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In ordering more American troops into Iraq, President Bush said he was sending a message of hope to millions of Arabs and Afghans trapped in violence. But to many on the ground in the Middle East, the speech spoke volumes of a gaping disconnect between high-flown US promises and a deadly, turbulent reality.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207F.shtml



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

It's starting to feel like President Bush's Iraq speech last night may have proved the last straw, providing a critical boost to the anti-Iraq War movement in the US.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207C.shtml



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

Keith Olbermann writes: "Only this president - only in this time, only with this dangerous, even messianic certitude - could answer a country demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy for Iran. Only this president could look out over a vista of 3,008 dead and 22,834 wounded in Iraq, and finally say, 'Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me' - only to follow that by proposing to repeat the identical mistake ... in Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207A.shtml

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Keith Olbermann: Bush's legacy: The president who cried wolf

Video and Transcript

Only this president, only in this time, only with this dangerous, even messianic certitude, could answer a country demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy for Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16152.htm

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The Bush Who Cried Wolf
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0221-26.htm

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The government that cried wolf

The Libertarian Enterprise
by Darian Worden

06/11/07

Once again the government and media have done their best to exaggerate a threat to our safety. The hysteria over the alleged plot to attack Kennedy International Airport brings to mind Mencken’s observation that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle421-20070610-04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Olbermann
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Rall
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JFK
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darian+Worden

Ein britischer Landwirt hat erstmals ein IVF-erzeugtes Kalb einer geklonten Kuh eingeführt, die britische Lebensmittelbehörde hat damit keine Probleme.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24429/1.html

TAZ von heute:

Über die Machenschaften von Elly Lilly spricht ein gefeuerter Manager.

Zitat:

"Ich habe Menschen bestochen"

John Rengen hat über dreißig Jahre für die "Globalplayer" in der Pharmabranche gearbeitet. Jetzt packt er aus und gibt einen Einblick in die schmutzige Trickkiste der Pharmaindustrie. Korruption, Bestechung und das Verschwindenlassen von unerwünschten Studienergebnissen gehören zum Geschäft

ganze Artikel:
http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/01/12/a0259.1/textdruck
http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/01/12/a0260.1/textdruck
http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/01/12/a0256.1/textdruck

Auch der Dissidentenfunk hat in seiner gestrigen Ausgabe berichtet:

Strafanzeige gegen den Vorstand des Pharmakonzern Lilly.

Der kalifornische Anwalt Ted Chabasinski hat den Vorstand des Pharmareisen Eli Lilly & Co. angezeigt. Hintergrund ist, dass Lilly am 8. Juni 2005 bekannt gab, man habe sich auf 690 Millionen Dollar Schadensersatz zur Beilegung von rund 8000 Klagen vor Gericht geeinigt. Die Klagen waren von Menschen, eingereicht worden, die nach der Einnahme des Neuroleptikums Zyprexa Gewichtszunahme, Diabetes, andere Stoffwechselstörungen litten, ja sogar von Todesfälle wurde berichtet.

Chabasinski macht nun den Vorstand von Lilly für die Unterdrückung von entsprechenden frühzeitigen Hinweisen verantwortlich, die zur Körperverletzung und sogar zum Tod führten. In einem Pressseinterview sagte er: „wenn das nicht kriminell ist, dann weis ich nicht was überhaupt kriminell ist“.


Werner-Fuß-Zentrum
im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de

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Real existierender Lobbyismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3183995/

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Der Druck der Pharma-Lobby war zu groß

Ein Interview der ZDF-Sendung "Frontal21" vom 6. Juni 2006 mit Horst Seehofer, ehemaliger Gesundheitsminister, dokumentiert eindrucksvoll die Machtverhältnisse und das Spannungsgeflecht zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft...

http://www.diagnose-funk.org/politik/000000988f07dab0b/033ea29b550e47d0d.html



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

Driving The Hearse Blindfolded
http://ga3.org/ct/yp20pgF1pXi1/

by Paul Precht, TomPaine.com

With Big Pharma in far corner, the only contender we have is the feds. Let the fight begin.

http://ga3.org/ct/h120pgF1pXiq/



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

by Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report

The disappearance of news on commercial black radio has been particularly devastating to progressive politics.

http://ga3.org/ct/yd20pgF1pX8V/

Thank you!

John D.


Tell Congress to Oppose Troop Escalation In Iraq
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/994055313

The occupation of Iraq has already resulted in the death of more than 3,000 Americans and 650,000 Iraqi civilians. More than 22,000 soldiers have been wounded. And no one can accurately predict the number of Iraqi casualties.

While promising a new strategy for Iraq, President Bush and his neo-conservative advisors are expected to make a bad situation worse by pouring more troops into Iraq.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/994055313


TELL PRESIDENT BUSH TO SUPPORT SENATOR BIDEN'S FIVE-POINT PLAN FOR PEACE!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/101144755

Since our invasion of Iraq acts of terrorism around the world have increased by over 100%. No number of troops can solve this problem.

But Senator Joesph Biden, along with Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, have proposed a five-point plan that would bring peace to region without deploying more U.S.troops.

TELL PRESIDENT BUSH TO SUPPORT SENATOR BIDEN'S FIVE-POINT PLAN FOR PEACE, NOT THE DEPLOYMENT OF MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/101144755


Tell Bush to Close Guantanamo NOW!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/602890897

The Supreme Court recently ruled to block military tribunals for detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In light of this decision, now is the time for President Bush to close the doors to Guantanamo for good!

Detaining persons without cause, denying due process in a court of law, and ignoring worldwide concerns about the inhumane treatment of detainees are rooted in values which run counter to the basic teachings of nearly every religion and spiritual practice and are acts one should never expect at any institution under US jurisdiction.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/602890897


Oppose military escalation in Iraq!
http://www.clw.org/action/petitions/iraq_troop_surge/index.pl


Together, we can make a difference - please pass this on to everyone who cares!

http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/269943

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Idaho Governor Calls for Gray Wolf Kill

Idaho's governor said Thursday he will support public hunts to kill all but 100 of the state's gray wolves after the federal government strips them of protection under the Endangered Species Act.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011207EC.shtml



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

Country music legend Willie Nelson has introduced a new kind of crop-based diesel fuel he calls "BioWillie."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107U.shtml



Solar's Outlook Shines, but Hurdles Remain

As utilities embrace renewable energy in an effort to cut pollution and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, some companies are turning to a source long on the sidelines of the US electricity market: solar power.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011107EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Willie+Nelson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010900444_pf.html


Informant: Jackie Cabasso

From ufpj-news



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

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/299463_joel12.html


Informant: binstock

Anti-war activists took to the streets of US cities on Thursday for the first of what organizers promised would be thousands of protests against President Bush's plan to send more US troops to Iraq. Angered by what they described as Bush's defiance of a public that has turned against the Iraq war, activists said they also planned a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign on the airwaves and the Internet to pressure Congress to deny funding for the planned troop increase.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207N.shtml



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

Members of the National Guard combat brigades that have served in Iraq in recent years spent 18 months on active duty - about six months in pre-deployment training in the United States, followed by about 12 months in Iraq. Under the old policy, they could not be sent back to Iraq because their cumulative time on active duty would exceed 24 months. Now that cumulative limit has been lifted, giving the Pentagon more flexibility to extend combat tours and send forces earlier than planned.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207M.shtml

Robert Parry writes, "While some observers believe Israel or the Bush administration may be leaking details of the plans as a way to frighten Iran into accepting international controls on its nuclear program, other sources indicate that the preparations for a wider Middle Eastern war are very serious and moving very quickly."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207L.shtml



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

William Rivers Pitt writes: "In a sense, there was a time when the war in Iraq seemed to serve American politics, albeit in a gross and cynical manner. The war served the politics of those who knew that fear, uncertainty and rampant nationalism would help them win elections. The war served the politics of those who knew their radical policy ideas would never see the light of day without that fear and uncertainty. The war served to distract the populace from a series of mistakes and deliberate misdirections, thus defending the political standing of the perpetrators. It worked, for a time, until the inherent flaws within the DNA of these cynical abuses of power overwhelmed the whole."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

Common Dreams
by Yifat Susskind

01/11/07

Wednesday night, Bush the Decider announced his intention to throw gasoline on the inferno he ignited in Iraq. He will send in another 21,500 US soldiers, who will kill and injure many more Iraqis and may be killed themselves. Bush's move shows total contempt for the demands of public opinion and the better judgment of Congress, the Iraq Study Group, and his own top generals (two of whom had to be replaced in order to push the plan through). This decision is not just 'stay the course.' It is speed up the course even though you're headed straight off a cliff. ... So what now? We should demand that Congress take advantage of the hearings scheduled over the next few weeks to really interrogate Bush's proposal. We should demand that they refuse Bush's request (expected in February) for another $100 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And we should forcefully remind them that it's not nearly enough to say 'no' to a troop increase. There are already 132,000 US soldiers in Iraq. A new Iraq policy must begin by bringing all of them home...

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0111-26.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


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

Christian Science Monitor
by Helena Cobban

01/11/07

Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the day the US military flew the first of some 700 battlefield detainees from Afghanistan to Guantanamo. Some of those same men are among the 395 still held at Guantanamo today. None of the detainees has ever had anything approaching a fair trial. Only 10 have ever had formal charges laid against them. Many are reportedly held in near-total isolation, and over the years both camp staff and released detainees have reported highly abusive treatment at the camp. Guantanamo is a stain on America's honor. Like the episodes of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Guantanamo (rightly) affects the standing of the US around the world. Even President Bush recognizes the problem: He has expressed a desire eventually to shut Guantanamo down. He and Congress should work speedily together to achieve this goal...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p09s01-coop.html



Trapped at Guantanamo

Boston Globe
by Melissa Hoffer

01/11/07

When I last saw my client, Saber Lahmar, in his cell at Guantanamo Bay, he told me a story. He said that a soldier entered his cell one day and inadvertently left the door ajar a few inches. An iguana darted in and went behind the door. The soldier left, leaving the iguana inside. At first, Saber said, the iguana appeared relaxed. It tried to crawl through a hole under a partition, but it could not squeeze through. After realizing it was trapped, it panicked and flew to the narrow opaque window next to the door, banging its head against the glass. 'This,' Saber said, 'is an animal after five minutes. I have been here five years.' No matter how hard one wishes, the bars of a steel cage do not stop time. No one is more aware of this fact than Lakhdar Boumediene, Mohammed Nechla, Mustafa Ait Idir, Hadj Boudella, Belkacem Bensayah, and Saber Lahmar -- six Bosnian Algerian men imprisoned at Guantanamo whom my colleagues and I have represented since July 2004, in a habeas corpus case, Boumediene v. Bush, challenging their detention . Today marks the fifth anniversary of the date the United States first began to fly plane loads of prisoners to Guantanamo. Our clients arrived on Jan. 20, 2002...

http://tinyurl.com/yffm9m



This is a US torture camp

Guardian [UK]
by Vikram Dodd

01/12/07

Surrounded by a turquoise sea, palm trees and white sand, the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was five years old yesterday. Tony Blair calls it an 'anomaly,' but the evidence is overwhelming. Camp Delta, which still houses 470 men never convicted of any crime, is a torture camp. That should be the starting point of any debate about what is acceptable in the west's fight with Islamist extremists. More than 750 men have passed through the camp, with nearly half being released. Many prisoners, past and present, have given consistent and repeated testimony of serious abuses and ill treatment. There is also significant evidence from US officials and government documents of widespread abuse at the camp...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1988677,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

What are the Democrats so afraid of? The country opposes the 'surge,' as it is now known. The numbers for President Bush and his war have never been lower. You don't go to war with 36 percent of all Americans behind you. The military opposes the surge. The guys who were for more troops in the first place say it's too late now in any event. Everybody else recognizes that our surge doesn't solve someone else's civil war. Consider the testimony of General John Abizaid before the Senate Armed Services Committee in November...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242905,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

01/11/07

As usual, observers are grasping wildly for an explanations as to why Bush is doing what he's doing. No matter what one thinks of the President, when push comes to shove, it's hard to believe he really wants to drag out the war so it can be handed over to a successor in 2008; or that he is such a psycho he can't stop referring to defeat as victory. That's not the kind of stuff the Bush family legacy is made of. There may well be a much more sinister game plan here, one that centers around the emergence of Henry Kissinger over the last year as an adviser to Bush and other top officials in Washington...

http://tinyurl.com/yahn5s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Umweltinstitut München e.V. – Newsletter vom 12. Januar 2007

In Gatersleben (Sachsen-Anhalt) sollen genmanipulierte Erbsen freigesetzt werden. Die Gen-Erbsen sollen ein Medikament gegen Durchfallerkrankungen von Schweinen produzieren. Dazu werden in die Erbsen Mäuse-Gene eingebaut. Die Gen-Erbsen sollen in Zukunft als Antibiotika-Ersatz in Futtermittel gemischt werden. Der Versuch ist auf dem Gelände der Genbank in Gatersleben mit der weltgrößten Sammlung traditioneller Erbsensorten geplant. Hunderte Sorten werden jedes Jahr im Freiland angebaut, um deren Keimfähigkeit zu erhalten. Eine Kontamination der Genbank hätte verheerende Folgen für die Erhaltungs und Züchtungsarbeit und damit für die Ernährungssicherheit künftiger Generationen.

Das Umweltinstitut ruft zu Einwendungen gegen den geplanten Freisetzungsversuch auf. Weitere Informationen und eine Mustereinwendung zum Herunterladen und Ausdrucken finden Sie auf: www.umweltinstitut.org/pharmaerbse


Hans Ulrich-Raithel, Dipl.- Ing. (FH) Vorstand
Umweltinstitut München e.V. Landwehrstr. 64 a
80336 München
http://www.umweltinstitut.org
hu(et)umweltinstitut.org

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75.000 gegen Erbsen mit Mäuse-Genen

Mit Ihrer Hilfe konnten wir die Rekordzahl von 75.000 Einwendungen gegen einen geplanten Feldversuch mit genmanipulierten Pharma-Erbsen sammeln. Die Erbsen enthalten Mäuse Gene und sollen ein Medikament gegen Durchfallerkrankungen von Schweinen produzieren: Und das nur 500 m entfernt von den Anbauflächen der Genbank in Gatersleben (Sachsen Anhalt), der weltgrößten Sammlung traditioneller Erbsensorten.

Unsere Pressemitteilung finden Sie unter: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/allg/press/f-20070312.htm

Jim Lobe offers his own analysis of "the surge"

"President George W. Bush's decision to escalate U.S. military intervention in Iraq and issue new threats against Syria and Iran appears to have left him politically more isolated than ever. Both Democrats and Republicans expressed regret that Bush appeared to reject the central recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, particularly its call to gradually withdraw U.S. combat troops, tie future support for the Iraqi government to its efforts at healing the sectarian divide, and directly engage Iran and Syria, along with Baghdad's other neighbors, to stabilize the country. At the same time, military analysts said the 21,500 troops Bush plans to add to the 132,000 already deployed to Iraq were unlikely to succeed in their mission to pacify Baghdad and al Anbar province."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2817.shtml



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

Pentagon doctors estimate that 12 percent of the 1.5 million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD. Many of those who have already served in Iraq will be returning as part of President Bush's new plan.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2818.shtml



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

There is significant doubt that President Bush's "surge" can do anything to stop the unwavering sectarian violence in Iraq. In Iraq Diaries today, Hussein Iyad provides a glimpse at that violence in a simple and devastating piece.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2819.shtml

AntiWar.Com
by Pat Buchanan

01/12/07

Commenting on the speech on MSNBC, where he is a regular these days, Pat [Buchanan] went so far as to say that, on this basis, if he were a sitting Senator, he would vote 'aye' on the surge. Pat is motivated by a desire to avert a real disaster for American interests in the region, and sees this as 'Bush's last chance' to undo what he has wrought. But there are no do-overs when it comes to war. Bad policies have bad consequences. As ye reap, so shall ye sow. It's a principle ordained by heaven, and fully applicable to everyone on earth -- Americans included. The war both Pat and I opposed is having exactly the effect we envisioned. The idea that a 'surge' of some 20,000 troops will do anything but further irritate and inflame this open wound is a fantasy, and hardly a patriotic one. For it delays the necessity of looking reality square in the face, and -- worse -- prevents the public and the policymaking elites from absorbing the vital lessons of this radical misadventure: that interventionism leads to exactly the opposite of its stated intentions, and the business of Empire is a losing proposition...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10310


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

"When the President announced that he had already 'committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq,'" writes the Nation Institute's Tom Engelhardt, "when he 'surges' them into Baghdad and al-Anbar Province, he is surging from Kenai, from Wasilla, from South Gate. And he is ensuring a spate of future Pentagon 'announcements' that will again take us to what's left of the hamlets, villages, small towns, and out of the way smaller cities of this country, the places Americans increasingly don't notice. When the President talks to us, as he did last night, about "a year ahead that will demand more patience, sacrifice, and resolve," this is who he is mainly sacrificing."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2816.shtml



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

Salon
by Michael Scherer

01/12/07

'I have to say, Madam Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam,' announced [Nebraska Senator Charles] Hagel, who earned two Purple Hearts as an infantryman in that war. 'I've gone along with the president on this, and I bought into his dream,' Ohio Sen. George Voinovich added a few minutes later. 'At this stage of the game, I don't think it's going to happen.' Minnesota's Norm Coleman seemed to agree: 'The cost is too high,' he said of the plan for more troops. New Hampshire's John Sununu expressed mild disappointment. Added Alaska's Lisa Murkowski: 'I'm not convinced, as I look to the plan that the president presented yesterday, that what we are seeing is that much different than what we have been doing in the past.' And those were just the sentiments of Republicans...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/12/condoleezza/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

12. Januar 2007

Zum heute verkündeten Gesundheitskompromiss erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch (MdB):

Das ist keine Einigung, sondern erneut ist die SPD eingeknickt. Mit dem jetzt gefundenen Kompromiss wird die Zwei-Klassen-Medizin festgeschrieben. Die vollmundig angekündigte Reform ist Stückwerk und völlig unzureichend. Das Ergebnis widerspiegelt den Versuch, zwei unterschiedliche Konzepte zusammenzupressen. Entstanden ist ein völlig unübersichtliches Monstrum, das letztendlich Patienten, Ärzte, Apotheker und Krankenkassen belasten wird. Im Übrigen ist es eine Missachtung des Parlaments, wenn die Bundesregierung heute verkündet, dass die Gesundheitsreform - so wie jetzt vorgelegt - am 1. April in Kraft treten wird. Die parlamentarischen Beratungen beginnen erst.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34920

Human Events
by Robert Novak

01/12/07

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republicans and Democrats alike, were alarmed last week that John Negroponte was leaving as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after less than two years to become deputy secretary of state. By way of explanation, he informed one Republican senator that he did not want to make the switch but that the White House prevailed on him. Just what career diplomat Negroponte was doing as the new intelligence czar in the first place is puzzling. But to pull him out just as his on-the-job training as DNI had been completed reflects a panicky desire to fill the deputy secretary's post that had been unfilled for an unprecedented six months. Five other key State Department positions are either vacant or soon to be vacant. Republicans in Congress, who do not want to be quoted, tell me the State Department under Secretary Condoleezza Rice is a mess...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18870


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Negroponte
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Novak

Wonkette
by Wonkette

While Democrats and Republicans on the Hill continue their 'Yeah but now I'm against it' routine, Texas Congressman Ron Paul doesn't have to issue any apologies. He was always against the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and he's running for president...

http://tinyurl.com/ykpfl2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ron Paul: Next President Of The USA?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/120107ronpaul.htm



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

Waterloo Courier

01/11/07

President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill on Thursday as administration officials drew confrontational, sometimes mocking challenges from both Democrats and Republicans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in response that the administration might abandon the increase if the Iraqi government doesn't do its part, but he provided no timetable. 'I think most of us, in our minds, are thinking of it as a matter of months, not 18 months or two years,' he told the House Armed Services Committee...

http://tinyurl.com/uw7sj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

By Benjamin Parkes

Plans to put up a mobile phone mast in Calne were unexpectedly thrown out by planning councillors who said the structure would spoil the image of that part of the town.

Applicant O2 wanted to build the 15-metre mast with two pavement cabinets on the corner of The Pippin behind the Oxford Road Liberal Club and promised to make it look like surrounding streetlights to minimise visual impact.

That promise wasn't enough for councillors on the North Wiltshire District Council planning committee who agreed with objections from residents and rejected the application on January 10.

Chairman Toby Sturgis, a Conservative, read out a letter from Calne resident Patricia Cullop, which said: "Anyone with half a brain would see that putting this gross pole in the middle of the town would discourage people from visiting and ruin the appearance of the area."

Another speaker, a resident of Calne, said: "The visual amenity of Oxford Road would be impaired by this mast and I think the equipment boxes would cause obstructions for blind people and those with mobility problems."

Conservative councillor Tony Trotman said: "There were 14 letters of objection written by residents and rightly so.

"The scale and the size of the mast is inappropriate especially since it is at the start of a conservation area leading down to The Pippin.

"It beggars belief that O2 could even consider this as a good position for a phone mast."

A representative for the mobile phone company, who was present at the meeting, said: "O2 wants to provide a good phone signal to the people of the area, indeed we have an obligation to improve our service in rural locations.

"We conducted a wide search of the area and selected this site because it is on top of a hill and in the town centre.

"We have taken the appearance of the area into account and the mast would be disguised as a lamppost."

Liberal Democrat councillor Helen Dixon disputed whether the disguise would work.

She said: "This pole is 15-metres high but I have never seen any lampposts that tall. It is too big to replicate a street light and would impact negatively on the local environment."

A district council planning officer, who recommended the mast plan be approved, said: "Unfortunately everyone wants to use mobile phones but nobody wants the masts that provide the network coverage, in their communities."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1119815.0.phone_mast_plan_rejected.php

Telecommunications giant Hutchinson 3G has failed in its attempts to install a "completely inappropriate" 12-metre high mast in Kenilworth town centre.

The plans, which included the construction of a black antenna on a verge outside the DeMontfort Hotel, were rejected by members of Warwick District Council's planning committee at a meeting held at Leamington Town Hall on Wednesday.

Among the objectors to the proposal was Kenilworth Town Council, which stated the location was "completely inappropriate and unsuitable".

Speaking on behalf of the council at the meeting, Coun George Illingworth told members he had received a number of letters raising concern about the application and believed he would have received many more if it had not been for the time of year.

He added that many people did not believe the application would be allowed to get as far as it had and feared approval could set a precedent for other mobile phone companies.

Speaking on behalf of the Conservation Area Advisory Forum, Joanna Illingworth also raised concerns. She said: "This application, because it is on the street, is close to Kenilworth's main conservation area and is visible from it."

Coun Michael Coker (Con, Kenilworth Abbey) added: "The area is an important part of the regeneration of the town. Smalley Place is set to be the site of a civic centre. It is the gateway to the town and an important part of it."

This view was shared by committee chairman Coun Richard Tamlin (Lab, Bishops Tachbrook) who raised objections to the plans previously, and because of which, removed himself from Wednesday's debate and vote.

Coun Bertie Mackay (Ind, Stoneleigh) spoke of the equipment that would accompany the mast.

He said: "The problem is not the mast, it is the totality of the equipment. The large box is 1.5m high and that in itself has an enormous impact."

Coun Ann Blacklock (Lib Dem, Kenilworth Abbey) told members she did not share the same concerns.

She explained she had not had any letters or concerns raised to her about it and said that she believed people were "not that bothered". The application was refused by four to two.

12 January 2007

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Students at New College are right to be worried about the proposed phone mast in Queens Drive. Parents of children attending Churchfields School have equal reason to be concerned.

It is often said by those with an interest in promoting phone masts, that there is no proof of adverse effects on health.

There is, however, a great deal of evidence that radiation can affect concentration, scramble DNA, and cause cancer and other illnesses.

People are being exposed, without their consent, to radiation which has been shown to be harmful in numerous scientific studies.

The idea that unelected bodies (the mobile phone companies in this case) have a right to expose people to risks unless they can prove harm, amounts to enrolling the population in a giant biological experiment without their consent.

Considering that children, the most vulnerable of all, are included in this experiment, it is shameful that their interests are disregarded so cynically in the pursuit of profit.

The Government-sponsored Stewart Report advocates the precautionary approach' because of gaps in current knowledge about the potential harm that low level radiation can cause.

It seems that this is being ignored by the phone industry, which continues to erect masts in populated areas as if no gaps in our knowledge exist.

Our councillors must pay heed to this problem. I am glad to read that Peter Mallinson is taking an interest.

Let us hope, for our children's sake, that he can persuade others on the council to throw out the proposal for the mast in Queens Drive. Only time will tell.

B Jones (chairman).

SHOC (Stop Harming Our Children)

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...und die USA sind eine bürgerliche Demokratie und die kapitalistische Globalisierung samt Abwärtsschraube passiert einfach so... Wie dem nachgeholfen wird, ist in dem (englischen) Papier "Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns" von John Schmitt und Ben Zipperer nachzulesen, das am 4. Januar 2007 beim Center for Economic and Policy Research veröffentlicht wurde: http://tinyurl.com/y8my2z


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Januar 2007

The CIA cannot reveal "alternative interrogation methods" used on terrorists because doing so would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security by telling enemies how the agency gathers intelligence, the government has told a judge.

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The CIA in the Dock: A Milan prosecutor is making the CIA nervous

Despite the opposition of his own government he wants to indict 26 US agents and five Italian secret agents for the kidnapping of a terror suspect. Rome and Washington would prefer that the embarrassing trial would just go away.

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Prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba are being driven insane by a tightening of conditions and the situation of their indefinite detention without trial, according to lawyers and rights activists involved with the US camp.

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U.S. special forces in occupied Somalia

U.S. and Somali officials said Wednesday a small American team has been providing military advice to Ethiopian and Somali forces on the ground.

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Somali elders say about 100 killed in US, Ethiopian air strikes

Clan elders and residents in occupied Somalia have said that about 100 civilians were killed this week in US and Ethiopian air strikes on suspected Al-Qaeda targets in the region.

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Somalia air strike failed to kill al-Qaida targets, says US

The US air strike on occupied Somalia failed to kill any of the three top al-Qaida members accused of terror attacks in east Africa.

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Russia protests U.S. action in Somalia

U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Moscow Daniel Russel was called in to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday to give explanations on the American air strikes inside Somalia.

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U.N. Backs Deployment of Troops to occupied Somalia

Russia's U.N. Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, the current council president, told reporters after a closed-door meeting Wednesday that members regard Somalia as "a high priority matter" and are concerned about instability, security, and the humanitarian situation.

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In promising to stop Iran from meddling in Iraq, President Bush returned Wednesday night to a strategy of confrontation in dealing with Tehran, casting aside what had been a limited flirtation with a more diplomatic approach toward it.

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Condoleezza Rice: US to target anti-Iraq activity

Her statement comes hours after US forces stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil - prompting condemnation from Tehran.

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Iranians detained in raid on consulate in Iraq

American forces raided the Iranian consulate in the mainly Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq before dawn today, detaining at least five Iranian employees in the building and seizing some property, according to Iraqi and Iranian officials and witnesses.

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Haidar al-Abadi, a member of Parliament who is a close associate of Maliki's, said: "The government believes there is no need for extra troops from the American side. The existing troops can do the job."

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Condoleezza Rice: Iraq PM is 'on borrowed time'

Ms Rice was testifying to a Senate hearing about President Bush's new Iraq strategy, announced on Wednesday.

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Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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By Jumah al-Dossari

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By Robert Fisk

George Bush dare not see these armies of the past, their ghosts as palpable as the phantoms of the 3,000 Americans ­ let us forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis ­ already done to death in this obscene war, and those future spirits of the dead still living amid the 20,000 men and women whom Bush is now sending to Iraq.

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Bush's new strategy

Independent [UK]
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So into the graveyard of Iraq, George Bush, commander-in-chief, is to send another 21,000 of his soldiers. The march of folly is to continue. ... It will take time ­ oh, yes, it will take years, at least three in the words of Washington's top commander in the field, General Raymond Odierno this week ­ but the mission will be accomplished. Mission accomplished. Wasn't that the refrain almost four years ago, on that lonely aircraft carrier off California, Bush striding the deck in his flying suit? And only a few months later, the President had a message for Osama bin Laden and the insurgents of Iraq. 'Bring 'em on!' he shouted. And on they came. Few paid attention late last year when the Islamist leadership of this most ferocious of Arab rebellions proclaimed Bush a war criminal but asked him not to withdraw his troops. 'We haven't yet killed enough of them,' their videotaped statement announced...

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"I'm Scared Out of My Mind" - Live From Iraq

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"Any troops increase over here - they will just be more sitting ducks, more targets."
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Out of Iraq and Back to the American City
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'Insulted' Andean farmers pick GM potato fight with multinational Syngenta
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'Insulted' Andean farmers pick GM potato fight with multinational Syngenta

Friday January 12, 2007

A coalition of indigenous farmers in South America will today (12 January) launch an international protest against the multinational corporation Syngenta, claiming that its plans threaten their region's biodiversity, culture and food sovereignty.

In an open letter signed today by representatives of 34 indigenous communities in Peru, the coalition says Syngenta’s claims that its patent for 'terminator technology' potatoes is neither relevant nor applicable in the region are "deeply offensive".

The Indigenous Coalition Against Biopiracy in the Andes says that by commercialising such potatoes, the corporation would threaten more than 3,000 local potato varieties that form the basis of livelihoods and culture for millions of poor people.

It wants Syngenta to publicly disown the patent, which describes a genetic- modification process that could be used to stop potatoes from sprouting unless a chemical is applied.

Terminator technology refers to genetic modifications that 'switch off' seed fertility, and can therefore prevent farmers from using, storing and sharing seeds and storage organs such as potato tubers.

Although there has been a global moratorium on the field-testing and commercial use of terminator technologies since 2000, research into them continues and some countries and corporations want the ban relaxed.

"Syngenta's pursuit of terminator potato patents in Europe, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt and Poland — in addition to granted patents in Australia and Russia — demonstrates its investment in the technology and interest in commercialising it," states the letter. "No trade barriers nor regulatory system would be in place in Peru to keep terminator potatoes from contaminating native potatoes."

Peru and its Andean neighbours are the potato's centre of diversity — with nearly 4,000 unique varieties that farmers have developed over generations. Before reaching its position, the coalition undertook a lengthy discussion with farmers across the region.

Farmers are concerned that terminator potatoes will enter the Andean production system and destroy their traditions of storing and exchanging potato tubers for future planting. This is central to the farmers' culture and has contributed to the region's immense diversity of potato varieties. They also fear that pollen from the modified potatoes could contaminate local varieties and prevent their tubers from sprouting.

"We feel greatly disrespected by corporations that make a single genetic alteration to a plant and then claim private ownership when these plants are the result of thousands of years of careful breeding by indigenous people," says Argumedo.

"Making farmers depend on chemicals they do not want to use, and preventing them from saving and reusing seeds and tubers, merely increases corporate control over the global food system."

Last year, a Syngenta shareholder hand-delivered a letter outlining the coalition's concerns to the corporation’s CEO Michael Pragnell.

"We received an insulting letter in reply," says Alejandro Argumedo of Asociación ANDES, a founding member of the coalition. "Syngenta disregards our culture, values and our right to use the tubers of a resource that our peoples have nurtured for millennia. Introducing 'terminator technology' potatoes could create major problems for farmers in the Andes."

Syngenta says it has a policy not to use terminator technology but defines the term solely as a "hypothetical process, which leads to plants with infertile seeds", adding that it was patented by another company in 1998.

In March 2004, however, Syngenta was granted its own patent (US patent 6,700,039) for a genetic modification process that stops tubers — plant storage organs such as potatoes — from sprouting unless an external chemical is applied.

"While distancing itself from the prevention of seed germination, Syngenta remains keen to prevent potato tuber development," says Argumedo. "For Andean farmers, this is the same thing."

The coalition is calling for support from the international community, including the World Council of Churches, which lobbies for political change that supports the word’s poorest communities.

In May 2006, the council’s general secretary Samuel Kobia issued a statement condemning terminator technology. "Preventing farmers from re-planting saved seed will increase economic injustice all over the world and add to the burdens of those already living in hardship," he said.

The coalition finalised its letter at a meeting held on 11-12 January in Lares, Cusco, Peru. The meeting was organised by Asociación ANDES
(the Quechua-Ayamara Association for Sustainable Livelihoods) with support from the International Institute for Environment and Development.

For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:

Alejandro Argumedo (ANDES) 00 51 1 955 82372

Mike Shanahan Press Officer International Institute for Environment and Development Email: mike.shanahan @iied.org Tel: +44 (0)20 7872 7308 Fax: +44 (0)20 7388 2826 http://www.iied.org

NOTES TO EDITORS The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent, non-profit research institute. Set up in 1971 and based in London, IIED provides expertise and leadership in researching and achieving sustainable development (see: http:// www.iied.org).

The Association for Nature and Sustainable Development (ANDES) is a non-profit Peruvian indigenous organisation that aims to improve the quality of life of Andean indigenous communities by promoting the conservation and sustainable use of their bio-cultural heritage through rights-based conservation-development approaches. See: http:// www.andes.org.pe/

Founded in 2002 in Lima, Peru, the Indigenous Coalition Against Biopiracy is an informal network of indigenous communities, community- based organisations and individuals working together to protect their collective biocultural heritage, which is the basis of their culture and sustenance. The coalition primarily aims to create a space to analyse and discuss the threat of biopiracy to indigenous communities as well as strategies to confront its increasing influence on a local and global level.

Syngenta AG is a multinational corporation with staff in 90 countries that markets seeds and crop protection products. The company's sales in 2005 were approximately US$8.1 billion. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss stock exchange (SWX: SYNN) and the New York stock exchange
(NYSE: SYT). See: http://www.syngenta.com/en/index.aspx

Syngenta’s website states that: "Syngenta and its predecessor companies have a long-standing policy not to use the so-called 'terminator' technology to prevent seed germination." It defines terminator technology as "a hypothetical process, which leads to plants with infertile seeds" and states that it was patented in 1998 (not by Syngenta and its predecessor companies). The website adds that: "Syngenta believes that other methods of controlling the activity of genes, such as chemical switch technology, will provide new benefits for farmers and consumers… Other techniques involving the control of the activity of genes in plants could bring a variety of benefits for farmers and consumers. These include boosting the natural disease or pest resistance abilities within a crop plant during susceptible periods of growth, reducing losses after crops have been harvested, or helping avoid frost damage by controlling the timing of plant development." See: http://www.syngenta.com/en/ar2003/social_responsibility/ position.aspx (link 4)

Full details of Syngenta’s patent (US patent 6,700,039) are online at: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6700039-fulltext.html

In 2000 the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recommended that governments not field-test or commercialise genetic seed sterilisation technologies - thus creating a de-facto international moratorium. In 2006, the CBD rejected a proposal — backed by Australia, Canada and New Zealand — to allow field trials of the crops on a case-by-case basis.

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) originated in the highlands of South America, where it has been consumed for more than 8,000 years.

The World Council of Churches' general director’s full statement on terminator technology is online at: http://tinyurl.com/rhsux

Biopiracy refers to the monopolisation (usually through intellectual property rights) of genetic resources and traditional knowledge or culture taken from people or regions that developed and nurtured those resources.

In November 2006, the Andean Parliament passed a resolution to declare the countries of the Andean Community (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) free of genetically modified potatoes. The resolution urges governments of the Andean countries to stop any field trial, manipulation and experimentation with genetically modified potatoes to eliminate the risk of loss of genetic variability of potatoes. It also calls for an end to any activity related with propagation in the environment, commercial use, transportation, use, commercialisation and production of GM Potato, inside the Andean Community.

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Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The implementation of this report was new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first priority for the 110th Congress. She succeeded. I well remember my father telling me, "A bird in a cage is safe, but it is not free." That proverb pretty much summarizes H.R. 1. When fully implemented, the new law will create a federal police leviathan that will place the American people into a giant bird cage......

The American people need to heed the warning of Winston Churchill who said, "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

America, are you listening?

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Pressemitteilung der ödp München

Vor der Entscheidung in wenigen Tagen: ödp verlangt von CSU-MdEP Bernd Posselt klare Position gegen Förderung der grünen Gentechnik

Die Münchner ödp hat den CSU-Europaabgeordneten Bernd Posselt in einem Schreiben zu einer klaren Position gegen die im Januar anstehende Entscheidung zur Nutzung der landwirtschaftlichen Gentechnik aufgefordert. Das Europaparlament wird in wenigen Tagen über einen Initiativbericht des Agrarausschusses befinden, der nach Ansicht des stv. Vorsitzenden der ödp München, dem Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsexperten Thomas Semonsky „der grünen Gentechnik trotz aller Widerstände seitens der bayrischen Landwirte und Verbraucher zum Durchbruch verhelfen soll“.

In dem vorliegenden EU-Entwurf werde das „Lissabon-Ziel“ der Schaffung von 20 Mio. neuen Arbeitsplätzen propagandistisch mit der grünen Gentechnik in Zusammenhang gebracht und auch das Märchen von der Hilfe für die Armen der Welt durch Gentechnik erneut bemüht: „In Indien bringen sich zu tausenden die Bauern um, weil ihre Felder durch Gentechnik verdorben wurden - und im Europaparlament werden die Propagandalügen der Gentechnik-Konzerne aufgetischt“, empört sich Semonsky.

Natürlich werde auch die unhaltbare Behauptung von der friedlichen Koexistenz zwischen Bio-Höfen, traditionell-konventionellen Landwirten und GVO-Landwirtschaft erneuert. Besonders problematisch sei aber die Forderung nach europaweiter Beschleunigung und Vereinheitlichung der Genehmigungsverfahren. „Damit haben nationale Regelungen keine Chance mehr; Österreich und andere Gentechnikkritiker sollen so ausgetrickst werden.“

Der ödp-Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsexperte sieht dringenden Handlungsbedarf seitens der bayerischen Europaabgeordneten: „Es besteht jetzt erhebliche Gefahr für den Bestand der bayerischen Landwirtschaft. In unserer kleinräumigen Struktur kann es keine Koexistenz sondern nur ein Entweder–Oder geben. Das sieht mittlerweile angeblich auch CSU-General Söder so; er sollte dringend ein ernstes Wort mit seinen Parteifreunden im EU-Parlament reden“, fordert Semonsky.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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Pestizide: Mäßige Ernteerträge von Gentech-Pflanzen?

(11.01.07)

Die Ernten aus gentechnischer Landwirtschaft halten offenbar nicht, was die Gentech-Industrie verspricht. Weder erfüllten Gen-Produkte die Erwartungen an Qualität oder Preis, noch linderten sie Hunger oder Armut in Afrika oder sonst irgendwo, kritisierten Friends of the Earth Africa in Nigeria. Das jedenfalls ergibt sich aus einem Bericht der Umweltorganisation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) vom 9. Januar, in dem die weltweiten Erträge von gentechnisch veränderten Organismen (GVO) im Zeitraum 1996-2006 ausgewertet wurden. Dem Bericht zufolge ist außerdem auch der Einsatz von Pestiziden mit dem Anbau von Gen-Pflanzen nicht gesunken, sondern im Gegenteil gestiegen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=15089

11.01.07

Die überraschende Absage Günther Jauchs, als Moderator die Nachfolge von Sabine Christiansen anzutreten, stellt nach Auffassung der Initiative LobbyControl eine Chance dar, das Sendeformat grundlegend zu überdenken und in konzeptioneller Hinsicht neu auszurichten. Im September letzten Jahres hatte LobbyControl mit der Studie "Schaubühne für die Einflussreichen und Meinungsmacher - Der neoliberal geprägte Reformdiskurs bei 'Sabine Christiansen'" deutliche Kritik an der politischen Talkrunde in der ARD geäußert. Der im NDR-Staatsvertrag festgelegte Auftrag, ausgewogen, sachlich und umfassend zu berichten, müsse besonders für eine politische Talkshow zu bester Sendezeit gelten.

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Glen Barry writes: "Global warming is not a slow, gentle, pleasant rise in temperatures to be savored. It is an abrupt fundamental breakdown in the Earth System's climate sub-system that threatens the Earth's, humanity's and your family's ability to live."

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Tom Engelhardt writes; "Awkwardly, even uncomfortably delivered, last night's Way-Forward-in-Iraq speech was, in sum, a speech to be forgotten, a speech certain to be buried - and quickly - in the coming carnage."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107F.shtml



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Matt Renner reports, "In stark contrast to the recommendation put forth by the Iraq Study Group last month that the White House enter into a dialogue with Iran and Syria, President Bush said he would authorize the use of military force against those countries if they continued to empower insurgents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107A.shtml



Democrats Aim to Block Funds for Plan

Senior House Democrats said yesterday that they will attempt to derail funding for President Bush's proposal to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, setting up what could become the most significant confrontation between the White House and Congress over military policy since the Vietnam War.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107C.shtml



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Informant: Amy Sasser

From ufpj-news

Please circulate widely!
http://www.answercoalition.org

U.S. Peace Movement Plans to "Escalate" Street Protests

The ANSWER Coalition Responds to Bush's War Speech of January 10, 2007

ANSWER Coalition Statement:

Unwilling to accept the failure of his war of aggression in Iraq, his "war of choice," Bush announced tonight a plan that will succeed only in sending thousands of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers to their graves in the next year.

What Bush is really proposing is using thousands of additional U.S. soldiers in a planned reign of terror in the streets and neighborhoods of Baghdad against those who want the U.S. to leave. Bush chose to use a euphemism about the planned reign of terror when he stated that one of the past "mistakes" of the U.S. military operation in Baghdad was that, "there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have." The blood will flow just as Bush promises but this plan will fail just as badly as every announced initiative since Bush arrogantly taunted the Iraqi resistance with his infamous "Bring em on" speech back in
2003.

Bush gave the people of the United States a warning that they should expect the coming year will be "bloody and violent," with "television screens filled with images of death and suffering." He tried to innoculate himself from responsibility for this carnage although his plan makes it inevitable.

Bush's aspiration to salvage his "legacy" and his place in history isn't worth one more life. Every mother and father of a U.S. soldier, every person who has a loved one in the U.S. armed forces should make it clear that the lives of their family members are too precious to be sacrificed for such an ignoble cause.

For the last six years, Bush has provided huge tax breaks for the billionaires and multimillionaires of this country. But it will not be their children who will be sent to fight and die in Iraq. The privileged ultra-rich, Bush's real "base," are shielded from the horrors of the war.

The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis since March 2003 (see Lancet medical journal 10/06), proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Bush's claim that his invasion was for the liberation of the Iraqi people is a complete and utter lie.

"Clearing and holding neighborhoods in Iraq" is not the duty or right of members of the U.S. military. The people who live in those neighborhoods lived in peace before the arrival of the occupation forces. The occupation is illegal and the order to stiffen the occupation is illegal too. U.S. soldiers have the right and duty to disobey illegal orders.

Neither one more Iraqi nor one more soldier should die so that the politicians, who inaugurated a criminal "pre-emptive" invasion of a country that posed zero threat to the people of the United States, can postpone the verdict of history.

For their part, the Democrats in Congress are involved in a slightly more complicated dance. They want to posture as opponents of Bush's escalation and so-called surge without taking responsibility for bringing the war to a close. They could cut funding for the war which is their exclusive Constitutional prerogative. But they will absolutely refuse to take this responsibility. They are merely posturing for the 2008 elections hoping to take advantage of the well deserved public disgust for Bush and the Iraq war.

The issue right now for the anti-war movement can not simply be opposition to a surge or an escalation: the issue is the war itself. The troops must be brought home now. As in Vietnam, that is the only solution. Those who initiated the war and who funded the war should be held accountable for one of the great crimes of the modern era.

Everything that Bush has said about the Iraq war has proved to be a lie. This was always a war for Empire in a strategic area that possesses two thirds of the world's oil supply. He proclaimed tonight that, "failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States." If Bush fails in Iraq the people of the United States lose nothing. It is not our Empire.

On March 17, 2007, the anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2? abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=81072007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The message of the 1967 march was "From Protest to Resistance," and marked a turning point in the development of a countrywide mass movement.

Thousands of organizations and individuals are mobilizing for the upcoming March on the Pentagon. Organizing committees and transportation centers are being established to bring people to the March on the Pentagon.


Informant: Carlos Rovira

From ufpj-news

Mit Mützen aus Bärenfellimitat bekleidet, haben sich Glenda Jackson, Mike Hancock und Dutzende weiterer Parlamentsmitglieder verschiedener Parteien vor dem Parlamentsgebäude Großbritanniens versammelt, um gegen den Einsatz von echtem Bärenfell für die Kopfbedeckungen der königlichen Wachen zu protestieren.

http://www.peta.de/de/home.cfm?p=934

Die überzeugte Rockerin und Tierrechtlerin Pink lehnt Pelz seit langem ab und entscheidet sich meist für Leder-Alternativen. Nun hat sie sich mit einer Videobotschaft PETA’s Kampagne zur Aufdeckung der unvorstellbaren Tierquälerei in der Wollindustrie angeschlossen. Auch auf ihrer ofiziellen Website www.pink-music.de untestützt sie PETA’s Kampagne.

http://www.peta.de/de/home.cfm?p=915

In Thailand befinden sich ca. 3800 der schätzungsweise 5000 vom Aussterben bedrohten asiatischen Elefanten in privaten Händen. Die meisten werden in Elefantencamps als Touristenattraktion benutzt, wo sie gezwungen werden, Zirkuskunststücke aufzuführen und die Touristen auf sich reiten zu lassen. PETA hat die grauenhafte Folter aufgedeckt, die in Thailands geheimen "Trainingscamps" zum Alltag gehört.

http://www.peta.de/de/home.cfm?p=935

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4839


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Informant: Debi Clark

Out of bounds. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070108/full/445132a.html

With the use of transgenic crops expanding around the globe, what level of unapproved plants are we willing to accept in our diets? Zero is not an option.


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Still Hiring Tree-Haters
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Informant: binstock

Please call your members of Congress tollfree right now at, 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803, and tell them to vote for S. 233/H. Res. 41.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/no_escalation2.php

A couple days ago we called for preemptive resolutions to oppose the unpopular Bush escalation proposed for Iraq. There are now at least two measures pending to do just that. In the Senate, Ted Kennedy has introduced S. 233 which would prohibit the White House from spending any federal funds on an increase of troop levels in Iraq without express Congressional consent. On the House side, Marty Meehan's H Res. 41 would require a parallel authorization. All we have to do is speak out in sufficient numbers and these bills will become law. The overnight polls show that those numbers should definitely be there, if we can just inspire our friends and neighbors to take vocal action. Dennis Kucinich is also bringing forward a resolution to actually mandate a phased withdrawal and we will support that too when it is introduced.

With regards to the Kennedy bill, Harry Reid was quoted yesterday as saying he would "prefer" a non-binding resolution as way of sending a "message" to the president. Despite his recent letter advocating against the escalation, on the point of what actual action to take Harry Reid has it wrong. The only message non-binding resolutions would send is that Congress lacks the courage to confront the incorrigible bullies in the White House. We might as well set up a special conference room in the Capitol for public hand wringing. By defying absolutely the entire rest of the government not including his few remaining quislings, George Bush is deliberately FORCING a Constitutional crisis. We have no choice but to stand up to him directly and immediately.

There were many entirely false premises in Bush's awkward and uncomfortable speech last night. But central to it all was the assertion that the Iraqi people want us in their country to bring them our wonderful democratic system of government. That time is long past. Absolutely every poll there demonstrates they overwhelmingly want us to just leave. The entire world knows George Bush invaded Iraq for the SOLE purpose of stealing their oil resources. Talk about bringing our kind of government to Iraq, they are about to try to force through a new hurry-up hydrocarbon law to cut up and encumber their oil fields that nobody in the Iraqi Parliament there has even read yet. Isn't that the way they used to pass legislation here in our own country, in the middle of the night without even a fair read?

It's not just Democrats, there are many Republicans who increasingly alarmed by the new Bush lurch in the direction of sheer madness. Chuck Hagel was quoted as saying, "This is a dangerously wrong-headed strategy that will drive America deeper into an unwinnable swamp at a great cost." That's an understatement. Although all the pre-speech marketing was about some kind of temporary "surge," Bush used that word not one time in his prepared statement. Instead he painted a picture of at LEAST another year of ever increasing violence, backed up with barely veiled threats to wage full scale war on BOTH Iran and Syria. All those air craft carriers steaming to the Persian Gulf are not going there for R & R. They even have a shiny new naval commander installed in charge of Iraq now, to direct the launch of the cruise missiles.

The plain facts are these. The only reason why the Iraqi people endured the charade of purple finger elections was they thought if they indulged us in that we might actually leave. As fed up as the American public is with our military presence there, the Iraqi people are even more so. Bush has made an unholy alliance with a stooge (al Maliki) of some of the very Islamic militants (al Sadr) they have been rattling sabers at for the last four years. And when he warns that the Iraqi government will fall without being propped up by our uranium spitting gun ships, it is because it is too corrupt and infiltrated to survive on its own. As horrific as the casualties have been so far, under Bush they are just starting.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/no_escalation2.php

We must raise every possible voice to call for support of the S. 233 and H. Res 41 right now. These must pass by overwhelming margins. We have very little time. Bush did not even wait to make his announcement to start deploying the new troops. We have an outlaw administration bent on turning a disaster into an utter debacle. Bush must be stopped. And nothing can arrest him but your voices, to pressure your members of Congress to act against him without equivocation or fear.

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

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State of the State: Bold Move on Global Warming

California will create the world's first global warming pollution standard for transportation fuels, ratcheting down fuel carbon content 10 percent by 2020 under a plan put forward by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new standard could have implications for the auto industry and change the way gasoline is produced around the globe.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011007EC.shtml

Who, but who, would soil the environmental reputation of Barack Obama? The Democratic senator from Illinois gets stellar marks from greens. So why then, environmentalists ask, is Obama backing a law supporting the expanded use of coal, whose emissions are cooking the globe?

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011007EA.shtml



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Federal prosecutors have notified a former deputy secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles, that he is a target in the public corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff's lobbying activities.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007T.shtml



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The Real Disaster

"President Bush told Americans last night that failure in Iraq would be a disaster. The disaster is Mr. Bush's war, and he has already failed. Last night was his chance to stop offering more fog and be honest with the nation, and he did not take it," writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107K.shtml



Escalating War in Iraq Sends Wrong Message

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Senate Assistant Democratic Leader Richard Durbin have released a statement on President Bush's address to the nation on the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107L.shtml



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Jason Leopold writes: "By relying on the recommendations of neoconservative scholar Frederick Kagan, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, on what steps the White House should take to address the civil war between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, President Bush has once again ignored the advice of career military officials and even some Republican lawmakers - many of whom in recent weeks have urged Bush to resist implementing a policy that would result in escalating the war - and instead has chosen to rely on the proposals drafted by hawkish, think-tank intellectuals that could very well backfire and end up embroiling the United States in an even bloodier conflict."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107J.shtml



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Boston Globe
by Cindy Williams

01/10/07

The Bush Administration's proposal to send an additional 20,000 troops to join the 152,000 already in Iraq is is unlikely to bring significant improvement to the situation in Iraq, but it is certain to further damage the already beleaguered US ground forces. The surge will push America's all-volunteer force into uncharted territory, and it is not clear how well the troops or the military as an institution can withstand the strain. The men and women in the Army and Marine Corps today -- many of whom have already served for a year or more in Iraq or Afghanistan -- will bear the brunt, because the Army and Marine Corps cannot grow new troops or units overnight. General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it would take two years just to recruit, train, and equip 10,000 new troops. Thus to accomplish a surge, the armed forces must look to existing units...

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By Roger Howard

If Bush really wants a safer Middle East, he should stop giving Tehran compelling reasons to acquire nuclear weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16137.htm

Salon
by Walter Shapiro

01/11/07

Throughout the long century to come, any future leader contemplating sending American troops into combat should carefully watch a tape of George W. Bush's speech to the nation Wednesday night -- and ponder its underlying lessons. This was Bush deflated, his arrogance temporarily placed in a blind trust, looking grayer than ever with his brow furrowed with lines of worry. How humiliating for Bush to be forced to say with a stony face, 'The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me.' This is what happens to a commander in chief when his vision of victory becomes a struggle for survival, when confident talk of a slam dunk on the way in is replaced by a clamor to slam the door on the way out. This is what happens to a president who is losing a war -- and who is reduced to begging for more time, another chance, to set things right...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/11/bush_speech/


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National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

01/10/07

The rule of thumb for a free society should be that it infringes liberties rarely, but when it does so it is for important reasons. Today, that thumb has been cast down, Caesar-like, pointing in the opposite direction. We have democratized the small assaults on freedom so that everyone must endure them, while we caterwaul about the tyranny of any real inconvenience that might fall 'disproportionately' on the few. We ban using trans fats for millions but flinch at the idea that some kid might have to endure the Pledge of Allegiance or a moment of silence in school if it conflicts with his conscience. Everyone must surrender his shoes, his regular-sized toothpaste and shampoo at the airport, but we man the barricades to protect a few young Muslim men from being inconvenienced for an extra five minutes at the airport. Free speech is most restricted where it is most important -- in political contests near Election Day -- while it is maximized to an absurd level at the fringes of culture and decency... [editor's note: Actually, the rule of thumb for -- actually, the definition of -- a free society is that it infringes liberties (if by liberties we mean rights) NOT AT ALL - TLK]

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Slate
by Emily Bazelon

01/10/07

Congress is sticking to gestures in expressing its dissatisfaction with the Iraq War. The new Democratic leadership isn't trying to stop President Bush's planned troop increase. Instead, they're just planning a resolution to express disapproval of it, a measure whose only practical impact will be forcing Republicans to take sides on the issue. But what if Congress were to actually exercise its war powers? The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and also to decide when to fund and how to regulate the military. But generations of presidents have succeeded in expanding their authority as commander in chief at Congress' expense -- and with its permission, tacit or otherwise. If Congress wanted to push back in Iraq, here's a list of possibilities for what it could do, from cleanest to messiest, legally speaking ...

http://www.slate.com/id/2157392


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Nebojsa Malic

01/11/07

Coverage of the Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress in the past couple weeks has focused on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), the first female Speaker of the House, and her '100 hours' agenda. But if most of the voters who booted the Republican incumbents in November 2006 did so because of Emperor Bush's war in Mesopotamia, by now they realize the new people under the Capitol dome are going to be the same as the old people. America's two governing parties are debating the length of stay in Iraq and the number of additional troops to be sent to their deaths, but not the legitimacy of the war and the subsequent occupation. While the Emperors may be replaced, the Empire itself must never be doubted, their reasoning goes...

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=10303


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Free Market News Network
by Anthony Wile

01/10/07

From an investment standpoint, betting on continued war means making a bet on a continued 'surge' in the price of oil, above all. But past a point, it means betting on the dissipation of the influence of the United States which will be torn asunder by debt, violence, higher taxes, etc. if the war continues or extends into Iraq or Syria. Certainly, the U.S. power elite would be further empowered by quick victories over Iran and Syria, but the chances that war can be waged on four fronts, successfully, are fairly small. The U.S. military knows it. The war may appeal to those who wish to see the destruction of what is left of the American republic, but for others an swift end to the incessant militarization and violence is preferable...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/134/6720/surge.asp?nid=6720&wid=134


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Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
by staff

01/09/07

The politicians have demonstrated that they will not lead, so they must be made to follow. If those opposed to the war -- from left, right, and center -- gather together with a passionate focus solely on ending American imperialism, the rulers will follow the people -- as they should. If we let ourselves be divided at this critical moment in history by our domestic differences, the wars started in the last century will linger on and end in disaster. We must stand united against the coming draft, against the expansion of imperial rule, and against all aggression both at home and abroad...

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Toronto Star

01/10/07

They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Defense Department. Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of defense industry personnel dealing in sensitive military technology. 'You might want to know where the individual is going, what meetings the individual might be having and, above all, with whom,' said David Harris, a former CSIS officer who consults on security matters. 'The more covert or clandestine the activity in which somebody might be involved, the more significant this kind of information could be'...

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/169560


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Eugene Register-Guard

01/11/07

President Bush's troop-boosting plan for Iraq was headed straight into a political gale in Congress, with Democrats, some Republicans and an increasingly organized anti-war movement arrayed against the buildup. Lawmakers were ready to pounce on the plan Thursday during a day of congressional hearings featuring top Bush administration officials such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates...

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A majority of the homeless were single adults, but about 41 percent were in families, the report said.

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From Information Clearing House

A legal aid group representing Guantanamo Bay detainees condemned the U.S. military prison Tuesday as an "abomination'' and called on Washington to close the facility, which opened five years ago this week.

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China condemned US sanctions imposed last week on three Chinese companies for allegedly selling banned weapons to Iran and Syria, calling the accusations "totally groundless."

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From Information Clearing House

Liam Fox, the shadow Defence Secretary, has backed hawks in the White House by calling for "nothing to be ruled out" to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2140280.ece


From Information Clearing House

After Huddle, Democrats May Punt on Iraq

Technically, the Democrats can end America’s presence in Iraq. They control Congress, they have the power over spending, and they can cut off the money that fuels the war.

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From Information Clearing House

President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time he erred by failing to order a military buildup in Iraq last year and said he was increasing U.S. troops by 21,500 to quell the country's near-anarchy. "Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me," Bush said.

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Bush rhetoric on Iraq hard to square with facts on diplomacy, reconstruction and more

Bush portrayed the ordinary people of the Middle East as being behind U.S. goals in Iraq, in his speech to the nation Wednesday night.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/11/america/NA-GEN-US-Iraq-Fact-Check.php



Troop Surge Already Under Way

President Bush's speech may be scheduled for tonight, but the troop surge in Iraq is already under way.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2785532



Once more unto the breach

Bush's revised Iraq strategy is short on new ideas. If it fails he will be more a dead duck than a lame one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1987301,00.html


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Saddam Hussein's execution has inspired a gruesome cycle of revenge, with scores of Shia Muslims found hanged from lampposts in Baghdad.

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By Ted Rall

Another year in Iraq, another thousand dead soldiers. This grim milestone passed as the wasteful nature of the carnage finally registered with the public; only nine percent of Americans, "dead-enders" in Rumsfeld-speak, still think the war was a wonderful idea.

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By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

It is crucially important that public attention is shifted away from the confining official narrative of the war, parroted by the corporate media and political pundits, to the economic crimes that have been committed because of this war, both in Iraq and here in the United States. It is time to make a moral case for restoring Iraqi oil and other assets to the Iraqis.

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By Barry Lando

What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are missing from the equation: The number of American forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but more like 240,000.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

The Bush administration has recently doubled its aircraft carrier forces and air power in the Persian Gulf. According to credible news reports, the Israeli air force has been making practice runs in preparation for an attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16121.htm



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He said the United States would expand intelligence cooperation in the Middle East and deploy Patriot missile defense systems to help allies. He also said he would deploy an additional carrier strike group to the region.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16135.htm

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Globalisierungsproteste > G-8-Gipfel im Sommer 2007 in Heiligendamm > Europäische Märsche gegen Prekarisierung zum G8-Gipfel nach Heiligendamm

Prekarisierte aller Länder vereinigt euch!

Der zweite Entwurf für einen Aufruf (Stand 16.12.06) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/g8-07/euromarsch2.html

26.Mai – 2.Juni 2007: Arbeit und Einkommen für alle – überall. Märsche gegen Existenzunsicherheit, Armut und Ausgrenzung – quer durch Europa nach Heiligendamm

Mobilisierungsflyer zur Vorbereitungskonferenz am 3./4.2. in Erfurt (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/g8-07/maersche2.pdf

Euromärsche 2007: Badisches Vorbereitungstreffen 13.01.2007

Das Vorbereitungstreffen für die „Alemannische Route“ im Rahmen der Euromärsche 2007 findet am Samstag, 13.01.2007, ab 10:30 Uhr im Ursulaheim (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Obdachlosen) in der Vogesenstraße 1-3 (Nähe Bahnhof) in Offenburg (Baden) statt. Siehe Einladung samt Tagesordnung (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/g8-07/maersche_aleman1.pdf

Stand der Planung

Die bisherigen Planungen gehen davon aus, dass in Deutschland aus verschiedenen europäischen Ländern drei Marschzüge zusammenkommen:

Ein Zug aus dem Westen (Grenze Aachen): Teilnehmende aus Spanien, Portugal, Marokko (?), Frankreich, Belgien und den Niederlanden.

Ein Zug aus der Schweiz und Südwestdeutschland (von Genf nach Frankfurt a. M.).

Stand der Routenplanung aus der Schweiz

21. Mai: Start in Genf vor dem WTO-Hauptgebäude (Thema: Welthandel, Marktöffnung, Migration) > Ankunft in Nyon/Rolle (Thema: papierlose ArbeiterInnen in Landwirtschaft und Hausarbeit); 22. Mai: Lausanne/Renens (Thema: Deindustrialisierung und Arbeitslosigkeit); 23. Mai: Romont (Thema: Prekarisierung und Landwirtschaft); 24. Mai: Fribourg (Thema: Sans Papiers); 25. Mai: Bern (Empfang und Fest, ev. Ankunft von Märschen aus der Deutschschweiz/italienischen Schweiz); 26. Mai: Basel, Gemeinsames Übertreten der Grenze, Reise nach Freiburg.

Ein Zug aus Südosten (Grenze Görlitz): Teilnehmende aus Griechenland, Italien, Österreich, Sachsen sowie Süd- und Mitteldeutschland; der Zug führt an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze entlang und führt über Berlin und die Freie Heide.


Move against G8

„Move against G8“ ist ein Bündnis, das sich im Rahmen der Aktionskonferenz Rostock I gebildet hat und sich um die Organisation Kulturveranstaltungen im Vorfeld und während der G8-Proteste kümmert. Dazu gehören neben mehreren Konzerten vor und während des Gipfels mit bekannten deutschen und internationalen Acts auch die Auftritte zahlreicher Liedermacher und Kleinkünstler, Theatervorführungen und eine Ausstellung im Voraus. Siehe die Homepage mit weiteren Infos und Terminen http://www.move-against-g8.de/


Widerstand gegen die Jahrestagung des World Economic Forum, Davos 2007

Vom 24. bis 28. Januar 2007 findet in Davos das World Economic Forum (WEF) statt. Dort treffen sich VertreterInnen der größten internationalen Unternehmen und Finanzkonzerne sowie PolitikerInnen und StrategInnen, um sich über ihre wirtschaftlichen und politischen Interessen auszutauschen und gemeinsame Projekte zu vereinbaren. Ihre Interessen sind die Profitmaximierung, die Sicherung von Rohstoffen und der Zugang zu Märkten. In Davos werden Pläne zur Optimierung der Ausbeutung geschmiedet, das heißt der Aneignung des von den Lohnabhängigen geschaffenen Mehrwertes. Auch wenn Davos wie eine Festung durch Militär und Polizei gesichert ist, wird ihr Treffen nicht ungestört ablaufen, da auch dieses Jahr zahlreicher Protest erwartet wird. Die internationale Gegenkonferenz "Das Andere Davos" findet unter dem Titel "Global Prekär!?" am 19.Januar in Zürich statt. Am 27. Januar findet zudem in Basel eine überegionale Demonstration statt. Siehe dazu:

ANTI-WEF-PROTEST 2007: Zum Stand der Gegenaktivitäten in Zürich, Basel und Davos

Interview vom 09.01.2007 von Radio Dreyeckland mit Karin Vogt, attac Basel, zum Stand der Anti-Wef-Aktivitäten http://freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15266

Radiomitschnitt aus der Roten Welle vom 10. Dezember 2006, der Radiosendung des Revolutionären Aufbau Schweiz, auf Radio Lora (mp3) http://www.antig8.tk/wef_2007.mp3

Das andere Davos. Eine Kampagne von ATTAC-Schweiz http://www.local.attac.org/zurich/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=4

"Global Prekär!?" Wie aus Menschen Wegwerfbeschäftigte werden. Internationale Konferenz gegen das WEF am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 in Zürich http://www.local.attac.org/zurich/article.php3?id_article=22

Anti-WEF Basel 2007 http://www.antiwef-basel.ch/

DADAvos
http://www.dadavos.ch/mediawiki/index.php?title=NoDemo_07

SmashWEF: Bonzen treffen statt Bonzentreffen!
http://www.smashwef.ch/


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Januar 2007

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Umzäunte Demokratie

Die Vorbereitungen für den G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm laufen von Seiten der Sicherheitskräfte auf Hochtouren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24434/1.html

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Zäune verhindern Demokratie und Freiheit! – Bundeswehreinsatz im Innern verfassungswidrig!

„Aus Anlass des am Montag beginnenden Bau des “Sicherheitszaunes“ zum G8-Gipfel um das Ostseebad Heiligendamm, erklärt der Bundessprecher der Deutschen Friedensgesellschaft-Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK) Monty Schädel am Sonntag in Rostock das Gipfeltreffen im Juni 2007 als illegitim…“ Pressemitteilung von Monty Schädel vom 14.1.07 http://www.deutsche-friedensgesellschaft.de/php/index.php?id=63&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=110&tx_ttnews[backPid]=66&cHash=be45fe7cfc


Indymedia-Printausgabe zum G8-Treffen in Heiligendamm

In der Printausgabe (pdf) finden sich folgende Artikel: G8 Heiligenacht!; VideoaktivistInnen-Netzwerk zum G8 2007; Sicherheitskonzept G8 für Heiligendamm; Polizeihausbesuch zum G8-Widerstand 2007; Geldbörse der G8; Film: Miami Model; Filmdoku: Anti-G8-Camp Inski; Aktionsfahrplan Heiligendamm; Gruppen und Qellen (Linksammlung) https://docs.indymedia.org/pub/Local/ImcNRW/g8-print.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Januar 2007

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G8-PROTESTE AKTUELL

DAS Großereignis dieses Jahr wirft seine Schatten voraus - in und um Attac (und natürlich auch in anderen Zusammenhängen) wird fleißig geplant, mobilisiert, Infomaterial erstellt, organisiert... An allen Ecken und Enden der Republik finden vorbereitende Veranstaltungen statt - eine immer aktuelle Terminliste findet sich im Netz unter http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/pages/alle-veranstaltungen.php .

Außerdem steht auch schon der größte Teil des Aktions- und Veranstaltungsfahrplans für die Zeit während des Gipfels: http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/pages/gipfelproteste-2007/geplante-aktionen.php . Und ganz besonders freuen wir uns darüber, dass wir es aller Voraussicht nach schaffen werden, drei Sonderzüge nach Rostock zu organisieren. Der Sonderzug von 2003 zum Gipfelprotest nach Evian ist legendär - und auch diese Fahrten werden es sicher. Der aktuelle Stand der Sonderzüge findet sich unter http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/pages/gipfelproteste-2007/sonderzuege.php

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"Stimmungsmache": Attac weist Warnungen vor Gewalt beim G8-Gipfel zurück

Die globalisierungskritische Protestbewegung Attac hat Warnungen von Verfassungsschützern und Politikern vor Anschlägen anlässlich des G8-Gipfels der führenden Industrienationen Anfang Juni in Heiligendamm als "Stimmungsmache" zurückgewiesen. Bei den angekündigten Protestkundgebungen zum G8-Gipfel werde "garantiert nichts Großes ablaufen", sagte die Geschäftsführerin von Attac Deutschland, Sabine Leidig, der "Leipziger Volkszeitung". Erwartet würden etwa 50.000 Teilnehmer.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15276

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Stoppt den G 8 Gipfel – Gewerkschaften auf die globale Bühne!

GewerkschafterInnen gegen Standortkonkurrenz und weltweites Lohndumping

„Als GewerkschafterInnen aus vielen Ländern sind wir Teil des Protestes gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 in Heiligendamm. Wie keine andere internationale Institution sind diese jährlichen Gipfeltreffen Symbol der weltweiten neoliberalen Dominanz. Weltwirtschaftsgipfel dienen der globalen Koordination und der Machtaufteilung. Damit stabilisieren sie die neoliberale Weltwirtschaftsordnung mit ihren immer schlimmeren Folgen für die Mehrheit der Menschen. Eine elitäre Minderheit eignet sich dabei den Reichtum an, den Millionen Menschen produzieren…“ Internationaler GewerkschafterInnen-Aufruf (pdf) http://media.w-asg.de/uploads/media/20070201_g8gewerkschafteraufruf.pdf

Weitere Unterschriften sammelt Werner Sauerborn: werner.sauerborn(at)t-online.de


DFG-VK fordert 5 - 10% der Gesamtkosten des G8-Gipfel zur Unterstützung des Protestes

„…„Wer die angeblichen Vorteile des G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm nicht müde wird zu behaupten, muss sich endlich auch mit dem legitimem Protest gegen die dort beratene Politik beschäftigen!“ erklärte Schädel am Sonnabend in Rostock. Die Abschiebung der Verantwortung für die Organisation der Unterbringung und Versorgung allein auf die Demonstrationsteilnehmenden, sei, so Schädel weiter, “verantwortungslos gegenüber den Einwohnern der Region, den eingeladenen Demonstranten und der Demokratie...“ Pressemitteilung der Deutschen Friedensgesellschaft-Vereingte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK) vom 03.02.2007 http://www.deutsche-friedensgesellschaft.de/php/index.php?id=63&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=113&tx_ttnews[backPid]=66&cHash=6da200ed21


Europäische Märsche gegen Prekarisierung zum G8-Gipfel nach Heiligendamm

Gegen Erwerbslosigkeit, Armut, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung. Europäische Konferenz in Erfurt bereitet Märsche gegen Prekarisierung vor

„Über 50 Aktive aus Frankreich, Belgien, der Niederlande, Italien, Polen und Deutschland trafen sich am Wochenende in der Erfurter Fachhochschule, um das Bündnis „Europäischen Märsche 2007“ auf den Weg zu bringen. Mitte Mai startet die erste von vier Marschgruppen in Frankreich. Gemeinsam werden sie am 02. Juni in Rostock als Teil der Anti-G8-Demo ihren Abschluss finden…“ Pressemitteilung der Europäischen Konferenz für die Europäischen Märsche 2007 vom 4. Februar 2007 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/g8-07/maersche_erf.pdf

Für weitere Informationen verweisen wir auf die Seite der Märsche 2007 als unser neuer Untermieter: http://euromarsch2007.labournet.de/

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Zu den Hausdurchsuchungen in München
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166564.shtml

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Another world is possible - G8-Protest unterstützen
http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/pages/aktion.php

Materialien zum Download
http://www.attac.de/heiligendamm07/pages/jetzt-mitmachen/materialien/...-zum-download.php

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G-8-Gipfel im Sommer 2007 in Heiligendamm

G8 blockieren, Kriege verhindern! Aufruf zum Aktionstag am 5.6.2007 in Rostock-Laage. Gegen Militarismus, Krieg und Folter

„Der Flughafen Rostock-Laage ist Teil der Infrastruktur des G8-Gipfels und der militaristischen Politik der G8-Staaten. Hier wird mit Eurofightern der nächste Krieg vorbereitet. Von hier sollen demnächst die Kriegsflugzeuge zum Bombodrom starten, und hier wollen am 5. Juni die TeilnehmerInnen der G8-Konferenz von Heiligendamm einfliegen. Auch wir an diesem Tag werden massenhaft vor Ort sein, denn mit ihrer Kriegspolitik können sie bei uns nicht landen. Das wollen wir mit vielfältigem Protest und aktivem Widerstand gegen Krieg und G8 gebührend zum Ausdruck bringen…“ Der Aufruf bei dissent! http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/616


Einladung zur Internationalen G8-Demo-Vorbereitung am 10.3.2007 in Hamburg

„Im Rahmen der Proteste gegen den G8-Gipfel 2007 in Heiligendamm wird es am 2. Juni 2007 in Rostock eine Internationale Großdemonstration geben. Die Demonstration ist als gemeinsames Projekt aller Spektren und Organisationen geplant, die sich an den Gipfelprotesten beteiligen. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist hierbei die internationale Beteiligung. Deshalb lädt die Demo-AG des G8-Vorbereitungskreises ein zum Internationalen Vorbereitungstreffen am Samstag, 10.3.2007 von 13 bis 19 Uhr im Kölibri, Hein-Köllisch-Platz 12, 20359 Hamburg (S-Bahn Reeperbahn)“ Siehe die Einladung http://www.g8-2007.de/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=&func=details&did=20


Der (vorläufige) Aktionsfahrplan für die Tage zwischen dem 2. und 8. Juni 2007 http://www.avanti-projekt.de/p_antikap/bilder/G8_Choreografie.gif


Europäische Märsche gegen Prekarisierung zum G8-Gipfel nach Heiligendamm

Neu bei unserem „Untermieter“:

Europäische Märsche gegen den G8-Gipfel im Juni 2007. Prekarisierte aller Länder, auf nach Heiligendamm/Rostock! Der Aufruf (pdf) http://euromarsch2007.labournet.de/files/Euromarsch2007-Aufruf.pdf

26.Mai – 2.Juni 2007: Gleiche soziale Rechte für alle überall! Märsche durch Europa gegen Erwerbslosigkeit, Armut, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung gegen den G8-Gipfel im Juni 2007 Der Info-Flyer (pdf) http://euromarsch2007.labournet.de/files/EM-Flyer-02-07.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 20. Februar 2007

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G-8-Gipfel im Sommer 2007 in Heiligendamm

"Wenn irgendwo Bomben fallen, treffen sie uns alle." Besiedelung des Bombodroms im Vorfeld des G8-Gipfels geplant

„Neununddreißig Organisationen aus der Friedens- und antimilitaristischen Bewegung rufen dazu auf, am 1. Juni 2007 das sogenannte "Bombodrom" in Brandenburg zu besiedeln. Auf dem ehemaligen sowjetischen Bombenabwurfplatz plant die Bundesregierung einen Truppenübungsplatz einzurichten. Bundeswehr, EU- und NATO-Truppen sollen dort das Abwerfen von Bomben und das Zusammenwirken von Luft- und Bodentruppen üben….“ Pressemitteilung des Bündnis No War No G8 vom 28. Februar 2007 zur Besiedelung des Bombodroms im Vorfeld des G8-Gipfels und weitere Infos auf der Bündnis-Homepage http://g8andwar.de/


G8, Globalisierung und Krieg. Antimilitaristische Positionen zum Gipfel in Heiligendamm

Die Informationsstelle Militarisierung hat gemeinsam mit der attac-Projektgruppe G8 einen Reader zur Mobilisierung zum G8-Gipfel herausgegeben (pdf) http://www.imi-online.de/download/g8readerWEB.pdf


Eine andere Welt ist möglich!

Aufruf zur g8-Großdemonstration "Eine andere Welt ist möglich" am 2.Juni in Rostock http://www.g8-2007.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=21


Es geht auch anders: Ein Gipfel der Alternativen

G-8-Alternativgipfel: 5. bis 7. Juni Rostock. Siehe Aufruf und weitere Infos auf der offiziellen Webseite des Alternativgipfels http://www.g8-alternative-summit.org/de/


Aus: LabourNet, 1. März 2007

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G-8-Gipfel im Sommer 2007 in Heiligendamm

Nein zu G8 - Gewerkschaften auf die globale Bühne! GewerkschafterInnen gegen Standortkonkurrenz und Lohndumping

Die Sammlung der Erstunterschriften für den internationalen Gewerkschafteraufruf gegen G8 ist abgeschlossen, nun sollen weltweit möglichst viele Unterschriften gesammelt werden. Siehe dazu

Die Aktionshomepage mit dem Aufruf in mehreren Sprachen und weiteren Infos http://www.g8-gewerkschafteraufruf.de

Dort v.a. die Online-Unterschrift http://www.g8-gewerkschafteraufruf.de/unterschreiben.php?lang=de


Sponsoring einmal anders herum…

Der offiziellen Homepage der Bundesregierung zum G-8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm ist zu entnehmen, dass sie von der DaimlerChrysler AG, VW-Nutzfahrzeuge und von Audi gesponsert wird. http://www.g-8.de/Webs/G8/DE/Service/Sponsoren/sponsoren.html

Wir eröffnen hiermit den Ideenwettbewerb, in welchem Zusammenhang dies mit dem Hauptthema Klimaschutz steht…


Aus: LabourNet, 5. März 2007

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US-Kriegsschiffe bewachen angeblich G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm

Zum Schutz des G8-Gipfels in Heiligendamm sollen auch zwei US-Kriegsschiffe vor dem Seebad kreuzen. Ein Zerstörer der "Arleigh-Burke-Klasse" und ein Kreuzer der "Ticonderoga-Klasse" sollen bis Anfang Juni in die Ostsee verlegt werden und die seeseitige Absicherung des Treffens übernehmen, wie die Rostocker "Ostseezeitung" unter Berufung auf das Wehrbereichskommando Nord in Kiel berichtet. Offiziell nähmen beide Schiffe, die mit jeweils knapp 370 Mann Besatzung fahren, an einem internationalen Manöver in der Ostsee teil.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15595



Gipfelkritiker wollen Infrastruktur des G8-Treffens blockieren

Gipfelkritiker wollen während des G8-Treffens im Juni in Heiligendamm sämtliche Zufahrtsstraßen zum Veranstaltungsort blockieren. "Wir schneiden den Gipfel von seiner Infrastruktur ab", kündigte Christoph Kleine vom Aktionsbündnis "Block G8" am Freitag in Rostock an. Rund 10.000 Teilnehmer würden erwartet, die mit Mitteln des zivilen Ungehorsams den Durchgangsverkehr aufhalten wollten.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15598

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G-8-Gipfel im Sommer 2007 in Heiligendamm

Demonstrationsrecht/ -beobachtungen: Versammlungs- und Meinungsfreiheit bleiben Grundrechte auch angesichts des G8-Gipfels

Pressemitteilung des Grundrechtekomitees vom 23.03.2007 zu den Demonstrationsbeobachtungen des Komitees Anfang Juni 2007 rund um Rostock und Heiligendamm http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=230

Siehe dazu auch:

Es gibt Plätze auf dieser Welt, die sind nicht von dieser Welt" - Demonstrationsbeobachtung beim G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm

Rundbrief 02 – 07 des Grundrechtekomitees (pdf) http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/files/articles/info2-07.pdf


Der G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm: Die Themen, die Kritik, die Proteste

INKOTA-Brief 139, März 2007. Siehe Inhaltsverzeichnis, Editorial und einige Beiträge http://www.inkota.de/index.htm?http://www.inkota.de/publik/index.htm?http://www.inkota.de/publik/ibrief/index.htm?http://www.inkota.de/publik/ibrief/139_editorial.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2007

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Aktionskonferenz Rostock III vom 13. - 15. April 2007

Mit der dritten Aktionskonferenz in Rostock geht die Mobilisierung gegen den G8 2007 in den Endspurt. Es wird die letzte Gelegenheit sein, um wichtige Fragen mit hunderten von Aktivistinnen gemeinsam zu besprechen. Siehe alle Infos bei heiligendamm2007.de http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/index_konferenz.html


Etwas Besseres als Protest. Warum die Proteste gegen den G8-Gipfel keine soziale Bewegung ersetzen und dieser auch nicht nutzen.

Artikel von Holger Marcks in der Jungle World vom 28. März 2007 http://jungle-world.com/seiten/2007/13/9644.php


Aus: LabourNet, 29. März 2007

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The great global action 2007 - Die weltweite Aktion 2007



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHlbBbZNT4

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Closed Shop

Der G-8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm findet völlig abgeschirmt statt, zahlreiche Protestaktionen sind geplant.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24993/1.html

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IG Metall und G8-Protest

Offener Brief des Vertrauenskörpers Mahle Stuttgart, Werke 1-3, an den Vorstand der IG Metall vom 30.3.07 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/g8-07/mahle.pdf

Aus dem Text: “… Deshalb schlagen wir vor, dass die IG Metall alle Aktionen gegen die EU und vor allem die G8 im Juni in Rostock und Heiligendamm unterstützt, wie es auch die Bundesjugendkonferenz gefordert hat, und erwarten entsprechende Initiative von Euch. Wir selbst rufen alle Metallerinnen und Metaller auf, sich an den Aktionen zu beteiligen!“

Wir erinnern in diesem Zusammenhang an den Aufruf „Nein zu G8 - Gewerkschaften auf die globale Bühne! GewerkschafterInnen gegen Standortkonkurrenz und Lohndumping“ http://www.g8-gewerkschafteraufruf.de/


G8-Aktionstag gegen Militarismus, Krieg und Folter am 5. Juni. Proteste am Flughafen Rostock-Laage angekündigt

„Proteste und Blockaden rund um den Militärflughafen Rostock-Laage kündigten G8-Gegner und Antimilitaristen für den 5. Juni an. An diesem Tag werden dort die G8-Chefs und ihr Tross landen. Die Proteste sind der Auftakt der Blockaden anlässlich des G8-Gipfels in Heiligendamm. Der 5. Juni gilt innerhalb des G8-Widerstands als „Aktionstag gegen Militarismus, Krieg und Folter”…“ Presseerklärung vom 3.4.2007 http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/1491


Aus: LabourNet, 3. April 2007

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Newsletter für die Demovorbereitung
http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/Demo_Newsletter.html

Newsletter vom 11.4.2007
http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/Newsletter/Newsletter_1.pdf



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

11. Januar 2007

Die "Antiterrorgesetze" werden heute um weitere fünf Jahre verlängert und zudem noch ausgeweitet. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Vorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die Masche ist nicht neu: Mit dem Schüren einer diffusen Terrorangst und dem beständigen Wiederholen von Bedrohungsszenarien lässt sich der Bevölkerung jeder Einschnitt in ihre bürgerlichen Freiheitsrechte erklären. Das war unter Otto Schily so und ist unter Wolfgang Schäuble nicht anders. Ab heute gelten für fünf weitere Jahre die nach dem 11. September 2001 beschlossen Antiterrorgesetze fort und werden ausgeweitet. So können Geheimdienste jetzt direkt auf die Daten der Kraftfahrzeughalter zugreifen. Die komplette Kennzeichenerfassung von Fahrzeugen, die Überprüfung sämtlicher Kreditkartenbesitzer in der Bundesrepublik, der Zugriff auf Konten machen beängstigend klar: Persönliche Daten sind nicht länger unsere Daten. Die gläsernen Bürgerinnen und Bürger sind Realität, und sie stehen unter permanentem Generalverdacht. Die Linkspartei bleibt bei ihrer Forderung: Der Schutz von Bürgerrechten muss Priorität haben. Deshalb darf die Trennung von polizeilicher und geheimdienstlicher Arbeit nicht verwischt werden. Die Geheimdienste müssen kontrolliert werden und alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger haben das Recht, über ihre Daten zu bestimmen. Sie müssen nachvollziehen können, welche Daten über sie wo und warum gespeichert werden. Sie müssen über deren Verwendung informiert werden.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34912

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Neues Anti-Terrorpaket tritt in Kraft

„Mit der Veröffentlichung des Terrorismusbekämpfungsergänzungsgesetzes
(TBEG) im Bundesgesetzblatt am heutigen Mittwoch tritt das umstrittene neue Anti-Terrorpaket morgen in Kraft. Es verlängert und erweitert die nach dem 11. September 2001 geschaffenen Befugnisse für Geheimdienste. Neben dem Verfassungsschutz können künftig auch Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) und Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD) Auskünfte bei Luftfahrtunternehmen, Banken, Post-, Telekommunikations- und Telediensteunternehmen einholen. Dies gilt nicht mehr nur bei Terrorverdacht, sondern auch im Rahmen der Aufklärung "verfassungsfeindlicher Bestrebungen" im Inland. Entsprechend ausgedehnt wird die Ermächtigung zum Einsatz des IMSI-Catchers für die Mobilfunküberwachung. Verdeckt fahnden dürfen Geheimdienste ferner im Schengener Informationssystem…“ Artikel von Stefan Krempl in Heise news vom 10.01.2007 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83517

Siehe das Gesetz (pdf) http://www.bgblportal.de/BGBL/bgbl1f/bgbl107s0002.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Januar 2007



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

22 Millionen Kreditkarten überprüft

Rechtsanwalt klagt gegen Kreditkarten-Überprüfung

„Der Düsseldorfer Rechtsanwalt Udo Vetter ergreift gegen die Überprüfung von zirka 22 Millionen Kreditkarten rechtliche Schritte. Fahnder ließen bei dem spektakulären Schlag gegen die Kinderporno-Szene im Internet systematisch die Daten von etwa 22 Millionen Kreditkarten durchsuchen. Die Banken hatten auf Bitten der Ermittler auf Basis ihrer Angaben die Transaktionsdaten durchsucht und Daten von Kreditkartenkunden zur Verfügung gestellt, die im Sommer 2006 eine bestimmte Summe auf ein verdächtiges Konto gezahlt hatten. In seinem Weblog veröffentlicht der Anwalt nun eine Klage vor dem Amtsgericht Halle, mit der er die Rechtswidrigkeit der Maßnahme feststellen lassen will…“ Artikel mit weiterführenden Links von Torsten Kleinz in Heise news vom 10.01.2007 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83516


Rechtsstaat: Wie viele Freiheiten sollen wir widerstandslos opfern?

„Um Beziehern von Kinderpornos auf die Spur zu kommen, wurden fast alle Kreditkarten der Republik überprüft. Solche Eingriffe in unsere Privatsphäre nehmen wir jedoch kaum noch als Einschränkung wahr, weil wir damit einer guten Sache zu dienen meinen. Doch ist das klug?...“ Artikel von Richard Herzinger in Die Welt vom 11.01.07 http://www.welt.de/data/2007/01/11/1173251.html


Elektronische Gesundheitskarte

Der gläserne Patient

„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. Seit Jahren arbeiten Ökonomen, IT-Experten und Politiker an der größten Gesundheitsreform, die in Österreich, aber auch in anderen europäischen Ländern je in Angriff genommen wurde. Auf einem Chip soll die Krankheitsgeschichte jedes Menschen lebenslang gespeichert und für Gesundheitsanbieter jederzeit abrufbar gemacht werden. Zu klären sind nur noch ein paar "Kleinigkeiten": etwa, wo all die Informationen zusammen laufen, wer in welcher Form Zugriff auf die Daten bekommt und ob sich ein Datenmissbrauch tatsächlich ausschließen lässt…“ Artikel von Christa Salchner in telepolis vom 08.01.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24397/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Januar 2007



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

http://www.welt.de/data/2007/01/10/1172144.html



http://tinyurl.com/y9np7j

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5561/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

11. Januar 2007

Zur Ankündigung des amerikanischen Präsidenten, noch mehr Soldaten in den Irak zu senden, erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Helmut Scholz:

Mit undemokratischen Mitteln kann man keine Demokratie aufbauen. Das hat Bush bis heute nicht begriffen. Seine mit Spannung erwartete Rede muss ernüchternd auf die deutsche Bundesregierung gewirkt haben. Bush setzt nach wie vor einzig auf eine militärische Lösung der Konflikte im Irak. Die angekündigte neue Irak-Strategie ist die alte. Bush setzt auf ein gnadenloses "Weiter so!" Sollte sich Kanzlerin Merkel Hoffnungen ob ihres Einflusses gemacht haben, so kann sie dies durchaus als Ohrfeige verstehen nicht nur als deutsche Bundeskanzlerin, sondern auch als amtierende EU-Ratspräsidentin und Vorsitzende der G8. Sie sollte sich künftig ihre Freunde besser aussuchen. Vor dem Hintergrund eines im Kriegschaos versinkenden Landes sind dringend politische Kräfte gefragt, die sich für eine friedliche Lösung im Irak einsetzen und bereit sind, entsprechende Schritte zu gehen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34910

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10299


Informant: Lew Rockwell

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Somali officials accuse Americans of killing up to 31 civilians

A Somali lawmaker said 31 civilians, including two newlyweds, died in Tuesday's assault by the helicopters near Afmadow, a town in an area of forested hills close to the Kenyan border, 350 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu.

http://tinyurl.com/yx45dt



US attack in Somalia killed innocents

CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Arab League said on Wednesday U.S. military action in Somalia had killed "many innocent victims" and demanded that Washington refrain from such attacks.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10388118.htm



New U.S strikes hit 4 places in Somalia

U.S. forces hunting al Qaeda suspects hit four sites in air strikes in southern Somalia on Wednesday, a Somali government source said, as international criticism mounted over Washington's military intervention.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070110/ts_nm/somalia_conflict_dc_103



UN raises Somalia bombing concerns

The United Nations secretary-general has expressed concern that the strikes could increase hostilities and harm civilians.

http://tinyurl.com/y2l4k4


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt253.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frida+Berrigan

http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd54.html



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

by David Brownlow

Our politicians are playing right along with the game, grandstanding on the issue while haggling over meaningless deployment numbers. They all know that even if we could find the additional troops, sending them into Iraq would only lead to more death and destruction on both sides......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david59.htm



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

by Devvy Kidd

The National ID is of paramount concern to those of us who refuse to be tagged and numbered like animals. Many do not want to comply, but don't know what to do as an individual. First, this national identification is voluntary, not mandatory for the individual. However, the sinister and devious minions behind the scenes who write this legislation for our corrupt Congress added some provisions they hope will force Americans to surrender.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd242.htm



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

11. Januar 2007

Seit dem 1. Dezember 2006 steht der erwerbslose Rüdiger S. aus Wieda
(Niedersachsen) im Hungerstreik. Er protestiert dagegen, dass das zuständige Jobcenter ihm nicht die notwendigen Heizkosten erstattet. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Rüdiger S. macht mit höchstem persönlichem Einsatz auf Probleme aufmerksam, die uns alle angehen. Denn er ist, was die Heizkosten betrifft, kein Einzelfall. Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bezieher haben oft besonders hohe Heizkosten, weil sie häufig in nicht sanierten Wohnungen mit veralteter Heiztechnik leben müssen. Darüber hinaus hat Rüdiger S. einen 1-Euro-Job in einem kommunalen Kurbetrieb als Webdesigner aus Gewissensgründen abgelehnt. Dabei würde er die Tätigkeit als Webdesigner gern als reguläre Arbeit annehmen. Er ist aber nicht bereit, sich zum Lohndrücker machen zu lassen. "Notfalls werde ich für meine Überzeugung sterben", sagte mir Rüdiger S. in einem Telefonat. Dazu darf es nicht kommen. Jetzt sind sowohl der Bund als auch der Landkreis gefragt. Auf Bundesebene muss schnellstens die generelle Frage nach der Übernahme notwendiger Heizkosten geklärt werden. Die Sanktionen bei Nichtantritt von 1-Euro-Jobs müssen sofort gestrichen werden. Vor Ort sollte rasch und unbürokratisch geholfen werden. Ich bitte den zuständigen Landkreis Osterode deswegen schnellstmöglich die notwendigen Heizkosten zu erstatten. Zudem sollte geprüft werden, ob der angebotene 1-Euro-Job im Bereich des Webdesigns in einen sozialversicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsplatz umgewandelt werden kann.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=34907

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