World-News

Greg Miller reports for The Los Angeles Times, "The director of national intelligence is supposed to be nonpolitical, but some lawmakers think the White House used McConnell for partisan purposes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807A.shtml



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

US-Regierung hat eine Falle in den Protect America Act eingebaut und sieht ihn sowieso nur als ersten Schritt an, der weiter ergänzt werden müsse.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25915/1.html

Nach der World Meteorological Organization haben die Temperaturen im Januar und April wieder Rekorde eingestellt, während sich Hitze- und Niederschlagsrekorde in vielen Regionen ereignet haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/94007

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0808-02.htm

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Tell Reid and Pelosi: “We Won’t Let Congress Fail Freedom”
by signing the petition
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0808-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3043/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3052



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3056



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3061/



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Sacrée Planète Dossier: Téléphonie Mobile, Vrai danger pour la santé.
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PressReviewRevuePresse042007.php#2

http://ga3.org/ct/bp20pgF1aRKL/

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A left-right strategy to stop warrantless wiretapping

Open Left
by David Sirota

08/08/07

Democrats’ capitulation to the White House on the issue of warrantless wiretapping was a move designed to make them look “tough” but which ended up making them look pathetically weak. The Washington Post’s lede frames it best: ‘The Senate bowed to White House pressure last night and passed a Republican plan for overhauling the federal government’s terrorist surveillance laws, approving changes that would temporarily give U.S. spy agencies expanded power to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without a court order.’ In other words, Senate Democrats got muscled by the most unpopular president in contemporary American politics — and they got muscled into using their congressional majority to pass the minority party’s offensive proposal. This said, they still have a chance to fix things and regain an image of strength — but only if they now follow a high-profile alternative strategy...

http://tinyurl.com/277fzl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sirota

Anna Badkhen reports for The Boston Globe: "As more troops return from deployments, social workers and advocates expect the number of the homeless to increase, flooding the nation's veterans' shelters, which are already overwhelmed by homeless veterans from other wars."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807O.shtml



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

Ted Glick writes for Truthout: "A climate 'tipping point' is a point beyond which it will be very difficult if not impossible to prevent catastrophic climate change - truly apocalyptic climate change.... It is unrealistic in the extreme to expect this Congress, under normal circumstances, to adopt the kind of legislation needed, given the power of the coal, oil and automobile industries over legislators of both parties. We need to make this fall a very 'unnormal' circumstance."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Glick

Helen Fessenden reports for The Hill, "The CIA has been ordered to release by Labor Day a declassified summary of an internal report on the agency's performance prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, possibly shedding light on whether senior officials made fundamental lapses in judgment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

Elana Schor reports for The Hill, "Amid liberal anger over the Democrats' eleventh-hour accession to the White House on expanded eavesdropping authority, civil liberties groups are pressing the majority to rectify the situation soon or face a political backlash."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080807J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elana+Schor

from Reason to Freedom
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

08/07/07

The federal government has a spending problem. Each year our current accounts balance gets worse and worse, and the amount of foreign held government debt has skyrocketed. Both Republicans and Democrats; conservatives, liberals and moderates, indeed nearly every single-member of the Washington political establishment, is addicted to one form of federal spending or another. Only when the American people absolutely demand that the spending spree be stopped, will their representatives in Washington stop using this issue as a political football to score public relations points, and finally face-up to the fact that we are a nation in a very precarious financial position, which demands real spending cuts in order to avoid bankrupting our next generation...

http://tinyurl.com/yokm5u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

08/07/07

The half-birthday of the purge scandal’s explosion onto the front pages last February brings a new round of attempts to explain how Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is still collecting a government paycheck. Having taken several whacks at this puzzle myself, I appreciate the recent efforts of Massimo Calabresi, Tom Raum, Sidney Blumenthal, Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein, the Economist, Ramzy Baroud, and the Artful Dodger. Each of these writers offers some variation on the theme that George Bush hangs on to Gonzales because the president is one or all of the following: 1) stubborn; 2) loyal; 3) terrified of the investigation and/or confirmation hearing that would follow from a Gonzales departure. They also frequently note that Gonzales is one or all of the following: 1) stubborn; 2) loyal; 3) conveniently and hilariously blundering; 4) the last line of defense between Karl Rove and the truth about what’s gone on at the White House in the last six years. Let’s say we can all now agree about why Gonzales still puts on a coat and tie every morning. The better question remains, why do Democrats in Congress allow him to keep his job?

http://www.slate.com/id/2171839/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahlia+Lithwick

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

08/02/07

The now-repentant Sullivan and Dreher helped give Bush the ‘political capital’ to invade Iraq. But at the end of the day, all they were guilty of was exercising their First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. As are the unrepentant war supporters; Bill Kristol and Sean Hannity never killed anybody, whereas George Bush is responsible for starting a war that has killed hundreds of thousands. The people with the power are the ones responsible. That they get support from others for even their most foolish schemes only goes to show that the social system raises impressionable children to trust the State, and that habit of belief is hard to break...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2632


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan

08/07/07

We are committed to police the world — yet we have an Army that is ‘breaking,’ as presidential candidates bray about attacking Iran, a nation three times as large and populous as Iraq, and invading Pakistan, a Muslim nation of 170 million, with atom bombs. Whom are we kidding? U.S. foreign policy is bankrupt. We can’t cover our commitments with the ground forces we have. And a world watching America thrash about in Mesopotamia is beginning to recognize it and act upon it. While the federal deficit is only 2 percent of GDP, the surpluses of the 1990s are history, and we are steering toward an entitlement iceberg. … We do not have the forces to fight and win our wars, or defend present allies. We do not collect enough in taxes to fund the coming deficits in Medicare and Social Security...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57028


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/08/07

There is a sinister campaign afoot to make the use of nuclear weapons, albeit miniaturized ‘bunker-busters,’ acceptable, and this, too, is part of the spreading Bizarro Effect: in a world ruled by moral inversion, the unthinkable is now being openly talked about and justified. In a further sign that the Bizarro Effect has taken over the national consciousness, Hillary refusing to rule out the possible mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and/or Afghans is now considered a move toward the ‘center,’ while Obama’s initial moral revulsion (quickly overcome) is considered a ‘radical’ deviation from the norm...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11418


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
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Guardian [UK]

08/07/07

The European Union is threatening to impose tit-for-tat entry restrictions on all US citizens travelling to Europe in response to new American laws designed to strengthen security at airports and prevent would-be terrorists entering the country. US tourists can now travel to Europe without a visa. Franco Frattini, justice and home affairs commissioner, is drawing up plans for an EU-wide system of ‘electronic travel authorisation’ (ETA) similar to that written into US law by President George Bush late last week as part of new homeland security rules proposed by the 9/11 commission and endorsed by Congress...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2143761,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Travellers from US face EU crackdown

US business travellers and tourists flying to the European Union are facing the threat of the same laborious registration requirements that Washington has demanded of Europeans in the latest US security crackdown.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f490402c-4518-11dc-82f5-0000779fd2ac.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6555/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/070807Power.htm



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

Jacqueline Lee, writing for Women's eNews, reports that "many women's votes are missing from the count. In the last presidential election, eight million women registered but did not vote; another 36 million potential female voters were not registered at all."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080707WA.shtml

Laura MacInnis of Reuters reports: "The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heat waves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080707EA.shtml

Tim Starks, Congressional Quarterly, reports: "Despite the win President Bush scored on legislation expanding the administration's eavesdropping authority, Democrats appear determined to make it a temporary victory."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
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Iowa GOP Won't Allow a Privately Funded Manual Validation of Diebold Computers
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=022139


Informant: Cal

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Iowa GOP refuses to allow any Validation of Computer results
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2007/08/10766.php

Iowa Straw Poll Verified (unverifiable 2nd to diebold/sequoia fixing machines) Information

C-SPAN AUDIO: GOP IOWA STRAW POLL — Radio Your Way:, Sat Aug 11 17:13 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112789

Diebold = Iowa Straw Poll - Results Questioned — Watchman08, Sun Aug 12 01:02 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112796

26,000 total Tickets sold - 14,302 votes tabulated — BradBlog, Sun Aug 12 01:30 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112801

Google: Voting Machine Malfunction in Ames — Google:, Sun Aug 12 01:09 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112798

Romney Jokes About Cheating in Poll — Watchman08, Sun Aug 12 01:18 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112799

GOP IOWA STRAW POLL: SAM BROWNBACK — RADIO YOUR WAY, Sat Aug 11 17:36
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112792

Iowa GOP holds huge straw poll — news.yahoo.com, Sat Aug 11 17:25 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112790

Iowa Straw Poll results — Jon Roland, Sun Aug 12 00:21 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112795

Ron Paul, Iowa and the Presidency — John Ray, Sun Aug 12 01:24 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=112800

RE: C-SPAN CALLERS IOWA STRAW POLL http://www.apfn.net/pogo25/L014I070811-IA-14.MP3

Romney Leadership Team Member Overseeing Straw Poll

I could certainly write volumes about this, but I think the facts paint the picture themselves.

The Iowa GOP is facing possible suit over their use of the same Diebold machines that were just de-certified. Story here.

They are claiming of course, that there is nothing to worry about since the voting procedure will be conducted with the assistance and oversight of the Story County Auditor's Office. Story here.

If we look here we see the Story County Auditor is Mary Mosiman.

Mary Mosiman also happens to be on Mitt Romney's "Romney for President Leadership Team".

So there you have it, the Story County Auditor who will take part in overseeing the voting on the questionable machines is part of a team dedicated to "help Governor Romney share his vision for America".

That's a blatant conflict of interest and this is something we cannot ignore.

PS. It's also worth noting that according to this article, Romney's Commonwealth PAC gave State Auditor David A. Vaudt $1,000 in 2004. http://vote-ron-paul-2008.blogspot.com/2007/08/romney-leadership-team-member.html


DrEd



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I think everyone in the world should see it. J Debbie



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1675742701629141259


From ufpj-news

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/070807_timeline_to_tyranny.htm



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

Unbekannte haben erneut zwei Anschläge auf einen Sendemast in Freisen verübt. Nach Polizeiangaben stieg damit die Zahl derartiger Anschläge in Freisen und der benachbarten Umgebung auf 18.

Bei den jüngsten Anschlägen auf den Sendemast in Freisen Ende Juni und Anfang Juli wurde ein Kabel durchtrennt. Allein dieser Mast wurde seit September letzten Jahres sechsmal sabotiert.

Zudem gab es Anschläge auf neun Masten im Kreis Kusel und einen im Kreis Birkenfeld. Die Polizei schätzt den entstandenen Schaden auf 150 000 Euro. Die Motive für die Anschläge sind unbekannt.

http://www.sr-online.de/nachrichten/30/669958.html

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=112703



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

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=112690



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

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=112689



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6557/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

by Jon Christian Ryter

This spells disaster for conservatives in 2008. Unless rank and file right-of-center Christians and social conservatives align behind a Republican candidate and avoid the pitfalls of throwing their vote away on a third party spoiler as they did in 1992 and 1996, the Democrats will not only win the White House in 2008, they will increase their seats in the House and Senate­perhaps to the extent of giving them a veto-proof Congress if GOP Congressmen and Senators continue to back President George W. Bush's illegal alien amnesty program and the North American Union......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon184.htm



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

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_bi_ge/sept11_lawsuits


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

The late surges have surprised traders, who don't see a catalyst for the jump. The gains may falsely indicate in easing in investor skittishness over a tightening of credit, when in fact concerns may still abound.

http://tinyurl.com/356jod


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=market+surge

A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation's communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the weekend and signed into law Sunday by President Bush.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/analysis-new-la.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.

http://tinyurl.com/267s4n

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China Meets the World

Truthout's J. Sri Raman writes about his recent trip to China and focuses on the increased role in the economy of foreign businesses and enterprises. Raman describes a recently enacted contract labor law that deals with social conflict situations created by the functioning of multinational corporations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080907T.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Tax and trade insanity

National Review
by Michael T. Darda

08/09/07

Seventy-seven years ago, members of Congress erected a tariff wall aimed at protecting American business concerns. The result was a stock market crash followed by drastic retaliatory tariffs and a shutdown of the global trading system. The 1932 Revenue Act made matters worse by massively raising marginal tax rates on domestic incomes. These blunders set the stage for the Depression and world war that followed. Current members of Congress appear to have let their history books collect dust: A raft of anti-China currency and tariff legislation is now widely supported by both political parties as the exigencies of political grandstanding subvert the ideals of sound policy. At the same time, Chinese government officials have threatened to dump some of the government’s $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities if Congress continues its currency bashing and tariff threats...

http://tinyurl.com/ysymd5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=J.+Sri+Raman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+Darda

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer


From Information Clearing House



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

Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters.

http://tinyurl.com/yrsea4


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AIPAC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice
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Things got a little testy at the Camp David Summit between Afghan President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and American President George Bush.

http://tinyurl.com/2to294


From Information Clearing House



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

The logic that defends past nuclear atrocities is now used to support a strike against Iran.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2142921,00.html


From Information Clearing House



Looking Forward To Armageddon
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18165.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armageddon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Hagee
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The president said Monday that Tehran is a destabilizing influence "wherever they are,'' including Afghanistan where the Taliban have staged a comeback.

http://tinyurl.com/2r8f7b


From Information Clearing House

The United States has more troops in Iraq now than at any previous time in the war, with around 162,000 members of the military in the country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07328662.htm


From Information Clearing House

Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings - leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20070806-1329-iraq.html



Iraqis suffer as Maliki's coalition govt collapses

The latest boycott - by four ministers from a non-sectarian party - brought to 17 the number of members of the Shiite-led coalition to have walked out, tendered their resignations or withdrawn from cabinet meetings.

http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=22862&cat=2


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki

"The British have basically been defeated in the south," the intelligence official told the Washington Post.

http://tinyurl.com/38bpym


From Information Clearing House

Video

Jim Cramer's breaks ranks and tells it likes it is.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18139.htm
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/132.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=market+meltdown

By Siegesmund von Ilsemann

Karsten Voigt, the German government's Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, was completely gobsmacked last week. How Washington could encourage democratic change in the Middle East by selling Saudi Arabia billions of dollars in weapons, he said, was "a huge question mark." The Islamic kingdom might be a US ally in name, but it wasn't "particularly democratic," said Voigt, and its oppressive family regime continued to be a fertile breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18132.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=regime+change

White Elephants

By Uri Avnery

Well, the Saudis are selling oil to the Americans for dollars. A lot of oil, a lot of dollars. The United States, with a huge gap in its balance of trade, cannot afford to lose these billions. So, in order to make it possible for the US to carry this burden, the Saudis must give back at least a part of the money. How quite simple: they buy American arms that they don't need.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18134.htm



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

The peace movement is not united on Afghanistan, because many people think that it is a "good war." I believe no such thing and I promise you that I will be more vigilant about exposing that war crime, too."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18136.htm

Click:



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

· 110,000 AK-47s
· 80,000 pistols
· 135,000 bits of armour

By Ewen MacAskill in Washington

The failure of the US to account for so many weapons is an embarrassment for the Bush administration after months in which it has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying weapons and explosives to the insurgents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18133.htm



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

Der Artikel von Gabriele Kraft thematisiert neue Sozialgerichtsentscheidungen zum Thema Energiekosten, beschreibt die „Kostenexplosion” auf dem Energiemarkt mit der Folge der Bedarfsunterdeckung bei LeistungsbezieherInnen und zeigt überfällige Konsequenzen für die Praxis der Leistungsgewährung auf.

Das Sozialgericht Frankfurt hat hier eine weitreichende Entscheidung getroffen: die den Betrag von 20,74 Euro übersteigenden Stromkosten sind von den Leistungsträgern als Kosten der Unterkunft nach § 22 SGB II zu gewähren; im vorliegenden Fall also ein Betrag in Höhe von 20,26 Euro.

Im monatlichen Eckregelsatz von 345 Euro seien lediglich 8 % für Haushaltsenergiekosten der Wohnung vorgesehen, so das Gericht. Der darüber hinaus gehende Bedarf für die Stromversorgung müsse daher zu den Kosten der Unterkunft gezählt werden.

Kosten der Unterkunft, also etwa laufende Leistungen für Miete, sind von Seiten der Leistungsverpflichteten in Höhe der tatsächlichen Aufwendungen nach § 22 Abs. 1 S. 1 SGB II zu erbringen, allerdings, so der Zusatz im Gesetzestext, dass diese Leistungen „angemessen” sein müssen. Die Mietnebenkosten gehören generell zu den Leistungen für Unterkunft und Teile der Stromkosten zählen nach diesem Urteil zumindest teilweise dazu. http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2007/stromkosten.aspx


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 8 - 32. Woche 2007

http://www.dgb.de/themen/themen_a_z/abisz_doks/s/soz_ungerechtigkeit.pdf

Der Schutz der Menschenwürde wie auch die Verwirklichung von Gerechtigkeit sind Aufgaben der Kirchen und der Gewerkschaften.

(1) Angesichts der aktuellen breiten und kontroversen Debatte über die künftige Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft, halten wir eine kirchlich-gewerkschaftliche Initiative zur sozialen Frage für dringend erforderlich. Zu ihren Themen gehören insbesondere die Massenarbeitslosigkeit, die vielfach mangelhaften Bildungschancen, die zunehmende Verarmung von Bevölkerungsgruppen, die Perspektivlosigkeit junger und älterer Menschen sowie die verfestigte Spaltung der Welt in arme und reiche Nationen. Menschenwürde und Gerechtigkeit

(2) Der Schutz der Menschenwürde wie auch die Verwirklichung von Gerechtigkeit sind Aufgaben der Kirchen und der Gewerkschaften. Zwischen beiden hat es in Krisensituationen und Krisenzeiten von der örtlichen bis zur Bundesebene immer wieder Gemeinsamkeit und vielfältige Zusammenarbeit gegeben.

(3) Wenn die Würde des Menschen konsequent geachtet wird, kann gutes Leben und gerechte Gemeinschaft gelingen. Individualität und Respekt, Teilhabe und Wohlergehen, Freiheit und Solidarität als die zentralen Bedingungen von Menschenwürde machen es möglich.

(4) Seine Würde muss kein Mensch erbitten. Sie ist das Geschenk des Lebens. Als solches hat sie keinen Preis, aber den höchsten Wert - ein Leben lang. Sie macht jede und jeden einzigartig und unverzichtbar.

(5) Aber die Würde des Menschen ist ständig gefährdet. Deshalb müssen wir gegenseitig für sie einstehen und sie gemeinsam schützen, damit alle Menschen teilnehmen können an den sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Möglichkeiten des Lebens. Die Verletzung der Würde auch nur eines Menschen kann Auswirkungen für alle haben. Wer ein Unrecht zulässt, bahnt dem nächsten den Weg.

(6) Die Würde des Menschen verlangt nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. In der vorrangigen Option für die Benachteiligten als Leitmotiv gesellschaftlichen Handelns erhält sie ihre klare Begründung, Rangfolge und Perspektive.

(7) Denn nur bei umfassender Verteilungsgerechtigkeit kommt es zu gemeinsamer Beteiligungsgerechtigkeit. Wirtschaftlichkeit und Menschlichkeit werden so in einem lebensdienlichen Gleichgewicht gehalten: Alle sollen genug haben; niemand darf nur zum Kostenfaktor oder gar für überflüssig erklärt werden. http://iab.de/asp/X_chronik/chrTab.asp?Tab=Links&Selektor=17#Ebene


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 8 - 32. Woche 2007

Eine Studie des Instituts für Arbeitsmarktforschung (IAB) belegt: Ein-Euro-Jobs verdrängen reguläre Beschäftigung auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt.

"Die Studie geht anhand eines Fixed-Effects-Modells der Jahre 2004 und 2005 des IAB-Betriebspanels der Frage nach, ob ein Zusammenhang besteht zwischen der Einführung der Ein-Euro-Jobs und der Entwicklung der Anzahl sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung in den Einsatzbetrieben. In Ostdeutschland kann ein negativer Effekt der Ein-Euro-Jobs auf das Wachstum sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung nachgewiesen werden. In Westdeutschland lässt sich ein vergleichbarer Effekt nicht identifizieren."

....Zudem werden Ein-Euro-Jobs als Instrument der Missbrauchsbekämpfung eingesetzt: als Test auf Arbeitsbereitschaft und Mittel gegen Schwarzarbeit - denn gegenüber Leistungsempfängern des Arbeitslosengeldes II besteht zum Teil ein latentes Misstrauen, dass Unterstützungsleistungen zu Unrecht in Anspruch genommen werden.

Doch das Dilemma ist groß: Mit der Bekämpfung des einen Misstrauens entsteht zugleich neues Misstrauen: die Angst vor Wettbewerbsverzerrungen und damit einhergehenden..... Nebeneffekten, den in der Arbeitsmarktökonomik dargestellten Substitutions-, Verdrängungs- und Mitnahmeeffekten. Arbeitsgelegenheiten entstehen schließlich nicht im luftleeren Raum, sondern in realen Betrieben. Gerade bei struktureller Arbeitslosigkeit und einer activation without work- Strategie müssen diese Stellen künstlich geschaffen und gefördert werden. Die Betriebe, in denen Arbeitsgelegenheiten eingerichtet werden – mögen sie auch im „öffentlichen Interesse“ handeln – sind ökonomischen Zwängen ausgesetzt und agieren als Akteure auf Güter-, Dienstleistungs- und Arbeitsmärkten.

Beschäftigungsförderung in Form von subventionierten Ein-Euro-Jobs und Trägerpauschalen sind politics against markets, intervenieren auf dem Markt und bieten Anreize für Missbrauch.... den ganzen Artikel finden Sie hier: http://www.iab.de/de/389/section.aspx/Publikation/k061214f15


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 8 - 32. Woche 2007

Landkreistag beunruhigt: Arbeitslosigkeit sagt bei Hartz IV wenig aus – soziale Problemlagen nehmen zu

„Die Zahl der Menschen, die von Hartz IV-Leistungen abhängig ist, hat einen absoluten Höchststand erreicht“, so Landrat Hans Jörg Duppré (Südwestpfalz) zu den Erfolgsmeldungen der letzten Woche zur Senkung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und zu den aktuellen Arbeitslosenzahlen. Der Präsident des Deutschen Landkreistages (DLT) wies stattdessen auf die wachsenden sozialen Bedarfslagen hin: „Bei dem in den Medien vermittelten Bild besteht der Fehler darin, dass Hartz IV nur auf den Indikator der Arbeitslosigkeit verengt wird. Tatsächlich ist zu erwarten, dass die revidierten Daten zur Zahl der Hilfeemp-fänger im April dieses Jahres einen absoluten Höchststand mit gut 7,4 Mio. ausweisen werden.“ Beispielsweise fänden sich Maßnahmeteilnehmer mit mehr als 15 Wochenstunden (Ein-Euro-Jobber), Kranke oder Ausbildungsplatzsuchende nicht in der Arbeitslosenstatistik wieder, obwohl deren Lage oft nicht besser sei.

Obwohl es ein großer Erfolg sei, dass die Zahl der Kurzzeitarbeitslosen in den letzten zwölf Monaten um mehr als 23 % gesunken sei, habe die Zahl derer, die auch nach zwölf Monaten nicht den Einstieg in den Beruf geschafft haben, nur um 11 % abgenommen. „Die hohe Zahl an Hilfebedürftigen entwickelt sich zudem gegenläufig zur sinkenden Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und nimmt beständig zu. Das muss nachdenklich machen“, so Duppré.

Die Arbeitslosigkeit erscheine als alleiniger Indikator für die sozialen Problemlagen nicht geeignet und verneble den Blick auf die Gesamtsituation. „Wenn die Arbeitslosenquote die Entwicklung bei Hartz IV nicht wiedergibt, sollten wir mehr auf die Zahl der Hilfeempfänger, deren Bedarfe und deren Struktur achten“, schlug Duppré vor. Die Betrachtung der falschen Indikatoren verstelle den Blick auf die zugrundeliegenden sozialen Problemlagen und daran zu orientierende Lösungsansätze. „Es wird endlich Zeit, dass wir uns den vielschichtigen Problem offen stellen und uns eingestehen, dass die Zahl der Personen wächst, die auf staatliche Hilfe angewiesen sind.“

Er mahnte deshalb erneut zur Vorsicht im Umgang mit Erfolgsmeldungen bei Hartz IV: „Das Risiko ist groß, dass verkündete Erfolge, die sich in der Lebenswirklichkeit einer großen Zahl von Hilfeempfängern nicht widerspiegeln, Verständnislosigkeit und Frustration statt Zuversicht auslösen“, so der Verbandspräsident abschließend. http://www.kreise.de/landkreistag/dlt-aktuell/pressetexte/pressetexte-2007/pt-07-07-31a.htm


Aus: SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 8 - 32. Woche 2007

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/house_moves_to_block_intel_bud.html


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

Close the School of the Americas
http://www.youtube.com/closethesoa


Informant: Frank

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We Will Not Be Silenced

I rarely forward things, but if you have speakers....Crank this up:
http://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/index_secondmovie.html?tt=1%2E1


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by Nancy Levant

Why is the history of the world so barbaric? Why has mankind - again and again, and in every century of written history – been subjected to nation conquering and barbaric treatment? There is one answer to these questions, folks, and that is the historical political power and control by aristocrats and elitists. Furthermore, and throughout all written history.......

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by Lynn Stuter

Fruit very seldom falls far from the tree. In 1992, George Herbert Walker Bush, responding to a question from the late Sarah McClendon about Iraq-gate and Iran contra, stated, “…if the American people ever find out what we have done, they will chase us down the streets and lynch us.”.......

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Lt. Colonel Gian P. Gentile writes for The Washington Post: "Some say that Iraq cannot be in a civil war because the country's major institutions are not fighting each other with conventional military forces. But this is too formulaic and restrictive for what I saw and heard. On the streets of west Baghdad, almost every person I spoke to told me of a close relative or friend who was killed by Sunni insurgents or Shiite militia members."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707C.shtml

David Stringer reports for The Associated Press, "Britain called Tuesday for the Bush administration to release five British residents held at Guantanamo Bay - a policy reversal that suggests new Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pursuing a tougher line with the US than his predecessor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707B.shtml

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UK adopts a tough stance to demand release of five prisoners from Guantanamo

MINISTERS have demanded the return of five former UK residents being held in Guantanamo Bay, in a dramatic break by Gordon Brown with Tony Blair's refusal to intervene on behalf of non-British nationals.

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1239952007


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Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post: "The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. The law ... gives Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales responsibility for creating the broad procedures determining whose telephone calls and e-mails are collected. It also gives McConnell and Gonzales the role of assessing compliance with those procedures."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707A.shtml



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Councillors have blocked a third attempt by mobile phone companies to put up a mast next to an Oxford school.

Telecoms giants Hutchinson 3G UK and O2 have each tried to install a reception-boosting phone mast next to Peers School, in Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, in the last two years.

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‘Surge’ has made Iraq ‘more chaotic and dangerous than ever’
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6560/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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The surge: a special report by Patrick Cockburn

It was supposed to mark a decisive new phase in America's military campaign, but six months after George Bush sent in 20,000 extra troops, Iraq is more chaotic and dangerous than ever. In a special despatch, Patrick Cockburn reports on the bloody failure of 'the surge'.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2841425.ece


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Die Erfahrungen der Betroffenen mit der Umsetzung und den Auswirkungen des SGB II. Eine Studie im Auftrag des Zentrums Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau

Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse von Anne Ames – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/alos/ames.html

Es handelt sich dabei um einen Ausschnitt aus der Studie. Siehe dazu auch:

Ausgewählte Ergebnisse beim Zentrum Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung der EKHN http://www.zgv.info/hartz/befragung_ergebnis.htm

Der ausführliche Ergebnisbericht kann bei Marion Schick
(m.schick @zgv.info) bestellt werden. Er kostet 8 Euro. Für Menschen mit geringem Einkommem 4 Euro.

"Ich hab's mir nicht ausgesucht". Ergebnisbericht einer Studie zu den Auswirkungen von Hartz IV auf die Betroffenen

„Von Ende März bis Ende September 2006 hat die Sozialwissenschaftlerin Anne Ames im Auftrag des Zentrums Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (ZGV) der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau eine Fragebogenerhebung bei Bezieherinnen und Beziehern von Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) durchgeführt. Ziel der Erhebung war es, die Umsetzung des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB II) und deren Auswirkungen aus der Sicht und dem Erleben der Betroffenen zu erkunden…“ Interview mit Anne Ames von Jens Wernicke in telepolis vom 07.08.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25836/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. August 2007

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Erfahrungen mit Hartz IV

Willkommen in Kafkaland

Interview von Reinhard Jellen in telepolis vom 01.08.2008 mit dem Leiter einer medizinischen Therapieeinrichtung für ehemalige Suchtmittelabhängige Marcus Breuer über die Auswirkungen der Hartz-IV-Reform für seine Patienten http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28430/1.html

"Eine absurde Situation, aber das ist bei uns die Realität"

Teil 2 des Interviews von Reinhard Jellen in telepolis vom 02.08.2008 mit dem Diplompsychologen Marcus Breuer, der mit einer Patientin vor das Sozialgericht ziehen wird, über die Erfahrungen mit Hartz IV in seiner Einrichtung http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28432/1.html


Arbeitslosigkeit als Urlaubsparadies

Artikel von Holdger Platta zum Slogan „soziale Hängematte“ (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/alos/urlaub.pdf


Arbeitsverwaltungen wehren sich - wogegen?

ARGE: Elend auf beiden Seiten des Schreibtisches

„Der Personalrat der Stadt Bochum kam in der Juni-Ausgabe seines Mitteilungsblattes zu einem “niederschmetterndem Ergebnis” über die Situation der Beschäftigten bei der ARGE: “weiterhin Überlastung ohne Ende”. In dem Bericht heißt es: “Immer mehr ARGE-Beschäftigte kehrten inzwischen der ARGE den Rücken” und “der Krankenstand scheint immer weiter zuzunehmen.” Der Personalrat hatte bereits vor einem Jahr über eine Belastungsanalyse in der ARGE berichtet, die feststellt, dass die Verhältnisse bei der ARGE für die dort Beschäftigten unerträglich sind…“ Bericht bei bo-alternativ vom 14.07.08 http://www.bo-alternativ.de/2008/07/14/arge-elend-auf-beiden-seiten-des-schreibtisches/#more-3229


Arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitische Aktionen und Proteste 2008

Reclaim Your Market - Gegen Ausbeutung, Verdrängung und ökologische Zerstörung: Blockade-Happening

„Devise: Blockade-Happening - „Reclaim your Market“ ist eine Massenaktion: Mit mehreren Zügen (bzw. Fingern) werden wir am Montag, den 18. August einen exemplarisch ausgesuchten Supermarkt in der Hamburger Innenstadt aufsuchen und belagern (Stichwort: Blockadehappening). Methoden und Taktiken des zivilen Ungehorsams sind uns nicht fremd, uns ist es jedoch wichtig, Auseinandersetzungen mit der Polizei oder irgendjemand sonst zu vermeiden. Wann: Montag, 18. August, ab ca. 16:00 Uhr Wo: Supermarkt in Hamburg (Details werden auf dem Camp bekannt gegeben)…“ Weitere Informationen auf der Sonderseite „Reclaim Your Market“ zum Hamburger Klimacamp 2008 http://www.klimacamp08.net/programm/ablaufplan/reclaim-your-market


Aufruf zum Tribunal gegen die NRW-Landespolitik am Freitag, 29.August ab 16.00, vor der Stadthalle Wuppertal

„Vom 29. bis zum 31.August findet in Wuppertal der NRW-Tag statt. Für diesen Zeitraum wird Wuppertal quasi zur temporären Landeshauptstadt – weshalb auch die NRW-MinisterInnen am Freitag, dem 29.August zur Kabinettssitzung in der Wuppertal-Elberfelder Stadthalle zusammenkommen wollen. Da weder in Wuppertal noch in NRW alles so rosig ist, wie die Wuppertal Marketing-GmbH, Organisatorin und Ausrichterin des NRW-Tags, es in ihrer Publicity-Kampagne weismachen will, muss zu diesem Anlass auch Unzufriedenheit, Unmut, Empörung und Protest vor der Stadthalle sicht- und hörbar werden. Das Wuppertaler Sozialforum und der ASTA der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal rufen daher zu einem öffentlichen Tribunal gegen die Politik der Landesregierung auf…“ Siehe dazu

Die Aktionsseite „NRW Tag in der Wupper versenken“ samt Programm http://nrwtagversenken.blogsport.de/


Hartz IV Hearing im Düsseldorfer Landtag

Am Freitag, 12. September läd Rüdiger Sagel (MdL DIE LINKE.NRW) in Zusammenarbeit mit Tacheles e.V. (Wuppertal) und dem Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland zu einem Hartz IV-Hearing im Düsseldorfer Landtag ein. Dabei soll den verschiedenen Akteuren der Anti-Hartz IV-Bewegung Raum gegeben werden sich über die vorhandenen Probleme auszutauschen und neue Strategien zu entwickeln. Für weitere Infos siehe Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1752


Aus: LabourNet, 14. August 2008

Greg Mitchell reports for Editor and Publisher: "On the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima - widely ignored elsewhere in the media Monday - HBO aired a documentary by Steven Okazaki titled 'White Light/Black Rain.' It mainly focuses on a few survivors of the attack in 1945, which took at least 150,000 lives.... Here is a full report on how the footage came to exist - and was then hidden from all."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707P.shtml



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The Associated Press reports: "New York City must release hundreds of pages of documents related to police surveillance of protesters prior to the 2004 Republican National Convention. The city had sought to keep secret field intelligence reports prepared by undercover police officers, but US Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV called for the city to turn over those and other documents to lawyers representing hundreds of protesters challenging their arrests."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707N.shtml



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Jeff Cohen writes for Truthout: "Tonight, MSNBC will telecast a Democratic presidential forum sponsored by the AFL-CIO, with an expected audience of thousands of union members at Chicago's historic Soldier Field. Although questions will come mostly from labor folks, the forum will be moderated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, known for his searing anti-Bush 'Special Comments.' I propose a few questions I'd like to hear tonight.... These questions focus on polices that affect the lives and livelihoods of most Americans - in other words, the kind of questions that hold little interest for the Beltway pundit elite that prefers covering politics as a Hillary/Obama celebrity feud."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707M.shtml



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Frederic J. Frommer reports for The Associated Press that Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) has introduced resolutions to censure President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for misleading the nation into war and undermining the rule of law. In the House, Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-New York) introduced companion resolutions.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707K.shtml

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CENSURE IS NOT ENOUGH, IMPEACH THEM ALL

Now that the people driven impeachment movement is starting to get some serious attention, some of those members of Congress who have been resisting impeachment are proposing half-stepping measures such as censure. It appears even Jay Inslee's proposal to impeach Gonzales was a move in part to distract from Cheney/Bush impeachment (which he still opposes). But we suggested last week that it would have the opposite effect, and that calls for impeachment itself would also expand. And so they have.

First there was Russ Feingold, and now comes Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) with his own proposed censure resolutions. But if it is true as he asserts that Cheney and Bush LIED about about Iraqi WMDs and links to Al Qaeda, those are monumental constitutional crimes which DEMAND impeachment. And if it is true as he asserts that they willfully instituted torture violating the Geneva Conventions, corrupted our system of justice by firing prosecutors at the highest levels for partisan political reasons, defying Congressional oversight and obstructing justice about these matters on top of it all, there is one and only one adequate response . . . impeachment.

IMPEACH ALL ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_them_all.php

Unless we immediately move for impeachment, what will happen when another president comes along who is only 80% as bad as Cheney and Bush? Their asserted defense may well be "Hey, you didn't impeach them for what they did, so get out of my face." Cheney has been quoted in the Senate chambers using blunter words than that.

If it was ever too late for another act of grandstanding political theater this is that time. Indeed, a censure resolution may well garner LESS support than one for impeachment, for it will be riduculed by the other side, and rightfully so, as a toothless and meaningless gesture which doesn't actually DO anything to confront these abuses. Censure under these circumstances would make a mockery of our Constitution and its imperative that Congress SHALL exercise its power in the face of such outrageous abuses.

It is not entirely critical where we start. We had thought that Cheney should be impeached first, and he certainly deserves it the most. But Gonzales has barged so far over the line with outright perjury if not profoundly embarrassing professed incompetence it is a disgrace to our justice department every day he remains in office, his only purpose being to protect the flanks of the Cheney White House from accountability for their own crimes.

But what is critical is that we commence the process immediately. And what is most critical for us to do is to continue to speak out in greater and greater numbers, and in increasing frequency, to let our members of Congress know they cannot grandstand their way through another election puffing hot air. In November, they told us they were ready to lead. We must see that leadership NOW, or they will not get another chance.

MASS IMPEACHMENT CAP SHIPMENTS RESUME TOMORROW

We just took delivery on another 4,000 of the custom embroidered "IMPEACH CHENEY?" caps which tie into the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, which just broke 100,000 votes (Hooray!!). We'll be resuming mass shipments tomorrow, starting again with the East Coast. So if especially if you are in the NY/New England area, please get your request in ASAP if you want one in the next batch. If you want one for no charge please email back a request with a mailing address. But if you CAN make a donation, however modest, please do so using to the form below, which allows us to do all the other things we do, plus provide free caps to those who cannot donate right now.

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KUCINICH COMING ON STRONG ON THE ISSUES

Last night we heard Dennis Kucinich pull no punches about getting us out of NAFTA and all the other slanted so called "free trade" agreements, which are nothing more than freedom for unpatriotic corporations to exploit the most desperate labor they can find, anywhere in the world. This is the same Dennis Kucinich whose leadership made the entire impeachment movement a reality. Please make a contribution to him if you are in a position to do so to encourage him to keep standing strong on the issues.

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Katherine Shrader reports for The Associated Press that, thanks to a little-noticed provision of the FISA bill, the Bush administration's new eavesdropping power may last longer than six months. While the law expires in February unless Congress acts to extend it, any surveillance orders that are in place when it sunsets can last up to a full year, for the rest of Bush's tenure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080707J.shtml



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August 15: Kenneth Parr, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12236

August 21: Frank Welch, OK
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12239

August 22: Johnny Conner, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12241

August 23: Luther Williams, AL
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12242

August 28: DaRoyce Mosley, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12292

August 29: John Amador, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12295

August 30: Kenneth Foster, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12296

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/07/disasters


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Ohne Privatdozenten und Lehrbeauftragte könnte kaum noch eine deutsche Universität existieren. Doch der Großteil von ihnen kann von den Honoraren nicht leben. Dass Lehrbeauftragte Hartz IV ...

Mehr unter...
http://bildungsklick.de/a/54730/hartz-iv-fuer-wissenschaftler/

Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband fordert: Arbeitslosengeld II und Sozialhilfe müssen an steigende Preise angepasst werden

„Eine deutliche Erhöhung des Arbeitslosengeldes II und der Sozialhilfe fordert der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband anlässlich der angekündigten drastischen Preiserhöhungen für Lebensmittel. Die jährliche Fortschreibung der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze müsse sich wieder an den Lebenshaltungskosten orientieren und nicht an der Entwicklung des Rentenwerts, wie derzeit praktiziert…“ Pressemitteilung vom 31.7.07 http://www.infothek.paritaet.org/pid/fachinfos.nsf/65e974296cf7e729c12569f9007071a6/53f3627f78f168d9c12573290058ebf2!OpenDocument

Aber gereicht hat es bekanntlich auch vorher nicht!


Weltweit gegen Spekulation und Zwangsräumung. Internationale Kampagne gegen Spekulation und Zwangsräumung von Oktober 2007 - Ende Januar 2008

Mehrere internationale Netzwerke haben dazu aufgerufen, im Oktober eine weltweite Kampagne für das Recht auf Wohnen und gegen Zwangsräumungen sowie die Immobilienspekulation zu starten. Bei einem Treffen städtischer Sozialbewegungen am Rande der G8-Proteste in Rostock einigten sich Organisationen aus verschiedenen Ländern, in der ersten Oktoberwoche öffentlichkeitswirksame Aktionen in mehreren europäischen und lateinamerikanischen Städten durchzuführen. Bei einem Treffen städtischer Sozialbewegungen am Rande der G8-Proteste in Rostock einigten sich Organisationen aus verschiedenen Ländern, in der ersten Oktoberwoche öffentlichkeitswirksame Aktionen in mehreren europäischen und lateinamerikanischen Städten durchzuführen. Dabei sollen die Themen "Wohnungsnot und Ausgrenzung", "internationale Immobilienspekulation" und "Wiederaneignung ungenutzter Räume" verbunden werden. Denkbar sind "symbolische und wirkliche" Haus- und Landbesetzungen. In Deutschland wollen Organisationen aus der Mieter-, der Obdachlosen- und der Arbeitslosenbewegung zusammenarbeiten. Ein zusätzliches Thema sind "Zwangsumzüge" durch Hartz IV. Siehe dazu Informationen im Habitat Netz: http://www.habitants.de/de/kampagnen/g807/aktuell/index.php/art_00001591


Arbeitslosengeld II reicht nicht für gesunde Kinderernährung. Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung legt umfangreiche Studie vor.“

„Das Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) II reicht nicht aus, um Kinder und Jugendliche ausgewogen zu ernähren. Zu diesem Schluss kommt das Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (FKE) der Universität Bonn in einer umfangreichen Studie. Demnach veranschlagt der Gesetzgeber für Nahrung und Getränke bei 14- bis 18-Jährigen lediglich 3,42 Euro pro Tag. Selbst wer nur beim Discounter kauft, muss jedoch im Schnitt 4,68 Euro täglich hinblättern, um den Appetit eines Teenagers mit ausgewogener Kost zu stillen. Das FKE empfiehlt, das Arbeitslosengeld entsprechend anzupassen…“ Pressemitteilung vom 01.08.2007 http://kunden.interface-medien.de/fke/content.php?bereich=presse&seite=seiten/start_presse.php


Aus: LabourNet, 7. August 2007



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Classically Liberal
by CLS

08/04/07

So, some people think there will be major changes when the Democrats take power. Some people are fools. … Democratic Senate Majority leader Harry Reid pontificated that ‘My Republican colleagues chose to rubber-stamp a flawed administration proposal.’ Harry! That couldn’t pass the Senate where you are the majority leader without the support of Democrats. Democratic control of the houses of Congresses don’t appear to be much of a hindrance to the Imperial Presidency. But then why should it? The Democrats figure they will be picking the next Emperor. And then all those lovely little powers will be theirs to use. The seesaw between Democrats and Republicans is a seesaw between competing tyrannies...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Michael Scherer

08/06/07

The most self-controlled figure in Democratic politics, Hillary Clinton, seemed to know from the outset that she was walking into a trap. The cavernous ballroom of the Hyatt Regency was filled with about 1,500 liberal bloggers and activists — the so-called Kossacks, the former Deaniacs, the people-powered Joe Lieberman-bashers who helped reshape the Democratic Party for the 21st century. So when the loud boos finally arrived, a full hour into the Democratic presidential debate at the second annual YearlyKos convention Saturday, and two hours after her arrival at the convention, all she could do was smile. ‘I’ve been waiting for this,’ she told the crowd. ‘This gives us a real sense of reality with my being here.’ Then something happened: The crowd started to laugh. Then it cheered. Then the cheering grew even louder than the booing...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/06/yearlykos/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by staff

08/06/07

In a gesture that says more to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Bush administration that a million suicide bomb attacks could, the Sunni bloc quit the Iraqi Cabinet on Wednesday. That would be the same day that about 70 people died and 60 were injured in three attacks around Baghdad. Think about it — the Sunnis walked away from the process, taking away with them any hope of quelling sectarian violence any time in the near future, no matter how many troops we send over. That’s how fed up they are. The message is loud and clear: Take your benchmarks and … well you know the rest...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/326313_iraqed.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Libertarian Enterprise
by A.X. Perez

08/06/07

Besides the not so minor detail that it threatens and can destroy peoples’ freedom, institutionalized tyranny is stupid, arrogant, and self righteous, traits that lead to self destruction, and possibly the destruction of the society the tyrants rule.To paraphrase Adam Baldwin in Serenity, “I don’t want to be destroyed.”And that is why we must defeat tyranny. Not only will it take away our freedom, it will ultimately committ an error that gets us and our posterity destroyed...

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle429-20070805-04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Arizona Republic

08/06/07

An environmental advocacy group has put the sky up for ‘adoption’ to press the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for tougher smog standards. ‘Adopt the Sky’ is an online petition asking the EPA to approve stricter ozone pollution standards. The site then assigns signers a patch of polluted sky to symbolically adopt as their own. As of Friday, 336 miles of Arizona sky had been adopted. Ozone, a colorless, odorless gas, is at dangerous levels in metropolitan Phoenix. The sponsor, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Earthjustice, hopes to have 50,000 signatures by Oct. 9...

http://tinyurl.com/yv28gc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

08/06/07

Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton is being taken to task by her two closest rivals for accepting $400,000 in campaign contributions from Washington lobbyists. Over the weekend, Clinton was booed by an audience of liberal bloggers in Chicago when she defended taking money from Washington lobbyists, something both Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards have vowed not to do...

http://tinyurl.com/2scwo4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC/Newsweek

08/06/07

Pakistani Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani, a scholar and former general, says the government of President Pervez Musharraf is being unfairly blamed for the failure of U.S. intelligence to locate Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. In an interview last week with NEWSWEEK’s Michael Hirsh at Pakistan’s Embassy in Washington, Durrani attacked as erroneous the recent National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Al Qaeda has ‘regenerated key elements’ of its ability to attack the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/3br27k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Rochdale Observer - UK PLANNERS scored a first this week by rejecting an application for a mobile phone mast on the grounds of crime and disorder.

Read More...
http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/s/231/231059_phone_mast_no_is_first_for_council.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/


Informant: NHNE

Schools can also take retina and iris scans and record children's voices, face shapes, hand measurements, handwriting and typing patterns.

http://tinyurl.com/2fye5l


From Information Clearing House

The Russian navy plans on producing a new submarine-based missile system in 2008. It is part of a big increase in the country's spending on research, development and procurement of weaponry, prompting fears of a new cold war.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,498338,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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Fiery Republican presidential long-shot Tom Tancredo Sunday defended his suggestion that America should threaten to bomb Muslim holy sites in order to deter a nuclear attack on US soil.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070805/pl_afp/usvote2008islam_070805215534


From Information Clearing House



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Top Republican 2008 White House hopefuls on Sunday reserved the right to launch US strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, and insisted on victory in Iraq, in a feisty fourth televised debate.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/06/top4.htm



Pakistan not to allow foreign troops: Aziz

The Prime Minister said Pakistan is a sovereign country with full capability of protecting itself. He said its forces were going after those who wanted to destabilise the country or create trouble.

http://tinyurl.com/yvwgly


From Information Clearing House



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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a key US ally, contradicted US assessments of the threat posed by Iran and insisted in an interview aired Sunday that Tehran played a beneficial role in his region. "So far, Iran has been a helper and a solution"...

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=84351


From Information Clearing House



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A report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the U.S. says that the country's defense department could not track record of about 30 percent of the weapons distributed in Iraq over the past three years.

http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=08/06/2007&item=10


From Information Clearing House



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By Rosa Brooks

Civil service is commendable, but worshiping soldiers and police for doing their duty has gotten out of control.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18128.htm



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By Joel S. Hirschhorn

We have arrived at a delusional democracy. Delusional because Americans overwhelmingly cannot admit the painful truth that their limited democracy no longer works for the good of most citizens. Instead, through corruption and dishonesty, our representative democracy has morphed into a plutocracy that serves the wealthy, power elites and corporate masters that control the political system and through that the economic system.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18127.htm



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By John Diaz

It doesn't require a subpoena of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or a brave whistle-blower to find President Bush's latest affront to the U.S. Constitution. It's in plain view on the White House Web site: "Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18125.htm



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By Sgt. Kevin Benderman

The apathetic American public needs to pull their heads out of the comfortable little hole in the sand where it has been for far too long and do something about the way our country is being stolen from us by an administration that has its well-being and only its well- being in mind.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18126.htm



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Writing for The Women's Media Center, Stacy Bannerman says, "The children of the troops serving in Iraq are experiencing significant collateral damage at home, according to two staggering new reports on the occurrence of child maltreatment, neglect, and abuse during combat-related deployments."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080607HA.shtml



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Jolene Stevens, The Des Moines Register, writes: "John Edwards, citing the organized labor movement as 'the single best anti-poverty movement in history,' said Sunday that the nation needs 'a president who will stand up for the rights of workers, not just the big multinational companies.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080607LA.shtml



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The American Prospect contributor Glenn Hurowitz says, "Lately, I've been inundated with phone calls from venture capitalists, private equity guys, and hedge fundistas. They're coming to me because I'm their environmentalist friend and they all want to know one thing: how they can make a buck off the surge in interest in combating global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080607EC.shtml



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John Heilprin of The Fresno Bee writes: "The Bush administration's hand in removing the Everglades from a United Nations list of endangered sites was denounced Friday by a Florida senator."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080607EB.shtml



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Phyllis Bennis of The Institute for Policy Studies writes for AlterNet: "I have spent the last five years opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq (and before that, a dozen years opposing an earlier war and genocidal US-led economic sanctions against Iraq). I spent - and still spend - weeks and months on the road, speaking at huge demonstrations and in tiny church basements, writing articles and talking points and whatever to help build and strengthen our movement. But I never supported Saddam Hussein, who was "resisting" the US during the sanctions years, and I didn't - and don't - support what is called 'the Iraqi resistance' today. What's the difference?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080607T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis

Part I

Charles E. Anderson served his country in Iraq as a Navy medic assigned to a Marine tank battalion. He witnessed firsthand the devastation inflicted by war. In March of 2006 Anderson joined other Iraq war veterans on a six-day march from Mobile to New Orleans to show his continued opposition to the war in Iraq and the government's mistreatment and abandonment of our own residents of the Gulf Coast. This year he returned to the Gulf Coast and filed this five-part report on the progress of reconstruction in the region.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080607R.shtml



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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/underwater-tick.html


Informant: radtimes

http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/060807_b_Paul.htm



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Informant: shane_digital

Info from a well wisher:

5.8 GHz Dedicated short Range Communication (DSRC) systems for road charging.

After what I read about the mast illness is all in head, I thought I would write to you of something that would be of interest to your organisation.

I would like to inform you of Road Pricing System's infrastructure, nearly £500 million is being spent by the Dept for Transport. Reports which dismiss linkage between health and microwave radiation may be part of a propaganda war to soften the general public to a potential massive increase of microwave antennae to be used for National Road Charging.

The heart of the infrastructure relies on a very high capacity telecoms system. The Highway Agency calls this system the National Road Telecommunications System (NRTS). It is a very wide area fibre optic network with the intention on plugging in the EU standards for road charging transceiver equipment to interogate on-board vehicle transponders, a system known as tag-and-beacon. This is supplemented by the up and coming EU's version of GPS, "Galileo". Enforcement systems will also be using the system.

If the designs are approved, then there will be hundreds if not thousands of
5.8 GHz microwave masts along UK roads starting with the motorway networks. In the DfT Feasibility Reports, it only makes a brief mention of health and safety of the equipment. Higher frequencies mean wide bandwidth and the ability to pump out more energy. The new system will also cater for third parties to use the infrastucture - such as telephone companies. The emphaisi GSM/GPRS technology has been mooted, this may displace 5.8GHz DSRC transmission systems, but they will still use lower frequency microwave (sub 2GHz)

A lot of information can be found on The Association of British Drivers
(ABD) and Manchester Against Road Tolls (MART) websites. The have supplied information to the Sunday Telegraph which gives a detailed account of what is in store and de-mystifies the very technical and verbose DfT Feasibility Report.

Good luck in your campaign.

Mart