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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Young_Officers_leaving_service_at_alarming_0525.html


Informant: Corey

The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until hiring was frozen in December after objections from department lawyers, current and former officials said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Y.shtml

http://www.wanttoknow.info/070526governmentsponsoredterrorismusa


Informant: Corey

The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday asked the lawyer of top White House aide Karl Rove to hand over more of Rove's e-mails as they continue to investigate the controversial firings of several US attorneys.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607C.shtml



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President Bush said Thursday he would address any wrongdoing uncovered by congressional or other investigations related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, but added that new allegations have not swayed his support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607B.shtml



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A US navy show of force on Iran's doorstep is "greatly alarming" for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run Afghan newspaper said on Saturday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607A.shtml

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070524/66014337.html


Informant: Doctor Plum

Irak: die Feinheiten der Zerstörung unter Saddam Hussein und zu Zeiten der Amerikaner.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25356/1.html

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25332/1.html

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Anwaltlicher Notdienst des RAV zum G8 Gipfel eingerichtet – Nummer des EA jetzt eingerichtet

Zur Sicherung rechtsstaatlicher Verfahren in der Zeit der Proteste rund um den G8-Gipfel haben RAV und die Vereinigung der Strafverteidiger Mecklenburg Vorpommern einen anwaltlichen Notdienst eingerichtet. In diesem Rahmen arbeiten wir eng mit dem in dieser Zeit vorhandenen Ermittlungsausschuss (EA) zusammen und sind über diesen für alle DemonstrantInnen 24 Stunden erreichbar. Die Nummer des EA lautet: 038204 – 768111 ist ab dem 28.Mai erreichbar.


G8 2007 - Es gibt Alternativen. Internationaler G8 Alternativkongress Rostock 5. - 7. Juni 2007: Das Programm für den alternativen G8-Kongress in Rostock steht: http://www.g8-alternative-summit.org/de/pages/programm.php


G8-Testlauf in Hamburg:

Ticker-HH vom 28.05.07 (und den vorigen Tagen) bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/178831.shtml


ASEM Demo in Hamburg bei graswurzel.tv http://www.graswurzel.tv/g8/


G8-07 > Die Show beginnt… Repressionen im Vorfeld des G-8-Gipfels 07

Postdurchsuchung: Konken fordert Aufklärung

„Der Bundesvorsitzende des Deutschen Journalisten-Verbandes Michael Konken hat die Generalbundesanwältin beim Bundesgerichtshof Monika Harms schriftlich aufgefordert, umgehend darüber zu informieren, ob in Hamburg tatsächlich an Redaktionen gerichtete Post durchsucht worden ist. Aktuellen Meldungen zufolge sollen Beamte der Staatsschutzabteilung seit Tagen systematisch Post durchsuchen, die an Hamburger Zeitungen adressiert ist. Die Polizisten seien auf der Suche nach Bekennerschreiben nach Anschlägen militanter G8-Gegner…“ djv-Pressemitteilung vom 25. Mai. 2007 http://www.djv.de/SingleNews.20.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=863&tx_ttnews[backPid]=18&cHash=a77b2a1bd8


Europäische Märsche gegen Prekarisierung zum G8-Gipfel nach Heiligendamm

Treffpunkt der Europäischen Märsche: 2. Juni 2007 um 11:00 Uhr in Rostock, Schutower Straße/Hamburger Straße

Für weitere Berichterstattung siehe ab sofort die Homepage Euromarsch 2007 als "Untermieter" des LabourNet Germany http://euromarsch2007.labournet.de/


Euromarschankunft in Köln

„Am Samstag den 26.Mai, gegen 15 Uhr erreichten 50 bis 70 „Euro-MarschiererInnen“ Köln und zogen mit einer kleinen aber feinen Demo den Roncalliplatz. Obwohl Kölner Erwerbslose, MigrantInnen, GewerkschafterInnen und das Kölner Anti-G8-Bündnis (Attac, Bund, Radikale Linke[IL],... ) dazu aufgerufen hatten sie dort zu empfangen, waren leider nur sehr wenigen gekommen. Nachdem es heute noch eine Veranstaltung über "Soziale Kämpfe in Europa" im Kalker Naturfreundehaus gibt, findet am noch eine Party im Bürgerhaus Kalk. Morgen geht es dann weiter nach Leverkusen und Düsseldorf. Der „Marsch“ findet in Form eines Autokorsos statt…“ Bericht vom 26.05.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/178615.shtml


G8-Gipfel 2007: Gewerkschaftliche (De)Mobilisierung

An DGB, Ver.di, IGM… Jetzt erst recht – Mobilisierung gegen G8-Gipfel verstärken

„Am 9. Mai veranlasste die Bundesanwaltschaft die Durchsuchung von mindestens 40 linken und alternativen Büros, Projekten und Wohnungen (…) Wir fordern deshalb den DGB und seine Einzelgewerkschaften auf:
1. Die Polizeimaßnahmen und Schäuble-Äußerungen eindeutig öffentlich zu kritisieren.
2. Jede Einbindung in den offiziellen Gipfel durch Treffen mit Politikern abzulehnen
3. Durch Diskussionen in den Gremien und Massenflugblätter Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und Belegschaften für die G8-Proteste zu mobilisieren
4. Mit Streiks den Gipfel lahmzulegen. Am 2. März zeigte der Streik von NGG-KollegInnen im Wiesbadener Nobelhotel Dorint, in dem gerade das EUVerteidigungsministertreffen stattfand, dass solche Proteste nicht nur die Gipfelteilnehmer in ihrem schädlichen Tun hindern, sondern auch ein exzellentes Druckmittel zur Durchsetzung der gewerkschaftlichen Forderungen sind. Ver.di kann z.B. durch Streiks die gesamte Telekommunikation des Gipfels lahm legen und sollte dies auch tun…“ Aufruf der TeilnehmerInnen der Veranstaltung der Vernetzung „Stuttgart gegen G8“ am 16. 5. 2007 im Stuttgarter DGB-Haus (pdf) http://www.stuttgart-gegen-g8.de/downloads/aufrufG8gewerk.pdf


Aktionen: Migrationsbezogene Aktivitäten gegen G8

Kurz vor G8: Aktionstage in Berlin gegen die Verschärfung des Zuwanderungsgesetzes und zur Innenministerkonferenz ab 31. Mai 07 in Berlin: Aktionstage gegen Verschärfung des Zuwanderungsgesetzes und zur Innenministerkonferenz – Siehe Infos beim Flüchtlingsrat Berlin http://www.fluechtlingsrat-berlin.de/print_neue_meldungen.php?sid=335


Für Globale Bewegungsfreiheit und Gleiche Rechte für Alle!

Gesamtprogramm Flucht und Migration im Rahmen der Anti-G8-Woche, darin u.a.:

Siehe für das vollständige Programm und weitere Infos die Aktionshomepage http://g8-migration.net.tf/ und das Noborder-Netzwerk http://www.noborder.org/


Überflüssige und prekäre Superheldinnen: Die Unschlagbaren

Gemeinsam mit zehntausenden Anderen werden sich Überflüssige und prekäre Superheldinnen an der Großdemonstration und an den Massenblockaden während des G8-Gipfels beteiligen. Aufruf zum gemeinsamen Block bei der Großdemonstration in Rostock am 2. Juni 07 und bei den Massenblockaden gegen den G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm von FelS vom 16.05.2007 http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/fels/de/2007/05/405.shtml


Antimilitarismus zum G8-Gipfel

1. Juni 2007 (Neuruppin): Auf zum Bombodrom im Heidesand um 14 Uhr, in der FREIen HEIDe

In Brandenburg, 80 km nördlich von Berlin, zwischen den Städten Wittstock und Neuruppin, liegt ein 142 Quadratkilometer großes Gelände, das die Sowjetarmee 40 Jahre lang als Bombodrom benutzt hat. Seit 1992 versucht die Bundeswehr, dieses Gelände weiter zu nutzen. Ihr Ziel, Europas größten Luft-Boden-Schießplatz für Bundeswehr, EU- und NAO-Truppen einzurichten scheitert bislang an einem seit 15 Jahren aktiven, breiten Widerstand. Gemeinsam mit internationalen AntimilitaristInnen soll das Gelände „neubesiedelt“ werden ... Siehe Details zur Bombodrom-Besiedelung http://www.g8andwar.de/bombodrom/fh1.php


Gegen Militarismus, Krieg und Folter G8 blockieren, Kriege verhindern! Aufruf zum Aktionstag am 5. und 6.06.2007 in Rostock-Laage http://www.g8andwar.de/rostocklaage/rl1.php


5. Juni 2007 (Rostock): Antimilitaristische Stadtralley. Start um 11 Uhr Camp Rostock

Im Rahmen der Anti-G8-Aktionstage gegen Krieg, Militarisierung und Folter wird es am Dienstag, den 5. Juni einen interessanten und aktionsreichen Stadtrundgang mit verschiedenen Stationen geben. Eine dieser Stationen ist die Arbeitsagentur und Hanse-Kaserne in Rostock um 14 Uhr in der Kopernikusstraße 1a/ Ecke Tschaikowskistraße – Kommt zahlreich!


6. Juni 2007 (Flughafen Rostock-Laage): Gegen Militarismus, Krieg und Folter G8 blockieren, Kriege verhindern!

Der Flughafen Rostock-Laage ist Teil der Infrastruktur des G8-Gipfels und der militaristischen Politik der G8-Staaten. Hier ist das Jagdbombergeschwader 73 stationiert. Hier wird mit Eurofightern der nächste Krieg vorbereitet. Von hier sollen demnächst die Kriegsflugzeuge zum Bombodrom starten, und hier wollen am 6. Juni die TeilnehmerInnen der G8-Konferenz von Heiligendamm einfliegen. Auch wir werden an diesem Tag massenhaft vor Ort sein, denn mit ihrer Kriegspolitik können sie bei uns nicht landen. Das wollen wir mit vielfältigem Protest und aktivem Widerstand gegen Krieg und G8 gebührend zum Ausdruck bringen. Voraussichtllich ab 10 Uhr überall am Flughafen.


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Mai 2007

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Grundinformationen vom Gipfel

G8 Ticker bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/ticker/

Proteste gegen den G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm Sonderseite bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/175641.shtml

G8-TV http://g8-tv.org/

RadioForum http://forumderadios.fm


Repressionen im Vorfeld des G-8-Gipfels 07

Bereitschaftspolizist verletzt Rechtsanwältin nach Demonstration gegen ASEM-Treffen in Hamburg und hindert sie an Ausübung ihrer anwaltlichen Tätigkeit - RAV fordert Stellungnahme des Hamburger Polizeipräsidenten zum Vorfall

RAV-Pressemitteilung vom 30.5.07 http://www.rav.de/news.php


Europäische Märsche gegen Prekarisierung zum G8-Gipfel nach Heiligendamm

Der lange Euro-Marsch. Euromarschierer machen Station und setzen Köln in Bewegung

„Am Samstag, den 26. Juni kamen sie in Köln an: Rund 70 Globalisierungskritiker, „Euromarschierer“ aus Frankreich, Belgien, den Niederlanden und Japan auf ihrem Weg zum diesjährigen G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm. Und sie wurden empfangen: zuerst, wie es sich gehört, im Kölner Rathaus – bemerkenswerter Weise ausschließlich von der Linksfraktion – und anschließend von etwa 200 heimischen Teilnehmern bei der zentralen Kundgebung auf dem Roncalliplatz…“ Artikel von Carl H. Ewald in Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online - die Nr. 97 vom 30.5.07 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10970

Siehe auch:

„Solidarisch im Kampf". Fotos des Euromarschs durch Köln von H-D. Hey, C. Schmidt und R. Willy in Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Online - die Nr. 97 vom 30.5.07 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=10983


Euromärsche erreichten Berlin

„Am vergangenen Mittwoch hat ein Teil der Euromärsche Berlin erreicht und sich am Aktionstag Berliner Erwerbsloser gegen G8 beteiligt, der von AktivistInnen von Erwerbsloseninitiativen, dem Berliner Sozialforum, der Internationalen KommunstInnen getragen wurde. Der Aktionstag begann mit einen Ein-Euro-Job-Spaziergang im Stadtteil Neukölln. Eine Gruppe von 10 Menschen besuchte verschiedene Ein-Euro-Job-Projekte und sprach mit den betroffenen über ihre Arbeitsbedingungen. Die Ein-Euro-Job-SpaziergängerInnen trafen sich dann vor dem Jobcenter Neukölln mit den EuromarschiererInnen…“ Bericht von „lesender arbeiter“ vom 31.05.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/05/179469.shtml

Siehe dazu auch:

Prekäres Zusammentreffen vor dem Bundestag - polizeiliche Abschiebung zum nächsten Bahnhof

„Seit dem 26. Mai finden wieder die Europäischen Märsche gegen Erwerbslosigkeit, ungeschützte Beschäftigung und Ausgrenzung statt. Auch aus Dresden haben sich 30 Menschen unter dem Motto „Arbeit und Einkommen für alle - überall“ mit Fahrrädern auf den Weg nach Rostock gemacht und am 30. Mai Station in Berlin eingelegt. Dort gab es ein Zusammentreffen mit Akteuren des Berliner Mayday-Bündnisses. Der Besuch der Hauptstadt endete vor dem Bundestagsgebäude mit der Aufnahme der Personalien und einer polizeilichen Begleitung zum Bahnhof…“ Pressemitteilung des Social Forum Berlin vom 30.5.07 http://www.sozialforum-berlin.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=382&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Mai 2007

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Das Briefgeheimnis auf dem Weg ins Abseits?

Humanistische Union erhebt Beschwerde gegen Postdurchsuchung in Hamburg

Artikel von Sven Lüders in den Mitteilungen der Humanistischen Union, Zeitschrift für Aufklärung und Bürgerrechte, Nr. 197 http://www.humanistische-union.de/publikationen/mitteilungen/artikel/mitt2007/mitteilungen_2007_detail/back/2007-1/article/das-briefgeheimnis-auf-dem-weg-ins-abseits/


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Juli 2007



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Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright says the supplemental bill Congress passed to continue funding the Iraq war is really about "stealing Iraq's oil - the second largest reserves in the world. The "benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq's oil. Now they have Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi people: no privatization of Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml

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Congress voted for 'stealing Iraq's oil'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6218/


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Just to let you know and pass on to those who need to know that last night the local area committee of Eastleigh Council overturned the recommendation of their officers and refused Hutchison consent for a 25 metre mast in some local woods. We got the support of our local MP, Chris Huhne, got 1200 signatures on a petition, had the local schoolchildren do posters, organised protest letters from Natural England, the Woodland Trust, the local Wildlife Trust and got help from Planning Aid, the pro bono arm of the Royal Town Planning Institute. The result was covered favourably on the late night BBC TV regional bulletin and by local radio and the local print media. It was probably more about local politics than planning law but at least we're over the first hurdle. Just thought you should know.

Cheers

Graham

The following item appears in June's issue of the radical activist Worthing newsletter The Porkbolter, which is an excellent mouthpiece against microwave technology. The link at the end can be used for getting stuff in future issues.

Best
gary


Suffocated by Wi-Fi electrosmog

A DANGEROUS modern "electrosmog" is putting our health and our environment at risk, it is rapidly emerging.

After the evidence in our last issue about passive mobile phone use, the national spotlight has now fallen on Wi-Fi, the microwave fields that allow people to log on to the internet without being plugged into a phone line.

Reported The Independent on Sunday (April 22): "Britain's top health protection watchdog is pressing for a formal investigation into the hazards of using wireless communication networks in schools amid mounting concern that they may be damaging children's health." It added: "Virtually no studies have been carred out into Wi-Fi's effects on pupils, but it gives off radiation similar to emissions from mobile phones and phone masts. Recent research has linked radiation from mobiles to cancer and to brain damange. And many studies have found disturbing symptoms in people near masts."

After we sent a link to this story to readers on our email list (just ask if you want to be included on it!), we had response from a woman in East Worthing. She wrote: "That's interesting about the Wi-Fi - I got a wireless set up at home about four months ago and have had to stop using it because after about 20 minutes it gives me headaches, and after that I get pins and needles in my feet and hands and I start to feel really light headed and sick. I've gone back to a wired connection. I could feel when it was on or off, even when not in the same room.

"The headache feels like there's a sort of electrical thing going on between my ears, and it's very painful between the eyes, like there's pressure building there. It's actually very similar to a problem a friend of mine had a few years ago with a Nokia phone, she had the same headaches and also a metallic taste in her mouth, when she changed phones it was OK again.

"It's a very strange thing because it's not all Wi-Fi that does this to me, I can sit in a hot spot and feel fine, but my home set up is really unpleasant, maybe because it's at such close range. I do also get the same symptoms if I visit Lyons Farm Sainsbury's so maybe there's some kind of Wi-Fi thing going on up there too - I went there a few months ago for the first time in a about a year and had to leave sharpish.

"When I can feel it, it's like the air is heavy and thick, and I find it hard to think clearly, it's quite hard to put into words. I heard on the news today that some expert is recommending that children don't hold Wi-Fi devices on their lap, there's definitely something very wrong with Wi-Fi."

Meanwhile, it has also emerged that both bees and birds are being affected by the electrosmog from mobile masts, as it is believed they use electromagnetism to navigate (Independent on Sunday, April 29). This has already led Eastbourne's council to block a new mast because of fears about the bees (IoS, May 6). Any chance that Worthing will wake up to this as well?

Have you had any experiences of Wi-Fi or other types of radiation? Let us know via porkbolter @eco-action.org or porkbolter @hushmail.com



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

I just saw this article.

Martin


http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003268.html

Fears about ill-effects from using wireless internet technology have prompted an unprecedented number of Londoners to dismantle their systems.

A City-wide computer call-out service yesterday reported that almost half of its recent enquiries were from people wanting WiFi removed.

The news comes after a televised probe by the BBC found WiFi frequency radiation levels in some schools emit three times the intensity found in the main beam of mobile phone masts.

The findings, from the broadcaster’s Panorama programme, have since been disputed by leading scientists, who claim BBC journalists failed to employ a sound methodology.

Yet for the chairman of the Health Protection Agency, which reports of‘no consistent evidence’ of health risks to WiFi users, the Beeb's findings are grounds for closer scrutiny.

Sir William Stewart, a senior advisor to the government, said: "I believe that there is a need for a review of the WiFi and other areas... I think it's timely for it to be done now."

Scientists generally agree that WiFi should be safer than mobile phone radiation because WiFi devices transmit over shorter distances, and so can operate at lower power.

A survey cited by the World Health Organisation shows the RF exposures from base stations range from 0.002% to 2% of the levels of international exposure guidelines, depending on factors such as the proximity to the antenna and the surrounding area.

This is lower or comparable to RF exposures from radio or television broadcast transmitters.

However the consensus that WiFi ought to be safer than mobile phone radiation is based only on “current knowledge,” the HPA said.

The caution comes as an aggressive roll-out of the technology continues nationwide: in London, the fear of what the WHO calls ‘unknown hazards’ has compelled users to act.

” I have never seen such a reaction,” a spokesman for Scooter Computer, a PC repair service, told the Evening Standard yesterday.

“More than 40 per cent of enquiries from hundreds of customers in the last three days were from people worried about WiFi.”

Speaking before the BBC probe, the World Health Organisation cited “media announcements” about WiFi as adding to a “perception” of “undiscovered hazards.”

But it reassured: “Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak radio frequency signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects.”

And the Health Protection Agency has braved a wider endorsement:” There is no consistent evidence of health effects from radio frequency exposures below guideline levels and therefore no reason why schools and others should not use WiFi equipment.”

Omega read http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/ and
"Competing interests, conflicts of interest: Who's funding WHO?"under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3347390/

May 25, 2007

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Plans for WiFi covering London from 2004!!!

The state of wireless London!
http://informal.org.uk/people/julian/publications/the_state_of_wireless_london/



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Victoria Boutenko is one of the world's leading authorirties on living on raw vegan foods. She does a regular e-letter. In this month's, the following appears.

Gary.:


Radiation Protection

I would like to share with you my personal negative experience with cordless phones. Several months ago, I spent four hours participating in a teleconference using the cordless phone in my office. Later that night, as I got ready for bed, I experienced a distinct pressure inside my ear. A few days thereafter, I noticed an unusual growth on lobe of the same ear. Another week later, I happened to take part in a morning TV show directly after a professional dermatologist. I asked her about the growth which by that time had become the size of a pea, had turned red, and was painful to touch. She explained to me that a keloid scar had formed probably due to the excessive use of the wireless phone. To my dismay, she told me to immediately take out my earrings and permanently stop wearing them.

Since then I became a lot more careful. I went to store and bought two corded phones with 25 feet of additional cord, and use my cell phone only for emergencies. I am not going to get any “convenient” wireless devices for my home or office. By now, the growth on my ear is almost gone.

There is constantly more research available on the internet about the radiation these devices emit. I thought you might enjoy these pictures of what some creative Europeans are doing to protect themselves and their families from the rays coming from wireless equipment.

Follow this link to see the images:
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/ProtectionsEmfCem.php#1


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The widow of an Afghanistan War veteran discusses her husband's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which was magnified by his anticipation of deployment to Iraq and led to his death as a result of excessive police force.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052507HA.shtml



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The pharmaceutical industry spent much of its $4.2 billion direct-to-consumer advertising budget in 2005 on ads targeting healthy, upper-income, middle-aged people. A common underlying message was this: you appear to be healthy, but a deadly heart attack, hip fracture or other medical catastrophe could occur at any time.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052507WA.shtml



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Valuable resources in every discarded product with a battery or plug are being trashed in rising volumes worldwide, and unless countries start recycling more of this high-tech scrap, they will soon face serious shortages, experts say.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052507EC.shtml

The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight industrialized nations to agree to tough cuts in climate-warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the statement to be presented at next month's meeting.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052507EB.shtml

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Greenpeace Posts Leaked US Objection to G8 Climate Statement
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/14/15/1479/

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US 'to reject' climate change proposals

The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.

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From Information Clearing House

A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied Exxon Mobil Corp.'s request for another hearing, letting stand its ruling that the energy giant owes $2.5 billion in punitive damages for its 1989 oil spill in Alaska.

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Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby betrayed the public's trust and deserves to spend two to three years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507S.shtml

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"Take Cheney With You!"
The Heckling of I. Lewis Scooter Libby
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23344

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A scheduled three-day celebration of the US Air Force's 60th anniversary, sponsored in part by evangelical Christian organizations, has prompted a military watchdog group to threaten legal action against the Department of Defense.

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by Ron Paul
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Sales of existing homes fell by a larger-than-expected amount in April while the median price of a home sold during the month fell for a ninth straight month as the troubles in the subprime mortgage market acted as a further drag on housing.

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A prominent commodities trader who acknowledges a business history with a reputed Soviet Bloc crime figure and a notorious arms dealer has been one of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's top campaign supporters.

http://publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=323


From Information Clearing House



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

The Colombian Government - the government that the Washington Post notes collaborates with paramilitary gangs to execute union leaders - is now paying top aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to help get Congress to pass the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement.

http://snipurl.com/1m3z7


From Information Clearing House



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

The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination."

http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/geiger/52154


From Information Clearing House



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

"The politics of fear is fueling a downward spiral of human rights abuse in which no right is sacrosanct and no person is safe," said Irene Khan, secretary general of the human rights watchdog. Governments are undermining the rule of law and human rights with "short-sighted fear-mongering and divisive policies."

http://snipurl.com/1m3z4


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. navy began war games on Iran's doorstep on Thursday, navy officials said, a day after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a dramatic daytime show of military muscle.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070524/ts_nm/gulf_usa_ships_dc_1


From Information Clearing House

CBS News reported that a covert operation involving Iranian exiles and Russian scientists has been selling defective nuclear components or technical drawings to Iran.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/66282.html


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. military cleared its soldiers in Iraq over the deaths of two journalists in 2004 without considering contradictory witness accounts, a media rights group said on Thursday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24356514.htm


From Information Clearing House

Kelly - an expert on the law of occupation and peacemaking operations with experience in Somalia, Bosnia and East Timor - said he offered a plan to stop looting and protect infrastructure soon after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was toppled.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/22/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-US-Iraq.php


From Information Clearing House



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

A congressional panel report says US spy agencies warned the Bush administration before the Iraq invasion that Al Qaeda could make a post-war power grab in Iraq, and that forging democracy would be turbulent task.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1933982.htm


From Information Clearing House

BBC Video Documentary

Binyam Mohammed, a British resident from Ethiopia was "rendered" to Morocco in a Gulfstream N379P after he was arrested in Pakistan. He says he was tortured there until he agreed to sign a statement his captors had prepared. The statement said that he was a member of al-Qaeda; that he had met Osama bin Laden and that he was part of a plot to explode a radioactive bomb in America.

Real Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17770.htm



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

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The anti-war Democrats are crying betrayal - and justifiably so. For a Democratic Congress is now voting to fully fund the war in Iraq, as demanded by President Bush, and without any timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Bush got his $100 billion, then magnanimously agreed to let Democrats keep the $20 billion in pork they stuffed into the bill - to soothe the pain of their sellout of the party base.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17767.htm



Dems cave on Iraq withdrawal

Congressional Democrats cut and ran.
http://snipurl.com/1m3xi


From Information Clearing House

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This Shameful, Bi-partisan Betrayal - Democrats sell out troops
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3766673/



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

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/22944



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=signing+statement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supplemental+Surrender+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

http://tinyurl.com/37obun



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

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/250507CNN.htm



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

Ron Paul Fears Controlling Cabal Will Use Staged Terror Attacks
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/250507Ron_Paul.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+World+Order
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Cheney_aide_clearing_path_to_0524.html


Informant: shane_digital



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

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2581257.ece


Informant: Kev Hall

William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan write, "The administration is building the case for war against Iran - a job made easier by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent announcement that Iran can now enrich uranium on an industrial scale - despite the fact that many Iran-watchers and nuclear experts consider their claims of enrichment capacity to be an overblown boast."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+D.+Hartung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frida+Berrigan

New York staffers at McClatchy's Washington, DC Bureau - one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq - claim they are now being punished for that coverage. Bureau Chief John Walcott and other current and former McClatchy Pentagon correspondents say they have not been allowed on the Defense Secretary's plane for at least three years, claiming the news company is being retaliated against for its reporting.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507E.shtml



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

In a move sure to raise even more questions about the decision to go to war with Iraq, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will on Friday release selected portions of pre-war intelligence in which the CIA warned the administration of the risk and consequences of a conflict in the Middle East.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507B.shtml

In der SPD-Fraktion sind laut "Spiegel" seit Jahren Zeitarbeitskräfte zu Löhnen unterhalb des vergleichbaren DGB-Tarifs beschäftigt. So arbeiten nach Informationen der Zeitschrift in der sozialdemokratischen Parlamentsvertretung vier Sekretärinnen eines Berliner Personaldienstleisters für 6,70 Euro pro Stunde. In der Probezeit erhielten sie sogar nur 6,50 Euro. Der vergleichbare Zeitarbeitstarif des DGB liegt nach Auskunft der Gewerkschaftszentrale bei 7,03 Euro. Das von der SPD beauftragte Zeitarbeitsunternehmen macht mit der Fraktion offenbar ein gutes Geschäft.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16004



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

http://www.vunet.org/progressive/1179931266-LOWEST_FOOD_SUPPLIES_IN_50_OR_100_YEARS__GLOBAL_FO.txt


Informant: NHNE

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Lowest Food Supplies In 50-100 Years Global Food Crisis Emerging
http://www.rense.com/general76/low.htm


Informant: Larry Lee Lawson

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002145.php


Informant: Kev Hall



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1440/

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Democratic Spin Won't End the War in Iraq

By John Stauber

It is vitally important, however, that a genuinely independent anti-war movement organize itself with the ability to speak on its own behalf.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17798.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Stauber

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1449/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1439/

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Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics

By Michael Parenti

Free trade is not fair trade; it benefits strong nations at the expense of weaker ones, and rich interests at the expense of the rest of us. Globalization means turning the clock back on many twentieth-century reforms: no freedom to boycott products, no prohibitions against child labor, no guaranteed living wage or benefits, no public services that might conceivably compete with private services, no health and safety protections that might cut into corporate profits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17777.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1455/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1464/



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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ0VkaMRHYs&mode=related&search=


Informant: luvmypeterbuilt2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bilderberg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+World+Order

http://takeaction.oceana.org/dia/organizations/oceana/content.jsp?content_KEY=2696&utm_source=20070524_AP&utm_medium=email



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

Die Grenzschutztruppe mit den Soforteinsatzteams entzieht sich weitgehend der Kontrolle des EU-Parlaments.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25359/1.html



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

Mental health specialists say there has been an increase in domestic violence against children - largely a result of the violence that has gripped Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. They say the violence has affected people's behavior. Before the invasion, there were about 90 psychiatrists in Iraq and some 45 psychologists but today there are fewer than 40 total.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3090.shtml

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/IE25Cb04.html


Informant: Ashley Smith

From ufpj-news

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Mega Lake under North Darfur Sands
http://www.smc.sd/en/artopic.asp?artID=15725&aCK=ED
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2278


Informant: Gomez



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

Oil companies leasing federal land to drill for oil are required to pay the government royalties based on a percentage of their sales. But under the Royalty-in-Kind program, the companies can pay in the form of oil and gas instead of cash. The problem is that oil and gas prices have increased more than the value of the oil and gas royalty revenues being received, meaning that the oil companies are managing to withhold a growing amount of their profits from Uncle Sam.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507O.shtml



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

Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and email using money from the US government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on law enforcement.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507M.shtml



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

http://tinyurl.com/2y7s5n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kimberly-Clark

Free Market News Network
by Lewis J. Walker

05/24/07
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/81/7628/lewis.asp?nid=7628&wid=81


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lewis+J.+Walker

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

05/24/07

Paul Wolfowitz’s doctrines are a summa of numerous failed political dogmas of the 20th century. His notion of politics was essentially Bolshevik, but less democratic in practice than Lenin’s. Wolfowitz had no concept of mass politics. Nor did he have an idea of democratic centralism, the core of Leninism, by which the vanguard led the cells of the party. Wolfowitz believed only in the vanguard. The dutiful student of obscurantist authoritarian philosopher Leo Strauss operated as a solitary intellectual at the head of a single cell, the lone Wolfowitz. His view of international political dynamics was a strange concoction of the most heated, impassioned idea of Leon Trotsky — the permanent revolution — admixed with the most rigid, Manichaean metaphor of John Foster Dulles — the domino theory of the Cold War. Dulles’ idea, applied to Southeast Asia, was a reaction to his mistaken understanding of Communist expansion as Trotskyist in conception. From this thesis and antithesis came the synthesis of Paul Wolfowitz. Welcome to the dustbin of history...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/05/24/wolfowitz_aftermath/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leo+Strauss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Straussian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/25/07

You would think that a political tendency such as the neoconservatives, one that has presided over a disastrous war which is increasingly unpopular, and which has unleashed a wave of resentment and even hatred against them, would just crawl back under the rock from whence they sprang and lay low for the duration. Not the neocons, however: they may be down, but they are far from out, … The President, reined in by his party’s fear of electoral disaster and his nation’s war weariness, has hesitated to go all the way with the neocons’ plan to open up the second phase of their bid to ‘transform’ the Middle East into a pile of ‘democratic’ rubble: no one in this country but Dick Cheney and his boys think going to war with Iran is such a grand idea, but that isn’t stopping the neocons from trying to pull it off anyway...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11022


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Brownsville Herald

05/24/07

The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests for equipment from troops in the field, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press. Of more than 100 requests from deployed Marine units between February 2006 and February 2007, less than 10 percent have been fulfilled, the document says. It blamed the bureaucracy and a ‘risk-averse’ approach by acquisition officials...

http://tinyurl.com/297a42


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

05/24/07

The U.S. Senate will take part in a vote of no-confidence on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after debate on the immigration bill is completed, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said Thursday. The non-binding measure likely will be considered in mid-June, unless the immigration legislation runs into problems. The House plans to vote on a similar measure next month, after a congressional recess...

http://tinyurl.com/2pkxg3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schumer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Raleigh News & Observer

05/24/07

A judge on Thursday upheld an indictment against three U.S. soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist in Iraq, rejecting an appeal filed by national prosecutors. Spain’s National Court charged the three American soldiers in April with homicide and a crime against the international community for firing a tank shell at Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel and killing TV cameraman Jose Couso...

http://tinyurl.com/2wrb8z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

05/24/07

‘Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East,’ the Reuters news service writes from Washington. Paul, a Texas congressman, said he’s giving Giuliani a ‘reading assignment’ because ‘I don’t think he’s qualified to be president. If he was to read the book and report back to me and say, ‘I’ve changed my mind,’ I would reconsider’...

http://tinyurl.com/2qfs2p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Guardian [UK]

05/25/07

Motorists pulled in to Harvey Pollack’s gas station Thursday, honked and gave him a thumbs-up — because he wasn’t selling any fuel. The owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at persuading oil companies to lower their prices. ‘Somebody out there is making money at these prices, but not me,’ said Pollack, 57. ‘So I just thought: What can I do to help the consumer?” … Maria McClory, 38, drove 10 miles out of her way to buy a diet soda from Pollack’s station after seeing local television coverage of the protest. ‘I just wanted to support them and thank them for making a statement,” said McClory, who drives about 100 miles a day for work in her sport utility vehicle. Other drivers were more skeptical. Jeff Bensman, 52, pulled in expecting to gas up his Honda sedan. He said he appreciated the protest but did not think it would make much difference...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6659483,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0617,hentoff,72960,6.html


Informant: Corey



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nat+Hentoff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCLjp4r7wE


Informant: luvmypeterbuilt2



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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qxect_DsmU


z.K.

Helmut Breunig

http://www.omega-news.info/rachels_news_908.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rachel%27s+News

The mortality rate among Iraqi children younger than 5 rose 150 percent between 1990 and 2005, according to a report released this month by the US humanitarian aid group Save the Children. In its most startling terms, the group estimates that 1 in 8 never makes it to his or her fifth birthday.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052407HB.shtml

Global warming isn't just a matter of melting icebergs and polar bears chasing after them. It's also Lake Chad drying up, the glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro disappearing, increasing extreme weather, conflict and hungry people throughout Africa.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052407EB.shtml

After just three months of fundraising, the candidates for president in 2008 have already raised more than $150 million. The eventual nominees will need to raise $500 million apiece to compete. Where is all this money is coming from?

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=president+2008

PARLIAMENTARIANS in Kyrgyzstan overnight urged the government to evict US troops from a military airbase in the impoverished Central Asian state.

http://snipurl.com/1ly2s


From Information Clearing House



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

Chalmers Johnson's, discusses the military-industrial-Congressional complex, considers the possibility of an attack on Iran, and wonders what's happened to accountability and oversight in the halls of government.

Audio
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio5.23.07.mp3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson

`I cannot participate in a judicial process where the prospects of a fair trial are negligible, and more crucially, where the death penalty is a possibility,' writes James Loney who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2005.

http://www.thestar.com/article/216533


From Information Clearing House

It is a clear-cut violation of international medical ethics to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners. The American Medical Association is a signatory to the world codes of medical ethics that condemn this practice.

http://snipurl.com/1ly2p


From Information Clearing House



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

Amnesty International yesterday launched a scathing attack on the United States accusing it of trampling on human rights, and using the world as "a giant battlefield" in its "war on terror."

http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/05/24/d705241301103.htm


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. will seek greater pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions than Britain, France and Germany want, diplomats said after the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said existing sanctions aren't working.

http://snipurl.com/1ly1i


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

We know the drill by now. Whenever a politician with character and principles throws his hat in the ring the media descends on him like feral hounds on a pork chop. It'll be no different with Paul.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17764.htm



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

By Al Gore

The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17761.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+domination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Gore

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/whip


From ufpj-news

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This Shameful, Bi-partisan Betrayal

Keith Olbermann - Special Comment

A Special Comment about the Democrats' deal with President Bush to continue financing this unspeakable war in Iraq-and to do so on his terms: Video and transcript.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17762.htm



Bush demands real progress from Iraq, warns Iran

President George W. Bush warned Thursday that Iraq must repay the sacrifice of US soldiers with real progress, as Congress got set to pass a new war budget stripped of Democratic withdrawal timetables.

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070524154916.8f5kn2p8.html



Pentagon Studies Long-Term Commitment in Iraq

The Pentagon is considering maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10292643



Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace

This week's cave-in on Capitol Hill - supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq - is surprising only to those who haven't grasped our current circumstances.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/24/1421/


From Information Clearing House

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What the Democratic Blank Check on Iraq Means

David Sirota

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/what_the_democratic_blank_chec.html


Informant: Corey

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Iraq funding: Congress bends public over, Bush thrusts

Morris County Daily Record

05/24/07

Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war Thursday night, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew his earlier veto. ‘The Iraqi government needs to show real progress in return for America’s continued support and sacrifice,’ said the commander in chief, and he warned that August could prove to be a bloody month for U.S. troops in Baghdad’s murderous neighborhoods...

http://tinyurl.com/2ddaws



The sacrifice the troops bill

The Nation
by Laura Flanders

05/24/07

I spent some of Wednesday with a worried mom from Idaho Falls, Idaho, whose only son is in the National Guard. Once a month he drives 200 miles to train, then he drives 200 miles back home again. (All for $200 most of which is spent on gas.) He served in Bosnia. Will he be deployed to Iraq? ‘I was counting on the Democrats to stop this war,’ said Marianne, blue eyes blazing. So were thousands of other mothers. It’s time to turn this story around. Rove’s wrong. This so-called ’supplemental’ isn’t about supporting troops; this blank-check bill is about sacrificing them...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=198718



Lily-livered Democrats lose game of chicken

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

05/24/07

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, calls the language ‘extremely weak.’ Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, says she is ‘not likely to vote for [it].’ MoveOn.org sent an e-mail Wednesday morning to its 3 million-plus members demanding that Democrats vote no: ‘Every single Democrat must vote against this bill. This is a key test vote on whether your representative is serious about ending the war.’ The bill is the current version of the Iraq spending bill, which many Democrats, let alone those of us who voted for them, believed should include a timetable for withdrawal of the troops. It doesn’t...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275063,00.html



Don’t think of a US soldier unarmed, abandoned in Iraq

Truthout
by Jeff Cohen

05/24/07

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. … As Military Families Speak Out says: ‘Funding the war is not supporting our troops. The way to support our troops is to bring them home now and take care of them when they get here’...

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



No peace, more spending

Disloyal Opposition
by J.D. Tuccille

05/24/07

Tell me please, what value was there in tossing the Republicans out of the congressional majority and handing the Democrats control ... party leaders are going to use their new position of power to roll over on the war in Iraq? Of course, that’s not all they did; they also managed to trade away any hope for a timetable on ending the war for billions of dollars in spending on their pet programs. Hooray for the new boss; same as the old boss. And so much for the promises of fiscal discipline and anti-war passion the new crop of Democrats offered up during the last election cycle...

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/05/no-peace-more-spending.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Some Democrats Call War Funding Vote "Capitulation"

Congress passed a $120 billion Iraq war funding bill backed by President Bush on Thursday night as Democrats splintered over what some are calling "capitulation."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507K.shtml



Who Voted to Continue Funding the Occupation

A state-by-state list of who in the US Senate and House of Representatives voted to continue funding Bush's occupation of Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507L.shtml

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Dems Back Down, Approve War Money
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1441/

We Gave Them Our Hearts, They Gave Him A Blank Check
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1447/

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Attention Democrats: I Told You So! Would You Like to Wake Up Now?

http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=624


Informant: reggie501

From ufpj-news

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Iraq: May the Quagmire Remain!

If you believe Middle East official discourse, everyone deplores the American presence in Iraq and everyone calls for an immediate departure.... And yet, between the words expressed and hidden intentions, there is a chasm. The region's states and political groups, pushed by their public opinion, will scarcely admit it, but they have no desire to see the Americans withdraw any time soon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507G.shtml

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How Many More Will Congress Leave to Die?
http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=3106

Write a Letter to Your Editor
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/codepink/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=732

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Democrats sell out troops, Congress votes to waste $100 billion more in Iraq
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6214/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+timetable
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Stop WWF's Betrayal of the Earth's Last Ancient Forests

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. http://www.rainforestportal.org/ May 24, 2007

TAKE ACTION WWF is the world's largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable "certified, sustainable" logging in Guyana, Russia and -- and may be the World's greatest threat facing endangered ancient forests http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=wwf_ancient_forest_logging

For many years the international conservation group WWF has supported Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification that first-time logging of ancient primary and old-growth forests is "sustainable". Millions of hectares of intact, large rainforest ecosystems have been and are being heavily industrially logged for the first time with WWF and FSC's stamp of approval. Ecological Internet (EI) recently reported upon Samling of Malaysia's activities in Guyana under the name of Barama, which received significant international bank financing based upon assurances provided by WWF and an FSC certificate of good forest management. Sadly, WWF's partnering with this particular rainforest destroyer in Guyana is not at all unique. Similar large-scale, often illegal and highly socially and environmentally destructive logging of ancient forests in the Congo basin countries, Russia, and Indonesia continue with the blessing of WWF and FSC as their official policy. WWF's greenwashing, and propagation and subsidizing of the myth of "sustainable ancient forest logging", may be the greatest threat to the world's remaining ancient forests.

TAKE ACTION: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=wwf_ancient_forest_logging

MAKE A COMMENT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2007/05/alert_stop_wwfs_betrayal_of_th.asp

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Letter to the Governor of the State of Paraná

Your Excellency Governor Roberto Requião

We are a group of independent scientists working to reclaim science for the public good ( http://www.i-sis.org.uk ), and exposing the bad science promoted by biotech corporations like Syngenta and Monsanto, which is having devastating effects on world food security and health. We have reviewed extensive evidence on the failures and hazards of genetically modified (GM) monoculture crops as well as the successes and benefits of sustainable food systems such as agroecology. The review has been published in an influential report, The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World in 2003, translated into many languages including Portuguese and Spanish ( http://www.indsp.org/GM-FreeEspagnol.pdf ).

Since then, the case has grown much stronger as further evidence of health and environmental hazards has accumulated, and accelerating global warming, coupled with the depletion of water and fossil fuel, falling grain yields and increasing pressures on food production from the demands on land for growing biofuel crops have made it much more urgent to shift comprehensively to sustainable food systems.

We shall be presenting the latest evidence on the hazards, failures and deceptions surrounding GM crops to the European Parliament on 12 June 2007 ( http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EUmeeting120607.php ), to call a GM-Free Europe and a GM-free world.

We therefore greatly support your initiative to reclaim Syngenta´s illegal experimental site in Brazil in order to turn it into a school for agroecology. We stand with Your Excellency in solidarity in the face of the pressure the multinational is exerting against the Government of Paraná.

Please, Your Excellency, continue to take all of the necessary measures to protect the reclaimed site and to enable the family farmers of the Via Campesina to remain there.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
for
Institute of Science in Society
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