World-News

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/200807_straw_poll.htm



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

Shankar Vedantam reports for The Washington Post: "The American Psychological Association ruled Sunday that psychologists can no longer be associated with several interrogation techniques that have been used against terrorism detainees at U.S. facilities because the methods are immoral, psychologically damaging and counterproductive in eliciting useful information."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shankar+Vedantam

Philippe Grangereau reports for Liberation on how the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts have damaged the global image of the US. Another contributing factor in damage is the US government's treatment of its own citizens: Luis Lema in Le Temps deplores the "counterproductive" stripping of Jose Padilla's rights before he was ultimately granted a trial, while Laurent Suply reports for Le Figaro on how US citizens will soon be subject to spy satellite surveillance by their own government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philippe+Grangereau

Logan Murphy reports for Crooks and Liars that former Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper, speaking on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, indicated Karl Rove did leak Valerie Plame's identity to him.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Cooper
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Valerie+Plame
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove

By James Connell

PROTESTORS fighting to a stop a mobile phone mast returned home after their protest at the headquarters of T-Mobile to find the mast was already being put up.

Thirty five villagers from Bishampton, near Pershore, took a coach trip to Hatfield, the headquarters of the telecommunications giant, to mount a peaceful protest against the plans.

Read More...
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/wnnewslatest/display.var.1630305.0.bishampton_protestors_mast_anger.php



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

Wälder aufzuforsten verringert Kohlendioxid-Emissionen weit besser als die Nutzung auf der gleichen Fläche gewonnenen pflanzlichen Biosprits.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25982/1.html

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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=Biosprit

Colin Brown reports for The Independent UK, "Sir Menzies Campbell has backed calls by military chiefs for British forces to pull out of Iraq because they can 'achieve nothing' by staying."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007N.shtml

The Associated Press reports: "The former director of the Abu Ghraib prison's interrogation center, accused of approving the use of dogs and nudity to intimidate some captives, is the last person charged in the scandal to face a court-martial.... Kurt Goering, director of research and policy at Amnesty International USA, said the trial could shed light on high-level approval of interrogation tactics tantamount to torture."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007M.shtml



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

William Fisher reports for Truthout, "The conviction of Jose Padilla - whose larger implications are being labeled by legal experts as one of today's most significant constitutional issues - has been largely ignored by editorial writers at the nation's newspapers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

David Morgan reports for Reuters, "More than half of top US foreign policy experts oppose Bush's troop increase as a strategy for stabilizing Baghdad, saying the plan has harmed US national security."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007K.shtml



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

Lolita C. Baldor reports for The Associated Press, "Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082007J.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081900967.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Harald Thomé, Vorsitzender des Erwerbslosenvereins Tacheles, berät
Arbeitslose - und kann Schauriges berichten. Interview von Ch. Schäfer in
der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 16.08.2007
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/519/128309/


Aus: LabourNet, 20. August 2007



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

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/17/07

Aggressive wars are immoral: mass murder is unforgivable, and our foreign policy of global interventionism puts us in the same moral class as any of the European imperialist powers that blundered their way through Africa, Eastasia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Anti-imperialism is, first and foremost, a moral position, especially for Americans, who have always utilized the world stage to dramatize their own virtue. Yet the question of how, when, and if we ought to intervene abroad, either militarily or in some other, less obtrusive manner, can also be settled in its own terms. The case against interventionism can be made in a purely practical, empirical framework: i.e. it can be shown that it just doesn’t work. Not because the wrong people are in charge, not due to incompetence, the wearing of ideological blinders, or some other disability or shortcoming on the part of policymakers — but because it is simply not possible, no matter who is in charge...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11460


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+aggression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interventionism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

The Hill
by Brent Budowsky

08/17/07

It is good that today the Fed cut the prime by 50 points, but it is bad, and terribly wrong and unjust, that in the last week the Fed has essentially used Americans’ money to bail out the wealthy who made the profits, while doing zero for the foreclosed and homeless. When the banks, hedge funds and private equity firms make bad deals, they keep the personal profits, while the corporate profits are protected by bailouts. Meanwhile, when the average Americans in the middle class, or the poor, fall a little behind, they get the boot, they lose their jobs, they are thrown into the street without homes and often without food...

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/08/17/gilded-age-crime-poor-go-homeless-wealthy-get-bailouts/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hedge+funds
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brent+Budowsky

Liberty For All
by Brian Irving

08/18/07

Two North Carolina towns will take a step toward restoring free, fair and open elections in North Carolina when they conduct their October 9 municipal elections using the Instant Runoff Voting system. Libertarians commend town officials in Cary and Hendersonville, and the State Board of Elections, for testing this voting system improvement. We only wish other municipalities were as progressive and hope that next year 10 counties will follow Cary’s example...


http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=826


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Irving

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a11_1187129180


Informant: Cal



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

MSNBC

08/19/07

The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion to conduct core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection over the next five years, an amount that would set a record in the outsourcing of such functions by the Pentagon’s top spying agency. The proposed contracts, outlined in a recent early notice of the DIA’s plans, reflect a continuing expansion of the Defense Department’s intelligence-related work and fit a well-established pattern of Bush administration transfers of government work to private contractors...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20339771/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=outsourcing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Defense+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN65081807.htm


From People Against Prison Abuse



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+penalty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Execution+Alert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NCADP
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Death+Penalty+-+Todesstrafe/

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6620/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Risen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Lichtblau

First Magnus Financial Corp., a national mortgage lender that is suspending operations, says it has laid off 99 percent of its nearly 6,000 employees nationwide and closed all of its more than 300 offices.

http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/18/90318.shtml?s=lh


From Information Clearing House



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

Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Montebello, Quebec, on Monday in hopes of expanding cooperation among their countries, which enjoy the largest trading partnership in the world.

http://tinyurl.com/3c7bf6



Meet the Powerful Business Members of the North American Competitiveness Council

The North American Competitiveness Council, part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, was established by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives, 10 from each country.

http://tinyurl.com/2vzdk2


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Security+and+Prosperity+Partnership
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA

Big oil groups that declared force majeure and quit Somalia 16 years ago will be given the chance to resume their activities under the anarchic country's proposed hydrocarbon law.

http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2920/html/energy.htm#s251031



Bush Blunders, Somalia Suffers

Somalia is another country that mistakes made by the U.S. in the past have caused problems leading to current, recent and probably future mistakes.

http://tinyurl.com/2ssz64


From Information Clearing House



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

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



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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khalid+Sheikh+Mohammed

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adam+Cohen

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

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



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Lichtblau
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Risen

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


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

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



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

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/