World-News

Steve Fainaru reports in Sunday's edition of The Washington Post that the US military "has paid $548 million over the past three years to two British security firms that protect the US Army Corps of Engineers on reconstruction projects, more than $200 million over the original budget, according to previously undisclosed data that show how the cost of private security in Iraq has mushroomed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207Y.shtml

Die Welt - Germany

Aus der Ferne sollen Laser und Mikrowellen den Körper nach versteckten
Gegenständen abtasten. Ferngesteuerte Sensoren registrieren Puls,
Temperatur...

http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article1100086/USA_machen_Jagd_auf_verraeterische_Emotionen.html

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that the American Bar Association has criticized President Bush's terror policies, demanding that the president's "recent order on CIA interrogations of terror suspects be overturned because it still allows harsh treatment in violation of international treaties."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Bar+Association
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogations

New York Times columnist Frank Rich says the White House's public relations strategies for the war in Iraq are again gathering steam to America's peril.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207F.shtml



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

Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus report in Sunday's Washington Post about the jockeying between the Bush administration and Congress that led the White House to use the threat of a terrorist attack to resurrect Cold War-era wiretap powers over Democrat objections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Pincus

Deborah Hastings of The Associated Press reports that mercenaries in Iraq "operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops, and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens who got too close to their heavily armed convoys."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207C.shtml



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

http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2851984.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=anti-depressants

http://www.co2live.com/2007/08/12/at-world-bank-climate-change-isnt-part-of-the-equation/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/11/3115/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Danny+Schechter

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/12/3108/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Frida+Berrigan

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/12/3124/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/12/3125



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Morse-Kahn

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/12/3132/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Edwards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama

http://tinyurl.com/9avyu


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Peter Beaumont reports for Sunday's UK-based Observer newspaper that "exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081207Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=combat+stress
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=desertions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Beaumont

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6591/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=draft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Douglas+Lute
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus

http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/spotted_owl

Withdraw faulty spotted owl recovery plan now!
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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6590/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

By Wafa Issa, Staff Reporter
Published: August 09, 2007, 23:15

Dubai: Residents living near mobile phone transmission masts have voiced their concerns over the possible health risks because of the proximity of their homes to the base stations.

Read More...
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/08/10/10145540.html

http://www.votefraud.org/News/2000/5/053000.html


Informant: Cal



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote+fraud

http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/nsa-to-spy-on-38-of-world-telecom-traffic/986/


From Our bill of rights



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying

Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life.
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum

THE market's biggest one-day fall in almost six years knocked almost $53 billion off the value of Australia's top 200 companies.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/10/1186530620178.html



Bank of Japan injects one trillion yen into money markets

The injection followed the European Central Bank's move Thursday to pump a record 94.8 billion euros (130.2 billion dollars) into the eurozone banking market as lenders struggled for funds in a flight to safety from the growing defaults in the US home loans market.

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/070810/1/4ahjw.html


From Information Clearing House

The UK's largest defence firm, BAE made a pre-tax profit of £657m ($1.4bn), compared with £378m a year earlier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6938085.stm


From Information Clearing House

The San Ramon oil giant and France's Total SA have agreed to jointly develop one of the war-torn nation's largest oil fields, if the Iraqi government allows them, according to a report published Wednesday.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6495


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2146645,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AK-47

Barring an uprising by the Iranian population, our only viable solution is a military action.

http://tinyurl.com/ytmj3s


From Information Clearing House



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

On the day her husband left for Iraq on his third tour in six years, Jennifer James slipped into the shower to cry, thinking no one would hear her.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6843652,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

JOHN Howard has demanded the Iraqi Government make faster progress towards resolving the country's political differences or face the prospect of a withdrawal of Australian troops and those of other Western nations.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22224976-31477,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Howard
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq

By Roger Ebert

Remember the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would like them to see "No End in Sight," the story of how we were led into that war, and more than 3,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of other lives were destroyed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18161.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roger+Ebert

By William D. Hartung

The Bush administration's proposal to send $20 billion worth of arms and $43 billion in military aid to U.S. allies in the Middle East has been promoted by repeating a series of time-worn myths that should have long since been abandoned. With a shooting war in Iraq and a war of words with Iran well under way, the last thing the region needs is a new influx of high tech weaponry.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18160.htm



Bush Plots A Coup
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18366.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+D.+Hartung

Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future. By Mikhail Gorbachev
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682047ms59



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

Brehme: "Schwerer Verstoß gegen Menschenrechte und religiöse Werte". http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682043ms59

Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten 160 bis 180 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder in die Förderung der klimazerstörenden Kohleenergie investiert. Aber bei erneuerbaren Energien wird um jeden Zehntel Cent gestritten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682035ms59

Umfrage zu Klimaschutz und Luftverkehr
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682034ms59

Rund 1.500 Quadratkilometer Riffe gehen jährlich verloren. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682033ms59

ZDF | 14.8.2007 | 21 Uhr

Der Markt versagt, und die Politik schaut weg. Gegen die Tricks von E.ON, RWE & Co. scheinen Verbraucher machtlos zu sein. Die Frontal21-Dokumentation mit Theo Koll berichtet über die Hintergründe dramatischer Fehlentwicklungen. Sie zeigt, wie Verbraucher abkassiert werden, wie die Politik Deutschlands mächtigen Energie-Monopolisten ausgeliefert ist und sucht Antworten auf die Frage: Wer rettet uns vor diesem Kartell? Mit einem Interview mit Hermann Scheer - Präsident von Eurosolar.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682026ms59



Immer mehr Stromkunden steigen um

Die Deutschen sind zu fast 80 Prozent gegen Atomenergie, aber noch immer beziehen über 90 Prozent Atomstrom.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682027ms59

Immer wieder behaupten einige Wissenschaftler, das Thema Treibhauseffekt sei auf ein großes Komplott von Wissenschaftlern zurückzuführen, die mit ihren Theorien lediglich viel Forschungsgelder kassieren wollten. Diese Thesen einiger Wichtigtuer werden von Journalisten gerne und ausführlich aufgegriffen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682023ms59

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/070807_camera_confiscated_911.html


Informant: John Johnson

The Associated Press reported Friday evening that President Bush's recently installed war adviser suggested the US should consider a return to a military draft to offset extraordinary demands on the volunteer force due to frequent tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107Y.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+draft

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote in Friday's edition that the credit crisis affecting the nation's financial markets over the past few days "is something that truly scares monetary economists: liquidity has dried up. That is, markets in stuff that is normally traded all the time - in particular, financial instruments backed by home mortgages - have shut down because there are no buyers. This could turn out to be nothing more than a brief scare. At worst, however, it could cause a chain reaction of debt defaults."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107G.shtml



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

The Guardian UK's Vikram Dodd reports in Saturday's editions that "a British resident held by the US as an alleged terrorist has claimed his captors repeatedly tortured him, subjecting him to beatings, sexual abuse and threats of execution."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107E.shtml



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

Jon Eisenberg, an attorney representing a defunct Saudi charity whose senior members are suing the US government claiming were illegally spied upon by the National Security Agency, writes in The Recorder, a California legal newspaper, that the eight words President Bush uttered during a news conference on December 19, 2005, "these calls are not intercepted within the country," appear to be untrue and "concealed unlawful conduct."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jon+Eisenberg

Matt Stearns, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, said the Bush administration's increasing rhetoric against Iran "could put President Bush on a collision course with Congress. Leading Democrats and a Republican lawmaker cautioned Friday following Bush's threat of unspecified consequences for alleged Iranian meddling in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Stearns

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/313171490


From Drew R.

Jennifer Steinhauer reports in Saturday's edition of the New York Times that lawmakers, voting rights organizations, and political party leaders, "frustrated by a system that has marginalized many states in the presidential election process, or seeking partisan advantage ... are stepping up efforts to change the rules of the game, even as the presidential campaign advances."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081107Z.shtml

Anil Netto for Inter Press Service reports that "When religious leaders from different faiths sought to jointly affirm the sacredness of water as the source of life but were shooed away by authorities, it was seen as a move to scuttle interfaith harmony as well as support plans to privatize a common resource."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081007EC.shtml

Celest Katz reports for The New York Daily News that "Rudy Giuliani drew outrage and indignation from September 11 first-responders yesterday by saying he spent as much time - or more - exposed to the site's dangers as workers who dug through the debris for the missing and the dead."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081007T.shtml

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Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.html/full


Informant: bigraccoon



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

David Kravets for Wired Magazine reports that "four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081007S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance

Ye Xie for Bloomberg.com reports that "the Federal Reserve added $38 billion in temporary funds to the banking system through the purchase of securities, including mortgage-backed debt, to meet demand for cash amid a rout in bonds backed by home loans to riskier borrowers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081007R.shtml



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6581/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

09:00 - 11 August 2007

Homeowners have vowed to fight against proposals for a mobile phone mast just feet from their gardens.Industry giant T-Mobile has submitted plans to Cheltenham Borough Council for a 12m pole at the corner of Warren Close and Warden Hill Road.

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

The PPT cannot afford to sit back and watch both the US housing market and the stock market sinking at the same time. That might spell the dreaded "R" word, - Recession.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article1771.html



Subprime: The Ugly American Hits Europe

French bank BNP suspends subprime-linked funds. Europe's central bank responds; stocks tumble

http://tinyurl.com/2hj9xn


From Information Clearing House



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

When it comes to the question of whether the United States was justified in dropping the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima and "Fat Man" on Nagasaki three days later - together instantaneously claiming 210,000 lives - Leeper agrees with Japanese at both ends of the political spectrum that those attacks were inexcusable.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fl20070805x1.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hiroshima
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nagasaki

How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/3x3hno


From Information Clearing House

As increasing numbers of US military personnel head for Canada to escape service in Iraq and Afghanistan, three deserters explain what drove them to such drastic action.

http://tinyurl.com/2cp5j7


From Information Clearing House



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

Need a down payment for your home? Seed money to start a business? The Army wants to help - if you're willing to join up. Despite spending nearly $1 billion last year on recruiting bonuses and ads, Army leaders say an even bolder approach is needed to fill wartime ranks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205033/


From Information Clearing House



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

Magincalda helped as his squad mates dragged Awad to a ditch by the side of a dusty road, then watched as they fatally shot him. The corporal had helped tie the man up and place expended shell casings by his corpse to make it look like he'd been shooting at the Marines.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/13866215/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

U.S. and British officials have denied that their aim is to offload Iraq's political problems onto the United Nations, then pull their forces out. But they want more U.N. involvement in recruiting nations in the region to help Iraq.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4161429a12.html


From Information Clearing House

By Bill Quigley

There is a massive experiment being performed on thousands of primarily African American children in New Orleans. No one asked the permission of the children. No one asked permission of their parents. This experiment involves a fight for the education of children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18158.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Quigley

By Mike Whitney

Alan Greenspan's low-interest, subprime, snake-oil Caravan took another spin down Wall Street today---ripping up pavement, knocking down power-poles and sending traders scampering for safety. When the dust finally settled, "Maestro's" wrecking ball had lopped another 387 points off the Dow Jones leaving markets reeling and investors cringing in fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18156.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

By Alexander Cockburn

The voters put the Democrats in to end the war, and it's escalating. The Democrats voted the money for the surge and the money for the next $459.6 billion military budget. Their latest achievement was to provide enough votes in support of Bush to legalize warrantless wiretapping for "foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States." Enough Democrats joined Republicans to make this a 227-183 victory for Bush.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18157.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alexander+Cockburn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfdB5OzlyQ

Best Ron Paul video - (Reply: WRONG!...best presidential candidacy video EVER!!!)

Though my heart & mind & soul is with Dennis Kucinich, I would vote in a heartbeat for Ron Paul if Kucinich doesn't get the Democratic presidentail nomination.

I think that the presidential campaign video which follows is the BEST I've seen.

Jack Topel



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6585/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94206

EU-Studie zur Internet- und Handy-Nutzung von Kindern
http://www.golem.de/0708/54108.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kinder+Handy

by Joe American

Rome's Emperor's understood the importance of bread and circus'. The empire knew that if they kept their population in a perpetual state of war, provided cheap bread and offered the spectacle of the Roman Circus in the Coliseum, they could rule with an iron hand and no one would complain. It worked for nearly five-hundred years. Yet Romans thought themselves "free." Today........

http://www.newswithviews.com/American/joe.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/American/joe1.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/American/joe2.htm

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Why Your Elected Officials are Not Protecting Your Rights

by Rosalind Peterson

It is time to step forward and demand that our elected officials stop undermining our U.S. Constitution and our Civil Liberties. And if they don’t, we the people, can show up and vote “no” at election time. The American people have a powerful voice and can apply pressure today on all of our elected officials… and we can let them know we outnumber the corporate lobbyists at the ballot box........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind7.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=perpetual+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/American
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Peterson

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6587/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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