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The Hill's Brent Budowsky writes: "Driving to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the route goes through poor neighborhoods where house after house have signs: For Sale. What this really means is: foreclosed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807F.shtml



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The New York Times' Alan Feuer reports: "A Houston oil trader pleaded guilty yesterday in New York to federal fraud charges in connection with illegal profits and kickbacks involving the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807D.shtml



http://tinyurl.com/3cncco

Karen Kaplan of The Los Angeles Times writes: "Eric Miller's career as an Army Ranger wasn't ended by a battlefield wound, but his DNA. Lurking in his genes was a mutation that made him vulnerable to uncontrolled tumor growth. So began his journey into a dreaded scenario of the genetic age."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807C.shtml



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Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy newspapers, report: "As President Bush escalates the United States' confrontation with Iran across a broad front, US allies in Europe and the Middle East are growing worried that the steps will achieve little, but will undercut diplomacy and increase the chances of war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807A.shtml



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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times reports that a secret intelligence court may consider an "unprecedented" request by the American Civil Liberties Union to unseal highly classified terrorist surveillance documents. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government to respond on the issue by August 31.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807Z.shtml



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http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=07-P13-00033&segmentID=1


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Shares plummet around the world; FTSE's worst day nin four years; Value of UK PLC falls £60bn; Market slumps 13% since June; Pensions surplus wiped out; Fears for housing market; Growing threat to economy.

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2871517.ece


From Information Clearing House



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Garre counters that the courts should give "utmost deference" to the Bush administration. Judge Pregerson: "What does utmost deference mean? Bow to it?"

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/nsa-hearing-ope.html


From Information Clearing House



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Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us.

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987


From Information Clearing House



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The Bush administration has leaped toward war with Iran by, in essence, declaring war with the main branch of Iran's military, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which it plans to brand as a terrorist organization.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH18Ak04.html


From Information Clearing House



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"The only solution to contain radicalism is the rapid departure of Western troops from Iraq as well as Afghanistan, and a solution to the Palestinian question,'' Gadhafi was quoted as saying.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6856787,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The United States was accused Friday of meddling in Pakistani affairs amid reports Washington is trying to broker a power-sharing deal between President Pervez Musharraf and his arch-rival Benazir Bhutto.

http://tinyurl.com/yo5q8m


From Information Clearing House



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The humanitarian disaster in Iraq is being compounded by a mass exodus of their medical staff fleeing chronic violence and lawlessness. A report by Oxfam International shows the lack of doctors and nurses is fracturing a health system on the brink of collapse.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2874108.ece


From Information Clearing House

Remember the Americans came with a precise agenda: 1) Regime Change 2) The Division of Iraq along ethnic lines. Shias, Sunnis and Kurds. Kurds are majority Sunnis by the way.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/08/puppets-on-string.html



A Corner of "Peace"

So this is the price of your famous Peace. This was the plan of your Peace. This was the orchestrated diabolical blueprint for your Peace.

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/09/corner-of-peace.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Carolyn Baker

A pro-active mindset is willing to own that the paradigm upon which the empire is based is not only shallow, wanton, mindless, and infantilizing, but ultimately toxic- mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18202.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts

It is not China's fault that American corporations have so little regard for their employees and fellow citizens that they destroy their economic opportunities and give them to foreigners instead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18201.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0817-02.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3230

Karl Rove and the Damage Done
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3225/

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Farewell to Karl Rove



The Bill Moyers Journal says good-bye to Karl Rove, who "figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious draft-averse naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as God's anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807B.shtml

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Bill Moyers bids farewell to Karl Rove

Video

"Greed and God won 4 elections in a row".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18228.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3228/



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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says Environmental Protection Agency documents reveal that the agency increasingly relies upon corporate research joint ventures and that these corporate partnerships are on the rise as EPA research funding is on the wane.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081707ED.shtml



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Catherine Brahic for The New Scientist reports that some scientists believe that burning oil and planting forests to compensate is more environmentally friendly than burning biofuel.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081707EC.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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In the Independent UK, Johann Hari says, "If you happen to be passing through Hatton Cross this weekend, you will see a swollen army of police officers equipped with weapons and video cameras and peeved expressions. They will greet you at the entrance to the Tube stations, to the airport, and on every corner, and they will probably film your face as you walk by. So you might wonder - has Osama bin Laden been spotted in the vicinity?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807G.shtml



Climate Protests Spread to Two More Airports

Jerome Taylor for The Independent UK reports that "the environmental campaign against air travel moved towards a more confrontational phase and spread outside the climate-change camp at Heathrow yesterday as small groups of protesters launched simultaneous demonstrations against two airports in the Southeast."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081707EA.shtml



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Ty Burr for The Boston Globe reviews the film, "The Devil Came on Horseback." He says the documentary focusing on the human-rights crisis in Darfur is also a personal look into why people are not responding to it: "It's also about our response to the human-rights crisis in Darfur - not just the West as a whole, but you and me and the guy down the hall."

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



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Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall report for McClatchy Newspapers that "top Commerce and Treasury Department officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground Congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing GOP election strategy."

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



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A Two-Month Surge of Resistance Against the War at Home and Abroad

SEPT 29: National March on Washington

70 Organizing Centers in 32 States
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/

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

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

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

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

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.

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http://tinyurl.com/29e5uq

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.

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



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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

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



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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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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



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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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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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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.

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http://tinyurl.com/2q2bzr

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.

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



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Mogelkampagne der Energie-Großkonzerne
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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/



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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

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



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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

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



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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

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

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/

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


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AT%26T
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Frank

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

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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Omar+Deghayes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture

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

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

“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

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


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

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

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



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

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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+S.+Mueller
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

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