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Summer is finally here and for many Americans that means it's time to head back to the shore. We all know that feeling when you first step onto the beach and feel the sand between your toes -- but what is actually going on under the ocean surface?

The sad truth is that our oceans are in trouble, and we have no comprehensive national law -- like a Clean Water Act or a Clean Air Act -- to address fundamental problems. A variety of threats, including decades of overfishing, pollution of all kinds, aggressive invasive species and severe habitat loss have individually and collectively altered the basic way our oceans function. Marine scientists have called the changes we are seeing in our oceans "the rise of slime" -- where jellyfish, algae and bacteria take over ocean areas that no longer contain and can no longer support other forms of life.

To protect and restore our oceans and ocean economies we need to make smarter decisions about the activities that the federal government funds and permits -- on land and in the water -- that affect ocean ecosystems. "Oceans-21" -- the recently introduced Oceans Conservation, Education and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act -- provides both that vision and the necessary mechanisms to ensure its success.

== What to do ==
Send a message urging your representative to co-sponsor Oceans-21, the Oceans Conservation, Education and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 21).

== Contact information ==
You can send a message to your representative directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ If you prefer to call your representative, the Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607D.shtml


Informant: Scott Munson

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Chalmers Johnson: Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?

In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17708.htm



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By Paul Dicken

Campaigner: Jade Bryan has started up a petition against the planned phone mast

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Ponders End is campaigning to stop a mobile phone giant putting up a phone mast at the end of her street.

Jade Bryan started up a petition after discovering that O2 was applying for planning permission to erect the 15m high mast.

Miss Bryan said the main reason she objects to the mast is its proximity to St Matthew's Primary School and the potential health risks.

She said: "That's the number one problem, I think. Also, for me, I thought about the children. This is a really comfortable, laid-back area. This will spoil it a bit.

"London is a really crowded area in itself. No matter where it is, I would feel quite strongly about it."

Miss Bryan said O2 decided to put up the mast on the High Street, in Ponders End, opposite Allens Road, to improve reception for local customers.

But she added that an O2 customer who signed her petition against the mast had full signal on her phone, metres away from the proposed mast site.

Miss Bryan is also concerned about the amount of "street furniture" on the road already.

She said: "There's too many things on the street. There's a camera post going up when we've already got one operating - it's just ridiculous. I don't know how they expect people to walk on the pavement around here."

Community relations manager for O2, Jim Stevenson, said: "Basically, we are looking to increase capacity. We have 18 million customers demanding a service all the time.

"We understand the lady's concerns and we do listen to people all the time and are more than willing to talk to them.

"I can reassure her that she'll have no problems with the mast as far as health and safety is concerned."

He said the increased capacity was for making sure people in the area could use their phone at any time, day or night, as signal areas became jammed when too many calls were made at once.

In the Enfield area there are currently around 123 masts, with three in the immediate area around the proposed site in Ponders End. In total, across London, there are 6,421 of the so-called "base stations".

The Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, set up in the UK, found that scientific evidence to date, suggested exposure to radio waves at guideline strengths did not cause adverse health effects in the general population.

However, Sir William Stewart, who chaired the group, has called for a review on the possible effects of mast radiation and wireless internet networks.

When the group published their findings in 2000, Sir William, now chairman of the Health Protection Agency, felt that the scientific research was sufficient enough for a precautionary approach for siting masts near schools, recommending that masts should not necessarily impact on areas where children are exposed.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1451044.0.jade_battles_o2_over_phone_mast.php

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

06. Juni 2007

Die USA hält an ihrer Verweigerungshaltung zum Klimaschutz fest. Dazu erklärt der stellvertretende Vorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Noch bevor der G8-Gipfel begonnen hat, ist er gescheitert. Aufgrund der Verweigerungshaltung der USA kann auf dem G8-Gipfel offenbar keine Einigung über verbindliche Ziele im Kampf gegen die Klimaerwärmung erzielt werden. Die Signale aus Washington sind eindeutig, die USA sind nicht daran interessiert. Diese Verweigerungshaltung wird nicht nur verheerende Auswirkungen auf die Klimaerwärmung haben, sondern wird sich auch auf das Verhalten der so genannten Schwellenländer auswirken. Wenn die G8-Staaten als Hauptverursacher des drohenden Klimawandels mit seinen katastrophalen Folgen nicht bereit sind, ihrer Verantwortung ernsthaft nachzukommen, dann kann dies auch nicht glaubhaft von anderen Staaten eingefordert werden. Kanzlerin Merkel ist als G8-Präsidentin nun gefordert, das vielbeschworene gute Klima zwischen den USA und Deutschland für mehr Klimaschutz zu nutzen. Denn beim Klimaschutz hört die Freundschaft auf. Es wird Zeit, dass die USA endlich die Notwenigkeit eines weltweiten Engagements begreifen und sich aktiv am Klimaschutz beteiligen. Eine Fortschreibung des Kyoto-Prozesses über 2012 hinaus wäre das einzig richtige Zeichen. Aber auch die Bundesrepublik lässt wirkungsvolle Schritte beim Klimaschutz vermissen. Der geplante Bau neuer Kohlekraftwerke steht allen Bemühungen um eine wirksame Eindämmung der Emission von Klima schädigenden Giften diametral entgegen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35884

Schalt ab!...für's Klima Unter der Schirmherrschaft des bekannten Autors und Fernsehjournalisten Dr. Franz Alt ruft die Bürgerinitiative "Schalt ab!...für's Klima" alle Einwohner Deutschlands zu einer gemeinsamen Stromabschaltaktion während des G8-Gipfels auf. Vom 6. bis 8. Juni 2007 soll an drei Tagen jeweils von 19:45 bis 20:00 Uhr der Strom abgeschaltet werden. Die UmweltBank macht mit -- Machen auch Sie mit!

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Tallying up the farm bill, which Congress will likely vote on this fall, yields losers and winners. The losers: farmers, farm laborers, food processing workers, rural communities, the environment, poor country peasants, many developing country agricultural industries, and urban laborers in both developed and developing countries facing wage competition from rural migrants and US taxpayers. The winner: corporate agribusiness.

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The influential Foreign Affairs Council, comprising mostly senior retired US diplomats and ambassadors, says the US State Department is in crisis, facing a shortage of 1,100 staff, and that in the "first two years of Secretary Rice's stewardship, almost no new net-resources have been realized."

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"Al Gore is earnestly talking about the long-term implications of the energy and climate crises, and how the Arctic ice cap is receding much faster than computer models had predicted, and how difficult and delicate a task it will be to try and set things straight in Iraq. You look at him and you can't help thinking how bizarre it is that this particular political figure, perhaps the most qualified person in the country to be president, is sitting in a wing chair in a hotel room in Manhattan rather than in the White House," writes Bob Herbert.

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The Bush administration faces pressure to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired US attorneys, saying he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm."

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The Iraqi Parliament has passed a binding resolution that will guarantee lawmakers an opportunity to block the extension of the UN mandate under which coalition troops now remain in Iraq when it comes up for renewal in December. Without the cover of the UN mandate, the continued presence of coalition troops in Iraq would become an armed occupation, at which point it would no longer be politically tenable to support it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607J.shtml

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.com

A trillion dollars and nowhere to go but up.
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Liam Madden-Marine War Resister-Boston 6-7-07



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_Iz61y8HQ

Support Liam Madden of the Boston Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and co-founder of the Appeal for Redress

Because of his courageous antiwar activism, the Marines are attempting to go after him and saddle him with an "other than honorable discharge"

Sign the Online Petition in defense of Liam Madden: http://www.petitiononline.com/liam/petition.html

Background: Former Marine Liam Madden and Adam Kokesh, who is also under attack, both served in Iraq and were both honorably discharged. Upon their return, they both joined Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Liam is also a cofounder of the Appeal for Redress, a statement signed by nearly 2,000 active-duty troops that garnered a lot of media coverage, and he has been helping to organize a bus tour to some 20 military bases throughout the eastern U.S. Adam has been in Germany, reaching out to soldiers at the U.S. Army base at Ansbach. Both Adam and Liam participated in the first installment of Operation First Casualty, in which IVAW members brought the war home through street theater by mounting "patrols" in the streets of Washington, D.C., on March 19. Now the Marine Corps is trying to make an example of them. Both men are still part of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), an inactive status that practically all troops pass through prior to final separation from the military.

Now, both Adam and Liam are being charged with appearing in uniform at a political event. Additionally, Liam is being charged with "disloyal statements" for calling the war in Iraq "a war crime." Adam is facing a military hearing on Monday June 4th in Kansas where he will be "tried" by a panel of 3 officers. If found guilty, an "other than honorable discharge" will prevent him from ever being able to get a government job or many other types of jobs, similar to the effect of a criminal record. Liam has not received a hearing date yet, but he expects to. Why we need to fight this: "The military is trying to stifle the IVAW's voice in the public discourse about the war," Liam has said. "If we are to have an informed and free discussion in society about the most pressing issue of our generation, the war in Iraq, then the voices of returning veterans are a crucial aspect." This is an attempt to squash informed discussion of the true reality of their war as well squash the budding movement of antiwar soldiers and veterans turning against the war. "They perceive me as a figurehead or a vocal component of this, and it's their tendency to nip that in the bud by going after the figurehead. The troops are allegedly fighting for freedom and democracy, yet their voices are suppressed when they get home--if their voices go against the grain." They want to silence Liam's message that the whole war is a war crime- and you cannot "win" a war crime, you can only end it-- immediately. The military's charges against Liam send a threatening message to other soldiers and veterans that they should not dare to speak or organize against the war. If they get away with punishing Liam, the military will be emboldened to go after many other dissenters. The antiwar movement must step up and send a message that it will have the backs of its antiwar brothers and sisters within the ranks of the military. Gary Kurpius, the national commander of the 2.4 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars has recently made news with his statement that "Trying to hush up and punish fellow Americans for exercising the same democratic right we're trying to instill in Iraq is not what we're all about,".

At a time when the majority of people in the US, the vast majority of Iraqis, and unprecedented numbers of US troops are against this war, we can't let some of the most important voices in the antiwar movement be silenced. This is about the important antiwar voice and contributions of Liam Madden but also about the current and future antiwar leadership of countless soldiers and veterans whose vocal and active opposition will be essential to ending this war.

IVAW's Liam Madden Holds Press Conference
http://www.bostonnow.com/news/local/2007/06/08/marine/


Ashley Smith

From ufpj-news

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Liam Madden Speaks to Truthout

While Adam Kokesh was dominating the headlines, another former Marine, Sgt. Liam Madden was also being targeted by the Marine Corps. The free speech issues are more apparent in Madden's case: He is being investigated for statements that he made at anti-war events. Madden traveled with Kokesh to Kansas City for Kokesh's separation board hearing. The day before the hearing Truthout's Geoffrey Millard sat down with Sergeant Madden.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062607L.shtml



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/04/07

‘Hello. I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.’ Conservatives love to use this line to mock the idea that government can do constructive things for you. Nothing gets a bigger laugh at conservative gatherings. The sentence has two meanings. First, it makes fun of the notion that politicians have your interests at heart and truly wish to serve them...

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

06/04/07

The Bush administration has decided its new model for a long-term solution in Iraq is Korea. It’s an attempt to stifle the inevitable comparisons of the Iraq quagmire to Vietnam and a way to justify the eventual reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq (to take the heat off of Republican candidates in the 2008 elections), while retaining a substantial U.S. military presence by establishing three or four long-term major military bases. The plan would ultimately be a disaster for the United States...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1977


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Hawaii Reporter
by Congressman Ron Paul

06/04/07

Good intentions frequently lead to unintended bad consequences. Tough choices, doing what is right, often leads to unanticipated good results. The growing demand by the American people for us to leave Iraq prompts the naysayers to predict disaster in the Middle East if we do. Of course, these merchants of fear are the same ones who predicted that invading and occupying Iraq would be a slam dunk operation; that we would be welcomed as liberators, and oil revenues would pay for the operation with minimal loss of American lives...

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Independent [UK]

06/06/07

Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today. Three weeks before he stands down as Prime Minister, Mr Blair will join forces with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in an attempt to secure a breakthrough in the battle against climate change. They will press a reluctant US president to agree that the world should cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050. Such an outcome from the last international gathering that Mr Blair will attend with President Bush would at last allow him to answer critics who claim he has got little in return for his ’shoulder to shoulder’ support for the US President, notably on Iraq and other issues related to the ‘war on terror’...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2617436.ece


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Kannapolis Independent Tribune

06/05/07

Several Republican senators Tuesday called for President Bush to implement a new war strategy based on recommendations by the Iraq Study Group, which advocated winding down the U.S. combat mission. ‘The president needs bipartisan support if the United States is to sustain a long-term position in Iraq,’ said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn...

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Pensacola News Journal

06/05/07

President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration. ‘I would certainly not send him to the United Nations’ to represent the United States, said Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor and one-time member of Bush’s Cabinet, midway through a spirited campaign debate...

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Phil Mattera writes: "In the business world these days, it appears that just about everything is for sale. Multi-billion-dollar deals are commonplace, and even venerable institutions such as the Wall Street Journal find themselves put into play. Yet companies are not the only things being acquired. This may turn out to be the year that big business bought a substantial part of the environmental movement."

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"The contents of government budgets are a big deal in other democratic societies - witness 40,000 marchers in Vancouver, BC, protesting government priorities. Down here, we follow the DUI arrests of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, 'American Idol' contestants; the custody battles over Anna Nicole Smith's baby, and other examples of what Al Gore calls 'the new priorities in America's news coverage,'" says Joel Connelly.

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Indonesia's rainforests - especially those on Borneo island - are being stripped so rapidly because of illegal logging and palm oil plantations for biofuels that they could be wiped out altogether within 15 years, some environmentalists say.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EC.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by declining snow and ice cover as a result of global warming. The risks facing people include rising sea levels and losing access to drinking water, a UN study concludes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EB.shtml

The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world that the US is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EA.shtml

"Politics in the American style has never been particularly sane, to be sure. Every so often, however, the usual level of strangeness we're accustomed to reaches a new gear, and the whole show just goes right over the moon. Over the last few years, we've pretty much been permanently locked into that higher gear, so it takes something exceptionally deranged to ring the cherries," says William Rivers Pitt. "Leave it to a Republican Party official, of course, to spelunk our national dialogue into a whole new low."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507S.shtml



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06 June 2007

A NEW mobile phone mast will go up in Churchill despite strong opposition from parish councillors.

At a meeting of Churchill and Langford Parish Council, members voted unanimously against the proposed mast on land near Bath Road, but their views did not reach North Somerset Council.

They said the mast is too close to houses and they were worried about the potential impact on residents' health. The mast will be sited 400m from an area of outstanding natural beauty but will be disguised as a telegraph pole.

Parish clerk Lindsay Ireland posted a letter containing the council's response on May 18, but it failed to get to planners at the district council.

The local authority then gave its permission for the mast to go ahead at a planning meeting a week later, as it had not received any objections from the parish council.

Mrs Ireland said: "This is hideous and I shall be writing a letter of complaint to the council. The parish council had previously rejected the plans for the mobile phone mast and so the planning department would expect that we would again reject the application.

"The parish council will make a formal complaint to the planning department.

© 2007 Archant Regional Limited. All rights reserved.

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By Tony Donnelly

PROTESTORS against a plan to site a phone mast in Bishampton will take their fight to the company at the weekend when they mount a picket and protest outside the T-Mobile shop in central Evesham.

The villagers have been angered by the company's refusal to meet to discuss alternative sites for the placement of the 15-metre mast just yards from their homes.

And at a public meeting in the village hall last month, residents voted for more direct action, leading to the decision to demonstrate outside the Bridge Street shop this weekend.

Leading objector Tony Waghorn, who lives near Nightingale Farm, where it is proposed to site the mast, said: "T-Mobile have rejected alternative sites and we believe this is purely down to money. This mast should not be anywhere near people."

He said villagers feared the mast could affect their health and action group members pointed to a newspaper report which condemned T-Mobile for not heeding a warning about the alleged dangers from cancer from mobile handsets and masts.

T-Mobile spokesman John Shaunnassy previously said the company had commissioned four reports on the subject and only one was of the opinion there could be a problem.

He also said that three other sites proposed by villagers were not suitable.

Mr Waghorn responded: "We are not against mobile phones - we appreciate people do have them and do use them.

"But we do not feel it is right that these masts should be close to our children's bedroom windows."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/ejnewslatest/display.var.1449857.0.phone_mast_protest_picket_planned.php

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Poor Little Rich Boys (and Girl)
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TAKE ACTION NOW!
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From Information Clearing House

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RON PAUL AT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP DEBATE
JUNE 5TH 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BjK1QqDOo

Ron Paul debates fellow GOP at the June 5th CNN debate.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
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Forget the Fed and Washington, D.C. Because of its swing position in the world's oil market, Saudi Arabia wields the real power over our economic future.

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From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration may have sidestepped a key 1991 law regarding congressional notification of intelligence activities when it chose to alert just a handful of lawmakers of its warrantless surveillance program following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to Democratic sources.

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Federal Judge Reggie Walton also ordered I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to pay $250,000 in fines. Additionally, the former aide will be on probation for two years following the completion of his prison term. Libby must report to a probation officer within 72 hours of sentencing.

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From Information Clearing House

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The Scooter Files: Washington X-Ray

by Rick Perlstein, TomPaine.com

The letters written on behalf of "Scooter" Libby offer an unappealing look inside our political system.

http://ga3.org/ct/1d20pgF1JzHK/

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Bush Faces Libby Pardon Dilemma

The 30-months sentence imposed on I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby puts new pressure on Bush, who may soon confront the choice of triggering a political storm by pardoning a convicted perjurer, or letting one of the early architects of his administration head off to prison.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607M.shtml



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HOW did the United States, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, come to adopt interrogation techniques copied from the Soviet Union and other cold war adversaries?

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Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Iraqi Oil Workers Union

U.S. Government's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0605-02.htm



Iraqi Oil Workers On Strike

Workers began the strike at 6.30 this morning by shutting two 14" pipelines carrying oil and gas products inside Iraq.

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U.S. troops detain four insurgents smuggling Iranian weapons in Baghdad

The detainees are believed to be members of a "secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training," a military statement said.

http://tinyurl.com/2px2h4



U.S. diplomat accuses Iran of passing weapons to Taliban

A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan - the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6122658



U.S. official says Iran violating U.N. rules by sending weapons to Afghanistan's Taliban

A senior U.S. diplomat, lobbying world powers for tougher sanctions against Iran, accused Tehran on Wednesday of violating international law by arming its once-bitter foe - Afghanistan's Taliban - and of trying to destabilize the Middle East.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/13/europe/EU-GEN-France-US-Iran.php



U.S. claims Iran funding terrorism

A day after a top U.S. official accused Iran of arming the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked the financial world to freeze the assets of an Iranian bank.

http://tinyurl.com/38gfsc



Some doubt U.S. claims Iran arming Taliban

Some analysts question U.S. reports that Iran is arming the Taliban, saying Tehran has other allies there and the weapons are available on the open market.

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20070613-041300-8367



Iraq: U.S. Troops Arrest Another 3 Iranian Officals

US soldiers on Friday reportedly arrested three Iranian diplomats north of Baghdad. The officials had first been detained by Iraqi forces who had subsequently freed them, allegedly after the intervention of the Iraqi foreign ministry.

http://tinyurl.com/2js2bk



Kidnappers of British contractors in Iraq were backed by Iran: US General

The kidnappers who snatched five British contractors last month were funded, trained and armed by Iran, the US commander in Iraq said in an interview published late Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070620/wl_mideast_afp/iraqbritainkidnapus



Iranian weapons still flowing into Iraq: US General

Smuggled weapons and deadly explosives are still coming into Iraq from neighbouring Iran and continue to kill American soldiers, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL154330.htm



Presstitute and war pimp alert:

Muqtada al-Sadr moving toward all-out fight with Iraqi leaders:

Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces - a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protected by his powerful Mahdi Army.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/133565



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

Gates: Iranians kill US soldiers

The US Defense Secretary blames Iran for the killing of US troops in Iraq as the Bush administration steps up rhetoric against Tehran.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=52941&sectionid=351020101



U.S. military official:

Iran boosting support for Iraqi, Afghan rebels

Admiral Mike Mullen conceded at a Pentagon news conference Friday that he has "no smoking gun" proof that the highest leadership in the Iranian government is involved.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/04/25/5386151-ap.html



Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran

The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19799.htm



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

U.S. ship opens fire on patrol boats near Iran

MSNBC says the Iranian boats were approaching at a high rate of speed and were within 100 yards of the ship when crewmembers fired eight .50-caliber rounds and three M-16 rounds that forced the vessels to turn away.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/report-us-ship.html



Iran denies any clash with US vessel

Iranian Navy official told IRNA that no such an incident took place in the Persian Gulf.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0804254916210524.htm



US 'extremely concerned' over Iran

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Admiral Michael Mullen said the US would maintain a presence in the Gulf in an attempt to deter Iran from taking any military action.

http://tinyurl.com/65kh2u


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Conflicting arms claims on Iran reveal US rift

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

06/21/07

The evidence that Iran is arming the Taliban isn’t as ‘irrefutable’ as some US officials are claiming, says the US NATO commander in Afghanistan. He points to more likely sources for the arms, such as drugs and weapons smugglers. The anti-Iran language used by the accusers points to Vice President Dick Cheney, who would like nothing more than an invasion of Iran before his boss leaves office...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF22Ak04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Iran helping to plan attacks in Iraq - US

Iran is training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure for change, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, while violence around the Arab state killed at least 19 people.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27811652.htm



U.S.: Iran Helped in Deadly Iraq Strike

U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner also accused Iran of using its Lebanese ally, the Shiite militia Hezbollah, as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/35knk3



Iran 'baring its teeth' in Afghanistan, officials say

In public, Afghanistan has played down US and British allegations that Iran is feeding weapons to Taliban insurgents, but in private, officials here say the charges are true -- and worrying.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=183385



Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran

Evidence that Iranian territory is being used as a base by al-Qaeda to help in terrorist operations in Iraq and elsewhere is growing, say western officials.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9cc4d5f4-2be3-11dc-b498-000b5df10621.html



Sunni Insurgent Leader Paints Iran as 'Real Enemy'

A leader of an armed Sunni group in western Baghdad described his hatred for Iran and the current Iraqi government, while outlining the dimensions of an armed insurgency that extends well beyond al-Qaeda in Iraq, the organization that U.S. officials routinely identify as their central enemy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301792.html



US finds Iranian rockets aimed at Iraq base

US soldiers discovered a field of rocket launchers near a US army base south of Baghdad armed with 34 Iranian-made missiles, the military said Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestus



On Heels Of Senate's Iran Vote, Brownback Declared I'm Ready To Strike Iran

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-0 to pass a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to censure Iran "for what it said was complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq." The resolution required the Bush administration to regularly report to Congress on Iran's role in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/15/brownback-attack-iran/



U.S. says Iran knows its weapons reaching Taliban

Iranian arms are entering Afghanistan and reaching Taliban insurgents in such quality and quantity that the Tehran government must know about it, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/2tcmh8



Iran attack could be 2nd Holocaust, Gingrich warns

Former US House speaker, who is considering running for presidency on Republican ticket, warns that if Iran acquires nukes, Israel and US would be under severe threat; 'Firing one or more bombs at Israel could be a second Holocaust for the Jewish people,' Gingrich says.

http://tinyurl.com/2wt5g6



Chinese missiles smuggled through Iran into Iraq

US: The US military on Sunday said its troops had found Chinese-made missiles which they believe were smuggled into Iraq by groups in Iran in order to arm groups fighting US-led forces.

http://tinyurl.com/2qy85g



U.S. says Iran training Green Zone bombers

Top commander blames Tehran for better aim of mortars, rockets
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19972418/



Iran fist-in-glove with Iraqi rebels: America builds its case

A senior US official in Baghdad told the Guardian in May that Iran was fighting a proxy war in Iraq. He accused Tehran of "committing daily acts of war against US and British forces", including weapons and other assistance to militias and ad hoc cooperation with individual extremists tied to al-Qaida.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330261901-103681,00.html



'Iran-armed militia behind 3/4 of Iraq attacks'

Rogue Shiite militia fighters said to be armed and trained by Iran were responsible for nearly three-quarters of attacks that killed or wounded Americans in Baghdad last month, the No. 2 US commander in Iraq said Sunday.

http://tinyurl.com/29yddx



Bush levels dubious Iran nuclear arms charge

US President George W. Bush charged Monday that Iran has openly declared that it seeks nuclear weapons -- an inaccurate accusation at a time of sharp tensions between Washington and Tehran.

http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070806211216.lgvvjg5f.html



Iran trying to sway US debate on Iraq -US general

A U.S. general said on Saturday Iran had increased supplies of weapons to Shi'ite militias in Iraq to attack U.S. troops and influence debate in Washington before the presentation of a crucial report on Iraq next month.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL151455.htm



US labels Iran's Guards terrorists

The Bush Administration has decided to move against the 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guards because of what officials say is the corps' growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its support for extremists throughout the Middle East.

http://tinyurl.com/yvnkjo



Iran meddling in Afghanistan

US lawmaker: An influential US lawmaker has accused Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of Afghanistan by allegedly supplying arms and equipment to Taliban and al-Qaeda.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?187138



Fifty Iranians helping militias in south Iraq

About 50 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were believed to be training Shi'ite militias in the use of mortars and rockets in southern Iraq, the general commanding U.S. troops in the area said on Sunday.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n119779



Fox Attacks: Iran

Video

FOX are repeating the same distortions and fear mongering as they did before the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18244.htm



Iranian operatives step up flow of weapons and training from Iran says general

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives are trying to sabotage US security gains in Iraq, by stepping up the flow of arms and training to Shiite extremist groups, a top US commander charged Friday.

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070824-080557-1271r



US forces arrest Iranian-linked agent in Iraq

U.S. soldiers detained a "highly sought individual" suspected of links to senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in a predawn raid on the holy Iraqi Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL525810.htm



Reports Iranian arms reaching Taliban worry U.S.

The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3587034



Iran Linked to Iraq Rocket Attack

U.S. military officials in Iraq tell ABC News that a rocket used in an attack on coalition headquarters at Camp Victory Tuesday was made in Iran.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3593296&page=1



The Iran Attack That Wasn't

How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq.
http://www.prospect.org//cs/articles?article=the_iran_attack_that_wasnt



Iranian Arms Destined for Taliban Seized in Afghanistan, Officials Say

'Large' Shipment Said to Include Armor-Piercing Bombs
http://snipurl.com/1qsnq



U.S. says seizes Iraqis "linked" to Iran Qods force

U.S. forces captured 12 Iraqis in Baghdad on Monday suspected of smuggling weapons from Iran, including one linked to Tehran's elite Qods force, the U.S. military said in a statement.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17792324.htm



Syrian military blast explained

A Syrian military installation rocked by an explosion in July was being used to develop chemical weapons, and Iranian engineers were among those killed, a respected defence publication has reported.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/syrian+military+blast+explained/821747



American commander accuses Iran of arming Taliban

A top U.S. military commander accused Iran on Friday of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the United States would "act decisively" if the cross-border flow continued.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/21/business/afghan.php



Iran smuggling missiles into Iraq: US military

Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070923/pl_afp/iraqunrestiranus



UN envoy doubts U.S. assertion Iran arming Afghan insurgents

A top United Nations diplomat is rejecting repeated claims from the Bush administration that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/1r53i



Iran 'arming Taliban with roadside bombs'

Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to insurgents in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers.

http://snipurl.com/1rrwh



US Iraq general steps up accusations against Iran

The U.S. military commander in Iraq stepped up accusations over the weekend that Iran was inciting violence there and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07597509.htm



Bush warns of World War III if Iran goes "nuclear"

We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel, US president says at White House press conference after Russia cautions against military action against Tehran's suspected atomic program.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461069,00.html



US Military: Intercepted Afghan Weapons Came From Iran

U.S. Army General Dan McNeill said Thursday NATO forces stopped a convoy from Iran on September 5 in western Afghanistan. He said the convoy contained a number of advanced technology improvised explosive devices.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-18-voa39.cfm?rss=topstories



Afghanistan Skeptical Iran Arming Taliban

Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak said evidence of Iranian cooperation in arming Taliban insurgents with advanced weapons is inconclusive.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212110087.shtml



Iran "perhaps single greatest" security risk to US: Rice

President George W. Bush last week warned that a nuclear-armed Iran evoked the threat of "World War III," and Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday spoke of "serious consequences" unless the Islamic republic comes to heel.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=199616



US blames Iran-backed group for Baghdad bombing

Iranian-backed militants were behind a bombing that killed 13 Iraqis at a Baghdad pet market, the U.S. military said on Saturday, raising concerns that Shi'ite militias might be switching tactics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc



Pentagon report to accuse Iran of fueling Iraq strife

A Pentagon report to be released Tuesday will accuse Iran of continuing to funnel weapons and technology to fighters in neighboring Iraq even as it cites lower violence overall, US media said.

http://snipurl.com/1vi6u



Pentagon report: Iran keeps funding militias in Iraq

A new Pentagon report says violence is down across Iraq but notes that Iranian influence on Iraq's security continues, despite some assurances this fall that Iran was reducing its shipments of weapons into Iraq.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1220/p25s03-usmi.html



Iran still training militants

THE commander of US forces in Iraq said during a tour of an Iraq-Iran border crossing that Tehran was still training militants despite its pledge to cut support for the insurgency.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23065451-23109,00.html



Iran speeding up development of missiles, head of U.S. agency says

The head of the United States' missile defense program sought Wednesday to bolster Washington's argument for anti-missile sites in Europe by warning that Iran has sped up development of long-range missiles.

http://snipurl.com/1xl0u



Europe Side Steps Iranian Sanctions

Energy companies throughout Europe continue to defy U.S.-negotiated sanctions against Iran by putting several new deals on the table.

http://snipurl.com/1xl0w



Crying (Iranian) wolf in Argentina bombing

The US Embassy in Buenos Aires at the time - including ambassador James Cheek - have confirmed the absence of evidence linking Iran to the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded another 300.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA25Ak02.html



U.S. sees attacks by Iranian-backed groups up in Iraq

Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in Iraq have increased in recent months, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, casting doubt on the view Iran might have reduced its support for violence in the war.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zn



US spy chief retreats from Iran intel

The top US intelligence official is backing away from his agency's recent assessment that Iran halted its 'nuclear weapons program', PressTV reported.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zo



Order given to fire on Iranian speedboat

One of the commanding officers "had literally given the order to fire and it turns out one of the fast boats turned about simultaneously," Mullen said.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zp



U.S. Intelligence Chief On Iran

Al-Qaida is the preeminent terrorist threat to the United States, said Michael McConnell, U.S. Director of National Intelligence. But Iran, said Mr. McConnell, "also remains a threat to regional stability and to U.S. interests throughout the Middle East".

http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2008-02-19-voa2.cfm



U.S. military contradicts State on Iran

Hundreds of weapons caches found in Iraq: Iranian-backed militias are apparently preparing for major strikes against the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, military officials said.

http://tinyurl.com/yscdqb



'Iran still developing nuclear warheads'

The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing a nuclear bomb," said Mohammad Mohadessin, a leader of the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran. He presented reporters in Brussels with information he said had been collected on two sites in Iran on top secret studies on nuclear warheads.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTMyMzA2MTc5



Iran 'continued nuclear weapons programme'

Britain's envoy to the United Nations nuclear watchdog contradicted the findings of US intelligence officials who said Iran stopped developing a nuclear weapon in 2003.

http://tinyurl.com/24kdkc



Iran may be biggest threat to Iraq - U.S. general

Odierno also said he was not surprised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was able to move around without security problems during his two-day visit to Baghdad as the groups that often target high-profile visitors are Iranian-backed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN04505031



Iran reneged on pledge to quit supporting Iraqi militias

The top two U.S. officials in Iraq said this week that Iran was still training Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias, in violation of its promises to Iraqi leaders.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/29593.html



Iran fomenting violence in Iraq, U.S. says

The military offers details of Tehran's role in continuing to train and equip militias and insurgents.

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/03/10/iran-fomenting-violence-in-iraq-us-says/



Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program

Retaining his tough stance against Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Tehran may have restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report said was halted in 2003.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7397533



Cheney talks tough on Iran's N-program

"What we do know is that they had then, and have now, a process by which they're trying to enrich uranium, which is the key obstacle they've got to overcome in order to have a nuclear weapon," he said.

http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/international/story/303548.html



Bush says Iran announced desire for nuclear weapons

President Bush contended that Iran has "declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people" and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a secret program.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31114.html



McCain's repeated "slips of the tongue" on Iran and al-Qaida

"As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq."

http://tinyurl.com/ytte6w



Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7311565.stm



PM-Cheney meeting shrouded in mystery

US Vice President Dick Cheney's second meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, like their first meeting Saturday night, was shrouded in mystery, leading to speculation among diplomatic officials that the focus was on how to stop Iran's nuclear program.

http://tinyurl.com/26n7af



Iran's lethal uranium plans

VICE-President Dick Cheney has said Iran was developing a uranium enrichment program for military purposes. "Obviously, they're... heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels," Cheney said in an interview with ABC television.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23428344-15084,00.html



Cheney Claims Iran Trying To Develop Bomb Despite No Evidence

Cheney alleged in an interview Monday that Iran was trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, even though international inspectors have never found such evidence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/cheney-claims-iran-trying_n_93303.html



Iranian, Syrian missiles to pound Israel in next war

Secret report paints grim picture: Thousands of casualties, nationwide power outages.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3522937,00.html



US Military Says Iran Behind Latest Violence In Iraq

Iran is behind the violence raging in Iraq by providing training to those firing rockets in Baghdad and by not doing enough to rein in lawless gunmen in Basra, the U.S. military charged Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/3b5vev



Report warns of Saudi Arabia and Turkey possibly joining in a nuclear arms race

The report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also says Turkey would come under pressure to follow suit if Iran builds nuclear weapons. It says while Turkey doesn't see Iran as an enemy, it also believes a power balance between the countries is the primary reason for a peaceful relationship between them.

http://www.wandtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8109721


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Explosive charge blows up in US's face
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A former top British diplomat Tuesday called for a speedy troop withdrawal from Iraq and predicted that the process of leaving Iraq would cause 'strain' in Anglo-American relations.

http://tinyurl.com/2pbxjp


From Information Clearing House

The situation in Iraq continues to worsen, with more than 2 million Iraqis now believed to be displaced inside the country and another 2.2 million sheltering in neighbouring states.

http://tinyurl.com/3y5qd2


From Information Clearing House

Author: John Perkins

Video

John Perkins talks about his follow-up to his 2005 book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," at Barnes & Noble in New York City. In his new book, Mr. Perkins argues that the United States uses its foreign policy to further U.S. business interests around the globe, often to the detriment of poor countries.

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8345&SectionName=&PlayMedia=Yes



Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption

Audio & Transcript - Interview with John Perkins

Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations -- what he calls the "corporatocracy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17829.htm



The Secret History of the American Empire

The Truth About Global Corruption

Video - John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man.

Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21000.htm


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Economic Hitman
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By César Chelala

A 2005 report by the World Policy Institute states that most of the U.S.' arms sales to developing countries go to governments that the U.S. State Department qualifies as undemocratic, such as Pakistan, Angola and Saudi Arabia.

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Christopher Emmett is scheduled to be executed by the state of Virginia on June 13.

Michael Lambert is scheduled for execution on June 15, by the state of Indiana.

Read more about these and the other cases below -- and ACT!

Do Not Execute Christopher Emmett! The state of Virginia should not execute Christopher Emmett for the April 2001 murder of Christopher Langley. Emmett claims ineffective assistance of counsel, since his trial counsel never presented his mental health history to the jury. The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously wrote, ""it is clear that [Emmett's] trial counsel was ineffective."

ACT NOW by contacting Gov. Tim Kaine requesting that he stop the execution of Christopher Emmett!

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ACT NOW by contacting Gov. Mitch Daniels requesting that Michael Lambert's execution be halted!

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Virtually everything about elections should be public and transparent. But somehow, secrecy has come to cloak many aspects of elections.

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Will Electronic Voting Reform Create New Ways to Steal Elections?

Political manipulation of the process - on top of flawed election machinery - was the determining factor in Florida's presidential election in 2000, in Ohio in 2004, in Illinois in 1960, and in other earlier presidential elections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507F.shtml

The Bush administration's plans to bring detainees at Guantanamo Bay to trial were thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges threw out all charges against a detainee held there since he was 15, and dismissed charges against another detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507A.shtml



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

https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=habeas_petition&JServSessionIdr009=krkdxf9q83.app20a


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

The California Assembly is considering two important bills that would help the state fight global warming and conserve precious water resources.

AB 493 represents a common-sense, market-based solution to global warming. The bill would provide one-time rebates on the purchase of the cleanest new vehicles. The rebates would be funded by one-time surcharges on new vehicles with the highest global warming emissions. Several vehicles, including many family-oriented minivans and smaller SUVs, would fall into a "zero band" receiving neither a surcharge nor a rebate.

Another bill, AB 1420, would require water agencies to implement conservation measures, including programs targeting large landscapes and commercial, industrial and residential water use, in order to receive state grants or loans. The bill also would give special recognition to agencies that achieve a higher standard of excellence in water conservation.

Both of these bills must pass out of the Assembly by this Friday, but opponents have redoubled their efforts to stop them.

== What to do ==
Send a message today urging your assemblymember to vote "Yes" on AB 493 and AB 1420.

== Contact information ==
You can contact your assemblymember directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/

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Urge your state senator to vote Yes for clean air and global warming bills

The California Senate is holding marathon sessions this week to meet Friday's deadline for passing bills to send on to their next stop in the Assembly. Two particularly important environmental bills would implement last year's historic global warming law and clean up air pollution at state ports.

The first bill, SB 375, would provide incentives to communities that plan for compact development that reduces driving and conserves farmland and wildlife habitat. Preparing properly for expected population growth and related transportation infrastructure could have a huge impact on whether California can meet the global warming targets established by the Global Warming Solutions Act. SB 375 would promote land use and transportation planning that reduces, rather than contributes to, global warming pollution.

SB 974 would reduce air pollution caused by the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland, which receive more than half the goods shipped to retailers throughout the entire country. Such huge amounts of cargo transport generate staggering levels of air pollution and associated health problems, including asthma, cancer and premature death. SB 974 would collect a $30 fee on each shipping container processed through the three ports to fund measures to reduce pollution, including plugging in ships to electric power and upgrading port equipment to use cleaner fuels.

Both SB 375 and SB 974 are opposed by big business and industry groups, so state senators need to hear that their constituents support these two key environmental protection bills.

== What to do ==
Send a message right away urging your state senator to vote Yes on SB 375 and SB 974.

== Contact information ==
You can contact your state senator directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/

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Speak out for a state budget that protects California's environment

California's legislative leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger are meeting this month to craft a state budget for next year. State officials continue to grapple with budget shortfalls and rely increasingly on bonds to fund key environmental programs. Bond funding helps, but we still need long-term funding to best protect the state's air and water quality and other natural resources.

Legislators must ensure that state agencies charged with implementing California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act have sufficient resources and accountability to do the job. In order to meet the goals of the act, they also must reject the governor's proposal to strip more than $1.3 billion from public transit.

In addition, legislators should support funding to add more fish and game wardens, especially for coastal waters. These wardens are the front line of defense in protecting California's wildlife and water quality, but currently there are only 200 wardens for the entire state. And legislators should support funds to restore the San Joaquin River, but reject funding for costly and environmentally destructive dams.

== What to do ==
Send a message urging legislative leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger to develop and pass a state budget that protects our environment and helps reduce global warming pollution.

== Contact information ==
You can send a message directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-445-4633
Email: governor@governor.ca.gov

Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata
State Capitol, Room 205
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-327-1997
Email: Senator.Perata@sen.ca.gov

Senator Dick Ackerman
State Capitol, Room 305
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-445-9754
Email: Senator.Ackerman@sen.ca.gov

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0046
Fax: 916-319-2146
Email: Assemblymember.nunez@assembly.ca.gov

Assemblymember Mike Villines
State Capitol, Room 3104
Sacramento, CA 94249-0029
Fax: 916-319-2129
Email: Assemblymember.villines@assembly.ca.gov


== Sample letter ==

Subject: Protect California's environment and reduce global warming in the state budget

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, Senator Perata, Senator Ackerman, Speaker Nunez and Assemblymember Villines,

As you consider the state's budget, I urge you to provide adequate funding for programs that protect the environment and combat global warming.

Specifically, I urge you to approve funding for implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, and to restore the $1.3 billion for public transit that was proposed to be redirected to other purposes in the governor's budget.

California should continue to fund restoration of the great San Joaquin River, and should increase funds for more fish and game wardens who protect our wildlife and public lands every day. But please reject expenditures of public funds on shortsighted, expensive and environmentally destructive dams; less costly alternatives are available.

California's natural resources and innovative environmental solutions promote a thriving economy by attracting tourists and spurring investment in clean, efficient technologies. Again, I urge you to pass a budget that protects and funds programs critical to a clean and healthy environment for all Californians.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

A cute little fish with a funny-sounding name, the delta smelt is found only in the open waters of the San Francisco Bay-Delta, the west coast's largest estuary and a major source of drinking water for more than 23 million Californians. But the Bay-Delta is approaching the brink of collapse, as pollution, habitat loss, invasive species and increased water diversions imperil the ecosystem's future.

Delta smelt populations are a crucial barometer of estuary health; the loss of the fish would indicate irreversible damage to the Bay-Delta and could signal the potential extinctions of other delta fish species. Spring trawl surveys found just 25 juvenile smelt this year, the smallest number ever recorded and 92 percent fewer than the previous record low in 2006. But as this important fish faces the brink of extinction, state agencies are evading their legal obligations and failing to take action to protect the few smelt that remain.

Despite the smelt's astonishing population decline, California officials have allowed record levels of water to be pumped from the Delta without a required permit. To add insult to injury, the smelt's decline was preventable. Scientists have been warning state officials for more than three years that the smelt population was perilously low, and have recommended specific management measures -- many of which were ignored.

California has a proud history of environmental stewardship and a right to expect state agencies to show strong leadership in defending our natural resources, something our agencies are presently failing to do. Although Governor Schwarzenegger has made developing a long-term plan for the delta a priority for his administration, to date he has not directed state agencies to implement efforts to reverse the decline of the smelt and the Delta ecosystem.

== What to do ==
Send a message urging Governor Schwarzenegger to instruct state agencies to act now to save the delta smelt from extinction.

== Contact Information ==
You can send a message to Governor Schwarzenegger directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ or use the contact information and sample letter below to send your own message.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-445-4633
Email: governor@governor.ca.gov

== Sample letter ==

Subject: Save the delta smelt

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,

I am seriously concerned about the decline of the delta smelt, the broader deterioration of the critically important San Francisco Bay-Delta ecosystem and the irresponsible behavior of state agencies in failing to respond adequately to this crisis.

The delta smelt is a key indicator of the health of the west coast's largest estuary, which is an important source of drinking water for millions of Californians. The smelt's extinction would mark a dramatic environmental protection failure and would signal the broader decline of the delta. This extinction, the first in California in the last quarter century, would be a particular tragedy because state agencies have played a critical role in the smelt's decline.

The smelt is just one of many imperiled delta fish. Actions to protect the delta could also protect Chinook salmon, green sturgeon and other endangered and threatened species, as well as increase the reliability of water supplies from the delta. Specifically, I urge you to:

** fully implement the water management actions recommended by the scientific community, including the Delta Smelt Working Group;

** require those who draw water from the Delta to ensure that a sufficient amount of water remains so that the smelt can recover;

** immediately halt discretionary "surplus" pumping of water from the Delta;

** instruct your agencies to comply fully with the requirements of the California Endangered Species Act; and

** direct the Department of Water Resources to develop a long-term plan to meet California's water needs while reducing delta diversions.

Losing the delta smelt would be an irreparable blow to California's environment. I urge you to immediately take all necessary measures to prevent its extinction and ensure its recovery.

Sincerely,

[Your name and address]

Click here if you want it to stop!
http://www.savealgonquin.ca/

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

US authorities said Saturday they had averted an attack at New York's JFK airport to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines that could have resulted in "unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction." But according to the National Transportation Safety Board, it would have been next to impossible to cause an explosion in the jet fuel tanks and pipelines. It may likely have sparked a fire but little else, and certainly not the mass carnage authorities described.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507P.shtml

Representative William J. Jefferson was indicted today in a long-standing FBI corruption probe centering on allegations that he took bribes to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507N.shtml

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House approves speedy Jefferson probe

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

06/06/07

The House ordered a speedy internal investigation that could oust indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson from Congress before his bribery trial. Mindful of anti-corruption sentiment among voters last November, the House passed two resolutions Tuesday that require the ethics committee to investigate charges more quickly than in the past...

http://tinyurl.com/2ex2dj



Following William Jefferson to the bank

National Review
by Stephen Spruiell

06/07/07

At least one former official at the U.S. Export-Import Bank took money from a Nigerian businessman involved in the bribery schemes of Rep. William Jefferson (D, La.), who was indicted on Monday. The indictment reveals that the Ex-Im Bank played an important role in Jefferson’s plan to perform a number of official acts in exchange for cash and shares of stock from a U.S. company seeking to do business in Nigeria. The U.S. Department of Justice maintains that the investigation into Jefferson’s activities is ‘continuing;’ presumably that includes a closer look at the Bank’s role (a DOJ spokesman will not confirm or deny this). But what we already know about the way the Bank operates should be enough to prompt congressional hearings into whether we need an institution like the Ex-Im Bank at all...

http://tinyurl.com/2yczqn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Growing frustration with the performance of the Democratic Congress, combined with widespread public pessimism over President Bush's temporary troop buildup in Iraq, has left satisfaction with the overall direction of the country at its lowest point in more than a decade, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507L.shtml

Kelpie Wilson writes: "The reaction of world leaders and environmentalists to Bush's announcement last week that he has a global warming plan (with no targets and no timelines) was mostly skeptical.... His announcement is an attempt to subvert the global effort to fight climate change.... Democrats should pass global warming legislation that repeals Bush's tax cuts for the rich and uses the funds to pay for energy efficiency audits for homes and businesses, rebates and tax incentives for improving energy efficiency, and training for efficiency technicians.... We need to make this kind of public investment, and we need to make it fast."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

05. Juni 2007

Zum morgigen Beginn des G8-Gipfels in Heiligendamm erklären Christine Buchholz, Mitglied im Geschäftsführenden Bundesvorstand der WASG, und Wolfgang Gehrcke, Mitglied im Parteivorstand der Linkspartei.PDS:

Der Protest gegen die Kriegspolitik und die Forderung nach Beendigung der deutschen Auslandseinsätze stehen für Linkspartei.PDS, WASG und für die Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag ganz oben bei den Aktionen gegen das G8-Treffen. Der offizielle G8-Gipfel will nicht öffentlich über die Kriege in der Welt reden; die globalisierungskritische Bewegung aber fordert das Ende dieser Kriege. "Not welcome, Mr. Bush" wird es heute tausendfach dem US-Präsidenten entgegen schallen. "Deutsche Truppen raus aus Afghanistan", "Schluss mit der Unterstützung des Krieges im Irak", "Kein Krieg gegen den Iran", "US-Atomwaffen aus Deutschland abziehen" an diesen Forderungen einer Bevölkerungsmehrheit kommt die Bundesregierung nicht vorbei. Die deutsche Kriegspolitik hat noch eine Mehrheit im Bundestag, aber nicht mehr im Land. Im September und Oktober 2007 wird der Bundestag erneut über den Afghanistaneinsatz entscheiden (Tornado, ISAF und OEF). Die Friedensbewegung plant für den 15. September eine bundesweite Friedensdemonstration in Berlin. Linkspartei, WASG und die Fraktion DIE LINKE. begrüßen diesen Protest. Der Bundestag wird mit der Mehrheitsmeinung der Bevölkerung konfrontiert. G8-Staaten, allen voran die USA, verantworten die Kriege in der Welt, Tausende Tote und Verletzte und Millionen von Flüchtlingen. Deutschland unterstützt diese Kriege. G8 das ist Aufrüstung und Bruch des Völkerrechts. Der G8-Gipfel will nicht über das US-Raketensystem in Polen und Tschechien reden und schweigt zu Guantanamo. DIE LINKE sagt Nein zu neuen Waffen und Raketensystemen, Guantanamo muss sofort aufgelöst werden, ebenso alle weiteren geheimen US-Gefängnisse. Krieg ist das größte Menschheitsverbrechen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35877



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Not+welcome+Mr.+Bush
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kriegspolitik
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

Campact-News 11/07 Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,,

eine gelungene Aktion liegt hinter uns: Als die europäischen Umweltminister am vergangenen Samstag in der Zeche Zollverein in Essen eintrafen, erwartete sie eine in der Morgensonne schmelzende, 5 Meter breite Eiswand mit dem Schriftzug "ZEIT ZU HANDELN". Darin eingefroren: die Namen von 31.703 Unterzeichner/innen des Klima-Appells. Umweltminister Sigmar Gabriel nahm die Unterschriften entgegen - begleitet von einem Blitzlichtgewitter der Journalisten.

Impressionen der Aktion hat wieder der Filmemacher Patrick Protz eingefangen.

Schauen Sie sich den Aktionsfilm an: http://www.campact.de/klima/aktionsblog2
Photostrecke: http://www.campact.de/klima/bilder
Aktionsverlauf nachlesen: http://www.campact.de/klima/aktionsblog

Die Aktion hat zu Beginn der Endphase der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft ein wichtiges Zeichen gesetzt. Die Bundesregierung darf die Pläne der EU-Kommission zur Entflechtung der Energiemärkte nicht länger blockieren. Auch beim Flugverkehr und bei Grenzwerten für den CO2-Ausstoß von Neuwagen kommt es sehr auf die deutsche Position an.

Leider haben nur wenige Medien (Handelsblatt, N24, WDR, Westfälische Nachrichten) über die Aktion berichtet. Die Ausschreitungen während der G8-Demonstration in Rostock haben in der Presse vom Montag alles dominiert: Das Treffen der EU-Umweltminister fand keine Erwähnung. Dennoch: Für die Politiker und alle Anwesenden war die schmelzende Wand ein wichtiges Symbol, das sich einprägt.

Wir möchten allen danken, die die schöne Aktion ermöglicht haben - mit Ihrer Unterstützung in Essen, mit Ihren Spenden und indem Sie im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis Tausende Unterzeichner/innen gewannen.

Der Klima-Appell kann noch bis zum 21.6., dem Treffen der Europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs, unterschrieben werden.
http://www.campact.de/klima/sn1/signer


Viele Grüße

Günter Metzges
Campact - Demokratie in Aktion ( http://www.campact.de )

The American Conservative
by Peter Hitchens

06/04/07

In the great square at Esfahan, I talked to a group of teenage girls about to graduate from high school — one strictly veiled, one less so, one whose scarf was subversively far back on her head. They all thought war was coming, all believed that the U.S. was not a truly free country and that Iranians and Muslims were persecuted and mistreated there. These opinions arose from state-sponsored ignorance and were fanned by our own militant hostility. The students were not in themselves hostile to the West — like almost all Iranians, they yearned to live there. They were personally friendly and open to me. But they warned that an attack on Iran would drive them closer to their government. And this was not just their view. I heard the same from many far more liberal-minded and skeptical. Before the Iraq War, many such people were all but wishing for an American invasion to free them from the ayatollahs. But having seen what American liberation has done for Iraq and Afghanistan, they have turned away from any such thoughts. The Islamic leadership knows this and is glad of the threats and grumbling coming from Washington...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_06_04/cover.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Hitchens

LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

There are two clear and present dangers to liberty in America. One is known as the left, and the other is known as the right. They are dangerous because they seek to use government to mold society into a form they seek, rather than the form that liberty achieves if society is left on its own. I’m going to assume that the left and the right come to their views sincerely, that their passion for using government is driven by some fear that the absence of government would yield catastrophe. So the burden of my talk today will be to identify and explain the common thread that connects the worldview of the left and the right, and suggest that they are both wrong about the capacity of society, whether it is defined locally or internationally, to manage itself... (speech given 06/01/07; published 06/05/07)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/conflict-or-cooperation.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

G8-Kritiker "Internationale" gesungen: Festnahme
http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/:Sicherheitsdebatte-Die-Steinewerfer/589513.html?eid=589906

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

05. Juni 2007

Deeskalation ist angesagt

Zur Ankündigung, gegen DemonstrantInnen hart durchgreifen zu wollen und zu den verschiedenen Vorschlägen, die Polizei weiter aufzurüsten, erklärt die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linkspartei.PDS, Katina Schubert:

1000 verletzte PolizistInnen und DemonstrantInnen sind eine deutliche Mahnung an die Sicherheitsbehörden und DemonstrantInnen, die Proteste gegen den G 8-Gipfel friedlich zu organisieren und weiterzuführen. Beide Seiten, Polizei und der sogenannte Schwarze Block, sind gefordert, zu deeskalieren und auch rhetorisch abzurüsten. Deshalb sind auch die vielfältigen Einfälle einzelner PolitikerInnen nicht hilfreich, die Polizei noch martialischer auszurüsten oder ihnen mehr Eingriffsbefugnisse zu erteilen. Die Polizeibeamtinnen und -beamten haben ein berechtigtes Interesse, sich im Einsatz vor Verletzungen und Übergriffen zu schützen. Dazu bedarf es defensiver Ausrüstung. Gummigeschosse und ähnliches sind nicht defensiv, sondern gefährlich und werden die Gewalt- und Gefährdungsspirale nur nach oben treiben. Die geltende Gesetzeslage ist im Übrigen völlig ausreichend, um mit gewalttätigen DemonstrantInnen umzugehen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35872



#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

05. Juni 2007

Kein neuer Rüstungswettlauf in Europa

Im Vorfeld des G8-Gipfels ist der Ton zwischen Putin und Bush bezüglich des umstrittenen US-amerikanischen Raketenabwehrsystems in Polen und Tschechien schärfer geworden. Während Präsident Putin gestern militärische Konsequenzen ankündigte, wird der amerikanische Präsident heute in Prag versuchen, Nägel mit Köpfen zu machen. Dazu erklärt Helmut Scholz, Mitglied des Parteivorstandes der Linkspartei.PDS und des Vorstandes der Partei der Europäischen Linken:

Nicht nur die USA und Russland haben unterschiedliche Ansichten dazu, wie Sicherheit in der Welt gefestigt werden kann. Normalerweise sind unterschiedliche Ansichten unter Freunden und als solche bezeichnen sich auch diese beiden Präsidenten kein Problem. Sie sind durch Gespräche und Verhandlungen zu lösen. Das eigentliche Problem besteht darin, dass hier versucht wird, alte Denkweisen um imperiale Vormacht mit militärischen Mitteln durchzusetzen. Vermeintlich meint die Bush-Administration diese zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt auch gegenüber Russland durchsetzen zu können: wie anderswo in der Welt. Aber Russland selbst will seine Interessen wahren - und verfügt dazu über genügend eigene militärische Kapazitäten. Während nun also beide Präsidenten Sicherheit militärisch, notfalls auch mit Atomwaffen herstellen wollen, bleibt aller Erfahrungen zum Trotz die Erkenntnis auf der Strecke, dass mehr Waffen die Welt nicht sicherer, sondern unsicherer machen. Es droht eine neue Rüstungsspirale mit all den negativen Auswirkungen für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, v.a. wiederum im Bereich der Massenvernichtungs- und neuen technolgischen Waffen-Systeme. Und der europäische Kontinent droht erneut - wie zu Zeiten des kalten Krieges gespalten zu werden. Die EU hält sich bislang vornehm zurück und lässt die USA und die NATO schalten und walten. Das ist nicht hinnehmbar. Nicht Konfrontation, sondern gegenseitige Achtung und Zusammenarbeit sind notwendig. Die Linke fordert Bundeskanzlerin Merkel als G8-Vorsitzende auf, während des Gipfels die geplanten US-amerikanischen Raketenabwehrpläne nicht nur zu thematisieren sondern beide Präsidenten aufzufordern, diese neuen militärischen Planungen unverzüglich zu beenden. Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Europa wollen kein neues Raketenabwehrschild. Sie wollen v.a. auch keinen neuen Rüstungswettlauf. Das haben mehr als 70 Prozent der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Tschechien und Polen, die die geplante Raketenabwehr auf ihrem Territorium ablehnen, mit zahlreichen friedlichen Demonstrationen und Referenden bestätigt. Erst gestern hat die tschechische Bevölkerung dies Präsident Bush bei seiner Ankunft deutlich gezeigt. Und dies trifft auch auf Deutschland und viele andere Länder zu. Heute und in den nächsten Tagen werden sich deshalb wie seit vergangenem Sonnabend auch weiterhin zehntausende Menschen in und um Heiligendamm ihnen anschließen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35873

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Gewalt und Berichterstattung

Die Steinewerfer und Brandstifter von Rostock haben den Medien einen Freibrief dafür ausgestellt, die Gewalt von Staatsbediensteten zu bagatellisieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25438/1.html



Montag in Rostock

Erlebnisbericht eines unbeteiligten Bewohners der umkämpften Stadt
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25441/1.html

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Androhung staatlicher Gewalt: Polizei kündigt niedrige Eingriffsschwelle bei Gewalt an

Kurz vor Beginn des G8-Gipfels in Heiligendamm hat die Polizei eine niedriger Eingriffsschwelle angekündigt. Zwar halte man an der Deeskalation fest. "Aber es ist natürlich klar, dass wir eine niedrige Eintrittsschwelle haben, wenn es um Gewaltstraftaten geht", sagte der Polizeisprecher Axel Falkenberg vom Planungsstab "Kavala" am 5. Juni im ZDF-"Morgenmagazin". "Die entsprechenden Techniken sind sofort da", Maßnahmen würden "sofort" ergriffen. Gipfelgegner kündigten unterdessen an, im Rahmen einer geplanten Blockade auf mögliche "Polizeigewalt" nicht mit "Gegengewalt" zu reagieren. Die Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft kündigte einen möglichen Einsatz von Schusswaffen an. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht bestätigte am 5. Juni die Beschränkung von zwei Demonstrationen auf lediglich 50 beziehungsweise 15 Teilnehmer.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16069



Radio für 16.000 Polizeikräfte Polizei testet zum G8-Gipfel eigenen Info-Kanal

Das Projekt erinnert ein wenig an Radiosender des US-Militärs, mit denen die eigenen Soldaten im Krieg mit Musik, Infotainment und Durchhalteparolen bei Laune gehalten werden sollen. Mit einem eigenen Radio-Info-Kanal testet die Polizei während des G8-Gipfels im Großraum Rostock erstmals in Deutschland die regelmäßige Ausstrahlung von "Informationen" über Großveranstaltungen für ihre Beamten. Der "Radiosender für Einsatzkräfte" werde seit einer Woche vom Planungsstab "Kavala" betrieben und stoße bei den rund 16.000 Polizeikräften auf eine überwiegend positive Resonanz, sagte ein Polizeisprecher am 5. Juni in Rostock.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16068

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Opferzahlen der Randale in Rostock weit übertrieben?

Offenbar muss von den über 150 verletzten Berliner Polizisten nach der "Orgie der Gewalt" am 2. Juni nur einer stationär behandelt werden, die Zahl von tausend Verletzten, mit denen Politik gemacht wird, sind vermutlich weit übertrieben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25447/1.html

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Great photos at NYTs coverage of the Group 8 protests
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/06/06/world/20070606_G8_SLIDESHOW_1.html


Informant: Bob Banner

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Durchbruch bei Heiligendamm

Die Globalisierungsgegner feiern den erfolgreichen Sturm auf den Zaun von Heiligendamm, das Bundesverfassungsgericht verbietet den Sternmarsch und bezeichnet das Sicherheitskonzept der Polizei als verfassungswidrig.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25457/1.html

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Teure Show, arme Welt: Wer kann sich diesen Gipfel leisten?
http://www.wdr.de/tv/hartaberfair05/aktuell/

Verwirrung um Verletztenzahlen
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,487039,00.html

Misshandelt die Polizei Demonstranten?
http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/:G8-Gipfel-Jetzt/590479.html?eid=589906

Polizei wollte laut Demonstranten gezielt provozieren
http://www.baz.ch/news/index.cfm?ObjectID=055642BE-1422-0CEF-70FF209E9C2213EF

Der Polizist, der "Rauf auf die Bullen" schrie
http://www.welt.de/politik/article931690/Der_Polizist_der_Rauf_auf_die_Bullen_schrie.html

"Klein-Guantanamo" in Rostock
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3815550/

Käfighaltung
http://blog.zeit.de/g8-blog/2007/06/08/kafighaltung_43

Anwälte kritisieren Käfighaltung von Gefangenen
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,487378,00.html

Jean Ziegler bei Gegengipfel: Gottesdienst der G- 8-Kritik
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,486912,00.html

G-8-GIPFEL: Pannen im Paralleluniversum
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,487042,00.html

Demonstranten direkt am Zaun
http://www.spiegel.de/videoplayer/0,6298,18877,00.html

GIPFEL-TICKER
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,486952,00.html

G 8 spezial
http://www.jungewelt.de/g8/#JL_blog_182



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Informant: Corey

The New York Times and CBS News are confirming a story we had already heard that Cheney is determined to suck the U.S. into a shooting war with Iran, provoked through back channels with Israel, if he can't force that policy on Bush any other way. We are in greater danger of the strategic debacle in the Middle East spinning even more wildly out of control every day that Congress does not confront the monstrous malignancy in the office of the vice president in particular.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

Vote yes, or else vote no. Nearly 60,000 have already. It could save all of our lives. It could save YOUR live, all of it. Help turn the National Cheney Impeachment Poll into a national phenomenon. That's where we are going with this. We can do it with your help. All we have to do is get enough people to say he SHOULD be impeached, and he will be impeached.

The situation is so extreme that The New York Times published an editorial yesterday, and we quote from just some of its conclusions below. How can anyone read these words of alarm and not be at LEAST motivated to at express an OPINION? They are finally speaking out. How about you? Please note, destruction of official vice presidential records is a CRIME, and that's just the latest!


DICK CHENEY RULES

New York Times Editorial
June 3, 2007

The Associated Press reported that Mr. Cheney's office ordered the Secret Service last September to destroy all records of visitors to the official vice presidential mansion right after The Washington Post sued for access to the logs. That move was made in secret, naturally. It came out only because of another lawsuit, filed by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the names of conservative religious figures who visited the vice president's residence

This disdain for accountability is distressing, but not surprising. Mr. Cheney has had it on display from his first days in office, when he refused to name the energy-industry executives who met with him behind closed doors to draft an energy policy.

In a similar way, Mr. Cheney seems unconcerned about little things like checks and balances and traditional American notions of judicial process. At one point, he gave himself the power to selectively declassify documents and selectively leak them to reporters. In a recent commencement address, he declaimed against prisoners who had the gall to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States.

Mr. Cheney is the driving force behind the Bush administration's theory of the unitary executive, which holds that no one, including Congress and the courts, has the power to supervise or regulate the actions of the president. Just as he pays little attention to old-fangled notions of the separation of powers, Mr. Cheney does not overly bother himself about the bright line that should exist between his last job as chief of the energy giant Halliburton and his current one on the public payroll.

>From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Cheney received deferred salary payments from Halliburton that far exceeded what taxpayers gave him. Mr. Cheney still holds hundreds of thousands of stock options that have ballooned by millions of dollars as Halliburton profited handsomely from the war in Iraq.

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VIDEO

I subjected myself to the torture that was the Democratic presidential primary debate last night, and came away thinking one thing: Many of the people on that stage really do not understand why the American public has often thought Democrats are weak.

http://tinyurl.com/29c28y


From Information Clearing House

In his first interview as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan told a reporter that America needs to be attacked by terrorists so that people will appreciate the work that President Bush has done to protect the country.

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From Information Clearing House



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US fears over China long-range missiles", ran The Financial Times' front page headline last week and an eight column spread rammed the message home, that Washington is becoming worried that China is deploying mobile land and sea-base missiles that have the range to hit the US.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=58827



Chinese military build-up purely defensive'

China's military build-up is purely defensive, the deputy chief of the world's biggest standing army said on Saturday, amid US concerns over Beijing's intentions.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=58922


From Information Clearing House

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates visits next week, he'll find pressure from Russia and China, as well as some Kyrgyz officials, to close this Central Asian outpost of American military might.

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From Information Clearing House



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The Central Intelligence Agency has received approval at least twice in the last several years to conduct an "information war" against several countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and Syria, according to current and former intelligence officials.

http://tinyurl.com/ywtvhk


From Information Clearing House

If U.S. forces strike Iranian nuclear facilities, Iranian officials say Tehran will respond by triggering all-out regional war.

http://tinyurl.com/2dwb8w


From Information Clearing House

A tough-talking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday suggested she would back a military strike on Iran if that country's radical Islamic government attempts to build nuclear weapons.

http://tinyurl.com/2xwzew


From Information Clearing House



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U S Defence Secretary Robert Gates said today the United States has no evidence Iran's government is behind a flow of weapons from Iran to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran: Gates

Taliban Fighters Use Iran Weapons

"There have been indications over the past few months of weapons coming in from Iran," Gates told reporters with Karzai at his side. "We do not have any information about whether the government of Iran is supporting this, is behind it, or whether it's smuggling."

http://tinyurl.com/2586rz



Afghan Minister Dismisses Burn's Claims About Iran/Taliban Links

Afghanistan's defense minister today dismissed claims by State Department undersecretary Nicholas Burns and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the Iranian government was arming the Taliban.

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010496.php

From Information Clearing House



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Video: Gore Vidal

Filmed before a live audience, renowned author Gore Vidal rejects the blind "patriotism" expected by government officials and the mainstream media, and investigates U.S. foreign policy throughout recent history, showing how it has contributed to the terrorist crisis. With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the "War on Terrorism" is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17828.htm




The Great Exception

By William T. Vollmann

For hundreds of years, the rules didn't seem to apply to America the Perfect.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17825.htm



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By David Michael Green

Maybe this was once the land of the free and the home of brave, perhaps way back in the olden times of the twentieth century. But right now the free are at home with their wide-screen TVs and the brave are retiring from the field, exhausted and disgusted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17824.htm



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By Sheila Samples

To Bush, body bags and deaths are simply an inconvenience and, with the help of the corporate media, he is very adept at hiding them from prying eyes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17827.htm



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A senior United Nations official urged a 171-nation UN wildlife forum on Sunday to take action to help protect animals from climate change.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060407EC.shtml

Tony Blair has issued a stark warning to fellow world leaders ahead of this week's G8 summit on climate change, telling them it would be unforgivable if they failed to agree on ways to tackle global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060407EA.shtml



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Two years ago, in a speech at the Justice Department marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Bradley J. Schlozman, then the acting chief of the department's civil rights division, found much to celebrate. Schlozman, a Bush administration political appointee, was in the process of dismantling the ranks of career attorneys in the division, former employees contend.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407T.shtml



Justice Department Actions Expected to Draw Congressional Scrutiny

The partisan nature of the Justice Department's election activity will be a focus of a Congressional inquiry Tuesday. Former acting Justice Department civil rights chief, Bradley Schlozman, is due to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to respond to allegations of partisanship in the division's hiring and enforcement policies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507B.shtml



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Tim Griffin, formerly right-hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US attorney for Arkansas, hours after BBC Television "Newsnight" reported that Congressman John Conyers [had] requested the network's evidence on Griffin's involvement in "caging voters." Greg Palast, reporting for both BBC "Newsnight" and "Democracy Now," obtained a series of confidential emails dating from the 2004 presidential election, in which the GOP operative transmitted so-called "caging lists" of voters to state party leaders.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407R.shtml



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Still Available

Another crowd pleaser, this simple petition is a two-in-one action: one message to candidates asking them to explicitly state their proposals to meet the global warming challenge; another to media outlets requesting a debate on global warming, energy and the environment. If you haven't signed, we'll continue to deliver signatures for the next couple months.

Sign here
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Other G8 nations to get messages from Americans at odds with Bush on Global Warming.

Tomorrow we make our first delivery to other G8 nations of the signatures to an apology for George Bush's rejection of practical steps in confronting global warming. As you probably know, Bush alone rejected German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal that the G8 nations meeting this week agree to limit global warming to 2-degrees Celsius. Friends of the Earth set up a way for people to sign on to an apology to the G8 coordinators from the other nations and you responded with enthusiasm. We will continue delivering signatures until the meeting ends on Friday.

Sign here
http://tinyurl.com/2sm9g5

http://www.alternet.org/story/52956/


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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

I believe Third Party politics will play a much greater role in 2008 and that this role will only increase in future elections. And, personally, I believe this will be very healthy for America. The two major parties are thoroughly bought by highly financed special interests. They need to go! My friends, we must begin electing leaders who have a 3-dimensional perspective on life or this experiment in liberty will quickly expire.....

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Operation First Casualty - Santa Monica, CA

For video coverage, go to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0jSB-11zk

On Sunday, June 3rd 2007, the Los Angeles chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War conducted Operation First Casualty. Former Marine Sergeant Jason Lemiuex, who served three deployments in Iraq stated, "...under the premise that the first casualty of war is the truth. And the American people are getting fed this notion that we're in Iraq spreading freedom and making Iraq safe for democracy when really we're imposing a state of martial law on the people over there."

Taking the streets of Santa Monica by storm, Operation First Casualty was a huge success in raising awareness amongst the general population about the need to bring the troops home now. As veterans of the Iraq war shouted at, searched and hooded civilian volunteers, passers-by got a taste of what an occupation is like. During the street theatre, reenactments of a combat patrol, a riot with mass detention, and a soldier wounded by a roadside bomb occurred.

For video coverage, go to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0jSB-11zk

Tim Goodrich - Co-founder, Iraq Veterans Against the War


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Die Rohstoffe des Krieges

...Innerhalb der EU hat Deutschland die Führungsrolle in Bezug auf Coltan (Colombit-Tantalit) übernommen, eine aus der Computer- und Mobilfunkindustrie nicht mehr wegzudenkende Erzkombination. Ihr Abbau in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo während des Krieges Anfang dieses Jahrzehnts trug zur Finanzierung von Bürgerkriegsarmeen bei...

http://www.taz.de/dx/2007/06/05/a0151.1/text.ges,1



Abrüstung kein Thema

...Deutschland, Großbritannien, Japan und Frankreich wollen bestimmte Streumunitionen vom Verbot ausschließen und sprechen sich dafür aus, "alternative" High-Tech-Streumunition - unter anderem auf Basis von kinetischer Munition und Mikrowellen - zu beschaffen...

http://www.taz.de/dx/2007/06/05/a0122.1/text.ges,1

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Mikrowellenkanone fürs Militär
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by Nancy Levant

Be very careful about your confessions to social scientists. They are paid to profile and report. Remember that your Americanism, individuality, freedom, and brain now belong to their governing and financial masters, and they are checking to make sure you follow all Communitarian rules......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy91.htm
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by Cliff Kincaid

Wolf Blitzer did Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton a big favor on Sunday night. He didn’t ask about what Capitol Hill Blue is calling “Gupta-gate.” Let’s hope that Tuesday night’s CNN-hosted debate of Republican presidential candidates subjects the front-runner, Rudy Giuliani, to the scrutiny he deserves over his controversial foreign connections.....

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by Beverly Eakman

When dealing with professional provocateurs and agitators, one is never engaged in an honest intellectual debate. No matter how vehement the rhetoric, what professional agitators and provocateurs want is to sow discord and disillusionment among the rank and file, eventually exhausting their adversary’s time and resources....

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Deutsche Untertitel



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Informant: atlant

You got to watch this videos of Lindsey Williams. He even names names of the powers that be.

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Ken