Freitag, 17. August 2007

Saure Meere im Treibhaus

Kohlendioxid heizt nicht nur das Klima auf, sondern könnte in einigen Jahrzehnten auch die Ozeane versauern. Die Paläobiologie gibt Aufschlüsse über die Folgen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25977/1.html



Gletscher gucken

Holidays on Ice: Die Grönlandreise der Kanzlerin, das Klima und der Wahn
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25983/1.html

Iranischer Staatsterror?

Die amerikanische Regierung will die Revolutionären Garden künftig offiziell als Terrororganisation bezeichnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25979/1.html

Börsen in Panikstimmung

Tagelang sollten Beschwichtigungsformeln Normalität vorgaukeln, doch neue negative Daten vom US-Immobilienmarkt sorgen nun für Panik an den Börsen

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25985/1.html

Campaigners claim 6-0 win over mast bids

DAN GRIMMER
17 August 2007 09:42

Delighted campaigners today notched up another victory in their battle to stop mobile phone masts from being built near their homes.

The Planning Inspectorate's decision to dismiss T-Mobile's appeal against Norwich City Council's decision to turn down plans for the mast in Colman Road is the sixth victory for families who have opposed masts where they live.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/29e5uq

Krieg um's Öl oder Frieden durch Erneuerbare Energien

Die Münchner ödp lädt ein zur Vortragsveranstaltung mit dem Thema:

"Krieg um's Öl oder Frieden durch Erneuerbare Energien"

Donnerstag, 13. September 2007, 19.30 Uhr – Einlass 19:00 Uhr – Der Eintritt ist frei Referent: Ulrich Haushofer, Stb., Gehrlicher Solar Management GmbH

Brienner Str. 46/EG – Vortragssaal der Gregor-Louisoder- Umweltstiftung U 1/7 und Tram 20/21 Stiglmaierplatz (3 min zu Fuß) U 2/8 Königsplatz (5 min zu Fuß)

Mehr als 900 Mrd Euro wurden 2006 weltweit für Waffen ausgegeben - 3,5% mehr als im Vorjahr. 83% davon entfielen auf 15 Länder, knapp 400 Mrd Euro allein auf die USA. Grund hierfür sind auch die knapper werdenden Ressourcen. Fossile Brennstoffe - auch Uran - gehen in den nächsten Jahrzehnten zur Neige. Den Industrienationen sind keine Kosten zum Schutz der herkömmlichen Energiequellen - dem Lebensnerv unseres Wohlstands - zu hoch. Dem gegenüber stehen nur halbherzige Anstrengungen für einen Wechsel zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung.

Der Referent wird in seinem Vortrag folgende Fragen ansprechen und beantworten:

- Haben die Regenerativen Energien das Potenzial zur Sicherung einer nachhaltigen regionalen und weltweiten Energieversorgung?

- Können unsere Stromnetze mit Regenerativen Energien sicher betrieben werden?

- Ist ein Ersatz der fossilen Brennstoffe im Verkehrsbereich durch Biomasse möglich?

- Was sind die effizientesten Instrumente zur Förderung der Regenerativen Energien (Einspeisevergütung, Emissionshandel, Ökosteuer, Subventionen)

Das heutige Energiesystem beschert seinen Betreibern hohe Gewinne, so dass viele der etablierten „Energieexperten“ mehr mit der Konservierung der veralteten Strukturen, als mit der Lösung dieser Zukunftsfragen beschäftigt sind. Die Parteispenden großer (Energie-)Konzerne tun ihr übriges, um die etablierten Politiker von einer wirklichen Wende zu Erneuerbaren Energien abzuhalten.


Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/55 06 99 86
E-Mail m.hollemann @oedp-muenchen.de
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de

Weitere Veranstaltungen: Immer in den Räumen der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung: Brienner Str. 46 / EG, U2/U8 Königsplatz und U1/U7 Stiglmaierplatz.

Do., 11. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr "Gentechnik, Functional Food und Politik – die Globalisierung des Brotzeittellers" Referent: Thomas Semonsky, ganzheitlicher Ernährungsberater

Do., 25. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr "In Würde altern – für eine gute ambulante Pflege und streng kontrollierte Altenheime!" Referentin: Johanna Schildbach-Halser, Nachbarschaftshilfe Rosenheim, ödp-Bezirksrätin

Do., 08. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr "Vorwärts in die Steinzeit? Wie die Industriegesellschaft sich selbst zerstört“ Referent: Martin Kraus, M.A., Philosoph

Do., 22. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr Film: "Lacoma und der Konzern (ein energiepolitisches Gesellschaftsspiel) – Auswirkungen des Braunkohletagebaus für Mensch und Umwelt"

Do., 13. Dez. 2007, 19.30 Uhr "Der Global Marshall Plan – Initiative für eine weltweite Ökosoziale Marktwirtschaft" Referent: Frithjof Finkbeiner, Global Marshall Plan Initiative

ödp – Profil

In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Ange- strebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil - weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

One Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Is Still at Risk

John Schwartz, of The New York Times, reports: "Six inches. After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans's hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced if a big 1-in-100 flood hits Leah Pratcher's Gentilly neighborhood. Looking over the maps that showed other possible water levels around the city, Ms. Pratcher grew increasingly furious. Her house got four feet of water after Hurricane Katrina, and still stands to get almost as much from a 1-in-100 flood."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
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Iraqi Women Turning to Prostitution to Feed Their Children

Arwa Damon reports for CNN on Iraqi women who "are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707E.shtml

Workouts, Not Bailouts

Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "Many on Wall Street are clamoring for a bailout - for Fannie Mae or the Federal Reserve or someone to step in and buy mortgage-backed securities from troubled hedge funds. But that would be like having the taxpayers bail out Enron or WorldCom when they went bust - it would be saving bad actors from the consequences of their misdeeds."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707C.shtml



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

Leahy Asks for DOJ Probe of Gonzales

Klaus Marre, of The Hill, reports, "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine Thursday to review whether testimony Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has provided 'was in any instances intentionally false, misleading, or inappropriate.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707B.shtml



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Democrats Slam "Political Spin" Over Iraq Report

Agence France Presse reports, "Anti-war Democrats on Thursday accused President George W. Bush of plotting to lace a potentially pivotal report on his Iraq troop surge strategy with 'White House spin.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081707A.shtml



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

Jet-Setting Leonardo DiCaprio the Convenient Environmentalist

ACTION ALERT

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

By Climate Ark, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. http://www.climateark.org/ August 17, 2007

TAKE ACTION Growth in aviation threatens the Planet, celebrities flying in private jets are no friend to the environment, and shared climate sacrifice means the super-rich must swear off jet- setting ways http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=leonardo_convenient_environmentalist

The rise in demand for air travel is one of the most serious environmental threats facing the Earth. Global aviation's negative impact upon global climate and ecology is becoming more evident and known. Aviation accounts for about 2% of world emissions of carbon dioxide, over 6% in the U.K. and other over- developed countries, and projected passenger growth of five percent a year means airplane emissions are growing more rapidly than any other source. Air transport contributes disproportionately heavily to global warming, as carbon dioxide and water vapor emitted at high altitude are four times more potent than at sea level... The "Camp for Climate Action" outside London's Heathrow airport is this week highlighting aviation's centrality to fighting global warming. Heathrow is the world's busiest airport and a bigger source of CO2 emissions than most countries, yet the airport's capacity is to be doubled by building a third runway... The danger of "celebrity environmentalism" is clear as the launch of Leonardo DiCaprio’s eco-documentary entitled "The 11th Hour" coincides with the Heathrow aviation protests. Mr. DiCaprio glibly defends his and other celebrity's use of private jets, and despite a solar powered house and hybrid car, all his personal efforts to reduce his carbon footprint are shattered by a jet-setting lifestyle. Clearly addressing climate change and other global ecological crises will require shared sacrifice and a reduction in consumption by many... Let Leo know that the battle to stop the growth in aviation's greenhouse gas emission is one the most important environmental battles ever that require his personal example... Let him know you will see his movie if he swears off private jets.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=leonardo_convenient_environmentalist

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2007/08/alert_jetsetting_leonardo_dica.asp



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School fears mobile mast is a health risk

BRIAN FERGUSON CITY COUNCIL REPORTER (bferguson@edinburghnews.com)

A LEADING private school has joined protests against plans by a city church to construct a "hidden" mobile phone mast on its roof.

Staff and parents of pupils at Edinburgh Academy Junior School have hit out plans by neighbouring Inverleith Parish Church to apply for permission to install a fake flagpole in the middle of its square tower.

The school believes the mast, which is to be run by T Mobile, will pose a health risk.

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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1303752007



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MP in new fight against phone mast

Aug 17 2007

By Michael Corley

AN MP is leading a campaign to halt the installation of a second mobile phone mast in a Warwickshire village.

Warwick and Leamington MP James Plaskitt is urging residents to back him in the fight against T-Mobile's plans to install a 10-metre mast in Cubbington.

The campaign comes after rival mobile phone operator O2 installed a mast in the village earlier this year, despite fierce opposition from residents.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2q2bzr

Porn fear phone mast gets green light

By Jonathan Moyes

A PHONE mast will be attached to a church spire despite fears it will be used to distribute pornography to children.

Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has been given the green light by the ecclesiastical Court of Arches to erect the mast at SS Peter and Paul church on The Green, Chingford, which will be paid an unspecified sum.

Campaigners say it is wrong for the church to facilitate the distribution of pornography and called for the Diocese of Chelmsford to intervene.

Read More...
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/display.var.1623902.0.0.php



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Hartz-IV-Empfänger fordert Wiedereinführung der alten Sozialhilfe

http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/interview_dlf/659250/

Trotz Verbot: Pharmakonzerne manipulieren Ärztefortbildungen

http://daserste.ndr.de/container/file/t_cid-4194112_.pdf
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2007/t_cid-4189190_mid-4192432_.html

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Mogelkampagne der Energie-Großkonzerne
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4177237/



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Next-up News n°282

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n282.htm

Next-up News n°281

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n281.htm

Kinderarmut: Schande für reiche Gesellschaft

17. August 2007

Das Bremer Institut für Arbeitsmarktforschung und Jugendberufshilfe hat erschreckende Zahlen zur Kinderarmut in Deutschland veröffentlicht. Dazu erklärt Marc Mulia, Mitglied des Parteivorstandes der Partei DIE LINKE:

Im März 2007 lebten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1,929 Millionen Kinder im Alter unter 15 Jahren in sogenannten. SGB II-Bedarfsgemeinschaften – das ist der höchste Stand seit Inkrafttreten des SGB II (Hartz IV). 16,9 % aller Kinder in diesem Alter, müssen mit einem Monatssatz von 208 Euro über die Runden kommen. Dass in einer reichen Gesellschaft so viele Kinder in Armut leben müssen, ist für DIE LINKE ein Skandal. Die jetzt veröffentlichten Zahlen zeigen, dass seit Einführung von Hartz IV die Kinderarmut in Deutschland stetig ansteigt. Der oft vermeldete Wirtschaftsaufschwung ist offenbar ein Aufschwung für die Unternehmen, von dem im Wesentlichen diejenigen profitieren, denen es ohnehin schon gut geht. Rentnerinnen und Rentner, Arbeitslose und deren Kinder haben nichts davon. Vor allem für die Kinder ist das fatal: So reichen die im Regelsatz enthaltenen 1,63 Euro für Schulbedarf vorne und hinten nicht. DIE LINKE fordert: Hartz IV muss weg! Es ist genug Geld da, so dass niemand in Deutschland in Armut leben muss. Zugleich setzt sich die Partei für ein Kinderrecht auf Bildung ein. Dieses beinhaltet eine vollständige Gebührenfreiheit für das Bildungssystem von der Kita bis zur Uni. Dazu gehört auch, dass alle Kinder Schulbücher bekommen müssen. Bildungschancen dürfen nicht vom Geldbeutel der Eltern abhängen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/kinderarmut-schande-fuer-reiche-gesellschaft/



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

Peace and justice for veterans and all of us

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

08/16/07

A cessation of the present assault on Iraq will not bring peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence, it is a dynamic state wherein individuals stop using violence, coercion or deceit to obtain their goals. After the War in Vietnam ended over there the war against veterans continued here in America. There has been a continuous barrage of quiet war against both veterans and all Americans for generations. Like the photo of the little girl in Vietnam ravaged by Napalm, this continued war is not a single incident or a mistake. Think of it instead as a corporate strategy that uses war as a tool for profit...

http://tinyurl.com/3y58pc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melinda+Pillsbury-Foster

The sovereign presidency: Is this what the framers had in mind?

Foundation for Economic Education
by Joseph R. Stromberg

American government under the Constitution was supposedly meant to work as follows: Congress, staying within delegated powers and the Bill of Rights, passes laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts sort out ensuing wrangles. This plan ran aground rather early—the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, for example—which raises at least two possibilities: 1) The Federalist movement systematically misrepresented its project or 2) the framers’ well-meant ‘design’ fell short of their goals... (written 01/07; posted 08/16/07)

http://tinyurl.com/3yfbl3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+R.+Stromberg

The superpower in debtor’s prison

Frontiers of Freedom
by Will Mannen

08/16/07

This latest charade in Congress points to two grim truths, about not merely the U.S. today, but also about other governments, and the way the world is moving. Firstly, Americans are unfortunately subject to a permanent political class. Yet this has always been the case in society, and there is no reason why the twenty-first century should see it otherwise. The real problem, rather, lies with the fact that today’s political class still subscribes to the notion that ‘all politics is local.’ This is simply not true...

http://tinyurl.com/37p9zo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Will+Mannen

Saudi Arabia’s myth of moderation

Consortium News
by Barbara Koeppel

08/17/07

Though the Bush administration blames Iran for “terrorism” in Iraq and elsewhere, the evidence of violent meddling is actually stronger against U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia. Still, the administration and the U.S. press corps routinely describe the oil-rich kingdom as “moderate” and a friend of “reform.” In reality, however, Saudi Arabia’s mix of religious extremism and political repression has made it a breeding ground for the likes of Osama bin Laden and scores of suicide bombers...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/081607a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Koeppel

Brown, O’Connor join forces with anti-war video

Independent [UK]

08/16/07

One of the more improbable partnerships in the anti-war movement delivered its message last night when a video featuring Ian Brown, the former Stone Roses singer, and the Irish pop star Sinead O’Connor was screened. The video, Brown’s creation, is entitled Illegal Attacks and tells the story of a British soldier in Iraq who gets caught up in a night operation in which a mother and father are taken hostage. Directed by Colin O’Toole, it will be posted on the Stop the War Coalition website...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2871522.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Coalition death toll in Iraq hits 4,000

CNN

08/16/07

The number of coalition military deaths in the war in Iraq has reached 4,000. The gloomy milestone was reached as a U.S. general said there has been a rise in insurgents booby-trapping houses. Most of the fatalities throughout the Iraq war — 3,702 — have been U.S. military service members. The nearly 300 others hail from countries, such as Italy, Poland and Ukraine, that have supported the U.S. effort, which began in March 2003...

http://tinyurl.com/yrxz62


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bush's Lethal Legacy: More Executions

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+penalty

A nation's brutal approach to punishment

The persistence of the death penalty is only one way in which the United States stands out from the rest of the Western world on crime and punishment.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2864191.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/

A Call to Save the Internet

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/censoring-pearl-jam/


From Information Clearing House



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Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas

A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070816/pl_bloomberg/ajkoyhuchw0m_1


From Information Clearing House

US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters

A US anti-war group has been warned it will be fined 10,000 dollars if it does not remove posters in Washington announcing a march in the capital next month against US involvement in Iraq, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/28y4mh


From Information Clearing House

Guantanamo detainee details years of torture

A British resident, Omar Deghayes, detained at Guantánamo Bay as an alleged terrorist, reports that he has suffered years of torture, sexual abuse and death threats.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/guan-a15.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Russia resumes Cold War bomber flights

An American general said that US fighter jets have had to scramble to intercept Russian bombers on an increasingly regular basis.

http://tinyurl.com/3y5lny


From Information Clearing House

US envoy says Iraq report will sound warning on Iran

Washington's envoy to Iraq warned Americans on Thursday that pulling U.S. troops out of the country could open the door to a "major Iranian advance" that would threaten U.S. interests in the region.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR670980.htm


From Information Clearing House

Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal

“The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” –Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18197.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Miller

Angriff auf den Iran: ein neuer Versuch

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=30322

NYPD report implicitly justifies police state

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6609/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Lessons of Katrina

Two years after Katrina, Bill Moyers Journal examines the lessons of the disaster and what they say about American culture and values.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607U.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina
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Global Markets Keep Tumbling

The Associated Press writes that the "global stock markets tumbled again Thursday on persistent worries about US housing loan problems and potential damage to the global economy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607T.shtml



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Notes Show Ashcroft Kept in Dark on Spying

Truthout's Matt Renner reports on newly revealed FBI notes detailing efforts by Bush administration officials to deliberately block Attorney General Ashcroft's review of plans for domestic spying.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607V.shtml

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Notes describe frail, upset AG Ashcroft

Coshocton Tribune

08/16/07

The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without allowing the ailing attorney general, ‘feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed,’ to discuss the matter with top advisers, according to the FBI director’s personal notes. The partially censored notes from FBI chief Robert S. Mueller, dated March 12, 2004, describe a distraught and feeble Attorney General John Ashcroft in his hospital room just moments after being visited by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card, the president’s chief of staff at the time...

http://tinyurl.com/2a5yoc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
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Rudolf Dreßler: «Hartz IV hat Deutschland verändert - und zwar negativ»

http://linkszeitung.de/content/view/136554/1/

Interview mit Rudolf Dreßler (SPD): "Große Sprüche, große Sätze"
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/interview_dlf/658783/

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Chefs von M-DAX-Unternehmen verdienten im Schnitt zwei Millionen Euro
http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/pm_2007_08_16_tabelle.pdf

Donnerstag, 16. August 2007

Freedom From Fear is Your Responsibility

by Dr. Edwin Vieira, JD

Beyond doubt, a dark purpose lurks behind not a few of these prophecies. Experts in disinformation and agents provocateurs spread mindless fear in order to impede Americans’ critical reasoning and thereby to foster political panic and self-destructive behavior. They attempt to condition people to accept the ruination, even disappearance, of their country as inevitable, if not imminent, and so to remain passive and apathetic, acquiescing in their victimization, because supposedly “nothing can be done.” They even......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin64.htm



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Amnesty International Responds to Padilla Verdict

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0816-08.htm

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Jose Padilla Convicted in Terrorism Trial

Curt Anderson reports for The Associated Press that Jose Padilla, a US citizen from Chicago, was convicted of federal terrorism support charges Thursday after being held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607R.shtml

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Padilla found guilty of supporting terrorists

Padilla and co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas, which carries a penalty of life in prison. All three were also convicted of two terrorism material support counts, which carry potential 15-year sentences each.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0816padilla-verdict0816-ON.html



An Inside Look at How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla

In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty speaks for the first time about her experience interviewing Jose Padilla for 22 hours to determine the state of his mental health.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/16/1416242


From Information Clearing House

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Padilla: guilty

by Rick Perlstein

A jury has just been gamed into an un-American verdict—a black mark on our nation. Only the most recent of many.

http://ga3.org/ct/Mp20pgF13zVs/



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ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0815-07.htm

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ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse

The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, also reveal that an Army investigator found that the conditions of prisoners held in isolation at Abu Ghraib qualified as torture.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/31305prs20070815.html


From Information Clearing House



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Do the Neo-Cons Need Karl Rove When They Can Count on the Democrats?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3204/



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Collateral Damage: Bethena

Cindy Sheehan
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3217/

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Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3198/

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Backspin for War

The Convenience of Denial

By Norman Solomon

The man who ran CNN's news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary's evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how "liberal media" outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military conformity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18203.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

Iraq News That Speaks For Itself

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3199



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haroon+Siddiqui

An Attempt to Deceive Americans Into Yet Another War

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3201



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

Lost Worlds: Is Another World Possible?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3219



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein

Mounties, CIA Implicated in Arar Torture Scandal

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3212/



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Bush's Lethal Legacy: More Executions

Andrew Gumbel reports for The Guardian UK: "The US already kills more of its prisoners than almost any other country. Now the White House plans to cut the right of appeal of death row inmates."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/

Democratic Senator Blocking Bush Pick for CIA Lawyer

Matthew Daly, of The Associated Press, reports that Democratic Senator Ron Wyden "says he will block President Bush's nominee to become the CIA's top lawyer indefinitely over concerns that the agency's interrogation techniques may not be legal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607E.shtml



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US Defends NSA Spying Before Three Skeptical Judges

Adam Liptak, of The New York Times, reports, "Three federal appeals court judges hearing challenges to the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs appeared skeptical of and sometimes hostile to the Bush administration's central argument Wednesday: that national security concerns require that the lawsuits be dismissed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607C.shtml



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Allies Worried About US Posturing on Iran

Robin Wright reports for The Washington Post, "America's allies are increasingly concerned about the Bush administration's plans to unilaterally escalate pressure on Iran, fearing that an evolving strategy may also set in motion a process that could lead to military action if Iran does not back down, according to diplomats and officials of foreign countries."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607A.shtml

Next-up News n°280

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n280.htm

Next-up News n°279

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n279.htm

Phone operator told to remove mast from pitch

Wednesday August 15 2007

Wexford County Council has issued a warning letter to mobile operator O2 to remove their unauthorised phone mast at St. Mogues G.A.A pitch in Fethard.

Prior to this an enforcement notice was served to O2 Communications on July 3 to remove the mast, but the company has not responded.

A spokesman for O2 said on Monday the company will shortly' lodge a planning retention application to Wexford County Council in respect of the mast.

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http://www.newrossstandard.ie/news/phone-operator-told-to-remove-mast-from-pitch-1060464.html

Am Montag kommt sie weg!

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/DSC09888.JPG

070816 Newsletter der Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd, am Heideweg

Es ist endlich soweit, am Montag wird die Mobilfunkanlage aus unserer Nachbarschaft, am Heideweg, abgebaut. Heute wurden die Halteverbotschilder aufgestellt ( http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/DSC09884.JPG ), damit der Rückbau reibungslos und ohne Hindernisse am Montag abgewickelt werden kann. Leider müssen wir Ihnen auch eine weniger erfreulichen Nachricht mitteilen: die Stadt Dachau hat den Prozess beim Bayr. Verwaltungsgerichtshof verloren. In Abhängigkeit von der Begründung (wird noch nachgereicht) kann/wird die Stadt in die nächste und letzte Instanz gehen, um das teure und schwer erarbeitete Mobilfunkkonzept doch noch durchzusetzen. Wir werden Sie weiterhin informieren.


Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd, am Heideweg
http://www.mobilfunk-dachau.de

The realities of the coming oil crisis in the United States

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6633166


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Stop the Owl Extinction Plan: Political Interference Puts Birds, Forests, and Science At Risk

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/Owl_Recovery_August_2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spotted+owl

TSA setzt auf Sicherheitskräfte zur Verhaltenserkennung

Allerdings will man beim Heimatschutzministerium das Erkennen der "feindlichen Absichten" von Reisenden doch nicht auf Dauer geschulten Menschen überlassen, sondern hat eine Ausschreibung zur Entwicklung einer Wunschmaschine für Sicherheitsanhänger gestartet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25974/1.html

Nur Junkfood für Hartz 4-Kinder?

Das Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) II reicht nicht aus, um Kinder und Jugendliche ausgewogen zu ernähren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25969/1.html

Mit Sicherheit außer Kontrolle

Wir steuern auf die Entwicklung einer weltweiten Datentauschbörse zu, die dem Missbrauch von personenbezogenen Informationen Tür und Tor öffnet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25901/1.html

Wendepunkte für das Klima der Erde

Britischer Wissenschaftler geht davon aus, dass sich manche Wendepunkte wie das Abschmelzen des Grönlandeises früher und schneller als erwartet ergeben könnten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/94448

Third time lucky for anti-mast group

Residents in Rickman Hill, Coulsdon, are set to oppose the installation of a mobile phone mast in their road - for the third time in nine months.

Two previous applications for the eight-metre mast and antenna were withdrawn by mobile phone giant Orange after residents voiced their disapproval.

However, they have submitted proposals for a third time.

Richard Shore, a member of the Coulsdon West Residents' Association, said: "People opposed it in the past and the residents' association put in objections and I believe we will be putting in another one as it is very near a park used by children."

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http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1618809.0.third_time_lucky_for_antimast_group.php

Secrecy, Torture, Religious Zeal Distinguish Mercenaries

Paul Nyden, in an OP-ED for the West Virginia Gazette, writes: "The use of contractors, and their secrecy, shifts more and more authority from Congress to the White House, which makes its own decisions without any public input. Secrecy hides the real costs of military operations and enables widespread legal abuses, including capturing prisoners and 'rendering' them to unknown locations for questioning and torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607P.shtml



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Californians Want Troops Out of Iraq

Zachary Coile of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: "Californians want Congress to move swiftly to end the Iraq war, with nearly 6 in 10 state voters saying lawmakers should set a deadline to start withdrawing US troops by spring, according to a Field Poll released today. The poll also found new signs that even President Bush's base is abandoning him on the war: 40 percent of California Republicans now favor pulling out some or all troops from Iraq and 30 percent want the Democratic-led Congress to pass legislation to require the president to do so."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troops+out+of+Iraq
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Amateur Hour on Iran

The New York Times writes, "The dangers posed by Iran are serious, and America needs to respond with serious policies, not more theatrics. Labeling Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization - as the State Department now proposes - is another distraction when what the Bush administration needs to be doing is opening comprehensive negotiations with Tehran, backed by increasing international economic pressure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolutionary+guards

ACLU: Patriot Act, Free Speech Clash

The Associated Press reports: "Congress does not have the power to demand silence from people forced to turn over electronic communications such as Internet records used to investigate terrorism, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer argued Wednesday. During oral arguments in US District Court in Manhattan, ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer told Judge Victor Marrero he must strike down a part of the USA Patriot Act that lets the FBI request records without the kind of court order required of other government searches."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607L.shtml



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

Next-up News n°278

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n278.htm

Globale Finanzkrise setzt sich fort

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=30311

PHONE MAST COULD RUIN CALL OF THE WILD

09:00 - 16 August 2007

Plans to extend the life of a controversial phone mast in Churcham could create havoc for migrating swans. Phone giant T-Mobile wants planning permission to maintain its temporary mast for another six months.

But the 24.4-metre structure could confuse migrating Bewick's swans, it is claimed.

Wildlife groups including Cotswold Animal and Bird Rescue and Natural England have voiced concern over the effect the mast's magnetic field has on the birds' sense of navigation in the final stages of their journey from the Arctic to warmer climes in England.

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http://tinyurl.com/3dk765



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Arm DURCH Arbeit!

„Wie man durch Arbeit beim Universitätsklinikum in Marburg noch ärmer wird, als man durch Hartz IV eh schon ist. Thomas S. (Name geändert) kann es noch immer nicht fassen, was für ein Praktikum ihm das KreisJobCenter, das ist der Hartz IV-Leistungsträger im Landkreis Marburg – Biedenkopf, zugewiesen hat. Doch der Reihe nach …“ So beginnt ein Praktikumsbericht auf der Homepage von ver.di-Mittelhessen http://mittelhessen.verdi.de/fachbereiche/fb_03_gesundheit_soziale_dienste_kirchen/rk_reinigungsgesellschaft


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2007



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Herbstoffensive: Wider den Hartz-IV-Zynismus

„… Die außerparlamentarischen Bewegungen werden im Herbst Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen. Sie wollen mit den Betroffenen und in Kooperation mit Linkspartei, Gewerkschaften, Kinderschutz-Initiativen, Obdachlosenorganisationen und vielen anderen am 29. Oktober dezentrale Massenproteste organisieren. Dabei stehen neben der sofortigen Erhöhung der ALG-II-Sätze auf 500 Euro ein lebensfähiger Mindestlohn von zehn Euro pro Stunde, eine solidarische Arbeitsumverteilung in den anstehenden Tarifverhandlungen für den öffentlichen Dienst und die Einführung eines Grundeinkommens auf der Tagesordnung. Die Aktionen werden sich auf die Repräsentanz der Unmenschlichkeitspolitik in den Parteizentralen der CDU und SPD konzentrieren.“ Kommentar von Peter Grottian in der jungen Welt vom 15.08.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/08-15/056.php


Hartz IV erhöhen!

„Der Hartz IV-Satz ist viel zu niedrig. ver.di fordert eine Erhöhung auf mindestens 420 Euro und einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn von wenigstens 7,50 Euro je Stunde. In der Bevölkerung gibt es eine satte Zweidrittelmehrheit für den Mindestlohn. Auch im Bundestag ist die Mehrheit dafür. Doch die große Koalition blockiert…“ Das Flugblatt „Wirtschaftspolitik Aktuell Nr. 17/2007“ von ver.di (pdf) http://wipo.verdi.de/wirtschaftspolitik_aktuell/data/07_17_alg_ii.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 16. August 2007



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Court Gives Go Ahead to Mobile Phone Mast Erection on Church

by Daniel Blake

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007, 12:55 (BST)

An appeal to stop a mobile phone mast being erected on top of an Essex church has been dismissed by a Consistory Court.

The appeal was lodged because of fears that the mast, to be put up at St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Chingford, Essex, could be used to transmit pornography.

Although at an initial hearing concerns were also raised regarding various health issues surrounding mobile phone masts, it was put forward that because it was possible they could facilitate the transmission of pornography they should not be allowed to be placed on the church building.

That initial hearing was overseen by Chancellor Pullen, who refused to permit the faculty due to the fears, and the case was forwarded on to the Consistory Court.

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Blame Iran

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

08/15/07

Growing numbers of US forces in Baghdad are being killed or injured in attacks by Shi’ite militias with links to Iran. The US says this is because of a ’surge’ in Iranian assistance aimed at ousting the Americans from Iraq, despite there being no new evidence to back up the claim. It could simply be that the US soldiers are dying because they have significantly stepped up operations against Shi’ites in the capital...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH16Ak04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

Santorum against the world

The American Conservative
by Michael Brendan Dougherty

07/30/07

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_07_30/feature.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Santorum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Brendan+Dougherty

No Congress, no peace

Mother Jones
by Jonathan Schwarz

06/07

If the United States spreads its Middle Eastern disaster into Iran, it won’t be the fault of George W. Bush alone — a Democratic Congress will share some of the blame. Fortunately, the legislative branch has effective options for stopping war before it starts...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/plan_for_iran.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz

Honesty is the best policy

from Reason to Freedom
by Michelle L

08/14/07

This is an excellent summary of American foreign policy; one that can be described as the belief that all the people of the world want to be like us but evil dictators/leaders/governments are stopping them. That the United States is justified in ‘exporting democracy,’ even at gunpoint, because all the various races, cultures, and huddled masses really want McDonalds, Coca-Cola, baseball and apple pie — and they’re just waiting for us to liberate them so they can rise up against their oppressors. And buy stuff from us. There’s a term for this type of thinking: ethnocentricity...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/honesty_is_the_best_policy.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=exporting+democracy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michelle+L

The worsening nightmare

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

08/15/07

The strongest criticism of the Iraq catastrophe is that it represents ‘the worst strategic blunder’ of the last hundred years. No one who is prominent in our national political life will say that it is a monstrous war crime. (Even that claim about Iraq is not true as things stand at present, although it might turn out to be accurate: for the worst ‘blunder’ of the last century, and setting aside the fact that our entrance into World War I was also a deliberate and carefully calculated decision, designed to maintain and expand the global power of the United States and England, you need to look to Woodrow Wilson. World War I and its aftermath set in motion the long series of events that led to World War II, the Cold War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the other occurrences that led to 9/11 — and to the present crisis. If the United States should attack Iran, then this period may very well represent the worst decisions in foreign policy of the last century, depending specifically on how events play out. But we don’t know that … not yet.)...

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/08/worsening-nightmare.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US general to call for Iraq pullbacks

MSNBC

08/15/07

The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress, and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be ‘a good bit smaller’ by next summer. But he cautioned against a quick or significant U.S. withdrawal that could surrender ‘the gains we have fought so hard to achieve’...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20273857/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Army suicides highest in 26 years

Wichita Eagle

08/16/07

Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new military report. The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its scheduled release Thursday, found there were 99 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers during 2006, up from 88 the previous year and the highest number since the 102 suicides in 1991 at the time of the Persian Gulf War...

http://tinyurl.com/2twzfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Trouble with Touch Screens

Dan Rather's Shocking Revelations About Sequoia and the Florida 2000 Election
http://tinyurl.com/24qvcb



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Nitrogen Overdose

Writing for Inside Bay Area, Suzanne Bohan says there is a "glut of nitrogen disrupting ecosystems, polluting waters and harming human health, but it's a silent partner, along with carbon dioxide, in changing the Earth's climate."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081507EC.shtml



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Forests: A Catalog of Failures

The editors of The Daily Astorian write: "What does 2007 have in common with 1987? Both are times of ill-conceived rushes to pillage public lands by Republican administrations nearing their final days."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081507EB.shtml

Are Some Insurance Companies Putting Profits Before People?

"On Friday, August 17, 'NOW' collaborates with Bloomberg Markets magazine to investigate tactics some insurance companies may be using to reduce, avoid or stall homeowners' claims in an effort to boost their own earnings."

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

Iraq Set to Disintegrate, New Study Warns

The German news magazine Der Spiegel says, "It's no secret that Iraq is a politically, ethnically and religiously fractured country. But a new study released in Berlin on Wednesday argues that federalism remains the country's last, best hope. Otherwise, it may fall apart completely."

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

Subprime Problems Spread Into Commercial Loans

Turmoil in the subprime mortgage market spread again yesterday - this time to a type of short-term security held by money market mutual funds. These funds have become the investment of choice for many people seeking a safe haven.

http://tinyurl.com/2zbuj6



Sentinel Management Group Halts Client Redemptions

Sentinel Management Group Inc., the Illinois-based cash-management firm that oversees $1.6 billion, froze client withdrawals after saying that credit-market turmoil made it impossible to trade without incurring losses.

http://tinyurl.com/ytupwy



Countrywide Falls: Merrill Cites Bankruptcy Prospect

Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, fell for the fifth consecutive day on the New York Stock Exchange after Merrill Lynch & Co. raised the possibility of bankruptcy.

http://tinyurl.com/2h6kqf



Home Sales Fall Nearly 11 Percent in 2Q

U.S. existing home sales fell nearly 11 percent in the second quarter from last year's levels as the residential real estate market's slump continued, an industry group said Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/34s9hp

From Information Clearing House



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MexAmeriCanada: It's Coming

The newspapers, radio, and television have chosen to ignore the plan-introduced by the Council on Foreign Relations-to create a North American Union similar to the European Union.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/voices/200608/0809edit0.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Council+on+Foreign+Relations
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Beyond Padilla terror case, huge legal issues

"This is the hallmark of an authoritarian state," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official and former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p01s08-usju.html



How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case

Among the obstacles: responding to a filing he can't see and writing a brief with none of his notes at hand.

http://tinyurl.com/2zj79v



A verdict on Padilla and the US

In short, the US military used terror - Padilla had little or no human contact for more than three years - to fight terror. Many mental health experts say his severe seclusion in a Navy brig impaired his thinking. A judge confirmed the disability but let the case continue.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p08s02-comv.htm


From Information Clearing House



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From his office in clouded cuckoo land: Giuliani: Toward a Realistic Peace

The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges: setting a course for victory in the terrorists' war on global order, strengthening the international system the terrorists seek to destroy, and extending the system's benefits.

http://tinyurl.com/2huqpz


From Information Clearing House

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Rudy, the anti-statesman

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

08/16/07

Rudy Giuliani’s essay in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, laying out his ideas for a new U.S. foreign policy, is one of the shallowest articles of its kind I’ve ever read. Had it been written for a freshman course on international relations, it would deserve at best a C-minus (with a concerned note to come see the professor as soon as possible). That it was written by a man who wants to be president — and who recently said that he understands the terrorist threat ‘better than anyone else running’ — is either the stuff of high satire or cause to consider moving to, or out of, the country. The article contains so many bizarre statements, it’s hard to know where to start, so let’s begin at the beginning and go from there...

http://www.slate.com/id/2172285/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The experiment that failed

American policies thus laid the groundwork not only for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, but for a possible future takeover of Pakistan by similarly inclined militants.

http://tinyurl.com/yov7z5


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Kinzer

Iran winning more friends in region

At a time when the United States is widely regarded in the Middle East as a military aggressor and faces plummeting popularity around the world, Iran is taking advantage of the situation to boost its own image and forge closer ties with its neighbors.

http://tinyurl.com/yp2qxx


From Information Clearing House

US turns heat up on Iran

Although Iran itself is labelled a "state sponsor of terrorism" by the US State Department, this would be the first time that a national military force had been described as a "terrorist" group.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6947616.stm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolutionary+guards

Petraeus' report won't be Petraeus' report

Despite Bush's repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/15/91352/0867



White House may prevent general from testifying publicly on Iraq

If the White House gets its way, the Bush Administration's Sept. 15 progress report on Iraq may be delivered by the U.S. secretaries of state and defense -- and not by top US Iraq General David Petraeus and US Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a widely anticipated public congressional briefing.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_may_prevent_general_from_0816.html


From Information Clearing House

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"They Attacked Us!"

by Rick Perlstein

The cocked-up "Petraeus" Report that's actually being written by the White House will be delivered on September 11. Can you imagine anything more cynical?

http://ga3.org/ct/-120pgF1dmZz/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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Housing Bubble 101

Sub-primal Scream

by Joseph L. Elkhorne

After reading countless hundreds of articles on the housing bubble, and comparing it to the leadup to the Great Depression, which my parents and I lived through, I still find the MSM lacking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18191.htm



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Rumsfeld Resigned Before Election, Letter Shows

By Reuters

Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular Iraq war, resigned as defense secretary before last year's November election but his decision was not announced until after the voting, according to his resignation letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18193.htm



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

US Senator To Tell Iraq's Leaders To 'Count Us Out Of Your Civil War'

The Associated Press

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee said he was leaving Wednesday for Iraq to tell its leaders that they must accept responsibility for their country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18195.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
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When Will Americans Have Had Enough?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P682rGIhZwI&mode=related&search


Informant: Supreme Law Firm

Congressman Ed Towns Signs Onto H Res 333

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25859
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/


Informant: David Swanson

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Dad’s fears over phone mast

By Emily Walker

Woodhall Park residents angry at plans to put up a mobile phone mast near their homes

A DAD is worried about a mobile phone mast that could overshadow his back garden and put his children's health at risk.

Father-of-two Terry Giles said that he was instantly concerned when consultation documents for a new mobile antenna in Woodhall Park landed on his doormat.

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