World-News

"After the wave of successes in 2004 voter registration drives by groups like ACORN, a half-dozen states passed severe laws that scared off voting activists - and now the Senate is weighing in," reports Steven Rosenfeld of AlterNet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507F.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0725-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=illegal+spying

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0725-11.htm

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House Votes to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq

The Gavel reports: "Today, the House passed HR 2929, Banning Permanent US Bases in Iraq. This bill states that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing a permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases+Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2767/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2753/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2749



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+privilege
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2759



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ruth+Conniff

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2769/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/25/2771/

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Two Bush Aides to Face Contempt Citations

"Heading toward a separation-of-powers showdown, House Democrats approved contempt-of-Congress citations against two White House aides who have refused to comply with subpoenas for information on the abrupt firings of federal prosecutors," reports Laurie Kellman for the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507A.shtml

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House Panel Finds Bush Aides In Contempt
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/13752184/detail.html


Informant: ranger116



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

http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2970061/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=elektrosensibel

Laut "Dr. Doom" Marc Faber ist ein weltweiter Börsencrash unvermeidbar. Eine Blase nach der anderen werde platzen. Fragt sich nur: Wann?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25809/1.html

Jul 25 2007

Nev Wilson

AN OUTRAGED army of residents in Woodhatch is fast gaining numbers after a borough council blunder cast an unwanted shadow over their homes.

More than 100 householders living along Prices Lane and the surrounding streets have signed a petition to prevent the building of a phone mast at the end of their road - a battle they thought was long since won.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/36jxeg

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Incidentally, how many T-Mobile 56-day rule masts have gone up in the
last 9 months?

I have lost count.

The current T-Mobile approach appears to be as follows:-

1. Put in application
2. Pass brown envelope to Council Planning Officer
3. Wait for Planning Committee to reject mast
4. Wait for Officer in step 2 to send rejection letter after 56 days
5. Erect mast soon after

Brilliant! Saves all that delay and cost involved with an appeal.

M.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Scott Lindlaw reports for the Associated Press: "Congressional investigators told the White House on Tuesday that they intend to question several former Bush administration officials about their knowledge of Pat Tillman's death, escalating their inquiry into the high-profile friendly fire case ... Congressional investigators are interested in what White House staff members knew because Tillman's family and others believe officials at the highest levels of government hid facts to limit public-relations damage."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507P.shtml



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

Ann Scott Tyson reports for The Washington Post: "Mike Helms, 31, a civilian counterintelligence expert with the Army's 902nd Military Intelligence Group, had been sent to Iraq in 2004 to help fill a critical intelligence gap in the area known as the Sunni Triangle. While in Iraq, he lived with soldiers and ate military rations, took fire from mortar rounds and small arms, and clocked hundreds of miles manning a machine gun on the back of a Humvee. Nevertheless, his status as an Army civilian would leave him stranded in the aftermath of the June 16, 2004 attack, when the bomb hit his Humvee so hard it blew his M-60 off its turret. In the months that followed, Helms recalled, he was denied vital care for his wounds."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507O.shtml

The New York Times writes: "The American people have only one question left about Iraq: What is President Bush's plan for a timely and responsible exit? That is the essential precondition for salvaging broader American interests in the Middle East and for waging a more effective fight against al Qaeda in its base areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And it is exactly the question that Mr. Bush, his top generals and his diplomats so stubbornly and damagingly refuse to answer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exit+strategy

"Fort Lewis, Washington - Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month. The anger and hurt were immediate," reports William Yardley for The New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507M.shtml

Brad Knickerbocker reports for The Christian Science Monitor: "Two different government entities are investigating decisions by Bush administration officials related to species recovery. In one, the US Interior Department is reviewing the scientific integrity of decisions under the law made by a political appointee, who recently resigned under fire. At the same time, Congress is investigating evidence that Vice President Dick Cheney interfered with decisions involving water in California and Oregon that resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of Klamath River salmon, some of which were listed as 'threatened' species."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endangered+species+act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Knickerbocker

Lara Jakes Jordan reports for the Associated Press, "Angry senators suggested a special prosecutor should investigate misconduct at the Justice Department, accusing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday of deceit on the prosecutor firings and President Bush's eavesdropping program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507K.shtml

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Gonzo on the Hill: a Comedic Tragedy

"Forget about the politicization of the Justice Department. Forget about the falling morale there. Forget about the rise in violent crime in some of our biggest cities. Forget about the events leading up to the US attorney scandal and the way he has handled the prosecutor purge since. Forget about the Department's role in allowing warrantless domestic surveillance. Forget about the contorted and contradictory accounts he's offered before in his own defense. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales deserves to be fired for his testimony Tuesday alone," writes Andrew Cohen for The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507B.shtml

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Senators question Gonzales’ honesty in blistering hearing

Frankfort Times

07/25/07

‘Sorry’ didn’t cut it Tuesday for senators furious with the Justice Department, ignoring Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ repeated apologies and promises to fix the problems. What had seemed to be a congressional inquiry on the wane flared up anew, and with gusto, as senators threatened to call for a special prosecutor in the controversy that has plagued the department for six months...

http://tinyurl.com/3ytl9r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Cohen

"House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush's chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the multiple firings of US attorneys," reports Amy Goldstein for The Washington Post.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072507J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys

25. Juli 2007

Katja Kipping

Zur Halbjahresbilanz zur Umsetzung des Sozialgesetzbuches II erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping (MdB):

Laut dem Staatssekretär im Bundesarbeitsministerium, Rudolf Anzinger, ging die Zahl der BezieherInnen von Arbeitslosengeld II im ersten Halbjahr 2007 um zwölf Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum zurück. Er sagt nicht, wie viele Menschen, insbesondere auch junge Menschen, von den abschreckenden und repressiven Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung in den Graubereich jenseits des Leistungsbezuges ausgegrenzt worden sind: durch Sofortangebote von 1 € - Jobs, Sozialdetektive im Privatbereich und den täglichen zermürbenden Kampf mit den Ämtern. Deshalb auch kein Wort von der Bundesregierung zu der hohen Anzahl verdeckt Armer: Nach wissenschaftlichen Schätzungen beziehen ca. 30 Prozent der Berechtigten keine Leistungen nach Hartz IV. Diese Menschen einberechnet würde die Statistik ganz anders aussehen, nämlich entsprechend der Realität. Genauso wenig kann die Erfolgsstory "Job" als eine solche bezeichnet werden. Der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Deutschen Städtetages, Stephan Articus, verwies darauf, dass die Zahl der Erwerbstätigen, die ALG II beantragen, zunehme. Zur Realität gehört eben auch, dass über eine Million Erwerbstätiger ergänzend Hartz IV in Anspruch nehmen müssen, weil sie für einen Hungerlohn arbeiten müssen. Statt mit Statistiken Erfolge zu verbuchen, wäre es angebracht an der Realität orientierte politische Aktivitäten zu entfalten: für einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn, eine bedarfsorientierte repressionsfreie Grundsicherung und für sinnvolle, Existenz sichernde öffentlich geförderte Arbeit.

Quelle: http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/nicht-jeder-statistische-erfolg-ist-ein-erfolg-in-der-realitaet/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialdetektiv
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grundsicherung

http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=3771&language=1


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0724-06.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2730/


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melanie+Sloan

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2719

John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2736



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Medea+Benjamin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2739/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2734/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prisons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz

http://www.schaeuble-wegtreten.de/index.php



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

A CITY councillor has objected to an application for a mobile phone mast outside Napier University's Craiglockhart campus.

Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart councillor Gordon Buchan lodged his objection with the planning department on the grounds that the development would lead to the narrowing of a pavement.

Read More...
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1160892007

http://tinyurl.com/ytrlyb
Translation with SYSTRAN

Aufruhr im Tal der Funkstille
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,496209,00.html

Subprimes downgraded. Will Moody's downgrade America's debt next? Actually, that's already happening; our credit rating is collapsing with the dollar.

http://tinyurl.com/2mlx58


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=collapsing+dollar

Just six percent of those polled said they felt more safe, according to the Newspoll survey for GetUp, a political pressure group that claims nearly 190,000 members.

http://tinyurl.com/27vd8t


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+less+safe

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the US government for providing them with deficient medical and financial support.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22125631-401,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+veterans

The "threat of Iran" and the need to confront the regime has become a mainstream view in the US legislature, attracting support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG25Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khody+Akhavi

The draft, developed by Gen. David Petraeus' staff, lays out a series of security-related goals over two years, envisioning U.S. troops in the "war zone" through 2009.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24204445.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

By David Armstrong

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rule+the+world
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unilateralism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+superiority
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Armstrong

By Neil Mackay

A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm



The President's Real Goal In Iraq

By Jay Bookman

The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=regime+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+domination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neil+Mackay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bookman

http://de.indymedia.org/2007/07/188486.shtml


Nachricht von Dr. Angelika Schrodt

By Dave Lindorff

If Rosa Parks had lived two years longer, what happened today in the halls of Congress might have killed her. It certainly would have broken her heart.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18065.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_205160545.html

Go to site for video...


Mark G.



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=church+mast

Marc Gunther for Fortune Magazine reports that America's rice farmers didn't want to grow a genetically engineered crop, and asks how it ended up in our food.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EC.shtml

A Japanese earthquake that has forced the closure of the world's biggest nuclear plant has highlighted the energy source's dangers, just when support was growing, reports Barbara Lewis and Peter Dinkloh for Reuters.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+industry

Frank Davies reports in The San Jose Mercury News that although there is fervor to do something about global warming, the US Senate has yet to take action on key global warming bills.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072407EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frank+Davies

Dan Eggen and William Branigin report for The Washington Post on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's appearance today before Senate Judiciary Committee members, where he defended a dramatic nighttime visit to the hospital bed of his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, in March 2004.

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



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

http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/240707Schools.htm


Informant: shane_digital



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state

http://www.mdr.de/fakt/4696624.html



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

Papier der Arbeitsgruppe Grundeinkommen des Arbeitskreises Arbeitslosigkeit der IG Metall - Verwaltungsstelle Berlin vom April 2007

Die Tendenz, dass die Arbeitnehmer einen immer kleineren Teil des Volkseinkommens für sich in Anspruch nehmen können, ist leider statistisch verbürgt. Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts ist es der Gesellschaft nicht gelungen, die Arbeitslosigkeit in den Griff zu bekommen. Es ist nicht zu erwarten, dass alle Arbeitsfähigen und Arbeitswilligen einen Erwerbsarbeitsplatz erhalten, von dessen Einkommen sie leben können. Auch wird durch die Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivität die Tendenz verstärkt, dass in Zukunft immer weniger Arbeitsplätze zur Verfügung stehen werden. Darum ist es an der Zeit, dass in der Gesellschaft über andere Formen des Lebensunterhalts für die Menschen nachgedacht wird.

Dieses Nachdenken wollen wir mit dem Papier wieder anregen und damit an die Diskussion aus dem Projekt "fair teilen"anknüpfen. Es scheint an der Zeit, dass sich auch die Gewerkschaften in die Diskussion einbringen.... http://tinyurl.com/yox57l


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 6 - 30. Woche 2007



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

http://tinyurl.com/yvkr29



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

The language used by the Health Protection Agency to warn about the unknowns of wireless internet technology is being used by a council to press for a temporary WiFi blackout in schools.

Like the HPA, which is to probe into the technology next year, the committee of Haringey council urged a “precautionary approach” to WiFi, because of its potential risks to children and teachers.

Read More...
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003364.html



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

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


From Information Clearing House


Click:



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Specter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance

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



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

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
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4059447/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mobilfunk%2C+Gesundheit+und+die+Politik

HLV INFO 73/AT

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frentzel-Beyme
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Frentzel-Beyme

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


From Rosemary R.



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Bolten
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harriet+Miers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contempt
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+D.+Tuke

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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

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

http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/eo_cia?rk=e1wkDEF1AUWWE


Informant: Corey



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

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.

http://tinyurl.com/2xgoxg


From Information Clearing House



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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.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9177


From Information Clearing House



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

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/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chuck+Hagel

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/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bunker+buster

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!

http://www.peaceandjustice.it/j23-impeach.php#dosomething


From Information Clearing House



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

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.

http://tinyurl.com/2lm5v9


From Information Clearing House



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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jamie+Doward

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



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

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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