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Paul Craig Roberts is a Republican who served as undersecretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, so he's no kook or Commie. He warns, "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the United States could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

http://tinyurl.com/2vp9kv


From Information Clearing House



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MILITARY advisers in the United States have warned that British troops face an "ugly and embarrassing" withdrawal from the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

http://tinyurl.com/2lssdq



British forces useless in Basra, say officials

"The short version is that the Brits have lost Basra, if indeed they ever had it. Britain is in a difficult spot because of the lack of political support at home, but for a long time - more - they have not been engaged in Basra and have tried to avoid casualties.

http://tinyurl.com/2fep6o


From Information Clearing House



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

Yesterday a radio interviewer in South Africa asked me what had been the response of the "mainstream media in the United States" to Just Foreign Policy's ongoing estimate of the Iraqi death toll from the U.S. invasion and occupation, which on Thursday crossed the one million mark.

http://tinyurl.com/2vup5p


From Information Clearing House

By Mirza Yawar Baig

The real battle is for mindshare. And it is on the television screen. That is where governments of the developed world are made or unmade. Popularity is the god that the West worships. Because popularity translates into money and power. That is what we have to do: become popular. Setting off fireworks is not the way to do this. No matter what the provocation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18209.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mirza+Yawar+Baig

By Jim Kirwan

After decades of searching for the lynch-pin that literally holds everything about this corrupted world together; this morning brought an answer in a Forty-seven minute video. It asks a seemingly very simple question: Where Does Money Come From?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18205.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Kirwan

Pressure grows on world's largest economy

By Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager

The Federal Reserve, America's central bank, made a dramatic intervention to support share prices yesterday as it took fright that this week's meltdown in global financial markets could tip the United States into recession.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18206.htm



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

By Michel Chossudovsky

Canadian jurisdiction over its Northern territories was redefined, following an April 2002 military agreement between Ottawa and Washington. This agreement allows for the deployment of US troops anywhere in Canada, as well as the stationing of US warships in Canada's territorial waters.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18207.htm



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

By Dave Lindorff

With habeas corpus a thing of the past, with arrest and detention without charge permitted, with torture and spying without court oversight all the rage, with prosecutors free to tape conversations between lawyers and their clients, and with the judicial branch now infested by rightwing judges who would have been at home in courtrooms of the Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany, for all they seem to care about common law tradition, the only real thing holding the line against absolute tyranny in the U.S. has been the jury.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18208.htm

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The Padilla precedent
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w30.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

By Robert Baer

Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18210.htm

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Prelude to an Attack on Iran

Robert Baer reports for Time Magazine: "Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082107J.shtml



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

John Solomon, Alec MacGillis and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post report that: "Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the October 1, 2003, meeting was 'asset deployment,' and the message was clear: The staging of official announcements, high-visibility trips and declarations of federal grants had to be carefully coordinated with the White House political affairs office to ensure the maximum promotion of Bush's reelection agenda and the Republicans in Congress who supported him, according to documents and some of those involved in the effort."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907Y.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Solomon

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6618/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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Adam Cohen, writing for The New York Times, says, "Members of Congress should keep in mind that the founders gave them the impeachment power for a reason - and Mr. Gonzales's malfeasance is just the sort they were worried about."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907G.shtml



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Noah Shachtman, Wired, says, "For years, the military has been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post material far more potentially harmful than anything found on a individual's blog."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noah+Shachtman

The New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes: "Back in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president's chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn't yet arrived. 'You don't introduce new products in August,' he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after Labor Day like clockwork."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Card
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/18/3250/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+profiteering
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Turnipseed

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3270

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Seven Returning Troops: "The War As We Saw It"

In The New York Times, seven soldiers write: "Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907A.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3266/



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

Kindheit und Jugend unter Hartz IV

„Die aktuell diskutierte Kinder- und Jugendarmut ist die direkte Folge von Hartz IV Mehr als 2,5 Millionen der ca. 15 Millionen Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland leben auf Sozialhilfe- bzw. Hartz-IV-Niveau. Das ist das Ergebnis der [extern] Arbeitsmarktstatistik der [extern] Bundesanstalt für Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2006. Dort wurden erstmals Kinder und Jugendlichen in Hartz IV-Bedarfsgemeinschaften gesondert aufgeführt…“ Artikel von Peter Nowak auf telepolis vom 19.08.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25995/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 20. August 2007



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James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, of the New York Times, report that "broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include - without court approval - certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans' business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081907Z.shtml



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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20298840/site/newsweek/


Informant: Bob Banner

Parents from Xghajra and the local council are up in arms after neighbours installed a mobile phone antenna on their roof in Triq Awrat.

When the MEPA application permit was displayed on their building, some residents wrote to MEPA stating their objections. However, they have now discovered that in spite of their objection, the antenna was installed because there are new legal notices 115 and 187, which state that no MEPA approval is needed for such installations!!

When the mobile company was contacted, it said that such antennae are not harmful; however the parents have other reports showing that radiation issued within 500m of installations are harmful especially for children, even though the radiation is below the stipulated limit.

Children are more prone to such hazards as they absorb the radiation far more than adults. The radiation kills parts of the cells of the body that fight cancer.

Read More...
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=56108

Zwar wurde nicht der ganze Bericht übersetzt, aber die wichtigen Zusammenfassungen der drei Berichte für Entscheidungsträger.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/94543



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Umweltschützer kritisieren deutsches Unternehmen in Äthiopien. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682072ms60



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

Ohne Essen kann ein Mensch mehreren Wochen leben, aber ohne Wasser nur mehrere Tage. Wasser ist unser wichtigstes Lebensmittel und unser Lebenselixier.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682071ms60



Hochwasser von Deutschland bis Vietnam

Regen kennzeichnet nicht nur den Sommer in Deutschland. Regen - das kann man den Meldungen aus aller Welt entnehmen - wird immer öfter zum Problem.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682076ms60

"Mit dem 'Informationszentrum klimafreundliches Kohlekraftwerk' polieren sich die Stromkonzerne mit Schwarzer Magie."

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682068ms60

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Trotz Verbot: Pharmakonzerne manipulieren Ärztefortbildungen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4174071/

Ist es möglich, Getreide schneller und ertragreicher wachsen zu lassen - ohne Hilfe von Gentechnologie? Ja, betont derJournalist Luc Bürgin in seinem neuen Sachbuch "Der Urzeit-Code" ... und lüftet darin das Geheimnis einer kontroversen biologischenEntdeckung beim Pharmariesen Ciba (heute: Novartis).

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682056ms60

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Verbessertes Fischzuchtverfahren - Europapatent EP 0351 357 A1
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/342772/

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



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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karen+Kaplan

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+P.+Strobel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nancy+A.+Youssef

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



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



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

"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



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

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



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

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



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3223



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anna+Blackshaw

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/17/3228/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change+deniers
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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!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Catherine+Brahic

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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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Johann+Hari

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



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

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



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