Donnerstag, 23. August 2007

Next-up News n°288

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n288.htm

Pitching the Imperial Republic: Bonaparte and Bush on Deck

Juan Cole writes for TomDispatch: "French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East.... There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes. Above all, the leaders of both occupations employed the same basic political vocabulary and rhetorical flimflammery, invoking the spirit of liberty, security, and democracy while largely ignoring the substance of these concepts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307F.shtml



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Loan Sharks Wreak Havoc on Main Street and Wall Street

Jim Hightower writes for Hightower Lowdown: "This is one of those economic stories, like the savings-and-loan scam of the 1980s, that are usually buried back in the business section of newspapers. But, just as with the S&L collapse, this debacle is growing too big to contain, and all of us need to be paying attention. The built-in traps of the subprime mortgage market have already taken the homes of more than a million people in just the past year, and the dangers are quickly rising for millions more."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307E.shtml



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If the Democrats Want to Lose ...

Robert Parry writes for Consortium News, "Today, the US capital is in the midst of a bizarre replay of 2002 when Democrats tried to assuage Bush by acceding to his demands and major mainstream news outlets joined with the powerful right-wing media in a lock-step march toward war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307B.shtml



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White House Declares Office Off-Limits

Dan Eggen reports for The Washington Post: "The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release of internal documents about a large number of e-mails missing from White House servers. The claim, made in a motion filed Tuesday by the Justice Department, is at odds with a depiction of the office on the White House's own Web site."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307A.shtml



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Andreas von Bülow: Der 11. September 2001

Bilder zur Meinungsbildung. Augenschein am Tatort. Ein Versuch, dem unbefangenen Beobachter eine eigene Beurteilungsgrundlage zu geben, ob die Rechtfertigung eines Jahrzehnte dauernden Weltkrieges gegen den muslimischen Terror auf Grund der Ereignisse des 11.9.2001 in sich stimmig ist oder auf einem Lügengespinst aufbaut Kriege beginnen mit Lügen. Sie werden über die Medien verbreitet und zerstören das Urteilsvermögen der Bürger. Diese werden verängstigt und klammern sich mit Mehrheit Schutz suchend an ihre Regierung. Genau dies ist das Ziel der Operation. Der neue Feind wird eingepflanzt. Erste Bürgerpflicht bleibt es, sich gegen die Kriegslügen abzuschotten. Die Dokumentation soll zu Skepsis und gesundem Menschenverstand ermuntern...

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-taeter-0030.html



Andreas von Bülow: Der 11.9.2001 im Urteil von Sachverständigen

Ausgewählte Zitate aus der Homepage der Gruppe 'patriots question 9/11' Ein Beispiel: "Meine Frau und ich verfolgten gebannt vor dem Fernseher das sich entwickelnde Grauen, beobachteten vor allem, wie unbeschädigte Stockwerke des WTC-Südturmes begannen sich nach und nach zur Seite zu neigen bzw. zu drehen in Richtung der Einschlagstelle. Doch plötzlich erstarrte die Drehung, und das, was sich drehte, fing an einzustürzen, wie unter dem Einfluss der Schwerkraft. Der Drehpunkt war nicht länger zu bemerken. Es brach aus mir heraus: 'Mein Gott, sie haben das Gebäude zur Sprengung verkabelt.'" (Mike Hawryluk, Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Division Chairman, Suffolk County Community College, NY)

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-taeter-0029.html



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Save the Armenian Forest!

http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12401

Call to halt mast plan

23 August 2007

EDITORIAL - editorial@thecomet.net

The proposed telecommunications mast will replace one of the floodlight pylons at the sports centre

A COUNCIL officer has recommended granting planning permission for a mobile phone mast to be erected close to two schools, despite a petition and objections from residents living nearby.

Mobile phone company O2 UK has applied to North Hertfordshire District Council (NHDC) for planning permission to erect a 15.6m high telecommunications column with a floodlight attachment on land at the sports centre in Whitethorn Lane in Letchworth GC.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/29dh58

US-Gericht verpflichtet die Washingtoner Regierung auf Berichterstattung in Sachen Klima

Bush zum Rapport
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/94765

British Army deploys new weapon based on mass-killing technology

http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=7279


Informant: Gomez

Keine Steigerung der Krebsrate?

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/23_08_07_pfarrer_engelbrecht.pdf



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The White House Crowd Control Manual

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/23/1237256

Even the Soldiers Know It's Wrong

http://tinyurl.com/2w7c4t



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Widerstand gegen den inneren kalten Krieg: Helden mit Zivilcourage

„In Zeiten des sozialen kalten Krieges gegen die eigene Bevölkerung, in denen das Abhalten von Versammlungen, politischen Aktivitäten oder Demonstrationen immer schwieriger wird, in Zeiten kriegerischer Aufrüstung und medialer Gleichschaltung, also in heutigen Zeiten sind wieder Heldinnen und Helden gefragt, die eine demokratische Gegenmacht zu der von der Obrigkeitspolitik der Parteien und der Wirtschaft übernommenen Alleinherrschaft aufbauen. HeldInnen des zivilen Widerstandes brauchen viel Courage, und es gibt sie. Sie nennen sich „Die Überflüssigen", „Agenturschluss" oder „Müllemer Mädcher gegen Sozialschnäuvnas". Ihr Handlungsfeld ist vielfältig, aber sie haben ein Ziel: Auf die Veränderung von Fehlentwicklungen in der Gesellschaft zu drängen…“ Artikel von Hans-Dieter Hey in der NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung vom 22.08.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=11302


Aus: LabourNet, 23. August 2007



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Arbeit und Armut

Achim Trube/Norbert Wohlfahrt: Arbeit und Armut - Die deutsche Unterschichtsdebatte im Lichte aktivierender Sozialstaatlichkeit

„… Von den wirklichen Ursachen der zunehmenden „Unterschicht“ – der immer „prekärer“ werdenden Lohnarbeit und ihren Folgen – ist in der öffentlichen Diskussion wenig die Rede. Demgegenüber möchten wir im Folgenden noch einmal festhalten, wie sich der Zusammenhang von veränderter Sozialstaatlichkeit, (fehlender) Arbeit und Armut in der BRD entwickelt hat und inwiefern der bestehende aktivierende Sozialstaat aktiv an dem mitgewirkt hat, was ihm nun als „abgehängtes Prekariat“ gegenübertritt.

(…) Schon nach wenigen Jahren aktivierender Sozialstaatlichkeit lassen sich deren Konsequenzen besichtigen: bezahlte Lohnarbeit wird zunehmend als ein Mittel der internationalen Standortkonkurrenz gehandhabt und in Folge dessen nehmen Beschäftigungsverhältnisse, die eine einigermaßen stabile individuelle Reproduktion gewährleisten, in raschem Umfang ab. Gleichzeitig sorgt eine veränderte sozialstaatliche Programmatik dafür, dass diejenigen, die als nicht mehr rentabel genug freigesetzt wurden, möglichst rasch und mit entsprechendem Nachdruck in Arbeitsformen gebracht werden, die nach anerkannten statistischen Berechnungsformen „Armut“ beinhalten. (…) An der Diskussion der Instrumente zur Korrektur dieses Tatbestands (Mindestlohn; Kombilohn; Flexibilisierung des Kündigungsschutzes; maßgeschneiderte Tarifverträge, verschärfter Arbeitszwang usw.) lässt sich erkennen, wie weitgehend die Aufweichung eines nationalen Lohnarbeitssystems, von dem die Arbeitenden leben können, schon fortgeschritten ist. Mit dieser Erosion – so steht zu befürchten – wird nicht nur das „abgehängte Prekariat“ quantitativ zunehmen, sondern auch die Vorschläge derer, die nochmals eine Verstärkung staatlicher Aktivierungsanstrengungen verlangen, da sie den Zusammenhang zwischen der Prekarisierung von Arbeit und der Entstehung von Armut nicht wahrhaben wollen, wenn denn der Faktor „Arbeit“ durch Produktivitätsfortschritt und Rationalisierung immer weniger gebraucht wird…“ Artikel von Achim Trube und Norbert Wohlfahrt, zuerst erschienen in der Zeitschrift "Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik" Heft 5/6 2007 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/trubewohlfahrt.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 23. August 2007



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Kritik des Neoliberalismus

Christoph Butterwegge u.a.: Kritik des Neoliberalismus

Keine andere Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftstheorie beherrscht die Tagespolitik, aber auch die Medienöffentlichkeit und das Alltagsbewusstsein von Millionen Menschen fast auf der ganzen Welt so stark wie die neoliberale. Die Publikation versteht sich als kritische Einführung in den Neoliberalismus, skizziert seine ökonomischen Grundlagen und stellt verschiedene Denkschulen vor. Anschließend werden die Folgen neoliberaler Politik für Sozialstaat und Demokratie behandelt, etwa im Hinblick auf Maßnahmen zur Privatisierung öffentlicher Unternehmen, staatlicher Aufgaben und persönlicher Lebensrisiken. Das Buch richtet sich an Leser/innen, die nach Informationen über den Neoliberalismus, guten Argumenten für die Debatte darüber und gesellschaftspolitischen Alternativen suchen.

Siehe dazu:

Die Verlagshomepage zum Buch

Die Homepage zum Buch mit den Bestellmöglichkeiten. Das Buch ist soeben im VS-Verlag erschienen, kostet 12,90 €, hat 298 Seiten und die ISBN: 978-3-531-15185-4 http://www.vs-verlag.de/index.php;do=show/sid=146238557646cac70eecc9b756972995/site=w/book_id=9935#top

Das Inhaltsverzeichnis

butterwegge_inh.pdf

Christoph Butterwegge: Wie der Neoliberalismus das Gerechtigkeitsempfinden verändert

Vom Verfasser überarbeiteter Auszug aus: „Kritik des Neoliberalismus“ exklusiv im LabourNet Germany. Wir danken dem Autor und dem Verlag (pdf) butterwegge_31.pdf


Privatisierung des Wohlfahrtsstaates gefährdet Demokratie

Interview von Michael Klarmann mit dem Politikwissenschaftler Christoph Butterwegge auf telepolis vom 14.08.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25912/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. August 2007


Christoph Butterwegge u.a.: Kritik des Neoliberalismus

Am Donnerstag, dem 23.08.2007 wurden im Newsletter beim Beitrag zum Buch von Christoph Butterwegge leider die kompletten Links vergessen. Wir holen dies nach und bitten um Nachsicht!

Die Verlagshomepage zum Buch

Die Homepage zum Buch mit den Bestellmöglichkeiten. Das Buch ist soeben im VS-Verlag erschienen, kostet 12,90 €, hat 298 Seiten und die ISBN: 978-3-531-15185-4 http://www.his-online.de/cms.asp?IDN=232&H='58'&T=0&Plugin=10&HE=10&HEP=978%2D3%2D936096%2D82%2D8

Das Inhaltsverzeichnis http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/allg/butterwegge_inh.pdf

Christoph Butterwegge: Wie der Neoliberalismus das Gerechtigkeitsempfinden verändert Vom Verfasser überarbeiteter Auszug aus: „Kritik des Neoliberalismus“ exklusiv im LabourNet Germany. Wir danken dem Autor und dem Verlag (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/allg/butterwegge_31.pdf



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Guantánamo in Deutschland: Unmenschlicher Umgang mit Beschuldigten

Beschuldigte im § 129a-Verfahren wurden bei ihrer Festnahme
krankenhausreif geprügelt und wie Guantánamo-Häftlinge behandelt.
Sonderhaftbedingungen in der JVA Moabit erinnern an Isolationshaft. Die
Pressemitteilung auf der Seite vom Bündnis für die Einstellung des §
129a-Verfahrens vom 22.08.07
http://einstellung.so36.net/de/pm/134


Aus: LabourNet, 23. August 2007



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Works begins on mast while protestors visit phone company

VILLAGERS in Bishampton were incensed when they returned from a demonstration against a phone mast only to find work had already started on the installation.

Residents had been campaigning against the 13ft mast at Nightingale Farm since February because they fear emissions from the mast could threaten their health.

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http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/ejnewslatest/display.var.1637290.0.works_begins_on_mast_while_protestors_visit_phone_company.php


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Mobile phone mast worries

23 August 2007

EDITORIAL - heraldnews@archant.co.uk

The site of the proposed mast – Pic: Sarah Lucy Brown

A PHONE company's appeal against a council decision to refuse planning permission for a mast has brought a furious reaction from residents.

Mobile provider O2 applied for permission back in March 2007 to erect a 12.5m phone mast outside the Total petrol station in London Road, Sawbridgeworth.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2y4kqy

Electronic Voting Company May Be Banned in CA

Kim Zetter reports for Wired.com: "California announced that it plans to hold an administrative hearing on September 20th to discuss the fate of Election Systems & Software for violating state election codes. ES&S, the top voting machine company in the country, is being accused of selling at least five CA counties a version of its AutoMark ballot marking system that hadn't yet been tested or certified for use in the state or the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307O.shtml



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Troubled Economy Undercutting GOP's "Good Stewards" Theme

Peter G. Gosselin reports for The Los Angeles Times, "The credit crisis that has hit home mortgages and shaken worldwide financial markets is turning into a political albatross for President Bush and Republican presidential contenders, piling atop an unpopular war in Iraq and eroding traditional GOP claims of being good stewards of the economy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307N.shtml



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Club against phone mast plan

The chairman of Bridgnorth Town Football Club today claimed T Mobile’s plans to build a phone mast on its ground are detrimental to what the club is trying to achieve.

Eric Eagles said he was worried a 17m mast could turn people away from the club and sour relations with the community - even though it has nothing to do with them.

His comments come after T Mobile’s application to build a new floodlight with a telecommunications antennae at the Crown Meadow ground was finally registered with the district council.

Bridgnorth Town FC, which leases the ground at Innage Lane from the town council, has already voiced its opposition to the scheme.

Read the full story in today’s Shropshire Star
http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/08/club-against-phone-mast-plan/

Ist Handystrahlung gefährlich?

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The power to end war

Boston Globe
by Charles A. Stevenson

08/22/07

The debate over whether and how to end the war in Iraq has been muddied by legal disputes over which branch of the federal government has the power to do what. Supporters of a strong presidency can point to court decisions upholding a broad reading of the commander in chief’s powers. Constitutional purists who believe in Congress’ supreme power to authorize war can quote the Framers and most early presidents in their own behalf. What has been largely ignored in this debate is what Congress has actually done in previous conflicts. In fact, there are many precedents for Congress to act to restrict presidential authority or capabilities to fight the war. The question is whether Congress can muster majorities to enact the necessary laws...

http://tinyurl.com/3xpvbg



The utter uselessness of the Petraeus report

The American Prospect
by Paul Waldman

08/22/07

Just a few weeks from now, the most eagerly anticipated premier of the year will finally be here, complete with fierce disagreement among the critics and relentless hype by the producers, cameras furiously clicking when the starring players emerge in public. That premier is the report coming in mid-September from U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and, more importantly, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of American forces there. If you’re expecting a surprise ending, you shouldn’t hold your breath. But it isn’t just the report itself that is utterly predictable. The script for what will come afterward is a sure thing, too...

http://tinyurl.com/2cgz6x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bush may have buried the GOP

Human Events
by Doug Patton

08/22/07

During the first six years after the so-called Republican Revolution, the GOP Congress held spending to a mere avalanche. They reformed welfare and balanced the federal budget. And even though it was Bill Clinton who got the credit, it was Congress which held the purse strings. Then came George W. Bush. As president, the self-proclaimed compassionate conservative led his party down a path of spending and expansion of government that would have made FDR envious. He and his GOP Congress deserve credit for cutting taxes at a crucial time, and for saving the country from what could have been a severe downturn in the economy, post-9/11. But the alienation of the GOP base that followed six years of George Bush working with a Republican Congress has been depressing to watch...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22044



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Codex Alimentarius Global Food Imperialism

News With Views
by Elissa Meininger

08/21/07

Recently, I had occasion to pick up a copy of a new book called, ‘Codex Alimentarius — Global Food Imperialism.’ It bowled me over. It is a compendium of articles on Codex (which I describe briefly below) compiled and edited by Scott Tips, someone I consider a major authority on Codex...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Meininger/elissa4.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Codex Alimentarius


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5800206429960925518

The New World Order & Codex Alimentarius
http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=12

Codex Alimentarius Global Food Imperialism
http://www.thenhf.com/codex/codex_87.htm

Codex nutrition meeting concludes in South Africa
http://www.anhcampaign.org/news/codex-nutrition-meeting-concludes-in-south-africa


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The vanishing right to travel

Online Journal
by Ezekiel Jones

08/20/07

Middle-aged Americans remember how our leaders, parents and teachers distinguished our country from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies by pointing to the pictures and films of desperate East Germans and Hungarians who were forced to risk their lives just to move to a new country. In those days, there were people like William O. Douglas who had both the inclination and the power to defend Americans’ right to travel, but today, with so many fundamental liberties under assault at once, the more subtle attack on freedom of movement has received little attention. It would be tragic if some Americans finally come to the conclusion there is no option but to leave their repressive homeland only to find that they have already lost the right to do so without risking a dangerous, illegal run across a border...

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2321.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


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Little Brother is Watching: Spying by Flying Drones

CounterPunch
by Michael Dickinson

08/22/07

[D]ifficult though they may be to avoid, at least you are usually able to spot a surveillance camera and know when you are being filmed, but now along comes a new little surveillance device (only 70 cm wide) fitted with high-resolution still and color video cameras as well as infrared night vision capability, that actually flies!

http://www.counterpunch.org/dickinson08222007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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New misgivings on wiretap law

Christian Science Monitor

08/22/07

The administration’s warrantless wiretapping program looks set to be the subject of renewed and bitter wrangling between Congress and the White House when lawmakers return to Washington in September. And this upcoming battle promises to be far more complex than a run-of-the-mill dispute over an agriculture bill, say, or tax legislation. The law in this area is unusually dense and difficult. The underlying activity is classified. One of the key administration figures dealing with the issue is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, an official in whom many in Congress have little trust...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0822/p01s03-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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FDA approves strong psych drug for kids

USA Today

08/22/07

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The action permits use of Risperdal for schizophrenia in youths aged 13 to 17 and for bipolar disorder for those aged 10 to 17, FDA said...

http://tinyurl.com/27ot3l


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Appeals board overturns cell tower OK

County won't allow 11-story pole on Randallstown High School site

By Jennifer McMenamin
Sun reporter

August 23, 2007

Finding that the risks of building a cell phone tower near tennis courts and athletic fields at Randallstown High School were too great, the Baltimore County Board of Appeals overturned yesterday a zoning commissioner's ruling to allow the project.

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Made in America: Abu Ghraib

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/138.html



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Court Rebukes Bush Administration on Global Warming

Clayton Sandell says for ABC News: "A federal court today issued a harsh rebuke of the Bush administration for its failure to issue long-delayed reports assessing the impacts and consequences of global warming in the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082207EC.shtml

Sea Turtles: Iconic but Going Extinct

Shalendra Singh, Inter Press Service, writes: "Reports of the extinction of China's iconic Yangtze River dolphins have some conservationists in the South Pacific fearing that the same fate awaits certain migratory species of sea turtles, which are similarly imperiled."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082207EB.shtml



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Soldiers Against the War

NOW says, "Choosing to go to war is both a government's decision and one made by individual enlistees. But changing your mind once you're in the Army is a risky decision with serious consequences. On Friday, August 24, we talk to two soldiers who went AWOL and eventually left the Army, but who took very different paths."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207U.shtml



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Oil Giants Fixed Prices for 23,000 Gas Station Owners

The Associated Press reports: "Nearly two dozen gas station owners in California sued Shell Oil, Chevron and Saudi Refining on Tuesday, claiming the companies conspired to fix prices for 23,000 franchise owners nationwide."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207T.shtml



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Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise

Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post, reports: "Under pressure from the White House and Congress to deliver a long-delayed plan last year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office took a shortcut that has become common at federal agencies: They hired help through a no-bid contract. And the firm they hired showed them how to do it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207S.shtml



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Facts and Fascism

The real Fascists of America are never named in the commercial press. It will not even hint at the fact that there are many powerful elements working against a greater democracy.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/George_Seldes/Facts_Fascism_TGSR.html


From Information Clearing House



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Belarus introduces visa restrictions for U.S. officials

"In response to visa restrictions against certain Belarusian officials, Belarus is forced to take commensurate measures against a number of American officials," the Belarusian ministry said, without indicating who would be blacklisted.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070822/73599947.html


From Information Clearing House

Russia steps up military expansion

Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia's military power and restore its role as the world's leading producer of military aircraft yesterday.

http://tinyurl.com/2decve



RAF jets scrambled to intercept Russian bomber

As military posturing goes, it has all the echoes of a classic Cold War contretemps. High above the North Atlantic, an RAF fighter jet offers a none-too-gentle reminder to a Russian aircraft that it is fast approaching British airspace.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2302783.ece


From Information Clearing House

Former CIA officer says U.S ready to strike Iran within 6 months

"We won't see American troops cross the border," said Baer. "If this is going to happen, it is going to happen very quickly and it is going to surprise a lot of people."

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070822/73225330.html



A provocative action against Iran

Without a doubt, the latest US move is aimed at increasing pressure on Tehran over its nuclear activities. The Bush administration has succeeded in ramping up its confrontation with Iran.

http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10148220.html



Tehran gets ready for potential US strikes

High-ranking sources stated that the Iranian leadership is taking US threats to strike its nuclear sites very seriously. The sources also noted that Iran was currently weighing three options to respond to any potential US military strikes and that the three options included targets within the Gulf region.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=Nzc1MjQ5Mjcx



Iran has remote-controlled launch pads

Preparing for a possible American or Israeli strike on its nuclear installations, Iran has developed a remote-controlled launch system that can be used to operate dozens of unmanned Shihab ballistic missile launchers in underground bunkers.

http://tinyurl.com/2j4brn



IAEA welcomes UN-IRAN nuclear deal

The source said that after three rounds of talks, the two sides underscored the importance of implementing a work plan to settle all pending issues concerning Iran's nuclear dossier topped by its undeclared nuclear activities during the past two decades.

http://tinyurl.com/35j96c



US attacks Iran over nuclear pact

Iran has been accused by the US of trying to manipulate the International Atomic Energy Agency following the signing of a nuclear pact.

http://tinyurl.com/3dht3l



US criticism of IAEA-Iran deal unhelpful, diplomats say

IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen had judged Tuesday's agreement with Iran a 'milestone,' one diplomat said, so it was 'disingenuous to discourage it, partly before even knowing the details of what it contains.'

http://tinyurl.com/36xskt


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolutionary+guards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=strike+nuclear+sites
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shihab
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Baer

US-Iran Policy Dynamics

By Noam Chomsky

IN CRUDE and brutal societies, the Party Line is publicly proclaimed, and it must be obeyed, or else. What you believe is your own business, of lesser concern. In societies where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Party Line is not proclaimed. Rather, it is presupposed, and then vigorous debate is encouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18235.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky

Following Us Home: France Invades US

By Jerry Ghinelli

Nearly halfway through its fifth year, the French mission to bring democracy to the US, free the American people from the tyranny of George W. Bush and rid the world of America's stockpile of weapons of mass destruction has entered yet another phase, as blame, finger pointing and the "D" word (defeat) have now crept into the dialogue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18237.htm

Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore

Democracy Now! Audio and Transcript.

Journalist Nir Rosen on How the U.S. Invasion of Iraq Has Led to Ethnic Cleansing, a Worsening Refugee Crisis and the Destabilization of the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18238.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nir+Rosen

At Iraq's Front Line, U.S. Puts ex-foes On Payroll

By Peter Graff

Slowly but deliberately, U.S. forces are enlisting groups of armed men -- many probably former insurgents -- and paying cash, a strategy they say has dramatically reduced violence in some of Iraq's most dangerous areas in just weeks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18233.htm

Crisis in the Green Zone

By Jonathan Steele

Nuri al-Maliki's outburst against US criticism is bad news for George Bush, whose political project for Iraq now looks more fragile than ever.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18232.htm



Bush insists he supports "good man" Maliki

On Tuesday, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, had called political progress in Iraq "extremely disappointing" and warned that U.S. support for Maliki's government was not a "blank check."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22445770.htm



Iraqi prime minister, on visit to Syria, lashes out at U.S. critics

Iraq's prime minister lashed out Wednesday at U.S. criticism, saying no one has the right to impose timetables on his elected government and that his country "can find friends elsewhere.''

http://wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=6967743&nav=menu31_3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Steele

The War on Democracy



"The film tells a universal story," says Pilger, "analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18236.htm



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

PSYCHOLOGISTS OPPOSE TORTURE YET VOTE TO ATTEND INTERROGATIONS

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6639/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Earth's axis tilt has recently increased by an additional 26 degrees

http://www.divulgence.net/


Informant: Bob Banner

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How & Why
http://www.divulgence.net/How%20and%20Why.html


Informant: Di

Bee die-off now observed in British Columbia

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=785



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bees

Spy chief reveals classified surveillance details

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20396282/


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AT%26T (AT&T)
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Verizon
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'Washington is already fighting the next war' with Iran

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6632/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Comptroller general of US says US on path to perdition, like Rome

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6634/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=comptroller+general

Bush's speech on Iraq & Vietnam shows he knows he's lost

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6635/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Bush Compares Iraq With Vietnam

Dan Froomkin reports for The Washington Post: "President Bush entered risky rhetorical territory yesterday, likening the war in Iraq to Vietnam....Bush tried to turn the Vietnam analogy on its head, arguing that the US withdrawal led to disaster there and emboldened American enemies around the globe. He even went so far as to argue that present-day terrorists like Osama bin Laden are inspired by the turning of American public opinion against the war in Vietnam."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307J.shtml



Why America's Pullout From Vietnam Was a Success

Michael Hirsh for Newsweek magazine responds to Bush's mangling of history when he discussed the aftermath of removing troops from Vietnam to make the case that a pullout from Iraq should not be undertaken.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082307T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Froomkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hirsh

Army cutting training so soldiers 'can be used faster'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6636/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

George W. Bush: A CIA Analysis

http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=11481


Informant: Supreme Law Firm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

Bush doesn't deny plans for N. American Union

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=113066



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Union

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAH3AeFy0SY


Informant: Cal

Mittwoch, 22. August 2007

Dirty food company secrets revealed

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



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

Inequality Run Amok

by Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill, The Huffington Post

The nation's stark, and growing, economic inequality has become a third rail of politics.

http://ga3.org/ct/b720pgF1cmCN/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dmitri+Iglitzin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Hill

Katrina: "Golden Opportunity"

by Rick Perlstein

After the deluge, conservative policy entrepreneurs rejoiced at the chance to radically defund government. Read it and weep, for these are our coutrymen.

http://ga3.org/ct/gd20pgF1cmCS/



Katrina: "It's The Blacks"

by Digby

Katrina also brought on a hurricane of racist paranoia. Will it happen again?
http://ga3.org/ct/g120pgF1cmCz/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rick+Perlstein

Anti-Iran propaganda campaign downshifts: 'It is happening again'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6629/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Klimaziele: Deutsche Ankündigungspolitik

Seit 17 Jahren üben sich deutsche Regierungen in der Ankündigung großer Klimaziele von denen bisher keines erreicht wurde.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26015/1.html

An Army as a Cultural Relic

J. Sri Raman, writing for Truthout, uses a visit to Emperor Qin's Terracotta Army to reflect on the relationship between propaganda and the past.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=J.+Sri+Raman

Who Will Prevent the Banks From Losing?

Right, center and left: Myret Zaki in Le Temps, Joseph Stiglitz in The Taipei Times and Barbara Ehrenreich in The Nation decry the Greenspan debt bubble and expose its inescapable consequences.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207G.shtml



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Notorious Criminal Flew US Supply Missions in Iraq

Justin Rood, of ABC News, reports: "The US government paid a wanted international criminal roughly $60 million to fly supplies into Iraq in support of the war effort, a new book alleges."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207F.shtml

White House Wrote Manual for Squelching Protests

Peter Baker writes for The Washington Post: "Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207E.shtml

Stacking the Electoral Deck

The editors of The New York Times write: "The Electoral College should be abolished, but there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. A prominent Republican lawyer in California is doing it the wrong way, promoting a sneaky initiative that, in the name of Electoral College reform, would rig elections in a way that would make it difficult for a Democrat to be elected president, no matter how the popular vote comes out. If the initiative passes, it would do serious damage to American democracy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207C.shtml

FOX ATTACKS IRAN

http://foxattacks.com/iran?utm_source=rgemail




Informant: Bob Banner

Margolis says TV news hiding truth about Iraq civil war



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNDubPTrnG0


Informant: Paul Jay



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

Fordern Sie von Credit Suisse, die Penan zu entschädigen!

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=200

Siberuts einzigartige Regenwälder retten

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=199

Why Cheney Really Is That Bad

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3327/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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Everything That's Wrong with America

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3324/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sally+Kohn

Let's Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3325



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

The Real Iraq Progress Report

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3326/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3330



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3341/

Not So Fast, Christian Soldiers

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3331/

Bush Must Release Global Warming Reports

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3338/

Watchdog has ‘let us down’

by Tom Bradshaw

A SENIOR States member has accused the island’s utility regulator of ‘letting down the people of Guernsey’.

Yesterday the Office of Utility Regulation announced plans to amend phone operators’ licences to make rival companies share telephone masts.

But Deputy Mary Lowe said this should have been the case from the start and would have avoided putting islanders through ‘years of anguish’.

Read More...
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=002590



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

Church mobile phone mast bid rejected

A CHURCH body has ruled against one of its own churches over a controversial bid to have a mobile phone mast installed.

St Stephen's CE Church, in Oxford Road, Burnley Wood, was forced to hold a Consistory Court hearing to allow opponents to have their say on the installation of an O2 mast in its Grade II listed tower.

Read More...
http://www.burnleyexpress.net/burnley-news/Church-mobile-phone-mast-bid.3137223.jp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=church+mast

Merkel soll Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in Ministerien beenden

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php/2007/08/merkel-soll-mitarbeit-von-lobbyisten-in-ministerien-beenden



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Berliner Finanzsenator Sarrazin: Bertelsmann Länder-Ranking ist „ideologischer Quark“

http://www.b2bbb.de/b2bbb/standorte/interview_sarrazin/



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Tennessee Nuclear Fuel Problems Kept Secret

Duncan Mansfield reports for The Associated Press, "A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant - including a leak that could have caused a deadly, uncontrolled nuclear reaction."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207P.shtml

Senate Acts, Bureaucrats Stall on Freedom of Information Act Requests

Mike Mitchell and JR Santo report for ABC News, "Just days after the Senate unanimously passed the OPEN Government Act, a new report asserts that information grants from federal agencies to Freedom of Information Act solicitations remain infrequent and limited."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207O.shtml



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

Judge: Bush Forestry Official Faces Contempt

Jeff Barnard reports for The Associated Press, "A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Bush administration's top forestry official to explain why he should not be held in contempt of court for the US Forest Service's failure to analyze the environmental impact of dropping fish-killing fire retardant on wildfires."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207N.shtml

DOJ: Records of Missing White House Emails Secret

Pete Yost reports for The Associated Press, "The Justice Department said Tuesday that records about missing White House e-mails are not subject to public disclosure, the latest effort by the Bush administration to expand the boundaries of government secrecy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+secrecy
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Help the Mountain Gorilla's, sign this petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-the-mountain-gorilla39ssign-this-petition



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

The heart of queens

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

08/21/07

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proving to be the surprise O. Henry ending to last November’s elections. The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring. Yet motivated by partisan concerns over the 2008 elections, the new speaker is following President Bush around like a sheep while he solidifies an imperial presidency and diminishes the Congress into irrelevancy. Just look at the latest ACLU advertisement targeting Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The only thing Pelosi has retained for the Congress is small-minded earmarks to attract political contributions. If Pelosi persists in her imperious, mean-spirited, and myopic thinking in disregard of her oath to support and defend the Constitution, members of the House should replace her with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md...

http://www.slate.com/id/2172547/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahlia+Lithwick

The assault on the United States’ supremacy

Asia Times
by Dilip Hiro

08/21/07

The assault on the United States’ supremacy has been as striking as it has been unexpected — from the breaking of the Anglo-American 24-hour news monopoly globally to the rise of the Russian energy superpower and of the Chinese economic juggernaut. New powers are challenging different aspects of US dominance — Russia and China in the forefront, with Venezuela and Iran forming the second rank...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH22Ak01.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=supremacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dilip+Hiro

Gallup: Congress matches record approval low

USA Today

08/21/07

The approval rating for Congress is now ‘the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974,’ Jeffrey Jones of the Gallup Poll reports today. According to Jones: ‘Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll. That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress’...

http://tinyurl.com/2cwxdr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Demand a Fully-Funded Safe Withdrawal from Iraq

http://tinyurl.com/29so5z



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

Amazon Forest Sold Off in Housing Scam, Claims Greenpeace

Sophie Morris, The Independent UK, writes: "The Brazilian government stands accused of selling off huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest - including its oldest protected national park - to unscrupulous logging companies, under the cover of a flawed sustainable development project."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082107EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon+rainforest

Smell of Death Permeates Ruined Iraqi Villages

McClatchy Newspapers' Leila Fadel writes: "The pungent smell of the dead hangs low in this village, and not even the colorful headdresses the men have wrapped across their faces can keep it out. Nearly one week after four bombs blew apart this village, the dead are still being recovered, adding to the toll that already had made last Tuesday's bombings the deadliest terrorist attack since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States."

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

Deeper in debt: Predatory lending in America

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/139.html

Global Warning: Brutal lessons from an Antarctic summer

Here is climate change in action, Antarctica as a living experiment.
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2876800.ece


From Information Clearing House

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Islands Emerge As Arctic Ice Shrinks to Record Low

Alister Doyle reports for Reuters: "Previously unknown islands are appearing as Arctic summer sea ice shrinks to record lows, raising questions about whether global warming is outpacing UN projections, experts said."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082107EB.shtml



Sea Rise Outpacing Predictions Due to Antarctica

Alister Doyle writes for Reuters: "A thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the UN climate panel and could in the worst case drive up world sea levels by two meters (six feet) by 2100, a leading expert said on Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082407EA.shtml

July Foreclosures Up 9 Percent From June

The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month jumped 93 percent from July of 2006 and rose 9 percent from June, the latest sign that homeowners are having trouble making payments and finding buyers during the national housing downturn.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070821/foreclosure_rates.html?.v=5


From Information Clearing House



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

Two casualties of US mortgage meltdown racked a combined $1.8bn in losses

The ninth-largest US bank by market value, Capital One, and one of the biggest US credit card providers, which bought mortgage provider GreenPoint in last year's $13.2 billion purchase of North Fork Bancorp, of Melville, New York, on Monday announced the closure of the unit with the loss of 1,900 jobs.

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1010861.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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

National ID? How about a global ID?

The cultural gap with the public in general is still too wide," said Dr. Mike Mestrovich, president of FiXs. "I think there would have to be a public consensus to move us in that direction and I don't see that happening until at least 2009 or beyond."

http://tinyurl.com/23hbu7


From Information Clearing House

CIA Missed Chances to Tackle al-Qaida

The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/21/ap4040920.html


From Information Clearing House

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CIA Details Errors It Made Before 9/11

Mark Mazzetti reports for The New York Times, "A report released Tuesday by the Central Intelligence Agency includes new details of the agency's missteps before the September 11 attacks."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082207M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Mazzetti

Alice in Wonderland: Iraq, ZNet and the art of numbers

Why are there so few people complaining and voicing outrage?
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2007/08/alice-in-wonderland-znet-and-art-of.htm


From Information Clearing House

Clinton says Bush's new strategy is working

From her office in clouded cuckoo land

Clinton, seeking the Democratic nomination for president, praised the work that soldiers have done in Iraq but described the government there as "on vacation," leaving American troops in the middle of a sectarian war.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/08/21/clinton_0821.html



Standing on the bodies: Thompson tells veterans

U.S. should remain in Iraq, rebuild military for global fight: Undeclared presidential candidate Fred Thompson says the U.S. needs to rebuild its military to fight global terrorism because leaders "took a holiday" at the end of the Cold War.

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=6962107


From Information Clearing House



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Why Iraqis oppose U.S.-backed oil law

Across the political spectrum in Washington, members of Congress are now demanding that the Iraqi government meet certain benchmarks, which presumably would show that it's really in charge. But there's a big problem with the most important benchmark: the oil law. It is extremely unpopular in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/378t34


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
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What We Chose To Ignore

Video

A brief summary of presidential directives, executive orders, and congressionally approved bills that where signed into law over the last 40 years or so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18225.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+orders

The Authority to Abuse the Constitution

The FBI's New Power

By Saul Landau

On August 4, ignoring former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who had spoken of Bush's "phony war" on terrorism, Congress authorized vast authority for repressive agencies to spy further on the public. Under the pretext of "fighting terror," the bill opens further already existing wide parameters for telephone and email intrusion without court warrants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18230.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gingrich
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
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A Debt Culture Gone Awry

By Hamid Varzi

The U.S. economy, once the envy of the world, is now viewed across the globe with suspicion. America has become shackled by an immovable mountain of debt that endangers its prosperity and threatens to bring the rest of the world economy crashing down with it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18231.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamid+Varzi

Back to School During Wartime

By Sunsara Taylor

You didn't carve up the earth with man made borders, subjugate whole peoples, drive millions from their families and homelands in a desperate search for work in the leaner and meaner globalized economy-but you can't escape the fact that the clothes on your back, the food you eat, the roads you drive on, the computers you use were all made through this global system of capitalist exploitation and plunder, including of millions of children literally chained to machines working 12, 14, 16 hours a day.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18229.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sunsara+Taylor

Iraq Progress Report: A Time to Assess and Reflect

By Stephen Lendman

We're now "losing two wars and creating a vast arc of profound strategic and political instability from the Mediterranean Sea to South Asia." In addition, we reignited the arms race in Europe, turned a friendly Russia into a foe, and are heading the country toward possible bankruptcy through reckless fiscal policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18227.htm



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

Cindy Sheehan: "Inshallah"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18226.htm

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Die Mobilfunkanlage ist weg

Sie ist weg!!!

Die Mobilfunkanlage am Heideweg wurde heute, nach 6,5 Jahren, entfernt.

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Den vielen hunderten Klicks auf unsere Website (live webcam http://www.mobilfunk-dachau.de/livecam.htm ) zufolge, wurde heute die Rückbauaktion mit großem Interesse von Vielen verfolgt. Wie angekündigt haben wir das Ereignis heute Abend ab 20:00 Uhr gebührend gefeiert. Ca. 60 Nachbarn und Mitstreiter aus Dachau und Umgebung sind unserer Einladung spontan gefolgt. Trotz dem schlechten Wetter, wurde in dem kurzfristig errichteten Partyzelt, im Enzianweg, bis in die späten Nachtstunden gemütlich gefeiert. Einstimmig wurde beschlossen, öfters ein geselliges Straßenfest in unserer Nachbarschaft zu organisieren. Bevorzugtes Datum wird aus gegebenen Anlass der 20. August bleiben. Über die zukünftige Rolle unserer Bürgerinitiative werden wir demnächst beraten und Sie informieren.

Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd
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Phone mast: law unjust

22 August 2007

SIR - Today I have received a letter from the Planning Inspectorate, at Bristol, containing the unwelcome news that Torridge District Council's decision to refuse permission for the erection of a mobile phone mast on St Mary's Church, Bideford, has been overturned, which means that this monstrous project can now go ahead - to the detriment of the health of people living nearby.

I am afraid Government pressure has played its part in this decision. What is worrying is that the research on the possibly harmful effects of these masts is based on biased and flawed research by Government or cellular phone company-backed institutions.

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SOGA-NEWSLETTER Nr. 10 - 34. Woche 2007

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Who Should Be IMPEACHED First? How About Gonzales?

JOIN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT OF GONZALES

The New York Times published an editorial over the weekend concluding that when the founders created the remedy of impeachment, "Mr. Gonzales's malfeasance is just the sort they were worried about." At this point we would say it is rather a foot race as to who should be impeached first, with 28 House members already backing the Jay Inslee call for the impeachment of Gonzales versus the 20 backing the Kucinich call for impeachment of Cheney. With the Times now weighing in we think it's time to give Gonzales another push.

http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

Remember, the White House had ordered the Justice Department (read Gonzales) not to prosecute contempt charges against any of its operatives who it had also ordered not to testify in the first place. Another outrage was disclosed just today when Leahy revealed that a Republican senator at a committee meeting to consider subpoenas stated that he had been told by Cheney that Congress was "not allowed" to do that. Since when did Republican senators become the mindless puppets of the White House? No later than the year 2000 we think.

Gonzales who HAS testified has told so many different stories that were he not himself the attorney general he would be facing perjury charges right now. But of course even if he were convicted he would instantly be commuted or pardoned as was Scooter Libby. There is one and only one constitutional recourse left and that is impeachment. The appeal courts have already been stacked with right wing judges and they will not intervene. The solicitor general will not appoint a special counsel. Only through impeachment can Congress demand a return to integrity.

It was Alberto Gonzales who tried to browbeat a semi-conscious John Ashcroft into signing off on a patently illegal spying program, who was the point man in doing a legal end run around the laws against torture, who let the White House dictate which U.S. attorneys were not sufficiently partisan in their prosecutions, and who then lied repeatedly under oath about it all. Did Cheney also dictate to him what he was not allowed to do?

http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

For those focused on impeaching Cheney and Bush we suggest this is not a distraction. Instead it could be an important strategic icebreaker. To just get the word "impeachment" past the lips of some members of Congress has been a major struggle. It would not be the first time a cabinet officer has been impeached, as Secretary of War Belknap was in 1876. The remedy has not been used often, but in the case of the Cheney cabal, certainly not nearly enough.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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