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Sure we're angry about the failure of the Democrats to stand up for ending the Iraq occupation. But what is the root cause of that anger, and where do we productively DIRECT our anger so that the REAL problem is impacted? It's not just this latest Iraq supplemental. This is just the latest example of the failure of Congress to actually confront the MANY Constitutional outrages of the Cheney administration.

That's right, we said the Cheney administration.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

Bush is nothing more than a stooge . . . a hapless, snickering, stubborn stooge perhaps, but a stooge nonetheless, who couldn't complete a logical sentence in the English language without the talking points they give him to rehearse and read from.

It is Cheney who dragged the country into invading Iraq, who was the master chef in cooking the intelligence, who pushed for torture as accepted U.S. foreign policy, who was the driving force behind the illegal wiretaps, the unprecedented expansion of executive power, the outing of Valerie Plame, who ordered the stand down of our air defenses on 9/11, and is even now working overtime to plunge us into an even more monumental debacle in Iran. It's been all Cheney, all the time, since day one of this disastrous administration.

So why won't Congress (with the exception of Kucinich and the other 3 sponsors of H.R. 333) even talk about impeaching someone who has committed every Constitutional high crime in the book?

Have you voted in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll yet? More that 50,000 of your friends and neighbors have, but what about you?

Maybe there's your complete answer. Why would we expect Congress to act on what we want them to do unless we TELL them what we want them to do? Why should we accuse them of not listening to the people, unless we are actively talking to them. Why should we be mad at them for not acting, UNLESS we force them to act.

A lot of people are calling their members of Congress right now to yell at them about the Iraq supplemental surrender. And we should join them in that too. But it's kinda like trying to put out a fire on one side of a room with someone pouring on more gasoline from the other side. Unless we confront the REAL problem, Dick Cheney, and remove him from power soon, the flames may be so high over our heads that we may no longer be able to do anything about it. We are that close to a military holocaust right now.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

So DO call your members of Congress. And let them know they have ZERO chance of getting elected again themselves if they continue to vote for funding the Iraq sinkhole without accountability. But the same time, and most importantly, demand that they step up and confront the Cheney impeachment imperative. As long as Cheney is in the White House, Bush will just continue to arrogantly parrot the words Cheney feeds him, and we are in greater peril each successive day.

It's Cheney, folks. The problem is Cheney.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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The greater the social inequalities in a country, the fewer efforts that country devotes to the environment: That's what CNRS [(French) National Center for Social Research] economists observe. Similarly, policies more attentive to redistribution should be less harmful to the environment.

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The editors of The New York Times write: "Ms. Goodling was an odd witnesses. The only people odder than Ms. Goodling were the House Republicans who rushed to praise her. Even in these partisan times, a Justice Department official who admitted to her level of wrongdoing ought to draw bipartisan condemnation."

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Bill Moyers writes: "Think it over: In 1960, the gap in wealth between the top 20 percent of our country and the bottom 20 percent was 30 fold. Now, it is 75 fold. Stock prices and productivity are up, and CEO salaries are soaring, but ordinary workers aren't sharing in the profits they helped generate. Their incomes aren't keeping up with costs. More Americans live in poverty - 37 million, including 12 million children. 12 million children! America's a broken promise. America needs fixing."

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Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on betrayal saying, "For the president - and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file congressmen and senators of either party - there is only blame for this shameful and bi-partisan betrayal."

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Vize-Kanzler Franz Müntefering hat die Millionengehälter von Topmanagern kritisiert. Es müsse nicht nur über Mindestlöhne, sondern auch über Maximallöhne geredet werden, sagte Müntefering am 23. Mai auf dem Kongress des Europäischen Gewerkschaftsbundes (EGB) im spanischen Sevilla. Der Bundesarbeitsminister verwies auf Managergehälter, die nicht selten um das 1000-fache höher lägen als bei normalen Beschäftigten. Das müsse eine Grenze haben, sagte der SPD-Politiker. Der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Linksfraktion sieht eine deutliche Diskrepanz zwischen den Worten und den Taten Münteferings. Im Bundestag habe die SPD einen Gesetzentwurf zur Begrenzung von Managergehältern abgelehnt. Auch bei der Abstimmung über die Unternehmensteuerreform am 25. Mai könne man sehen, welche Interessen die SPD vertritt.

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The latest version of the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill is scheduled to come to a vote this week and I will not support it. It is a toothless measure that gives a blank check to the President and does nothing to end our involvement in Iraq.

We've made great strides in recent weeks and months in our combined effort to end one of the biggest mistakes in the history of our country and redeploy our brave men and women out of Iraq. That said, the President and some members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle, still haven’t acknowledged the message the American people sent last November.

Last week the Feingold-Reid bill that would use Congress's 'power of the purse' to end the war in Iraq was voted on in the Senate. The procedural vote was another step forward in our effort. It put the majority of Senate Democrats on record calling for a firm end date for this misguided war, and I'm already looking for the next opportunity to push this important legislation forward. I'm continuing to fight every step of the way and today I'm asking you once again to help spread the message that the time for the war in Iraq to end is now.

Today, the Progressive Patriots Fund is launching a new online effort to promote awareness of my legislation and encourage individual initiative in reversing the reckless leadership President Bush has demonstrated through his Iraq policy.

Click here to get your "Help Russ End the War" Widget
http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com/widget/

We've created a widget, a graphic that you can place on your website, MySpace page, blog, or other social networking site to let your friends know where you stand and help recruit others to support this important legislation.

Make no mistake about it, our effort is gaining ground. Where once I was the lone voice advocating binding timelines for redeploying our troops, last week the majority of Democratic Senators voted with me. Of course no one ever said this was going to be easy, but we must keep the pressure on and continue to build strong grassroots support for ending this war.

Click here to get your "Help Russ End the War" Widget
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Using the latest Web technology, you can help me spread the word and expand the Progressive Patriots' reach. All you need to do is copy and paste the provided code on your website. When your friends and family click on this graphic, or widget, they are automatically sent to a page where they can join you in co-sponsoring my important legislation.

Together, we can harness the power of the online community and force Congress to use its constitutional power to end this disastrous war.

Thank you for all of your support and for standing with me time and time again.

Sincerely,

Russ Feingold
United States Senator
Honorary Chair, Progressive Patriots Fund



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Microsoft entwickelt ein Programm, um aus dem Such- und Surfverhalten persönliche Daten des Internetbenutzers abzuleiten.

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A Comment About Betrayal

Keith Olbermann on what the Democrats' "compromise" on Iraq really means.
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President Bush lets his bigotry show at his Thursday press conference

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by Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Did the U.S. lie about cluster bomb use in Iraq, and what are the real human costs?
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by Bill Scher, TomPaine.com
The Democrats' dealmaking has left us with little to show for it. It's time to get tough.

PLUS: What's happening to our agenda?
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At a hearing yesterday, officials from California and other states urged the Environmental Protection Agency to grant California a waiver from federal controls so it could apply its stringent emissions standards. In New York, Mayor Bloomberg took his own action to curb emissions from his city's 13,000 taxis by proposing a plan to replace the entire taxicab fleet with hybrid vehicles by 2012.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407O.shtml

Monica M. Goodling, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's senior counselor, told House investigators yesterday that Gonzales tried to review his version of the prosecutor firings with her at a time when lawmakers were homing in on conflicting accounts. In a day-long appearance before the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, Goodling, 33, also acknowledged crossing a legal line herself by considering the party affiliations of candidates for career prosecutor jobs - a violation of law.

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By Staff Reporter

A MOBILE phone mast will be erected in Westhoughton after plans by O2 were approved on appeal.

The company had been refused permission by Bolton Council's planning and highways committee to build the 12.5 metre (40ft) high mast on land in Wigan Road.

The committee said specified details of external finishes, including colours, needed to be submitted.

The firm appealed against the decision and sought permission from the Planning Inspectorate. The inspector, Elizabeth Ord, has now approved the plans to site the mast between a disused and a working railway line.

She said: "The proposal would form a simple, uncluttered feature which, although noticeable on the highway, would be seen as part of the urban fabric, blending in to the street scene."

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http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1423190.0.goahead_for_phone_mast_near_railways.php

May 24 2007

DESPITE being told that it would be "visually intrusive", a mobile phone company has appealed against the refusal of planning permission to extend its phone mast.

Orange had applied to increase the height of its phone mast on the roof of Calbrook Cars, in Eastwick Road, Bookham, from 15 metres to 20 metres.

The reason for the original application, which was lodged last December,was that it was intending to share the mast with two other mobile phone operators, Hutchison 3G and T-Mobile, and the mast would therefore need to be bigger.

However, the plans were refused by the district council on February 9 because of they were considered to be an eyesore both by the council and by Bookham residents.

Clive Smith, head of planning at Mole Valley District Council, in refusing the application said: "The proposed telecommunication column, by reason of its height and prominent siting,would be a visually intrusive feature, detrimental to the appearance of the locality and outlook from nearby residential properties."

But the grounds of Orange's appeal, which was lodged this month, were that there has already been a mast in place for the past 10 years which has become part of the scenery.

It also appealed on the grounds that planning permission for a 20-metre mast in the same location had been granted in 1999 but that the permission had since expired.

Bookham Residents' Association has said that the site has already become overdeveloped and that masts could be put up in less conspicuous areas.

Peter Seaward, chairman of the association, said: "There are a number of local residents who have complained to us and we are supporting their concerns on this matter.

"We think making the mast larger will make it even more intrusive and we feel as far as this site is concerned that enough is enough."

As well as the size of the mast, residents have been worried about health issues as the mast would be sending off stronger signals than before.

Sandra Rigby, of Eastwick Road, said: "We as residents are very strongly against this development and will oppose the appeal as well.

"It is the possible health effects that these masts might have that I am concerned about, especially as I suffer from migraines and I don't know whether the masts and the signals they send off are aggravating the problem or not."

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by IH
24/05/2007

ANOTHER row over the siting of a mobile phone mast is brewing in the town. Plans by O2 for a 15-metre mast on Crackley Lane have angered Kenilworth Town Council and neighbours, who have swamped Warwick District Council with objections. It comes just a matter of months after a bitter fight over Hutchinson 3G's plan to place a 12-metre mast right in the heart of the town outside the De Montfort Hotel. The Planning Inspectorate in Bristol is set to make the final decision on the application. Now O2 wants to put a mast near the Crackley Woods nature reserve and the historic area of common land Parliament Piece, and close to both Crackley and St Augustine schools. The district council plans sub-committee is set to consider the application on May 29. • Objections are also set to be heard into T Mobile's bid for a 15-metre mast at the Birmingham Road petrol station at Budbrooke. The parish council and British Waterways both object.

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Bring it on!
by Amy Branham

05/20/07

Last night, while surfing for something to watch on the television, my husband ran across the show ‘Austin City Limits.’ The Dixie Chicks were playing, so he stopped his surfing and we watched them perform. It was good to see them up on stage performing again, especially in a Texas venue, though I do believe the show was a rerun from about a year ago. As I listened to the songs they performed, I thought of what the Dixie Chicks had been through because they dared to voice an opinion contrary to that George Bush and the war in Iraq. They have had death threats, nearly lost their careers, and have virtually been blacklisted in country music. Their patriotism and right to life have been called into question time and time again, their CD’s burned. Yet they came back, full of defiance, to sing and perform for us again, to a new crowd and fans that were happy to see them back. I couldn’t help but think, as I sat there listening to them, that the Dixie Chicks were right — They dared to speak the truth...

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/23/07

In one short answer to a moderator’s question in the South Carolina debate in which Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul suggested that U.S. foreign policy motivated the 9/11 terrorists, Paul produced an earthquake that is shaking the Republican establishment. The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party proposed banning Paul from future debates. Besieged by adverse public reaction, however, he quickly backed down...

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Patriotism

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

05/24/07

Madam Speaker, for some, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. For others, it means dissent against a government’s abuse of the people’s rights. I have never met a politician in Washington or any American, for that matter, who chose to be called unpatriotic. Nor have I met anyone who did not believe he wholeheartedly supported our troops, wherever they may be. What I have heard all too frequently from various individuals are sharp accusations that, because their political opponents disagree with them on the need for foreign military entanglements, they were unpatriotic, un-American evildoers deserving contempt. The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power...

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Liberty For All
by Jonathan David Morris

05/23/07

I’m not saying Giuliani’s a liar. I’m sure he honestly thinks he’s never heard the blowback theory of 9/11 before. But since we know that’s not true, that means he’s heard it and decided to forget it. In one ear, out the other. The facts weren’t worth entertaining. I can’t help but wonder if this is the kind of guy we want running our country. It’s hard to believe there are still people in 2007 who believe 9/11 happened in a vacuum. But it’s even harder to believe there are presidential candidates who believe that...

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Rational Review
by George Phillies

05/23/07

What is the libertarian answer to the torture question? It’s the American answer, the answer the American people have already given. Torture is a crime against civilization, reviled by all patriotic Americans. Let’s take it from the top. First, there is nothing for a President to decide. Inside the United States, torture is a felony. If you are anywhere in the United States, and you torture someone, you are committing more crimes than I care to list. There is no exception in those laws for government officials. If you are an American abroad and torture someone, it’s a felony. If your victim dies, you have earned the death penalty. There is no exception in those laws for government officials. Second, those laws reflect the wisdom of the American people. Torturers are the filth of the earth, properly grouped with child molesters and mercenaries...

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This is London [UK]

05/21/07

It looks more like the latest in saucepan technology than the future of crime fighting. But police are confident that this miniature remote-controlled helicopter will be an invaluable weapon in the war against wrongdoers. The Microdrone, measuring only 2ft between the tips of its eight rotor blades, was originally designed for military reconnaissance. When it takes to the skies above Liverpool this summer, it will be the first time such a device has been put to civilian use in this country...

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USA Today

05/23/07

President Bush’s pick to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission withdrew his nomination Wednesday amid strong opposition from some Senate Democrats because of his career as a manufacturers’ lobbyist. The White House said it was reluctantly accepting the decision by Michael Baroody after ’some members in the Senate rushed to judgment.’ Baroody is a lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers, and his critics on Capitol Hill said he would not provide the leadership the agency needed in order to protect consumers. Democrats also had raised questions about a $150,000 payment that Baroody would have received from the manufacturers’ lobbying group when he left...

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MSNBC

05/23/07

The United States is treating the globe like a giant battlefield in its war on terrorism, eroding rights worldwide, a leading human rights group said Wednesday. Amnesty International’s secretary-general, Irene Khan, said the United States’ and its allies’ behavior was setting a destructive example for other nations, and that other countries were using the war on terrorism as an excuse to violate human rights and stifle dissent...

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Washington Post

05/24/07

Aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) scrambled late yesterday to control the fallout from a leaked memo advocating that she pull her campaign out of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, where she is trailing in polls. The memo, written by Clinton deputy campaign manager Mike Henry, exposed a rift among Clinton advisers over her approach to the first real test of the presidential campaign. Henry advocated focusing the senator’s resources on the Jan. 22 New Hampshire primary and the wave of states that follow with contests on Feb. 5. … Clinton campaign officials quickly dismissed any suggestion that she would pull out of the state, characterizing the memo as ‘one person’s opinion.’ The memo, Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said, ‘reflects the thoughts of one person on the staff.’ ‘It is not the opinion of the campaign or of Senator Clinton,’ Singer said...

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"The recent assertion in the New York Times that Hillary Clinton, while on Wal-Mart's board of directors, was 'largely silent' on the topic of that notorious company's 'vehement anti-unionism' highlights the information deficit facing progressive voters who are trying to figure out which of the Democratic presidential candidates would actually be best for the labor movement," says Dmitri Iglitzin.

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Labor Wielding Clout in US Presidential Race

With a weakened Republican president and Democrats given a solid chance to win, US labor unions see next year's presidential election as a chance to revive their clout, experts and activists say.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052307LB.shtml



Health Care Crisis Squeezes Working Families

While many industrialized countries provide care for all, the United States covers only the elderly and the poor. Some 45 million, or 15 percent, of people in the world's richest nation lacked health insurance in 2005, up 3 percent on the previous year.

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A novel proposal by Ecuador is testing world leaders' commitment to fight global warming and preserve the biodiversity of the Earth.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052307EC.shtml

California presented its case Tuesday for permission to impose tough new limits on greenhouse gas emissions by cars and trucks, pressing a campaign that state officials hope will set the stage for aggressive action nationwide on a major contributor to global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052307EB.shtml

Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour. "Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. Global warming is adding to threats such as land clearance for farms or cities, pollution and rising human populations.

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UN URGES WORLD TO SLOW EXTINCTIONS
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"What happens in a presidential administration when loyalty, to borrow a phrase from 'Star Trek,' becomes the 'prime directive'? What happens when its all-encompassing fog obscures all other values - such as fealty to the Constitution, the rule of law or simple humanity?" asks David C. Iglesias.

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Failing to muster enough votes to override an ensured veto from President Bush, Democrats have decided to withdraw their bid to include a timetable in the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill.

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By Duncan Eaton

Members of the Enviromental Club at Stoke Park Junior School celebrate defeating the mast plan.

VILLAGERS who campaigned to get the plug pulled on a plan to put a mobile phone mast in the heart of a Hampshire woodland have scored a major victory.

Bishopstoke was buzzing with joy last night (Wednesday) as Eastleigh borough councillors kicked out an application to put a radio base station with 81 ft high mast in Stoke Park Wood.

It was an amazing turnabout because earlier planning officers had recommended that Hutchison 3 G (UK) should be given the go ahead.

But in less than 45 minutes the many months of campaigning, spearheaded by Guardians of Stoke Park Wood, ended in a sweet victory.

Before they took their seats members of the Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath Local Area Committee, had to walk past a collection of drawings by local schoolchildren who had graphically put over their own "stop the phone mast" message.

Councillor Anne Winstanley had called for the planning application to be refused on the grounds of environmental impact. There were also health concerns.

FOR the full story and reaction from last night's meeting see today's Daily Echo.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

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Militarismus in den Gräben um die G8

IMI-Standpunkt 2007/042 von Christoph Marischka, erschienen in Friedensblätter Mai/Juni 2007 http://www.imi-online.de/2007.php3?id=1564


Vom Staatsbürger in Uniform zur Armee der Unterprivilegierten

IMI-Standpunkt 2007/043 von Jürgen Wagner vom 22.5.2007 http://www.imi-online.de/2007.php3?id=1565


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Mai 2007

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Armee der Arbeitslosen

Bundeswehr-Wegtreten ready to enter G8

„Bundeswehr wirbt während der Gipfelproteste am Arbeitsamt am 31.Mai 2007 um 13 Uhr, Kopernikusstraße 1a, Rostock. Das klingt sehr selbstbewusst. Das kann aber auch in die Hose gehen. Unmittelbar vor der antimilitaristischen Besiedelung des Bombodroms und der internationalen Großdemonstration will die Bundswehr in Rostocks Innenstadt am Arbeitsamt neue RekrutInnen werben. Hunderte von GipfelgegnerInnen sind schon vor Ort ... Treffpunkt: 13 Uhr vor dem Arbeitsamt, Kopernikusstr. 1a, Rostock“. Siehe dazu:

Bundeswehr-Wegtreten ready to enter G8. Rostock: Gipfelgegner werden Werbeveranstaltung der Bundeswehr am Arbeitsamt nicht hinnehmen

Pressemitteilung vom 28.5.07 (pdf) http://bundeswehr-wegtreten.125mb.com/main/Rostock.pdf


Aufruf „Bundeswehr-Wegtreten ready to enter G8“ vom 28.05.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org./2007/05/178933.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Mai 2007

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Prüfsteine für Auslandseinsätze

Gibt es Terrorwarnungen, wird die Stationierung der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan oder im Libanon in Frage gestellt. Das bietet die Gelegenheit, Manöverkritik zu betreiben. Dokumentation von Auszügen der Kommission "Europäische Sicherheit und Zukunft der Bundeswehr" am "Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik" in der FR vom 27.06.2007 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/dokumentation/?em_cnt=1162084

Siehe auch

Kommission „Europäische Sicherheit und Zukunft der Bundeswehr“ am IFSH: Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr: Viele Bedingungen müssen erfüllt sein. Die Langfassung beim IFSH (pdf) http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/profil/IFSH_Auslandseinsaetze_der_Bundeswehr_2007.pdf


Das Geschwader »Immelmann« kämpft stets in der vordersten Reihe. Artikel von Otto Köhler in junge Welt vom 29.06.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-29/047.php

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Soldatengottesdienst im Kölner Dom

Bericht von bundeswehr-wegtreten vom 10.01.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/01/204710.shtml

Siehe dazu auch:

Soldatengottesdienst im Kölner Dom und der Protest dagegen am 10.1.2008 – Fotoreportage bei der Arbeiterfotografie http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage-2008/2008-01-10-koeln-soldatengottesdienst.html


Kardinal Meisners Soldatenvergatterung für die Ziele der Bundeswehr - Mit NATO und Kirchensteuer in das nächste Abenteuer

Bericht von Hans-Peter Keul (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/krieg/keul.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Januar 2008

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Bundeswehr weltweit

„Die Militarisierung der deutschen Außenpolitik soll durch EU- und NATO-Kriegseinsätze selbstverständlich werden. Der Rüstungshaushalt sieht Umstellungskosten für die Angriffsfähigkeit der Bundeswehr in Milliardenhöhe vor…“ Artikel von Claudia Haydt aus junge Welt vom 9. Februar 2008, dokumentiert beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Bundeswehr/haydt.html


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Februar 2008

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Die Transformation der Bundeswehr. Dimensionen des Paradigmenwechsels von der Verteidigung zur Intervention

IMI-Analyse 2008/009 von Tobias Pflüger , erschienen in Ausdruck vom Februar 2008 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1707


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Februar 2008

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"Es lebe das heilige Deutschland!"

Gibt es bei der Bundeswehr "Offiziere einer neuen Generation, die handeln werden, wenn es die Zeit erforderlich macht"?

„Hassmails zu bekommen ist nichts Ungewöhnliches. Wenn jedoch der Absender bei einer Organisation tätig ist, in der er viel über das Töten lernt und jederzeit Zugang zu Waffen hat, dann bekommt solch eine Mail einen anderen Stellenwert. Jürgen Rose vom Arbeitskreis Darmstädter Signal erhielt solch eine Hassmail – gezeichnet mit Namen und Titel eines Mannes, der nicht nur bei der Bundeswehr tätig ist, sondern bei der Elitetruppe KSK, deren genaue Aktivitäten das Verteidigungsministerium weitgehend geheim hält…“ Interview von Peter Mühlbauer mit Hans-Jürgen Rose in telepolis vom 27.03.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27588/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 1. April 2008

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Transformation der Bundeswehr und Widerstand

„Dieser Artikel soll aufzeigen weshalb eine vermehrte Auseinandersetzung mit der Bundeswehr von linksradikaler Seite nötig ist. Dazu werden zunächst die sog. Transformation der Bundeswehr und ihrer Hintergründe erläutert. Im Anschluss sollen einige antimilitaristische Interventionsmöglichkeiten im allgemeinen und der geplante Aktionstag gegen Krieg und das Sommerbiwak der 1. Panzerdivision Hannover am 22. August 2008 näher beleuchtet werden…“ Artikel von Antimilitaristische Infotour aus Hannover vom 01.08.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/08/223688.shtml


Widerstand gegen Bundeswehrgelöbnisse

Dossier bei indymedia ab 02.08.2008 http://de.indymedia.org/2008/08/223734.shtml

Siehe dazu auch die Antimilitarismus-Homepage http://antimilitarismus.blogsport.de/


Sicher ins Finale. Der Einsatz von Soldaten bei der Fußball-EM

IMI-Analyse 2008/026 von Uwe Reinecke vom 6.8.08 http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1803


10. September 2008 Köln: „Bye-Bye Bundeswehr“ - Verabschiedung am Arbeitsamt

„So lautet das Motto unserer Abschiedsparty für die Bundeswehr an der Kölner Arbeitsagentur. Heute versucht die Bundeswehr erneut an der Arbeitsagentur junge Erwerbslose für das Kriegshandwerk inklusive einem Jahr Auslandseinsatz anzuwerben. Ihren letzten Werbeversuch mussten die Wehrdienstberater im Juni ausfallen lassen, da ein antimilitaristisches Empfangskomitee sie mit rosa eingefärbtem Mehl und einem Eimer dreckigem Putzwasser so stürmisch begrüßt hatte, dass ihre sommerliche Ausgehuniform nicht mehr diensttauglich war. Auch diesmal wird es für die Kanonenfutter-Werber eine kleine Überraschung geben. Um festliche Kleidung wird gebeten. Konfetti, Musikinstrumente, Luftballons, Girlanden, Partydekoration u.ä. sind erwünscht! Für Kaffee, Kuchen und Sekt sorgen wir…“ Siehe den Ankündigungsflyer von und bei Bundeswehr wegtreten (pdf) http://www.bundeswehr-wegtreten.org/main/byebyebw.pdf

Die Aktion findet statt: Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 um 13 Uhr in Köln, Arbeitsagentur Luxemburger Str.


Jonna Schürkes / Heiko Humburg / Bundeswehr Wegtreten: Sozialabbau und Rekrutierungsstrategien der Bundeswehr

„In Zusammenarbeit mit Bundeswehr Wegtreten und der Informationsstelle Wissenschaft und Frieden hat die IMI soeben das Dossier Nr. 58 der Zeitschrift Wissenschaft und Frieden mit dem Titel "Sozialabbau und Rekrutierungsstrategien der Bundeswehr" veröffentlicht. Das Thema "Sozialabbau und Militarisierung", beschäftigt uns schon seit längerer Zeit. Dabei haben sind wir insbesondere der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich die Bundeswehr die soziale Situation Jugendlicher zu Nutze macht, um an neue Rekruten zu kommen und wie die Arbeitsagenturen dabei mit dem Militär kollaborieren. Nun haben wir einige der bislang dazu erschienen Texte erweitert, aktualisiert und in einer einheitlichen Publikation veröffentlicht.“

Das 20seitige Dossier (A4) kann zum Preis von 2 Euro das Stück (plus Porto) unter imi@imi-online.de bestellt werden

oder als pdf-Datei heruntergeladen werden: http://www.imi-online.de/download/Militarisierung-und-Sozialabbau.pdf


20.9.2008 Demonstration in Berlin und Stuttgart: Dem Frieden eine Chance, Truppen raus aus Afghanistan. Nein zur Verlängerung der Mandate für den Bundeswehreinsatz in Afghanistan

Siehe Aufruf und Infos auf der Demoseite. Der Aufruf kann dort noch unterzeichnet werden! http://www.afghanistandemo.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 7. August 2008

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Kriegslogistiker

„Unmittelbar vor dem heutigen Antikriegstag hat die Deutsche Post eine PR-Kampagne für die Bundeswehr angekündigt. 8.000 großformatige Post-Plakate, die ab diesem Monat bundesweit geklebt werden, werben mit dem Abbild eines uniformierten Afghanistan-Kämpfers des deutschen Expeditionskorps. Die Plakat-Kampagne soll "den Soldatenberuf in der Gesellschaft präsent machen", heißt es bei der Deutschen Post. Das Unternehmen unterhält einen "Konzernrepräsentanten Military Affairs Bundeswehr/NATO". An der Erstellung der Plakate war ein "Informationsfeldwebel" beteiligt. Die deutschen Streitkräfte beschäftigen ein wachsendes Spezialistenheer für Psychologische Kriegsführung, die in Berlin als "Kommunikation und Information" firmiert. Die Deutsche Post, die sich der deutschen Armee als PR-Partner zur Verfügung stellt, profitiert in zunehmendem Maße von den Gewalteinsätzen der Bundeswehr im Ausland. Allein der Umfang der Feldpost nähert sich dem Postaufkommen einer Großstadt. Hinzu kommen umfangreiche Aufträge in der Militärlogistik, die der weltweit führende Logistikkonzern akquirieren will. Die neue PR-Kampagne der Post - ein Beispiel für die militärische Durchdringung bisher ziviler Gesellschaftsbereiche - startet zu einem Zeitpunkt, da die Bundeswehr über Nachwuchsmangel klagt und die Tötung afghanischer Zivilisten durch deutsche Soldaten die Barbarisierung des Afghanistan-Einsatzes verdeutlicht…“ Ein Bericht bei german-foreign-policy.com (Informationen zur Deutschen Außenpolitik) vom 01.09.2008 http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57322?PHPSESSID=rd5i21g4ovvg3hoonsme9p87j2


Aus: LabourNet, 4. September 2008

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Die Bundeswehr im Kampf an der Heimatfront

Der Kampf um die "Hearts & Minds" der deutschen Bevölkerung und um neue RekrutInnen für weltweite Militärinterventionen. IMI-Studie 2009/1 von Michael Schulze von Glaßer (pdf) http://www.imi-online.de/download/glasser2009dr.pdf


Bundeswehr „bildet“

"Failing Sciences, Embedded Stakeholders, Wider den SFB 700"

Broschüre gegen die Militarisierung der Freien Universität in Berlin auf der Plattform der Fachschaftsinitiativen (FSI) an der Freien Universität Berlin (pdf) http://fachschaftsinitiativen.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/embedded-stakeholders1.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Januar 2009

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"Amtshilfe" steigt explosionsartig an

“„Die zunehmende Zahl so genannter Amtshilfeeinsätze der Bundeswehr weist auf eine schleichende Militarisierung hin“, kommentiert Ulla Jelpke die Antwort der Bundesregierung auf zwei Kleine Anfragen (BT-Drs. 16/11592 und 16/11813). Die innenpolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion DIE LINKE hatte sich darin nach der Entwicklung der Einsatzzahlen erkundigt. Jelpke: „Gab es bis 1999 gerade mal eine Amtshilfe im Jahr, so waren es 2007 schon 16. Im Jahr 2008 stieg die Zahl dann auf 30. Auch die Zahlen für so genannte Unterstützungsleistungen Dritter steigen rasant an. Im Gegensatz zur Amtshilfe können dabei nicht nur Behörden, sondern auch Privatvereine und beispielsweise Rüstungsfirmen Einsätze der Bundeswehr beantragen. Zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2007 pendelten die Zahlen zwischen 11 und 32. Im Jahr 2008 waren es 74…“ Pressemitteilung vom 17.02.2009 von und bei Ulla Jelpke http://www.ulla-jelpke.de/news_detail.php?newsid=1188


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Februar 2009



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„Mit dem Gesetzentwurf zur Umsetzung aufenthalts- und asylrechtlicher Richtlinien der Europäischen Union, der Ende März 2007 im Kabinett beschlossen wurde, plant die Große Koalition umfangreiche Verschärfungen der asyl-, aufenthalts- und staatsbürgerschaftsrechtlichen Bestimmungen. Unter dem Deckmantel der EU-Richtlinienumsetzung sollen noch bis zur Sommerpause des Parlaments Regelungen durchgesetzt werden, die massiv in Grundrechte der Betroffenen bzw. in das Rechtsstaatsprinzip der Bundesrepublik Deutschland eingreifen…“ Presseerklärung des Grundrechtekomitees vom 18. Mai 2007 zum Regierungsentwurf eines Gesetzes zur Umsetzung aufenthalts- und asylrechtlicher Richtlinien der EU (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/asyl/ewig.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Mai 2007

Von der Wiege bis über die Bahre hinaus nur eine Nummer

„Der 21. Tätigkeitsbericht des Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten: Datenschutz auf der "schiefen Ebene" oder doch eher im freien Fall? Die einheitliche Steuernummer für jeden wird – trotz der Forderung des Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten, diese erst bei einer Steuerpflicht einzuführen – schon ab der Geburt vergeben. Der lebenslang als Nummer existierende Bürger wird somit Realität. Und der Datenschutz verliert weiter an Bedeutung bei Gesetzesvorhaben…“ Artikel von Twister (Bettina Winsemann) in telepolis vom 24.05.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25260/1.html

Siehe dazu:

21. Tätigkeitsbericht 2005 – 2006 des Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten vom 24.04.2007 (pdf) http://tinyurl.com/ysvwmg


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Mai 2007

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Bürgerrechtler für Boykott der neuen Steuernummern

Bürgerrechtler rufen zum Boykott der neu eingeführten Steuer-Identifikationsnummern (Steuer-ID) auf. "Ein staatlich verordnetes Personenkennzeichen wie die Steuer-ID ist der Einstieg in die zunehmende Vernetzung staatlicher Datensammlungen", kritisierte der Vize-Vorsitzende der "Humanistischen Union (HU)", Fredrik Roggan, am Montag (25. August) in Berlin. Die Organisation habe beim Finanzgericht Köln eine Musterklage gegen die neuen Steuer-IDs eingereicht. Bis zu einer gerichtlichen Grundsatzentscheidung sollten die Bürger weiter die alten Steuernummern verwenden. Die eindeutige Kennung per Steuer-ID erleichtere es den Behörden, aus verschiedenen Quellen Datenprofile der Bürger zusammenzustellen, bemängelte HU-Geschäftsführer Sven Lüders.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18487

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CDU und SPD lehnen Total-Verbot von Datenhandel ab

Die Bundestagsfraktionen von CDU und SPD lehnen ein generelles Verbot des Handels mit personenbezogenen Daten ab. Wenn Bürger grundsätzlich damit einverstanden seien, etwa weil sie Werbeangebote erhalten wollten, dann stelle sich die Frage, warum man das verbieten solle, sagte Unions-Fraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) am Montag im ZDF-"Morgenmagazin". Auch der Datenschutzexperte der SPD-Fraktion, Michael Bürsch, betonte, seine Fraktion sei gegen ein generelles Verbot des Datenhandels. Bundeswirtschaftsminister Michael Glos (CSU) hatte ein solches Verbot am Wochenende angeregt - die CSU befindet sich derzeit im Landtagswahlkampf.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18482

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Einführung der neuen Steuer-ID: Datenschutzrechtlicher Quantensprung




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„Regierungen und bewaffnete Gruppen schüren gezielt Ängste und Sorgen, um den Menschenrechtsschutz herunterzuschrauben. Diese Politik der Angst hat sich 2006 verfestigt. Sie schafft eine gefährlich polarisierte Welt, sagte amnesty international (ai) anlässlich der Vorstellung des ai-Jahresberichts 2007. In Deutschland kritisiert ai die Behandlung von Flüchtlingen, insbesondere aus dem Irak…“ Pressemitteilung von amnesty international Deutschland vom 23. Mai 2007 http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/50144ae16ca25cecc12567df002695c7/a83a21b8fbb01bcbc12572e40033f30e?OpenDocument


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Mai 2007

May 24, 2007

Congress is set to vote within the next 48 hours to give Bush a blank check to pay for continued war and occupation. It is unacceptable that the Democratic leadership has abandoned a timeline for ending the war in this new supplemental funding bill. Call your Representative and Senators http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ today at (202) 224-3121 and insist they stand up to Bush and vote against endless war!

Tell them: Vote NO on the Supplemental funding bill. This money will only continue to support the war and occupation of Iraq. Don't buy Bush's war!

Ask them: How many more fallen soldiers will we have to mourn next Memorial Day?

Make your calls today! Let us know how your Congressperson is going to vote by sending an email to dc@codepinkalert.org.

Click here to ask 5 friends to call their members of Congress as well, or simply forward this email! Together we can defeat the Iraq Funding Bill.
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With peace and determination,
Dana, Desiree, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Jodie, Libby, Liz, Lori, Medea, Nancy, Patricia, Rae, Samantha

P.S. Click here to read several articles on the politics of the Iraq Funding Bill. http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=3103



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If you're an American reading this, then under expansive definitions being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several states in their counterterrorism training, you just might be a domestic terrorist.

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/13/you-are-the-homegrown-terrorist-threat/



Feds watching anti-immigrant extremists

Authorities see tensions rising as groups grow.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070521/a_backlash21.art.htm



US to focus on homegrown extremists

The US president's new national security strategy will focus on the threat posed by homegrown extremists, his counter-terrorism chief says.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/05/201052712848659103.html


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A former top Justice Department aide accused Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty of misleading Congress about the dismissals.

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Goodling Broke Law in Some DOJ Hirings, Testimony Reveals

Monica Goodling, the former White House liaison for the Justice Department, testified Wednesday that she used a political litmus test in screening applicants for hire as Justice Department employees, in what appears to be a violation of numerous federal laws.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307R.shtml

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The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom

This Monica revealed something hotter --- much hotter --- than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One....And the Committee members didn't even know it.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4594



Goodling Says She 'Crossed the Line'

A former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales leveled serious new accusations against him and his deputy yesterday, describing an "uncomfortable" attempt by Gonzales to discuss the firings of U.S. attorneys as Congress and the Justice Department were intensifying their investigations of the issue.

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The number of innocent children placed on the Government's vast DNA database for life has quadrupled in the past year to more than 100,000, it has emerged.

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The British government is weighing a plan that would require civil servants - including social workers and doctors - to report people deemed likely to commit acts of violence in the interest of stopping crimes before they are committed, according to a leaked official document.

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Germany's justice minister added her voice on Wednesday to outrage sweeping the country over 'scent profiling' methods police are using for a looming G8 summit that recall tricks by East Germany's nefarious Stasi.

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The combination of a weakened dollar and foreign stock markets that consistently have outperformed the American market has given American investors the push to put record amounts of money into overseas securities.

http://www.newsmax.com/money/archives/st/2007/5/22/90022.cfm?s=mo



Dollar buying ever less of world's goods

The dollar has fallen 5 percent against the euro and the pound so far this year, the equivalent of a 20 percent annual decline.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0521/p01s03-usec.html



Regional currency to replace dollar in Argentina-Brazil trade

Argentina and Brazil, South America's two largest economies, will drop the U.S. dollar in favor of a regional currency in their bilateral trade starting in October 2007, Argentine Economics Minister Felisa Miceli said.

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War pimp alert: Iran's "secret plan" for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq

Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2085192,00.html



War pimp alert: Iranian money found in Baghdad raid-U.S. military

A large quantity of Iranian currency was found when U.S. troops uncovered a cache of bomb-making materials in a raid on a Shi'ite stronghold in western Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

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Nine US warships in Gulf for show of force

A large flotilla of U.S. warships sailed through the narrowest point in the Gulf in broad daylight on Wednesday to hold drills off Iran's coast in a major show of force that unnerved oil markets.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2394066.htm



Iran 'plans retaliatory attacks on British nuclear plants

Iran is conducting reconnaissance missions on Britain's nuclear power stations in preparation for retaliatory attacks should the West strike against Tehran's nuclear installations, a European security analyst told MPs yesterday.

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Commander: Iran's military ready to confront invasions

Dadras made the remarks in the southern province of Fars where a new war game was underway to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the southern city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqi occupation in 1982, the report said.

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IAEA Report Contradicts Major Media Narrative On Iran

The claims filtering in and out of the media that Iran is one to two years away from producing bomb grade material are, to put it mildly, wildly inaccurate, as the report notes the Iranians are only reprocessing moderate amounts of UF6 to 4.8% U-235, and bomb grade material must be at least 80%.

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Most U.S. Adults Oppose War with Iran

A majority of adults in the United States believe their federal administration should not wage war against Iran, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 63 per cent of respondents would oppose the U.S. government if it decides to take military action in Iran.

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Democrats in Congress have relented on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Instead, they moved toward a deal with President George W. Bush that would impose new conditions on the Iraqi government.

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Don't Think of a US Soldier, Unarmed, Abandoned in Iraq's Civil War!

Jeff Cohen writes: "For years, Team Bush has sought to shroud their devastating and deepening Iraq occupation in the myth of troop protection.... The shared pretense of the White House and Democratic leaders is that funding the Iraq occupation is somehow a program on behalf of the troops. Like a subsidy for family farmers.... What Democrats need to be saying, repeatedly, is that it's Bush/Cheney who abandoned several thousand US troops to avoidable deaths in a disastrous occupation, and tens of thousands to horrible injuries. And that they're willing to abandon still more troops to unnecessary death and injury. Democrats also need to talk about polls that consistently show most US troops in Iraq support withdrawal, as do most Iraqis."

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The war in Iraq is killing nine civilian contractors a week on average, roughly three times the rate of last year, and U.S. government statistics show that non-Americans do most of the dying.

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By Manuel Valenzuela

Only by understanding the manipulations and the propaganda of our masters, and how they affect us, will we be triumphant. Never in our history has a mirror been more needed.

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By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The state funding and control of higher education that have produced the totalitarian regime of political correctness has all but guaranteed that there will be few (if any) publications that illuminate, rather than obfuscate, some of the more devious deeds of the American state throughout its history.

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The AWOL Project
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THE STORY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AFTER HE QUIT THE TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD
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Groups urge the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to revoke patent
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Chicago residents: speak out NOW to ensure law's preservation
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Just had the following message - will give more info as soon as I know.

Note: the CPRE of which Bill Bryson is now President is involved against this mast. Did anything come of whoever it was saying they knew someone in publishing who could get his contact details?

Best
Gary


Dear Sirs,

For the last few weeks councillors, action groups and residents with help from the South Downs Joint Committee, CPRE and others have been gathering support against a H3G mast on ANOB (and designated National Park) north of Brighton.

A planning application has been made and all objecting parties are writing to the Local Authority.

We would like to bring to your attention that a protest demonstration has been arranged on the site on Sunday 27th May 2007 at 12 noon. Thus far over 300 residences have said they will support with over 1000 residences have been invited. Newspaper, radio and TV networks have been advised. We would be grateful for any support you may be able to lend to this matter to protect the conservation area from this mast.

Yours faithfully
Lee Wares



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First hour guest, Gulf War veterans advocate Joyce Riley http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ discussed soldiers being sickened by vaccines. The Dept. of Defense is covertly using soldiers as "experimental guinea pigs" for unproven and dangerous vaccines, she declared. For more, see this report http://www.wlwt.com/news/13271378/detail.html from WLWT in Cincinnati.

To listen to interview, go to first hour segment at:
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"Wir erleben eine weltweite Anarchie im Wirtschaftssystem, in dem unkontrolliert Hedge-Fonds agieren und bei so genannten Geierfonds verschuldete Entwicklungsländer ausgebeutet werden", sagte der frühere CDU-Generalsekretär Heiner Geißler dem "Handelsblatt" (23. Mai). Er widersprach der These, dass erst die Globalisierung vielen Ländern die Chance für Entwicklung gebe. So sei die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich in keinem Land so groß wie in China. "Typisch ist die Entwicklung in eine Zweidrittel- oder Vierfünftel-Gesellschaft. Das ist das genaue Gegenteil jener Wirtschaftsphilosophie, die mit der sozialen Marktwirtschaft gemeint war", so Geißler. Nötig sei eine internationale sozial-ökologische Marktwirtschaft. "Ich will den Markt nicht abschaffen, aber er muss sozial verantwortlich werden", meint der CDU-Politiker. Heute gebe es Exzesse, die dem internationalen Terrorismus sozialen und emotionalen Schub gäben.

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Interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeffrey A. Taylor, wanted to hire prosecutor Seth Adam Meinero. Monica M. Goodling, aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, stalled the hiring. The tussle over Meinero, who was eventually hired at Taylor's insistence, led to a Justice Department investigation of whether Goodling improperly weighed political affiliation when reviewing applicants for rank-and-file prosecutor jobs. Goodling is testifying today before the House Judiciary Committee about the US attorney firings under an offer of immunity.

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Despite the contention of scores of senior military intelligence officers that "torture doesn't work," the audience at last week's Republican presidential candidate debate broke into applause when leading candidates endorsed increased use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307B.shtml

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Andrew Sullivan: "Verschärfte Vernehmung"

The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court.

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You will also find these alerts in NRDC'S Earth Action Center, which includes tools for taking action easily online, at http://www.nrdc.org/action


Action Alerts

Tell the Bush administration to halt its dangerous nuclear energy plan

Last year the Department of Energy revived two dangerous nuclear energy ideas and repackaged them as the "Global Nuclear Energy Partnership." The project calls for billions of taxpayer dollars to develop facilities and a market (both at home and abroad) for reprocessing nuclear fuel -- a practice that is costly and dangerous, and makes significant quantities of weapons-usable plutonium more accessible, increasing the likelihood that a bomb's worth of nuclear material could be lost, stolen or secretly diverted from peaceful commerce without detection by international inspectors.

The GNEP proposal also would direct billions in spending on the development of plutonium-fueled "fast" reactors, which have proven to be far less reliable and more expensive than conventional light water reactors. The United States, Japan, Europe and Russia spent tens of billions of dollars throughout the 1970s and 80s trying to develop similar reactors, and proved that they are uneconomical, highly unreliable and prone to fires.

The Department of Energy is required to take comments from the public on its GNEP proposal before it can be adopted, and is accepting these comments through June 4th.

== What to do == Send a message, before the June 4th deadline, urging the DOE to halt this unsafe, uneconomical and environmentally unsound plan.

== Additional information == For a quick primer on nuclear power plants, see NRDC's fact sheet (pdf). http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/plants/plants.pdf

For in-depth information about the GNEP plan and the arguments against it, see NRDC's report, "Peddling Plutonium: Nuclear Energy Plan Would Make the World More Dangerous" (pdf). http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/gnep/agnep.pdf

== Contact information == You can send a comment to the DOE directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nrdcaction_052307/ Or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message, and please include your own concerns about nuclear energy.

Timothy A. Frazier, GNEP PEIS Document Manager Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20585-0119 Fax: 866-645-7807 Email: GNEP-PEIS@nuclear.energy.gov

Subject: GNEP PEIS comments

Dear Mr. Frazier,

I strongly object to the development of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. The domestic revival of plutonium reprocessing and the development of plutonium-fueled fast reactors represent the marriage of two failed technologies that have proven to be unsafe, environmentally hazardous and commercial failures.

Reprocessing spent fuel from nuclear reactors to extract plutonium is costly and dangerous, and makes significant quantities of weapons-usable plutonium more accessible, increasing the likelihood that a bomb's worth of nuclear material could be lost, stolen or secretly diverted from peaceful commerce without detection by international inspectors.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States, Europe and Japan spent billions attempting to develop plutonium fast reactor technology that proved uneconomical, unreliable, unsafe and prone to long outages and fires. The decades of development and the exorbitant taxpayer subsidies that would be needed to launch the GNEP program -- tens to hundreds of billions of dollars before even a kilowatt of electricity might be generated decades from now -- would not ensure the immediate future of nuclear power as a competitive technology for countering climate change, but would create additional toxic waste and proliferation hazards. In addition, the extravagant cost of the program would divert money that could be spent on cleaner, faster and less expensive energy-efficiency and renewable-energy technologies.

In its environmental analysis of GNEP, the Department of Energy must fully assess the full range of environmental impacts and risks posed by GNEP, including the proliferation risks posed by development of GNEP facilities in non-weapon states and/or seizure of sensitive nuclear materials, and also must consider all reasonable alternatives to the proposal. I am hopeful that any serious analysis of these matters will cause to you to reconsider this ill-advised program.

The administration's overall vision of a U.S.-led Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is seriously flawed and an irresponsible use of taxpayer money. I urge you to halt work on the GNEP program immediately and to instead focus on developing more ways to use safe, cost-effective and environmentally sound forms of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

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Stop the Theft of Iraq's Oil in DC on June 5th
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23015


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Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich: "Privatizing Iraq's Oil is Theft!"

Video

Rep. Kucinich explained how the proposed Bill, now pending before the U.S. Congress, via its benchmarks, will provide for the privatization of Iraqi oil. It requires the regime in Iraq to pass a law called, "The Hydrocarbon Act." If they refuse to do so over a billion dollars in reconstruction funds will be blocked by the Bush-Cheney administration, he claimed. - Unless the scheme is stopped, Rep. Kucinich predicted, we will be looking at an Iraqi War "going on forever!"

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Angry Southside residents protested against the erection of three mobile phone masts which they claim were installed in a sports ground adjoining their homes without planning permission.

Mobile phone companies O2, Meteor and Vodafone attached the masts to flood lighting fixtures at the Iveagh Ground in Crumlin after they were leased to them by the Guinness Athletic Union (GAU) through a letting agency.

Last week, about 50 residents of the adjoining Iveagh Gardens and a number of local councillors demanded that the GAU take down the masts, as they fear the telecommunications equipment could damage their health.

The masts and substations are located within 50 metres of the 109 houses in Iveagh Gardens and within 250 metres of the nearby Ardscoil Éanna. Crumlin children’s hospital is also located some 500 metres down the road.

On April 16, 2007 the Planning Enforcement Section of Dublin City Council sent a warning letter to the mobile phone companies in relation to the alleged unauthorised erection of the telecommunications installations at Iveagh Gardens.

The council confirmed to Southside People that one of its planning enforcement officers carried out an inspection of the site on Tuesday, May 14.

“It is proposed to serve an Enforcement Notice to secure the removal of the unauthorised telecommunications installations,” the council said last week.

In a letter to a resident of Iveagh Gardens, the director of Corporate Affairs at Diageo Ireland – the parent company of Guinness - abdicated responsibility for the masts.

“Firstly, I would like to clarify that the developments in question are on…floodlights, which have been leased by the Guinness Athletic Union to the following tenants: Vodafone, O2 and Meteor and any development undertaken on these leased areas was by the above named tenants and not by Guinness Athletics Union,” he said.

However, residents were furious over this comment and have asked how the GAU or Diageo could claim they are not responsible for the masts, as the GAU have leased them to the mobile phone companies.

One resident, who did not want to be named, said: “Obviously if you lease out your lighting mast to mobile phone companies what could you expect but a mobile phone mast. Basically what they are saying is, we leased them out and after that we don’t have anything to do with it.”

Diageo also said in the letter that it had been given reassurances, within contract requirements, from “our tenants that the developments in question have been carried out under planning exemption law”.

One resident we spoke to said it was incredible to think that three mobile phone masts that were allegedly in breach of planning laws could be erected in the community.

Another resident, Alan Kelly, said: “It could destroy the young children. People have some evidence – not a lot – but it could be dangerous. I have a young family with three young children and I would like to know that they are safe and not being affected by this.”

He added: “My house is only 100 metres from the masts. People here feel betrayed; we didn’t get any information from them [the GAU] about the masts beforehand. They have to find an alternative.”

A number of other residents that Southside People spoke to said they were “angry” that the GAU had not consulted with them about the erection of the masts.

The Independent Socialist election candidate for Dublin South Central, Cllr Joan Collins, said it was a “scandal” that mobile masts could be put in residential areas and beside hospitals and schools without the need for planning permission.

“I am campaigning for Dublin City Council to change this and to specify that masts must be at least one kilometer from housing, schools and hospitals,” she said. “I urge people to get organised to have these masts shifted.”

A spokeswoman for Diageo said: “We contacted Dublin City Council and asked them to investigate in case there were any planning issues that they [Vodafone, O2, Meteor] weren’t complying with.

“They [GAU] were aware obviously when it was leased by (the letting agency) to the mobile companies that that was what they were going to use the lighting equipment for. But they were also given an undertaking through the contract that everything that would be done would comply with all planning regulations.”

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: “Our intention would not be to upset anybody with the development of a network in any area.

“If any clarification is needed on the interpretation of the exemption and the planning guidelines, we would be more than happy to discuss this with the residents and the city council.”

http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2607&Itemid=49

A FAYGATE doctor must wait to hear the outcome of a High Court legal battle to move a mobile phone mast planned to be sited in full view of her home.

Jacqueline Tratt, who lives with her husband in half of Kilnwood House, Kilnwood Lane, Faygate, is challenging Horsham District Council's decision to approve a Hutchison 3G radio base station, comprising a 25 metre high mast, antennae and transmission dishes, just 130 metres away from her home.

Now one of the country's top judges has reserved judgement in the case and will give his decision in writing later.

She claims the grant of permission is unlawful when an alternative site for the mast is available, hidden deeper in a nearby copse, for which she has offered to pay any extra costs.

Dr Tratt says the owners of the other half of Kilnwood House, Dr and Mrs Doyle, also object to the mast which she says will 'significantly impact' their visual amenity.

She argues that the owner of the copse has no objection to the mast being sited deeper within it, and that this would have less of an impact on her visual amenity. As a result, she claims there is no coherent reason why Hutchison 3G should not be satisfied to site the mast there.

She claims that the council failed to consider these considerations at all in its decision, and failed to give adequate reasons for the grant of permission.

However, the council maintains that, on the information available to it, the alternative siting would not be realistic. It argues that it fully considered all the representations put forward by Dr Tratt, and gave sufficient reasons for its decision.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.horshamonline.co.uk/news?articleid=2897860

23 May 2007

Plans for a controversial mobile phone mast at Banham have been rejected after a series of concerns about potential health risks from the electromagnetic field.

Breckland councillors feared that the proposals by T-Mobile to locate the 13.7m high monopole and equipment at the rear of a small industrial development in Heath Road would be harmful to residents as well as to children with special needs at neighbouring Eagle House School, less than 350 metres away.

Representatives of Banham Parish Council also objected on the grounds of potential harm to the health of nearby residents, and Breckland Council received six protest letters from villagers voicing similar concerns.

T-Mobile is required under the terms of its 3G licence to provide network coverage to 80pc of the population by the end of 2007, and it has submitted evidence that a mast is required in the Banham area.

To mitigate the visual impact of the plans, the operator suggested putting up some tree screening near the site.

Telecommunication masts up to 15m high are allowed without the need for planning consent.

However, under the terms of the Town and Country Planning Order, applicants are required to use the “prior notification” procedure to determine whether the planning authority has concerns about the location of the mast and its external appearance.

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Health Care Crisis

This week on NOW, "As the political campaigns gear up for Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, the candidates are trumpeting positions on one of the state's - and the country's - thorniest and most pressing issues: health care reform. With health care costs in the Keystone State 11 percent higher than the national average and rising twice as fast as the average wage, it's a problem Pennsylvania is desperately trying to fix on its own. The state legislature is debating a plan backed by Governor Ed Rendell to provide benefits to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians, but there's disagreement over who's going to foot the bill."

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Auf dem Strategic Economic Dialogue stehen die chinesisch-amerikanischen Handelsbeziehungen zur Debatte, US-Parlamentarier drängen auf Handelssanktionen gegen China.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25348/1.html

by Sally Kohn, TomPaine.com

U.S.-subsidized cheap corn is forcing bankrupt Mexican farmers to find work north of the border.

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A Great But Broken Promise

by Bill Moyers, TomPaine.com

It's up to the graduates of today to change America from a superpower into a beloved community.

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by Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com

Congress, when you fold on Iraq, you're not playing Texas Hold'em; it's a matter of life and death.

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Amnesty International prangert an: Immer mehr Regierungen nutzen Furcht vor Terror als Vorwand für die Einschränkung von Grundrechten. Auch bei der Arbeit deutscher Geheimdienste spielten Menschenrechte offenbar keine Rolle, sagte Barbara Lochbihler, Generalsekretärin von Amnesty Deutschland...

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,484579,00.html

By Ian Ross

HUNDREDS of residents are up in arms about T-Mobile UK's plans for a 15-metre mast.

The mobile phone company wants to put the mast up at Congleton Railway Station.

The plans have sparked a storm of protest from local people, with 11 letters opposing the mast and a 272-name petition being sent to the borough council.

The plans are also being opposed by the CW12 Residents Action Group, and possibly most crucially by the borough's chief planning officer.

Planning chief Geoff Allen is recommending the mast scheme be refused because its height and siting would harm the character of the area.

The land earmarked by T-Mobile is 15 metres from a site where Vodafone is due to place a 15-metre mast, for which it received planning approval recently.

Mr Allen's second reason for calling for the T-Mobile plans to be rejected is that the company had failed to show that mast-sharing with Vodafone would not be a viable alternative to its mast plan.

Residents claim the masts are eyesores, they would dominate the skyline and it was not proven that they did not present health risks.

The CW12 group submitted a two-page letter opposing the mast, and the scheme is due to come before the borough planning committee next Thursday, May 31.

"While the applicants have demonstrated a need for this mast in this area of Congleton due to its height and siting it would have an unduly detrimental effect on the character of the surrounding area," said Mr Allen.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

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Schäuble und die Schnüffelpolizei

Der Bundesinnenminister verteidigt die Abnahme von Geruchsproben, kritisiert die Aufregung und erklärt allgemein, dass die Polizei die Sicherheit schon mit "angmessenen Mitteln" gewährleiste.

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Bürgerrechtler warnen vor "Guantanamoisierung des Rechts"
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A former top aide to Presidential Adviser Karl Rove told Congress she will invoke her right against self-incrimination unless granted immunity to answer investigators' questions about lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with administration officials. Abramoff-related probes, mainly limited until now to his dealings with lawmakers and federal agency officials, may be advancing into the White House. The former Rove aide, Susan Ralston, previously had served as a top aide to Mr. Abramoff as well.

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In February 2005, an auditor at the General Services Administration (GSA) presented evidence to agency leaders that one of the government's top technology contractors was overcharging taxpayers. GSA auditor James M. Corcoran reported that Sun Microsystems had billed the government millions more for computer software and technical support than it charged its commercial customers. If true, the allegation was grounds to terminate the contract and launch a fraud investigation. Instead, senior GSA officials pressed last summer to renew the contract.

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Liberal Democrats who have reluctantly backed House leaders on the Iraq war spending bill may defect due to the leadership's decision to eliminate any timeline for withdrawal from the legislation. That could force the leadership to rely on Republican votes to pass the bill, which is expected to come to the floor as early as Thursday.

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Nine US warships carrying 17,000 personnel entered the Persian Gulf on Wednesday in a show of force off Iran's coast that Navy officials said was the largest daytime assembly of ships since the 2003 Iraq war began.

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The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government. Bush has signed a "non-lethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions, current and former officials in the intelligence community say.

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A U.S. Army medic who refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second time returned home to Los Angeles this week after serving six months in a U.S. military prison.

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More than three months into the implementation of the 'surge' strategy, skepticism is still running high. Except among neo-conservatives, who have been the strategy's most enthusiastic champions, most analysts believe it is doomed to failure in the absence of major moves - of which there have so far been virtually none - by the Iraqi government to promote national reconciliation with the Sunni minority.

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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug Bandow

05/22/07

By suggesting that Americans look at their own government’s actions, Rep. Paul took a shot at one of the nation’s biggest sacred cows: we can do whatever we want in the world without consequence. For decades that seemed to be true. But no longer. It is critical that we honestly and realistically assess the consequences of US foreign policy...

http://www.mises.org/story/2595


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Unqualified Offerings
by Jim Henley

05/22/07

[O]nce again, the fallback strategy reveals the irreducible imperative of our Iraq adventure: it must never end. Iraq is forever, as far as our Republican elites, and too much of the Democratic elite, are concerned. The ‘lilypad’ plan offers no promise of reducing Iraq’s violence or effecting national reconciliation. Those are guilt trips to be laid on us when our rulers think our concern for Iraqis will perpetuate the core mission of never leaving. They probably even think of ‘preventing full-blown civil war’ or all those other officially humanitarian missions would be nice bonus accomplishments. But the purpose is staying in Iraq now that we’re there. If they can’t accomplish that by playing on our humanitarian impulses, they’ll try instead to sneak past the national attention span: out of sight, out of mind...

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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

05/22/07

A reasonable question arises in the minds of loyal Republicans … why is Ron Paul running as a Republican when his views are so contrary to the actions of that party? His views essentially attack the foreign policies of the last two elected Republican Presidents and their administrations. There is no doubt in my mind that Ron Paul would be more ideologically comfortable in the Libertarian Party. He is a libertarian, and votes that way consistently. He is often the only Republican voting against measures he considers unconstitutional, and sometimes the only congressman of either party to vote no. His nickname is Dr. No. The simple and significant fact is that Ron Paul is a Republican because our election system is so rigged that only a Democrat or Republican can win. It’s a shameful fact that most Americans don’t understand, but a fact nevertheless. If Ron Paul were to run again as a Libertarian candidate for President, you would still not know who he is...

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Don’t shut up Paul

Slate
by John Dickerson

Some Republicans are angry at Ron Paul, the libertarian presidential candidate, for his forthright stance at the Republican debate earlier this week. When George W. Bush repeatedly asserts unpopular opinions in the face of withering criticism, it’s seen as a sign of strength and resolve. But when Paul asserted unpopular opinions in a debate, his remarks became the grounds for derision and threats. Paul suggested that the United States’ actions in the Middle East — and in Iraq in particular — might have motivated Bin Laden and the 9/11 attackers. Rudy Giuliani immediately jumped on Paul, demanding that he withdraw the comment. Now one GOP official is circulating a petition within the party to remove Paul from future debates. This is silly...

http://www.slate.com/id/2165673/



A patriot’s reply to Rudy Giuliani

Free Market News Network
by Nelson Hultberg

05/22/07

In the recent South Carolina Republican Party debates, Rudy Giuliani demanded an apology from Congressman Ron Paul because he dared to declare that America’s interventionist foreign policy had helped to bring the 9-11 terrorist attack upon New York City. Mr. Giuliani put forth his demand in the smear tactic style always employed by political bullies. His performance was insufferable to true American patriots. In our minds, it is Mr. Giuliani and his neo-conservative comrades in Washington who need to apologize for plunging our country into a horrific guerrilla war in the Mideast that’s cost in both spirit and material grows more ominous as each year passes. It is Mr. Giuliani and his neo-con comrades who need to apologize for trying to ram our political system down the throats of nations that have a right to the same self-determination that we claim so vehemently for ourselves. But most grievous of all, it is Mr. Giuliani and his neo-con comrades who need to apologize for killing thousands of American youth in a war that does not have to be fought in order to effectively combat terrorism...

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Stewart M. Powell

05/22/07

The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. This ’second surge’ of troops in Iraq, which is being executed by extending tours for brigades already there and by deploying more units, could boost the number of combat troops to as many as 98,000 by the end of this year. When support troops are included, the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 — the most ever — by the end of the year. The efforts to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq are being carried out without the fanfare that accompanied President Bush’s initial troop surge in January...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/316612_secondsurge22.html


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Consortium News
by Robert Parry

05/22/07

Every other month, Gold Star mother Teresa Arciola drives from her home in Westchester County, New York, to Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, sits on her son’s grave and reads aloud from ‘Corduroy,’ his favorite baby book. Another mother spent winter afternoons in a sleeping bag stretched across her son’s final resting place. The unspeakable suffering of these parents of dead soldiers stands in marked contrast to the maneuvering over the Iraq War now underway across the river in Washington. There, George W. Bush appears quietly planning another escalation of the Iraq War — possibly doubling U.S. combat troops by Christmas — and many members of Congress are frightened of the political repercussions if they stand up to him...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/052207.html


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QandO
by Billy Hollis

05/22/07

I’ve spent most of my life not trusting politicians. No surprise to most of you, and I’d wager a majority of our readers feel the same way. But it’s worse now than it’s ever been in my lifetime. Despite the ‘culture of corruption,’ which I find as disgusting as anyone, I don’t think the typical politician is a dishonest sleazebag. I think the average politician honestly believes he is doing the best he can to serve the people. But I still don’t trust them because they are just too disconnected from the real world that they govern. They usually think they’re doing the right thing, but they’ll change their mind about what the ‘right thing’ is at the drop of a public opinion poll. They have an unlimited number of rationalizations for changing their mind and screwing the citizenry...

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LewRockwell.Com
by Paul Craig Roberts

05/23/07

The thunderous applause from the Republican audience to Giuliani’s put-down of the only honest person present underlines that the Republican Party is incapable of leadership to end a futile and lost war that under international standards is a war crime, an unprovoked naked aggression based entirely on lies, deception and a secret agenda. At other times, the Republican audience applauded in support of torture and greeted John McCain’s protest against the practice with cold silence. In the opening years of the 21st century the Republicans have made it clear that they are willing to sacrifice the US Constitution and Bill of Rights in order to wage ‘war against terrorism.’

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts210.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fox News
by Radley Balko

05/21/07

The reaction to the showdown between Rep. Ron Paul and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been fascinating. Paul suggested that the recent history of U.S. foreign policy endeavors overseas may have had something to do with terrorists’ willingness to come to America, live here for several months, then give their lives to kill as many Americans as possible. Perhaps, Paul suggested, the 15-year presence of the U.S. military forces in Muslim countries may have motivated them. For that, Giuliani excoriated him, calling it an ‘extraordinary statement,’ adding, ‘I don’t think I’ve heard that before.’ Let’s be blunt. Giuliani was either lying, or he hasn’t cracked a book in six years. The ‘blowback’ theory isn’t some fringe idea common only to crazy Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists. It doesn’t suggest that we ‘deserved’ the Sept. 11 attacks, nor does it suggest we shouldn’t have retaliated against the people who waged them. What it does say is that actions have consequences... [editor’s note: As usual it takes Radley Balko to present the first sign of MSM sanity on this … at the Faux News site! - SAT]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274174,00.html


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/23/07

With the Iraqi adventure now widely seen as a misadventure, however, one that even its original authors and promoters are rushing to run away from, our new civic religion of warrior-worship is suffering more than the taunts of a few village atheists. The debunking of the myths that led us to invade Iraq has the country convinced that the war was a mistake from the outset — but still the war goes on. ‘What kind of democracy is this?’ Bacevich wants to know. This is the kind of democracy it is: the kind that can have both parties calling for an increase in the size of the U.S. military at a moment when the people are sick and tired of war and groaning under the weight of confiscatory taxation. The kind that has all ‘major’ candidates for the White House vowing that nothing is ‘off the table’ when it comes to Iran — and pledging to prosecute the war in Iraq more efficiently and successfully than Bush. What the past four years have taught us is that we are the kind of ‘democracy’ in which the major parties are merely the ‘right’ and ‘left’ wings of a single party — the War Party...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11007


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Fox News

05/22/07

Presidential hopeful John Edwards said Monday that Americans should speak out against the war in Iraq this Memorial Day weekend, renewing an anti-war call that has been criticized by the leader of the American Legion. … The former U.S. senator from North Carolina and 2004 vice presidential nominee said the most patriotic position now is to end the war, and the best way to honor veterans this Memorial Day weekend is to bring the troops home from Iraq. ‘There’s another thing we need to do as patriots, to serve the men and women who are serving this country in Iraq, and that is to speak out this weekend,’ Edwards said. He said ending the war is key to repairing the damaged U.S. reputation abroad...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274417,00.html


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Raw Story

05/21/07

‘Dark horse’ presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) believes that ‘the majority of Americans are with me,’ regarding his harsh [sic] insurgent attacks on President Bush’s Iraq policies. During CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer host John King asked Paul a hypothetical question, in reference to the war in Iraq: ‘If China took back Taiwan today, you say go to the Congress, or does the president not have the authority as commander in chief?’ ‘Absolutely he does not have the authority,’ Paul said. ‘Where does he get it? You can’t go to war without Congressional approval. And that’s not a threat to our national security. That’s something internal affairs. Why should we send hundreds of thousands of Americans to die in a civil war?’... [editor’s note: Despite the CNN reporter’s best efforts to trivialize him, Ron Paul speaks truth to power again in this exchange - SAT]

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Indianapolis Star

05/23/07

Flinching in the face of a veto threat, Democratic congressional leaders neared agreement with Bush administration Tuesday on legislation to pay for the Iraq war without a troop withdrawal timeline. Several officials said the emerging $120 billion compromise would include as much as $8 billion for Democratic domestic priorities — originally resisted by the White House — such as disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina victims and farmers hurt by drought...

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By Staff Copy

RESIDENTS are fearful that a third mobile phone mast might be on its way to a Matlock hillside.

T-mobile has applied to site a 20-metre-high mast at Mount Pleasant Farm off Farley Hill – close to existing structures owned by Vodafone and 3.

But another application to fell trees in the area might soon expose the masts for all to see.

Matlock Town Cllr Martin Burfoot said he had received objections to the proposal from residents, one of whom claimed a purchaser pulled out of buying their house because of the masts in the area.

Cllr Burfoot said: “The town council’s objections were based on the proliferation of masts on that hillside. Two is a problem, three is too many.

“More of an effort should be made to get these companies to share masts.

“There is an application proposed for tree felling in that area, which would open up views even further.

“They are using the tree screening as one source of mitigation when it may be many years before they are effectively screened again.

“People are still suspicious of the health risks and think if they live close by it will have an impact on them.”

T-mobile’s prospective mast would have six antennae, and provide third generation coverage – for multimedia such as video calling – for parts of Matlock.

The site is 74 metres from the nearest residential property and 331 metres from All Saints Junior School.

T-mobile’s application states: “A site share with one of the existing installations was considered, however both of them would need to be redeveloped in order to accommodate T-Mobile and this would result in a significantly bulkier and taller structure.

“The site benefits from a good tree screening which will help to reduce the visual impact upon the surrounding amenity, therefore preserving the character of the area.”

A spokesperson for T-mobile said: “Mobile phone use is growing and masts need to be located nearby to provide network coverage.

“The World Health Organisation recently concluded a review saying there continues to be no evidence of any harm from these very low power radio networks.

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/science.html

“The guidelines levels for radio exposure are extremely conservative and make allowances for multiple sources.”

Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/ and
"Competing interests, conflicts of interest: Who's funding WHO?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3347390/

The spokesperson added that any application to fell trees would be considered by planners on its own merits.

The decision is due to come before a planning committee on June 5.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.matlocktoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2896960

PETER WALSH
23 May 2007 08:48

Families are preparing for a fight to stop a mobile phone mast being installed near homes and a popular pub.

Communications firm T-Mobile has notified Broadland District Council of its plans to build a 12-metre mast near the Blue Boar pub in Wroxham Road, Sprowston.

David Turnbull, landlord of the pub, said it was the second time the company had tried to get a mast installed nearby.

He said: “Apparently the first time highways were not happy because of the size of the box, but they withdrew that and have resubmitted an application with smaller box and now they don't have a problem with it.

“We've spent thousands of pounds trying to make our pub attractive to passing trade, but can you imagine if you're on your way to the Broads or the coast and you see a mast there? It's not going to attract you in.”

Mr Turnbull, who has been landlord at the pub for almost 30 years, said phone masts were a “necessary evil” but should be built away from homes and businesses.

He also said the mast could obstruct the vision of motorists trying to leave the pub's car park on to the busy Wroxham Road.

John Bracey, a Broadland District councillor for Sprowston, said he did not want to see the mast, which is within a mile of Sparhwawk First School, near the Blue Boar pub.

“Although we're assured by the government that everything in this day and age is safe concerning these particular poles, I know there's a great deal of public agitation concerning this and people don't feel they are safe with these poles in the area,” he said.

No one from T-Mobile was available for comment.

The Evening News, through our Put Masts on Hold campaign, has fought against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

Are you fighting against a mobile phone mast where you live? Call Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on 01603 772439 or email peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2007 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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The Black Book on Lidl has been published in English as a joint project by
UNI Commerce and ver.di. It tells the stories of mainly German Lidl
workers and lays bare the poor labour relations of the hard discounter.
Present all over Europe, and fast growing, the discounter of headband fame
is a frontrunner for walmartization of the continent's working life. For
further informations see the background Information: “Black Book on Lidl
in Europe” (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/eh/lidlblackbook.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Mai 2007



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Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207LA.shtml



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The Netherlands is marking the 75th anniversary of one of the world's civil engineering wonders, the Zuiderzee closure dam, while nervously watching to see how climate change threatens its famed sea defenses.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207ED.shtml

As Memorial Day weekend beckons, federal climate scientists predict drought will intensify in much of the West this summer and persist in the fire-scorched Southeast despite recent rain.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207EB.shtml

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are growing at a faster clip than the highest rates used in recent key UN reports. Emissions of CO2 from cars, factories and power plants grew at an annual rate of 1.1 percent during the 1990s, according to the Global Carbon Project, but from 2000 to 2004, CO2 emission rates almost tripled to 3 percent a year.

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Al Hurra television, the US government's $63 million-a-year effort at public broadcasting in the Middle East has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hourlong tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052207T.shtml

Emails released late Monday by the US Justice Department show the White House hired a well-known Republican operative to handle damage control in the aftermath of the US attorneys scandal.

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The Bush administration on Tuesday said it would likely veto a Democratic-sponsored bill in the U.S. Congress that would allow the government to sue the OPEC oil producers group for price manipulation.

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From Information Clearing House



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Bush policies increase Pentagon's role in U.S. government.
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From Information Clearing House

A pair of priests arrested in November for trespassing on Fort Huachuca are determined to make a court case out of what they contend is torture being taught at the Southern Arizona Army post.

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From Information Clearing House



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War pimp alert

The Conservative leader urged a "rapid" shift in policy, as current sanctions were "too weak to bring about a change in behaviour ... Make no mistake, the threat is growing. The scale and urgency of our response needs to match it."

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From Information Clearing House



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Antiwar Republican makes waves - and the Establishment is in shock.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10995


From Information Clearing House



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Iraq's defence ministry will buy new weapons worth more than 1.5 billion dollars (1.11 billion euros), including helicopters and US rifles, the minister announced on Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070521/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitary


From Information Clearing House

It is the occupation forces, particularly the United States and Britain, that must be held accountable, many Iraqis say.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37814


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a man who knows what he wants. And what he wants is to further integrate the Chinese market into the global system---the "American-run" system.

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By David Sirota

Today, American workers' take-home pay represents a smaller share of the nation's total income than at any time in the last forty years. At the same time, corporate profits as a share of national income are at an all-time high.

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By Fred Reed

Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17747.htm

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Why they hate us

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/27/07

What’s more obnoxious than a person who constantly whines about the injustices committed against him while ignoring his own injustices against others? A country that does the same thing. … The last century-plus of U.S. foreign policy has largely been a story of aggression and empire-building...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0706f.asp


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By Arianna Huffington

In a 1939 radio address, Franklin Roosevelt declared, "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." When it comes to Iraq, Hillary Clinton is doing everything in her power to prove him wrong - repeatedly trying to rewrite history and belatedly catch up with public opinion against the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17748.htm



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Kucinich for President 2008
http://www.kucinich.us

CONTACT: David Swanson 202-329-7847

For immediate release: May 23, 2007

Kucinich to Speak for Full Hour on House Floor on Iraq Oil Law

WASHINGTON DC - WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 - At approximately 11:00 a.m. today, Congressman Dennis Kucinich will invoke a rarely used procedure to offer a privileged motion claiming one hour of time to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives about current legislative plans to privatize Iraq's oil.

This will be the first time in Congress that there has been a full discussion of the covert efforts to accomplish privatization of Iraq's oil through the supplemental spending bill.

Kucinich has alerted his colleagues to this concern in the past. Today he will do so on the floor of the House.

Kucinich argued against invading Iraq prior to the 2003 vote that authorized it. He published his case against it and helped persuade many of his colleagues to vote No. Kucinich challenged the legality of the war in court in an effort to prevent it. He proposed a detailed plan to end the occupation of Iraq over three years ago. His current plan is found in his bill HR 1234, which includes these findings:

"Any attempt to sell Iraqi oil assets during the United States occupation will be a significant stumbling block to peaceful resolution. There must be fairness in the distribution of oil resources in Iraq."

Kucinich has voted against every new funding bill for the occupation, including the recent Supplemental. He supports using the power of the purse to end the war. He opposes any attack on Iran and proposes formally forswearing the use of so-called preventive war. He has proposed the creation of a Department of Peace to address international and domestic violence.

As with all House sessions, this speech will be televised on C-Span.



Kucinich for President 2008

http://www.kucinich.us

CONTACT: David Swanson 202-329-7847

For immediate release: May 24, 2007

Kucinich Urges Colleagues to Find Will to End Occupation

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) will vote No on the latest bill to fund the continued occupation of Iraq. Kucinich is the only Democrat running for President who has consistently voted against funding the war. Today he said that Congress' failure to end the occupation of Iraq is the result of a lack of will to do so on the part of his colleagues and his party's leadership.

"Just as the Democrats could have prevented the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when Senators Edwards, Clinton, Biden, and Dodd supported it," Kucinich said, "and just as the Democrats could have ended the occupation of Iraq at any point by ending the funding, while Senators Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Dodd have voted over and over again to fund it, so too the Democratic leadership could have ended the occupation this week by not bringing any funding bills up for votes."

"The Democratic Party has to choose," Kucinich said, "between standing for peace or continuing to support war and occupation, between heeding the demand of the voters last November or caving in to the demands of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. We can't have it both ways. We can't facilitate the passage of another bill to fund the war and at the same time claim that we want the war to end. The public sees through such hypocritical maneuvering."

"It's instructive," Kucinich added, "that the leadership removed from the Supplemental a requirement that the president gain Congress's consent before launching an additional aggressive war against Iran. Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and former Senator Edwards have all said that with regard to Iran all options are on the table, a thinly veiled euphemism for a unilateral preemptive military attack."

"If Senators Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Dodd want to end the occupation of Iraq," Kucinich noted, "they can vote against any more funding, and they can filibuster bills that provide it. I urge every Senator to take that step."

Kucinich was one of seven Democrats in the House to vote No this morning on the Rule to bring the latest war funding bill to a vote.

On Wednesday, Kucinich spoke for a full hour on the House floor, pointing out that this is the third Supplemental offered by the Democrats that has demanded that Iraq pass a hydrocarbon law that would set the stage for the wholesale privatization of Iraq's oil industry.

Kucinich argued against invading Iraq prior to the 2003 vote that authorized it. He published his case against it and helped persuade many of his colleagues to vote No. Kucinich challenged the legality of the war in court in an effort to prevent it. He proposed a detailed plan to end the occupation of Iraq over three years ago. His current plan is found in his bill HR 1234. Kucinich is the only Democratic Presidential candidate who has voted against every new funding bill for the occupation, including the recent Supplemental. At the time of the last vote on the Supplemental, Kucinich was the only Member of Congress to both vote No and to urge his colleagues to vote No. He supports using the power of the purse to end the war. He opposes any attack on Iran and proposes formally forswearing the use of so-called preventive war. He has proposed the creation of a Department of Peace to address international and domestic violence.


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Oil was the primary reason for the invasion of Iraq
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by Nancy Levant

The stage has been set for Martial Law. Many Executive Orders have defined and guaranteed absolute dictatorial powers of Martial Law (refer to all orders gathered into Executive Order 12919 [ http://tinyurl.com/2zd8dc ]). Practicing for this declaration has been an on-going process for several decades, with the paramilitary face in full view since 9-11. .....

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Informant: Dr Lynn

Extracted from http://www.dc.indymedia.org

Audio from WSQT Guerrilla Radio (87.9 FM in DC, intermittant station):

http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/5/gas_prices_peak_oil.mp3

Some of you remember 1981-gas was expensive and cars got either 14 or
30 miles per gallon. Sound familiar? Well, the auto industry seems to think it's 1969, and are furiously selling more of the great thunder wagons that will soon become so difficult to keep fed.

Remember how "hot rodders" feared that the V-8 engine would become extinct in the 1980's because of fuel shortages? Well, this time the shortages are real, and prices will go higher each summer-forever. This time it is ourselves, not just our cars, that could go the way of the dinosaurs.

Although oil industry sources deny it, Peak Oil is here! They also deny that the current high prices have anything to do with situation in Nigeria, where oil production has been greatly curtailed by the work of Resistance fighters.

In Nigeria, oil companies destroy land and ruin lives in order to steal oil they don't own. Now people are fighting back, destroying oil industry facilities and arresting oil industry people.

Exxon et all blame the gas prices only on refinery outages, but that sounds to me like Soviet aggro bureaucrats blaming food shortages on the weather!


Informant: lukekuhn



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

http://www.wanttoknow.info/070522newsgaspricesmanipulationsmilitarycensorship


Informant: laurie b