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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said, on Monday, if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) refuses to bring articles of impeachment against President Bush to the floor of the House, Sheehan claims she will not only challenge the speaker in the next election but also defeat her, reports Jeremy Jacobs of The Hill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407F.shtml

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"I Announce My Candidacy Against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th"

By Cindy Sheehan

I am committed to challenging a two-party system that has kept us in a state of constant warfare for the last 60 years and has become more and more beholden to special interests and has forgotten the faces of the people whom it represents. I am committed to using our strength as a country to wage peace and to elevate the status of every citizen in our country by converting the enduring war economy to a prosperous one with lasting peace.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18066.htm



Anti-war Sheehan vows stand against House speaker

"If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight tonight, tomorrow I will announce that I'm going to run against her," Sheehan said after a cross-country trip with supporters.

http://tinyurl.com/2dc3tv



Peace activist Sheehan arrested at U.S. Congress

Cindy Sheehan and about two dozen fellow anti-war activists were arrested on Monday for refusing to leave the office of a Democratic lawmaker after calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23379838.htm


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Paul Kiel of TPM Muckraker reports: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-PA) failed to disguise their contempt for Alberto Gonzales in their opening statements. Leahy, after running down the laundry list of Gonzales' failures and instances of questionable testimony, said that the administration's stance on their surveillance programs was 'just trust us.' Well, 'I don't trust you,' said Leahy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407A.shtml



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http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2795635.ece

Rainfall the worst for 200 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/jul/27/1


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Um dem wachsenden Anti-Amerikanismus in Afghanistan und im Irak zu begegnen, schlägt ein vom Pentagon in Auftrag gegebener Rand-Bericht vor, stärker Vermarktungsregeln einzusetzen und die "Kundenzufriedenheit" zu beachten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25791/1.html

Ein Jahr vor dem Ende seiner Amtszeit erlässt US-Präsident George W.
Bush eine Direktive, die nichts Gutes ahnen lässt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25796/1.html

Mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung:

Insgesamt 85 Teilnehmer dieser Anhörung haben die im Anhang vorliegende Resolution an das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz unterzeichnet, um endlich den Stillstand in der Diskussion zwischen Mobilfunkbefürwortern und Mobilfunkkritikern zu beseitigen.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/gruenen_anhoerung_bay._landtag_0707_resolution.pdf


Vielen Dank im Voraus für die Veröffentlichung

Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt
Tel: 08171/29751

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Mobilfunk, Gesundheit und die Politik
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HLV INFO 73/AT

24-07-2007
http://www.suedkurier.de/nachrichten/seite3/art1798,2705960



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Norway has to end cruel whaling! Help now and stop this horror!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/943151967


From Rosemary R.



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The Los Angeles Times writes: "The potential for wind power alone is nearly limitless and, according to a May report by research firm Standard & Poor's, it's cheaper to produce than nuclear power. Further, the amount of electricity that could be generated simply by making existing non-nuclear power plants more efficient is staggering .... Nevertheless, the US government spends more on nuclear power than it does on renewables and efficiency."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407O.shtml

Paul Kane reports for The Washington Post, "White House aides have conducted at least half-a-dozen political briefings for the Bush administration's top diplomats, including a PowerPoint presentation for ambassadors with senior adviser Karl Rove that named Democratic incumbents targeted for defeat in 2008 and a 'general political briefing' at the Peace Corps headquarters after the 2002 midterm elections."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407K.shtml



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Richard B. Schmitt reports for the Los Angeles Times: "The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that it would move forward with contempt-of-Congress proceedings against Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, and former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers for refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas pertaining to the investigation of the firing of eight US attorneys last year. The panel's chairman, Representative John Conyers, announced that the committee would vote Wednesday on a resolution to hold Bolten and Miers in contempt for refusing to turn over documents and testimony sought by the panel."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072407J.shtml



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Tennessean
by Robert D. Tuke

07/23/07

The White House and too many Republicans in the Senate — including Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker — are thwarting the will of the American people, who overwhelmingly want our leaders to take care of our troops, bring them home safely and find a sensible strategy to extricate us from the civil war in Iraq. And they are doing it in the most insidious of ways: by blocking votes on legislation and by rejecting independent review of the President’s strategy...

http://tinyurl.com/39gomg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Nation
by Tom Engelhardt

07/23/07

While US commanders in Iraq are deep into planning post-surge surges well into next spring, a couple of straws in the military wind indicate that support for them, not just in civilian America but in military America, may be on the wane. Recently, Military.com, a large insider website directed at the military and veteran communities, polled its readers on when US troops should withdraw from Iraq and the results proved a surprise: ‘Nearly 60 percent of readers who participated … said the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq now or by the end of 2008. More than 40 percent of the respondents agreed the pullout should begin immediately because ‘we’re wasting lives and resources there”...

http://shoutwire.com/comments/82968/Why_The_us_Military_Loves_Ron_Paul


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
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Port Clinton News Herald

07/24/07

Young, Internet-savvy voters challenged Democratic presidential hopefuls on Iraq, the military draft and the candidates’ own place in a broken political system, playing starring roles in a provocative, video-driven debate Monday night. ‘Wassup?’ came the first question, from a voter named Zach, after another, named Chris, opened the CNN-YouTube debate with a barb aimed at the entire eight-candidate field: ‘Can you as politicians … actually answer questions rather than beat around the bush?’

http://tinyurl.com/3yv26f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

„Alles, was wir von westlichen Regierungspolitikern und aus den tonangebenden Medien über den Irak erfahren, verdreht die dortige Wirklichkeit. Das zeigt der neue Report »War and Occupation in Iraq«, den das Global Policy Forum (eine internationale Organisation mit Konsultativstatus bei der UNO) mit Unterstützung von dreißig weiteren Friedens- und Menschenrechtsgruppen zusammengestellt hat…“ Artikel von Joachim Guilliard in Ossietzky, dokumentiert am 20.07.2007 im Linksnet http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=3149

Siehe auch den Report im (englischen) Volltext: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/report/index.htm


Massive Antikriegsproteste in USA am 15. 9.

„Hunderte von Antikriegs Initiativen und Friedensorganisationen mobilisieren aus allen Staaten der USA zu einem "massiven Antikriegsprotest" am Samstag den 15. September nach Washington DC. Die Proteste finden vor dem Hintergrund des Berichtes von General David Patreas, dem Kommandanten der 101st Airborne über den Verlauf und bisherigen Ergebnisse des Irak Kriegs statt…“ Artikel von Thomas Trueten vom 14.07.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/07/187850.shtml

Siehe dazu die Homepage vom Friedensbündnis A.N.S.W.E.R. http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage&JServSessionIdr011=o6wqzjk764.app6a

Zeitgleich zu den Protesten in den USA finden am diesen Tag auch in Berlin Proteste anläßlich der Bundestagsdebatte um die Verlängerung der Tornado und ISAF Einsätze in Afghanistan statt – siehe dazu: Kosovo und andere Kriege > Afghanistan: Bundeswehr raus aus Afghanistan! Demonstration am 15. September 2007 in Berlin http://www.labournet.de/krieg/afghanistan.html


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2007

Mir reicht’s ... nicht!, dass alle wissen, dass sie prekär sind und sich trotzdem nichts ändert!

„„Mir reicht’s ... nicht!“ ist eine Kampagne in Gründung, in deren Mittelpunkt die Frage der Prekarität steht. Die erste Station dieser Kampagne ist die documenta12. In den vergangenen Wochen sind wir mit zahlreichen Kulturproduzentinnen, Praktikanten, Putzfrauen und Aufsichten ins Gespräch gekommen. Uns interessieren besonders die prekären Arrangements, die wir bei unserem Leben und Arbeiten eingehen. Erschöpfung und Enthusiasmus, Stumpfsinn und Zeitmangel sind uns immer wieder in den Interviews begegnet. *Wir verfassen eine erste Erklärung, die wir gemeinsam mit euch diskutieren und in der Form des öffentlichen Redigierens fortschreiben werden. Wir sind dem Versprechen der Prekarität auf der Spur. Uns geht es darum, die Wünsche und Konflikte der Prekären aus dem Verborgenen zu holen und damit die Voraussetzung dafür zu schaffen, dass sich wirklich etwas ändert.“ Siehe die Kampagnen-Homepage mit weiteren Infos und Terminen bei der documenta und anderswo http://www.mirreichts-nicht.org

Projekt-Skizze zur Kampagne "Mir reicht's... nicht!" http://www.mirreichts-nicht.org/texte/projekt-skizze.html


Prekär Bravour. Arbeiten bei der Documenta

Mit der Kampagne „Mir reicht’s… nicht!“ haben AktivistInnen des Euromayday Hamburg sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Großaustellung documenta als Schauplatz für Auseinandersetzungen um prekäre Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse zu öffnen. In einer ersten Phase der Untersuchung dieser Verhältnisse wurden und werden Gespräche mit Beschäftigten und KünstlerInnen geführt. Im Mittelpunkt steht aber die Frage nach der Entdeckung von neuen Konfliktfeldern. MALMOE fragte nach politischen Einschätzungen und Strategien. Siehe das Interview in der malmoe vom 20.7.07 http://www.malmoe.org/artikel/regieren/1454


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2007



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Bochumer Studie belegt, dass Mitarbeiter der ARGE chronisch überlastet sind. Leidtragende sind Hartz-IV-Empfänger.

„Die Geschäftsführung der Bochumer ARGE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Grundsicherung Arbeitsuchender) hat eine Umfrage zu den Belastungen ihrer Mitarbeiter durchgeführt. 80 Prozent der Beschäftigten haben angegeben, daß sie ihre Aufgaben in der geforderten Qualität nicht erfüllen können. Zudem erklärten 69 Prozent der Mitarbeiter, nicht auf jeden Erwerbslosen individuell eingehen zu können…“ Ein Gespräch von Markus Bernhardt in junge Welt vom 24.07.2007 mit Norbert Hermann, Sprecher der Unabhängigen Sozialberatung in Bochum http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/07-24/051.php

Siehe dazu auch:

Die Betroffenen sind noch mehr belastet. Ein Situationsbericht über die Leidensfähigkeit der Opfer von Hartz IV

„Die Unabhängige Sozialberatung nimmt Stellung zu den Veröffentlichungen über die Belastungsanalyse, die bei den Beschäftigten der ARGE durchgeführt wurde: »Das grösste Leid haben allerdings die Hartz IV-Betroffenen zu tragen: Neben den krankmachenden Belastungen durch die Arbeitslosen-Trias „Job weg - Struktur weg - Geld weg“ sehen sie sich einem Moloch gegenüber, wo die linke Hand nicht weiss, was die rechte macht…“ Stellungnahme vom 18.07.07 bei bo-alternativ http://www.bo-alternativ.de/2007/07/18/die-betroffenen-sind-noch-mehr-belastet/#more-1742


Arbeitslose als Ersatzcops gegen Bettler

„In Berlin werden seit einiger Zeit Arbeitslose als 1-Euro-Jobber "zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit" im öffentlichen Nahverkehr eingesetzt. Ihre Aufgabe ist es auch, friedliche Bettler zu verjagen, von denen sich die BVG in ihren Geschäftsinteressen gestört fühlt…“ Bericht vom 20.07.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/07/188452.shtml


Strategien gegen Reformwiderstände

„Eine vom Finanzministerium in Auftrag gegebene Studie geht der Frage nach, warum von Experten empfohlene wirtschafts- und finanzpolitische Reformen beim Volk nicht richtig ankommen. Nicht nur private Think Tanks wie die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM) oder die "gemeinnützige" Bertelsmann-Stiftung treten mit Vorschlägen und Konzepten zum Abbau des Sozialstaats durch mehr "Eigenverantwortung" der Bürger auf. Die Regierungen selbst verfolgen seit Jahren im Zuge der angeblich notwendigen Reformen zur Anpassung an die Globalisierung einen Umbau des Sozialstaats, der dessen Abbau durch Privatisierung zum Ziel hat. Da die Bürger den propagierten Verheißungen der Reformen jedoch zunehmend skeptisch gegenüberstehen, verliert insbesondere die SPD momentan mehr und mehr an Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung…“ Artikel von Jens Wernicke in telepolis vom 24.07.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25785/1.html

Siehe dazu:

Psychologie, Wachstum und Reformfähigkeit

Zusammenfassung der Studie des Zentrums für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung vom 25.3.2007 im Forschungsauftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen (pdf) ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/div/BMF_PWR_Kurzfassung_20070321.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2007

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Die Betroffenen sind noch mehr belastet. Ein Situationsbericht über die Leidensfähigkeit der Opfer von Hartz IV

Die Unabhängige Sozialberatung Bochum nimmt Stellung zu den Veröffentlichungen über die Belastungsanalyse, die bei den Beschäftigten der ARGE durchgeführt wurde: Das grösste Leid haben allerdings die Hartz IV-Betroffenen zu tragen: Neben den krankmachenden Belastungen durch die Arbeitslosen-Trias "Job weg - Struktur weg - Geld weg" sehen sie sich einem Moloch gegenüber, wo die linke Hand nicht weiss, was die rechte macht. Stellungnahme vom 18.07.07 bei bo-alternativ http://www.bo-alternativ.de/2007/07/18/die-betroffenen-sind-noch-mehr-belastet/#more-1742

Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 7 - 31. Woche 2007



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

„Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung plant eine weitreichende Änderung des Sozialgerichtsgesetzes, die zu einem Abbau des Rechtsschutzes beim Bezug von Sozialleistungen vor den Sozialgerichten führen soll. Zu dem vorliegenden Referentenentwurf hat die Neue Richtervereinigung unter dem 20.06.2007 gegenüber dem Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung ausführlich Stellung genommen. Die Neue Richtervereinigung befürchtet erhebliche Nachteile für die Bürger, wenn Rechtsmittel abgebaut werden und formelle Hürden den Zugang zu den Gerichten erschweren…“ Presseerklärung des Bundesvorstandes der Neuen Richtervereinigung vom 28.6.07 zum geplanten Abbau des Rechtsschutzes vor den Sozialgerichten http://www.nrv-net.de/main.php?id=161&presse_id=69


Aus: LabourNet, 24. Juli 2007

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Informant: Corey



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One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air.
http://tinyurl.com/29q38a


From Information Clearing House

THE US dollar touched a new record low against the euro in Asian trade today, hit by jitters about the US housing market troubles and recent falls in global share prices, dealers said.

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The United States will press ahead with enhanced interrogation of terror suspects, which has saved "countless lives," but will not engage in torture, the top US spymaster said on Sunday.

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The Bush administration has taken a series of steps in recent weeks that appear to be setting the stage for a military confrontation with Iran.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/24/hagel-iraq-resolution/


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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) reveals that the company is undertaking the task of refitting a number of the US Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bombers with new bomb racks able to hold and deliver the Boeing produced 30,000 pound (13,600 kg) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker busting bomb.

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5880/


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Click here http://www.peaceandjustice.it/impeach/ to send a fax to Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Chair of the House Judiciary Committee!

Want to do more? See this list of additional actions to take in calling for IMPEACHMENT!

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As the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney attracts more support with each passing day, Feingold's resolutions should be seen as evidence that the essential American principle of presidential accountability is finally being put back on the table by responsible members of Congress.

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A government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article314944.ece


From Information Clearing House

By Jamie Doward, home affairs editor

Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18063.htm



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By Adam Cohen

If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, who would seem less like a president than a king.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18062.htm


"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

From Information Clearing House



"We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy"

By Mike Whitney

Americans don't believe in revolution anymore. It has become a meaningless event in the distant past. But we need a revolution and we need it now. We need to remove the present administration and restore the people's confidence in government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18060.htm



Saving a President

By Stephen Lenderman

Removing the criminal class from Washington, restoring the rule of law, saving the republic, avoiding further wars, and ending the current ones is job one. Failure to do it may mean whatever's ahead won't matter. It'll be too late long before it arrives. Those who care about these things and see the threat better enlist others, do more than complain about it, and act in time collectively to stop it. It can only come from the bottom up, never the other way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18064.htm



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Reuters reports that "A US federal appeals court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to suspend oil exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by environmental activists and Alaska native groups."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072307ED.shtml



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The New Zealand Herald says, "Greece is now on a war footing against weather phenomena 'the likes of which we have never seen,' warns the country's Public Order Minister Byron Polydoras."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072307EC.shtml

Reuters reports that "Human activities that spur global warming are largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the last century."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072307EA.shtml

Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday along with about two dozen fellow antiwar activists for refusing to vacate the office of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, whom she met with earlier in the day in an attempt to get the congressman to support a plan for impeaching President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Reuters reported.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072307U.shtml

Click:



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Writing for Newsday.com, Jimmy Breslin says, "I am walking in Rosedale on this day early in the week while I wait for the funeral of Army soldier Le Ron Wilson, who died at age 18 in Iraq. He graduated from Thomas Edison High School at noon one day in May. He left right away for basic training. He came home in a box last weekend. He had a fast war. The war was there to take his life because George Bush started it with bold-faced lies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072307T.shtml



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Hope Yen, The Associated Press, reports: "Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072307S.shtml



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James Glanz of The New York Times writes: "Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in support of the war, according to court papers unsealed yesterday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072307R.shtml



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Mon Jul 23, 2007 14:20

These are the most recent documents in the library:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/new.php

Exposing the True Isolationists
Ron Paul Newsletter, July 23, 2007
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=915

Globalism
Ron Paul Newsletter, July 16, 2007
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=911

Out of Iraq Now
Speech to Congress, July 12, 2007
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=903

Signing Statements Erode Constitutional Balance
Ron Paul Newsletter, July 9, 2007
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=843

Recapturing the Spirit of Independence
Ron Paul Newsletter, July 2, 2007
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=840

Ron Paul info and links:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/ronpaul.htm



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A special report about the USDA organic program, and the government proposal to allow dozens of non-organic ingredients in certified “organic” foods.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/2007/07/19/truth-in-organics/4100/


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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph": Haile Selassie

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country - if the people lose their confidence in themselves - and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance." - Walt Whitman


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HLV INFO 73/AT

23-07-2007

Der Kongress findet vom 14.-16. September statt. Veranstalter sind die Deutsche Umwelt- und Gesundheitsinitiative e.V. und ECO-Engineering Consultants International. Auf dem Programm stehen u.a. die Vorträge von Dipl. – Ing. Bernd-Rainer Müller (BUND): “Zum technischen Stand der Mobilfunk-Diskussion in Deutschland und anderen Industriestaaten“ und Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Frentzel-Beyme (Uni Bremen): “Die wachsenden Bedrohungen der menschlichen Gesundheit aus Sicht der Umwelt-Epidemiologie“.

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Ira Chernus of TomDispatch.com writes: "Pity the poor Democratic candidates for president, caught between Iraq and a hard place. Every day, more and more voters decide that we must end the war and set a date to start withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Most who will vote in the Democratic primaries concluded long ago that we must leave Iraq, and they are unlikely to let anyone who disagrees with them have the party's nomination in 2008."

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"While people with middle class jobs like teachers and firefighters typically pay a 25 percent tax rate, and higher-paid professionals like doctors and lawyers pay a 35 percent rate, fund managers are taxed at just a 15 percent rate on their earnings," writes Truthout's Dean Baker.

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"Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba seemed a perfect fit. A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage and counterterrorism work during 22 years as a reserve Army intelligence officer in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel," writes William Glaberson of The New York Times. "In June, Colonel Abraham became the first military insider to criticize publicly the Guantanamo hearings, which determine whether detainees should be held indefinitely as enemy combatants."

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"Two years into a fraud investigation, veteran federal prosecutor David Maguire told colleagues he'd uncovered one of the biggest cases of his career," writes Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers. "Maguire described crimes 'far worse' than those of Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant that collapsed in the wake of the Enron scandal. Among those in his sights: executives from a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment empire overseen by billionaire Warren Buffett."

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Emails reveal the lobbying efforts of Greg White for the job of US attorney in Cleveland in 2002 included talks with presidential advisor Karl Rove, report Jack Torry and Mark Niquette of The Columbus Dispatch.

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23 July 2007

UNSUPPORTIVE, belligerent and rude were the words used by a North Somerset councillor who threatened legal action against a parish councillor.

Cllr Liz Wells launched a verbal attack on Churchill parish councillor Alan Brown at a meeting for saying she 'has done less than serve us well'.

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Michael McCarthy reports for The Independent UK, "Heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity."

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Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef report for McClatchy Newspapers: "As the White House struggles to show progress in the 52-month-old war, other important global issues increasingly are getting pushed to the side ... 'Canceling a meeting here or there may not seem like a big deal, but the slights are piling up,' Asia expert Walter Lohman of the conservative Heritage Foundation wrote recently."

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Ian Welsh writes for FireDogLake: "Civil liberties and due process have been under relentless assault for nearly 40 years now in the US. The War on Terror, for all that it has had horrible human rights and civil liberties abuses enacted in its name, would not have been possible without the preceding War on Drugs. What many seem to not realize is that the rights lost by one person are lost by everyone. When some 'terrorist' or 'trafficker' loses his or her rights, so do you."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072307K.shtml

"Senate Democrats vowed Sunday to press ahead with legislation on pulling US troops from Iraq, despite a major defeat last week in their efforts to pass a bill," reports Agence France-Presse.

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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

Congress is finally going to defund a repressive and increasingly unpopular U.S.-backed government that is currently engaged in a losing conflict with Islamic radicals and is endangered by rising anti-Americanism in the country. The current regime is not among the most liberal in the world and is weak, at best, enjoying more support in Washington than anywhere else. In spite of billions in American aid, the country appears to be on the verge of breaking up, with independent tribal chieftains and various clans, not the ‘central government’ run by Washington’s sock-puppets, holding the real power. No, this isn’t about Iraq — it’s about Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has carved out an enclave, reportedly in the wilds of Waziristan, and where the ‘experts’ are saying Osama bin Laden has probably fled...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11334


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Pakistan: Terrorism's Last Domino

Frederic Koller of Geneva's Le Temps points to the potentially catastrophic consequences in Pakistan of the US failure to conclude the war against al Qaeda and the Taliban before attacking Iraq.

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Salon
by David Cole

07/23/07

Once upon a time, a U.S. official’s condemnation of torture was a statement of moral principle. Today, it is an opportunity for obfuscation. We have learned that when President Bush says, ‘We don’t torture,’ it’s important to read the fine print. So it was once again on July 20, when Bush issued a long-awaited executive order purporting to regulate interrogation tactics used by the CIA in the ‘war on terror.’ According to a White House press release, the order provides ‘clear rules’ to implement the Geneva Conventions governing treatment of detainees in wartime — rules the administration insisted did not even apply to the ‘war on terror’ until the Supreme Court ruled otherwise last summer. But while the new rules reflect a significant retreat by the administration from its initial torture policies, they are anything but ‘clear,’ come far too late in the day, and in any event are unenforceable...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/07/23/torture/


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by Devvy Kidd

No where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize a president or Congress the authority to steal from the people's treasury to fund humanitarian efforts or nation building. Humanitarian efforts should and are funded through private organizations. The fact that there's never enough money is the fault of these dictators, potentates and crooks running these countries. New world order advocates like William Kristol, who cares nothing for the U.S. Constitution, is a favorite on FAUX (FOX) News......

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WE ARE THREE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AWAY FROM IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

We all know the bad news, which is that the Cheney administration is determined to commit even more gross and outrageous abuses of power until finally Congress stands up and confronts them. But the good news is that the mounting public pressure is having an effect and John Conyers confided that if three more members of Congress sign on to the call for impeachment he will initiate proceedings. That's all they are waiting on . . . for enough of us to speak out to make it happen.

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

Your voice can make a real difference right now, by letting your own representatives in Congress know that you expect them to do their constitutional duty and put an end to the crimes of the White House. And there are so many impeachable crimes, they commit new ones day by day. To try to hide their wrongdoing they are obstructing justice in every possible way, ordering their cronies to refuse to testify, defying Congressional subpoenas, which would be impeachable offenses standing alone.

The action page above is a voting page, with already over 90,000 submissions. Would it surprise you to know that 99.19 percent of the vote so far have been Yes to impeach? Unless Congress acts now, we shudder to think what unimaginable further damage the White House dictatorship will inflict on our democracy in the next 18 months. They are desperately clutching power and it is not too far-fetch to ask if they will stage a terrorist attack (or do NOTHING to stop one) for the purpose of imposing martial law and gutting our Constitution altogether.

We have seen an endless stream of executive orders in the last couple months that purport to grant the president unlimited powers in just such an event. These orders are so broad and ambiguous that any disruption anywhere in the world might be used as a pretext for the Constitutionally unthinkable. They literally presume to write sweeping legislation in the form of administrative directives, a further expression of their inherent contempt for the role of Congress.

The courts will not save us. This was demonstrated again this week when a loyal Bushie threw out the civil law suit of Valerie Plame without even a hearing on the merits. There is only one thing that can save us. Your voice. If and only if YOU will click a mouse one time to send your vote to Congress on the question of impeachment, then and only them can we get the additional three members of Congress to take action, and once the process begins there will be no stopping it.

Some have asked why take action against Cheney first. It is not just that he is the least popular, he is also the most guilty. Already a majority of the American people support his impeachment, by even the most conservative pollsters. And of course once Cheney impeachment reaches critical mass, his puppet Bush will be pulled in by the same trail of evidence. But if you would rather call for both of them to be impeached at once, there is an action page for that too.

IMPEACH BOTH: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_both.php

Take action now. Raise your voice. Join the hundreds of thousands who are starting to speak out in this time of great Constitutional peril, perhaps the most sinister threat our democracy has ever faced.

TELL DENNIS KUCINICH HOW PROUD YOU ARE OF HIM

And please also consider making a donation to Dennis Kucinich, without whose leadership on the issues none of this might have been able to happen. He is the one who put forward H.Res. 333 when nobody else had the Constitutional integrity to even raise their hand.

KUCINICH DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

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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