World-News

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607Z.shtml

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Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case

Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted today of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the war in Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/washington/06cnd-libby.html?hp


From Information Clearing House



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

An "elite" commission that has reviewed President Bush’s keystone education policy avoided difficult issues and has recommended an expansion of standardized testing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=No+Child+Left+Behind

A high-ranking Justice Department official told one of the US attorneys fired by the Bush administration that if any of them continued to criticize the administration for their ousting, previously undisclosed details about the reasons they were fired might be released, two of the ousted prosecutors told McClatchy Newspapers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+attorneys+fired
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Patrick McElwee writes: "While the Bush administration publicly acknowledges its alliance with Sunni states, funding to violent, non-state actors is reportedly kept secret - even from Congress. This is done both by using Saudi money and by tapping into secret pools of money, such as the billions in reconstruction funds unaccounted for in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607A.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/science/03climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


Informant: NHNE

In Zukunft kann man möglicherweise am Flughafen keinen Schritt mehr tun, ohne von Kameras verfolgt zu werden. Ein Funk-Chip im Ticket überwacht bald jede Bewegung.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt5m4/computer/artikel/592/104488/

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/2007_wild_horse_act?rk=Jd1JE%2dM1KH1GE


From Gwen H.

Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port. Zoltan Grossman, a geography professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia who was observing the protest said he didn't know what prompted the arrests. "There were no rocks, no weapons. People were not carrying anything but signs. We were on public space, on gravel, and there was a white line that police had told us not to cross. I didn't see any of the protesters cross that line."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607P.shtml

"Everybody was saying, 'Happy new year,'" Ms. Readling recalled. "But I remember going straight to bed and lying down scared to death because I knew that at that very minute, after midnight, I was without insurance. I was kissing away a bad year of cancer. But I was getting ready to open up to a door of hell." Ms. Readling, a 50-year-old real estate agent, is one of nearly 47 million people in America with no health insurance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607N.shtml

The US Democratic-led Senate is moving closer to rewriting the measure that paved the way for President Bush to invade Iraq nearly four years ago. The move would not repeal the Senate's 2002 vote authorizing the war, but instead limit the mission of US troops to focus on counter-terrorism efforts such as protecting Iraq's borders.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607L.shtml

Dr Wilmer J. Leon III writes: "Natural law states that people possess the God-given or natural right to govern themselves, as opposed to the earlier concept of divine justification of a king or monarch. Social contract theory is the idea that people in a civilized society consent to be governed by a set of standards and elect representatives in order to protect these natural rights. Most importantly, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, '...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

Dean Baker writes: "While the collapse of the housing bubble was both predictable and inevitable, it is not pretty. Tens of millions of people will be hurt as they see much of the equity in their homes - money that most had counted on to support their retirement - disappear. Millions more will be forced out of their homes as they find that they are unable to meet the payments on adjustable rate mortgages that reset at higher rates. People who had worked hard and saved in order to become homeowners will see their dream disappear."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607J.shtml



Safe Ground in a Housing Market Meltdown?

Dean Baker writes: "As reports of problems in the mortgage market build, the number of people who view a collapse of the housing market as a serious possibility is growing rapidly. At the moment, the surge in defaults is taking place primarily in the sub-prime market, which is composed of borrowers who have poor credit histories. However, the problems are likely to affect the broader housing market and the economy as a whole before the end of the year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031407J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing+bubble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing+meltdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

by Michael Slater and Nathan Henderson-James, TomPaine.com

Illegal voting is not the problem. The real crime is minority vote suppression.
http://ga3.org/ct/dd20pgF1SzRr/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=minority+vote+suppression

by Deborah Weinstein, TomPaine.com

Bush's budget cuts taxes for millionaires and funding for social welfare programs. Congress must do better.

http://ga3.org/ct/d720pgF1SzRf/

by Philip Mattera, TomPaine.com

Supporting the troops—or supporting the contractors? The real story behind the scandal at Walter Reed.

http://ga3.org/ct/ep20pgF1SzRX/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Reed

NOTE: If you are not a resident of or visiting Sweden, the section PETITION is probably of most value to you.


Hello!

This june we march again, the fifth year in a row! The March for Accessibility 2007 will be held Saturday June 2nd. The gathering point is at Observatorielunden (Sveavägen 67) in Stockholm at 1.15 PM. Show up with friends and family to demand a Swedish anti-discrimination act that will define inaccessibility as discrimination of people with disabilities!

Read more about The March for Accessibility at http://www.marschen.se/viewpage.php?page=2


PETITION

Right now, you are one of about 6100 persons who have signed our petition. Thank you! Please continue recommending people you know to sign at http://www.marschen.se/viewpage.php?page=124

(NOTE: You don\'t have to sign the petition again. Once is enough.)


CONTINUE FILING COMPLAINTS ABOUT INACCESSIBILITY

The more who file complaints about the inaccessibility in Sweden to The Swedish Disability Ombudsman (Handikappombudsmannen) and local authorities (byggnadsnämnder), the faster we\'ll get a law enacted. With Independent Living Insitutes electronic complaint form you can do this and everyone can access the complaints you file.

The form has not yet been translated into English. If you don\'t know Swedish and want to file a complaint, please e-mail hans.filipsson@independentliving.org and you will be aided.

If you know Swedish, start filing complaints today at http://www.independentliving.org/ho/


Best wishes
The March for Accessibility
(Marschen för tillgänglighet)


Informant: Prof. Olle Johansson

Intellectual Conservative
by Thomas E. Brewton

03/06/07

A great many economic conditions, as well as the structure of the financial markets, are different from those of the 1920s. Not all of the differences, however, are reassuring. Recent news reports tell us that banks’ reserves against risky loans such as sub-prime mortgages are at low points. Money is pouring into hedge funds and private equity groups. The massive prevalence of derivative securities in portfolios of pension funds, insurance companies, and commercial banks is worrisome. In 1998, the cratering of Greenwich’s Long Term Capital Management, because of unanticipated consequences of its derivatives investments, threatened to sink the international financial markets. The first broad parallel to the 1920s is the excessive creation of bank credit by the Federal Reserve...

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/03/05/echoes-of-1929/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Chicago Reader
by John Conroy

03/02/07

Tony Lagouranis doesn’t fit the profile of a person likely to go wrong by following orders. He’s lived a footloose life unconstrained by a desire for professional advancement, for the approval of superiors, even for a comfortable home. A freethinker, he read the great works of Western civilization in college and mastered classical languages. It was his desire to learn Arabic as well that took him to Iraq. And there, as an army interrogator, he tortured detainees for information he admits they rarely had...

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/torture/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Torturer's Tale

By Jolyon Jenkins

Tony Lagouranis was trained by the US Army to torture Iraqis. This is why he stopped...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21096.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogator
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tortured+detainees

Hawaii Reporter
by Lowell L. Kalapa

03/05/07

Here we go again, lawmakers are blaming speculators for overheating the real estate market. These are the same people lawmakers pointed the finger of blame at when the real estate market overheated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But back then, it was those nasty foreign investors who were buying up all the property, driving prices sky-high and driving people out of their homes because of rising real property values...

http://tinyurl.com/2va8ot


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

03/06/07

[T]he Bush Administration has claimed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has just confirmed, the unlimited power of the executive to do anything it wants to in the name of ‘national security.’ Anyone — whether a foreigner or an American citizen — can be kidnapped, at home or abroad, either by a foreign government at the request of the U.S. government, by an agent or employee(s) of the U.S. government or by of the U.S. government itself. That person can then be transported anywhere in the world, imprisoned indefinitely, kept from any outside contact, tortured, even killed. All in the name of ‘national security.’ And there is nothing you can do about it...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/manion/manion73.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AntiWar.Com
by David R. Henderson

03/06/07

How much is the U.S. war on Iraq costing you? That depends on who you are. For Iraqis, Americans, or Brits who were killed, it cost them everything. I say it in that order because that is the order in numbers killed. So far, a conservative estimate of the number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war is about 57,000, the number of Americans (including contractors) about 3,800, and the number of Brits 133. And if one were to add in the number of non-civilian Iraqis killed — and one should — the number of civilian and non-civilian Iraqis killed would likely be well over 70,000. Of course, other studies, such as the Lancet study, have found a much larger number of Iraqi deaths, more than 650,000. But I cannot judge such studies without reading them carefully, so I’m giving lower-bound estimates here. But there is another cost to which I can bring my economist’s expertise, namely the cost in federal spending and in higher oil prices to Americans...

http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=10623
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=10787


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com%2Fhenderson

International Herald Tribune [France]

03/06/07

Six former U.S. attorneys said they got little or no information about why they were fired, as another Republican lawmaker reportedly acknowledged contacting one of the federal prosecutors about an investigation. Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, had complained repeatedly to high-level Justice Department officials about New Mexico prosecutor David Iglesias, the department said. Rep. Heather Wilson, another Republican from the state, said late Monday that she also had spoken with Iglesias about one of his pending cases. But like Domenici, Wilson denied pressuring the New Mexico prosecutor, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday’s editions. Democratic lawmakers want to know whether the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush dismissed the U.S. attorneys for political reasons...

http://tinyurl.com/3cac8r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fired+US+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Domenici
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heather+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24765/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 6. März 2007

In San Antonio werden verletzte Irak-Veteranen wieder zusammengeflickt. Fotoreportage von Eric Gay (AP) zusammen mit einem Artikel von Rüdiger Göbel in der jungen Welt vom 03.03.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/03-03/002.php


Aus: LabourNet, 6. März 2007

Nach Treffen der EU-Kriegsminister in Wiesbaden: Rüstungsindustrie soll stärker gesponsort werden. Artikel von Frank Brendle in Junge Welt vom
06.03.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/03-06/049.php


Demo gegen den EU-Gipfel in Berlin geplant

„Seit Mitte Januar trifft sich ein Bündnis der Berliner Linken zur Vorbereitung von Aktivitäten gegen den EU-Gipfel am 25.3. in Berlin. Dieser Gipfel dient dem Abfeiern des 50. Jahrestags der Gründung der damaligen EWG durch die Unterzeichnung der sog. Römischen Verträge. Hier ein Einblick in die Vorbereitung…“ Artikel von NLOler vom 24.02.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/02/168991.shtml

Siehe dazu:

Nein zum Europa des Kapitals! Stoppt die Militarisierung der EU!

Aufruf des Berliner Bündnis gegen den EU-Gipfel http://www.anti-eu.info/aufruf_buendnis.php

Die Homepage des Anti-EU-Gipfel-Bündnisses
http://www.anti-eu.info/


Aus: LabourNet, 6. März 2007

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"Die Sicherheit Europas ist nicht durch die Macht seiner militärischen Mittel zu gewährleisten"

Friedenskongress veröffentlicht eine zeitgemäße "Göttinger Erklärung" - Appell: "Forschung und Lehre dürfen sich nur friedlichen und zivilen Zielen verpflichtet fühlen". Anlässlich des 50. Jahrestages der legendären "Göttinger Erklärung" veranstalteten "Göttinger Wissenschaftler für Frieden und Abrüstung" am 30. Juni 2007 eine Tagung und stellten einen neuen Appell vor, den wir im Folgenden im Wortlaut dokumentieren…“ Dokumentation beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Atomwaffen/50-jahre-goettingen-3.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juli 2007



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

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

Bürgerinitiative/Rundmail 12
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/rundmail12.pdf



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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2027241,00.html


Informant: binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arctic+ice

http://www.indypendent.org/?p=821


Informant: Mitchel Cohen

From ufpj-news

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-asiapollute6mar06,0,661397.story


Informant: binstock

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5869/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

As traders brace for fresh turmoil, soothing words may simply be hiding reality.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2026508,00.html



US triggers $11bn HSBC fall-out

EUROPE’s biggest bank, HSBC, is to write off $11 billion to cover mounting losses in its troubled American offshoot, HSBC Finance Corporation.

http://snipurl.com/1c55t


From Information Clearing House

Walter Reed awarded a five-year, $120 million contract to IAP Worldwide Services, which is run by Al Neffgen, a former senior Halliburton official.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/03/tnsharvey070302/



'It Is Just Not Walter Reed'

Soldiers Share Troubling Stories Of Military Health Care Across U.S.
http://snipurl.com/1c55o


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Reed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Halliburton

Russia readies to respond the eventual installation of a US anti-Missile Defense system in the Caucasus, said Russian AF Chief, Army Gen. Vladimir Mijailov.

http://snipurl.com/1c55j


From Information Clearing House

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Moscow ‘could attack US missile system’
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/793b7e4c-cb55-11db-b436-000b5df10621.html

Czechs Remain Opposed to U.S. Missile Shield
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/14947


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+Missile+Shield

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17241.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh

Former ISI Chief, Gen (retd) Hameed Gul has said that the Untied States is paving the way to use Pakistan's territory for its expected attack on Iran in order to shift the blame of its failure in Afghanistan to Pakistan.

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?170916


From Information Clearing House

The six retired generals who stepped forward last spring to publicly attack Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war shared one experience: a growing outrage over the administration's incompetence, leading some of the nation's finest soldiers to risk their reputations and cross a time-honored line.

http://snipurl.com/1c54i


From Information Clearing House



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

Stymied in their efforts to block President George W. Bush's troop escalation in Iraq, Democrats have scaled back challenges to his "surge," instead favoring legislation limiting the number of soldiers and length of their stay.

http://snipurl.com/1c54f


From Information Clearing House



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

The UN high commissioner for refugees said on Sunday that one in eight Iraqis had been forced from their homes because of the bloodshed raging across the country, and warned that the numbers could only rise.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,9294,2-10-1460_2078229,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

In the next few weeks, we’re going to hear industry mandarins and banking chieftains blame everyone else for the disaster they’ve created. Overstretched and underpaid Americans will be blamed for not saving their paltry wages and people with poor credit will be assailed for taking out loans they had no realistic chance of paying back.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17237.htm



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

By Barry Lando

Bush’s Draconian measures range from the suspension of habeas corpus to warrantless eavesdropping to the right of the president to decide what constitutes torture, to prisons where hundreds face indefinite detention without any charges being brought against them, to other even more secret CIA facilities filled with “ghost prisoners” for whom the CIA has never accounted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17240.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ghost+prisoners
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Lando

By William Blum

It was a struggle between the United States and the Third World. What there was, was people all over the Third World fighting for economic and political changes against US-supported repressive regimes, or setting up their own progressive governments. These acts of self-determination didn't coincide with the needs of the American power elite, and so the United States moved to crush those governments and movements even though the Soviet Union was playing virtually no role at all in these scenarios.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17238.htm



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

By James Petras

President Bush’s visit to Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the ‘two tracks’ of US empire-building – military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17239.htm



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

Video

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," a new HBO documentary produced and directed by Rory Kennedy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17242.htm

An interview with Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is a veteran war correspondent and one of the world's most experienced journalists covering the Middle East. He has reported from across the Arab world for the past thirty years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17235.htm



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

http://www.webcameron.org.uk/blogs/2861-Mobile-phone-masts-health-and-planning


Informant: Frank

The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous for people.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030507HA.shtml



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

The Justice Department said Monday that Republican Senator Pete Domenici called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his deputy four times to complain about a US attorney who claims he was fired for not rushing a corruption probe. Meanwhile, a watchdog group called on a Senate committee to investigate whether Domenici, of New Mexico, violated Congressional ethics rules.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507T.shtml



Watchdog Group Wants Ethics Probe of Domenici

An ethics watchdog group called on the Senate Monday to investigate whether Republican Senator Pete Domenici inappropriately contacted a US attorney regarding an ongoing criminal probe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=attorney+probe
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Domenici
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/25/013213


Informant:
Andrew Cohen,
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/03/un-american-way-kafkaesque-case-of.php


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=el-Masri

http://tinyurl.com/33fpqw


Informant: Marsha MCClelland

Click:

Please contact your US Senators and US Representative (especially Representative Rush Holt's office and Senator Bill Nelson's office) and ask them to read this paper which explains the problems of trying to verify the software integrity of voting machines:

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf

Your Senators and Representative's contact information is available here:

http://senate.gov/ and http://house.gov/

I have provided a sample email or letter to US Congressional staff below that you can modify and send. Please forward this email to your email lists.

Thank you.


Dear Congressional Staffer Who Works on Election Integrity:

Please be so kind as to read this paper which was written with the help of dozens of skilled technologists, because it explains for the lay person, the complexities of voting system software disclosure and shows why the current software disclosure proposals by Representative Holt and Senator Nelson (HR811 and S559) would not work and must be rewritten.

"Avoid Another HAVA Train Wreck: Software Disclosure Requirements are a Good Long Term Goal But Need to Be Redrafted in Current Federal Election Integrity Legislation"

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf

Current voting system software disclosure provisions in federally proposed legislation need to be rewritten, perhaps in separate legislation, in consultation with experts with diverse technical backgrounds .

It might be wiser to pass simpler legislation requiring sufficient manual audits and public access to election records that are necessary to verify election outcomes that could be implemented by 2008, and put any requirements for long-term improvement of voting equipment that require time for development cycles into a separate bill.

It is very important for Congressional staffers who are tasked with considering election integrity legislation in each Congressional office to know that we need a clean election bill that would ensure accurate election outcomes by 2008, plus realistic measures to achieve better voting systems long-term - not another HAVA mess.

Congressional staffers are also urged to read this evaluation of the Holt/Nelson election audits, which shows how the Holt/Nelson election audit could be revised to assure that election audits protect all US House districts, even in close races.

"Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity" http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/TierElectionAuditEval.pdf

and a list of some of the loopholes and flaws of HR811/S559 that would need to be fixed: http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/ChangesNeeded2HR811.pdf

Thank you very much. I apologize for not having the time to make the paper on voting system software disclosure shorter, but I am very swamped with numerous other time-critical work at this moment in time.

Best Regards and "Long Live our Great Democracy",

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election+integrity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_martha_r_070301_is_your_state_breedi.htm


Informant: NHNE



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

Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0305-01.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0305-03.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0305-27.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0305-21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+Younge

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0305-20.htm



When's The Idea Primary?
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0305-31.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Edwards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+L.+Borosage

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0305-05.htm



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

Residents protesting against plans for a mobile phone mast near their homes in Shrewsbury have called for a face-to-face meeting with company bosses.

More than 150 campaigners turned out at a meeting last night to discuss phone giant O2’s plans for the mast in Copthorne.

The company recently won an appeal to site the 41ft antenna on land next to the junction of Copthorne Park and Copthorne Road. Councillors had initially rejected the scheme, after opposition from 79 residents who believe it will be an eyesore.

They also fear it is too close to nearby properties, Woodfield County Infant School and St George’s Junior School.

A spokesman for the campaigners said: “We have no say over the matter now, so we want to see if someone from O2 will come and explain it to people and give them peace of mind.

“There were O2 customers at the meeting last night who said there is a good signal already and they questioned why they would want a new mast.”

The group is also calling for residents across Shrewsbury to support them in their fight as they believe the current case could set a precedent for the town.

O2 has defended the mast, saying it has made a significant financial commitment to the site.

Residents now plan to stage a demonstration at the proposed site on Friday.

They have also set up an e-mail address, no-phonemast @hotmail.com, where people can contact them and share their concerns.

© 2007 - all rights reserved

http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/03/group-calls-for-mast-meeting/

PETER WALSH
05 March 2007 09:08

Bikers protesting against plans for a controversial mobile phone mast outside a pub and near homes have found an unlikely ally in a group of pensioners.

Dozens of leather-clad bikers and their gleaming machines turned up for a protest against proposals by T-Mobile to build a mast next to the King Edward VII pub in Aylsham Road, Norwich.

But joining forces with the bikers, pub regulars, and neighbours, were pensioners from the nearby Edmund Bacon Court residential complex, also in Aylsham Road.

At the weekend they stood united in their opposition to the mast in the pub's car park with cards pleading No Mast Here Please.

Trevor Elphick, 72, who has lived at Edmund Bacon Court for the past three years, said: “I think they've got to put a stop to it, it's getting out of control - we will soon have more masts than lampposts.”

Jack Stewart, 77, who has been at the complex with his wife June for three years, said he was supporting the protest for people at Edmund Bacon Court who wore pacemakers. “They're a bit worried that it could do them some harm - we're told it won't but it might do,” he said.

The campaign against the mast, which will be opposite a 12-apartment development which has yet to be built, has attracted almost 400 signatures.

Vicki Smith, 34, landlord of the King Edward VII pub, said the mast would not only be out of keeping with the character of the area, but would endanger the safety of motorists and bikers trying to leave the car park on to the busy Aylsham Road.

“Putting something else on the pavement will make visibility for people coming out of the car park even worse,” she said.

Mile Cross councillor and Norwich City Council leader Steve Morphew, who helped to organise the demonstration, said the mast was not welcome in the area.

“The mast would obscure a traditional pub and equipment would block up access which is used for motorbikes,” he said.

Last month the Evening News reported how a T-Mobile spokesman said the mast was needed to provide a “quality service” in the area.

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast where you live? Call Peter Walsh on 01603 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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The Shoshone National Forest, which borders the Eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park, contains some of the wildest land in the Lower 48 and is a key component of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the stunning wildlife, fisheries, and incredible recreation for which this region is known. Now the Shoshone is developing a new management plan which will help determine how this National Forest is protected – or not – for the next fifteen years. Help us ensure that this part of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem gets the protection it needs!

Click here to take action
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/shoshonefmp/

Die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace hat am Montag erneut die Mehrzahl der deutschen Lebensmittelanbieter kritisiert: Für eine halbe Milliarde Euro verkauften große Einzelhandels-Unternehmen jedes Jahr Obst und Gemüse, dessen Pestizidbelastungen über den gesetzlich erlaubten Grenzwerten lägen, kritisiert die Organisation. Sie wirft den großen Handelsketten vor, auf diese Weise "Unrechtsgewinne" zu erzielen. "268.000 Tonnen der pestizidbelasteten Ware werden jährlich im Handel angeboten – damit verzehrt jeder deutsche Verbraucher im Durchschnitt über drei Kilogramm Obst und Gemüse, das nach dem Lebensmittelgesetz nicht verkehrsfähig ist", heißt es in der Mitteilung.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15463



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Attorney David Iglesias told McClatchy Newspapers last week that he believed the call by Republican Sen. Pete Domenici was timed in mid-October to pressure him to rush the investigation before the November elections to benefit Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507F.shtml

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Specter detector

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

03/05/07

The U.S. attorneys purge scandal is heating up. The House and Senate have convened hearings for Tuesday, promising an orgy of named names and pointed fingers. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., now admits what he once denied: that he may have had a hand in the removal of New Mexico’s U.S. attorney. And the senior Justice Department official who personally canned the U.S. attorneys has just announced the date of his resignation. But as the political scandal spreads, the question at its heart gets less and less public attention: Who changed the Patriot Act to make it easier to replace U.S. attorneys without oversight, and how did it happen with nobody looking?

http://www.slate.com/id/2161260/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Paul Krugman writes: "The administration uses carefully cooked numbers to pretend that it has been generous to veterans, but the historical data contained in its own budget for fiscal 2008 tells the true story. The quagmire in Iraq has vastly increased the demands on the Veterans Administration, yet since 2001, federal outlays for veterans' medical care have actually lagged behind overall national health spending."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507C.shtml



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

The VA has a backlog of 400,000 benefit claims, including many concerning mental health. Vietnam vets whose post-traumatic stress has been triggered by images of war in Iraq are flooding the system for help and are being turned away.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=post-traumatic+stress
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Reed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101293.html?referrer=emailarticle


Informant: MoJo

Vor dem Tsunami

Die geplatzte Spekulationsblase auf dem US-Immobilienmarkt belastet die amerikanische Konjunktur und war eine der Ursachen für die jüngsten Turbulenzen auf den Weltfinanzmärkten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24762/1.html

Die britische Regierung plant nach einem offenbar gelungenen Testversuch, in vielen Städten Kameras mit Lautsprechern zur verbalen Disziplinierung von Missetätern zu installieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24773/1.html

by Aziz Huq, TomPaine.com

Congress can't sit back and expect the courts to end the Gitmo travesty.

http://ga3.org/ct/-d20pgF11mQA/



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by Robert L. Borosage, The Nation

Democratic presidential aspirants avoid discussing the very ideas and principles that swept the party into Congress.

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

Over the last three decades, the federal government has missed legal deadlines for setting stricter efficiency standards for common appliances, resulting in billions of dollars in higher utility bills and millions more tons of the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507P.shtml

Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time, running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos and falling through melting ice when they hunt. These circumstances are the current results of global climate change. Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian Arctic, maintains that this constitutes a violation of human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas throughout the world.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507O.shtml



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A report by the Oxford Research Group says military action could lead Iran to change the nature of its program and quickly build nuclear arms. An attack on Iranian nuclear facilities "would almost certainly lead to a fast-track programme to develop a small number of nuclear devices as quickly as possible," warned nuclear scientist and arms expert Frank Barnaby.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507K.shtml

Reason
by Matt Welch

03/07

The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. This escalation of an unpopular war ran counter to the advice of Bush’s senior military leadership, ignored the recommendations made by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and sidestepped the objections of the Iraqi government it was ostensibly intended to assist. But the plan was nearly identical to what the Republican senior senator from Arizona, nearly alone among his Capitol Hill colleagues, had been advocating for months: boost troop levels by at least 20,000, give coalition forces the authority to impose security in every corner of Baghdad, and increase the size of America’s overburdened standing military by around 100,000 during the next five years. By enthusiastically endorsing McCain’s approach, the lame duck president all but finished the job of anointing the senator his political successor...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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LewRockwell.Com
by David Calderwood

03/05/07

The tenor of moral standards is moving toward the complete utilitarian justification of force. As our top elected officials have said, ‘All options are on the table.’ This sort of thinking is already operational in the Drug War, where the absurd notion of imprisoning persons for their own good has enjoyed decades of popular support. The rot in Western Civilization (especially in the USA) is clear whether one examines the foregoing political/moral facet or conditions in the economic sphere. Manufacturing has declined in the US in favor of service provision, with weapons production becoming one of the last remaining bastions of power in the former and financial machinations the dominant element of the latter...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood13.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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"The shortest route to ending the Iraq war (and preventing additional wars) is almost certainly through Congress," writes David Swanson. "Influencing the White House directly is unimaginable, and stopping the war through the courts unlikely. Clearly, Congress is the way to go. But what specifically can Congress do? The question is not just whether Congress can cut off the money, but whether the Bush administration can find enough money in other places illegally to continue a war that has never in any sense been legal."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2933.shtml



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Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighborhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists. Poverty and insecurity are said to be the main causes of the children's deteriorating diets. Despite efforts by NGOs and the Iraqi government, violence and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people are making it very difficult for monthly food rations to reach those families that need them most. According to the United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF), about one in 10 children under five in Iraq are underweight and one in five are short for their age. This means that some 4.5 million children in the country are under-nourished.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2934.shtml

“Die Unfallkassen schlagen Alarm wegen eines Anstiegs gewalttätiger Übergriffe auf Mitarbeiter öffentlicher Verwaltungen nach der Hartz-IV-Reform: Im Jahr 2005 seien rund 1.600 Angestellte Opfer von externer Gewalt geworden und dabei so stark verletzt worden, dass sie Leistungen der Unfallkasse in Anspruch hätten nehmen müssen, erklärte eine Sprecherin vom Bundesverband der Unfallkassen am Freitag in München bei der Vorstellung eine Präventionsprojekts für die kommunalen Hartz-IV-Arbeitsgemeinschaften…“ Meldung vom 02. März 2007 bei net-tribune http://www.net-tribune.de/article/020307-233.php

Siehe dazu auch:

Mit ABBA gegen Gewalt. Gewaltprävention in Arbeitsgemeinschaften nach Hartz IV

„Immer häufiger kommt es zu gewalttätigen Übergriffen auf Mitarbeiter in öffentlichen Verwaltungen wie Arbeitsgemeinschaften nach Hartz IV. So zuletzt im oberfränkischen Kronach, wo ein Arbeitsloser eine Angestellte des Job-Centers niedergeschlagen und mit Aktenordnern beworfen hat. Um Verwaltungen und ihre Mitarbeiter bei der Gewaltprävention zu unterstützen, haben der Bundesverband der Unfallkassen und mehrere Unfallversicherungsträger der öffentlichen Hand jetzt das Modellprojekt ABBA (Arbeitsbelastungen und Bedrohungen in Arbeitsgemeinschaften nach Hartz IV) ins Leben gerufen. Ein wichtiger Baustein ist das Unternehmenskonzept "Gewaltfreier Arbeitsplatz"…“ Pressemitteilung der Unfallkassen vom 2. März 2007 http://www.unfallkassen.de/webcom/show_article-1.php/_c-608/_nr-90/_p-1/i.html


Vom Fordern und Fördern – ein Erlebnisbericht. Oder, warum man als Erwerbslose/r bei der kostenpflichtigen Hotline der Agentur für Arbeit anruft und zu normalen Dienstzeiten keinen erreicht.

Artikel von Anette S. Jung, Herne, vom 3.3.07 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/jung.html


Limburg. „Wir brauchen keine A...

„„Wir brauchen keine Arbeit, die uns nicht ernährt“, heißt es in dem Flugblatt, das in Limburg in Umlauf war und derzeit für einigen Ärger sorgt. Vor allem der darin erhobene Vorwurf, die Blechwarenfabrik in Limburg habe die Zeitarbeitsfirma Trend-BL gegründet „und so die Möglichkeit, Arbeitskräfte mit Kündigungsschutz und Tariflohn durch Arbeitnehmer mit Niedriglohn zu ersetzen“, sorgt für heftigen Widerspruch, der in einer anwaltlichen Aufforderung an fünf Vertreter der linken Partei gipfelte, eine Unterlassungserklärung zu unterschreiben. Inzwischen wird sogar eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die im Flugblatt erhobenen Vorwürfe vor Gericht angestrebt…“ Artikel in Frankfurter Neue Presse vom 03.03.2007 http://www.rhein-main.net/sixcms/list.php?page=fnp2_news_article&id=3548294


»Freiwillig« zwangsbeschäftigt

„Auch soziale und Umweltorganisationen sehen kein Problem darin, Ein-Euro-Jobber zu beschäftigen. Wie sie von deren Arbeit profitieren, wollen nur wenige offen sagen…“ Artikel von Jan Eisner in junge Welt vom 01.03.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/03-01/012.php


Ärger um Ein-Euro-Jobs

„Das Diakonische Werk kritisiert das neue Zuweisungsverfahren in Ein-Euro-Jobs durch die Hamburger Arbeit Beschäftigungsgesellschaft, die selber Beschäftigungsträger ist. Die ARGE freut sich auf die effiziente Zusammenarbeit…“ Artikel von Julia Brodersen in der taz Nord vom 3.3.2007 http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/03/03/a0311.1/text


Bargeldlos zur Konfirmation

„Hartz IV in der Kirche: Im niedersächsischen Rotenburg mussten Jugendliche ihre Konfirmationsgeschenke an den Staat abtreten - weil ihre Eltern ALG II beziehen…“ Artikel von Julia Brodersen in der taz Nord vom 2.3.2007 http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/03/02/a0249.1/text


Arm und reich. Arbeitsmaterial zur sozialen Situation heute

Dokumentation von Adolfo Salzer http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/salzer.html



Unterwürfigkeit bekämpfen ... statt ausleben

Der Widerstand gegen Sozialkahlschlag und die Suche nach Wegen aus der Abhängigkeit brauchen eine neue Dimension. Artikel von Mag Wompel in Graswurzelrevolution vom März 2007 im Vorabdruck bei Linksnet http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=2875


Aus: LabourNet, 5. März 2007



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

http://www.lwoil.com/newsletters/march_2007.htm


Informant: V

by Devvy Kidd

I urge you to get together with friends, family and like minded people, take up a collection and get Greg's column run as a full page in your local newspaper. Obviously this won't be possible for major metropolitan cities (unless you have major financial resources), but it will work in the majority of medium to small cities and towns throughout this country......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd253.htm



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Würde Silvio Berlusconi Nachhilfe in Sachen mafiöser Strukturen brauchen, müsste er nach Deutschland kommen. Da werden Flugreisen von Politikern wie Johannes Rau oder Wolfgang Clement...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/supportdf/buecher1/033ea298e60095805.html



Medienkongress Wirtschaftsmacht und Pressefreiheit

Der Medienkongress von BCC will nicht nur auf ein Problem hinweisen, das alle angeht, die eine bessere Welt für möglich halten. Er will auch Chancen diskutieren, die im Zeitalter der Globalisierung...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/00000097f313f5d03/033ea298e600cf70f.html



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Anraineraufstand im Tirol - Die Grünen wollen Verfassungsklage gegen das Telekommunikationsgesetz einbringen...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/politik/033ea298dd0279c01/033ea298e6018f51d.html

Das Urteil der 5 Richter des Basler Kantonsgerichts war einstimmig: die 25 Meter hohe Antenne beim Bottminger Bahnhöfli wird nicht erstellt, die Swisscom muss das Antennenprofil wieder abbauen...

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/recht/000000988f09e8a14/033ea298e81204d01.html

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/761768158?z00m=22788


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