum+wage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA

Ted Kennedy thinks George W. Bush is dead wrong on a troop surge for Iraq - and while some other Democrats have reacted diffidently, he is determined to force the issue.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907B.shtml



Guard and Reserve May Bear the Brunt of Surge

The nation's top military officials, expecting President Bush to order an increase in the size of the force in Iraq, have concluded that such a buildup would require them to reverse Pentagon policy and send the Army's National Guard and Reserve units on lengthy second tours in Iraq, Defense Department officials said Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907C.shtml



Escalation Is Not the Answer

Excerpt from the Senator's speech at the National Press Club: "I am introducing legislation to reclaim the rightful role of Congress and the people's right to a full voice in the President's plan to send more troops to Iraq. Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts will introduce similar legislation in the House of Representatives. Our bill will say that no additional troops can be sent and no additional dollars can be spent on such an escalation, unless and until Congress approves the President's plan. Our proposal is a straightforward exercise of the power granted to Congress by Article I, section 8 of the Constitution. There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action. And Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907U.shtml

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Congress must act against Iraq troop rise: Kennedy

A leading Democratic senator proposed on Tuesday to block President Bush from sending more troops to Iraq unless Congress specifically approves.

http://tinyurl.com/y4eb8e



Democrats Split Over Their Approach to Iraq

The new Democratic majority in Congress is divided over how to assert its power in opposing President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad, as leaders explore ways to block financing for a military expansion without being accused of abandoning American forces already in Iraq.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt1_9_7_1.htm



The surge dirge

Slate
by John Dickerson

01/09/07

Sen. Ted Kennedy is the Senate Democrats' army of one, trying to launch a revolution when they would prefer cordial discussion. Scheduled to discuss health care at the National Press Club, Kennedy uncorked a stemwinder about the Democrats' responsibility to shut down the Iraq war. He is proposing legislation that would prevent the troop surge President Bush will unveil tomorrow night by prohibiting additional troops and additional dollars for it. Kennedy implored his brothers and sisters in Congress to resist the president's specific new plan, and to revive their branch of government -- to 'reclaim the rightful role of Congress and the people's right to a full voice.' ... Shortly afterward, across town in the U.S. Capitol, the new Senate Democratic leaders took their place before the microphones just off the Senate floor to put forward their plan: a bipartisan, nonbinding bill called the Pale Action and Timid Gesture Resolution. That wasn't the real name, of course, but it is exactly what Kennedy insisted Congress should not do...

http://www.slate.com/id/2157162


From Information Clearing House

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House Approves Bill Opposing Troop Surge

After four days of emotional debate over the extent of presidential powers in wartime and the proper role of Congress, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution today denouncing President Bush's plan to send more American troops to Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

The day before the Democratic majority was sworn in, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's historic installment as the speaker of the House of the 110th Congress, anti-war activists clogged the hallways of the Cannon House Office Building in front of her office.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907A.shtml



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

Wie sich die Zeiten ändern: Früher gingen die Menschen auf die Straße, um gegen Volkszählungen zu demonstrieren. Heute lassen sie sich bereitwillig vom Staat überwachen...

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/481/97384/



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

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/09/070109170739.kdshbvx4.html


Informant: NHNE

Taser bringt ein billigeres Modell für den Privatkunden auf den Markt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24402/1.html



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

Mit blinden Augen
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24400/1.html

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Unsaubere Geschäfte der Gates-Stiftung: Kinder verseucht, aber gegen Masern geimpft
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/548/97451/

By Laura Thorpe

A PROPOSAL for a 50ft high mobile phone mast to be positioned on land at Wellington's Blackdown Trading Estate near a church has been approved in principle by Wellington town councillors.

The plans submitted by telecommunication giants Hutchinson 3G UK, commonly known as 3, include placing a base station' with mast and antennae at the back of Scotts Lane in the grounds of the King's Church centre.

A majority of councillors thought it was appropriate to have the mast on a trading estate but voted for it to be moved from the corner to a better position on the estate.

Cllr John Clark said: "It seems to me to be in an inappropriate position. I think it will stand out like a sore thumb. There are two masts already in place at the end of Scotts Lane and it would seem more appropriate somewhere up that end."

However Cllr Ross Henley was against the idea altogether and said: "I have been particularly concerned for years about the use of phone masts in this area.

"I think this is a completely inappropriate place.

"I won't support it. I don't accept that we should just move it along a bit - we would be doing people a disservice if we do this."

The amendment to move the mast to another area on the estate was passed and councillors approved the scheme.

The application will now go before Taunton Deane Council.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/display.var.1111424.0.phone_mast_gets_goahead_from_town_council.php

The role models of "compassionate capitalism" get scrutiny from the Los Angeles Times.

http://ga3.org/ct/5120pgF18m87/

Surgin' Generals' Warning

by Jim Fine, TomPaine.com

There is no military solution. There is no military solution. And, by the way, there is no military solution.

http://ga3.org/ct/5720pgF18m8j/

by David Sirota, TomPaine.com

Real congressional bipartisanship is happening, based on mutual interest, not abandonment of principle.

http://ga3.org/ct/vp20pgF18m8I/

by Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill, TomPaine.com

Henry, not Gerald, believed that increasing wages increases the wealth of the country.

http://ga3.org/ct/5d20pgF18m8u/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/770149370


Informant: John D.



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

In a case that could have repercussions for free speech and press freedom in the United States, the U.S. military has subpoenaed two peace activists and a journalist in its case against Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq. "I'm alarmed," said Olympia-based activist Phan Nguyen, who moderated a Jun. 7th press conference that marked Lt. Watada's first public opposition to the Iraq war. "When I was first contacted by the lead prosecutor I was questioned as to conversations I had had with Lt. Watada and how this press conference had come about," he said.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2805.shtml



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

Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing U.S. armoured patrol in Fallujah, and shouted "Bang! Bang!" Yassir did not know what was coming. "I yelled for everyone to run, because the Americans were turning back," 12-year-old Ahmed who was with Yassir told IPS. The soldiers followed Yassir to his house and smashed almost everything in it. "They did this after beating Yassir and his uncle hard, and they spoke the nastiest words," Ahmed said. It is not just the children, or the people of Fallujah who are frightened. "Those soldiers are terrified here," Dr. Salim al-Dyni, a psychotherapist visiting Fallujah told IPS. Dr Dyni said he had seen professional reports of psychologically disturbed soldiers "while serving in hot areas, and Fallujah is the hottest and most terrifying for them." Dr. Dyni said disturbed soldiers were behind the worst atrocities. "Most murders committed by U.S. soldiers resulted from the soldiers' fears."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2806.shtml



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

http://pol.moveon.org/pac/noescalation/?referring_id=9668-7699083-n_rj60RpwNFd86H3ok4OaA


Informant: Pilvi

„Die US-amerikanische Gefängnisindustrie kann sich über ein ordentliches Wachstum freuen. Laut einer jüngst veröffentlichten Untersuchung des US-Justizministeriums stieg die Anzahl der amerikanischen Häftlinge zwischen 1995 und Ende 2005 um 35 Prozent auf 2,2 Millionen Menschen. Unter Berücksichtigung der auf Bewährung entlassenen und zu Bewährungsstrafen verurteilten US-Bürger sind es sogar sieben Millionen Menschen, die sich in den Mühlen des amerikanischen Justizsystems befinden. Das entspricht drei Prozent der Bevölkerung…“ Artikel von Tomasz Konicz in der jungen Welt vom 06.01.2006 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/01-06/034.php

Siehe dazu auch:

Die nackte Haut zum Kadi tragen: Willkür des Staatsanwalts - Das Rechtssystem der Vereinigten Staaten ist kriminell

„Die Weihnachtszeit gab Gelegenheit, der vom Glück Verlassenen zu gedenken, besonders der zu Unrecht verurteilten Insassen von Zuchthäusern und Gefängnissen. In den Vereinigten Staaten gilt das für viele Strafgefangene, schließlich haben wir es hier mit einem Staat zu tun, der weltweit den höchsten Prozentsatz seiner Bürger dem Strafvollzug übergibt. Einer von 32 erwachsenen Amerikanern sitzt hinter Gittern, ist auf Bewährung bestraft oder lebt - vorzeitig entlassen - auf Bewährung. Das International Center for Prison Studies am King´s College in London hat errechnet, dass die USA 700.000 Bürger mehr hinter Gittern halten als China, ein Land mit einer fünf Mal so großen Bevölkerung - die Vereinigten Staaten rekrutieren fünf Prozent der Weltbevölkerung, haben aber 25 Prozent der Welthäftlinge aufzuweisen. Was heißt das? Entweder ist Amerika das Land der Kriminellen oder irgendwas ist ernsthaft faul am System der Strafjustiz im "Land der Freien"…“ Artikel von Paul Craig Roberts in der Freitag vom 05.01.2007 http://www.freitag.de/2007/01/07010701.php

Prisoners in 2005

“Reports the number of persons in State and Federal prisons at yearend, compares the increase in the prison population during 2005 with the previous year, and presents prison growth rates since 1995. The report also provides the number of male and female prisoners on December 31, 2005, and the rates of incarceration by jurisdiction. It includes the number of prisoners held at yearend in the U.S. Territories and Commonwealths, in military facilities, and in facilities operated by or for the Bureau of Immigration and Custom Enforcement. Data are presented on prison capacities and the use of local jails and privately operated prisons. Estimates are provided on the number of sentenced prisoners by age, gender, race, and Hispanic origin, and type of offense…” Report des US-Justizministeriums vom November 2006 (pdf) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf

Weitere Statistiken

Für den Fall, dass einer einen USA-Aufenthalt plant, hat die Statistikabteilung des US-Justizministeriums eine Übersichtsseite mit vielen Statistiken über Verbrechen, Opfer, Gefängnissen etc. erstellt http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Januar 2007

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

09. Januar 2007

Zu den Plänen von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, den Atomausstieg aufzuweichen, erklärt der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linkspartei.PDS, Wolfgang Methling:

Der Stopp der russischen Erdöllieferungen lehrt uns einiges. Er lehrt uns beispielsweise, dass die Versorgungssicherheit mit fossilen Energieträgern kein stets gegebenes Gut ist. Die Versorgungssicherheit von Bevölkerung und Wirtschaft muss jenseits von Abhängigkeiten gesichert werden. Weiterhin zeigt der Lieferstopp aus Russland, wie wichtig es ist, bei der Versorgung auf einen ausgewogenen Energiemix zu setzen. Erneuerbare Energien wie Wind- oder Solarenergie werden in Deutschland noch zu wenig genutzt. Hier besteht Nachholbedarf. Anstatt dies zu erkennen und entsprechend zu handeln, nutzt die Bundeskanzlerin die gegenwärtigen Lieferprobleme bei der Erdölversorgung, um den bereits beschlossenen Atomausstieg erneut in Frage zu stellen. Wie sagte schon Goethe: "Man merkt die Absicht, und man ist verstimmt." Die Union will sich offenbar immer noch nicht mit dem Atomausstieg abfinden und nutzt jede sich bietende Gelegenheit, den Atomausstieg aufzuweichen. Eine sichere, umweltschonende und preiswerte Energiebereitstellung ist ganz ohne Atomenergie möglich.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34897



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

By Dominic Yeatman

ANOTHER 54 mobile phone masts will be added to the 99 already in Redbridge over the course of the next year if mobile phone operators have their way.

Sixteen of them are destined for Wanstead and Woodford, many within yards of existing masts, and planning permission has already been granted for 13 of the sites identified across the borough.

The proposals have been revealed in the phone operators' annual roll-out plans, which have been submitted to Redbridge Council and were discussed at a meeting of the council's area two committee.

Monkhams ward councillor Jim O'Shea said: "In area two they all seem to be centred around one area in George Lane and we're a bit concerned about why they need to be so concentrated."

Proposed sites include Meadow Walk in Snaresbrook, South Woodford station, the corner of Colvin Gardens and Rodney Road in Snaresbrook, Redbridge station, the Thames Water station in Chigwell Road and Patnam House in George Lane, South Woodford.

Three are earmarked for Woodford Road in South Woodford, including one at Ornwell Lodge and one at Copsfield Court.

Two are set for Aldersbrook Road in Wanstead and two for Wanstead High Street, one at The Hollies and one at Ashford Associates.

Some of them are on the site of existing masts, but that has not reassured anti-phone mast campaigners.

Elizabeth Canavan, who led a long but eventually unsuccessful campaign against a T-Mobile mast in Aldersbrook Road, said: "I would hate to say it's a lost battle, but we're really quite powerless and they are just surging ahead willy nilly.

"They're going to start back pedalling in a few years time, lowering emissions and admitting that they cause problems. You can see it's coming, but at the moment it's just too economically important."

The response of the area committees and the conservation advisory panel will be co-ordinated and presented to the phone companies at a joint meeting in February.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1103431.mostviewed.no_stopping_the_mast_invasion.php

CSIRO needs international support to counter Howard's bullying

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0701/S00043.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y32xmo


Informant: littlebrit1961

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/january2007/040107terrortrivial.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Jeff Leys

01/08/07

On February 5, 2007, the Occupation Project will launch a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience focused upon Representatives and Senators who refuse to publicly pledge to vote against any additional funding for the Iraq war. The campaign will continue at least through the start of April. Let there be no doubt that the antiwar movement will use all means of nonviolence to end our country's war in and occupation of Iraq. ... The premise is simple. Representatives and Senators: publicly pledge to vote against the $100 billion supplemental war spending package which President Bush will submit in early February or we will occupy your offices. The premise is simple. This will not be a singular action on a single day. We will return again and again and again until you pledge to vote against funds for the Iraq war...

http://www.counterpunch.org/leys01082007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sustained nonviolent CD campaign to begin Feb. 5
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5558/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



The occupation project: a campaign of civil disobedience

http://vcnv.org/project/the-occupation-project

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SIGN UP FOR THE OCCUPATION PROJECT
http://vcnv.org/project/the-occupation-project

The Occupation Project is a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience to end the Iraq War. Beginning February 5, 2007 activists around the U.S. will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the offices of Representatives and Senators who do not publicly pledge to vote against additional war funding.

Occupation Project Resources:
http://vcnv.org/occupation-project/resources



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+disobedience

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Andrew G. Eggleston Sr.

01/07/07

So the question for this week is; if we all agree that it is wrong, then how do we find a way to get together and do something to change it? First and foremost, agree that if it (taxation for example) is wrong that it is our responsibility (see last week's article) as adults and people wishing to breathe free, to do something about it. Second, as we have agreed that something must be done, and we are responsible enough to act, then it follows that we must ACT! Teach, learn, do, support, encourage, and donate, until change begins to happen...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle400-20070107-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Conservative
by Glenn Greenwald

When political leaders make drastic mistakes, accountability is delivered in the form of elections. That occurred in November when voters removed the party principally responsible for the war in Iraq. But the invasion would not have occurred had Americans not been persuaded of its wisdom and necessity, and leading that charge was a stable of pundits and media analysts who glorified President Bush's policies and disseminated all sorts of false information and baseless assurances. Yet there seems to be no accountability for these pro-war pundits. On the contrary, they continue to pose as wise, responsible experts and have suffered no lost credibility, prominence, or influence. They have accomplished this feat largely by evading responsibility for their prior opinions, pretending that they were right all along or, in the most extreme cases, denying that they ever supported the war... (for publication 01/15/07)

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_01_15/article1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

AntiWar.Com
by Pat Buchanan

01/09/07

As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the Churchillian statesman who used U.S. power to save America and Israel from the mortal threat of atomic weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs? Which legacy would Bush prefer? Or Cheney? As Americans await Bush's address announcing a 'surge' of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, we may be missing the larger picture. The War Party is turning its attention from Iraq -- to Iran. Nor is it simply an analysis of the character of George Bush that causes one to so conclude...

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10290


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

In wartime, we are asked to join together in supporting the action taking place. In effect, we are expected to eliminate judgment and simply become loyal subjects of our nation. Those who refuse to stop protesting the action itself are often labeled as unpatriotic, even traitors ... by those who DO fall into line. We are encouraged by politicians to fall into line, and they, with very few exceptions, do so too. This falling-into-line has become so prevalent that our President no longer even bothers with the Constitutional requirement of asking Congress to declare war. We are left with the absurd proposition that an American President can send troops anywhere, for any reason (or none) and get away with it. Congress will fund the action, unquestioningly, and a majority of the people will shut down their minds and become lock-step 'loyalists,' not only 'supporting our troops' but transferring that to 'supporting our President.'" (published 2005; re-posted 01/08/07)

http://tinyurl.com/yj7cev


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Rational Review
by Steve Kubby

01/09/07

I've often noticed that when politicians talk about starting a war, creating a new entitlement program, or undertaking any other activity that's bound to get Americans killed, empty their wallets or reduce their freedom, the desire to do so is expressed in terms of 'political will,' as if these things were matters of courage and moral rectitude rather than of power-seeking and tawdry dealmaking. Conversely, when politicians cringe from peace, when they cower before the prospect of letting go of other people's money, when they flee from freedom, they characterize their approach as 'moderation' or 'bipartisanship' or 'statesmanship.' These characterizations are 180 degrees out of phase with reality. The real sign of courage is resistance to the special interests and special pleadings that take a country to unnecessary war or plunder the treasury. Real moral rectitude subsists in securing, not violating, the rights of your constituents. It is not more 'political will' that this Congress requires. Rather, what is needed is more 'political won't'...

http://www.rationalreview.com/content/23208


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indepedent Institute
by Ivan Eland

01/08/07

President George W. Bush, contrary to the will of the American and Iraqi peoples and his own military commanders, seems ready to embark on a potentially disastrous escalation of the Iraq war, which was lost long ago. This mind-numbingly idiotic strategy is sure to needlessly cost more American and Iraqi lives and to lose the presidency for the Republicans in 2008...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1888


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

Raw Story

01/08/07

A showdown is coming between the Democratic House leadership and the Justice Department on what information can be subpoenaed in a federal investigation, according to a report in today's edition of Roll Call. At issue, as explained in the article by Susan Davis, are 'privileged documents' amassed by various House Committees 'that fall under the constitutional Speech or Debate Clause, which provides protection to Members of Congress.' The Counsel of the House of Representatives appears to have worked to block the release of the documents, which were gathered as part of the House's own investigation of ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham, the California Republican who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the course of his work on the Appropriations Committee...

http://tinyurl.com/t6476


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Duke+Cunningham

Independent [UK]

01/08/07

Ten-year-old Anas el-Banna will walk to the door of Number 10 Downing Street this week to ask for an answer to the question he has been trying to have answered for four years: Why can't my Dad come home? His father, Jamil, is one of eight British residents languishing among the almost 400 inmates at the American base at Guantanamo Bay, which opened five years ago to the day this Thursday -- the day of Anas's protest. Mr Banna, was taken to Guantanamo Bay four years ago after being seized in Gambia along with fellow detainee Bisher al-Rawi. He was accused of having a suspicious device in his luggage. It turned out to be a battery charger. No charges have been made. He suffers from severe diabetes, but his lawyers say he has not been offered medication and has been denied the food he needs. His eyesight is now failing. A year ago, his son wrote to Tony Blair for the second time to ask why the Government was not helping him return home. The then six-year-old did not even receive a reply. The second letter elicited a cursory note from the Foreign Office. It stated that because Mr Banna is not a British citizen, although his wife and children are, nothing could be done for him...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2137687.ece



Guantanamo ex-detainee: “Nightmare” over

Longview Daily News

04/01/07

A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said Sunday his detention at the U.S. prison camp was ‘profoundly difficult’ to endure, his first comments since his release. Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, had been held at the U.S. base in Cuba since it opened in 2002, but was reunited with his family in south London this weekend...

http://tinyurl.com/27rcfl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Conservatives who supported President Bush's re-election have joined liberal groups in expressing outrage over his administration's broad use of anti-terrorism laws to reject asylum for thousands of people seeking refuge from religious, ethnic and political persecution.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907N.shtml



Raids, Reforms, and the Labor Movement

"A program can be developed that represents the interests of established US workers, undocumented immigrants, and Latin Americans. Their interests can be meshed with those of US employers on this issue. The claims of nativist ideologues to speak for American workers can be discredited. If the groundwork for such a program is laid now, the alliance of immigrants and established workers can seize the initiative in shaping progressive immigration legislation in the next few years," write Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907M.shtml

President Bush is telling lawmakers that he will send thousands more US troops to Iraq's two most troubled regions, but before he can unveil the plan it is facing stiff challenges from Congress's majority Democrats.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Fremont Tribune

01/08/07

The U.S. military launched a strike against several suspected members of al-Qaida in Somalia, a government official said Monday night. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the operation's sensitivity, said at least one AC-130 gunship was used in the attack. CNN, NBC and CBS first reported the military action. Citing Pentagon officials, CBS said the targets included the senior al-Qaida leader in East Africa and an al-Qaida operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...

http://tinyurl.com/yy28mz

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US Launches Two Airstrikes in Somalia

The US airstrikes come 16 days after Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia to prevent an Islamic movement in the west of the country. The US and Ethiopia both accuse the Islamic group of harboring extremists, among them al-Qaeda suspects.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907J.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=37&objectid=10418086&ref=emailfriend


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

"Robert L. Nardelli, the chairman and chief executive of Home Depot, began the new year with a pink slip and a golden parachute. The company handed him a breathtaking $210 million to take a hike. What would he have been worth if he'd done a good job?" asks Bob Herbert.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807LA.shtml



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

Gore Mobilizes Global Warming Activists

Hundreds of volunteers from across the country have flocked to Nashville this fall and winter and more are here today as part of a grass-roots training effort to spread the word on global warming. They are taking part in Al Gore's The Climate Project, which mushroomed from his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EC.shtml

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What Al Gore hasn't told you about global warming

AlterNet
by David Morris

01/09/07

British journalist George Monbiot, author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (Doubleday, 2006) has a theory. 'We wish our governments to pretend to act,' he writes. 'We get the moral satisfaction of saying what we know to be right, without the discomfort of doing it. My fear is that the political parties in most rich nations have already recognized this. They know that we want tough targets, but that we also want those targets to be missed. They know that we will grumble about their failure to curb climate change, but that we will not take to the streets. They know that nobody ever rioted for austerity'...

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46318/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new Democratic Congress to make an oft-challenged drilling ban permanent. Legislation introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a permanently protected wilderness and end repeated efforts to open the area east of the Prudhoe oil field to energy companies.

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Robert Parry writes: "On January 4, Bush ousted the top two commanders in the Middle East, Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, who had opposed a military escalation in Iraq, and removed Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, who had stood by intelligence estimates downplaying the near-term threat from Iran's nuclear program. Most Washington observers have treated Bush's shake-up as either routine or part of his desire for a new team to handle his planned 'surge' of US troops in Iraq. But intelligence sources say the personnel changes also fit with a scenario for attacking Iran's nuclear facilities and seeking violent regime change in Syria."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807R.shtml



War Could Last Years, Commander Says

The new American operational commander in Iraq said Sunday that even with the additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President Bush's new war strategy, it might take another "two or three years" for American and Iraqi forces to gain the upper hand in the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807S.shtml



Ominous Sign of a Wider War

"The recent replacement of General Abizaid by Admiral Fallon, along with other recent moves announced by the defense secretary, should give deep pause to anyone concerned about the prospect of escalation in the Iraq War. Contrary to the advice given by the Iraq Study Group, Bush appears to be planning for a wider war - with much higher risk of catastrophic failure - not a gradual and dignified withdrawal from the region," writes Michael T. Klare.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010907L.shtml



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Global trade talks that are intended to improve the lives of billions of poor people stand on the brink of failure, Peter Mandelson, the European Trade Commissioner, has told The Times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2536621,00.html



FTSE100 companies see profits double

New research, estimates that companies in the FTSE100 generated profits after tax of £73.2bn last year, an increase of more than 100 per cent from 2003 levels.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/01/07/cnftse07.xml


From Information Clearing House

[pdf format]
http://www.videos1.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/usarmssales98-2005.pdf



Pentagon to train a sharper eye on Africa:

One of Donald Rumsfeld's last acts before Robert Gates replaced him last month as Defense secretary was to urge President Bush to let the Pentagon create a new Africa Command to pay more attention to the troubled continent. Mr. Bush is said to have agreed to the idea and is expected announce it early this year.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0105/p02s01-usmi.html


From Information Clearing House

Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer.

http://realnews.org/rn/content/zapata.html


From Information Clearing House

“Sources allege that the CIA prints the falsified 'Supernotes' at a secret facility near Washington to fund covert operations without Congressional oversight.”

http://www.watchingamerica.com/frankfurterallgemeine000008.shtml


From Information Clearing House

A new review published in the November/December issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the United States stores its nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads at 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries.

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Fallout Calculator

This java-based interactive calculator shows the distribution of fallout, by wind, from nuclear bomb blasts of various yields. In using the calculator, you may select from an assortment of virtual satellite maps of major world cities.

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=426


From Information Clearing House

Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position. - He also said that the use of force against Teheran remained an option.

http://tinyurl.com/ycfdcv

As Washington wages a very public battle against Iran's quest for nuclear power, it is quietly gaining ground on another energy front: the oil fields that are the Islamic Republic's lifeblood.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes716.html


From Information Clearing House

In addition to moving additional military forces into the region, President Bush is putting into place a new political and military command team, all in preparation for an expanded war in the Middle East.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53669


From Information Clearing House

What is wrong with a country where a soldier's "dictates of conscience, religion or personal philosophy," personal experiences in combat, and faulty orders from command are irrelevant issues in the defense of that soldier's moral decision to follow his conscience?

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From Information Clearing House



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By John Crewdson,

Feb. 17, 2003, is when Abu Omar vanished while walking down a side street in Milan, Italy. Prosecutors in Milan charge that he was kidnapped by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he has been imprisoned for most of the time since then.

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Noam Chomsky

The subcontinent, from Venezuela to Argentina, may yet present an example to the world on how to create an alternative future from a legacy of empire and terror.

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By Mike Whitney

The American people appear to be oblivious to the economic hurricane which is expected to touchdown in late 2007. That’s when $1 trillion in ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) will “reset” triggering a massive increase in foreclosures and plunging the country into a deep recession.

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The Coming Attack on Iran
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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

However, it is President Bush's preoccupation with turning America into a total surveillance society that separates his administration from any and all others. Before this administration, no conservative president had endorsed the concept of turning the United States into the fulfillment of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but that is exactly what G.W. Bush is attempting to do......

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ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/no_escalation.php

Here are three toll-free numbers you can use to call your own members of Congress right now, 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803, and tell them NO ESCALATION.

You will never go broke betting that George Bush is not telling the truth. He may drive the entire rest of the economy into a ditch with his fiscal policy, but if you are banking on the fact that every word out of his mouth is a pathological falsehood, and if there were a bookie to take such wagers, you would always come out ahead. So when he tells us that he has not yet made up his mind about what to do about Iraq, after a month long public song and dance about getting all available input, put all your chips on yet another great, big honking lie.

George Bush decided to send more troops to Iraq months ago and not a thing has changed his mind since. For all his babble about conditions on the ground, and listening to the generals on the GROUND, he has just canned or reassigned all who opposed his proposed new military escalation in Iraq, and is instead importing a guy from on the WATER from the other side of the globe. He literally had to look that far to find an ambitious sycophant craven enough to sign onto his increasingly desperate folly. What a swell choice for desert guerilla warfare, a naval commander.

Brace yourselves folks. There is as much chance of Bush having a change of heart as there is of a rattlesnake starting to feel remorse for biting you. This is the White House version of some thuggish "whatcha gonna do?" They have ALREADY deployed extra troops to Kuwait (Gates' first act as defense secretary) with the transparent intent of shifting them into Iraq. Congress is going to have to put their foot down and put it down hard. They question is exactly how.

We start from the premise that to put a runaway freight train, such as our current sociopath in chief, into reverse, first we must bring it to a halt. There are resolutions possibly pending to demand redeployment of the troops or to cut off funding for the war. We would support any of them. But of course Bush will ignore Congress. The problem is that if Congress attempts to restrict the way funds are spent, Bush will dash off another diametrically perverse signing statement and assert authority to do the opposite anyway. And as for troop deployments, he will laugh off any attempt by Congress to tell him how to run HIS war.

Therefore we propose strategically that there FIRST be a resolution opposing an increase in troops in Iraq, to draw a line in the sand, hopefully to preempt, but at least to respond directly to the announcement we all know is coming. While other resolutions may garner large support, this is a resolution that could potentially result in an enormously lopsided vote. Even Oliver North and George Will are speaking out against Bush's surge insanity. Then WHEN Bush defies the unanimous will of Congress, which he WILL, we will have set the stage for immediate consideration of impeachment, which is the only ultimate cure. Once the battle lines are clearly drawn, George Bush AGAINST us all, everything else will follow from there.

How foolish the Democrats have been in publicly giving away their remedies up front. Impeachment is off the table they say. They won't cut of the funds they say for fear of being seen as not supporting the troops. Pelosi must have said it a dozen times on Meet The Press this weekend, "but we support the troops, but we support the troops." So Bush ships the troops anyway, and then accuses the Democrats of not supporting them after they are already there. What a loser's game.

It all comes down to fear. The Democrats are AFRAID that the American people will not back them. They have a tenuous edge in the Senate, and even in the house they have potted plants like the newly elected Nancy Boyda who actually said about increasing troops, "[the American People] should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice." What's the matter with her? Boy, does she need to hear from us (if you live in Kansas)!! They ALL need to hear from us, in numbers like never before. That is the only antidote against their own political cowardice. Our voices.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/no_escalation.php

If you have ever submitted an action page in your life, submit this one. If you have ever sent out an alert to a friend, the people need you this week. If you have ever put up an action page on your own web site, now is the time. We need the ENTIRE Congress to stand up to Bush just one time on SOMETHING. After that, AFTER Congress finally reasserts its constitutional and rightful power, then all the other resolutions will come naturally. And then we can get down to the real and most urgent business of this country, impeaching the president and vice-president before they self-destruct and take us all with them.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours.

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Did Saddam Die For Our Sins?

More shocking video of Saddam's hanging. Did he die to cover up Western complicity in his crimes?

http://ga3.org/ct/v720pgF18m8W/

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Execution sparks broad support for Saddam in Arab world

Arizona Daily Sun

01/09/07

Another leaked video from Saddam Hussein's execution carried fresh adulation Monday of the fallen dictator, who in death has become a martyr and hero of Arab nationalism for some in the Middle East. Saddam's stature has grown since his execution -- when he answered insults and taunts with disdain -- overshadowing the memories in much of the Arab world of the massacres and other atrocities committed by his regime...

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Several boys die copying Saddam hanging

La Crosse Tribune

01/14/07

The boys’ deaths — scattered in the United States, in Yemen, in Turkey and elsewhere in seemingly isolated horror — had one thing in common: They hanged themselves after watching televised images of Saddam Hussein’s execution. Officials and relatives say the children appeared to be mimicking the former dictator’s Dec. 30 hanging, shown both on a sanitized Iraqi government tape and explicit clandestine videos that popped up on Web sites and some TV channels...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0108-04.htm



Gates Foundation Money Clashes with Mission
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0108-03.htm

Dr Claude Monnet, vice-président de Next-up.
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=proces#1

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

der Zugang zu den Sozialgerichten soll auf Initiative von CDU/FDP-regierten Bundesländern hin durch Sozialgerichtsgebühren und zusätzliche Gebühren für Anträge auf Prozesskostenhilfe für Alg-II-Bezieher/innen, Sozialrentner/inne/n und andere Betroffene (z.B. Geringverdiener/innen) kräftig verbaut werden. Auch der Zugang zu anderen Gerichten würde durch die Antragsgebühren bei der Prozesskostenhilfe für Bezieher/innen niedriger Einkommen erheblich erschwert werden. Ein entsprechender Gesetzesentwurf wurde von der Bundesratsmehrheit beschlossen und liegt nun dem Bundestag vor (mehr: siehe Link).

Der ver.di-Bundeserwerbslosenausschuss hat auf seiner letzten Sitzung beschlossen, mit Informationen und Aktionen (Unterschriftensammlung u.a.m.) auf den Skandal aufmerksam zu machen. Unter < http://erwerbslose.verdi.de/sgg > haben wir Informationen und eine Unterschriftenliste per Internet zur Verfügung gestellt.

Wir würden uns freuen, wenn das Thema auf die eine oder andere Weise aufgegriffen würde. Für Rückfragen stehen wir gern zur Verfügung.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Bernhard Jirku

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PLANNING councillors in Burnley will this week consider an application for a mobile phone mast at the junction of Rossendale Road and Manchester Road.

"The equipment is required to provide 3G coverage for the Vodafone telecommunications network in the Rosehill area," says a report going before Burnley Council's development control committee on Thursday evening.

The mast, which is recommended for approval, would be 10m high, support three antenna and be designed to blend in by looking like a street light. Seven letters from residents have been received, objecting on health grounds, saying the site was not the best option, would attract vandals and would be unsightly.

09 January 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.burnleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=12&ArticleID=1961688

By Lyndsay Scanlan

STUDENTS have hit out at plans to erect a phone mast close to New College.

Mobile phone company 3G is planning to locate the mast in the middle of Queens Drive between New College and Churchfields School.

Students say their health could be jeopardised by the mast and say they are willing to back a protest against it, which was started at the weekend.

As reported yesterday, residents living in the Queens Drive area are being urged to join a campaign to stop a phone mast being erected on their doorsteps.

Coun Peter Mallinson (Con, Walcot) says the 15-metre high pole, which transmits low-level radiation, could endanger peoples' lives if Swindon Council's planning committee allows it to go ahead.

He wants everyone living in the area to join forces to put pressure on the committee to throw the application out. Advertisement continued...

And students at New College say he is doing the right thing.

"I can't believe the company is planning to put the mast between two places full of young people and so close to homes," said 18-year-old Harriet Feltham.

"I travel in to college from Bath but I don't want to get here to be subjected to radiation.

"I would definitely support a protest against the mast because you can't just sit back and let things like this happen."

Anton Sieluzycki, 18, of Rodbourne, said: "The radiation from the masts is bad. I don't want cancer and just because the health effects haven't been proved doesn't mean they don't exist."

Other students say they don't think they need a mast in the area.

"I've never heard anyone say they can't get mobile phone coverage in this area on any network so there doesn't really seem any point for the mast," said Sharna Manners, 18, of Stratton.

Phil Hazelton, 17, of Lawn, says he doesn't have any objections to the mast being erected in principle but says it is not the best location.

"There must be other places to put the mast that are not so close to the school and our college," he said.

"It seems like one of the worst locations you could have."

Others think it will be a target for vandals.

"If the mast goes up someone will just vandalise it and make it look even worse than it would anyway," said 18-year-old Matthew Hall, of Gorse Hill.

New College has received notification of the plans from 3G and principal Graham Taylor wants to know if his students are at risk.

"We have done a lot of research into the health dangers associated with mobile phone masts and current research suggests that there is no increased danger to our students' health," he said.

"However we will be taking a precautionary approach to the proposed erection of a mobile phone mast and will be taking guidance from the local council and health and safety executive."

Later this week Coun Mallinson will be delivering 150 letters to residents living in the area close to where 3G wants to locate the mast.

"If I was a young person I would be extremely worried if I had to walk past the mast like this which is sending out radiation that you can't see, you can't touch and that you can't taste," he said.

"I think the students are right in being cautious. This is not a crackpot thing. It is a really worrying phenomenon and we must be cautious."

He added: "This week I will be asking residents to sign a petition and in the next couple of weeks I am hoping to organise a public meeting to discuss the issue."

3G was unavailable for comment.

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http://www.thisisswindon.co.uk/display.var.1110042.0.mast_gets_bad_reception.php

Jan 9 2007

By Tony Henderson, The Journal

Another row is looming over plans for a mobile phone mast near a Metro station.

Last week North Tyneside councillors turned down a bid by T-Mobile for a mast near the entrance to Cullercoats Metro station after local people formed an action group and 162 letters of objection and a 315-signature petition were lodged.

Now T-Mobile is behind another application for a 10-metre mast near the Grade II-star listed Tynemouth station, built in 1882, which is in a conservation area and is considered to be a fine surviving example of Victorian railway architecture. Metro operator Nexus has said that it intends to continue identifying plots of land on the system which can be leased for masts.

But Martin Donkin, spokesman for the Cullercoats group, predicted that Nexus will face plot by plot opposition.

He said: "If Nexus persists with this it will be a huge mistake. They will face determined opposition right along the line and across the whole system. This is a thorough disregard for people's welfare while the jury is out on the health issues concerning these masts.

"Metro stations are by their nature sited in densely populated areas. We should look at what happens in other European countries where there are exclusion zones for masts and they are sited carefully away from people.

"The Cullercoats mast was turned down because it would have been unsightly and ugly. It was also in a populated area and what was the case in Cullercoats will be doubly so in Tynemouth. We ask why should people have to spend months of their time opposing these schemes?" The independent co-ed King's School is adjacent to the station and headmaster Phillip Cantwell said: "We have 900 pupils from four to 18 years and Tynemouth Priory Primary School and a nursery are also in close proximity.

"There is no conclusive research yet which shows that there is not a negative impact on children's learning and behaviour and we will be objecting on behalf of the children in the school."

Ylana First, secretary of the Friends of Tynemouth Station, said: "I am against this when we don't know what the health effects of phone masts will be and it could also affect the appearance of a listed building."

Tynemouth Village Association secretary Joyce Jewitt said: "We will be objecting. We do not want these masts in our village. The station is listed and we do not want its setting jeopardised.

"Until the full effects are known health-wise they should err on the side of caution."

Paul Aitken, property manager at Bedlington-based Station Developments, which owns the station, said: "We would be concerned at the impact on what is a listed building."

Nexus spokesman Huw Lewis said: "We are working with outside contractors who are experts in this field and we are satisfied there are no public health issues arising from this programme, either for our passengers or neighbours. Any proposed mast would have to achieve planning permission from the local authority in the normal way and fall within national and local planning guidelines."

A T-Mobile spokesman said: "To have an effective mobile phone network we need mobile phone masts. When they are sited close to a community some people do have strong views and we try to be sensitive to these. But we believe health concerns are covered by a World Health Organisation statement that says that research to date does not point to any health concerns regarding masts."

Omega this is not true. See under:
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The execution of Saddam Hussein
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Iraq PM's Stand on Saddam Death Reminds of Former Regime: HRW
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From ufpj-news

Informant: Charles Jenks

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5553/


From ufpj-news

Informant: Charles Jenks

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US Twists Civilian Arms to Fill Fortress Baghdad
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0108-07.htm

What do global warming, pollution of the atmosphere, streams, rivers and oceans, the exhaustion of natural resources, the accelerated extinctions of species, deforestation, the liberation of GMO into the environment, and - coming soon - the infinitely small and practically undetectable pollution of nano-materials have in common? Capitalism and the oligarchy that profits from it, as first cause, answers Herve Kempf in a bombshell book published in Paris by Editions du Seuil.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807G.shtml

More than 17,000 Iraqi civilians and police officers died violently in the latter half of 2006, according to Iraqi Health Ministry statistics - a sharp increase that coincided with rising sectarian strife since the February bombing of a landmark Shiite shrine.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807D.shtml

08.01.07

Der SPD-Parteivorstand hat am Samstag den Entwurf eines neuen Grundsatzprogramms beschlossen. Der "Bremer Entwurf" formuliere auf der festen Wertebasis von Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Solidarität die politischen Ziele und Wege für die Soziale Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert, sagte der SPD-Vorsitzende Kurt Beck. Unter dem Motto "Eintreten für die Soziale Demokratie" wolle die SPD die Bürgerinnen und Bürger auffordern, politisch für die Soziale Demokratie einzutreten, "und wir werben darum, dass sie als Mitglied in die SPD eintreten". Es sei "das erste und einzige Parteiprogramm Deutschlands, das eine soziale und positive Globalisierungsstrategie beinhaltet". Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linksfraktion, Klaus Ernst, meint, an die Bremer Erklärung der SPD glaube "kein Mensch".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15066

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701080004


Informant: bigraccoon



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Die "elektronische lebensbegleitende Gesundheitsakte" (ELGA), die in Österreich wie in anderen EU-Ländern eingeführt werden soll, ist eines der größten IT-Projekte, verspricht mehr Effizienz und manche Vorteile, aber es mehren sich auch die Probleme.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24397/1.html

http://www.aku-wiesbaden.de/artikel_165.htm

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Aktionskonferenz: Wir bitten die G8 um nichts

„Zur 3. Aktionskonferenz zur Vorbereitung der Protesten gegen den G8 2007 versammelten sich vom 13.-15.4. etwa 400 AktivistInnen aus allen Spektren der Gipfelmobilisierung. Inhaltliche Widersprüche wurden bearbeitet, die Solidarität untereinander gestärkt und vor allem wurden ganz viele praktische Planungen für die Aktionen im Juni 2007 besprochen. Bevor es am Sonntag zum öffentlichen Aktionstraining der Kampagne Block G8 und zum gemeinsamen Zaunspaziergang nach Heiligendamm ging, formulierte die Aktionskonferenz in einer Abschlusserklärung noch einmal die entschiedene Gegnerschaft zur G8 und ihrer Politik…“ Kurzbericht und Abschlusserklärung von „heiligendamm2007.de“ vom 16.04.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/04/173230.shtml


Proteste für Agrarreformen und wider die Agrarpolitik der G8

„Am heutigen weltweiten Aktionstag des Kleinbauernnetzwerks La Via Campesina wird es in Deutschland zahlreiche Aktionen für umfassende Agrarreformen geben. In Berlin organisieren die Menschenrechtsorganisation FIAN, das Aktionsnetzwerk globale Landwirtschaft und die Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL) einen „Marsch der Landlosen“. Der Protestmarsch führt vorbei am Landwirtschaftsministerium (BMELV) sowie Entwicklungsministerium (BMZ) und endet mit einer symbolischen Landnahme am Potsdamer Platz. Die VeranstalterInnen wollen damit auf Verletzungen des Menschenrechts auf Nahrung und die Gefährdung von Kleinbauern und -bäuerinnen, bäuerlichen Betrieben, LandarbeiterInnen und Landlosen weltweit aufmerksam machen…“ Pressemitteilung der Pressegruppe CampInski vom 16.04.2007 http://www.fian.de/fian/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=507


Gewerkschaften rufen nicht zum Protest gegen G8-Gipfel auf

„Die Gewerkschaften beteiligen sich nicht an den Protestaufrufen gegen den G8-Gipfel Anfang Juni in Heiligendamm bei Rostock. Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund setze vielmehr auf direkte Kontakte zur politischen Ebene, sagte der DGB-Abteilungsleiter Internationales, Wolfgang Lutterbach. So würden die Gewerkschaftschefs noch vor dem Gipfel mit Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel zusammenkommen. Die IG Metall und die Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft beteiligen sich jedoch am Gegengipfel in Rostock.“ dpa-Meldung vom 14. April 2007 http://de.news.yahoo.com/14042007/3/gewerkschaften-rufen-protest-g8-gipfel.html


G8-Mobilisierungsclip ist fertig!

Der Mobilisierungsclip zu den in eineinhalb Monaten stattfindenden G8-Protesten ist fertig und ab heute online! Der Clip wurde von der G8-KulturAG des Rostockbündnisses spektrenübergreifend produziert und warten auf vielfälltige Verwendung http://www.move-against-g8.de/mobilisierungsclip/

Der Clip wird zusammen mit weiteren Filmen & Trailern Teil, des um den
1.Mai herum veröffentlichen Solisamplers sein, den ihr hier vorbestellen könnt ( http://www.move-against-g8.de/pages/soli-sampler.php ) und dessen Einnahmen vor allem den Kulturaktivitäten dienen sollen, die entlang der Protestcamps in und um Rostock stattfinden werden.


Aus: LabourNet, 17. April 2007

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Gewerkschaften rufen nicht zum Protest gegen G8-Gipfel auf

Landeserwerbslosenausschuß Baden–Württemberg protestiert beim DGB

Aus dem Text des Briefes an Michael Sommer, veschlossen am 19.4.07 durch den Landeserwerbslosenausschuß Baden–Württemberg: „… aus der Presse haben wir entnommen, dass die DGB Spitze nicht zu den Protestveranstaltungen gegen den G 8 – Gipfel bereit ist aufzurufen. Statt dessen, willst Du Dich am 07. Mai 07 mit der Bundeskanzlerin Merkel zu einem Gespräch treffen. Wenn der DGB Vorsitzende Gespräche mit der Bundeskanzlerin führt, so ist es nicht falsch, gleichzeitig Druck auf der Straße zu machen und zu Protesten gegen den G 8 – Gipfel aufzurufen. Der ver.di Landeserwerbslosenausschuss Baden – Württemberg erwartet vom DGB Bundesvorstand einen Aufruf zu Protesten aus Anlass des G 8 –Gipfels.“


Aus: LabourNet, 23. April 2007



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

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/letter_to_prime_minister_harper.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/prime_minister_stephen_harper.doc

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39718/story.htm


Informant: binstock

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Record_Temperatures_Across_Himalayans_Spark_Climate_Change_Fears_999.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/articles/Fear.html


Informant: rafeswhiterose

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Texas Prison Camp Future American Gulag?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/080107americangulag.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gulag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny

The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every web site you visit. For more than a year, the US Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of web traffic.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807O.shtml

Destabilizing The Horn
http://ga3.org/ct/_d20pgF1URnn/



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

National Security Temptations
http://ga3.org/ct/_p20pgF1URni/

U.N. Ambassador's Oily Past
http://ga3.org/ct/Ad20pgF1URn9/

A MOBILE phone mast plan for the roof of a pub neighbouring shops, homes and nurseries will NOT go ahead, its owners have decided.

The news has been hailed as 'sensational' by campaigners who opposed the Hutchinson 3G application for the Tally Ho pub in Church Street, Old Town.

The phone company had asked Tally Ho owners Punch Taverns if they could put a 10-metre high roof mounted flagpole mast containing three antennae, one 200mm dish antenna and radio equipment.

Liberal Democrat Parliamentary challenger and Old Town resident Stephen Lloyd had urged objectors to write to Punch Taverns.

A reply to him this week stated, "I'm writing in reply to your letter about the proposed installation of a mobile phone mast on the Tally Ho in Eastbourne.

"We've now considered this application in detail and have decided not to proceed for operational reasons."

Mr Lloyd said, "This is sensational news and a wonderful Christmas present for local residents.

"However, though we have won this one it is important we remain vigilant. The council has confirmed to me the planning application is still going ahead on January 9 because though Punch Taverns have formally withdrawn, if the application is passed they may choose to come back at some time in the future.

"On that basis I will still be speaking against the mobile mast application at the planning meeting and presenting the petitions signed by so many local residents who made their opposition crystal clear."

Many campaigners were concerned about unproven health risks associated with living or working near masts.

Mr Lloyd, together with other campaigners Andrew Goodwin and Carolyn Heaps, collected more than 170 signatures on a petition against the mast.

He asked objectors to write to Eastbourne Borough Council and Punch Taverns with their views.

Mr Lloyd said, "My thinking was that if large numbers of potential customers wrote directly to the chief executive of Punch Taverns, he would soon get the message and think twice before agreeing to take the money and install a mobile phone mast at the pub.

"It is fantastic news for local residents that this tactic has worked.

"This is a sensational development and I'd like to pay tribute to all those who responded so quickly to my request.

"I'd particularly like to thank Old Town resident Nigel Stead for all the effort he put in helping me rally the support of local residents.

"This is a great result for people power. I showed it could be done with B&Q, and now the same has been achieved with this mobile phone application.

"Here's hoping that 2007 sees us achieving the same result the whole town is working so hard for; stopping the cuts at DGH."

A Punch Taverns spokesperson said, "We can confirm that our application has been withdrawn due to operations reasons."

08 January 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.eastbournetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=488&ArticleID=1959545

J. Michael McConnell, in line to become the nation's top intelligence official, has been a leading figure in outsourcing US intelligence operations to private industry.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807N.shtml



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

The Iraqi government has said that the executions of two senior associates of former leader Saddam Hussein will take place some time during the week. This is despite an appeal from the new UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that they should not go ahead.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807M.shtml



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

Bush's apparent determination to send extra troops, rather than set a timetable for withdrawal, represents a rejection of the Iraq Study Group report, and sets the stage for a major battle between a House and Senate newly under Democratic control. Iraq's Shia prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, pre-empted Bush's statement by announcing that Iraqi security forces, backed by Americans, were about to implement a major crackdown on illegal armed groups from all sectarian factions in Baghdad. Maliki's speech was a US condition for deploying extra troops, insisted on by Bush in a two-hour teleconference with Maliki last Thursday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807L.shtml



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

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3032493


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold

Slate
by John Dickerson

01/05/07

It's John McCain's war now. Next week, President Bush will announce a troop surge of between 20,000 and 40,000 troops, according to those who have been briefed on outlines of the plan. Though the president will give the speech, McCain is the politician whose career most depends on it. The senator has been advocating more troops since August of 2003. ... McCain has long benefited from being a supporter of the war but a critic of the tactics. Now they are his tactics, and his political neck is on the line...

http://www.slate.com/id/2156926


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

01/07/07

In today's world where torture and complicity in torture by various agents of the US government is part of the headlines on a regular basis, it seems that very few US citizens believe that methods like waterboarding, beating, electrical shocks and other methods would be used on US citizens. Indeed, the revelations by Jose Padilla concerning his treatment by US agents as a so-called enemy combatant barely made the news. Of course, there are those in this country who see nothing wrong with torturing (or even killing) supposed enemies and wrongdoers if such methods extract information. This is true even though intelligence experts state repeatedly that information extracted through torture is usually unreliable, if not just plain false. What is more shocking, though, are the large numbers of US citizens who are in some way upset that their government is torturing people in their name, yet do nothing to stop said torture either out of a greater fear or some level of apathy or impotence...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs01062007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Tom Paine
by Bill Moyers

01/05/07

It seems only yesterday that the Trojan horse of conservatism was hauled into Washington to disgorge Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist and their hearty band of ravenous predators masquerading as a political party of small government, fiscal restraint and moral piety and promising 'to restore accountability to Congress ... [and] make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.' Well, the long night of the junta is over, and Democrats are ebullient as they prepare to take charge of the multi-trillion-dollar influence racket that we used to call the U.S. Congress. Let them rejoice while they can, as long as they remember that while they ran some good campaigns, they have arrived at this moment mainly because George W. Bush lost a war most people have come to believe should never have been fought in the first place...

http://tinyurl.com/uaqe4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Moyers

Common Dreams
by Adele Welty

01/07/07

On September 11th, 2001, my son, Firefighter Timothy Welty, was lost in the line of duty at the World Trade Center. He died trying to rescue those trapped in the burning towers. He risked his life because of his commitment to preserving life, because he had a reverence for the value of every human being. I am traveling to Cuba to stand outside the gates of Guantanamo and call for this prison to be shut down because this prison conjures up a caustic connection to September 11th by justifying the inhumane and unwarranted treatment of many innocent individuals, in the names of my son and all those precious souls we lost that day...

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0106-26.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/08/07

We are told that cutting off the funding for the war means not 'supporting the troops,' but this is another bipartisan lie: the money for ongoing military operations in 2007 is already in the pipeline: HR5631, the Defense Department appropriations bill authorizing spending on Iraq and Afghanistan for this year, passed overwhelmingly, 394-22, with the full support of the Democratic leadership. So what is Nancy nattering on about? The idea that, if Congress cuts the funding, the GIs will soon run out of bullets and body armor is complete BS. That's what they want you to believe so they can sit on their hands while the casualties pile up and the war spreads beyond the boundaries of Iraq...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10285



Defund the war

AntiWar.Com
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

03/22/07

Congress failed to meet its responsibilities four years ago, unconstitutionally transferring its explicit war power to the executive branch. Even though the administration started the subsequent preemptive war in Iraq, Congress bears the greatest responsibility for its lack of courage in fulfilling its duties. Since then Congress has obediently provided the funds and troops required to pursue this illegitimate war. We won’t solve the problems in Iraq until we confront our failed policy of foreign interventionism. This latest appropriation does nothing to solve our dilemma. Micromanaging the war while continuing to fund it won’t help our troops. Here’s a new approach: Congress should admit its mistake and repeal the authority wrongfully given to the executive branch in 2002. Repeal the congressional sanction and disavow presidential discretion in starting wars. Then start bringing our troops home...

http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=10708


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

USA Today

01/07/07

President Bush has vetoed just one bill in nearly six years in office. That soon may change. As newly empowered Democrats forge ahead with their own agenda, some items may make it to his desk as prime candidates for veto. One might be a recycled version of the stem-cell funding bill that drew Bush's lone veto last July. Other possibilities include measures that would raise the minimum wage without offsetting tax breaks for businesses, fully put in place the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations and curb oil-industry subsidies...

http://tinyurl.com/ycw6na



Pelosi's crucial test

San Francisco Chronicle

01/07/07

President Bush and the new Congress are on a collision course over Iraq that could overshadow the Democrats' '100-hour agenda' and end up defining Rep. Nancy Pelosi's tenure as House speaker. Even as the House takes steps this week to raise the minimum wage, expand stem cell research, strengthen homeland security and lower prescription drug prices -- an ambitious lineup -- much of the nation's focus will be on Bush, who is expected to deliver a major address to outline the future of American involvement in Iraq. If the president, as expected, announces his intention to deploy as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq, he may encounter widespread political and public defiance... [editor's note: "May encounter"? Good God, I hope so! - SAT]

http://tinyurl.com/yek4nm



One hundred hours down the drain

Reason
by Brian M. Doherty

01/08/07

The First Hundred Hours have begun. (Lest anyone wonder why they aren't already over, new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meant congressional working hours, not real hours.) We've seen Pelosi show exactly how much her own wonderfulness needs to be celebrated -- and her grandiose tendency to think of herself as Mangog-like living embodiment of all the glories and splendors of her entire gender. But what of the Democrat's 100 Hours agenda, past celebrating Pelosi-hood? It's not worth the cannoli with which it was launched...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/117702.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

"You are on the list of the teachers who are going to be killed this month for not obeying our demands to leave Iraq," said a hand-written letter which was left at Dr Hamida Bakri's door. Now the 41-year old professor of gynecology at the college of medicine at the University of Baghdad, is ready to leave the country with her family before death threats become reality. She said two of her colleagues had already been killed. According to the Ministry of Higher Education, at least 280 academics have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003 by insurgents and militias. "The targeting of such academics is generating a mess in our country. The health and educational systems are depleted of good professionals. Nearly one third of those living in Iraq before 2003 have fled violence," said Dr. Mustafa Jaboury, a research investigator at the Ministry of Higher Education.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2801.shtml

Displaced families in the capital, Baghdad, have urged the Iraqi Red Crescent Society to continue supporting people who have been displaced as a result of sectarian violence. "We need urgent help because since the [Red Crescent] volunteers in the capital stopped their work, we have been seriously suffering with the lack of assistance, medical care at camps, and especially food," said Ibraheem Rabia'a, a displaced metal-worker who acts as a spokesperson for a group of 120 families living in abandoned government buildings on the outskirts of the capital. According to the Brookings Institution, 650,000 Iraqis are internally displaced, living in camps or abandoned buildings.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2802.shtml

"So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad's huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing more than a horrible mistake, an unexpected fiasco?" asks Nick Turse in this chilling look at the Pentagon's urban warfare visions. "The Pentagon begs to differ. While the Joint Forces Command may already be war-gaming the 2015 Battle for Baghdad, right now it looks like the U.S. military will have trouble hanging on there for even a couple of more years. Still, if present plans become reality, odds are U.S. military planners will be attempting to occupy some city, in some fashion, come 2015 and 2025. In the future, as the Army's new Urban Operations Manual puts it, 'every Soldier - regardless of branch or military occupational specialty - must be committed and prepared to close with and kill or capture threat forces in an urban environment.'"

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2803.shtml

A message from Rosemary

Original Message

Support Michael Herring, Richmond VA, Commonwealth Attorneys Office to Prosecute Dog Fighter

Stacey Miller of Richmond is charged with the crime of dog fighting. His case will be heard on Jan. 9 and 10, 2007. Michael, Herring, Commonwealth's Attorney of Richmond, is prosecuting the case. Let Mr. Herring know how important a conviction and heavy penalty are to you.


A note from Sylva (the petition's sponsor):

This is a window of opportunity to show support in requesting maximum sentencing allowed for this sort of human element. 45 signatures are NOT GOING TO DO IT. Please, please sign and pass this to the moon and back, I will have to fax this to Mr. Herring’s Office first thing Monday and first thing Tuesday a.m. so that at least he can relay to the presiding judge that many people are watching and looking for stiffer sentences concerning this sort of offensive and disgusting activity. If you are in the Richmond area I would highly recommend that you attend if you are able to. Banning dogs is not going to solve any problem, getting the perpetrators that fight will slow down and hopefully eliminate this at some point. I would like each and every one of you to remember the listings that are posted on dogs that have been used for bait, with missing ears, punctures all over their bodies and for those that have been so ruined by these people that they have to be killed because they are no longer adoptable. I don’t know if you remember Rufus on PBRC who had his entire face removed due to fighting, it is because of people like this man that Rufus paid with his life and countless other dogs that are killed because they won’t fight or are so damaged they must be euthanized once found by Animal Control. Dogs that are starved, made to run on treadmills for hours on end, isolated, chained, pumped full of steroids….having their teeth filed (bait dogs) so they can’t fight back and are thrown in between two others to teach them how to fight, all the puppies and kittens that are used for bait, dying in the most horrendous way.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/253475894

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5548/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Gespräch mit Wolfgang Kaleck von Dietmar Jochum in junge Welt vom
06.01.2007. Über Folter in den US-Militärlagern Abu Ghraib und Guantánamo, die Aussichten seiner Klage gegen Exverteidigungsminister Rumsfeld und warum auch Washingtons Oberbefehlshaber nicht sicher vor ihm ist http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/01-06/060.php


Schlimme Zahlen eines Krieges. Viele sterben, noch mehr werden verletzt. Wie viele GIs als psychische Wracks heimkehren, weiß keiner

„3.000 US-Soldaten im Irak sind gestorben, über 22.000 sind verletzt aus dem Irak zurückgekehrt - und noch viel mehr der inzwischen rund eine Million Irakkriegsveteranen in den USA leiden unter PTSD, der "Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung", wie es im Medizinerdeutsch heißt…“ Artikel von Bernd Pickert in der taz vom 2.1.2007 http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/01/02/a0128.1/text

Siehe dazu:

Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung. Die Seite zum Thema bei Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatische_Belastungsst%C3%B6rung

National Center for PTSD. Die Seite des US-Verteidigungsministeriums speziell zum Thema. Viele Flugblätter und medizinische Berichte zum Thema PTSD sowie zum Krieg im Irak, selbstverständlich aus der Sicht der Militärs http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Januar 2007



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

„Europäische Flughäfen sind Drehscheiben für Verschleppungsflüge der CIA. Beamte deutscher und europäischer Nachrichtendienste nutzten erfolterte Geständnisse. Eine erleichterte Abschiebung von Terrorverdächtigen ist Praxis in der gesamten EU, oft in Länder, die für Folter bekannt sind. EU-Staaten verlassen sich auf „Diplomatische Zusicherungen“, dass Abgeschobene nicht gefoltert werden. Damit haben sich die europäischen Regierungen zu Komplizen bei den Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Antiterrorkampf der USA gemacht…“ EU-Kampagne von amnesty international http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/AlleDok/58D7186D1FDDFB2BC1257252004D1BAC?Open


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Januar 2007

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/01/08/665159.html

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2,46 Euro pro Stunde - "Dumpinglöhne" in Hamburger Hotels

„Beauftragte Reinigungsfirma verteidigt sich: Andere Unternehmen zahlten noch weniger. In Hamburg arbeiten Reinigungskräfte in Luxushotels zum Teil für weniger als 2,50 Euro pro Stunde. Das ergibt sich nach Berechnungen des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) aus dem Fall einer jungen Frau, die Ende 2006 im Dorint am Alten Wall für die Reinigung der Zimmer verantwortlich war. Die 23-jährige Antonia H. arbeitete im November laut DGB 168 Stunden an 21 Tagen in dem Fünf-Sterne-Hotel als Reinigungskraft. Dennoch bekam sie ausweislich der Monatsabrechnung, die dem Abendblatt vorliegt, lediglich 413,18 Euro brutto - und damit einen durchschnittlichen Brutto-Stundenlohn von 2,46 Euro. Als sich H. bei der Firma beschwerte, sagte diese eine Nachzahlung zu - und schickte postwendend die Kündigung…“ Artikel von Jens Meyer-Wellmann im Hamburger Abendblatt vom 08.01.2007 http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/01/08/665159.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Sie putzte für 2,46 Euro pro Stunde

Antonia H. wurde gekündigt, als sie sich wehrte - laut Gewerkschaft eine gängige Praxis. Auch mangelnde Kontrolle beim Kombilohn-Modell wird kritisiert. Artikel von Jens Meyer-Wellmann im Hamburger Abendblatt vom 08.01.2007 http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/01/08/665024.html


Aus: LabourNet, 9. Januar 2007

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=2771519&page=1


Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

http://tinyurl.com/ydzfne



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

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

08. Januar 2007

Zu den Ergebnissen der Klausur des SPD-Vorstandes erklärt der Parteivorsitzende Lothar Bisky:

Wie viel von den Bremer Beschlüssen Regierungspolitik wird, bleibt abzuwarten. Im ersten Jahr der großen Koalition wurde der Sozialstaat weiter abgebaut. Ich erinnere nur an die unsäglichen Beschlüsse zur Rente mit 67, zur Halbierung des Sparerfreibetrages, zur Kürzung der Pendlerpauschale und des Kindergeldes u.a.m. Die von der Regierung vorgelegte Gesundheitsreform wird die Gesundheitsversorgung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger weder sozialer noch gerechter machen. Und wenn SPD und CDU in diesen Wochen um die Gesundheitsreform streiten, geht es nicht um bessere medizinische Versorgung, sondern vorrangig um machtpolitisches Kalkül und Lobbyinteressen. Für soziale Gerechtigkeit ist die Agenda 2010 der falsche Ansatz. Das haben die vergangenen Jahre gezeigt, in denen der Reichtum größer und die Armen zahlreicher wurden. Die SPD will jetzt stärker auf Soziales achten. Das begrüße ich. Wir werden sie regelmäßig daran erinnern.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34892

AUSTRALIANS face having the fingerprints of both hands scanned on arrival in the United States and the details stored on an FBI database, under a reported security crackdown in the country's airports. Citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Britain and other European nations would be subject to the new requirement, the report suggests.

http://tinyurl.com/uxt6j


From Information Clearing House



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

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis, a Pentagon advisor and national defense expert, believes U.S. military officials are making a radical mistake by trying to make America's armed services more attractive to Muslims.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/42007e.asp


From Information Clearing House

THE EXECUTION system was halted last month in three states that account for almost a third of prisoners awaiting the sentence of death.

http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-1/614/614_07_LethalInjection.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/

Bayer Corporation knowingly dumped medicine that was contaminated with the AIDS virus on the European and Asian market after it killed people in America.

http://tinyurl.com/y962q8

Why, in a country where the economy has grown by leaps and bounds and social spending has increased steadily for decades, do the richest Costa Ricans keep getting richer and the poorest 20% keep slipping further into poverty?

http://www.ticotimes.net/topstory.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Wall Street moves in for the kill

CounterPunch
by Michael Hudson

02/17/10

Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wrote an op-ed in The New York Times yesterday, February 16 outlining how to put the U.S. economy on rations. Not in those words, of course. Just the opposite: If the government hadn’t bailed out Wall Street’s bad loans, he claims, ‘unemployment could have exceeded the 25 per cent level of the Great Depression.’ Without wealth at the top, there would be nothing to trickle down. The reality, of course, is that bailing out casino capitalist speculators on the winning side of A.I.G.’s debt swaps and CDO derivatives didn’t save a single job...

http://counterpunch.org/hudson02172010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bush pledged to give the Philippines every assistance in his flailing, stumblebum "war on terror"--except when its government doesn't do exactly what Washington demands. When Manila dared behave contrary to US orders there had to be revenge.

http://tinyurl.com/y8ogbo

Russia has accused the US of illegally imposing sanctions on some Russian military firms which Washington says were co-operating with Iran and Syria.

http://tinyurl.com/vf9tx


From Information Clearing House

Prior to the elections, Republicans attempted to take trump out of the Democrat’s hands by warning the public of Democratic designs to launch bitter partisan investigations of the Bush administration, possibly including impeachment hearings. Horrors! Democrats duly took notice.

http://tinyurl.com/yx2638



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Among the images, there is a young boy with a picture of a helicopter on his pajamas, slumped over, his face and head covered in blood. There is a mother lying on a bed, arms splayed, the bodies of three young children huddled against her right side.

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By Rep. Ron Paul

We have performed a tremendous service for both bin Laden and Ahmadinejad, and it will cost us plenty. The violent reaction to our complicity in the execution of Saddam Hussein is yet to come.

http://tinyurl.com/y84ecd



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5542/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Blood And Oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity

By The Independent

A new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 years.

http://tinyurl.com/t6hgg

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New Oil Law Means Victory in Iraq for Bush

Chris Floyd reports: "The reason that George W. Bush insists that 'victory' is achievable in Iraq is not that he is deluded or isolated or ignorant or detached from reality or ill-advised. No, it's that his definition of 'victory' is different from those bruited about in his own rhetoric and in the ever-earnest disquisitions of the chattering classes in print and online. For Bush, victory is indeed at hand."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807A.shtml



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APFN
GOOGLE VIDEO: "WHY WE FIGHT"
Sun Jan 7, 2007 19:46

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's ... all » shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions

The American Documentary Grand Jury Prize was given to WHY WE FIGHT, written and directed by Eugene Jarecki. http://festival.sundance.org/2005/docs/05Awards.pdf

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

Deploying the general's farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century's military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how--and tells why--a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

Jarecki, whose previous film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, took such an unblinking look at our ex-secretary of state, might have delivered his film in time for the last presidential election, but its timing is also its point: It does not matter who is in charge as long as the system remains immune from the checks and balances of a peace-seeking electorate. Brisk, intelligent, and often very, very human, Why We Fight is one of the more powerful films in this year's Festival, and certainly among the most shattering.— Diane Weyermann

http://www.whywefightmovie.com/

Masters of War, by Bob Dylan 04:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkTMflM1T0

Masters of War, by Bob Dylan
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/masters_of_war.htm

YOUTUBE: Public Videos // apfnorg ... 45 AS OF 01/03/07
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Why we fight

CounterPunch
by Werther

01/08/07

How is it that so many wars have an act of U.S. complicity in their origin? Is it merely the law of unintended consequences, or is there another logic at work? Perhaps the crucial mechanism in Mogadishu, and Kabul, and Baghdad is best described by that hoary Pentagon slang phrase, 'the self-licking ice cream cone'...

http://www.counterpunch.org/werther01082007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/salon_1_06_07.htm


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Escalate The Protests, Not The War

When Joe Lieberman and John McCain demand escalation, the country begs them to give up.

http://ga3.org/ct/_120pgF1URnh/



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Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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