World-News

It's time to take the gloves off.
http://ga3.org/ct/p120pgF14mFd/

Former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President Bush, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has now been classified as federal inmate No. 28301-016, reports the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907C.shtml



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

Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar hat die Vereinbarungen zwischen EU und USA über die Weitergabe der Daten von Fluggästen und zum Zugriff von US-Behörden auf europäische Bank-Überweisungsdaten scharf kritisiert. Gemessen an den Vorgaben des europäischen Datenschutzrechts seien die Abkommen unzureichend. Die Verringerung der Anzahl der Datenfelder bei den Fluggast-Daten komme dadurch zustande, dass die Informationen mehrerer Felder in einem Feld zusammengeführt würden. Dagegen würde die Speicher-Dauer verdoppelt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16244



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Datenschutz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fluggastdaten

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/29/2170/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/29/2176/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/7/2183



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/29/2190/

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Bush Still Trying to Link Iraq and 9/11

President Bush continues to call al Qaida "the main enemy" in Iraq, a claim rejected my his own administration's senior intelligence analyst, reports Jonathan S. Landay of the McClatchy Newspapers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+S.+Landay

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/29/2187/



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6380/
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6381/
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6382/
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6383/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

By Kelly Barker

ANGRY residents called for a police investigation into how four phone masts were given planning permission in a massive council blunder.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/3cx5f7

http://takeaction.oceana.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7027



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“Gesundheit im Jahr 2020: Die Geschichten, die unser Zukunftsmagazin erzählt, sind Fiktion, basieren aber auf den Informationen, die sich aus der Projektarbeit der Bertelsmann Stiftung ableiten lassen. Sie zeigen, wie die Gesundheitsversorgung im Jahr 2020 aussehen könnte …”

http://www.20zwanzig.de/

Quelle: Bertelsmann-Stiftung

Anmerkung: In einer Fiktion à la Aufstand der Alten will uns Bertelsmann seine Vorstellungen einer künftigen Gesundheitsreform schmackhaft machen – mit einer Grundversicherung bei einer und Zusatzmodulen bei anderen Versicherungen, mit einer eigenständigen Zahnversicherung, mit der Einbeziehung von Zinsen auf Guthaben und Mieterträgen für die Finanzierung des Gesundheitssystems, ja sogar die Arbeitgeber würden zu einer Mitfinanzierung des Gesundheitssystems herangezogen. Bertelsmann verkauft mal wieder in einer Art Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag seine Vorschläge zur Gesundheitsreform der Zukunft.

Das Schattenkabinett

Die »gemeinnützige« Bertelsmann-Stiftung fungiert hinter den Kulissen als Motor neoliberaler Reformen
http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-29/012.php?print=1

Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung agiert als Vorfeldorganisation des Konzerns
http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-29/014.php?print=1



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

http://tinyurl.com/3bfk7z


"Gutachten von Unternehmen gesponsort" Lockerung der Grenzwerte für Bisphenol A in Lebensmitteln

Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren kritisiert die Lockerung der Grenzwerte für die Chemikalie Bisphenol A in Lebensmitteln. Nach Angaben der Europäischen Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit (EFSA) sind Menschen der Chemikalie in Lebensmitteln "dadurch ausgesetzt, dass die Substanz in bestimmten Kunststoffen und anderen Materialien verwendet wird, die für Artikel wie Flaschen und Konservendosen Anwendung finden". Nach Auffassung der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren können negative Auswirkungen für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung nicht ausgeschlossen werden. "Die Entscheidung der EU erfolgte auf Druck der Chemie-Industrie, da der bestehende Grenzwert häufig überschritten wurde und Anwendungsbeschränkungen drohten", kritisiert die Organisation.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16256



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

"The US Senate dealt a severe blow to President George W. Bush Thursday, blocking a landmark immigration reform seen as one of his last, best hopes for a legacy-boosting second term victory. Senators voted 53 to 46 against keeping the bill alive, a stunning repudiation of the attempt to grant a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants. The move likely ends Senate action on the issue before 2009," writes Agence France-Presse.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907O.shtml

JP Briggs II, Ph.D., and Thomas D. Williams report for Truthout, "President George W. Bush has become dangerously steeped in ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse, an imminent war with Satanic forces in the Middle East and an urgency to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God's end-of-days plan, according to close observers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armageddon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Apocalypse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=prophecy
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+D.+Williams

http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911


Informant: Dorothee



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Fox News
by Susan Estrich

06/28/07

Reading the morning news is beginning to remind me of nothing so much as the old light bulb jokes -– you know, the ones like (and this has always been my favorite, because it describes my mom, may she rest in peace): how many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, I’ll sit in the dark! What I’m referring to is the steady stream of bad news for the president from his own team on the war in Iraq: How many Republican senators will have to publicly condemn this war before the president gets the message? How many Republican candidates will have to distance themselves from the president before he realizes he’s standing alone? How low will the approval numbers have to go before he’s willing to do something to end this war? How many brave American men and women will have to die before the dying stops?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287034,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich

In These Times
by Brian Beutler

06/28/07

Democrats and civil libertarians have been understandably livid over the administration’s demolition of the writ of habeas corpus. But remedying the problem isn’t quite as simple as it should be. For starters, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), signed by President Bush last October, didn’t end habeas in a straightforward, easily reversible way. It ended habeas by inference — first, by denying the writ to ‘unlawful enemy combatants,’ and then by defining that term broadly enough that it could, in some cases, include American citizens. Today, an enemy combatant is anybody ‘engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.’ It was through that legal two-step that the government held, tortured, and denied trial to Jose Padilla, an American citizen arrested in Chicago in 2002 for engaging in terrorist activities...

http://tinyurl.com/3x9rfk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tennessean
by D. W. Garrett

06/28/07

The U.S. government has cried foul many times in the last century when reports of human rights abuses in other nations have become public knowledge. Often, the United States has sought United Nations sanctions against countries that the U.S. felt had treated their citizens improperly and unfairly, while proclaiming this nation as a leader in human rights. But the U.S. has become a hypocrite and laughingstock among other nations, who cite cases of inequality and poor treatment by the U.S. against its own minorities...

http://tinyurl.com/2xcyvs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=D.+W.+Garrett

Ars Technica

06/27/07

The Federal Trade Commission [Wednesday] dealt a serious blow to ‘Net Neutrality’ proponents as it issued a report dismissive of claims that the government needs to get involved in preserving the fairness of networks in the United States. The report, entitled Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy, was drafted in response to growing concerns about broadband competitiveness and network neutrality. The FTC intends the report to be consulted as a guideline by policy makers and legislators, but it has no binding force. Nevertheless, the report’s findings are yet another sign that US government agencies are not particularly interested in the network neutrality problem right now. In fact, the FTC is essentially saying that they can find no evidence of a problem to begin with...

http://tinyurl.com/2ybekq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Arizona Republic

06/28/07

Unease with American foreign policy and President Bush has intensified in countries that are some of the closest U.S. allies and around the globe, while Russia and China also face growing international wariness, a survey released Wednesday said. Support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the NATO military action in Afghanistan and worldwide American efforts against terrorism have dropped since 2002, according to an international survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Views of the U.S. in much of the Muslim world remain particularly negative. In one measure of Bush’s unpopularity, the poll indicated that he is less trusted on foreign policy than Russian President Vladimir Putin by allies Britain, Germany and Canada, even as faith in Putin has plummeted. About half in the U.S. say they have little or no trust in either leader’s conduct of foreign affairs...

http://tinyurl.com/ypq7a5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

06/29/07

Wall Street Journal staff across America refused to turn up to work yesterday in protest at rapidly advancing takeover talks between Rupert Murdoch and the paper’s owner, Dow Jones. The protest came as it emerged that Mr Murdoch’s News Corp had agreed with Dow Jones on a special committee that would be responsible for the hiring and firing of key editors at the Journal and the company’s other news businesses. The Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE), representing more than 2,000 Dow Jones staff, said Journal reporters chose not to show in the morning but were planning to be back at their desks in the afternoon to get today’s edition out...

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2114706,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys. His decision was denounced as ‘Nixonian stonewalling’ by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

http://tinyurl.com/2mofud


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=above+the+law
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=75546


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bird+flu

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0625/p14s01-wmgn.html


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An Interview with Presidential Candidate Congressman Ron Paul
http://tinyurl.com/34s68p

Informant: Supreme Law Firm



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This morning, In Defense of Animals (IDA) held a press conference at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom to issue a report on the state of the elephants at the North Bay amusement park.

Citing medical records and eyewitness testimony, we revealed evidence that the elephants are victims of abusive treatment and are suffering from ailments related to the inadequate, stressful, and barren conditions at the park. At the press conference, IDA President Dr. Elliot M. Katz issued an urgent plea to the City of Vallejo to send the elephants at Six Flags to a sanctuary. IDA called for an immediate end to shows that exacerbate the elephants' physical ailments.

IDA's request comes before the pending sale of the City's interest in Six Flags Discovery Kingdom to the park. The sale would include four elephants "owned" by the City of Vallejo.

"The city of Vallejo has made millions of dollars from this park and these elephants," writes Dr. Katz in a letter delivered to the Mayor this morning. "Instead of selling them like furniture, the City must take immediate responsibility for their well-being by sending the elephants to a sanctuary where they can live the rest of their lives in peace."

Conditions at Six Flags are among the worst of any zoo in the country. In addition to outdated facilities and circus-style training methods that rely on force and physical punishment, the park uses elephants in rides and circus-like shows, practices many zoos have abandoned due to humane and public safety concerns.

What You Can Do:

Please contact Six Flags and tell them to focus on rides and send the elephants to a sanctuary! Urge them to start by immediately ceasing to use elephants in the tug-of-war and log stacking performances.

Daniel M. Snyder, Six Flags Chairman Washington Redskins
21300 Redskins Park Dr. Ashburn, VA 20147 Fax: (703) 726-7124

Mark Shapiro, Six Flags President & CEO
1540 Broadway, 15th Floor New York, NY 10036 Tel: (212) 652-9403 Fax: (212) 354-3089 Email: mshapiro@sftp.com

"Take Action" to let the City of Vallejo (which "owns" most of the elephants) know how you feel:

Mayor Anthony Intintoli
555 Santa Clara Street Vallejo, California 94590 Tel: (707) 648-4377 Fax: (707) 642-4687 Email: mayor@ci.vallejo.ca.us

Tell friends and family to take action on this important issue.

For more information, please visit http://www.helpelephants.com.

Labor unions attended a conference at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday to protest the growing power of buyout firms. "The service workers union, together with the labor-affiliated Working Families Party, plan to host protests this summer, raise awareness of deals they say hurt workers and issue critical reports about investment firms like Bain Capital," reports Joseph A. Giannone of Reuters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062807LA.shtml

"The House of Representatives Wednesday, aiming to put an end to the debate over whether global warming is actually occurring, passed legislation recognizing the 'reality' of climate change and providing money to work on the problem," reported Richard Cowen for Reuters. "Meanwhile, a US Senate panel on Wednesday began drawing up a sweeping law that would put mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions," wrote Chris Baltimore of Reuters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062807EA.shtml

Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "Representative Henry Waxman (D-California), chairman of the House of Representatives' main investigative body, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has been compiling evidence regarding the mismanagement of classified documents by the Bush administration. Waxman has taken sworn testimony of whistle-blowers from within the White House security agencies. The statements of these whistle-blowers 'casts doubt on [White House] assertions,' Waxman said in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=classified+documents
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0628-09.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0628-12.htm

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Darfur Petition

To get to the point, sign the petition here to send Pres. Bush a message that you want him to do something about Darfur and to realize that an effective peacekeeping force there will look like:

http://ga6.org/campaign/enough_petition

For more information, please read below. Thank you!

Debbie Metke
Citizens for Global Solutions
http://www.globalsolutions.org


As you know, a robust international peacekeeping force is one of the most crucial steps to saving Darfur.

But just what should a "robust" force look like?

Darfur policy experts from ENOUGH have just published the six criteria necessary for an effective peacekeeping mission. They include:

1. A strong mandate to protect civilians.
2. Management of the mission by the United Nations.
3. A sufficient level of troops and police drawn from around the
world.
4. Mobile resources and equipment needed for quick response
across Darfur's challenging terrain.
5. A strong emphasis on civilian and humanitarian needs.
6. Sufficient funding from the international community.

Please join me in sending a message to the White House urging the administration to ensure that all six elements are present in the final peacekeeping force deployed to Darfur. Click the URL below to sign the petition.

http://ga6.org/campaign/enough_petition

Two weeks ago, headlines reported that Sudan officials had "agreed" yet again to the deployment of a United Nations-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force. As time passes, this "agreement" - just like the others - seems to be crumbling. Sudanese President Bashir, himself, has publicly denied accepting the agreement.

Still, with this news, peacekeeping in Darfur is once again at the forefront of the minds of world leaders. It is crucial that the international community raise the pressure on Sudan until it allows the deployment of an effective force.

Please click the URL below to tell President Bush what an effective peacekeeping force must include.

http://ga6.org/campaign/enough_petition

Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you.


From ufpj-news


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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0628-16.htm

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Resegregation Now

The editors of The New York Times write: "Since 1954, the Supreme Court has been the nation's driving force for integration. Yesterday, the court's radical new majority turned its back on that proud tradition in a 5-4 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts. There should be no mistaking just how radical this decision is."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907B.shtml



In Steps Big and Small, Supreme Court Moved Right

"It was the Supreme Court that conservatives had long yearned for and that liberals feared. In the first full term of the Roberts court, a third of the decisions were decided by 5-to-4 margins, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy as the linchpin," Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times reports.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070107Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/28/2161/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Emma+Thompson

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/28/2154/

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Black High School Students in Louisiana Threatened With Lynching

"In September 2006, a group of African-American high school students in Jena, Louisiana asked the school for permission to sit beneath a 'whites only' shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree ....," writes Rick Perlstein of TomPaine.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Quigley
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rick+Perlstein

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003767350_postmanblog29m.html


Informant: John Stroebel



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„Die Lohnschere klafft in Deutschland stärker auseinander als bisher von vielen angenommen. Seit den 80er-Jahren steigen die Reallöhne der Gutverdiener deutlich schneller als die der Geringverdiener. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Studie des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA). Die Situation habe sich seit Anfang der 90er-Jahre sogar noch zugespitzt: Denn die 25 Prozent mit den geringsten Löhnen büßten von 1991 bis 2001 bis zu zwölf Prozent ihres Verdienstes real ein. Im gleichen Zeitraum stiegen die Löhne der einkommensstärksten 15 Prozent der westdeutschen Bevölkerung um mehr als zehn Prozent…“ Dossier von Monika Dunkel in FTD vom 29.06.2007 http://ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Lohnverh%E4ltnisse%20USA/219434.html


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Juni 2007

„…Auch der Kompromiss mit dem Wirtschaftsministerium führt die Bahn aufs Abstellgleis, hat das Bündnis "Bahn für Alle" das Verhandlungsergebnis einer Runde von Staatssekretären zur Bahnprivatisierung kommentiert. Der Bund verliere auch so Einfluss auf das in mehr als 150 Jahren aufgebaute Vermögen. Seine Rechte würden auch mit diesem Kompromiss geschwächt, wenn auch weniger als bisher geplant…“ Pressemitteilung des Bündnis "Bahn für Alle" vom 28.06.2007 http://www.deinebahn.de/story/92/292.html


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Juni 2007

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Ausverkauf, neue Etappe

Vor einem Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Bahnprivatisierung

„Nachdem am Donnerstag Ministerien, die bisher den Entwurf für ein Bahnprivatisierungsgesetz heftig kritisiert hatten, ihre Kritik bis zur Unkenntlichkeit relativierten, zeichnet sich eine neue Etappe bei diesem Ausverkaufsprozeß ab: Der Entwurf für ein Bahnprivatisierungsgesetz aus dem Bundesverkehrsministerium vom März 2007 wird im Kern zum Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung. Eine entsprechende Kabinettsentscheidung wird noch im Juli erwartet…“ Artikel von Winfried Wolf in der jungen Welt vom 30.06.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-30/025.php


Verkauf der Bahnhöfe: Alles halb so schlimm?

Kommentar von Winfried Wolf in der jungen Welt vom 30.06.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-30/027.php


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juli 2007



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

http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,491405,00.html



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http://www.ronpaul2008.com/videos/g4/

I am looking for someone who might, on a regular basis, put together current, Ron Paul, video clips, on a DVD, for our one dollar dvd project site. For instance, the current "g4" clip above, along with the others from the home page of RonPaul2008.com, would make a wonderful DVD montage for waking the masses and getting this statesman in the White House.

Recently, we added two more Ron Paul video clips DVDs to our site: http://www.onedollardvdproject.com. Please, distribute these DVDs to friends and neighbors who do not have access to the net. And let us know which ones are working at waking your neighbors.

Please, look over the one dollar dvd project site and share feedback with us. What other DVDs should we add and what improvements can we make?

We Will Get The Word Out.

Ron Neil
817 219 2798
http://www.onedollardvdproject.com



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Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency's behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21980496,00.html


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the United States one day might have to launch surgical missile strikes into Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting control of nuclear bombs.

http://tinyurl.com/yawtm2
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama:_U.S._presidential_election%2C_2008/On_war_with_Iran
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Obama-Missile-Iran25sep04.htm

More on Barack Obama
http://tinyurl.com/ypahto


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama

The head of the Turkish armed forces insisted Wednesday on the need for a military incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Turkish Kurd rebels based there, but said he needed the government's green light to do so.

http://tinyurl.com/2d97wb


From Information Clearing House

If I were an American soldier in Iraq, I'd be tempted mightily to say, "Good luck and goodbye," and then start for home.

http://tinyurl.com/25al22


From Information Clearing House

As U.S. troops battle to retake Baghdad and surrounding areas, the government is reported to have lost its control of Basra where almost all of the country's oil exports originate.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2007-06-27\\kurd.htm


From Information Clearing House

The Ignorance Of The Highly Educated

Video

Prof. Peter Dale Scott presents a condensed version of the two chapters from his forthcoming book, "The Road to 9/11", that deal with the actions of Dick Cheney on the morning of 9/11, and a host of troubling contradictions on that day, in lecture form.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17931.htm



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David Nason, Chicago

A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17934.htm



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By Peter Law

A HATCH END mother of two fears that a mobile phone mast near her home could be the reason two local residents have been struck down by cancer.

Read More...
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1506642.0.mast_battle_is_resumed.php
http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/roundup/display.var.1509794.0.mast_battle_is_resumed.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6378/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

By Lucy Clapham

A MAN who was preparing to take a mobile phone giant to court to get a mast pulled down says he is still annoyed by the fiasco after he was awarded £550 compensation.

Barry Evans is one of four residents who campaigned against the 45ft pole in Arnison Avenue, High Wycombe, and was recommended for compensation in an independent report.

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http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1503668.0.anger_over_mast_payout.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6380/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://freedomisforeverybody.blogspot.com/2007/06/dc-madam-reveals-name-of-cheney-in.html


Informant: ranger116



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

http://tinyurl.com/3b6jkf
Translation with SYSTRAN

inside-handy.de

Englische Lehrer sehen Handys als gefährliche Waffen. Lehrer wollen Mobiltelefone von Schulen verbannen. Für die Generalsekretärin der britischen Lehrergewerkschaft...

http://www.inside-handy.de/news/9074.html


Quelle: Nachrichtenübersicht diagnose-funk vom 29.06.2007

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Handy Verbot an Schulen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1677088/

Cyber-Bullying (Cyber-Mobbing)
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3561020/

We all know that EMF are the worst thing in the Earth. Insects, in between bees, birds, butterflies, all collapse. People with EHS (f... appellation introduced by the WHO to create a category of people as they have a sickness problem...) are increasing all around the world. Within the 60'000 pages I've been reading the last 5 years, I collected the facts about the run aground of the whales. Only one time, I red that after an autopsy, there were some troubles with the liver of those aquatic mammiferous. But it seems also in some cases that they get lost too, because human technology, like underwater radar, sonar to detect submarines and very low frequencies used to detect the temperatures of the oceans became a pollution for them. Now, introducing WiFi under the water, as you can see at: http://www.wirelessfibre.co.uk/ will give an other catastrophic consequence in the marine's environnement, including other species. I repeat: we are in a real bad shape. I repeat: Mayday, mayday, mayday... Remember what I'm saying: it lefts less than 10 years to live for the humanity. God bless you All.

Philippe Hug
Chairman of ARA
http://www.alerte.ch
Switzerland



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

By Diana Pilkington

Mast of pain: Councillor David Dean says phone masts like the one behind give him terrible headaches WI14361

Modern technology is making life hell for one south London councillor, who suffers from a rare allergy to phone masts.

David Dean, a councillor for Merton's Trinity ward, gets crippling headaches, double vision and waves of nausea whenever he is within 50 metres of a phone mast or Wi-Fi router.

He suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity and puts his condition down to his unusually thin skull, which he says allows the electromagnetic waves to enter his body with ease.

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http://tinyurl.com/2dfy92



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic+sensitivity

Joe Brewer, research fellow at The Rockridge Institute reports on the dangers in the Bush administrations push to increase use of biofuels.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Brewer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels

Rue89's Pierre Haski points out that the CIA's execution of dirty tricks is hardly ancient history ...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807G.shtml



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

Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein writes, "Paul K. Charlton, one of nine US attorneys fired last year, told members of Congress yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has been overzealous in ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty, including in an Arizona murder case in which no body had been recovered."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807E.shtml



What Paul Charlton Said in Our Interview

Jason Leopold of Truthout reports, "Paul Charlton, one of eight US attorneys fired last year under questionable circumstances, said an internal Justice Department probe to determine whether the dismissals were politically motivated may conclude that a special prosecutor needs to be appointed to further investigate the attorney firings."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070207J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+K.+Charlton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

"Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on Wednesday sought a federal investigation into whether a White House lawyer turned appeals court judge testified truthfully to Congress about the Bush administration's detention policies for enemy combatants," according to a Reuters report by Thomas Ferraro.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807C.shtml



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Die vielfach als "Heuschrecken" kritisierten Private-Equity-Gesellschaften sollen nach den Plänen der Bundesregierung keine Steuern zahlen müssen. Eine solche Regelung werde abweichend von bisherigen Plänen im Referentenentwurf des Gesetzes zur Förderung von Private-Equity-Gesellschaften aufgenommen, berichtet die "Financial Times Deutschland" unter Berufung auf Kreise des Finanzministeriums. Demnach würden "Wagniskapitalgeber" steuerrechtlich mit Investmentfonds gleichgestellt, die ebenfalls von der Steuerpflicht befreit sind. Eine Reihe von Politikern und einstige Spitzenmanager sind inzwischen in das Netzwerk der Private-Equity-Gesellschaften eingebunden.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16238



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

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

On the domestic front, the Bush presidency leaves us with gargantuan growth of federal spending and meddling. Bush's obsession with spying on American citizens eclipses anything Nixon did or Clinton dreamed of doing. His Patriot Act is taken right out of the Nazi handbook, and his arrogance regarding constitutional accountability is unknown in America since at least the days of Abraham Lincoln.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin378.htm



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

Wir sind noch nicht am Ziel, deshalb gilt weiterhin der Aufruf an alle: Informieren Sie sich selbst und unterstützen Sie das Anliegen vieler Landwirte in Ihrer Region durch Ihr Interesse und ihr Handeln, so dass die GMO-Fütterung auf NON GMO umgestellt wird. Ca. 80% der Bevölkerung lehnt Gentechnik auf ihren Tellern ab. Tun Sie das Ihrige, dass es auch in Zukunft so sein wird. Der Konsument bestimmt den Markt.

Eine Gentechnikfreie Anbau- und Fütterungszone ist eine deutliche Entscheidung in diese Richtung. Wir alle tragen die Verantwortung!

http://www.zivilcourage.ro



Abstimmung Gentechnik im ZDF

Meine persönliche Meinung ist, dass wir uns mit allen Mitteln gegen die Genmanipulation wehren sollten. Jeder Bürger ist aufgefordert sich über dieses elementare Thema zu erkundigen. Wer sich zusätzlich informieren möchte, kann das unter folgendem Link tun und weiterverbreiten.

http://www.zivilcourage.ro

Durch Boykott von untern, haben es die Bauern geschafft, dass die Lagerhäuser den Genmais wieder aus den Silos entfernen mussten. Das ZDF macht momentan eine Abstimmung und fragt uns nach unserer Meinung. Wann ist das schon mal der Fall!

Bitte machen Sie mit - nur Anklicken, es dauert nicht länger als 1 Minute.

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/6/0,1872,5438150,00.html

(Rechts auf der Seite). Und leiten Sie den Link bitte weiter!

Bernd Uricher


Nachricht von Peter



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

Von Daten- und Vertrauensverlusten http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25599/1.html

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In Sachsen wurden angeblich weitere Geheimdienst-Akten vernichtet

Im sächsischen Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz (LfV) wurden angeblich weitere Akten vernichtet. Wie am 27. Juni bekannt wurde, sollen dort bereits im Herbst 2006 Akten geschreddert worden sein. Nach Angaben der Parlamentarische Kontrollkommission (PKK), die für die Aufsicht des Geheimdienstes zuständig ist, wurden "in drei weiteren Fällen Zweitkopien von Unterlagen vernichtet". Die PKK erwarte, dass "dienst- und strafrechtliche Konsequenzen geprüft werden", hieß es in einer Mitteilung am späten Mittwochabend.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16231



FDP und Linke glauben nicht an technische Panne bei Datenvernichtung

Das Mitglied des BND-Untersuchungsausschusses, Hellmut Königshaus (FDP), hält eine technische Panne bei der Vernichtung von Daten über Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr für unwahrscheinlich. Der Zeitpunkt der angeblichen Aktenvernichtung im Juli 2005, kurz vor der Abwahl der rot-grünen Bundesregierung, sei auffällig, sagte Königshaus am 27. Juni im "Deutschlandradio Kultur". Solche Vorfälle ereigneten sich "komischerweise immer dann, wenn die Daten, die dann angeblich verschwunden sind, eine besondere Bedeutung gewinnen." Die Linkspolitikerin Ulla Jelpke wirft der Regierung vor, extralegale Verschleppungen und Folterungen Unschuldiger vertuschen zu wollen. Zwischenzeitlich sollen Teile der Daten wieder aufgetaucht sein.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16240



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

by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com

As Bush claims progress in Iraq, income has plunged from $3,600 a year in 1980 to $400 now, and the dying continues.

http://ga3.org/ct/m120pgF1BRDm/



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

"Consistent with its performance since at least 2002, the global image of the United States sank further over the past year, particularly among predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Asia," reports Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service. "Its standing among its Western European allies, most of Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, as well as the Islamic world and most of Asia, including China, has continued to fall."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

"It's not every day that one Supreme Court justice, even one as rhetorically unrestrained as Justice Antonin Scalia, characterizes another justice, let alone the chief justice of the United States, as a wimp and a hypocrite," writes Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times. "Yet Justice Scalia did something very close to that, not once but twice, in separate opinions on Monday. As a result, he has served to lift the curtain a bit on the differences within the powerful five-justice conservative bloc that has marched in lock step through much of the term, bent on reshaping the law and, in several important areas, well on the way toward doing so."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807N.shtml

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Bong Hits For Roberts

The Roberts court continues its unbroken streak of upholding and extending authority.

http://ga3.org/ct/7d20pgF1BRD5/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scalia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roberts+court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Linda+Greenhouse

"A New Hampshire presidential poll by WHDH-TV and Suffolk University shows that local Democrats prefer Al Gore to any of the current contenders," writes The Union Leader. Hillary Clinton now has a strong lead over other Democratic candidates, but Gore would lead if he entered the race.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807M.shtml



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

"The US government has committed to spend a record-high $1.1 trillion with companies holding government contracts 'plagued by waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement,' according to a new report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee," reports ABC News.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807L.shtml

William Fisher reports for Truthout: "Sometime this summer, Congress will again address the question of whether 'war-on-terror' prisoners should have access to federal courts to question the basis for their detention. The debate promises to be as bitterly contentious as the current battles over immigration and Iraq, and raises the question of whether wafer-thin Democratic House and Senate majorities can muster enough votes to override a likely presidential veto."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062807J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

ISIS Press Release 28/06/07

No to GMOs, No to GM Science

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the scandals of GM science that promotes GM crops in the face of damning evidence for health and the environment, and warns that further indulgence in GMOs will severely damage our chances of surviving global warming

Briefing to European Parliament, Scientists for a GM Free Europe, 12th June 2007

On first encountering GM science

I am a scientist who loves science, and would have happily remained an ivory tower academic had I not met some remarkable people in 1994, among them Martin Khor, director of the Third World Network, who persuaded me to look into genetic engineering biotechnology, which they saw as a special threat to poor farmers in the Third World. GM crops were looming large on the world horizon, promising to deliver miracle crops that would boost yield to feed the world, improve nutrition, and clean up and protect the environment. Monsanto’s Flavr Savr tomato, the first GM crop, had just been commercialised, though it turned out to be a complete flop.

All the signs were already there that the dream would turn into nightmare. Naively, I thought that if the public and the policy-makers were informed of the problems and dangers, everything would be fine and I could go back to my lab. But that was when I encountered GM science. I don’t just mean the science behind GM, which is bad enough, but also genetically modified science, science modified at source to mislead the public and policy-makers for the benefit of the biotech corporations.

Read the rest of this article here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NoToGMOs.php or examine other articles on biotechnology here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biotechnology.php



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Earth Meanders -- http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ A series of personal essays by Dr. Glen Barry

June 28, 2007

Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their physical environment. Sounds deceptively simple and non-threatening to the status quo, but I contend that growing ecological knowledge and re-understanding of humanity's place within the web of life is one of the most radical and potentially transformative notions ever. Awareness of humanity's utter dependence upon ecosystems and the biosphere, found in the relatively new discipline of modern ecology, has coincided with a period of unprecedented ecological destruction. Ecology may provide the only truthful answers regarding how to save the Earth and ourselves.

Ecology is a radical science that calls into question the meaning of life and the manner with which we live. We largely know how the Earth works, enough to know that it provides humanity and other creatures with their only known habitat. It is understood that the Earth System, or Gaia, can be conceptualized accurately as a self-regulating organism; and that various sub-systems such as climate and forests are in perilous decline threatening global cycling of energy and nutrients upon which all life depends. It is known with startling detail that humanity is dismantling terrestrial ecosystems, pumping too much waste into the atmosphere, and seriously stressing aquatic and marine environments.

Despite an endless stream of ecological science that indicates the Earth's biosphere is being devoured for a few generations of gluttonous consumption, nary a few are able to shake off the cognitive dissonance of paying the mortgage while fully integrating and assimilating the implications of modern ecocide that fills the news each day. The man-ape with opposable thumbs has come full circle -- from indigenous peoples staring in awe at the stars around a campfire, utterly dependent upon local ecosystems for sustenance; to technologically advanced, yet ecologically challenged societies, grappling to come to terms with our oneness with all of being. Yet there exists a powerful new eco-movement that acknowledges all of the exciting yet frightening implications of these truthful observations and calls for dramatic personal change and social reform to avert global ecological collapse.

The emerging field of political ecology -- of which I am a practitioner -- seeks ecologically based policies and strategies to reconnect the human project with requirements for sustaining land, air, water and oceans. Ecological requirements for Planetary sustainability mean nothing is sacrosanct in the human sphere of existence -- not cars, or cities or the right to bear young -- as the global ecological system is failing under the weight of humanity. New light bulbs and hybrid cars are simply not enough. To survive we need to limit our numbers, consumption and ecological impacts; as we work to protect and restore Gaia.

Perhaps no one is more threatened by this new bright green paradigm than the career environmental bureaucrat seeking technological, managerial approaches to stem the tide of environmental loss. Political ecology concerns itself with ecological requirements for global ecological sustainability, and a radical, transformative political agenda for its achievement; not with inadequate, puny half-measures.

Ecology integrates the sum total of knowledge regarding creation and humanity. There can be no economy, culture or society without a fully functioning Earth. Humans are but one species that have evolved to live here. The ecology of the Earth System explains not only what the Earth and her creatures are and do, but where they are heading. As the discipline that best explains being, it is natural that we turn to ecology to address the myriad of environmental and social concerns facing the planet.

Humans are rapidly becoming an endangered species, one amongst many, in a post-modern era of human decay and ecological collapse. What a depauperate world we are creating. Will we tell our children of long-lost skiing and elephants as we collapse into tribal barbarism and eke out subsistence existences? Or will the future be one of enlightened cooperativeness, voluntary simplicity and global ecological sustainability (which I believe by necessity require just, equitable, and free societies).

There can be no more satisfying life than one filled with service to the Earth. I urge each of you to live every day with the Earth's needs in mind. And I challenge you to broaden your sphere of love to include other creatures, those humans that are less fortunate, and the Earth habitat we share. Shake yourself and your family, friends and neighbors from your deadly slumber and commit to progressive social and ecological change. Find you way home to Gaia.

RESIDENTS in Yate are up in arms over proposals for a third mobile phone mast on a road being dubbed 'Phone Mast Alley'.

Phone company Three has applied to put up a 12.5 metre high mast on Rodford Way as part of a controversial 'site sharing scheme'.

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http://tinyurl.com/2u8awo

Experiments in Terror. Zwangs-Leistungs-Träger

Beitrag von Michael Schumacher vom Juni 2007 (pdf) zum dem Nicht-System der Zwangs-Leistungsträger (Argen und Optionskommunen). Es handelt sich hierbei um eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme der Nicht-Betreuung von Arbeitslosen, speziell im Rechtskreis SGB II und den Zwang der auf sie ausgeübt wird, damit sie gehorsam sind. http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/terror.pdf


Petition zur "Arbeitnehmerüberlassung: Zeitliche Begrenzung der Leiharbeit"

Öffentliche Petition an den Bundestag der IG Metall Dresden - Abschlusstermin für die Mitzeichnung: Montag, 6. August 2007 http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=464


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Juni 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitnehmerüberlassung

„Viele Arbeitslose sind froh, wenn sie eine Trainingsmaßnahme von der Arge finanziert bekommen. Aber oft werden die Arbeitssuchenden von den Unternehmen nur ausgenutzt. Bauen und dabei noch Geld sparen. Und zwar über 100.000 Euro. Das geht in Deutschland - ganz legal. Wenn die Leute von der Arbeitsagentur geschickt werden…“ Manuskript des Beitrages von Anett Wundrak und Birgit Mittwoch in der Sendung exakt des MDR vom 26.06.2007 http://www.mdr.de/exakt/4625470.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. Juni 2007

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070709/truthdig


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Watch the video
http://impeachcheney.org/

Sign the petition
http://impeachcheney.org/petition.php

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Impeach Cheney

Slate
by Bruce Fein

06/27/07

Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III. The most recent invention we know of is the vice president’s insistence that an executive order governing the handling of classified information in the executive branch does not reach his office because he also serves as president of the Senate. In other words, the vice president is a unique legislative-executive creature standing above and beyond the Constitution. The House judiciary committee should commence an impeachment inquiry. As Alexander Hamilton advised in the Federalist Papers, an impeachable offense is a political crime against the nation. Cheney’s multiple crimes against the Constitution clearly qualify...

http://www.slate.com/id/2169292/



Legislator Cheney

Liberty & Power
by Roderick T. Long

06/27/07

Dick Cheney’s claim that he is not part of the executive branch is silly, but his argument for that conclusion is worth addressing. Cheney claims that the Vice-Presidency is unique in embodying both executive and legislative functions (the latter being his Presidency of the Senate with the right to cast tie-breaking votes), thus belonging strictly to neither branch. What’s wrong with this argument is that there’s nothing unique about the Vice-Presidency in this respect. The President, for example, has the right to veto legislation; why doesn’t that count as his likewise exercising a legislative function? The President also appoints the members of the Supreme Court; does this mean he exercises judicial functions too?

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/40287.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Fein
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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Fargo Forum

06/28/07

National security will be jeopardized if the Bush administration is not allowed to indefinitely hold suspected terrorists as enemy combatants inside the U.S., the Justice Department said Wednesday in appealing a court’s ruling against the tactic. The administration asked the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that the government should charge Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident and the only suspected enemy combatant on American soil, or release him from military custody...

http://tinyurl.com/35meux


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ali+al-Marri
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+custody

http://scienceline.org/2007/06/27/ipcc_environment_amazon_philllips/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-warming-globe-and-us


Informant: Scott Munson

David Leonhardt writes: "Yesterday [the] Senate vote[d] on a union organizing bill. For years, union leaders have been pushing for a law that would make it easier for them to organize new members, and with the Democrats back in control of Congress, the House passed such a bill in March. The measure would have increased the penalties against companies that used illegal tactics to keep out unions."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062707LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Leonhardt

Washington Post reporters Jo Becker and Barton Gellman investigate the Klamath case, "one of many in which the vice president took on a decisive role to undercut long-standing environmental regulations for the benefit of business."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/062707EA.shtml



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

"With US mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, what does it mean for ordinary Americans?" asks Bill Moyers Journal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707U.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

Terrence McNally interviews Paul Hawken, "who has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. Hawken's new book, 'Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming,' explores the diversity of the movement, its ideas, strategies and hidden history."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707T.shtml



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

Suisse Diagnose-Funk et Radio Vatican
http://ehstvnews.eu/news/28062007.html

Les mails des internautes
http://www.next-up.org/pages/NewsoftheWorld82MailsInternautes.php#1

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6709968&nav=4QcS


From Information Clearing House



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

During the height of the real estate bubble, I wrote a column saying that the crash was coming and suggested selling any piece of real estate that was overpriced, questionable, or non-performing. As expected, I received angry replies. Today, I'm predicting the next crash, what I believe will cause it, and why it'll be a severe blow to the global economy. The signs are already here.

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/richricher/37414


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=real+estate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Kiyosaki

AGENT ORANGE, THE CHEMICAL, has killed, is still killing, and causing great suffering to over three million people in Vietnam. PLEASE HELP THEM BY SIGNING THIS PETITION.

http://www.petitiononline.com/AOVN/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Agent+Orange
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
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http://tinyurl.com/2pcff5

In 2004 the chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions wrote a how-to guide for manipulating the media complete with a six-point plan, "Effective Engagement in the Public Opinion Arena: A Leadership Imperative in the Information Age" which he published in Air & Space Power, an official journal of the Air Force.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-candace-gorman-/portrait-of-a-gitmo-propa_b_53876.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
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Did you know that the United States still has some 10,000 nuclear weapons-each one far more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki? And that several thousand are on alert able to be launched within a matter of minutes? If the Bush administration gets its way, the United States will replace its entire arsenal with new warheads over the next two decades.

http://tinyurl.com/2zwbml


From Information Clearing House

While United States officials accuse Iran of arming a resurgent Taliban, officials here say the weapons are actually part of vast caches left behind by the Soviet army that fought a nine-year war in Afghanistan before withdrawing in 1988.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38323


From Information Clearing House

Adding insult to injury
http://tinyurl.com/2wh4pq



How can Blair possibly be given this job?

Here is a politician who has failed in everything he has ever tried to do in the Middle East.

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2697832.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been training on long-range flights, including refueling in mid-flight, in preparation for potential strikes against Iranian nuclear targets.

http://tinyurl.com/3br38m


From Information Clearing House

President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy suffered a second blow in as many days on Tuesday when another senior senator from his Republican party publicly called for U.S. troop withdrawals.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26253156.htm


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One in six Iraqis is displaced. After a conflict which has now lasted as long as the First World War over two million Iraqis are in exile and a further two million are internally displaced. Most refugees are in Syria and Jordan - which hosts the largest number of refugees per capita of any country on earth.

http://www.fmreview.org/iraq.htm


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They say that of 16 guards, 11 were killed and five others injured - two of them seriously - when US helicopters fired rockets at them and then strafed them with heavy machinegun fire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6239896.stm


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Humor

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Nearly 80 percent of adult American citizens are unable to pay sustained attention to issues and problems associated with their government. They are unable to accept their responsibility as citizens, including their obligation to vote, read in-depth articles and books on political issues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17928.htm



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By John Hickman

California 46th District Republican Dana Rohrabacher's questioning of witnesses descended into a near-rant during an April 17, 2007 joint subcommittee hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Although the subject of the hearing was extraordinary rendition Rohrabacher's harangue illustrates the flawed thinking that has made the entire "war on terror" such a misguided enterprise.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17927.htm
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/26/informed_witness_vs_ignoramus.php



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By James Rothenberg

Hillary categorizes the situation in Iraq as "extraordinarily difficult". Maybe, but there is a solution although she wouldn't like it. She would find it "impossibly" difficult.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17929.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17925.htm



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Excerpts of presentation, Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference

By Prof. Peter Dale Scott

"I have been speaking in public for 60 years, but this is perhaps the most important topic I have ever spoken about." "I want to talk about the threat to world peace, and the possibility of a US attack, possibly a nuclear attack, on Iran."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17926.htm



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

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF28Ak02.html


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http://www.climateark.org -- Climate Ark Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/news/ -- Climate Change Newsfeed

June 27, 2007 OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet

A new study by United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification [more] "the greatest environmental challenge of our times". They report that some 50 million people may be displaced within the next 10 years as a result of desertification [search], and that ultimately some one-third of the Planet's population is threatened by expanding deserts. The process of desertification is the ultimate end result of all poor environmental stewardship, a synthesis of climate change and land clearing, that quite literally makes the Earth a burning hell. They are not making much new land, so just exactly where will the natural resources, food and water come from to care for an increasingly urban world. Hello?! Is anyone home? Is there anybody in there? How many more reports on looming environmental catastrophe can be ignored without major loss of life and a severe decline in the complexity and habitability of the Earth? Are we so into our ipods and Paris Hilton that we can not see the Earth is dying? Climate change, water scarcity, over-fished oceans and desertification; to say nothing of AIDs, terrorism, militarism and poverty; threaten our very being. Yours. Your childrens. It is essential that policy and strategy to fight global threats are integrative, and willing to propose and implement actions that are up to the task of reversing monumental adverse trends. Fifty million people, driven from their land, because we refuse to stop wantonly procreating and consuming. I am stunned, shocked, dismayed (and yes deeply hurt) to read dispassionate accounts of the ecological foundation of being dismantled tree by tree, SUV by SUV. We shall learn to live differently with the Earth or we shall not live at all. Please forgive the emotions as I mourn the looming end of being, Eden turned to dust, by ignorance and vanity.

g.b.

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ITEM #1 Title: Likely Spread of Deserts to Fertile Land Requires Quick Response, U.N. Report Says Source: Copyright 2007, New York Times Date: June 28, 2007 Byline: Elisabeth Rosenthal

Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an “environmental crisis of global proportions,” large-scale migrations and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia unless current trends are quickly stemmed, a new United Nations report concludes.

“The costs of desertification are large,” said Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University, who is based in Canada and is an author of the report, to be released Thursday.

“Already at the moment there are tens of millions of people on the move,” Dr. Adeel said in an interview. “There’s internal displacement. There’s international migration. There are a number of causes. But by and large, in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia this movement is triggered by degradation of land.”

The report’s authors say individual nations and international groups must collaborate to solve what has so far been an underrecognized crisis in the making, caused mainly by climate change. Water resources are overexploited because the poor have no other options, and climate change has exacerbated the cycle. Governments and wealthier countries must aid these populations to develop more sustainable livelihoods or suffer the consequences, the report says.

“Today, those migrants who are escaping dry lands are mostly moving around far from the developed world,” Janos Bogardi of the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany, a technical adviser on the report, said in an interview. “Those who end up on boats to Europe are the tip of an iceberg.”

Far more people move within their homeland, or to adjacent countries. Case studies have shown that up to 20 percent of Malians move to Ivory Coast in search of agricultural work during years of drought, for example. But as temperatures rise and desertification increases, such safer places may be overwhelmed.

“The numbers we now find alarming may explode in an uncontrollable way,” Dr. Bogardi said. “Because if you look at land use now and dry land, there is the potential that we are nearing a tipping point.”

The United Nations report estimates that 50 million people are at risk of displacement in the next 10 years if desertification is not checked. The report is a result of a United Nations- sponsored conference last December of 150 experts from 40 countries.

Experts say climate shifts are one of several converging stresses creating the raised vulnerability in dry areas. Others include population growth, diversion of rivers for irrigation and a lack of ability to store water from flooding rains to use when dry times come.

The report’s authors suggest that dry lands can be partly restored with vegetation that can be used to absorb some of the developed world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Developed countries might invest in programs to prevent conversion of dry land to desert to compensate for automobile and factory emissions, through emissions trading schemes like those in Europe, for example.

“The surface area is so large that even a bit of improved vegetation is going to make a significant contribution,” Dr. Adeel said. “So you’re addressing climate change and also creating a livelihood for people who are poor, so it’s a win-win situation.”

A recent study by Christian Aid, a charity based in Britain, found that 155 million people are currently displaced by conflicts, natural disasters and development. By 2050, an additional billion people may be forced to leave their homes because of climate change, said John Davison, the author of that report.

“All of our concerns here in Europe about immigration bypass the huge crisis that is already occurring in the developing world, which is already bad,” he said. “If you add climate change to the mix, there’s a danger of it spinning out of control.”


ITEM #2 Title: UN issues desertification warning Source: Copyright 2007, BBC Date: June 28, 2007 Byline: Matt McGrath

Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, a report says.

The study by the United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification "the greatest environmental challenge of our times".

If action is not taken, the report warns that some 50 million people could be displaced within the next 10 years.

The study was produced by more than 200 experts from 25 countries.

Scarce resources

This report does not pull any punches - desertification is an environmental crisis of global proportions, it says, and one third of the Earth's population are potential victims of its creeping effect.

It says that the over-exploitation of land and unsustainable irrigation practices are making matters worse. Climate change was also a major factor degrading the soil.

The UN report suggests that new farming practices, such as encouraging forests in dry land areas, were simple measures that could remove more carbon from the atmosphere and also prevent the spread of deserts.

Zafar Adeel, the lead author of the report, said: "It says to dry land dwellers we need to provide alternative livelihoods - not the traditional cropping based on irrigation, cattle farming, etcetera - but rather introduce more innovative livelihoods which don't put pressure on the natural resources.

"Things like ecotourism or using solar energy to create other activities."

Some countries like China have embarked on tree planting programmes to stem the advance of deserts - but according to the author, in some cases the trees being planted needed large amounts of water, putting even more pressure on scarce resources.


ITEM #3 Title: Burgeoning cities face catastrophe, says UN Urban dwellers to outstrip rural population next year; Big rise in poverty, slums and pollution feared Source: Copyright 2007, Guardian Date: June 28, 2007 Byline: John Vidal

Humanity will make the historic transition from a rural to an urban species some time in the next year, according to the latest UN population figures. The shift will be led by Africa and Asia, which are expected to add 1.6 billion people to their cities over the next 25 years.

The speed and scale of inevitable global urbanisation is so great most countries will not be remotely prepared for the impact it will have, Thoraya Obaid, executive director of the UN Population Fund, says. "In human history we have never seen urban growth like this. It is unprecedented."

Ms Obaid added: "In 2008, half of the world's population will be in urban areas. The shift from rural to urban changes a balance that has lasted for millennia. Within one generation, five billion people, or 60% of humanity, will live in cities. The urban population of Africa and Asia is set to double in this time." She said that each week the numbers living in cities grew by nearly a million.

"Most cities [in developing countries] already have pressing concerns, including crime, lack of clean water and sanitation, and sprawling slums. But these problems pale in comparison with those that could be raised by future growth. If we do not plan ahead it will be a catastrophe. The changes are too fast to allow planners simply to react. If governments wait, it will be too late to [gain] advantages for the coming growth."

According to the State of the World Population Report, which Ms Obaid launched yesterday in London, large-scale population growth will take place in the cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It suggests the largest transition to cities will occur in Asia, where the number of urbanites will almost double to 2.6 billion in 2030. Africa is expected to add 440 million to its cities in the same period, and Latin America and the Caribbean nearly 200 million. Rural populations are expected to decrease worldwide by 28 million people.

But urbanisation can be positive. "No country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanisation, said Ms Obaid. "Cities concentrate poverty but they present poor people's best hope of escaping it ... The potential benefits of urbanisation, which include easier access to health centres and education, far outweigh the disadvantages."

The report warns, however, that if unaddressed the growth of urbanisation will mean growth in slums and poverty, as well as a rise in attempted migration away from poor regions. "Today one billion people live in slums, 90% of whom are in developing countries. The battle to cut extreme poverty ... will be waged in the slums. To win it, politicians need to be proactive and start working with the urban poor. The only way to defeat urban poverty is head on," said Ms Obaid.

Climate is expected to increasingly shape and be shaped by cities. In a vicious circle, climate change will increase energy demand for air conditioning in cities, which will add to greenhouse gas emissions. It could also make some cities unlivable, adding to the "heat island" effect, which can lift temperatures in urban areas by 2-6C. "Heat, pollution, smog and ground-level ozone [from cities] affect surrounding areas, reducing agricultural yields, increasing health risks and spawning tornadoes and thunderstorms. The impacts of climate change on urban water supplies are expected to be dramatic," the report says. Cities like New Delhi, in the drier areas, will be particularly hard hit.

What is taking place today, says the UN, is a second great wave of global urbanisation. The first, in Europe, from 1750-1950, boosted the numbers living in cities to about 420 million, but the second is expected to increase urbanisation levels close to those found in Europe (72%) and the US (81%) today.

However, developing countries are at a great disadvantage when they start to urbanise. "Mortality has fallen rapidly in the last 50 years, achieving in one or two decades what developed countries accomplished in two centuries. The speed and scale of urbanisation today is far greater than in the past. In the first wave of urbanisation, overseas migrations [to the US or Australia] relieved the pressures on European cities. Many migrants settled in new agricultural lands. Restrictions on international migration today makes this almost impossible. They will also have to build faster than any rich country has ever done. It will require houses, power, water, sanitation and roads."

The report also spells the end for growth of existing mega- cities. "Only Dhaka in Bangladesh, and Lagos in Nigeria, of the world's 20 mega-cities, are expected to grow more than 3% a year in the next decade ... most growth will be in smaller cities, of under 500,000 people. The good news is these cities are more flexible [in expansion]; the bad is they are under-served in housing, water, and waste disposal."

Ms Obaid said: "It concerns everyone, not just developing countries. If we plan ahead we will create conditions for a stable world. If we do not, and do not find education, jobs, and houses for people in cities, then these populations will become destructive, to themselves and others."

Please sign the petition below and pass it along. We have to help the seals of South Africa.

Thanks, Earle


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Date: 6/27/2007 12:00:37 PM
Subject: Fw: URGENT: STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF Namibian SEALS-SIGN & REPOST

Please SIGN and REPOST
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/seals/seals.php

With only 3 days left until the incredibly cruel and unjust practice of slaughtering the Cape Fur seal pups - an endangered species - for financial gain, masqueraded as a ''cull'' is to commence in Namibia, we urge you to please sign our petition, reminding the authorities that the world is watching and threatening to boycott Namibia as a tourist destination if the cull isn't stopped. Hopefully enough attention will be raised by our combined efforts

Each 100 signatures get sent out every day. Please help us remind these people that they cant just ignore the world away

SIGN HERE:
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/seals/seals.php .

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Help PETA Stop a Barbaric Baby Seal Slaughter

Please sign and pass along to all with whom you are acquainted.

Thanks, Earle


Help PETA stop the barbaric seal slaughter! Urgent!

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From ufpj-news

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The CIA's Family Jewels

Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm



New documents link Kissinger to two 1970s coups

Release of CIA's 'Family Jewels' provides insight into political juggernaut and Bush Administration adviser.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Intelligence_officers_confirm_Kissinger_role_in_0626.html



Fighting War Protesters

In the early 1970s, as Vietnam War-era protests swirled around the Washington area, local police borrowed riot equipment and received intelligence training from an unusual source: the CIA.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062601736_pf.html

From Information Clearing House



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Scientific and spiritual leaders speak out for humane alternatives.
http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/feature_070627.html


From IDA eNews: 6-27-07



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Ask Congress to support the Polar Bear Protection Act
http://ga0.org/campaign/pbpa2



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http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cell_phone_antennas_in_simcoe.htm

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My letter to the editor

The Brantford Expositor published a good editorial today - one that was duly critical of the mayor. I wrote a 'letter to the editor' and have sent it to the expositor. Here it is.

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

Anca


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Newspaper EMR article and Council Deputation
http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/731b915d6e1b3a4b



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"As the Iraq war that Vice President Dick Cheney created continues to shred American - and many more Iraqi - lives, further documentation has emerged proving that, even during failed wars, the merchants of death profit" writes Truthdig's Robert Scheer.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707F.shtml



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Rachel Van Dongen, writing in Roll Call states: "Diving into yet another high-profile clash with the Bush administration, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-California) threatened Tuesday to subpoena current and former White House officials over the alleged mishandling of classified data."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707E.shtml



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Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post conclude their four-part series on Dick Cheney with a look at how Cheney worked to manipulate environmental concerns for the benefit of business.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707B.shtml



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"House Democrats, responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is exempt from certain national security disclosure requirements, said Tuesday they will try to strip some of his funding," according to the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062707A.shtml



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