World-News

http://www.dccc.org/r/53142/482695/



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

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3035


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

Chris Hedges writes: "Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told his students that when we were his age - he was then close to 80 - that we would all be fighting the 'Christian fascists.' The warning, given 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and television evangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts toward taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007F.shtml



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

Webbcast

Hendrik Hertzberg writes: "Rather than looking for a policy that might be within our means and might mitigate the disaster, Bush is betting all his chips - all our chips - on the only choice that allows him the fantasy that in the end people will say: 'Bush was right.' He is sending twenty thousand because twenty thousand is all he has. Next to nothing in the way of ground forces remains for other contingencies. His presidency and his 'legacy' are in ruins anyway, so he imagines he has nothing to lose."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007D.shtml



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

Honor. Duty. Country.

"Let's talk about the courage it takes to live the rest of your life after you have buried your only son, who died so needlessly in this fool's war," writes Gold Star Mother Amy Branham. "At first you do not believe that the person you spent the majority of your adult life rearing is dead. But you have to pick out the casket. You have to find a funeral home and a cemetery and make funeral arrangements. You have to write an obituary and make terrible phone calls that you know will crush the person on the other end of the line. And then you have to figure out how in the h... to make sense out of something that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007B.shtml



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

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6154457.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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

Schwedische Regierung will Polizei und Militär besser mithören lassen und plant eine Art schwedisches Echelon.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24553/1.html

http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1061684&sid=3468d9d5c97cdde0ace91f2bd1b0920c

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Erfolg für den Zugang zu Medikamenten: Novartis verliert

Es gibt erfreuliche Nachrichten aus Indien: Der Gerichtshof in Chennai hat die Patentsrechtsklage von Novartis abgewiesen. Damit können Patienten und Ärzte in ärmeren Ländern, die auf kostengünstige Medikamente aus Indien angewiesen sind, endlich aufatmen. Mehr als 420.000 Menschen haben in den vergangenen Monaten unsere Petition unterschrieben – wir möchten uns ganz herzlich für Ihre Unterstützung bedanken!

Ausführlichere Informationen zur Patentrechtsklage erhalten Sie unter http://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/Medikamentenkampagne/Aktuelles/Online-Kampagne-Novartis.php

Ihr Team von Ärzte ohne Grenzen



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

Comments are due February 6th, so send yours today at http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nrdcaction_013007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Black+Mesa

http://therealmccain.com/

Source: http://ga3.org/ct/Tp20pgF13moa/



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

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

The Libby trial details chilling efforts to manipulate the media and the president.

http://ga3.org/ct/Td20pgF13mo1/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby

A plan to 'plant' a fake 25-metre tall cypress tree disguising a mobile phone mast close to Chichester's most popular walking and cycling route has provoked a wave of protest.

Conservationists, residents and city councillors are queueing up to condemn the scheme, with claims that it will damage the landscape close to Centurion Way, which is used by thousands of people.

One said it would look like a giant loo brush. And some residents living nearby are expressing concerns about possible health risks from the mast.

But the company behind the scheme maintains the mock tree will be 'more visually amenable' than a conventional mast.

Orange is applying to the district council for permission to replace an existing 15m high mast with the 10m higher fake tree mast, on the west side of the way near Warren Farm Lane.

Report in January 25 issue of the Observer

30 January 2007

All rights reserved © 2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing.

http://www.chichester.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=448&ArticleID=1994193

http://tinyurl.com/3aj2th


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.paranews.net/beitrag.php?cid=5848

Überwachung bis auf die Haut
http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/techno/53653.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=%C3%9Cberwachung

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/science/30bear.html


Informant: binstock

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

30. Januar 2007

Zum nicht enden wollenden Trauerspiel der Koalition um Mindestlöhne erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch

Es ist schon erstaunlich, mit welchem Nachdruck und Kraftaufwand Union und Arbeitgeberverbände nach fadenscheinigen Argumenten gegen die Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes suchen. Sie sollten ihre Kraft besser für den Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit und gegen Niedriglöhne verwenden. Kanzlerin Merkel als EU-Ratspräsidentin braucht sich nur in der EU umsehen und kann feststellen, dass sie mit ihrer Verhinderungstaktik allein auf weiter Flur steht. Mindestlöhne sind in Europa der Normalfall. Sie sind keine Jobvernichter sondern stabilisieren das Einkommen von Geringverdienern und schützen vor Sozialdumping. Wenn es die SPD ernst meint mit Mindestlöhnen, sollte sie das Thema nicht ewig vertagen, sondern schleunigst einen entsprechenden Antrag in den Bundestag einbringen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35060



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

Das sogenannte "soziokulturelle Existenzminimum": Wie der Staat die von ihm und seiner Wirtschaft produzierte Massenarmut organisiert. Text der Sendung vom 27. November 2006 http://www.gegenstandpunkt.de/radio/2006/ga061127.htm

Teil 2: Die Mindestlohndebatte: Eine Handvoll Euro überm Existenzminimum, damit der Staat seine Sozialkassen schont. Text der Sendung vom 4. Dezember 2006 http://www.gegenstandpunkt.de/radio/2006/ga061204.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Januar 2007



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

Phillip Butler, retired Navy Commander, begins: "Many peace and justice organizations have been promoting and demonstrating lately for awareness of torture and related issues. I'm amazed and profoundly disappointed that this has apparently become necessary in our country. I spent eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, from 1965 to 1973. During that time, I and more than 90 percent of my fellow POWs were repeatedly tortured for the extortion of information to be used for political propaganda and sometimes just for retribution. We were not recognized by Vietnam as POWs, but as criminals, because the Vietnamese had not signed the 1949 'Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007M.shtml



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

Rupert Cornwell writes, "The US must draw up plans to deal with an all-out Iraqi civil war that would kill hundreds of thousands, create millions of refugees, and could spill over into a regional catastrophe, disrupting oil supplies and setting up a direct confrontation between Washington and Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rupert+Cornwell

Frontiers of Freedom
by Charlotte Laws

01/29/07

I was an ordinary American until November 27, 2006 when I became a terrorist or more accurately what I call a ’stand-by terrorist.’ Perhaps I cannot truly own this newfound nickname until the government decides to prosecute me for word crimes, if that day ever arrives. Until then, I just think of myself as being on stand-by, just as are most — if not all — Americans, whether they realize it or not...

http://tinyurl.com/3be9bx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

01/29/07

The biggest story out of Iraq so far this year may not be the surge, or the latest mass bombing, or the escalating sectarian violence; it might, instead, be a decision that further complicates all of the above. Over the next few weeks, a law to reform Iraq’s oil industry — essentially the only source of income the country has aside from U.S. subsidies — is expected to move toward implementation, and the consequences could be enormous. Coverage of the proposal has focused on the fact that it doesn’t break up the country’s oil resources, as some had suggested, to various ethnic groups — a piece for the Kurds, a piece for the Shiites, etc. But the real story may be that once the proposal is put into place, international oil companies will have a far better shot at Iraq reserves than ever before...

http://tinyurl.com/2odtln


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

01/29/07

The largely unstated word at the massive anti-war demonstration and march in Washington on Saturday was ‘impeachment.’ Not that it wasn’t on demonstrators’ lips and signs, but it wasn’t coming from the podium. The march, organized by United for Peace and Justice, was instead deliberately focused narrowly on the issue of ending the war in Iraq and preventing an invasion of Iran. But clearly, behind that was the sense that the US government is in the hands of a cabal of warmongers and anti-democratic usurpers who are intent on broadening the war in the Middle East, not ending it, and that the Democrats in the 110th Congress haven’t got the spine to stop them (a group from Seattle actually addressed this with a giant white spine float emblazoned with the words ‘investigate, impeach, indict’)...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01292007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

The Nation
by John Nichols

01/29/07

Actor Sean Penn summed up the new energy — and the new focus — of the anti-war movement Saturday, when he turned George Bush’s own words against the president. Just hours after the president had again reasserted his false claim to authority to pursue a war that is not wanted by the American people or the Congress, Penn told anti-war demonstrators gathered in Washington that Bush would be wise to review the Constitution. ‘In a democracy,’ the actor told the cheering crowd, which organizers said numbered in the hundreds of thousands, ‘we are the deciders.’ Saturday’s anti-war demonstrations, which filled the streets of cities from San Francisco to Washington, marked a return to form for an anti-war movement that had trouble building momentum during the three years that followed Bush’s decision to launch a preemptive war against a country that posed no serious threat to the United States or its allies...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=161056


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=decider
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols

The American Conservative
by Andrew J. Bacevich

01/29/07

What can we say of this proposal? Simply this: to imagine that 170,000 troops will accomplish what 140,000 troops failed to do in nearly four years or that marching a handful of additional combat brigades into the maw of Baghdad will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat qualifies as pure fantasy. Kagan’s ’surge’ is the first cousin to Kenneth Adelman’s more famous ‘cakewalk.’ It is ideology dressed up as strategy. Marketed as the product of careful analysis, the surge should be seen for what it is: a naked gamble. Tacitly acknowledging the point, some proponents even refer to it as the ‘double down’ option. That in places like AEI and the editorial offices of The Weekly Standard Kagan himself has emerged as the man of the hour testifies to the depth of neoconservative desperation...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_01_29/cover.html



Going for broke

The American Prospect
by Reid Cramer

03/05/07

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast with such ferocity in late August 2005, Americans were shocked by the broadcast images of desperately poor people left to fend for themselves. The depth and consequences of poverty in America, normally hidden from public view, had once again become the subject of debate and national soul-searching. And yet, a year and a half later, the subject of poverty has fallen so far off the public’s radar screen that President Bush did not give it a mention in his recent State of the Union Address. How can our prosperous nation continue to tolerate such deep pockets of despair as were seen in New Orleans? It’s easy to blame the public’s infamously short attention span, limited budget resources, or our preoccupation with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for this state of affairs...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12532


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neoconservative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=poverty+in+America
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich

The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

01/29/07

[T]he painful lesson of Vietnam applies in Iraq: Don’t give up when victory is at hand. Those in Congress who advocate retreat in Iraq refuse to acknowledge this lesson. And they may have their way, whatever Petraeus accomplishes. With their calls for troop withdrawals and fund cutoffs and their antiwar resolutions, they have put America on a slippery slope in Iraq. And we know where it leads: to defeat while victory remains quite possible... [editor’s note: As I’ve predicted a number of times, a particular ghost of Vietnam is coming back to haunt us: The old “we could have won in Vietnam if it hadn’t been for those damn liberals and politicians” myth. Reality check: If the US had continued fighting in Vietnam until it achieved “victory,” the US would still be fighting in Vietnam today — and thirty years from now when people are still grumbling about how “we could have won in Iraq if it hadn’t been for …” the same thing will be true. Bottom line: Barnes and Co. are willing to sacrifice American blood by the gallon for no greater purpose than to evade the necessity of admitting that they’ve been wrong from the beginning - TLK]

http://tinyurl.com/2x5f5l


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

“I want to talk about the important lessons of the Niemoller poem/sermon. It’s a guilt-ridden poem, and Niemoller was guilty, in his own eyes. He had been a submarine commander in WWI, and had initially supported Hitler. Niemoller, however, was explaining the widespread guilt of Germans in ignoring what their own government was doing … until it actually affected them … until it was too late to stop. It’s important for all of us to recognize when we’ve been wrong, take responsibility for it, take action to change our ways, and to try to make amends for any harm our wrongness caused. I’m not much of a believer in ‘evil,’ but if there is human evil, I suspect the worst examples are those people who know they’re wrong, but will use all sorts of trickery to keep from admitting it and to prevent anyone else from knowing... (originally published 12/30/03; posted 01/28/07)

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/01/and-i-didnt-speak-up.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1899


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

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

01/30/07

The Pentagon recently reported that it now spends roughly $8.4 billion per month waging the war in Iraq, while the additional cost of our engagement in Afghanistan brings the monthly total to a staggering $10 billion. Since 2001, Congress has spent more than $500 billion on specific appropriations for Iraq. This sum is not reflected in official budget and deficit figures. Congress has funded the war by passing a series of so-called ’supplemental’ spending bills, which are passed outside of the normal appropriations process and thus deemed off-budget. This is fundamentally dishonest: if we’re going to have a war, let’s face the costs — both human and economic — squarely. Congress has no business hiding the costs of war through accounting tricks...

http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=10423


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Liberty For All
by Lady Liberty

01/29/07

You see, there’s a cancer in this country. The primary malignant tumor is centered in a place called Washington, DC. Just like cancer, it’s comprised of those who have little in common with the rest of the body, but who never-the-less insist on running things their way and who employ out-of-control growth to achieve their ends. The sickness has spread everywhere as the cancer of government has sent its tendrils into places the Constitution never intended...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=493


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lady+Liberty

Boston Globe

01/29/07

Two weeks after a senior Pentagon official suggested that corporations should pressure their law firms to stop assisting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, major companies have turned the tables on the Pentagon and issued statements supporting the law firms’ work on behalf of terrorism suspects. The corporate support for the lawyers comes as law associations and members of Congress have expressed outrage at the remarks of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles D. ‘Cully’ Stimson on Jan. 11. In a radio interview, Stimson stated the names of a dozen law firms that volunteer their services to represent detainees, and he suggested that the chief executives of the firms’ corporate clients would make the lawyers ‘choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms’...

http://tinyurl.com/ypdrqk



Democrats and the McCarthyite attack on detainee lawyers

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
05/27/10

Recall that Bush Pentagon official Cully Stimson was actually forced to apologize for suggesting that lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees were engaged in disloyal and improper acts. Yet with the Democrats in control of Washington, a provision grounded in exactly that rotted premise has now been unanimously reported out of a major House Committee...

http://tinyurl.com/37bephb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cully+Stimson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCarthy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pentagon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

Longview Daily News

01/29/07

Deeply distrustful of Iran, President Bush said Monday ‘we will respond firmly’ if Tehran escalates its military actions in Iraq and threatens American forces or Iraqi citizens. Bush’s warning was the latest move in a bitter and more public standoff between the United States and Iran. The White House expressed skepticism about Iran’s plans to greatly expand its economic and military ties with Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/3a4fgw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/82356.html


Informant: Mitchel Cohen

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12430/on_course_for_iran.html?breadcrumb=%2F


Informant: binstock

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/washington/30rules.html


Informant: binstock

http://www.nhpr.org/node/12220


Informant: binstock

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/30/content_795855.htm


Informant: binstock

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M723129899936594340044765

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Canadian Government Muzzles Protest, Censors Cruelty
http://4thtime.blogspot.com/2007/02/canadian-government-muzzles-protest.html


From Linda H.



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

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17247


From Eleanor B.

Participate in the biggest mobilization of Citizens Against Global Warming! The Alliance for the Planet [a group of environmental associations] is calling on all citizens to create 5 minutes of electrical rest for the planet.

People all over the world should turn off their lights and electrical appliances on the first of February 2007, between 1.55 pm and 2.00 pm in New York, 18.55 for London, and 19.55 for Paris, Bruxelles, and Italy. 1.55 pm in Ottawa, 10.55 am on the Pacific Coast of North America.

This is not just about saving 5 minutes worth of electricity; this is about getting the attention of the media, politicians, and ourselves. Five minutes of electrical down time for the planet: this does not take long, and costs nothing, and will show all political leaders that global warming is an issue that needs to come first and foremost in political debate.

Why February 1? This is the day when the new UN report on global climate change will come out in Paris. This event affects us all, involves us all, and provides an occasion to show how important an issue global warming is to us. If we all participate, this action can have real media and political weight.

Please circulate this message to everybody you know who might participate.

And thank you for doing so!

Repeating the times:
10:55 a.m. USA Pacific
11:55 a.m. USA Mountain
12:55 a.m. USA Central
01:55 p.m. USA East
19:55 p.m. Western Europe


Informant: Bob Banner

In recent years, the United States of America has morphed into what one writer calls "the United States of Arugula." The rise of the celebrity chef, of the 24-hour Food Network, and Martha Stewart's do-it-all perfectionism has brought on a similar yearning for all things gourmet, for fine cooking and finer dining, mache and foie gras alike. During the same time, a number of notable books have shined a light on the darker side of our new food obsession.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012907HB.shtml

Senator John McCain told the closing session of the World Economic Forum Sunday that he expects the US Congress to take action on climate change very soon, and predicted that the Bush administration will follow suit. "I admit that it is very late, and it may not be enough," said McCain, "but I think that for the first time you are going to see some action on this compelling issue."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012907EB.shtml



The Sum of All Ears

Paul Krugman writes: "For those hoping for real action on global warming and energy policy, the State of the Union address was a downer. There had been hints and hopes that the speech would be a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, with President Bush turning conservationist. But it ended up being more of a Nixon-bombs-Cambodia moment. Too bad: the rumors were tantalizing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012907EC.shtm



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

Nine antiwar protesters were arrested Monday when they gathered in a House office building to read off the names of American and Iraqi war dead.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907S.shtml

A blast from the past! - Live from 1969..
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/190/59/

http://rense.com/general75/fchi.htm


Informant: Alan Dicey

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Abdullah Says Malaysia Has Shifted Reserves Away From Dollar

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said his country has shifted some of its $82 billion of currency reserves away from the dollar and that potential foreign-exchange volatility may hurt exporters.

http://tinyurl.com/yt7l9d


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reserves+away+from+dollar

How the U.S. spread bomb-grade fuel worldwide — and failed to get it back
http://tinyurl.com/2bg5ht


From Information Clearing House

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Part I: An Atomic Threat Made in America

Sam Roe of the Chicago Tribune writes a two-part series to chronicle America's failed quest to retrieve uranium. Roe obtained exclusive access to the government archive provided by scientist Armando Travelli, which contained thousands of records never before publicly reviewed. Roe reviewed Congressional testimony, previously classified records, foreign and US research papers, and reports by government agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Roe also interviewed Travelli and others for this report.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007E.shtml

Shell has signed an important deal to help Iran develop a major gas field, ignoring growing pressure from George Bush to isolate the country for being part of what he alleges is an "axis of evil".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2001515,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The White House says there has been growing evidence over the last several months that Iran is supporting terrorists inside Iraq and is a major supplier of bombs and other weapons used to target U.S. forces.

http://tinyurl.com/2h45tn


From Information Clearing House

Bolton, who resigned last month from his temporary appointment as U.N. ambassador, also told the French daily Le Monde that U.S. President George W. Bush's administration acted too slowly to hand power over to Iraqis after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003.

http://tinyurl.com/343dxp


From Information Clearing House



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

Video

Howard Zinn discusses his latest collection of essays at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. " A Power Governments Cannot Suppress" critiques America's response to 9/11, examines the current state of democracy and government responsibility in America and cites examples of when government has overstepped throughout American history.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/188/59/



A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

An excerpt from Howard Zinn's new book -- a collection of essays on history, class and the strength of ordinary citizens -- explores the unfair trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the flawed justice system that still haunts us today.

http://www.alternet.org/story/50127/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Howard+Zinn

The Power of One

By Jim Austin

"The authority to kill U.S. citizens is granted under a secret finding signed by the President,,," This cheery note was included in a newspaper article written by John Lumpkin of the Associated Press. The article goes on to say that the CIA will only kill us if they think we are members of Al Qaeda.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/192/52/

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan27/0%2C4670%2CCheneyUnderFire%2C00.html


Informant: ranger116



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0129-09.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-30.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-29.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jane+Bright

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-28.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-24.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-27.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-20.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_070121bushism.shtml


Informant: NHNE



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5646/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

30. Januar 2007

Heute findet in Berlin die Eröffnungsveranstaltung für das "Europäische Jahr der Chancengleichheit für alle" statt. Dazu erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Rosemarie Hein:

Bildung ist ein unverzichtbarer Schlüssel für die individuellen Lebenschancen von Menschen. In kaum einem Land der Welt ist die soziale Herkunft so prägend für den Bildungserfolg wie in Deutschland. Wenn in Deutschland ca. vier Millionen Analphabeten leben, dann ist das ein Indiz für die reale Verweigerung von Lebenschancen. Das "Jahr der Chancengleichheit" sollte Anlass sein, auch vor der eigenen Tür zu kehren. Es ist ein Armutszeugnis für bundesdeutsche Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik, wenn:

* 17 Prozent der Kinder im frühen Lebensalter dauerhaft im Armut leben,

* in den westlichen Bundesländern nur für ein knappes Viertel aller Kinder zwischen 3 und 6 Jahren Ganztagsbetreuung angeboten werden kann,

* die Aussicht auf einen gymnasialen Abschluss für Kinder aus sozial gut gestellten Elternhäusern um das Vierfache besser als für sozial Benachteiligte ist,

* jedes Jahr etwa neun Prozent der Schulabgänger keinen Schulabschluss erreichen,

* Jahr für Jahr Zehntausende Schulabgänger keine Lehrstelle erhalten,

* Kinder und Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund noch schlechtere Chancen auf einen guten Bildungsabschluss und auf Ausbildung haben.

Die Gründe für diesen erschreckenden Befund sind hausgemacht und nicht unabänderlich. Die so genannten Sozialreformen in den vergangenen Jahren haben die Lage von vielen Kindern und Jugendlichen verschlechtert, vor allem in Bedarfsgemeinschaften. Die Linkspartei.PDS fordert deshalb eine eigene Grundsicherung für Kinder und Jugendliche. Die frühzeitige Aufteilung in unterschiedliche Bildungsgänge behindert die Chancengleichheit massiv. Die Linkspartei.PDS fordert deshalb eine bundesweite Gemeinschaftsschule. Gute Ausbildung ist Schutz vor Armut. Die Linkspartei.PDS fordert deshalb, dass endlich die Umlagefinanzierung durchgesetzt wird, damit jeder Schulabgänger eine Ausbildung erhält. Eine Geschäftsstelle für Chancengleichheit einzurichten, reicht nicht. Es muss viel mehr getan werden, dass alle Kinder und Jugendlichen, die in Deutschland leben, endlich gleiche Chancen haben.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35056

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind121.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis66.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard39.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul364.html



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http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/01-30/014.php



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http://electroniciraq.net/news/2870.shtml



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Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela joined top leaders, Nobel laureates and elder statesmen on Monday calling on the world to reinvent Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent approach to solving conflicts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907F.shtml



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President Bush is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of April, and the US Air Force's new bases in Bulgaria and Romania would be used as back-up in the onslaught, according to an official report from Sofia.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907C.shtml

Republican senator Chuck Hagel sounds off on the sorry state of Congress, the president's lies, and the vote for war that he now regrets. In an interview for GQ, Hagel explains how he was deceived by the president, and won't let it happen again.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907A.shtml



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http://quintessenz.at/d/000100003800



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On The Scene At The Antiwar March

http://ga3.org/ct/g720pgF1xm0t/
http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/130774/index.php

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Anti-War Marches Draw Hundreds of Thousands
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jan27

A Few Degrees Warmer
http://ga3.org/ct/gd20pgF1xm05/

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ein heutiger Artikel im HANAUER ANZEIGER mit der Headline "Politiker haben mental abgedankt" ist absolut lesenswert.

Viele Politiker haben die reale Nähe zur Basis schon lange verloren.

Der Cicero Chefredakteur Dr. Wolfram Weimer bewertet aus seiner Sicht die politische Situation in Berlin.

Nachfolgend einige ausgewählte Passagen des Artikels, der in voller Länge als pdf-Datei beigefügt ist.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/politiker_haben_menschlich_abgedankt.pdf

Dass unter dem verstärkten regionalen politischen Einfluss einzelner Medien immer öfters der investigativer Journalismus behindert wird, ist leider ebenfalls festzuhalten.

M.f.G.
Alfred Tittmann


Brisante Worte beim Neujahrstreffen der CDU: Cecero -Chefredakteur sieht Deutschland auf dem Marsch in die Mediendemokratie.......

Unsere Hauptstadt Berlin ist nicht mehr das Zentrum politischer Entscheidungsfindung zum Wohle Deutschlands, sondern nur noch eine Seifenblase, ein Zirkus, in dem die Politiker Hauptdarsteller einer professionellen Medieninszenierung sind.....

Wir sind auf dem Marsch in eine Mediendemokratie.....

Schließlich habe Berlin sich entschieden, keine Politik mehr zu machen, sondern nur noch Entscheidungen mit Symbolkraft statt Konsequenzen zu tätigen.......

Dieser dramatische Wandel zur Mediendemokratie ist problematisch......

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"Ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste - Mobilfunkbetreiber erobern Lauterbach"
http://www.buergerwelle.de/newsletter_10207.html

US air raids in Somalia to flush out suspect al-Qaeda operatives may be ineffective in fighting terrorism and risk making the country's Muslim population more radical, regional experts warn.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907P.shtml



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"Calculations of the damage done in space by China's anti-satellite missile test of January 11 continue. What needs to be stressed far more is the serious setback the test can spell for terrestrial efforts to assure humanity of an outer space free from weapons and wars," writes J. Sri Raman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907O.shtml



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With his proposal to uproot a tax break that has been in place for more than 60 years, Bush has touched off an impassioned debate over the future of the employer-based system that provides health insurance to more than half of all Americans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907N.shtml

David Bacon writes: "Today, many Congressional leaders - Democrats and Republicans - want to allow corporations and contractors to recruit hundreds of thousands of workers a year outside the US and put them to work here on temporary visas. Labor schemes like this have a long history. From 1942 to 1964, the bracero program recruited temporary immigrants. They were exploited, cheated, and deported if they tried to go on strike. Growers pitted them against workers already in the country to drive down wages."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907L.shtml



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Jason Leopold begins: "On the evening of September 27, 2003, Ari Fleischer logged onto a computer and read a story published on the Washington Post's web site - a story that would be printed above the fold on the front page of the paper the next morning. 'Bush Administration Is Focus of Leak Inquiry,' the headline read. 'CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media.' By the time he finished reading the story, Fleischer's heart 'went into his throat.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2193672.ece


Informant: binstock

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/349056793?z00m=9410691


From Linda H.

The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson

01/25/07

In the beginning, George W. Bush sent American forces into Iraq with no apparent thought about the sectarian tensions that could explode once Saddam Hussein was ousted. Now, nearing the end of his presidency, Bush is sending more American forces into Iraq with no apparent regard for the verdict of the American people, rendered in November’s election, that they’ve had it with his war. And, by the evidence of all available polling, with Bush himself. The decline in Bush’s support to Watergate-era Nixonian depths since he announced that his new Iraq policy was his old Iraq policy, only more so, stems, I suspect, from three conclusions that the public has reached about the president and his war...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12401


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hawaii Reporter
by Malia Zimmerman

01/26/07

Nancy Pelosi led the effort in the U.S. House during her first week as speaker to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour from $5.15. In the process she ensured that American Samoa, a U.S. territory, is exempt from the wage hike, but did not exempt the Marianas Islands. The distinction is not unimportant. StarKist and Del Monte, two big fish- and tuna-canning companies with packing plants in American Samoa, are headquartered in California, the former in Ms. Pelosi’s San Francisco district...

http://tinyurl.com/2y7bj8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fox News
by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

01/27/07

The Bush administration — as we know it — has come to an end. Clinton changed when the Republicans took over Congress in 1994 … and we’ll see something similar happen with Bush and his administration before our very eyes. The right wing won’t like it, but Bush must feel that now that the Republican base has failed to produce a GOP dominated Congress, he must wander to the center in search of higher approval ratings. Why does Bush care? He can’t, since he’s finished all his runs for re-election. He cares because no president can govern effectively with a 30 percent approval rating. He becomes a target for any stray pot shot from any member of Congress, former foe, or former friend. Regardless of his formal powers as commander in chief, he will find his wings clipped soon enough by a rebellious Congress, unless he can rally more than one-third of the nation to his cause...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246911,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

01/26/07

The president’s State of the Union plea to the Congress and the country to give war just one last chance in Iraq was actually a deft performance for a man faced with so few options for wriggling out of the corner he’s boxed himself into. Despite the tandem military and political disasters that have torpedoed his presidency, Bush on this occasion tried to lead by example, doing what he is asking of the rest of us — and, particularly, the people fighting and dying in Iraq — to do: He soldiered on, blindly, wishfully. ‘Every one of us wishes this war were over and won,’ he said in one blazing moment of truth. But wishful thinking aside, the urgent question before Congress is: What course of action — emphasis on action — will most quickly and effectively roll back the president’s state of denial and force an end to the carnage in Iraq, at least where Americans are concerned?

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12405


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Classically Liberal
by TCS

01/27/07

There are a lot of complaints on the Left as to increased spending on elections. And while their solution is the same solution they offer for every other problem in life — give control to the State to run things — they never ask why it is that spending is constantly increasing? The issue is not that hard to understand. People spend millions because the office is worth far more than that. It is not the value which determines the office. It is the power which determines the value of the office. In modern day America most legislation has nothing to do with protecting people from violations of their rights. Most legislation is not a measure to protect but to redistribute rights and wealth from one group to another. Modern day politics is almost entirely about transfers...

http://tinyurl.com/ypjtu8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Yahoo! News

01/28/07

Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq …. The rally on the Mall unfolded peacefully, although about 300 protesters tried to rush the Capitol, running up the grassy lawn to the front of the building. Police on motorcycles tried to stop them, scuffling with some and barricading entrances. … United for Peace and Justice, a coalition group sponsoring the protest, had hoped 100,000 would come. They claimed even more afterward, but police, who no longer give official estimates, said privately the crowd was smaller than 100,000. … Bush reaffirmed his commitment to his planned troop increase in a phone conversation Saturday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president was in Washington for the weekend. He is often is out of town during big protest days...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_re_us/iraq_protest


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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vom 29.1. bis 2.2.2007 in München

Termine und Berichte beim ak gewerkschaften an der uni münchen
http://www.bayern.gew.de/lass/hochschulgruppen/muenchen/


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Januar 2007



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Ohne demokratische Legitimierung weitere Schritte zum entfesselten Agieren internationaler Konzerne vereinbart. Artikel von Wolfgang Pomrehn in junge Welt vom 29.01.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/01-29/018.php


WEF: Farbangriff gegen Schweizer Think Tank Avenir Suisse
http://www.indymedia.ch/de/2007/01/46271.shtml


Davos: Protestaktionen gegen Calderón am WEF

„Heute protestieren wir in Davos mit lautstarken Aktionen gegen die Anwesenheit des illegitimen Präsidenten Mexikos, Felipe Calderón und den Staatsterror in Oaxaca. Micheline Calmy-Rey verspricht, die Repression in Mexiko bei Gesprächen mit Calderón zu thematisieren. Trotz der militärischer Belagerung von Davos gelang es um 12 Uhr mehreren Dutzend DemonstrantInnen, mit T-Shirts („Calderón foltert und tötet“), Transparenten („Ulises und Bundespolizei raus aus Oaxaca“) und Sprechchören auf die brutale Unterdrückung in Mexiko aufmerksam zu machen…“ Bericht von OaxacaInfo vom 27.01.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166946.shtml


WEF: Breite Proteste in der Schweiz, Bildersammlung

„Wie jedes Jahr fand in der Schweiz in Davos das alljährliche WEF (World Economic Forum statt.)Die Proteste, die in den vergangenen Jahren massiver Repression ausgesetzt waren, waren auch dieses jahr wiede landesweit present. Dutzende Farb- und Feuerwerksanschläge auf Banken und andere Einrichtungen, Demos in Davos, Delemont, Basel, Zürich, St. Gallen, Tessin... Kreative Aktionen, Transparente usw... Eine kleine Bildersammlung“ von Smash WEF vom 28.01.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/167033.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Januar 2007

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Widerstand gegen die Jahrestagung des World Economic Forum, Davos 08

Von Heiligendamm über Davos nach München

Special bei indymedia Schweiz http://ch.indymedia.org/de/2008/01/56050.shtml


WEF - Erste Bilanz und ein Demoverbot

„Nachdem der Gemeinderat die bereits erteilte Bewilligung für die Anti-WEF-Kundgebung zurück nahm, haben trotz Verbot über 1000 Menschen versucht ruhig in der Bundeshauptstadt gegen das World Economic Forum in Davos zu demonstrieren…“ Bericht von Niccolò Machiavelli vom 21.01.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/01/205737.shtml


Proteste gegen WEF in Bern und St. Gallen

„Morgen (23. Januar) beginnt das Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) im Schweizer Skidorf Davos mit einer Eröffnungsrede der US-Außenministerin Condoleeza Rice. Mehrere tausend PolitikerInnen und KapitalistInnen aus aller Welt werden sich in Davos treffen, unter anderem die Ehrengäste Henry Kissinger und Tony Blair. Die ersten Proteste gegen das WEF fanden am Samstag statt, in Bern und in St. Gallen…“ Artikel von Wladek Flakin vom 22.01.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/01/205819.shtml


"World Action Day"

"Kämpfen wir gegen den Neoliberalismus"

Aufruf des Weltsozialforums zur weltweiten Aktionswoche vom 19. bis 26. Januar 2008 in dt. Übersetzung bei Linke Liste Mannheim http://uecicx.han-solo.net/cms_2_lilima/index.php?page=1.0.0&getlistarticle=237&listrange=current


Millionen weltweit sagen Nein zu neoliberaler Globalisierung. Attac beim Globalen Aktionstag des Weltsozialforums am 26. Januar

Pressemitteilung vom 20.1.08 http://www.attac.de/aktuell/presse/presse_ausgabe.php?id=817

Infos und Programm von und bei attac http://www.attac.de/aktuell/071207_WSF.php

Jan. 26, 2008 - Act together for another world! Infos und Aktivitäten weltweit http://wsf2008.net/de/index2.php


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Januar 2008



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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

29. Januar 2007

Auf die Initiative des Europarats findet heute erstmals europaweit der Europäische Datenschutztag statt. Aus diesem Anlass erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Keine weiteren Einschränkungen des Datenschutzes zugunsten der Sicherheitsbehörden das ist die Aufgabe der Bundesregierung. In Zeiten zunehmender Technisierung und Verdatung von Kommunikation über Internet, Mobilfunk u.a. ist es im Gegenteil nötig, eine umfassende Aufklärungskampagne über den Datenschutz und die individuellen Rechte der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer von moderner Telekommunikation zu führen. Der Datenschutz ist mit dem "Volkszählungsurteil" des Bundesverfassungsgerichts von 1983 in den Rang eines Grundrechts erhoben worden und damit keine Schönwetterveranstaltung. Datenschutz ist auch kein Täterschutz, sondern begründet das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, also das Recht, selbst über die eigenen Daten, ihre Erhebung und ihre Verwendung zu bestimmen. Das schließt auch das Recht ein, zu wissen, wer welche Daten über mich wo und zu welchem Zweck erhebt, speichert und verwendet. Allen Versuchen auf Bundes- und europäischer Ebene, das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung mit Blick auf die Sicherheitslage auszuhöhlen oder einzuschränken, stellen wir uns entschieden entgegen. "Freiheit stirbt mit Sicherheit" - wenn die Grundrechte der Menschen unterminiert und damit grundlegende Elemente der Demokratie beschädigt werden.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35051

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Erster europäischer Datenschutztag

Schäuble: Biometriepässe stärken den Datenschutz

„Bei einer Diskussionsrunde über den Schutz der Freiheit durch den Staat im Rahmen des ersten europäischen Datenschutztages prallten die Meinungen von Koalitionspolitikern und den Hütern der Privatsphäre in der Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt in Berlin am Montagabend frontal aufeinander. "Ob man etwas zu verbergen hat oder nicht, darauf kommt es nicht mehr an, wenn der Präventionsstaat alle Daten abgreift", beklagte der sachsen-anhaltinische Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte Harald von Bose. So könne der Generalverdacht Alltag werden mit gravierenden Auswirkungen auf die Ausübung der Grundrechte. Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble warf dem Datenschützer daraufhin vor, "Unsinn" zu reden. Natürlich müsse das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung genauso geschützt werden wie jedes andere auch. Es gebe aber "ein zunehmendes Spannungsverhältnis mit der Sicherheit"…“ Artikel von Stefan Krempl vom 30.01.2007 in heise online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84463


Erster europäischer Datenschutztag: Placebo für die Datenschützer?

„Heute, am 28. Januar 2007, findet der erste europäische Datenschutztag statt. Das ist gut, doch ist er nicht nur kein Grund zum Feiern, vielmehr wird er auch von vielen gar nicht wahrgenommen und auch von den meisten Ländern nicht einmal aufgegriffen. Daran tragen auch die Datenschutzbeauftragten eine Mitschuld…” Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) in telepolis vom 28.01.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24534/1.html


Europäischer Datenschutztag

Sonderseite bei „Virtuelles Datenschutzbüro“ http://www.datenschutz.de/eu_datenschutztag/


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Januar 2007

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Durchsuchung online

Schaar: Pläne zur Online-Durchsuchung aufgeben

„Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Peter Schaar, begrüßt die heutige Entscheidung des Bundesgerichtshofs, nach der sog. verdeckte Online-Durchsuchungen im Strafverfahren unzulässig sind (…) Selbst wenn künftig eine ausdrückliche Rechtsgrundlage für Online-Durchsuchungen geschaffen werden sollte, ändert dies nichts daran, dass Online-Durchsuchungen das Vertrauen in die Sicherheit des Internets erheblich beschädigen. Ganz praktisch stellt sich nämlich die Frage, wie Online-Durchsuchungen durchgeführt werden sollen. Bisher wurden Nutzer und Hersteller von Computerprogrammen gewarnt, wenn staatliche Stellen – etwa das Bundesamt für die Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik – Sicherheitslücken festgestellt hatten und es wurden ihnen Wege zu deren Behebung aufgezeigt. Sollen etwa in Zukunft derartige Warnungen unterbleiben, weil staatlichen Stellen ansonsten das Eindringen in Computer über das Internet erschwert würde? Oder sollen die Hersteller zukünftig ‚Hintertüren’ in ihre Software einbauen, die Online-Durchsuchungen ermöglichen?...“ Pressemitteilung vom 5. Februar 2006 http://www.bfdi.bund.de/cln_029/nn_533554/DE/Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Pressemitteilungen/2007/PM-04-07-Online-Durchsuchung.html


Vorauseilender Ungehorsam

„Wäre das Private unverdächtig, zöge es sich nicht zurück. Wäre es erhaben über jeden Verdacht, dann würde es sich zeigen. Nur der verbirgt sich, der etwas zu verbergen hat. Der Verborgene ist der Verdächtige, der Verdächtigste ist also der Private. Das ist absurd? Gewiss. Das widerspricht dem Geist und dem Buchstaben des Grundgesetzes? Natürlich. Das kann doch nicht wahr sein? Wahr ist es selbstverständlich nicht, aber wirklich ist es schon…“ Leitartikel von Christian Bommarius in Berliner Zeitung, 06.02.2007 http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/meinung/626433.html


Verdeckter Zugriff auf Festplatten

„Online-Durchsuchung privater Computern, Hacken in staatlichem Auftrag und behördliches PC-Screening - droht uns das wirklich? Der Bundesgerichtshof hat gestern entschieden, dass die "verdeckte Online-Untersuchung" unzulässig sei. Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble hat im Gegenzug gefordert, die rechtlichen Grundlagen dafür zu schaffen…“ Artikel von Burkhard Schröder in telepolis vom 06.02.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24587/1.html


Vorratsdatenspeicherung: 10.000 wollen gegen Abbildung ihrer Kommunikation nach Karlsruhe ziehen

„Der Widerstand gegen die von der Bundesregierung geplante sechsmonatige Speicherung aller Telefon-, Handy- und E-Mail-Kontakte geht weiter. Nachdem sich im Januar über 30 Datenschutz-, Bürgerrechts-, Juristen-, Wirtschafts- und Medienverbände gegen die "weitreichende Registrierung des Verhaltens der Menschen in Deutschland" ausgesprochen haben, meldet der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung heute den zehntausendsten Teilnehmer an der vom Arbeitskreis vorbereiteten Verfassungsbeschwerde. Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist sich sicher, dass die Gerichte nach der Rasterfahndung und den Online-Durchsuchungen auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung für unzulässig erklären werden…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 06.02.2007: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81&Itemid=55


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Februar 2007



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By Rob Devey

PHONE MAST: Stapleton Avenue, Bolton

RENT from mobile phone masts erected on land and buildings owned by Bolton Council have boosted the Town Hall's bank account by £275,000.

Five of the town's 142 antennae are on local authority property, including a primary school and a leisure centre.

The figures, revealed following a request by The Bolton News, have sparked criticism that the council is putting financial gain ahead the health of the borough's residents.

Cllr Andy Morgan, who last year called for a blanket ban on masts on local authority land, said: "In the scheme of things, £275,000 is not a lot and certainly isn't an amount worth taking a risk for when there is no conclusive proof that masts are not a threat to health.

"I don't think any sum of money could justify taking that risk, especially where children are concerned. In the long run we just don't know what the effects will be on people who come near these things."

The five masts in the borough - at Brandwood Primary School, Daubhill; Horwich Leisure Centre; the Rainford House flats in Haydock Street on the School Hill Estate, Bolton; garages at Duddon Avenue in Breightmet and green belt land at Stapleton Avenue, in Heaton - have generated a total of £275,154 in revenue.

The council has pocketed £238,732 of that amount, with £36,421 in rent paid for a mast at Brandwood Primary School going direct to the school.

The rest of the money has gone into a central revenue pot and has not been earmarked for specific areas, like health or education Mike Chapman, who was headmaster at Brandwood Primary School when the mast was built, in April 1998, said he had taken expert advice at the time and came to the conclusion the mast would not be dangerous.

PHONE MAST: Rainford House, School Hill

The mast at Horwich Leisure Centre was installed in December 1998 and has generated £35,117 in income for Bolton Council.

Since being installed in October 1992, the mast on Rainford House has earned the council £81,624, while the mast in Duddon Avenue has brought in £59,449 and the mast at Stapleton Avenue has recouped £62,542 in rent.

Cllr Morgan said: "When people go to schools and leisure centres they might not be aware of the masts and do not have any choice but to go near them.

"I think as a good local authority and employer we should put the safety of our residents and staff first."

In many cases, residents have launched protests over the erection of mobile phone masts on public land.

Michelle Daubney organised a protest petition after councillors allowed Vodafone to install four, 20-metre high mobile phone antennae at St John the Evangelist Church, in Church Street, Farnworth.

More than 200 parents of pupils signed the petition.

Miss Daubney, of Hesketh Walk, Farnworth, whose five-year-old son, Jack, attends the school, said: "You cannot put a price on a child's health.

"There is no conclusive evidence that these masts are safe so the council shouldn't be taking risks to line their pockets.

"It is irresponsible and if we find out they are unsafe in ten years time it will be too late."

Despite public fears over the risk of radiation from mobile phone masts, scientific evidence suggests that they pose no serious danger to health.

A Bolton Council spokesman said: "All the phone masts in Bolton comply with strict Government guidelines. Various studies have been conducted into the possible health issues that may arise, but the information to date suggests that there is no cause for any concern over public health.

The council's position is backed up by Dr John Stather, of the radiation protection division at the Health Protection Agency, who said there is no cause for concern.

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