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Speak Out for Northern Rockies Wolves
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Help Stop Aerial Gunning in Alaska
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The 'Good Guys' Chastise the G8 'Villains'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/08/1753/

Separate and Not Equal: The G8 Reveals Our Apartheid Style Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/08/1747/

Greenpeace Brands G8 Summit a Climate Failure, and Calls For Real Action at UN
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0608-03.htm



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Amerikanischen Forschern ist es gelungen, lebende Zellen derart mit Silizium-Nanodrähten zu verschmelzen, dass die Zellen in ihrem Wachstum nicht gestört werden.

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Dean Baker reports: "The inventory of unsold new and existing homes both stand at record highs. The 4,200,000 stock of unsold existing homes is more than a year's supply at the pre-bubble sales rates of the mid-90s. Furthermore, the surge in foreclosures ensures that a large additional supply will be entering the market well into 2008."

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Paul Krugman writes, "If early campaign reporting is any guide, the bad media habits that helped install the worst president ever in the White House haven't changed a bit."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807F.shtml



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Tom Engelhardt writes, "Iraq has always been 'South Korea' for the Bush administration."

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Katrina vanden Heuvel writes, "While many in the mainstream media swallow the Bush administration talking points on Russian President Vladimir Putin as if once again being spoon-fed pre-war intelligence, other experts on arms control and foreign policy suggest Putin has real reason to worry about the Bush administration's moves."

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After filing its suit against the dead men's estates, Blackwater demanded that its claim and the families' existing lawsuit be handled in private arbitration. By suing the families in arbitration, Blackwater has attempted to move the examination of their wrongful conduct outside the eye of the public and away from a jury. This comes at the same time Congress is investigating Blackwater.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807C.shtml



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Senior House Democrats threatened Thursday to issue subpoenas to obtain secret legal opinions and other documents from the Justice Department related to the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program. If the Democrats take that step, it would mark the most aggressive action yet by Congress in its oversight of the wiretapping program, and could set the stage for a constitutional showdown over the separation of powers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807A.shtml



Senate Judiciary Committee Subpoenas NSA Spying Documents

The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-3 to authorize chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) to issue subpoenas for documents related to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) voted with the Democrats on the committee to authorize the subpoenas for any legal opinions and advice the Bush administration has received regarding the NSA program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062107S.shtml



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In der Affäre um angebliche Verbindungen sächsischer Politiker und Justizbeamter in kriminelle Netzwerke hat der Chef der Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission (PKK) im sächsischen Landtag, Gottfried Teubner, schwere Vorwürfe gegen Kanzleramtsminister Thomas de Maizière (beide CDU) erhoben. De Maizière habe als früherer Innenminister in Sachsen und oberster Dienstherr des Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz die Vorschriften "nicht für ganz voll genommen", zitierte die "Leipziger Volkszeitung" Teubner. De Maizières Handeln sei "glatter Rechtsbruch". Als Dienstherr des sächsischen Geheimdienstes war de Maizière nach Ansicht von Teubner laut Gesetz verpflichtet, die PKK über rechtstaatlich bedeutsame Hinweise zur Organisierten Kriminalität (OK) zu informieren. "Dies ist nicht geschehen", sagte Teubner. De Maizière wollte sich zu den Anschuldigungen nicht äußern.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16091

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Kanzleramtschef de Maiziere möchte nicht zurücktreten

Der Aufarbeitung der Korruptionsaffäre in Sachsen sieht der frühere Landesinnenminister und heutige Kanzleramtschef Thomas de Maizière (CDU) angeblich gelassen entgegen. Er habe mit dieser Affäre kein Problem und sich auch nichts vorzuwerfen, sagte der CDU-Politiker am 11. Juni im ARD-"Morgenmagazin". Die Vorgänge würden jetzt von der Justiz aufgearbeitet. Dabei gehe es um die Frage, wann er als Innenminister wen informiert habe. Einen Rücktritt lehnt er ab. "Selbstverständlich" bleibe er Kanzleramtschef, sagte de Maiziére. Der Chef der Parlamentarischen Kontrollkommission (PKK) im sächsischen Landtag, Gottfried Teubner (CDU), hatte de Maiziére Rechtsbruch vorgeworfen. Der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Linksfraktion im Bundestag, Ulrich Maurer, forderte den Kanzleramtschef zum Rücktritt auf.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16097

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Kanzleramtsminister de Maizière soll Amt ruhen lassen

In der Korruptionsaffäre in Sachsen gerät die Arbeit von Kanzleramtsminister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) immer mehr in den Blickpunkt. Die Grünen forderten am 12. Juni, das Parlamentarische Kontrollgremium (PKG) des Bundestages für die Geheimdienste solle sich mit de Maizière im beschäftigen. Vertreter von FDP und Linkspartei forderten, der frühere sächsische Innenminister solle sein Amt als Geheimdienst-Koordinator ruhen lassen. Einem Medienbericht zufolge soll auch Sachsens Ministerpräsident Georg Milbradt (CDU) schon länger von der Affäre gewusst haben, ohne eine förmliche Untersuchung der Vorgänge zu veranlassen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16115

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Regierung bestätigt Strafanzeige gegen Kanzleramtschef de Maizière

Die Bundesregierung sieht derzeit keinen Anlass für personelle Konsequenzen aus der sächsischen Korruptionsaffäre. Der Parlamentarische Justizstaatsekretär Alfred Hartenbach (SPD) bestätigte am 13. Juni im Bundestag in Berlin zwar, dass es eine Strafanzeige gegen den heutigen Kanzleramtschef und früheren sächsischen Innenminister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) wegen Strafvereitelung im Amt gebe. Doch beruhe diese Anzeige allein auf Medienberichten und Gerüchten. Daher sehe die Regierung derzeit "keine Notwendigkeit für Konsequenzen". Abgesehen von Medienberichten gibt es offenbar umfangreiche Akten des Verfassungsschutzes zu den Vorgängen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16119

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der G8-Staaten wollten sich nicht auf eine Vereinbarung über einen Verhaltenskodex für die risikoreichen Hedgefonds einigen. In einer gemeinsamen Erklärung zu Wachstum und Verantwortung in der Weltwirtschaft räumten die Staats- und Regierungschefs der sieben führenden Industriestaaten und Russlands am 7. Juni lediglich die wachsenden Risiken solcher Fonds für das Weltfinanzsystem ein. Angesichts des Wachstums dieser Fondsart und der zunehmenden Komplexität der Handelsinstrumente müsse man weiter "wachsam" bleiben, hieß es in der Erklärung. Andererseits betonten die Politiker, dass Hedgefonds wesentlich zur "Effizienz des Weltfinanzsystems" beitragen würden.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16094



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Deutschland präsentiert sich selbst gerne als "Vorreiter" für alle guten Dinge auf dieser Welt. Der Blick von außen ist manchmal etwas anders. In internationalen Vergleichen ist Deutschland immer wieder Schlusslicht. So warnt die Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) vor einer steigenden Altersarmut in Deutschland. Einer am 7. Juni in Paris vorgestellten Vergleichsstudie zufolge liegt Deutschland bei den gesetzlichen Rentenleistungen für Geringverdiener unter den 30 OECD-Staaten an letzter Stelle. Grund sei, dass die Leistungen im Gegensatz zu den meisten OECD-Ländern linear an das Einkommen gekoppelt seien. Deutschland solle "der Rentenentwicklung für Geringverdiener besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenken und einem Anstieg der Altersarmut vorbeugen", sagte die Rentenexpertin der Organisation, Monika Queisser.

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Dear Buffalo Friends,

WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO. Your calls are needed now.

Approximately 50 wild buffalo are in the trap near West Yellowstone's airport right now. After all their quotes in papers worldwide promising not to slaughter any buffalo left in Montana, the agencies have back-tracked on their word to the American people and others throughout the world.

MONTANA INTENDS TO SLAUGHTER WILD BUFFALO TODAY.

A Montana Department of LIEStock press release stated they will capture and slaughter any bull bison that are in the small group of approximately 50 still in Montana. They claim the bison trap cannot handle bulls, which is another lie because, as you know, they've captured and sent to slaughter hundreds of bull bison over the years. Intent to slaughter bull bison was confirmed by officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

Bull bison pose no risk of brucellosis transmission. With calving season over, none of the buffalo pose any risk of brucellosis transmission to cattle. There are no cattle on the public lands that wild bison are migrating to. There has never been a confirmed case of wild bison transmitting brucellosis to cattle.

Agencies might also send yearling buffalo to the Corwin Springs quarantine facility, where they will be raised like livestock and used in scientific experiments. Half of all the yearlings sent to Corwin Springs will be slaughtered.

Apparently, the agencies will still transport the buffalo mothers and calves they capture in West Yellowstone to the Park's Stephens Creek bison trap near Gardiner. Transport is going to be a living hell for these moms and calves who will be separated for the over 150-mile long journey. They will hold the bison captive for a few days before releasing them.

BFC patrols are in the field documenting everything and doing a lot of community outreach near the capture facility.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION and attempt to save the lives of these bulls and yearlings. We've done it once, let's do it again. Please spread the word to save this herd!

* MONTANA GOVERNOR BRIAN SCHWEITZER: Ask him why he lied. Demand that Schweitzer keep his promise to not slaughter any buffalo! Tell him the solution is in year-round habitat for wild buffalo in Montana.
(406) 444-3111 (phone) * (406) 444-5529 (fax) * governor@mt.gov (email)

* MONTANA ACTING STATE VET JEANNE RANKIN: Urge her to withdraw her decision to slaughter Yellowstone bison bulls who pose NO RISK of transmitting brucellosis. Remind her the whole world is watching!
(406) 444-1895 (phone) * (800) 523-3162 (phone) * (406) 444-1929 (fax) * jrankin@mt.gov (email)

* YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK SUPERINTENDENT SUZANNE LEWIS: Ask her why she is part of the lie? Do not allow Montana to slaughter bulls or put yearlings in quarantine! These are AMERICA'S last wild buffalo, not Montana's. Tell her you know the Stephens Creek trap could hold bulls, so there's no reason that Montana should slaughter them!
(307) 344-2002 (phone)* (307) 344-2005 (fax) * suzanne_lewis@nps.gov OR yell_superintendent@nps.gov (email)

Thank you for keeping the pressure on these officials! These wild buffalo are the country's last. They have never transmitted the cattle-disease brucellosis back to the cows they got it from. They are native to all of Montana and have a right to roam, especially on our public lands.


SPREAD THE WORD ~ SAVE THE HERD!


Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media@wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

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Stephanie Seay of the Buffalo Field Campaign on the Slaughter of Wild Buffalo

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 fm interviews Stephanie Seay, media coordinator of the Buffalo Field Campaign about the Montana state and the federal government practice of capturing wild buffalo on public lands and slaughtering them or transporting them hundreds of miles in trucks or trains. In Montana in the last two weeks state and federal authorities planned to slaughter 300 wild buffalo, including calves and their mothers. It was stopped by the BFC and public outcry, but this is not the first time this has happened. In the last 7 years the government has trucked 2,000 wild buffalo to slaughter, 1,000 last year alone. Stephanie also talks about the cattle industry, the power they hold in Montana and how they influence decision making on the treatment of wild buffalo, the huge subsidies that the industry receives, and their access to public lands. And she discusses what concerned citizens can do to help defend the last remaining wild buffalo in North America.

Listen to the Audio: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/10/18426620.php


Informant: Eric Stewart

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Special Update: Bull Bison Spared; Hazing Continues

All of the buffalo captured in West Yellowstone on Friday - 52 total - were released Sunday morning. This includes the 16 bulls that the Montana Department of Livestock and Yellowstone National Park had intended to slaughter.

THANK YOU! YOUR PERSISTENT ACTION MADE THE DIFFERENCE AGAIN!

In less than two weeks, your calls and emails to Governor Schweitzer and Yellowstone National Park saved the lives of hundreds of buffalo and have brought an incredible amount of media attention to the issue.

While there is a relatively happy ending, these 52 buffalo endured an ordeal. Not only was their migration forcefully choked, they were captured, moms and calves were separated, family groups were broken apart, they were loaded onto livestock trailers, unloaded at the Duck Creek bison trap, re-loaded onto livestock trailers and hauled over 150 miles to the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Then they were placed in the Stephens Creek bison trap where they spent a few days before being hazed deeper into Yellowstone. Agents released them at 5:30 in the morning. Starting that early indicates that there was something they didn't want the public to see. You can see a short BFC video clip of the capture on our home page: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.

Over the weekend and up through today, the agents have been continuously harassing wild bison in Montana and Yellowstone National Park. Park visitors witnessed the shameful spectacle of the Interagency Bison Management Plan participants hazing wild bison from horseback and with a helicopter inside Yellowstone's boundaries. One Park ranger explained to outraged tourists today that they were witnessing "a buffalo drive." Welcome to the world's first national park.

Wild buffalo are being managed like livestock and treated as vermin under pressure from Montana's cattle industry. The agencies and media have been describing wild, migrating buffalo with words like "renegade," "wandering" and "recalcitrant." These same terms never apply to migrating whales, salmon, birds or other animals; why does Montana insist on such misnomers for wild bison? Native to nearly the entire North American continent, wild buffalo roam. Buffalo are doing exactly what they evolved to do. They are attempting to naturally restore themselves and while this should be cause for enormous celebration, government and industry punish them.

Year-round habitat for wild buffalo in Montana is the solution.

Keep the pressure on the decision-makers and the vision of wild, free-roaming buffalo alive. We will make it happen.

Roam Free!

Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

BOYCOTT BEEF! It's what's killing wild buffalo.

Speak Out! Contact politicians and involved agencies today: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

Write a Letter to the Editor of key newspapers: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/lte.html



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David Sirota is skeptical of the Democrats' claims that their hands are tied.

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Taming Corporations Gone Wild

by Ralph Nader, TomPaine.com
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Hours before Bush visits Italy, 26 US citizens will go on trial in absentia in Milan on Friday, accused of carrying out one of Washington's most controversial policies in its "war on terrorism." Almost all of the accused, believed to be CIA agents, have been charged with the 2003 kidnapping in Milan of a Muslim who was on Washington's list of terrorist suspects, flying him to Egypt and torturing him under interrogation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807P.shtml



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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of 11 to eight. The vote means the habeas bill can now be brought to the Senate floor at any time. Majority Leader Harry Reid may bring the bill to a vote within the month.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807N.shtml



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The United States agreed Thursday to "consider seriously" a European plan to combat global warming by cutting in half worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, the agreement did not alter the Bush administration's refusal to accept binding targets for emissions reductions.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807M.shtml



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"For months, senators have listened to a parade of well-coached Justice Department witnesses claiming to know nothing about how nine prosecutors were chosen for firing. This week, it was the turn of Bradley Schlozman, a former federal attorney in Missouri, to be uninformative and not credible. It is time for Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to deliver subpoenas that have been approved for Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, and their top aides, and to make them testify in public and under oath," says The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807L.shtml



Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed

Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago - over the objections of their immediate supervisors - by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights. Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed. But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to "make room for some good Americans" in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062107J.shtml



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John Edwards begins: "For six years, George Bush has used the language 'war on terrorism' to force through an ideological agenda that undermines our values and does nothing to undermine terrorism. The Bush 'Global War on Terror Doctrine' is a political slogan - a political slogan that the president has used to stifle opposition to the biggest abuses and worst mistakes of his administration: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, spying on Americans, torture. None of this has made us safer, and all of it has undermined American values and the perception of American values around the world."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807K.shtml



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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06072007.html


Informant: John Fitz



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By Peter Dewhurst

St Bede The Venerable Church, which is the proposed site of the mobile telephone mast

FEARS over plans to install a mobile phone mast on a Pendle church have led to a campaign to oppose it – including possible protests at services on Sunday.

The proposal is to add the mast – disguised as a flagpole – to St Bede's Church in Railway Street, a residential area of Nelson. Initial permission will be needed from a consistory court, which deals with planning issues within Anglican churches.

Chairman of Pendle Council's Nelson Committee Coun. David Foster has called on residents to turn up at the church on Sunday to object.

A campaign was mounted in February, 2006, after letters were sent to residents. The response to applicants QS4 was that householders did not want a phone mast in or on the church, says ward councillor Gary Bird.

He added: "I am appalled at the way these people have treated our Clover Hill community on this issue – firstly attempting to gain the residents' confidence in 2006 by claiming no development would proceed without their opinions being taken into account, then seemingly disregarding these opinions by proposing a further development in 2007 without any resident consultation whatsoever."

Coun. Foster added: "I am disgusted with the Church of England after residents of Clover Hill objected to these proposals for a mast on St Bede's, highlighting the health hazards.

"The health of the residents must be paramount before coppers into the church funds.

"By urging all residents to attend the church services of St Paul's and St Bede's this Sunday to voice their disapproval we will make it clear that we, the residents of Clover Hill, are against the proposals for the new 3G telephone systems, so telling QS4 that they are not wanted here in Clover Hill."

Coun. Bird urges all residents and churchgoers to make their objections to the scheme in writing, by Friday, June 15th, to: The Diocesan Registrar, Diocesan Offices, Cathedral Close, Blackburn, BB1 5AA.

The Vicar said: "I would encourage anyone to write to the Registrar with their opinions. I feel it is important everyone's views are considered.

"I would encourage people to make their views known but would ask them not to disrupt the worship."

Anne McMillan of QS4 said: "We have complied with the local planning authority regulations by submitting a licence notification, which has since timed-out with no comment from the local authority. Running in parallel with this is the petition for faculty, which is with the registrar of the Diocese of Blackburn awaiting completion of the citation period as per the laws of the Church of England.

"This 28-day period finishes on Thursday, June 14th, and thereafter the papers, including the public notice, will be forwarded to the Chancellor of the Diocese of Blackburn for his consideration. The public notice is currently on display at the church. The form contains details as to how the public can comment on the proposal directly to the registrar.

"We have followed all the ecclesiastical and secular guidelines in respect of the proposal, and would willingly meet with Couns Bird and Foster at a mutually-convenient time should they wish to do so."

Nelson police chief Insp. Russ Procter said: "We would encourage any persons wishing to protest to seriously consider the congregation in the church and their right to worship in private.

"They should also consider that there are possible public order offences involved in protesting within a church or its grounds. We would ask them to consider carefully their actions."

l Protesters at the church need to be careful, of course. Under the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860, people "guilty of riotous, violent or indecent behaviour" in any cathedral, church or chapel, or even in the grounds, can be fined or even jailed.

All rights reserved ©2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/nelson-news?articleid=2938735



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http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/:Die-Seite-Gipfels-Klein-Guantanamo-Rostock/590715.html

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G8: Gewalt und Berichterstattung

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http://www.g8-tv.org/index.php?Vlang=ger
http://www.g8-tv.org/

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Polizei bestätigt Einschleusen von Zivilbeamten
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,487487,00.html

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

08. Juni 2007

Protest ist in, G8 sind out

Zum Abschluss des G8-Gipfels erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Die Gipfelproteste waren abgesehen von den Ausschreitungen am Samstag

- ein Erfolg der Vielfalt und Kreativität. Die zahlreichen friedlichen Aktionen und Diskussionsrunden haben dem G8-Gipfel zu Recht die Show gestohlen. Das Signal war eindeutig: Eine andere Welt ist möglich! DIE LINKE war Bestandteil der Gipfelproteste und hat zu deren Gelingen beigetragen. Wir waren als LINKE sichtbar, gleichzeitig haben wir vertrauensvoll mit einem breiten Bündnisspektrum kooperiert und eigene gut besuchte Diskussionsangebote eingebracht. Eigentliche Ergebnisse des Gipfels in Heiligendamm sucht man vergeblich. Es wurde als Erfolg verkauft, was ohnehin schon verabredet war. Unterm Strich gibt es:

* keine wirklichen Zielvorgaben oder verbindlichen Selbstverpflichtungen beim Kampf gegen den Klimawandel,

* windelweiche Erklärungen zur Transparenz von Hedge Fonds ohne Konsequenzen,

* keine politischen Vorgaben für Investitionen in den Schwellenländern,

* viel Betroffenheit statt aktiver Politik in Krisenregionen.

Auf die wirklichen Fragen unserer Zeit, wie Klimawandel und Armut in Afrika, hat der Gipfel keine Antworten gegeben. Die G8 als interner Machtzirkel hat sich überholt, es wird Zeit, dass die Regierungschefs von ihrem Gipfel herabsteigen und eine Politik auf Augenhöhe betreiben auch mit den Entwicklungsländern. Nach dem Gipfel ist vor dem Gipfel - der globalisierungskritische Protest geht weiter. Die Linke muss weiterhin organischer Bestandteil sozialer Bewegungen bleiben, um gesellschaftliche Kräfteverhältnisse zu verändern und Spielräume für linke Politik auszuweiten.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35891

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Mutmaßlicher Polizist der Polizei übergeben
Polizei soll vermummte Zivilbeamte als Provokateure eingesetzt haben

Während sich die G8-Teilnehmer in Heiligendamm hinter verschlossenen Türen treffen, tobt draußen vor dem Sperrzaun ein verbissener Kampf. Sicherheitsbehörden und Demonstranten liefern sich nicht nur ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, sondern ringen sodann auch um die Deutungshoheit über das Geschehen bei den Protesten. Geht die Polizei zu brutal vor oder setzt sie gar Agents Provocateurs ein? Stand ein Sabotageakt unmittelbar bevor? Werden Zahlen von Verletzten manipuliert? Schwaden von Behauptungen und Gerüchten umziehen den Gipfel. Die Wahrheit ist nicht klar auszumachen. Manchmal allerdings scheinen Details eine deutliche Sprache zu sprechen. Der Anwaltliche Notdienst wirft der Polizei vor, Zivilbeamte als Provokateure eingesetzt haben.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16090

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Kontrolle von Briefsendungen wegen G8-Gipfel soll unrechtmäßig gewesen sein

Nach der systematischen Kontrolle von Briefsendungen von G8-Gegnern hat die Bürgerrechtsorganisation Humanistische Union Beschwerde bei der Bundesanwaltschaft erhoben. "Bei den Kontrollen wurden die gesetzlichen Vorgaben gleich mehrfach außer Acht gelassen", sagte deren stellvertretender Bundesvorsitzender Fredrik Roggan am 7. Juni in Berlin. Eine Kontrolle sämtlicher Briefe daraufhin, ob sie eventuell verdächtigen Aussehens sind, sei mit den gesetzlichen Vorgaben unvereinbar. Ein Ermittlungsrichter des Bundesgerichtshofs (BGH) hatte die Maßnahme nach den Paragrafen 99 und 100 der Strafprozessordnung angeordnet, um Bekennerschreiben von militanten G8-Gegnern frühzeitig aus dem Postgang aussortieren zu können.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16086

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Nach dem Gipfel

Erfolgreiche Blockaden, ein großes Konzert, Einigkeit der Protestbewegung, die Rolle der Medien und von Polizisten in Zivil.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25469/1.html



Der "Riesenerfolg" von Merkel

Wie schon vermutet, ist die Erklärung zur Klimapolitik ein unverbindliches Dokument zur Gesichtswahrung geworden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25459/1.html

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jW online: G 8 spezial
http://www.jungewelt.de/g8/?id=237

Enttäuschung in Heiligendamm
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,487417,00.html



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TCS Daily
by Robert Haddick

06/06/07

The days of the independent, neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from a war’s front lines, are quickly coming to an end. In the future, a war correspondent will either effectively be a soldier for one faction of a conflict, or he will literally not survive in the war zone. In today’s media age, the requirement for combatants to shape perceptions about the nature of a conflict, and the necessity of denying that ability to the enemy, are more crucial than firepower and logistics, the traditional measures of battlefield dominance. Successful media operations energize a faction’s supporters and demoralize its enemies. When effective, this is more important than squadrons of fighter-bombers or train-loads of assault rifles. Whether they like or not, journalists are in the army now...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=060607A


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Free Market News Network
by Mike Landfair

06/06/07

On a day that Scooter Libby is sentenced to 30 months in jail for doing something, nobody knows what, the sentencing judge, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said.: ‘People who occupy these types of positions, where they have the welfare and security of nation in their hands, have a special obligation to not do anything that might create a problem.’ On this day, with that in mind, Ron Kessler of NewsMax, informs us that the son of the third most powerful person in the U.S. government, Paul Pelosi Jr., has been placed on the payroll of InfoUSA – even though he has no experience in the company’s main business activities at a salary of $180,000 per year...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/178/7785/corrupt.asp?nid=7785&wid=178


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Whither the remnant?

LewRockwell.Com
by Butler Shaffer

06/07/07

Political systems do not like to resort to any more coercive practices than are necessary to sustain their power over people. Threats and the exercise of force are the resources upon which the state depends, and — like the wealth that private persons spend in conducting their peaceful, marketplace transactions — political authorities are not inclined to waste their usage. But when state power is no longer respected; when men and women engage in basic social practices outside the supervision of the state; and when all of politics comes to be seen as nothing more than an elaborate self-serving racket benefiting those who control the machinery of the state, the herd must be shepherded back to its appointed confinements. If the public is to be kept obedient, it must be kept in a constant state of fear...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer157.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
by Rusty White

06/07/07

This is America, either we are free or we are not. Which is it? A vote to end this known failure called the war on drugs, and replace it with Regulation and Legalization is not a vote for or against drugs. It is a vote to save our kids lives and the very values and principals this great nation was founded upon. So there you have it, you can continue to follow a known failure, or get back on the path our ancestors demanded, adhering to truth, facts, logic and common sense...

http://blog.leap.cc/?p=95


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Liberty For All
by Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks

06/07/07

Assembly Bill 5424, recently introduced by State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), is a draconian measure which will victimize many innocent New York men and fathers. The bill requires ‘any person against whom an order of protection is issued … to wear an electronic monitoring device.’ The device will allow pinpoint tracking of the wearer, and tampering with the device will be a felony...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=697


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Classically Liberal
by CLS

06/07/07

Certain neighboring, friendly nations have routinely been open to Americans for visits without the need of federal travel documents known as passports. Canada, Mexico and some Caribbean nations have always welcomed Americans provided they have some form of ID. They still do. It is the United States government that is restricting the ability of US citizens to travel without being screened by the federal government first. This is entirely a roadblock imposed by DC and not by foreign governments. One of the hallmarks of the Bush administration has been utter incompetency at any task it has set out to do. They knew for months that these new restrictions on travel freedom were being imposed. And yet they were unprepared for it. Thousands and thousands of citizens who had travel plans are finding the US government is screwing them up. Thanks George. Passport appliations that were filed months ago are still being processed and people are missing their planes. The State Department blames the long delays on ‘unprecendented demand.’ Bs... These people are not flocking for the documents because they are a new fad. They are there because George Bush is forcing them to be there. No one is clamouring for federal approval for their vacation plans...

http://tinyurl.com/29pa4x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

06/06/06

I don’t know which is more disturbing: That they’re willing to inflict psychosis on somebody, or that they think a psychotic, hallucinating inmate is a reliable source of information. Even if one had no moral objections to torturing ‘bad guys,’ and no pragmatic concerns about whether the government can reliably distinguish ‘bad guys’ from ‘guys caught in the wrong place at the wrong time on a hunch,’ there’s still the issue of reliability. With methods that inflict physical pain, there’s the possibility that somebody will say anything to make it stop. With fanatics, there’s the possibility that they’ll deliberately lie to buy time for the alleged ticking time bomb to go off. And now we add a new concern to the list: That we put the inmate into a state where he can’t grasp reality, and hence his statements are unreliable...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/06/06/6574


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/157010


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Truthdig
by Bill Boyarsky

06/07/07

There’s a direct line from Nixon to Bush. Nixon wiretapped. Bush approved illegal electronic eavesdropping. Bush defied congressional requests for testimony and documents dealing with a variety of matters, invoking the Nixon doctrine of executive privilege. And both of them cost the nation thousands of lives without purpose.Who’s the worst? What a dumb question...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070605_worst_president_ever/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Jeanne Carstensen

06/08/07

A science writer for the New Yorker known for his ‘dark biology’ series of books about biological warfare and killer viruses, Richard Preston has written extensively about the fearful power of nature, especially when unleashed by human ignorance, arrogance and greed. ‘The Wild Trees,’ which began as a story in the magazine, is also a cautionary tale, about the destruction of the forests, and especially forest canopies, where half of all species on earth are thought to exist. But really it’s a love story — about love of nature and discovery, of tree climbing, and of botanists for each other. It’s so beautifully written that I found myself reading it out loud...

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/06/08/wild_trees/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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

by Byron Richards, CCN

Plainly stated, the FDA is set on becoming a drug company involved in every aspect of drug development for the next century. This pipe dream involves using sophisticated FDA software and related technologies to set the standards for the future of medicine, which will soon require your DNA in an FDA-owned supercomputer if you would like medical care. The FDA will help design all drugs from the ground up. The FDA, through the.....

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron33.htm



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Your Voice against Trade of Ivory

Take action now
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=214405&msource=DR070602001&tr=y&auid=2732541

"For all the talk about immigration reform on the Hill, there has been notably little discussion about what is driving Mexican immigrants to pour over the border into the US, let alone any debate about measures that might go to the root of the problem," writes James Ridgeway in his introduction to what's missing from the immigration debate.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060707LB.shtml



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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed environmental agreements with two Canadian provinces that commit Ontario and British Columbia to adhere to California's low-carbon fuel standard. This will cut the use of petroleum sources, such as Alberta's, that cause high levels of global-warming emissions.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060707EB.shtml

Congress has avoided upgrading fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles during the past three decades. With $3-plus gasoline prices and global warming, however, there may be a new outlook on Capitol Hill.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060707EA.shtml

Beginning to trade on the NYSE last week, Northwest Airlines dodged the bankruptcy bullet. But while a $1.4 billion a year cut in labor expenses has ensured lower costs, why are airline executives still flying high on salaries, stock options and benefits, while workers and retirees see cuts in pay and compensation?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707U.shtml



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As the House late Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to launch speedy ethics investigations of any member indicted for criminal conduct, Rep. John Doolittle of California voted against two measures on the matter. The Roseville Republican is under federal investigation for political corruption in connection with his relationship with imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707T.shtml



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Another US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces there to 3,501, including 23 deaths in the first six days of June.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707S.shtml

June 14 is going to be a big day, says William Rivers Pitt, referring to the date that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will hear the outcome of his appeals process. Bush's decision on whether to pardon Libby presents, "perhaps the most dangerous tipping point facing the Bush administration," declares Pitt. Does Bush pardon Libby to avoid "the kind of terminal public backlash Nixon absorbed after the firing of Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal," or should he avoid pardoning Libby and risk Libby's decision to "escape prison time by telling Fitzgerald what he knows?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707R.shtml



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Help Repeal Bush's Mock Trials Law

Did you know that last year President Bush signed a law that dishonors our obligations under the Geneva Conventions and allows unreliable statements gained by torture or coercion to be used as evidence against defendants. This is just one more nail in America's international reputation, that has already suffered terribly because of the Bush war of choice against Iraq. The international good will toward America that existed after the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001 has been squandered by the Bush Administration.

Chris Dodd is seeking to restore America's moral authority and rebuild international respect for our country. Earlier this month Chris Dodd introduced a bill that would stop President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq, and now he has introduced legislation that overturns the sham trials and admissibility of tainted evidence made possible by the Military Commissions Act. Read the legislation:

http://www.restore-habeas.org

Sen. Dodd is asking for citizen co-sponsors of the bill, so please visit the link below and sign on!

http://www.restore-habeas.org

Thanks!

Corey Mondello

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Restoring America's Standing in the World and Security Begins with Restoring Constitution, Habeas Corpus

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dodd/restoring-americas-stand_b_51114.html

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Petition to repeal the Patriot Act

Take Action: TrueMajority.org http://act.truemajority.org/o/1/t/3/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=9


Informant: ranger116

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Please support the "Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007"- Bill S.576

Contact your Senators today!

Please support the "Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007"- Bill S.576, co-sponsored by senators Russell Feingold of Wisconsin and Robert Menendez of New Jersey which was introduced by Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut on February 13, 2007.

More information

Bill Information:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.576:

The ACLU's letter on S. 3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, is available at: http://www.aclu.org/natsec/gen/26861leg20060925.html

Take action

Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 - Bill # S.576 http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/bills/?bill=9394121

Dodd, Leahy, Feingold, Menendez Introduce Bill To Restore Habeas Corpus Rights, Ban Torture, And Uphold Geneva Conventions - Reintroduce Bill Correcting Flawed Military Commissions Act http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200702/021207a.html


Informant: Corey

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The U.S. Constitution: Well Worth the Fight!
http://www.slideshare.net/Mormons4justice/the-us-constitution/1

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Keith Olbermann: Restoring Habeas Corpus

Keith Olbermann applauds the Senate Judiciary Committee's efforts to restore habeas corpus and discusses this issue with Jonathan Hurley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061107B.shtml



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You wouldn't guess that he once helped engineer a failed coup against Saddam Hussein, that he speaks Arabic and Farsi, that he once prowled the lawless valleys of Lebanon in service to the Central Intelligence Agency, or that George Clooney played him in the movie "Syriana."

http://www.gazette.com/articles/baer_23254___article.html/iran_iraq.html


From Information Clearing House



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Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/2776k8


From Information Clearing House



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Two military judges, acting separately in the cases of two alleged terrorists, have dismissed war crimes charges against both. The legal reasoning is technical. But this breakdown is no technicality -- it is a farce.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=595793


From Information Clearing House



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If the Bush administration forces the CIA to drop "tough" interrogation techniques like waterboarding, the agency will probably fall back on a brutal method that leaves no physical marks.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/07/sensory_deprivation/


From Information Clearing House



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Dick Marty, the author of a report for the Council of Europe, told Channel 4's Dispatches programme - 'we can now confirm that there were secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.'

http://tinyurl.com/3d7wo3


From Information Clearing House

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Report Confirms CIA Secret Prisons in Europe

The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, a Council of Europe report will conclude today. Despite denials by their governments, senior Polish and Romanian security officials have confirmed to the council that their countries were used to hold America's prisoners in secret.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060807J.shtml



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Stephen Lendman

The human species teeters on the edge putting excess personal gratification and living for today ahead of the long-term consequences of bad behavior.

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/05/terrorism-defined.html



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Again and again, the U.S. has used Islamic groups and militants to advance their strategic interests around the globe, and on several occasions these same individuals have attacked and killed innocent civilians in America and across the world.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2057.shtml


From Information Clearing House

"Most of the deliveries to support the Lebanese Armed Forces over the last several weeks were purchased with Lebanese national funds, rather than US security assistance monies", she affirmed.

http://tinyurl.com/2qhcj6


From Information Clearing House

Ted Rall: Left Turn

Have you noticed? Those pro-war "Support Our Troops" car magnets are disappearing faster than the Clinton budget surplus.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20070605/cm_ucru/leftturn


From Information Clearing House

Veterans Charlie Litkey and Roy Bourgeois offered, as members of Veterans for peace, to help active duty soldiers oppose the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17846.htm



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Open Letter to the President of the American Psychological Association

We write you as psychologists concerned about the participation of our profession in abusive interrogations of national security detainees at Guantánamo, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at the so-called CIA "black sites."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17847.htm



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By Joseph L. Galloway

The Democrats in Congress wring their hands, gnash their teeth and wail that there was nothing they could do but cave in and vote to continue funding the war in Iraq. After all, that crafty George W. Bush had maneuvered them into a corner and they didn't have the votes to override his veto. Horse manure.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17845.htm



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By John Pilger

An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable" which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers". In a letter to the BBC's Newsnight and Medialens.org he accuses the media's "embedded coverage with the US Army" of failing to question "the intentions and continuing effects of the US-led invasion and occupation".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17844.htm



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From Information Clearing House



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Today, many, if not most, Americans seem eager to surrender practically any freedom upon the promise of protection and security. We no longer cherish the idea of liberty. Liberty seems to be no more valuable than a poker chip to be gambled away if the pot is sweetened with the promise that the government will take care of us.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin375.htm



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We've asked Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and seen no progress. Iraq's Parliament, on the other hand, is taking steps to legally require that the occupation end. A note from you, as an American, to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C., might help move the Iraqi government where Congress dares not go.

SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.democrats.com/node/13188

As a resident of the United States, I am contacting you in a spirit of friendship and sorrow. I apologize for the behavior of my government and its insistence on occupying your nation. I would like to urge your government to do what the majority of the American people and the majority of the Iraqi people want done, but what the U.S. government is unwilling to do: end the occupation. If you will take this step and send our military men and women home to their families, I will commit to doing everything I can to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq by Iraqis once the occupation is over.

ADD YOUR NAME: http://www.democrats.com/node/13188


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0607-04.htm



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California could become the first state to formally call for immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq under a ballot proposal that the state Senate approved on Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707H.shtml

Representatives of three liberal-leaning groups came to the Justice Department in 2004, armed with evidence that hundreds of public-assistance agencies had illegally failed to offer voter registration to their mostly poor and minority clients.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+registration

Robert Parry writes: "It's a well-worn talking point for George W. Bush's supporters to say there was no underlying crime beneath former White House aide I. Lewis Libby's conviction for obstructing justice, a debatable point itself. But the evidence is clear there was a larger cover-up conspiracy - and it could still unravel."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707E.shtml



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The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking answers regarding an "uncomfortable" conversation on the firing of US attorneys between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Monica Goodling that the former Department of Justice aide described in recent testimony.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707D.shtml



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Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his closest political confidants and financial backers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707B.shtml



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Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in written remarks Wednesday, that Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a top Justice Department lawyer after the official called into question the legality of the White House's secret domestic spying program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707A.shtml



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HLV INFO 60/AT

7-06-2007

Prof. Dr. Karl Richter 6-06-07

VERANSTALTUNGSHINWEIS

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

in Zusammenarbeit mit der neugegründeten 'Kompetenzinitiative zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie' lädt das Bündnis saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk für den 12. Juni, 19.30 Uhr, in den großen Sitzungssaal des Rathauses Homburg / Saar zu einem Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, Physikprofessor der TU München und Vorsitzender der ÖDP, ein:

"Macht Mobilfunk krank?"

Einladungstext mit weiteren Angaben anbei.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/plakat_vortraege_2007.pdf

Die erwähnte Kompetenzinitiative, die wir bei dieser Gelegenheit mit vorstellen werden, ist eine deutschlandweite und internationale Reaktion auf beobachtete fachliche, demokratische und ethische Defizite derzeitiger Verbraucherschutz- und Umweltpolitik. Über ihr Programm und erste Aktivitäten - u. a. Auseinandersetzung mit industriefinanzierten Ärzteschulungen und einem fragwürdigen Spiegel-Journalismus - informiert die Website http://www.kompetenzinitiative.de ; über die Arbeit unseres saarländischen Bürgerbündnisses http://www.buerger-machen-mobil.de .

Vorträge zu einem verantwortungsbewussten Einsatz der Messtechnik, zum Verschwinden der Bienen und den Folgen einer staatlich konzessionierten Mitgestaltung des Verbraucherschutzes durch die Interessenvertretung der Mobilfunkindustrie (IZMF) werden in unserem diesjährigen Veranstaltungsprogramm folgen.

Wir bitten die Medien des Landes, auf unsere Veranstaltungen hinzuweisen und darüber zu berichten.

Wir bitten interessierte Ärzte, Heilpraktiker, Wissenschaftler sowie Landes- und Kommunalpolitiker aller Parteien, die sich einer verharmlosenden staatlichen Informationspolitik und erst recht der 'Aufklärung' von Ärzten, Schulen und Eltern durch die Mobilfunkindustrie nicht anvertrauen wollen, mit uns Kontakt aufzunehmen.

Wir bitten Bürgerinnen und Bürger, unsere Arbeit zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie zu unterstützen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i. A. des Bündnisses saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk
Prof. Dr. Karl Richter, Judith Hemm und Armin Scheid

IDA and RSPCA call on consumers and lawmakers to reject deadly "delicacy".
http://www.banfoiegras.org/page.php?module=press_release&article_id=7183

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FOIE GRAS SHOULD MAKE YOU SICK
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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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by Rick Perlstein, TomPaine.com

How Christian conservative activists spread a vicious lie about a hate crimes bill.
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Six human rights groups on Wednesday released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown, calling on the Bush administration to abandon such detentions.

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Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, former senior Justice official James B. Comey told senators yesterday. Comey's disclosures, made in response to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicate that Cheney and his aides were more closely involved than previously known in a fierce internal battle over the legality of the warrantless surveillance program.

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Jun 7 2007

by Lyndsay Young, Bootle Times

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to install a mobile phone mast near a Bootle school will go before Sefton Council’s planning committee tonight (Thursday).

It is expected that the plans to site a T Mobile phone mast on the corner of the pavement at the junction of Orrell Mount and Hawthorne Road will go ahead.

The 15m high monopole and equipment cabinets would be sited on the pavement in front of the Orrell Mount Industrial Estate, 80m from houses and 150m from St Wilfrid’s High School.

A letter objecting to the plans was submitted by the school as well as three letters from residents in Rose Avenue, Walker Drive and Hawthorne Road.

They complained it is too close to the school, houses and major redevelopment schemes; there is a lack of information about the health impact and it would have detrimental affect on the appearance of the road.

However has been recommended that prior approval should be granted by councillors at tonight’s meeting at Bootle Town Hall.

In his report to the committee, Andy Wallis, Sefton Council’s planning and economic regeneration director said: “The proposal will not have a detrimental impact on the visual amenity of the area, nor on nearby residential properties and schools, therefore approval is recommended.”

In his report he comments that The Stewart Report on the health affects of mobile phone masts concluded that there was no general risk.

Mr Wallis said: “There is substantial independent expert opinion that indicates that exposure levels from living near to a mobile phone base station are not likely to pose any risk to health.”

The report states that when Sefton Council has refused applications for masts they are generally given the go-ahead if an appeal is made.

Mr Wallis added: “The monopole and cabinets are sited sufficiently far from houses and the school not to have any direct detrimental impact on residents and schoolchildren.”

l The planning meeting will start at 6.30pm.

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

07. Juni 2007

Zu dem angeblichen G8-Durchbruch beim Klimaschutz erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Man hat den Eindruck: Die G8 reden vom Wetter, wir reden vom Klimaschutz. In Zeiten des Klimawandels reicht es nicht aus, auf Schönwetter zu machen. Sicherlich sitzt mit George Bush Frau Merkel ein harter Klimaschutzgegner gegenüber. Der angeblich erzielte Durchbruch ist ein weiterer Schritt auf dem Pfad der wirkungslosen Unverbindlichkeiten. Man könnte auch sagen: Außer Spesen nicht gewesen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35889



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PARENTS are fearing for their children’s safety after a phone mast was erected on a neighbouring rugby field.

Residents of Hartshead Avenue, which backs on to Ashton Rugby Club’s ground, claim they were not told about the mast, which was erected two weeks ago.

Mum-of-four Elaine McCabe’s garden is next to the field.

“I was really shocked. Children play on that field and schools use it too and I wonder if parents have been made aware they are playing under one of those things,” she said.

“I’ve read articles about electromagnetic radiation — about incidents of childhood cancer increasing because of it. My garden is around 150m from the mast so I’m annoyed that I didn’t receive a letter warning me about it.

“There’s not been enough research done about these masts so they shouldn’t be putting them up anywhere near houses fullstop. There’s plenty of hills round here — why don’t they put them on there?

Tameside Council says it is only legally obliged to inform residents within four metres of any planned mast, but that on this occasion informed the 40 nearest houses, without any complaints being made.

Rugby Club secretary, Dennis Gee, said: “As far as safety, emissions from that — so we’ve been told — are about the same as when you use your own mobile phone. The mast has gone through three years of planning applications at the highest level possible.

“It’s a T Mobile mast, a massive company — they’re not just going to plonk one of these things down unless they’re sure it’s safe,” he said.

“If residents have any problems we want them to come in and see us at the rugby club. We don’t want any hassle, we want to get on with out neighbours.

“We’ll sit down and have a chat.”

A Tameside Council spokeswoman added: “This site was specifically chosen because it is furthest from local houses and near to existing trees to provide screening.” Eve Dugdale

First published by the Tameside Advertiser

© Copyright 2007 Guardian Media Group

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WIFI news from Norway

Good news, we have made some progress in Norway regarding WIFI.

There is now a major initiative from the largest environmental organisation in Norway to ban WIFI from all public areas, starting with schools and kindergardens.

http://www1.vg.no/teknologi/artikkel.php?artid=153690

The article headline reads: "Fears that children are getting damaged by radiation. Environmentalists want to ban wireless networks."

And continues... "Wireless transmitters for PC networks emits so much health damaging radiation that a ban is called for in Norwegian schools.

The man on the photo is the main guy in the largest Norwegian environmental organisation, Kurt Oddekalv.

We have been working on this issue together with one of the leaders in the Norwegian el-sensitive group, who now works for this environmental organisation. It will be an interesting process to see what players will enter this discussion now to try and ridicule or stop it.

Anyway, the discussion has started and surely there will be some activities from parents and the like to have schools remove WIFI.

Regards,

Børge Mørk
Norway

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Norwegian Environmental Group

Green Warriors of Norway
http://www.greenwarriors.com/
Leader: Kurt Oddekalv
Phone: (+47) 90 89 22 68
Email: kurt (Add @nmf.no)

http://www.miljovernforbundet.no/render.asp?ID=52&segment=1&session=
http://www.miljovernforbundet.no/render.asp?ID=55&segment=1&session=

Wireless causes health problems
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Salon
by Jennifer Daskal

06/06/07

If the Bush administration had any sense, Monday’s courtroom spectacle would mark the death knell of the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On Sunday evening, I climbed off a chartered jet full of journalists, cameramen, lawyers, military handlers and other independent observers, anticipating what was to be the start of the first full-blown trials here. After more than five years in U.S. detention and multiple court challenges, two detainees — Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was arrested, and Salim Hamdan, alleged to be one of Osama bin Laden’s drivers — were finally going to be brought to trial. But by Monday evening, both cases had been dismissed, and the fate of any future such trials was left in serious jeopardy...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/06/gitmo_trials/


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LewRockwell.Com
by Karen Kwiatkowski

Today, in the United States, unlimited information is instantly available to old and young, to the formally educated and the illiterate, to the fact finder and the politician, the entrepreneur, the scientist, the worker, and the business mogul. This wonderful 21st century may be exactly what the anti-federalists envisioned. I am often reminded of the famous quote from the 1992 movie remake of the Last of the Mohicans. A Loyalist commander asks, ‘And who empowered these colonials to pass judgment on England’s policies, and to come and go without so much as a ‘by your leave?’” Cora Munro answers, ‘They do not live their lives ‘by your leave!’ They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!’ Mostly due to modern technologies, we have today outstanding decentralization, mobility, unleashed human creativity, and if we need it, anonymity. We have the wilderness. We have, or can get, what we need to live our lives, and control our destinies. We can ‘hack’ out our own lives. We may be taught to live our lives at the direction, and by the permission, of government, but in fact, we don’t have to... (speech given at the recent FFF conference; published 06/06/07)

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Gary D. Barnett

06/06/07

Some comparisons are just too tough to stomach, but the time has come to stomach one of them just the same. The United States has become the opposite of what was intended by our Founding Fathers. It is now not free, but rather sunk in dictatorial morass. What has become of us Americans? Why are we so weak as a people? Why do we not stand up for justice, right, and freedom, and against big, omnipotent government?

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Asia Times
by M K Bhadrakumar

06/06/07

The escalating war of words over the United States’ proposed deployment of a missile defense system in Europe highlights the determined effort by Washington to eliminate Moscow’s strategic parity with the US. This is the first essential step toward the US regaining “unipolarity”. Moscow is firmly resisting, no matter what it takes, and has a budding ally in China...

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The American Conservative
by Andrew J. Bacevich

06/04/07

Courting the soldier vote during the 2000 presidential campaign, the candidate made this simple promise: ‘Help is on the way.’ Throughout the 1990s, Republicans had regularly lambasted the Clinton administration for misusing America’s military and for failing to show soldiers proper respect. Electing George W. Bush was supposed to fix that. The electoral strategy paid off handsomely: the absentee votes of soldiers helped Bush carry Florida and claim the Oval Office. Yet rather than delivering help, the Bush administration has since subjected the Armed Forces of the United States to sustained abuse. The scandal at Walter Reed is not some isolated blemish on an otherwise admirable record. It is emblematic of the way that this administration has treated soldiers...

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MSNBC

06/06/07

A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and four other groups have drawn up a list of 39 so-called ‘ghost detainees’ — people they claim are held by U.S. authorities and are still missing...

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Bennington Banner

06/07/07

Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, picked by President Bush as his White House war adviser, said Wednesday he had been skeptical of Bush’s decision to send thousands more U.S. troops into Iraq. In a written response to questions by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lute confirmed news reports that he had voiced doubts during a White House-led policy review that led to Bush’s Jan. 10 announcement that 21,500 more combat troops would go to Baghdad and Anbar province...

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Are corporate foundations really out to feed the hungry, or are they hypocritical Trojan Horses on a mission to hijack the world's food supply - to create the most complete and ultimate state of dependency.

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From Information Clearing House

Global Confidence In Greenback Falls
http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/syria-dumps-dollar-peg/2007/06/05/


From Information Clearing House

Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6724531.stm


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Without fanfare, or announcement of any kind, the president recently signed a directive which states that in case of a "catastrophic emergency" the "President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." What is a catastrophic emergency? Well, it is anything that Bush says it is.

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Australian David Hicks became the military commission system's first scalp when he pleaded guilty on March 30 to a terrorism charge.

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Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, says US treatment of those combatants violates the Geneva Conventions.

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Congress warns on Guantanamo rulings

THE White House must work with Congress on a new system for trying terror suspects after a military court threw out charges against two Guantanamo Bay inmates, top Democrats said today.

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Democrats want habeas corpus for detainees

Congressional Democrats are seizing on rulings against the current terror trial system to call for the right of detainees to file habeas corpus suits.

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14 US Congress Members Support Cheney Impeachment
http://www.impeachcheney.org/

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Five US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment

US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has become the fifth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the additional three Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), and Albert Wynn (D-MD).

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0169.html


From Information Clearing House

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Six Congress Members for Impeachment

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

Thank Lynn here: http://woolsey.house.gov/contactinfo.asp

Ask her to please encourage other Progressive Caucus Members to sign on.

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging impeachment of Bush and Cheney has just grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 76 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



Seven Congress Members for Impeachment

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23440

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Lynn Woolsey, the other Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

Thank Barbara Lee here: http://tinyurl.com/yqt9hw
Thank Lynn Woolsey here: http://tinyurl.com/28nxpo

Ask Lee and Woolsey to please encourage other Progressive Caucus Members to sign on.

Ask other Progressive Caucus Members to please sign on.

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging impeachment of Bush and Cheney has just grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



Eight Congress Members for Impeachment

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23590

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has joined Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, the two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Steering and Policy Committee, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

On Wednesday, June 13, Waters and Kucinich plan to hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss "Renewed Efforts in the House of Representatives to Impeach Vice President Cheney." The event is planned for 9:30 a.m. at the Cannon Terrace (on the outside of the Cannon House Office Building).

The reference to "renewed" efforts may be related to this discussion of impeaching Cheney in which Congresswoman Waters engaged in April 2006: http://davidswanson.org/node/811

Congresswoman Waters has spoken out strongly on this issue since June 16, 2005: http://homepage.mac.com/bhughes2/iMovieTheater138.html

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging the impeachment of Bush and Cheney has recently grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



33 Congress Members for Impeachment
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/25325


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US Foments Unrest and Spurns Overtures
http://www.counterpunch.org/gresh06062007.html


From Information Clearing House

One of Afghanistan's many springs of blood and tears has just started. Its vast southern and south-eastern mountains and deserts witness the fiercest battles between the Taliban and NATO troops. Blood and destruction are all over the place. Villages are left empty ruins, and the carpet bombing and the Taliban guerrilla warfare turned life for the innocent civilians into a hell.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1609/2/

Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq, dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago.

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From Information Clearing House

By Emanuel E. Garcia

A quartet of laws has been signed that lays the complete legal foundation for the takeover of our constitutional democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17841.htm



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Five environmental groups and a labor union petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to restrict the use of chemicals that are found in many household detergents and have been linked to gender changes in fish and other aquatic life.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060607HA.shtml

"The global 'Race to the Bottom' is fast erasing blacks from the ever-shrinking unionized labor force, a historical crisis that demands an all-out campaign to dismantle the corporate agenda," says Glen Ford. "Black folks have already seen the bottom, and will not go back."

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Atop Greenland's Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air. "We don't have thunder here. But I know it from movies," says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen. "It's the ice cracking inside the icebergs." Greenland's ice cap is melting, and faster than scientists had thought possible.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060607EB.shtml

About half of all National Guard equipment is being used in the Middle East, and the Guard’s senior uniformed officer said Tuesday that could hurt the organization’s overall readiness at home. The equipment problem is the result of a long-term strategy of assuming risk by underequipping - and underfunding - the Guard.

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

The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group was charged Wednesday with tax evasion and obstructing a Senate inquiry as part of the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.

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



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Infowars' Matt Lepacek arrested after GOP debate

Video

Infowars' Matt Lepacek confronts Rudy Giuliani pollster Ed Goeas in the spin room after the 6/5/07 Republican debate in Manchester. He is arrested; later, his colleague Luke Rudowski is led outside by police. Rudowski is let go and explains what just happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOerYpJse30


From Information Clearing House

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Will fiendish Giuliani be Bush III?
http://www.alternet.org/story/53356/


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Seit kurzem ist unsere öffentliche Petition zur Veröffentlichung der Arbeitslosenzahlen online und kann unterzeichnet werden. Zur Petition gelangt man über

http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=455

wir bitten Sie, die Petition zu unterstützen und über Ihre persönlichen Verteiler unter die Leute zu bringen, wir brauchen viele, viele Unterschriften um das Thema über die Petition in den Bundestag zu bringen.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung

Pia Witte


Text der Petition:

Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen, dass das statistische Bundesamt die offizielle Zahl der Arbeitslosen in Deutschland veröffentlicht. Als Arbeitslosenzahl soll gelten: Die Summe aller im gesamten Berichtszeitraum arbeitslosen bzw. arbeitsuchenden Menschen, die Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB III (ALG I), nach dem SGB II (ALG II), arbeitsuchend mit oder ohne Leistungsbezug sind oder sich in einer Arbeitsgelegenheit, einer Fortbildungs- oder sonstigen arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahme befinden.

Begründung: Um bei Bundestagswahlen zu entscheiden, welche Partei er wählt, braucht der Bürger verlässliche Informationen über die Erfolge bzw. Nicht-Erfolge der an der Regierung beteiligten Parteien. Für eine große Mehrheit der Bürger ist es von herausragender Bedeutung, inwieweit die Regierung das Problem der Massenarbeitslosigkeit meistert. Zur Zeit werden die monatlichen Arbeitslosenzahlen in der BRD durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit bzw. das Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales veröffentlicht. Da auch die Leistung dieser Stellen an der Höhe der Arbeitslosenquote gemessen wird, ist es nur allzu menschlich und verständlich, dass sie die Zahlen möglichst vorteilhaft darstellen. Dadurch kann es für den Bürger schwierig sein, anhand der veröffentlichten Zahlen seine Wahlentscheidung sachkundig an diesem wichtigen Bereich zu orientieren. Beispielsweise werden Personen, die an Maßnahmen teilnehmen und per Gesetz dazu verpflichtet sind, beim Angebot eines Arbeitsplatzes auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt die Maßnahme unverzüglich abzubrechen, dennoch in der derzeitigen Statistik nicht als Arbeitslose geführt. Der Bundestag lege daher per Gesetz fest, dass die monatlichen Zahlen über den Stand der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland nicht mehr von der Bundesagentur oder dem Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales veröffentlicht werden, sondern durch die neutralere Instanz des statistischen Bundesamts. Dabei sollen die Zahlen wie folgt aufgeschlüsselt werden: I. Im gesamten Berichtszeitraum arbeitslose bzw. arbeitssuchende Leistungsbezieher: - Gesamtzahl der Leistungsbezieher in der Bundesrepublik, dann aufgeschlüsselt nach: a) Anzahl der Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB III (ALG I) b) Anzahl der Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB II (ALG II) - Gesamtzahl der als arbeitssuchend gemeldeten Personen, kann aufgeschlüsselt werden nach: c) Arbeitssuchende mit Leistungsbezug d) Arbeitssuchende ohne Leistungsbezug - Personen in arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen können aufgeschlüsselt werden nach: e) Anzahl der Personen in einer AGH (1 Euro ?Job) f) Personen in einer Fortbildungsmaßnahme g) Personen in sonstigen Maßnahmen h) Personen mit SGB II Bezug die einer Erwerbstätigkeit nachgehen (Aufstocker) Die Summe der Personen unter I. a), b) und d), abzüglich h), soll als offizielle Gesamtzahl der Arbeitslosen im Berichtszeitraum gelten und durch das statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht werden. II. Weitere im Rahmen der Sozialgesetzbücher berücksichtigte Personengruppen: - Gesamtzahl derer, die im Berichtszeitraum arbeitssuchend gemeldet waren und eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Tätigkeit aufgenommen haben, aufgeschlüsselt nach: a) durch die Bundesagentur/ARGE in Arbeit vermittelt, b) ohne die Vermittlung durch die Bundesagentur/ARGE den Weg in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt gefunden. - Gesamtzahl der Kinder unter 15 Jahren in der Bundesrepublik, die vom Sozialgeld leben. Diese weiteren Angaben unter II. und weiter aufgeschlüsselte Informationen unter I. stehen immer zur Veröffentlichung frei.

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Petition gegen geschönte Arbeitslosenzahlen

Hintergrundbericht dazu:
http://www.gegen-hartz.de/urteile/0344e1994808f9709.html



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Shortly after Democrats won majorities in Congress last November, we asked our readers what changes they should make first. From a list of 140 possible changes, your #1 response was "Restore Habeas Corpus - access to courts for all prisoners of the U.S." http://www.democrats.com/change-poll-results-1

Habeas corpus, which permits the accused a fair hearing in front of a neutral judge, is the most fundamental check on executive power in our Constitution. The United States Supreme Court asserted that habeas "is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against lawless state action."

Today, Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent us this message:

"Many of you may recall the hasty passage of the Military Commissions Act in the weeks leading up to last year's election, a bill that set new rules for trying detainees, in particular those currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

"The passage of this bill was a profound mistake, and its elimination of habeas corpus review was its worst error. Righting this wrong is one of my top priorities, and on the first day of this Congress I joined with Senator Arlen Specter to introduce the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S. 185). This bipartisan bill already has 17 cosponsors, but it faces a crucial vote in the Judiciary Committee this Thursday so we need your help.

"Please e-mail your home-state Senators today and urge them to protect our fundamental liberties by supporting the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act!"

http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/113


Iraq Idea: Better Than Calling Congress

We've got to keep the pressure up on Congress to end the occupation of Iraq, but right now it is only Iraq's Parliament that has begun taking steps to legally require that the occupation end. A note from you, as an American, to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C., might help move the Iraqi government where Congress dares not go. There are always ways to find hope if we look outside the box and reach out to our brothers and sisters across barriers. Please take a moment to sign this petition to the Iraqi government: http://democrats.com/node/13188

Read about an heroic Iraqi woman who inspired this idea: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23375


23 Anti-War House Primary Nominations So Far

Last week, we asked you to nominate anti-war candidates who could challenge the 58 "Bush Democrats" in Democratic primaries in 2008. As of today we have 23 nominations for 15 of the 58 races.

We are using the list of 58 Representatives who voted against the McGovern Amendment on 5/10/2007. If they change their position to oppose the endless occupation of Iraq, we will cross them off our list.

If you would like to nominate a candidate for one of the races below, click on the link and post a comment below their picture. http://www.democrats.com/primary-2008-list

Over 23,000 have signed our pledge to vote against every Senator and Representative who approves funding to continue the disastrous Iraq War. Sign it now and tell your friends: http://www.democrats.com/iraq-vote-pledge

Let's do it for Cindy Sheehan - and for her beloved son Casey.


4 Co-sponsors for Cheney Articles of Impeachment

Thanks to grassroots organizing by local activists, freshman Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) became the 4th co-sponsor for Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). She joins Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), and Albert Wynn (D-MD).

Clarke writes, "When the American people voted on November 7th, they asked for a change in direction by electing the Democratic party in the House and Senate. I have heard the loud cries of my constituents, and they want accountability. My support of HRes 333 reflects the voices of the residents of central Brooklyn." http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0169.html

On Tuesday, Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine for perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the criminal outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. Libby refused to tell investigators the truth for one reason: to protect his boss Dick Cheney, who appears to have instructed Libby to out Plame to punish her husband Joe Wilson for exposing Bush's pre-war lies.

Urge your Representative to hold Cheney accountable by co-sponsoring H. Res. 333: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/73

Help us organize a Congressional District Impeachment Committee in your district: http://democrats.com/cdic-find


Forward this message to everyone you know!

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Help RESTORE Habeas Corpus and the Constitution

Habeas corpus, which permits the accused a fair hearing in front of a neutral judge, is the most fundamental check on executive power in our Constitution. The United States Supreme Court asserted that habeas "is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against lawless state action."

HABEAS CORPUS ACTION PAGE: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/113

Today, Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S. 185), a correction of the miscarriage of law making from last year which had shamed us all, the Military Commissions Act which purported to strip detainees at Guantanamo of all human rights.

Our activist friends at Democrats.com have an action page to continue to support S. 185, in the which could now come up for a full vote in the Senate at any time. We encourage all our participants to speak out through the page above.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL CONTINUES TO CLIMB

And while we are speaking of the Constitution, yet more crimes of the greatest offender of them all, Dick Cheney, were exposed this week. As reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, Cheney was the primary bully in pushing for the illegal wiretaps, even going so far as to block the promotion of a senior Justice Department attorney who had the integrity to raise concerns about them. There is a link to this article on the action page for the National Cheney Impeachment Poll.

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

which now has more than 63,000 votes, of which 99.37% of your friends and neighbors have voted "Yes" to impeach. Not only that, but 6 members of the House have already signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 333, for articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. And all the other 429 are waiting for is to hear from more of us to speak out. So let's DO it.

You can vote yes or you can vote no. Your choice. We are not asking people to predict whether he will be impeached of not. The question is, "SHOULD he be impeached?" All you need to participate is to have an opinion on that question.

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

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Bring Back Habeas Corpus

The Senate Judiciary Committee has sent to the Senate floor a bill to restore habeas corpus. Sign the petition, write letters, join in the discussion. This is not a battle our society can afford to lose.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/07/bring-back-habeas-corpus/

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/07/restore_habeas.php

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Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Restore Habeas
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0607-10.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

By James Rothenberg

If a war crime was committed, it is elementary that those that aid and abet this crime are also war criminals. This includes the Congress when it repeatedly funds the operations which are criminal. It also includes the soldiers who carry out the orders of the war criminals. And, yes, to the extent that we don't publicly object to it, you and me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17838.htm



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

By Charley Reese

The "global war on terror" is just a bad metaphor that doesn't have any connection to reality. How long are the American people going to allow liars to lull them into sacrificing the most precious treasure the country has - its youth - in a futile, lie-ridden, corruption-pocked war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17839.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charley+Reese

Paul Craig Roberts

The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of US forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer an option.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17834.htm



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

Earnings of the average US worker with an undergraduate degree have not kept up with gains in productivity in recent decades, according to research by academics at MIT that challenges traditional explanations of why income inequality is rising.

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

Monday's indictment of Jefferson (D-Louisiana) came before Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) could publicly announce her decision to start permitting anyone, not just members of Congress, to file ethics complaints.

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



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

"These days, even amidst the talk of America remaining in Iraq for decades, the administration is engaging in feints and spin about the possibility of the US withdrawing tens of thousands of troops prior to the 2008 election - the election, it just so happens, that will decide which party controls the Executive Branch (and presidential pardons) for the next four years," writes Bernard Weiner. "Do they think we're that stupid not to see through their unbelievable, pre-election BS? Wait, don't answer that question."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Weiner

House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. The contacts were disclosed Tuesday by a House Democratic aide and an attorney familiar with the matter who both spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is ongoing.

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



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