Mittwoch, 1. August 2007

Why Is Half Of Iraq In Absolute Poverty?

By Layla Anwar

What have Iraqis done to you? Did they invade you? Did they steal your homes? Did they imprison you? Did they torture you? Did they rape you? Did they occupy your lands? Of course, some of you will come and present me with your usual condescending, paternalistic, patronizing lists of political theories, attempting to explain the inexplicable.

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/8-million-iraqis-in-need-of-emergency-aid-video/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Layla+Anwar

Here's how the Democrats should deal with Republican obstructionism

Challenging The Filibuster

by Ady Barkan, The American Prospect
http://ga3.org/ct/Rd20pgF1FXJ3/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ady+Barkan

US Officials: Militias Are Main Threat to Iraq

Mark Seibel and Leila Fadel of McClatchy Newspapers report, "Despite President Bush's recent insistence that al Qaida in Iraq is the principal cause of this country's violence, senior American military officers here [in Baghdad] say Shiite Muslim militias are a bigger problem, and one that will persist even if al Qaida is defeated."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107F.shtml

Next Step: Stop the Raids

Truthout's David Bacon writes: "Everywhere in this country, immigrant communities are growing, defying the raids intended to terrorize them - organizing and speaking out. This movement is a powerful response to Congress's inability to pass a pro-immigrant reform bill. It can and will resist and stop the raids, but its potential power is far greater. Like the civil rights movement four decades ago, the political upsurge in immigrant communities makes a profound demand - not simply for visas, but for freedom and equality."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107E.shtml



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

Bush Authorized Multiple Spying Programs

Dan Eggen of The Washington Post reports: "The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107C.shtml



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Bishampton mast protesters to take campaign to company bosses

By Sally Jones

PROTESTERS against plans to install a mobile phone mast in the village of Bishampton are to take their fight to the firm's headquarters.

Around 60 villagers will descend on T-Mobile's offices in Hatfield later this month in the on-going row over the siting of the mast.

Read More...
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/wnnewslatest/display.var.1587275.0.bishampton_mast_protesters_to_take_campaign_to_company_bosses.php

UN Debates Urgent Action to Avert Global Warming

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/2007-07-31-05.asp


Informant: Bob Banner

New Nuclear Facility Undermines International Security

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0801-05.htm

National Lawyers Guild Release Report On Government Threats to First Amendment

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0801-03.htm

The American Military's Lose-Lose Dilemma in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2916/



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

Murdoch: Bad for Journalism, Bad for Democracy

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2897/

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All Rupert, All the Time

Eric Alterman, writing for The Nation, argues: "The genius of Murdoch's propaganda network is that by aping real news organizations, he helps himself to all kinds of tax breaks and constitutional privileges unavailable to nonmedia moguls, to say nothing of effects on elections and popular opinion. That he devalues the privileges and responsibilities of the press in America matters little to Murdoch, who appears to care nothing for traditional notions of respectability and treats journalists as no more important than the people who use his newspapers to wrap fish and chips."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murdoch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Silver
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Alterman

The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War

A Very Private War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2896/

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The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War

Jeremy Scahill, of the Indypendent, reports: "With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S. occupation through the use of private war companies. There are now almost 200,000 private 'contractors' deployed in Iraq by Washington. This means that U.S. military forces in Iraq are now outsized by a coalition of billing corporations whose actions go largely unmonitored and whose crimes are virtually unpunished.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081507L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill

Gonzales Has Starring Role in DC Farce

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2903/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marianne+Means

A New Order of The Ages

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2908/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marianne+Williamson

The President Cannot Ignore an Impeachment

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2900



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

Now Who's "Bush-Cheney Lite"?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2918



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

Warming of Glaciers Threatens Millions in China

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2911/

Thousands of Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2920/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wal-Mart

US Military Doctors Criticized Over Force-Feeding

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2912/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=force-feeding

Budget Office Analysis Says War Could Cost $1 Trillion

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2909/

House Passes a Vast Ethics Overhaul

Jeff Zeleny and David D. Kirkpatrick report for The New York Times: "The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved sweeping ethics rules that would require lawmakers to disclose the names of lobbyists who gather more than $15,000 in political contributions for them within a six-month period. The measure would also impose new restrictions on accepting gifts, discounted airfare and other long-held perquisites of office."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethics+overhaul
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US Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept.

Amy Goldstein and Carrie Johnson report for The Washington Post that US attorney John L. Brownlee has testified he received a call from Michael J. Elston, then chief of staff to the deputy attorney general, the night before a guilty plea was to be secured from the manufacturer of an addictive painkiller, OxyContin. Elston, a Justice aide involved in the removal of nine US attorneys, called Brownlee at the request of an OxyContin executive urging him to slow down the prosecution. Brownlee went on to settle the case regardless, and eight days later, his name appeared on a list of attorneys suggested to be fired.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107M.shtml

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US Attorney was targeted after rebuffing DoJ

Washington Post

08/01/07

The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. John L. Brownlee, the U.S. attorney in Roanoke, testified that he was at home the evening of Oct. 24 when he received the call on his cellphone from Michael J. Elston, then chief of staff to the deputy attorney general and one of the Justice aides involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year. Brownlee settled the case anyway. Eight days later, his name appeared on a list compiled by Elston of prosecutors that officials had suggested be fired...

http://tinyurl.com/2r7h3e


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Oxycontin
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Cheney Says He Will Not Close Guantanamo Prison

Michael Abramowitz reports for The Washington Post, "Vice President Cheney said yesterday that he would not close the prison housing suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, going public with a perspective that differs from that of others in the administration, including President Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107K.shtml



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

http://tinyurl.com/339a76



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Residents fight phone mast plans

Southfields residents are battling plans for eight mobile phone masts in their area.

Orange have bombarded Wandsworth Council with applications for sites including Viewfield Road, Wimbledon Park Road, Victoria Drive, Princes Way, Augustus Road and West Hill.

Read More...
http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1587399.0.residents_fight_phone_mast_plans.php

US-India Nuke Deal May Spark Asian Arms Race

http://www.ipsterraviva.net/Europe/article.aspx?id=5041


Informant: John Burroughs

From ufpj-news

Take Action: Tell Congress NOT to Cave in to Fear

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=UIsK7XDookrpiC1-alCUxQ..



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

Pupils 'are wi-fi guinea pigs'

The association is concerned the full facts are not known

Pupils are being used as guinea pigs until research establishes whether there are any risks from the use of wi-fi in schools, teachers warn.

Read More...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6923689.stm

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Children being used as 'guinea pigs' in mass Wi-Fi experiment, warn teachers

http://tinyurl.com/2m3ahg

Anyone have some comments to add to this article?


Mark G.

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The Guardian article was c..., yes, and the comments so far all scathing about people who question wi-fi, so we need to redress the balance. But how many letters and comments will they let through? Who is the Guardian guarding?

BUT, good article in todays Daily Mail. Maybe we should keep the anti wi-fi etc flame alight by emailing their journos about these issues? Article below.

http://tinyurl.com/2m3ahg


Gary



From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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Unsäglich und verlogen

1. August 2007 Ulrich Maurer

Zur Debatte um die Anhebung des Hartz IV-Satzes erklärt das Mitglied des Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstandes Ulrich Maurer:

Im Verein fordern jetzt die Hartz IV-Verursacher von SPD und Grünen eine Anhebung des Hartz IV-Satzes wegen gestiegener Lebensmittelpreise. Dadurch soll vermittelt werden, der aktuelle Satz von 347 Euro im Monat entspräche nicht mehr der Lebenswirklichkeit der Betroffenen. Das ist eine unsägliche und verlogene Argumentation – die Hartz IV-Sätze entsprachen nie auch nur annähernd den Bedürfnissen derjenigen Menschen, die zur Armut per Gesetz verdammt waren. DIE LINKE fordert seit langem wenigstens eine Erhöhung des Satzes auf 420 Euro, um den Empfängerinnen und Empfängern eine Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft zu ermöglichen, von der sie sonst qua Gesetz ausgeschlossen sind. 7,4 Millionen Menschen sind auf ALG II angewiesen, soviel wie noch nie seit dessen Einführung. Derart vielen, an den sozialen Rand Getriebenen, kann man nicht mit einer Debatte um ein paar Euro kommen. Hartz IV muss überwunden werden, nur so eröffnet man Menschen eine Perspektive.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/unsaeglich-und-verlogen/



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Things you must believe to be a voter

Strike the Root
by Retta Fontana

07/30/07

The emperor is not actually naked. If you voted for him, his use of force (war/rulings/deceptions/power grab/secrecy) is different and right, not like the last one. He is actually anointed by your god, capable of getting direction from said god for the rest of us to carry out...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/fontana/fontana1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=emperor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Retta+Fontana

Need and public policy: Handle with care

Foundation for Economic Education
by Gary M. Galles

07/31/07

In public-policy debates the word most commonly invoked as the ace in the hole is ‘need.’ However, ‘need’ needs careful handling. ‘Need’ has the political advantage, but the logical disadvantage, of lacking a clear meaning. That allows it to be systematically abused to distort understanding and to reach desired conclusions that justify picking people’s pockets to pay for what someone else wants...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1470


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+M.+Galles

Americans stuck in political stupor

Frontiers of Freedom
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

07/31/07

The latest bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll rightfully received media attention because of its depressing data. There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But something is more troubling than the data on the dire views of Americans about their elected representatives and government. It is that 72 percent of voters still believe that ‘voting gives people like me some say about how the government runs things.’ Unbelievable! Such confidence in a system that has failed them...

http://tinyurl.com/36aq7z


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joel+S.+Hirschhorn

Privilege’s limits

Boston Globe
by Harvey Silverglate

07/31/07

The development of the doctrine of ‘executive privilege’ — the notion that presidential advisers may withhold executive communications from congressional scrutiny — recalls the Dickensian line that ‘the law is a ass.’ Although the public and courts have largely taken the existence of this privilege for granted, they ignore both the text and original understanding of the Constitution. Congress was granted the privilege, not the executive branch. The Founders never envisioned, and the Constitution does not provide for, a presidential privilege allowing White House advisers to flaunt congressional subpoenas, especially in the context of an investigation of potential executive branch impropriety, as in the US attorneys scandal. … If the Founding Fathers thought the president needed a privilege, they would have provided for it...

http://tinyurl.com/3xtgpt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+privilege
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The system relies on your adherence to playing by the rules, their rules

The Price of Liberty
by Ron Ewart

07/30/07

The system has two Achilles Heels. It relies on your tax dollars, and it relies on your adherence to playing by the rules, their rules. If you dry up the dollars and significantly resist their rules on a grand scale, the veneer of their system breaks down like a cracking egg shell. The ’system’s’ first reaction to resistance is to bring out the police (law enforcement). They have already done that, and we have now become a police state to enforce all the rules and administrative procedures they have perpetrated against us. But there are not enough police in the world to stop a truly massive resistance, especially a resistance founded on freedom and liberty. People are already resisting by quietly not following the rules. Some get caught — and pay a terrible price. Others get off scot-free but they don’t advertise or gloat about their resistance. Eventually, the ’system’ will go too far and squeeze the people in just the right places...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/07/30/ewart.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Emperor’s Circus 2008

No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

07/31/07

The political conventions of the Democrats and Republicans have become a nasty joke. They have become the ‘roman circus,’ the entertainment spectacles for the staged glorification of all the political Caesars and the minions who hitch their wagons to them. St. Paul will host the 2008 Republican convention, just a bit shy of hosting the Olympics. When it happens, it will dominate the local scene. All media will move to observe and report. Hotels will fill, restaurants and bars will do extraordinary business, traffic will come to a standstill, vendors will proliferate … all to take advantage of the thousands of political hacks arriving to celebrate the coronation of already-chosen candidates. How will such massive celebrations be financed? Oh … you and I will pay for it...

http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/07/emperors-circus-2008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith

Good News is No News

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

07/31/07

An important development has been taking place in the real ‘war’ on terror — not the profit-making, fear-and-domination machine of the Bush Administration’s devising, but the genuine struggle to quell the violence of Islamist extremism. Yet despite the potential of this breakthrough, an overwhelming majority of Americans have never heard of it. Certainly it has not been featured — or even mentioned — by the corporate press and government PR engines in the United States. And why not? Because it is a breakthrough toward peace — and peace, as we all know, is not boffo box office...

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd07312007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?

Common Dreams
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

07/31/07

It is time to think about the “unthinkable.”The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election. The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don’t know. But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention. The real question is not how or when they might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2874/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cancel+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Fitrakis

Voting machines still flawed

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

07/31/07

Florida’s optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. At the request of Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Florida State University information technology laboratory went over a list of previously discovered flaws to see whether the machines were still vulnerable to attack...

http://tinyurl.com/2fxdw8



E-vote vendors attack critical state review

San Jose Mercury News

07/31/07

Voting machine vendors and election officials at a hearing Monday assailed Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s ‘top-to-bottom’ review of electronic voting systems for failing to consider real-world responses to potential hacking and vote-rigging. Voting-rights activists, meanwhile, urged her to scrap all e-voting systems and return to paper ballots. … A report filed last week showed that all three systems — Sequoia, Diebold and Hart InterCivic — were easily hacked by a team of computer experts Bowen had commissioned to probe the machines for weaknesses...

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_6505840


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote-rigging

Doctors blast Guantanamo treatment as unethical

CNN

07/31/07

Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal. The doctors should attempt to prevent force-feeding by refusing to participate, the commentary’s three authors write in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association...

http://tinyurl.com/2gdhd9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=force-feeding

Closing arguments in Iraq killing court-martials

MSNBC

07/31/07

A Marine accused of masterminding a plot to kidnap and kill an Iraqi civilian told his squad, ‘Gents, we just got away with murder’ after firing three fatal rounds into the man’s head, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III is charged with murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and other offenses in the April 26, 2006, killing...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20059629/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Army opens rape-slaying court-martial

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

08/01/07

A soldier testified Tuesday that another in his unit bragged to him about an attack in which a 14-year-old girl was raped and killed and her family slain. Sgt. Anthony Yribe, 23, testified during the second day of the court-martial of Pfc. Jesse Spielman, who is accused of being a lookout while other soldiers assaulted the girl and her family in March 2006...

http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=27426


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Vorratsdatenspeicherung: »Auch Standort des Benutzers wird gespeichert«

Die Regierungskoalition plant, ab 2008 aufzeichnen zu lassen, wer mit wem in den zurückliegenden sechs Monaten per Telefon, E-Mail oder Handy in Verbindung gestanden oder das Internet genutzt hat. Bei Handytelefonaten und -textnachrichten soll auch der jeweilige Standort des Benutzers festgehalten werden. Letztendlich können daraus Informationen über die persönlichen und geschäftlichen Beziehungen, die Bewegungen und die Lebenssituation jedes Bürgers gewonnen werden. Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung bereitet Massenverfassungsbeschwerde vor. 5000 Menschen beteiligen sich bereits.

Quelle: Junge Welt
http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/07-31/048.php



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As stocks wobble, one group remains unfazed: managers who profit from public pension funds

http://ga3.org/ct/I120pgF1TR-A/



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The House energy bill could be a big improvement but not without your help

http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11897

Impeach Gonzales

http://tinyurl.com/2oofv6



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"Dead Zone" Returns to Oregon Coast

A story from The Associated Press says, "The return of oxygen-depleted water off the Oregon coast is a sign of a warming climate, which could have ill effects on populations of sea creatures, scientists said Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/073107EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dead+zone

Energy Bill Aids Expansion of Atomic Power

Edmund L. Andrews and Matthew L. Wald of The New York Times report: "A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate's recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/073107EA.shtml

Storm of Legislation Coming Before August Recess

The Hill's Jim Snyder says, "Congress, and by extension K Street, has a busy week ahead as Democratic leaders try to shake a do-nothing tag by passing a series of bills before the month-long August recess."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107T.shtml

Iraq in Chaos As Parliament Recesses

The Los Angeles Times's Ned Parker writes: "Legislators joked and chatted, showing no sense of urgency about breaking a deadlock between Sunni and Shiite Muslims over national reconciliation as Iraq's Parliament held its final session Monday before a monthlong recess."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107S.shtml

Yellowstone Trees in trouble

http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/wyoming/73b546306ae54d9e8725732800801daa.txt


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Losing Forests to Fuel Cars

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001484.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Paulson: US should boost debt limit

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday said the United States may be unable to pay its bills this fall unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $8.965 trillion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/debt_limit_3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Henry+Paulson

Rice: Iran Biggest Threat To U.S. Interests In The Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that Iran poses the biggest threat to her country's interests in the Middle East, as she begins an important regional tour on Tuesday aimed at uniting U.S. allies against Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah.

http://tinyurl.com/29fe9l


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice

Appeal court quashes media gag over White House meeting

An attempt to prevent the press from repeating British concerns about US military tactics in Iraq, including the killing of civilians in Falluja and President Bush's alleged suggestion that the offices of the Arabic satellite TV station al-Jazeera should be bombed, was quashed by the appeal court yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2138236,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

A Little Easier to Occupy from the Air: U.S.

Air Force and Navy aircraft dropped five times as many bombs in Iraq during the first six months of this year as over the first half of 2006, according to official information.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38726


From Information Clearing House

"Violence has destroyed my family"

Housekeeper and mother of three Anisah Kaseb, 58, says the relentless violence in Iraq has damaged her family psychologically: Her younger son committed suicide and her daughter now requires psychological help.

http://tinyurl.com/2d7ehh


From Information Clearing House

Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2819582.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

Congress Eyes Pay Raise For Itself

By Rob Hotakainen

After raising the minimum wage by 70 cents an hour this week, many members of Congress are ready to give themselves a pay increase of roughly $4,400 per year. That would take their annual salaries to nearly $170,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18103.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=minimum+wage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rob+Hotakainen

Who owns you?



The game is rigged! Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18100.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Carlin

The Liberator

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

An agreement was struck with OPEC to price oil in U.S. dollars exclusively for all worldwide transactions. This gave the dollar a special place among world currencies and in essence "backed" the dollar with oil. In return, the U.S. promised to protect the various oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of invasion or domestic coup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18102.htm



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

Ron Paul and the Empire

http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe80.html


Informant: Gomez



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

D e r B e s c h ä f t i g u n g s p a r k

Quelle: Deutscher Einheit(z)-Textdienst von Werner Lutz 7/02

"Nein, wir können das nur telefonisch machen, tut mir leid. Wissen´s, die Leut´ werden später zwar auch wieder sagen, sie hätten von alledem nichts gewußt, aber trotzdem...

Wie gesagt, unser Beschäftigungspark ist vorläufig nur ein Modellversuch von der Bundesanstalt in Zusammenarbeit mit den Ländern... - Wie? - Ja, er ist quasi eine therapeutische Einrichtung für Sozialhilfeempfänger, Langzeitarbeitslose und Frührentner...

Wie? - Nein, ich darf im gegenwärtigen Versuchsstadium noch keine Fernsehreporter hierher lassen. Nein, auch den Standort darf ich nicht bekanntgeben, nur vielleicht soviel, er liegt in einer landschaftlich wundervollen Gegend, mit vielen Bergwerken, Steinbrüchen und Sümpfen...

Verpflegung? Aber selbstverständlich, äähh, natürlich mehr so eine Diätkost, wenn´s wissen, was ich meine. Also abends haben wir zum Beispiel immer so eine Wassersuppe oder so etwas., Aber die Gäste sollen ja hier auch nicht fett werden, das ist schließlich ein Kuraufenthalt.

Ja, um noch einmal ein paar Sätze zu sagen zur Entstehungsgeschichte: dieser Beschäftigungspark soll allen Arbeitsunwilligen dienen, denn um diesen Personenkreis geht es ja eben - damit sie langsam aber sicher endlich aus dem gesellschaftlichen Leben ausgegliedert werden und das öffentliche Bild nicht mehr beeinträchtigen...

Wie? Wo wir die Leute herkriegen? Na, die werden einfach abgeholt, was denken Sie denn? Vorerst wie gesagt nur im Modellversuch, ein Auswahlprinzip gewissermaßen, später dann sicher flächendeckend.

Wie? Ja, von den Familien abgeholt, freilich. - Nein, da gibt es überhaupt keine Vermißtenmeldungen. Wissen Sie, wenn ein arbeitsloser Vater oder Bruder, der der Familie sowieso nur auf der Tasche gelegen hat und vielleicht trinkt, plötzlich fort ist, dann sind doch alle drüber froh, oder?

Ja, und bei uns bleibt er halt dann bis zur Endlö... - ja, bis die Kur halt zu Ende ist.

Wie? Todesfälle? Nein, die gibt es bei uns überhaupt nicht. Wissen Sie, wir kennen hier nur statistische Größen. Das sind Ausfälle und Verluste. Und da sagen wir eigentlich nur: heute war ein guter Tag oder heute war ein schlechter Tag.

Wie? Kleidung? Nein, wir haben eigentlich nur solche Anzüge, wissen Sie, das ist so ähnlich wie ein Schlafanzug mit einem Aufnäher drauf, vielleicht haben´s die schon einmal gesehen im Fernsehen. Wir haben uns da einein größeren Posten an Second-Hand-Ware schicken lassen aus Polen, ich weiß jetzt gar nicht, wo die genau herkommen. Über unserer Einfahrt hängt übrigens auch so ein Schild, daß Arbeit frei macht oder so was ähnliches, das stammt glaube ich auch von dieser Firma...

Aber die Insas.. - äähh, unsere Kurgäste sind ja so froh, sage ich Ihnen, und es geht Ihnen auch allen schon besser. Und wie gesagt, wenn wir das erst einmal flächendeckend machen, was meinen Sie, wie schnell wir keine Arbeitslosen mehr haben.

Wissen´s, und genau deswegen dürfen wir jetzt eben noch keine Fernsehreporter hierher lassen. Obwohl die Leut´ sicher später auch wieder sagen, sie hätten von alledem nichts gewußt, aber trotzdem... - Ja, und weil es doch eine Überraschung sein soll zu den nächsten Bundestagswahlen, daß bis dahin alle Arbeitslosen weg sind..." http://www.einheiztext.de/


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

„Bürgerrechte, die haben Sie jetzt nicht mehr“

Zu wenig Lohn zum Leben

Mitarbeiterin Arbeitsagentur Kiel: „Bürgerrechte, die haben Sie jetzt nicht mehr.“

Es ist schwer, einen wie Volker Kreis (Name v. d. Red. geändert) zu finden. Jemand, der darüber reden mag, wie es so zugeht bei einem privaten Zustelldienstleister für Briefe und Pakete. Einem bundesweit agierenden Unternehmen, das seinen Mitarbeitern so wenig zahlt, dass es zum Leben nicht reicht. Und der fast 50-Jährige ist beileibe kein Einzelfall. Trotzdem hält die Mauer des Schweigens Artikel von Jürgen Küppers in den Kieler Nachrichten vom 27.07.2007 http://www.kn-online.de/news/archiv/?id=2191883


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

440.000 arbeitende Arme in sozialversicherungspflichtigen Vollzeitjobs

1,18 der rund 5,36 Millionen ALG-II-Bezieher in prekärer Beschäftigung

Die von der SPD-Grünen-Regierung im Januar 2003 beschlossenen Hartz-IV-Gesetze haben ihr wichtigstes Ziel offenbar erreicht. Die Verpflichtung Langzeiterwerbsloser, so gut wie jede Tätigkeit zu jedem Lohn annehmen zu müssen, hat zu einer rasanten Ausweitung des Niedrigstlohnsektors geführt. Bei der Vorstellung der Halbjahresbilanz zum Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) räumten die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) und der Deutsche Städtetag am Mittwoch in Berlin ein, dass mittlerweile 1,18 der rund 5,36 Millionen ALG-II-Bezieher erwerbstätig sind, 440000 davon sogar in sozialversicherungspflichtigen Vollzeitjobs. Ihre Einkünfte sind jedoch so gering, dass sie auf ergänzende Leistungen angewiesen sind, um überhaupt überleben zu können. Über eine halbe Million erwerbstätiger Menschen ist auf die Übernahme der Mietkosten durch die Kommunen angewiesen.

Quelle: Junge Welt
http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/07-26/062.php


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



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

Death-Tech Reality

Nancy Levant

It is this writer’s opinion that we are led by abject and career criminals, who also happen to be connected to a network of global wealth siphoning financial systems. America is witnessing pathological classism where the multi-billionaire rich are literally conquering everyone else. One mistake that we the people have made for decades has been staying riveted to “breaking news.” We tend to miss the real news that is pre-empted, or in other words, hidden from our view........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy100.htm



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

Bush Policies Promote Global Jihad

by Cliff Kincaid

There’s more at stake, of course, than the future of the Republican Party, and Bush going down in history as the Republican Jimmy Carter. In the name of promoting freedom and democracy, Bush will have accelerated and acquiesced in the spread of global Jihad that ultimately targets America itself for destruction......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff166.htm



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

Why We Need More Investigations Like Cheney Needs More Power

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24608


Informant: Cal



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

Dr. Paul has requested Urgent Assistance for the Iowa Straw Poll Primary on August 11, 2007

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdWard-MD/message/180

Action Needed - Each of these Cities in Iowa Need Ron Paul Meetup Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdWard-MD/message/229

Registering Repug:

List of the different States Primary Dates - http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president_state_primary_dates.php Louisiana Voter Registration - "When must I register to vote before an election? (R.S. 18:135) Louisiana statutes require you to be registered 30 days prior to an election to be eligible to vote in that particular election."

How can I change my party affiliation? (R.S. 18:107(B)) Your party affiliation can be changed by simply sending your Registrar of Voters a written note requesting your party change (including signature), or by completing another application. Please note: if you are changing your party right before an election, it must be done 30 days prior to an election. Party changes received after book closing for an election cannot be in effect until the next election. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/elections/elect-regist.htm

Contacts for LA Registrars of Voters - Email, Address and Phone - http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/elections/MISC/CoC_RoV_List_Web.pdf - In LA, your party affiliation must be changed PRIOR to 01/09/08.

Voting Reform in Effect in 2008:

US Must Have True and Accurate Voting - We must continue to put pressure on our so called representatives to insure that 2008 will be our first non-fixed national election. This must be approached on a state and national level. HBO: Hacking Democracy - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hacking+democracy&search=Search City of New Orleans, LA & 36 Other State's Elections Fixed - http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/07/17/ward.htm

Don't forget to vote in the GOP Online StrawPoll - http://www.freedomworks.org/strawpoll/ - Email verification required to have your vote counted.

Dei Jurum Conventus - (God's Rights (Unity)/Convention)

Ed Ward, MD; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdWard-MD/ , http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/arc_ward.htm Independent writer/Media Liaison for The Price of Liberty; http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/



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

Arge kürzt bei Krankenhausaufenthalt 121 Euro im Monat

Weniger Arbreitslosengeld II für Kranke in Hamburg

Empfängerinnen und Empfängern von Arbeitslosengeld II wird bei einem Krankenhausaufenthalt der Regelsatz um 35 Prozent gekürzt. Dies hat der Senat auf eine Kleine Anfrage der GAL-Bürgerschaftsfraktion eingeräumt (s. Anhang). Gudrun Köncke, arbeitsmarktpolitische Sprecherin der GAL-Bürgerschaftsfraktion, ist entsetzt über diese Praxis der Arge: "Kranken Menschen die Unterstützung zu kürzen, weil sie angeblich durch einen Krankenhausaufenthalt einen Vorteil erhalten, ist bodenlos zynisch. Wer Krankenhausverpflegung als Einkommen berechnet, arbeitet nicht für sondern gegen die betroffenen Menschen. Die Führung der Arge hat ihre Aufgabe offensichtlich nicht begriffen."

Die Arge team.arbeit.hamburg kürzt wegen der dort bereitgestellten Verpflegung bei stationärem Aufenthalt im Krankenhaus ab dem ersten Tag den Regelsatz. Monatlich werden bei Erwachsenen 121,45 Euro und bei Kindern zwischen 61,50 und 82 Euro einbehalten. Nicht nur Sicht der GAL sind diese Kürzungen unrechtmäßig. Schon in der Anfrage hat die GAL auf eindeutige Gerichtsurteile verschiedener Sozialgerichte hingewiesen, die solche Kürzungen aufgehoben haben. Gudrun Köncke kritisiert, dass der Senat als Träger der Arge sich taub stellt, statt korrigierend einzugreifen: "Der Senat muss dafür sorgen, dass diese Kürzungen sofort eingestellt werden und schon erfolgte Kürzungen wieder rückgängig gemacht werden." http://www.gal-fraktion.de/cms/default/dok/191/191743.arge_kuerzt_bei_krankenhausaufenthalt_12.htm

Wenn beim Dienstleistungszentrum der ARGE in Neumünster ähnliches vorkommt, sollten sich die Betroffenen umgehend die Beratung der SOGA aufsuchen, wir helfen weiter. http://www.soga-nms.net/40368.html


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

Arbeitslose als Ersatzcops gegen Bettler

In Berlin werden 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. Im Eingangsbereich eines Neuköllner U-Bahnhofes sitzt in einer Ecke, einige Meter von Fahrkartenautomaten und Kiosk entfernt, eine alte Frau mit einer Spendenschale vor sich und murmelt vor sich hin, man möge ihr doch bitte ein wenig Geld geben. Die Passanten strömen an ihr vorbei, ohne sie zu beachten. Gestört fühlt sich niemand.

Plötzlich eilen zwei Männer mit einem großen Hund herbei. Sie tragen als Einheitsdress hellblaue Hemden und dunkle Hosen, als wären sie uniformiert. Sie werfen der alten Frau vor, dass sie sie bereits zum zweiten Mal an diesem Ort anträfen, und fordern sie auf, den U-Bahnhof sofort zu verlassen. Gehe sie nicht unverzüglich oder würden sie sie in nächster Zeit erneut dort antreffen, so kündigen sie an, würden sie sofort die Polizei holen. Der Hund schaut die alte Frau, die er, solange sie sitzt, deutlich überragt, grimmig an. Er trägt einen Maulkorb, aber den können seine Herrchen gegebenfalls abnehmen. Die alte Frau erhebt sich langesam und verlässt den Bahnhof.

Die beiden Uniformierten stellen sich mit zufriedener Miene quasi in Formation an die Seite und beobachten sie genau, bis sie außer Sichtweite ist. Auf den Oberarmstücken ihrer Hemden tragen sie Abzeichen, auf denen "ARGE Berlin" steht. Sie sind demzufolge keine Angestellten der BVG, sondern gehören zu den Arbeitslosen, die seit letztem Jahr im Rahmen sogenannter "im öffentlichen Interesse liegender Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung" (vulgo: 1-Euro-Jobs) durch die Berliner U-Bahnen streifen, um dort "die Sicherheit zu erhöhen". Ihresgleichen sieht man in letzter Zeit des öfteren, jeweils zu zweit, uniformiert und mit Hund.

Interessant wäre allerdings zu erfahren, was das Bedrohen und Verjagen von friedlichen Bettlerinnen, die niemanden in irgendeiner Weise belästigen, mit der "Erhöhung der Sicherheit" zu tun haben soll. Zwar ist ein solches Vorgehen gängige Praxis diverser Firmen, die Teile des öffentlichen Raumes für ihre Geschäftsinteressen privatisiert haben. Diese engangieren jedoch dafür private Sicherheitsdienste, die sie selbst bezahlen müssen.

Die BVG hingegen darf kostenlos auf "im öffentlichen Interesse liegende Arbeitsgelegenheiten" zurückgreifen. Wer eine solche "Arbeitsgelegenheit" ablehnt, wird von den Jobcentren mit Kürzung des ALG II um 30 Prozent bedroht, beim zweiten Mal um 60 Prozent, beim dritten Mal um 100 Prozent, jeweils für drei Monate. Wenn ihm oder ihr die verbleibende Summe dann nicht zum Leben reicht, darf er/sie selbst betteln gehen - bis er/sie von anderen "im öffentlichen Interesse" tätigen Arbeitslosen verjagt wird.

Interessant wäre, wenn die Berliner Jobcenter und die Bezirke als Mitträger der Jobcenter einmal darlegen würden, welchem "öffentlichen Interesse" die hier geschilderten Arbeitsgelegenheiten eigentlich dienen. Sollten sie dazu nicht in der Lage sein, liegt ein Rechtsbruch vor, der schleunigst abzustellen wäre. Interessant wäre aber auch zu wissen, warum die rot/rote Regierung in Berlin, diese Ein-Euro-Jobs nicht auf Basis der Freiwilligkeit erlädigen läßt.

http://de.indymedia.org/2007/07/188452.shtml


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

House moves toward impeachment of Gonzales

http://kob.com/article/stories/S154629.shtml?cat=500


From The Nation



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

PUTTING THEIR HEART AND SOLE INTO PEACE

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6524/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Crimes Against Humanity By Big Pharma

http://tinyurl.com/yoqaoh

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ADHD fraud exposed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4125713/

MORE ON THE CRIMES OF BIG PHARMA AND ON THE CRIMES OF PSYCHIATRY
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/20dcd018f47107d4?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Pharma

Next-up News n°267

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n267.htm

Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007

Convenient Solution




Informant: Dorothee Krien

Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing

Steven Rosenfeld, of Alternet, reports: "Two-thirds of Ohio counties have destroyed or lost their 2004 presidential ballots and related election records, according to letters from county election officials to the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. The lost records violate Ohio law, which states federal election records must be kept for 22 months after Election Day, and a US District Court order issued last September that the 2004 ballots be preserved while the court hears a civil rights lawsuit alleging voter suppression of African-American voters in Columbus."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107C.shtml

Bush Outsourcing Intelligence to Private Contractors

"Over the past six years, a quiet revolution has occurred in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing to corporations and away from the long-established practice of keeping operations in US government hands, with only select outsourcing of certain jobs to independently contracted experts ... The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed in May that 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors," writes R.J. Hillhouse for The Nation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=intelligence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors

Office printers 'are health risk'

Laser printer toner particle risk -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6923915.stm

(artjar)

Gonzales Impeachment Proposal Introduced In Congress

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0731-02.htm



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

300 States, Cities and Towns Oppose Iraq Occupation and Costs to Their Cities and Communities

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0731-07.htm

Republicans Defend Tobacco Giants from Sick Children

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2877/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Tobacco
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Cocco

Time for a Democracy Movement

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2882/

Children Hardest Hit by Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2887/

Lieberman Escalates Attack on Iraq Critics

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2890/



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

Take Action: Tell YOUR Representative to flip the switch to renewable energy NOW

http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/157/

Kaputtgesparte Invaliden

Veteranen aus den Kriegen im Afghanistan und Irak klagen gegen die US-Regierung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25841/1.html

Wie aus Politikern Manager und Aufsichtsräte werden

Gleitende Arbeitszeit
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25844/1.html



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

Kritik an Waffenlieferungen der USA in den Nahen Osten

Jenseits des Konfliktes um Krisenherde wie den Irak oder den Iran wächst in Europa der Unmut gegen die US-Außenpolitik.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25852/1.html

Bertelsmann springt auf den Klimaskeptikerzug auf

Ein Konzern und die "gezielte Irreführung der Öffentlichkeit"
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/93635



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

Rachel's News #917

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=2618

Rachel's News #916

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=2619

Protest held in phone mast fight

By Louise Dunderdale

CONCERNED: Sarah Harding and the mast protest team in action

RESIDENTS staged a protest on Saturday against a proposal for a mobile telephone mast in Merley.

Mum-of-two Sarah Harding, of Lynwood Drive, said they were unhappy and they set up the Lynwood Drive Residents Group to fight the application.

Read More...
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1583726.0.protest_held_in_phone_mast_fight.php

Broadcast masts pose no danger?

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4104276/

FBI, IRS Search Home of Senator Ted Stevens

"Federal agents searched the home of US Senator Ted Stevens on Monday, focusing on records related to his relationship with an oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation," reports Dan Joling for the Associated Press.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Stevens
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Executive Privilege Used to Expand Government Secrecy

William Fisher reports for Truthout, "Amid claims of executive privilege by President Bush in the firing of US attorneys, a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties groups has published a new report charging that the administration's stonewalling is simply part of a six-year pattern of unprecedented government secrecy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+privilege
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+secrecy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

Specter Hints at Gonzales "Bombshell"

Elana Schor and Susan Crabtree report for The Hill: "The Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, emerged from a crucial Monday briefing and gave the Bush administration 18 hours to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's congressional testimony ... Specter aides released a statement late Monday that suggested a bombshell to come on Tuesday afternoon."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107J.shtml



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

Im Schlamm und unter Tage

„Was haben die Menschen verbrochen, dass man sie so ohne Lohn arbeiten lässt? Welches Vergehens haben sie sich schuldig gemacht, dass ein Aufseher darauf achtet, wie sie ohne Lohn im Schlamm und unter Tage arbeiten müssen? Warum bekommen die Einen ihre (oft leichtere) Arbeit bezahlt, und die Anderen nicht? "Oberhessischen Presse" vom 19.7.07. Wie in nebenstehendem Artikel zu lesen war, mussten seit 2006 HartzIV-Empfänger schwerste körperliche Arbeiten bei widrigen Wetterbedingungen ausführen - und bekamen keinen Lohn dafür!...“ Kommentar zu einem Skandal in Marburg auf der Sonderseite zu 1-Euro-Jobs bei verdi Mittelhessen.

http://mittelhessen.verdi.de/themen_von_a_bis_z/eineurojobs


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Juli 2007

The crash that could come

Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

07/30/07

Historically, October has been the month for big financial busts. But this year, October could come early. Investors and ordinary citizens have good reason to worry about a perfect economic storm: a deepening loss of confidence in the dollar leading to higher interest rates; the higher rates bringing a crashing end to a hedge-fund, private equity, and merger binge that has depended heavily on cheap borrowed money; the boom in bait-and-switch mortgages ending in a morning-after of rising defaults and sinking housing values; inflationary pressures in food, oil, and other commodities leading to still higher interest rates — all unsettling stock and credit markets and putting a new squeeze on consumers borrowed to the hilt. The historical parallels aren’t comforting...

http://tinyurl.com/37gtkr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

“Government of the people, by the people and for the people”, or not?

The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

07/30/07

When President Abraham Lincoln uttered these 11 words in his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, he could not have known they would be transformed into the popular perception of the Constitution for the United States. This perception has become so ingrained in the minds of modern Americans that it is almost sacrilegious to question it. Since the federal government derives all its power from the Constitution, and that government claims it was granted unlimited power over the lives of the people, the true nature of the Constitution should be important to every American. Therefore, the author decided to construct a simple 2 question quiz to help the reader determine if this perception is fact or fiction...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/07/30/greenslade.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/30/07

What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact ‘experts’ to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment ‘experts’ now. Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time — this one in the NYT from ‘liberal’ Brookings Institution ’scholars’ Ken Pollack and Mike O’Hanlon...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/30/brookings/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brookings+Institution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

Foreclosures rise 58 percent in first half of ’07

MSNBC

07/30/07

The number of U.S. homes facing foreclosure surged 58 percent in the first six months of the year, the latest sign of mounting problems in the mortgage industry, a data firm said Monday. In all, 573,397 properties across the nation reported some sort of foreclosure activity in the first half of this year, including receiving notices of default, auction sale notices or being repossessed by lenders, Irvine-based RealtyTrac Inc. said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20041753/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surge

"We could easily surpass 2 million foreclosure filings by the end of the year, which would represent a year-over-year increase of over 65 percent," said RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/30/ap3968151.html



More People Expected to Default on Mortgage: Subprime

"Alt-A", jumbo interest-only and option adjustable-rate mortgages account for about 25 percent of all outstanding mortgage debt - about $2.5 trillion. Of that amount, about $1.4 trillion is at serious risk of default, Zandi says.

http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007072702?OpenDocument


From Information Clearing House



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

Old Growth Species Mandate Lifted From Northwest Forest Plan

Jeff Barnard of The Associated Press says, "Acting on an agreement with the timber industry, the Bush administration has decided to quit looking for little-known snails, lichens and other sensitive species before selling timber in Northwest national forests, setting up another round of litigation over a plan created to protect spotted owls and salmon."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/073007EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=old+growth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=timber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Northwest+national+forest
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spotted+owl

Iglesias Testimony Could Damage GOP

Truthout's Jason Leopold reports: "David Iglesias, the former US attorney for New Mexico who was fired last year along with eight other federal prosecutors, will testify Wednesday before the House Ethics Committee about a phone call he received from Representative Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico), who queried Iglesias about the status of public corruption cases he was pursuing in the state."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073007R.shtml



An Unsolved Killing and the US Attorney Scandal

"Tom Wales was not supposed to be home on the night of October 11, 2001. Wales, an assistant United States attorney in Seattle, had planned to have dinner and spend the evening with his girlfriend, Marlis DeJongh, a court reporter who lived downtown. But that afternoon Wales called DeJongh and said that he had projects he needed to work on at home. In the evening, after leaving his office, near the federal courthouse, he returned to his Craftsman-style, wood-frame house in a quiet neighborhood known as Queen Anne," writes Jeffrey Toobin in next month's The New Yorker.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073007S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Iglesias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heather+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

Technischer DSL-Engpass auf dem Land? Nur Verkaufstrick der Mobilfunkbetreiber!

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

in der Anlage erhalten Sie eine Presseerklärung der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V. zu Ihrer Verwendung.

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


Hans Schütz
Pressesprecher

UMTS FÜR DEN HAUSGEBRAUCH

Ein privates Handynetz für jedermann
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,497165,00.html

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Jeder kann sein eigener UMTS-Provider werden
http://derstandard.at/?id=2981089



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

The Washington Post explores Gonzales' "decades of dishonesty"

The Washington Post explores Gonzales' "decades of dishonesty", and explores his long relationship as Bush's human shield.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/58281/


From Information Clearing House



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

U.S. Residents Reject Aggressive Foreign Policy

Poll: 54 per cent of respondents think the U.S. will be safer from terrorism in the long run if it stays out of other countries' affairs in the Middle East, up five points since October.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16656


From Information Clearing House

Economic Blowback from Bombing Iran Will be Easily Managed

If there were any doubt in your mind that some People of Influence in Washington think that a U.S. military attack on Iran is a reasonable proposition, consider this: the Heritage Foundation has just published a paper attempting to reassure policymakers that the economic fallout from a U.S. attack on Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/36ftrm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heritage+Foundation

Bush rules out strike on Iran 'this year'

The sources say the officials stressed the words "this year," meaning in 2007. That, however, does not rule out the possibility of military intervention in 2008, right until January 2009, when Bush's term in the White House comes to an end.

http://tinyurl.com/2tov5b


From Information Clearing House

Desperate measures: U.S. Army Offering $20,000 Bonus For 'Quick' Recruits

The Army is now offering a $20,000 "QS" - or "Quick Shipper" -- bonus to new and prior service recruits joining, selecting any job and shipping out for training within 30 days.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/13766925/detail.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Corruption 'mars Iraq rebuilding'

The US agency overseeing reconstruction in Iraq has told the BBC that economic mismanagement and corruption there is equivalent to "a second insurgency".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6922347.stm


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi parliament adjourns in blow to Bush

The recess leaves Bush with little to show Americans after sending nearly 30,000 more troops to Iraq to give Iraqi leaders breathing space to reach a political accommodation.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30808071.htm


From Information Clearing House

Operation Iraq betrayal

In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/26/cheney/


From Information Clearing House



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

A Warning to Tony Blair

By Uri Avnery

Last week, James Wolfensohn gave a long interview to Haaretz. He poured out his heart and summed up, with amazing openness, his months as special envoy of the US, Russia, the EU and the UN (the "Quartet") in this country - the same job entrusted now to Tony Blair. The interview could have been entitled "A Warning to Tony". Among other revelations, he disclosed that he was practically fired by the clique of Neo-cons, whose ideological leader is Paul Wolfowitz.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18096.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uri+Avnery

Democracy For the Few

A Review By Stephen Lendman

Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are corporations, more US-based ones than from any other country. Noam Chomsky calls them "private tyrannies." - They're run by wealthy and powerful figures comprising, along with other elites, the top 1% of the nation's affluent. Today they own 40 - 50% of the country's wealth in the form of stocks, bonds, land, natural resources, business assets and other investments. In contrast, 90% of American families have little or no net worth after mortgage and other debt burdens are taken into account.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18095.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

Forget Third Parties: It Ain't Gonna Happen

Hijack The Democrats

By David Michael Green

Huge numbers of Americans are disgusted with both the Republican and the Democratic parties right now, and are hungrily clamoring for a third alternative. I know, I know - imagine that! What's not to like about one party that stands for greed, murder and destruction, and another that stands by for greed, murder and destruction?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18094.htm



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

Half of Iraq "In Absolute Poverty"

Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in "absolute poverty", according to a report by Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi groups.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18091.htm

Iraq: One In Seven Joins Human Tide Spilling Into Neighbouring Countries

Patrick Cockburn in Sulaymaniyah

Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War. Four million people, one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not they will be killed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18097.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Blog Accuses Military Of Creating Serial Killers

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=32990


Informant: NHNE

Subsidized Home Food Gardening Program

Lets get this happening in OUR cities!!

Bob Banner
HopeDance
Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope


From: Martin Greenhut

Subject: San Francisco Subsidized Home Food Gardening Program

VICTORY GARDENS

VICTORY GARDENS 2007+ calls for a more active role for cities in shaping agricultural and food policy. It is a concept currently in development with the city of San Francisco that would provide a subsidized home gardening program for individuals and neighborhoods. This program offers tools, training & materials for urban dwellers to participate in a city-wide transformation of underutilized backyards- turning them into productive growing spaces. The project draws from the historical model of the 1940's American Victory Garden program to provide a basis for developing urban agriculture as a viable form of sustainable food practice in the city.

The program is a two year pilot project that supports the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops and unused land into food production areas. VG2007+ has the mission to create and support a citywide network of urban farmers by (1) growing, distributing and supporting starter kits for home gardeners, (2) educating through lessons, exhibitions and web sites and (3) starting and maintaining a city seed bank.

The program seeks the power to reinhabit some of the original Victory Garden space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and perform the duties of development, maintenance, and operation.

http://www.futurefarmers.com/victorygardens/


Other urls to check out:

Cutting Out Fossil Fuels by Building Community
by Jan Lundberg
http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/58/article4.html

The War Garden Victorious
by Charles Lathrop Pack (1919)
http://www.hopedance.org/new/issues/52/article19.html

Salee, a 10-year old Iraqi girl, lost both legs in a U.S. missile strike



http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/8546-july-23rd-salee-story

Please take the time to watch this very touching short video (link above) about Salee, a beautiful little ten-year old Iraqi girl who lost both legs in a U.S. missile strike on her house, as she was playing hopscotch outside. Her brother and her best friend were both blown to pieces in this same attack. She is now in Greenville, South Carolina for medical treatment. She was brought there by Cole Miller of NO MORE VICTIMS. Please support Cole and NO MORE VICTIMS by going to: http://www.nomorevictims.org - Cole has partnered with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films on this video.

You can also watch Cole's excellent 15-minute film called NO MORE VICTIMS at: http://www.nomorevictims.org




Salee (Sally)

November 7, 2006 – Hasswa, Iraq: Salee, a ten-year-old girl, was playing outside her home with her brother, cousin and some friends. US jets circled overhead. Suddenly the jets fired three missiles, apparently at two passenger vehicles. One of the missiles hit Salee's home, killing her brother and blowing off both of Salee's legs.

No More Victims has arranged for Salee to receive surgical and prosthetics services in Greenville, South Carolina. This medical treatment is unavailable to her in Iraq.

Thanks to the generosity of Shriner’s Hospital and the hard work of community organizers Ann Cothran, Selena Franks, and a coalition of South Carolina groups, Salee will at last receive the medical care she so urgently needs.


Cole Miller - Director of No More Victims
http://www.nomorevictims.org - musicalcole @pacbell.net - 323-644-2889

http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/no-more-victims
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bravenewfoundation



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

David Hyde Pierce targets Alzheimer's disease in campaign

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



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

Incarceration Nation: The Rise of a Prison-Industrial Complex

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/300707_b_Incarceration.htm


Informant: Neo Mulder



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

Pflegeversicherung: Versicherungslobbyist Raffelhüschen ist wieder auf Werbetour

http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/wp-print.php?p=2514

The Sunday shows raise the question: should Gonzales be impeached?

http://ga3.org/ct/y120pgF1YX-8/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Scher
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

An America of declining power and influence

Progressives must consider a new zeitgeist: An America of declining power and influence.

http://ga3.org/ct/yd20pgF1YX-i/



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

Third-World Inequality In The U.S.

by Paul Harris, The Observer UK

Welcome to Richistan, USA, where the American Dream is a nightmare of inequality.
http://ga3.org/ct/h120pgF1YX-o/



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

Conservatives' laughable moral upsmanship on the subject of leaving Iraq

The 'Genocide' Card
http://ga3.org/ct/Up20pgF1YX-n/



Coked Up

Fighting to end the Vietnam War was a boon to Democratic political fortunes. Why do our pundits still cherish the up-is-down argument that it was a bane?

http://ga3.org/ct/U120pgF1YX-U/



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

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