Dienstag, 28. August 2007

Tell Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi: We Won't Let Congress Fail Freedom

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=g3yZMwq--iFXfuaEfGkOog..



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

Call Senator Biden today and urge him to hold a hearing on the Law of the Sea Convention

http://tinyurl.com/yvgvuy

Mobilfunk-Studie bestätigt Attendorner Konzept

http://www.nrw-on.de/sauerland.php?kat=98&id=17536

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Erfolg für "Mobilfunk"-Hartnäckigkeit
http://tinyurl.com/2o5ffh

Acht Sendestandorte aufgelistet
http://tinyurl.com/2lz9vt

Mobilfunkkonzept wurde wissenschaftlich bestätigt
http://tinyurl.com/ynwxwm


Wolfgang Hilleke

Stadt Attendorn
Amt für Bürgerservice
Kölner Straße 12
57439 Attendorn
Tel. 02722/64236

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Abschluss des Forschungsprojekts zu Immissionen von Mobilfunksendeanlagen in der Stadt Attendorn

Die Stadt Attendorn hat sich im Herbst des vergangenen Jahres an einem Forschungsprojekt zur Erfassung der Immissionen von Mobilfunkanlagen beteiligt. Ziel war es, einen repräsentativen Überblick über die von den vorhandenen Basisstationen ausgehenden Immissionen im Stadtgebiet Attendorns zu erhalten. Der Abschlussbericht des Projekts liegt nun vor und bestätigt aus Sicht der Gutachter das Attendorner Konzept als Handlungsstrategie zur Umsetzung des Vorsorgeprinzips, weil es die technischen und wirtschaftlichen Anforderungen der Betreiber auf der einen Seite sowie die Interessen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger an einer möglichst immissionsminimierten Mobilfunkversorgung auf der anderen Seite gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.

Download des Abschlussberichts
http://www.attendorn.de/mobilfunkattendorn/konzept/forschungsprojekt/


Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 30.08.2007
Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Attendorn

Dick Cheney: Controversial Vice President

Philippe Gelie writes for Le Figaro: "Dick Cheney has become a ball and chain for George W. Bush. At a nadir in the polls, he is often designated as 'the worst Vice-President in US history'... After the resignation of the president's main adviser, Karl Rove, pressure is growing in Washington against the Executive branch's powerful Number Two. A year before the presidential election, the sulfurous record of 66-year-old Richard Cheney embarrasses the Republicans and stimulates the Democrats. Will the 46th Vice-President of the United States complete his term by George W. Bush's side?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807G.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
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French President Cautions Against Attack on Iran

Angela Doland reports for The Associated Press, "French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Monday that it would be 'catastrophic' to resort to military force in confronting Iran over its suspect nuclear program."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807F.shtml

Clement Is Expected to Follow Policies of Gonzales, Ashcroft

Richard A. Serrano reports for the Los Angeles Times: "Named Monday as the acting US attorney general to temporarily succeed Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales, Clement is likely to closely follow the principles of his predecessors - Gonzales and former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. Like them, he has embraced the White House's mandate of waging war on terrorists in this country, even if it means diverging from longtime legal precepts of due process. He strongly believes in supporting case statutes and administration policy, whatever the consequences."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+A.+Serrano

Top General Fears War Strain on National Guard

Andrew O. Selsky reports for The Associated Press, "The Pentagon is asking National Guard troops and their families to make sacrifices like never before in Iraq and other hot spots, the Army's chief of staff told a conference bringing together citizen-soldiers from across the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+O.+Selsky

"Hartz IV"-Fragebogen in Hamburg sorgt für Empörung

Ein von der Hamburger Wirtschaftsbehörde in Auftrag gegebener Fragebogen für "Hartz IV"-Empfänger sorgt für Empörung bei Opposition und Gewerkschaften. 435.000 Euro habe der Senat für "seine skandalöse Fragebogenaktion locker gemacht", kritisierte der SPD-Landeschef in der Hansestadt, Ingo Egloff, am 28. August. Fragen an arbeitslose Hamburger, ob jemand gern exotisch isst oder Börsenkurse verfolgt, seien einfach nur bizarr.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16470

ACLU: Gonzales Resignation Does Not Pardon President's Abuse of Power

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0828-02.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse+of+power

Cheney/Bush's "Mercenary" Legions

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3466/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Weiner

Army Adds Farce to Abu Ghraib Shame

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3464/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sam+Provance

Who Owns the Media and How the People Can Take It Back

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3463



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Megan+Tady

US Most Armed Country with 90 Guns per 100 People

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3470/

Der amerikanische Schäuble geht

Blitzrücktritt von US-Justizminister Gonzalez
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26060/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schäuble

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6662/


Informant: jensenmk



Report: US Has Prepared to Attack Iran
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/26199


From ufpj-news



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

The money spent on the Iraq war could have purchased a lot of renewable energy

Swords Into Wind Turbines

by Paul Gipe, Wind-Works.org
http://ga3.org/ct/Rd20pgF1fXKr/


From TomPaine.common sense

Extreme conditions: What's happening to our weather?

http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2901009.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Stronger standards for cleaner air? Tell the EPA to set new rules today!

http://ga3.org/campaign/ozone_alert



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency

Die fragwürdigen PR-Kampagnen der Bundesregierung

http://www.swr.de/report/-/id=233454/nid=233454/did=2478132/18nebdd/index.html http://www.swr.de/report/-/id=233454/did=2522518/pv=mplayer/vv=big/nid=233454/1xw9s09/index.html

Bush's Herd of Loyal Texas Advisers Continues to Thin

Dave Montgomery, of the McClatchy Newspapers writes: "They were fiercely loyal, unfailingly disciplined and, as a unit, offered the president a comforting touchstone from his home state. Now, Team Texas is moving ever closer to extinction. The already thinning cadre of advisers who followed George W. Bush from Austin to Washington is unraveling even further, with Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove heading toward the door."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Montgomery

Bush's "War on Terror" Tactics Make America Less Safe, Less Free

Truthout's William Fisher writes: "The constitutional scholars who represented extraordinary-rendition victim Maher Arar charge that America is losing the 'war on terror' and the civil rights of its citizens because of Bush administration policies. In a new book, 'Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror,' law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive 'preventive paradigm' the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maher+Arar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Cole
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Fisher

Massive Criminal Probe of Illegal Iraq Arms Sales Underway

James Glanz and Eric Schmitt, of The New York Times, report: "Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other material to Iraqi and American forces, according to American officials. The officials said it amounted to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here, the officials said. The inquiry has already led to several indictments of Americans, with more expected, the officials said. One of the investigations involves a senior American officer who worked closely with Gen. David H. Petraeus in setting up the logistics operation to supply the Iraqi forces when General Petraeus was in charge of training and equipping those forces in 2004 and 2005, American officials said Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Glanz

Draft norms to discourage children from using mobiles

NEW DELHI: The telecom boom has transformed the lives of millions of people, but has also set alarm bells ringing over its possible health hazards as the government is now considering norms that suggest taking precautionary steps to minimise risks associated with use of mobile phones.

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

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Who is monitoring our children?
http://tinyurl.com/25m7gq



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

Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?

CIA Gets in Your Face(book)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/01/72545

The Facebook.com: Big Brother with a smile
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/090605thefacebook.htm

Big Brothers, Big Facebook: Your Orwellian Community
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=34949


Informant: sasha karlik

Bush: In the footsteps of Napoleon

Asia Times
by Juan Cole

08/25/07

French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s already failed version of the conquest of Iraq is, of course, on everyone’s mind; while the French conquest of Egypt, now more than two centuries past, is all too little remembered, despite having been led by Napoleon Bonaparte, whose career has otherwise hardly languished in obscurity. There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH25Ak03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Napoleon's Egypt and Bush's Iraq

Reflections On The History of Western Attacks on the Mideast

Video

Juan Cole discusses his new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East and the relevance and lessons of Napoleon's expedition in Egypt to the current American occupation of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18265.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Napoleon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes

The New York Times's Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley report: "No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082707EB.shtml

The Crime? Helping the Poor While Being Wealthy

Writing for The Progressive Daily Beacon, A. Alexander says, "It is interesting to observe Republicans and the corporate-owned media as they attack the rare wealthy person who dares attempt to help America's poor and impoverished."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707T.shtml

Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason

Truthout columnist William Rivers Pitt writes: "The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's Office brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the balance is the very idea of the nation itself. The basic concepts and fundamental principles of our republic now stand as the only legitimate considerations going forward, for they have been tested almost to annihilation already, and will not endure much longer if we continue on this path."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

Are telco towers a danger?

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tower+danger
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=tower+danger

Sikh outrage at US airport security

The groups said that under the new guidelines turbans could be subject to manual "pat-downs" even if their wearers had passed a metal detector test.

http://snipurl.com/1q0m6


From Information Clearing House

The hypocrisy of the right

With the civilian death toll in Iraq approaching a million innocent victims, where is the outrage from the pro-life movement in America?

http://snipurl.com/1q0m4


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+death+toll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy

US 'paving the way' for Iran air strikes

THE White House's plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organisation are intended to give the Bush administration cover if it launches military strikes on the Islamic republic, according to a prominent former CIA officer.

http://snipurl.com/1q0lk



The Next War Draws Nearer

I continue to put the prospects for a major military operation targeting Iran down as "likely," and the time frame drawing nearer. When will Bush give the go ahead? I think late this year or early next would be the most congenial time frame from the perspective of the war party. Some of the developments that go into my call...

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000995



What happens if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz?

In terms of volume, blocking the Strait of Hormuz ''is probably the biggest single energy-security risk that exists in the world,'' says Lawrence Eagles, head of oil markets at the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based energy watchdog for the world's most industrialized nations.

http://snipurl.com/1q0ln


From Information Clearing House

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'Ridiculous' Washington Post editorial mongers war with Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6661/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iran+airstrikes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolutionary+guards
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Strait+of+Hormuz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Horton

France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Teheran's nuclear programme was the only alternative to 'an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran'.

http://snipurl.com/1q0li


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iran+airstrikes

Chronicle of a Coup Foretold?

Consider the most recent example of disdain for Iraqi national sovereignty: the U.S. attempt to overthrow of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio08272007.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anthony+DiMaggio

The donors behind those new TV ads

The donors who are financing the new multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign arguing against a withdrawal from Iraq include a Who's Who of former Bush Administration ambassadors (to plum assignments like France, Italy, and Malta); a least one of Bush's original Pioneers; the man ranked by Forbes (in 2006) as the third-richest American; and, of course, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/22/328681.aspx


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ari+Fleischer

People flee Baghdad district as gunmen impose Shariah law

The gunmen are particularly stringent when it comes to Christian families, who are forced to convert to Islam or pay huge taxes.

http://snipurl.com/1q0le


From Information Clearing House

British retreat descends into chaos as Shia militia occupy police centre

Iraqi police reportedly left when the Shia fighters arrived and began emptying the facility. According to witnesses, they made off with generators, computers, furniture and even cars, saying it was war booty - and were still in the centre yesterday evening.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2898446.ece


From Information Clearing House

About-Face On Iran Coming?

A new US strategy for victory in Iraq may be in the works

By Hassan Nafaa

The implications for the Sunnis and the Shiites are frightening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18262.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hassan+Nafaa

Options On The Table

By Noam Chomsky

The sabre-rattling rhetoric about "containing Iran" has escalated to the point where both political parties and practically the whole US Press corps accept it as legitimate and, in fact, honourable, that "all options are on the table," to quote the leading presidential candidates - possibly even nuclear weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18263.htm



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

Troops Cheer Call For Iraq Withdrawal

By AP

Governor's Call For U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq Greeted With Standing Ovation At National Guard Conference.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18258.htm



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

Middle East Turmoil Could Cause World War: U.S. Envoy

By Reuters

Zalmay Khalilzad told the daily Die Presse the Middle East was now so disordered that it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did during the first half of the 20th century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18260.htm



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

Conservative Republicans Have Only One Choice in 2008

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Let's cut to the chase: conservative Republicans have only one choice for President in 2008: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Unlike the GOP frontrunners, Paul is the real deal. No real conservative could support Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Fred Thompson, or Newt Gingrich. When it comes to historic conservative principles, each of these men is as phony as a three dollar bill. That they are now attempting to cast themselves as conservatives is more than laughable: it is downright hilarious.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin394.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Romney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Thompson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gingrich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/baldwin

impf-report Newsletter Nr. 17/2007

http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2007/17.htm

IMPEACH CHENEY BILL H.RES.333

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00333:@@@N


Informant: Bob Banner



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H+Res+333
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich

The Great Iraq Swindle

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle_


Informant: bigraccoon

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The Great Iraq Swindle
Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, explains "how Bush allowed an army of for-profit contractors to invade the US Treasury."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Taibbi

Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/270807_market_crash.htm


Informant: Bob Banner

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The Kennebunkport Warning
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=113181



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kennebunkport
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Russo

Federal Reserve Board of Govenors Meeting to Take Place At "C.O.G." August 31st?

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=108532


Informant: Di

Next-up News n°292

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n292.htm

Montag, 27. August 2007

For the last quarter century, corporate America has been at war against the labor movement

The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy

Writing for Truthout, Dean Baker says, "For the last quarter century, corporate America has been at war against the labor movement. After a long period in which unions were an accepted part of the economic and political landscape, most corporations adopted a much more hostile attitude toward unions. Where unions already were present, employers sought to weaken or break them. In workplaces without unions, employers were prepared to do whatever was necessary to prevent workers from organizing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082707LA.shtml



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

Lobbyists Hired to Press Maliki, Former Premier Says

Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post, "Former interim Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi, who is trying to put together a new coalition to replace the current Baghdad government headed by Nouri al-Maliki, said yesterday that a powerful Washington lobbying firm is working on his behalf, funded by an Iraqi whom he cannot identify."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707C.shtml

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All The Makings of A US-Allawi Coup
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3454



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Allawi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Pincus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arianna+Huffington

Bush Gets Away With Lies

Larry Beinhart writes for Alternet, "George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia - an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707B.shtml



Iraqi Insurgents Taking Cut of US Rebuilding Money

Hannah Allam reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against US troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in US rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart

Auf regulären Arbeitsplätzen: "Hartz IV"-Empfänger sollen teilweise zu kostenloser Arbeit gezwungen werden

Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfänger werden nach Recherchen des ARD-Magazins "Report Mainz" im Rahmen von Praktika zu kostenloser Arbeit gezwungen. Der Sender berichtete am 27. August, die Betroffenen müssten unter Androhung einer Kürzung ihrer Bezüge oft monatelang auf regulären Arbeitsplätzen arbeiten, ohne dafür zusätzlich entlohnt zu werden.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16463

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"Lohnwucher" auf dem Arbeitsamt

Hartz IV-Empfänger werden von Arbeitsverwaltung zu kostenloser Arbeit gezwungen. ver.di Chef Bsirske: „absoluter Skandal“

„Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld II werden nach Recherchen von REPORT MAINZ im Rahmen von Praktika zu kostenloser Arbeit gezwungen. Bezieher von ALG II müssten unter Androhung einer Kürzung ihrer Bezüge oft sogar monatelang auf regulären Arbeitsplätzen arbeiten ohne dafür zusätzlich entlohnt zu werden. Das berichtet das ARD Politikmagazin in seiner Sendung am Montag, 27.08.07…“ Presseinformation des SWR vom 27. August 2007 http://www.swr.de/report/presse/-/id=1197424/nid=1197424/did=2518534/wk7b9y/index.html

Siehe dazu:

Unentgeltliche Arbeit ist nicht zumutbar

„Unentgeltliche Arbeit ist nicht zumutbar, dass urteilte das SG in Aachen in seiner Sitzung vom 22.03.2007 - S 9 AS 32/07 ER . Demnach sind Sanktion seitens des Sozialhilfeträgers rechtswidrig, welche dem Hilfebedürftigen wegen Abbruch eines Praktikums, mit 30 % Senkung der ALG II Leistungen auferlegt wurde. In der Urteilsbegründung wurde ausgeführt, dass eine Einarbeitung zwar im Rahmen eines Probearbeitsverhältnisses (Arbeitsvertrag mit Probezeit) oder einer befristeten Beschäftigung stattfinden kann, aber dann auch zu entlohnen ist. Eine unentgeltliche Arbeit ist daher als nicht zumutbar anzusehen…“ das ganze Urteil (SG Aachen S 9 AS 32/07 ER vom 22.03.2007) im Sozialticker-Forum http://www.sozialticker.com/forum/ftopic6931.html


Aus: LabourNet, 28. August 2007

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Null-Euro Jobber: Wie Hartz IV-Empfänger zu kostenloser Arbeit gezwungen werden

Die Report-Sendung vom 27.08.2007 von Thomas Dauser und Beate Klein ist nun online verfügbar:

Text http://www.swr.de/report/-/id=233454/nid=233454/did=2478130/lw30hp/index.html

Video (RealVideo (7:15 min)) http://www.swr.de/report/-/id=233454/did=2522488/pv=mplayer/vv=big/nid=233454/w5wn3u/index.html


Skandal um ALG-II-Praktika: Bsirske fordert Bundesregierung und BA zum Handeln auf

„Im Skandal um den unbezahlten Einsatz von Arbeitslosengeld-II-Beziehern als Praktikanten fordert der Vorsitzende der Vereinten Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di), Frank Bsirske, die Bundesregierung auf, den rechtswidrigen Praktiken umgehend entgegenzutreten…“ ver.di-Pressemitteilung vom 28.08.2007 http://presse.verdi.de/pressemitteilungen/showNews?id=4b77e8e6-5564-11dc-77be-0019b9e321cd


Auf in die Sofort-Maßnahme!

„Kostenlose Firmenpraktikas erfüllen grundsätzlich den Tatbestand des Lohnwuchers nach § 138 BGB und § 291 StGB und sind grundsätzlich zu verbieten und zu verfolgen. Erst recht sollte man die Arbeitsagenturen und ARGEn an den juristischen Kanthaken nehmen, wenn sie kostenlose Firmenpraktikas unter nötigender Anwendung von Eingliederungsvereinbarungen und Androhung von Sperrzeiten durchpeitschen wollen…“ Kommentar von Joachim Kühnel bei Chefduzen.de http://www.chefduzen.de/thread.php?postid=82849#post82849


Aus: LabourNet, 30. August 2007

DECT-Schnurlos-Telefone und WLAN

„Die zunehmende Strahlenbelastung durch WLAN – Funksignale gibt keinen Anlass zur Sorge“, schreibt die Stuttgarter Zeitung am 8.8.2007. Da diese DECT – Schnurlostelefone und WLAN fast in jedem Büro und Haushalt vorhanden sind, und – weil sie auf derselben gefährlichen Technik wie der Mobilfunk basieren - bietet die Homepage eine gründliche Zusammenstellung von Dokumenten und Untersuchungen. Gegen DECT und WLAN kann sich jeder selbst und seine Kinder schützen. Nach einem Briefwechsel mit der Stuttgarter Zeitung stellen wir eine eigene ausführliche Analyse dazu auf die Homepage:

„Die Medienberichterstattung über die Strahlungsbelastung durch WLAN und DECT - Telefone verharmlost die Gesundheitsgefährdung. Eine ausführlicher Kommentar zum Artikel der Stuttgarter vom 8.8.2007 und der Verharmlosungskampagne des IZMF.“

Sie werden nach der Faktenrecherche in dieser Analyse erstaunt sein, wie hoch die hausgemachte Strahlung sein kann. Zeit, sich mit der Selbstgefährdung zu beschäftigen.

http://www.der-mast-muss-weg.de/016dectWLAN01.htm


Aus: Kurzmitteilung Nr.11 : Mobilfunkbürgerinitiative Stuttgart West



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MEG brain test identifies six disorders (100% accuracy)

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

As Alps Warm, Ice Melts and Mountains Crumble

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13935545


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The Fear of Terrorism

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/27/3436/



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How the Bush Administration Is Turning the USA into a Subprime Borrower

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/27/3433



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Gonzales Goes But Investigation Must Continue

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/27/3440

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Reid: "Gonzales Investigations Will Continue"

Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer, of the Los Angeles Times, report: "Most former attorneys general retire into relative obscurity, but as Alberto Gonzales closes the door on his Washington career, he leaves a legacy that will endure well into the future: a Justice Department mired in congressional inquiries about the firing of US attorneys and legal challenges to his policies on presidential power, torture and domestic spying. 'This resignation is not the end of the story,' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a statement today forecasting congressional intent to probe deep into what Gonzales will leave behind. 'Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807L.shtml



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Protest To Meet Bush At Legion meeting

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/27/3443/

Mit Kohle und Biosprit ins Treibhaus

Das Bundeskabinett hat auf seiner Klausur in Meseberg ein Grundsatzpapier über die Klima- und Energiepolitik verabschiedet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26046/1.html



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Is 'Productivity Miracle' Ending?

by Jared Bernstein, TPM Cafe

There are troubling signs that even rougher times are ahead for the economy.
http://ga3.org/ct/Y720pgF14RK7/



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Bush's Vietnam Illiteracy

by Larry Beinhart, AlterNet

Bush's use of the Cambodian genocide to justify staying in Iraq ignores key facts.
http://ga3.org/ct/Td20pgF14RKm/



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Katrina's lessons must not be forgotten

Shouting Underwater

by Walter Mosley, The Nation

Katrina's lessons must not be forgotten: We are all victims of a failed government.
http://ga3.org/ct/Yd20pgF14RKI/



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Pentagon Official Is Under Investigation

Molly Hennessy-Fiske, of the Los Angeles Times, reports "a Bush political appointee and former Silicon Valley executive who has faced opposition in his bid to bail out Iraq's struggling factories is under investigation by the Defense Department on mismanagement allegations. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Paul A. Brinkley, who heads an economic task force in Baghdad, is accused of mismanaging government money and engaging in public drunkenness and sexual harassment, a Defense Department spokesman said last week."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707L.shtml

Data Show No Surge in Safety in Iraq So Far in 2007

The Associated Press reports the "US troop buildup has brought violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks nationwide is running nearly double the year-ago pace. Some of the recent bloodshed appears to be the result of militants drifting into northern Iraq, where they have fled after US-led offensives. Baghdad, however, still accounts for slightly more than half of all war-related killings - the same percentage as a year ago, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707K.shtml



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Cancer in Iraq Vets Points to Toxic Exposure

The Arizona Daily Star is reporting there are many soldiers returning from Iraq with cancer. Carla McClain writes: "The prime suspect in all this, in the minds of many victims - and some scientists - is what's known as depleted uranium - the radioactive chemical prized by the military for its ability to penetrate armored vehicles. When munitions explode, the substance hits the air as fine dust, easily inhaled."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707J.shtml



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Wimax-Netz im Saarland soll DSL-freie Gebiete versorgen

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94979



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Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General

Gonzales Bows Out

It's about time.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/27/gonzales/index.html

Loring

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Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707Z.shtml

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Gonzo’s gone
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff08272007.html



Why did Gonzales resign?

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

08/27/07

When Alberto Gonzales swiftly turned heel on the stage at the Department of Justice without answering questions about his resignation as attorney general he left behind yet another lingering cloud of mystery. What is he not telling about his resignation? The true story may be something like the denouement of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter,’ which was in plain sight all along, a solution that can, as Poe wrote, ‘escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.’ To be excessively obvious, Gonzales’ resignation, following Karl Rove’s exactly by two weeks, is the shadow of the first act...

http://tinyurl.com/2mtdaa



All the president’s flunkies

Slate
by John Dickerson

08/27/07

As Alberto Gonzales resigns today, he joins Donald Rumsfeld, Harriet Miers, and Michael Brown — animated failures who could not be controlled or improved with good public relations. The pattern has been consistent: The president resists and resists calls for a change. Then he gives in. In Gonzales’ case, it’s almost as if Bush were perfecting this failed approach, wringing out of his embattled old friend so many embarrassing gaffes that he couldn’t be hurt anymore. Then he let him go. The more radioactive his aides become, the more Bush embraces them. With Gonzales, the president was particularly alone in this stance...

http://www.slate.com/id/2172858/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The House Lawyer Departs

A New York Times editorial says: "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally done something important to advance the cause of justice. He has resigned. But his departure alone cannot remove the dark cloud that hangs over the Justice Department. President Bush needs to choose a new attorney general of unquestioned integrity who would work to make the department worthy of its name again - and provide the mandate to do it. Congress needs to continue to investigate the many scandals Mr. Gonzales leaves behind. When Mr. Gonzales was appointed, it seemed doubtful that he would be able to put aside his years as Mr. Bush's personal lawyer, which stretched back to the Texas governor's office, and represent the interests of the American people. He never did."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807N.shtml

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Now that Alberto Gonzales has resigned, will Congress repair the damage he did?

Justice Denied
by Aziz Huq, The Nation
http://ga3.org/ct/Pp20pgF1fXKe/


From TomPaine.common sense

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Alberto Gonzales had to leave the White House once Karl Rove had made a break for the exit

http://snipurl.com/1q24h


From Information Clearing House



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Arbeitsbedingungen in der Leiharbeit/PSA

Übermorgen ist für dich Feierabend

Die Zeitarbeit boomt, aber viele Unternehmen behandeln das Thema wie Werksgeheimnisse. Wie sehen die Arbeitsbedingungen von Zeitarbeitern in der Praxis aus, wie gehen Unternehmer mit ihnen um? Eine Reportage aus München von Steffen Dobbert in der Jungle-World vom 23.08.2007 http://jungle-world.com/seiten/2007/34/10489.php

Aus dem Text: „…»Im München arbeiten ungefähr 34.000 Menschen für BMW, davon sind etwa 4.000 Zeitarbeiter«, sagt Hans Haumer. Der stellvertretende Betriebsratsvorsitzende des Münchner Werks von BMW ist sich nicht ganz sicher, denn es sei schwierig, das genau zu sagen. Jedenfalls gebe es bei BMW eine Art Gentlemen’s Agreement, sagt er, eine Absichtserklärung des Unternehmens, die auf keinem Blatt Papier geschrieben stehe. Sie besage, dass BMW »auf keinen Fall mehr als zehn Prozent Leiharbeiter einstellt«. 4.000 von 34.000 sind aber fast zwölf Prozent. Der Betriebsrat sagt auch, er habe Verständnis für das Unternehmen. BMW müsse schließlich wettbewerbsfähig bleiben. Der Anteil der Leiharbeiter habe sich im Hause stabil entwickelt. Und Zeitarbeit werde sowieso überall geleistet: »Wenn da ein Unternehmen nicht mitmacht, lachen alle anderen.«…“


Gesetzeslage: Petition zur "Arbeitnehmerüberlassung: Zeitliche Begrenzung der Leiharbeit"

43.500 unterstützen Leiharbeitspetition

„Insgesamt haben fast 43.500 Unterzeichner die Petition zur Befristung von Leiharbeit der IG Metall Dresden unterstützt. Das heißt, dass es demnächst eine öffentliche Anhörung geben könnte. Zwar liegt die Zahl der Unterstützer mit 43.497 Unterschriften, von denen mehr als 40.000 online abgegeben wurden, knapp unter der Grenze von 50.000. Willi Eisele, Erster Bevollmächtigter in Dresden und Riesa, der die Petition beim Deutschen Bundestag einreichte, ist allerdings überzeugt, dass damit die Chancen gut stehen, dass es zu einer öffentlichen Anhörung kommt „und zwar noch vor dem Gewerkschaftstag“…“ Meldung vom 14.08.07 im Siemens-Dialog http://dialog.igmetall.de/Ansicht.73+M5a4a5a17a70.0.html


Aus: LabourNet, 27. August 2007

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Leiharbeit: PSA und andere Sklavenhändler

IAQ-Studie zur Gleichstellung von Zeitarbeitskräften: Gleicher Lohn für gleiche Arbeit?

„Die Arbeitsbedingungen von Zeitarbeitskräften sollen durch eine Angleichung an die Rechte anderer Beschäftigter verbessert werden, darauf einigte sich nach langem Ringen kürzlich der EU-Sozialministerrat. Deutsche Zeitarbeitskräfte werden nach Einschätzung des Instituts Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) der Universität Duisburg-Essen davon voraussichtlich aber kaum profitieren. Denn wie bereits in Deutschland könnten sich die Grundsätze des „Equal Pay“ und „Equal Treatment“ auch auf der europäischen Ebene bei genauerer Betrachtung als Mogelpackung erweisen: Die Mitgliedsstaaten können zulassen, dass in Tarifverträgen andere Regelungen getroffen werden. In Deutschland hat eine solche Ausnahmeklausel dazu geführt, dass es mittlerweile zahlreiche Tarifverträge für die Zeitarbeit gibt. Schätzungsweise 95 Prozent aller Zeitarbeitskräfte werden tariflich entlohnt. Vor allem in den unteren Lohngruppen sind darin sehr niedrige Löhne von 7 Euro, in einigen Fällen sogar nur 4 bis 6 Euro vorgesehen. Dies ist deutlich niedriger als die Höhe der typischen Tariflöhne in Branchen, in denen viele Zeitarbeitskräfte eingesetzt werden…“ IAQ-Pressemeldung vom 24.6.08 http://www.uni-due.de/home/fb/presse/presse_allg/presse_24.06.2008_49881.shtml

Siehe dazu:

(Fehl-)Entwicklungen in der Zeitarbeit?

Expertise von Claudia Weinkopf und Achim Vanselow im Auftrag der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Bonn: FES. Wiso (2008)(pdf) http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/wiso/05403.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Die gewerkschaftliche Neuorientierung im Bereich der Leiharbeit setzt voraus, dass Leiharbeitskräfte in die gewerkschaftlichen und betriebspolitischen Handlungskonzepte einbezogen werden und nicht als „Arbeitnehmer 2. Klasse“ behandelt werden. In der Vergangenheit nutzte mancher Betriebsrat die „Randbelegschaft“ gern, um die eigenen Stammkräfte abzusichern. Dieses enge Solidaritätsverständnis grenzte Leiharbeitskräfte bewusst aus und zielte auf die Verlagerung von Beschäftigungsrisiken von der Kern- auf die Randbelegschaft. Sofern es denn zutrifft, dass der Umgang mit Beschäftigten in nicht-standardisierten Arbeitsverhältnissen eine der gewerkschaftlichen Zukunftsaufgaben darstellt (vgl. Frerichs u.a. 2004), so muss das gewerkschaftliche Solidaritätsverständnis entsprechend modifiziert werden….“ (S. 31f.)

Siehe dazu auch: Diskussion > EU > Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik: > EU regelt Arbeitszeit und Leiharbeit http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/sopo/regelung08.html


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juni 2008



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Vom Schönrechnen: ein Kommentar zur aktuellen Arbeitslosenstatistik

„Nur 3,7 Millionen Arbeitslose, verkündete die Bundesregierung im Juli, die Quote sinke immer weiter, und zu verdanken sei das der positiven Konjunkturentwicklung. Wer sich aber einmal die Mühe macht, einen Blick auf die Website der Arbeitsagentur zu werfen, der erfährt: Tatsächlich sind derzeit mehr als 8,4 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland arbeitslos oder können von ihrem Einkommen nicht leben…“ Artikel von Gerrit Wustmann in der der NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung vom 22.08.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=11343


Aus: LabourNet, 27. August 2007

Kinderarmut: Kinderschutzbund fordert von Regierung Sofortmaßnahmen

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,502200,00.html



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Bizarrer Hartz-IV-Fragebogen

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,501955,00.html
http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/wp-print.php?p=2574

High risk credit

The Free Liberal
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

08/24/07

As markets went on a rollercoaster ride last week, our economy is coming close to a day of reckoning for loose credit policies being followed by the Federal Reserve Bank. Simply, foreign banks we have been relying on to buy our debt are waking up to the reality of much higher default rates than predicted, and many mortgage backed securities have been reduced to ‘junk’ ratings. Wall Street fears the possibility of tightening credit and the tightening of America’s belts. Why, they say, ‘if Americans spend only what they can afford, think of the ripple effects throughout the economy!’ This is the cry, as the call comes for the fed to cut rates and bail out companies in trouble. More inflation is, however, never the answer to inflation...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002936.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Storm warning: The unlearned lessons of Katrina

Mother Jones
by John McQuaid

08/26/07

Catastrophes are supposed to nudge history in new directions. After the 1927 Mississippi River flood engulfed vast areas of the south, the Corps overhauled the river’s basic flood-control architecture, building the foundation of the modern system we have now. Katrina’s devastating blow to New Orleans raised some history-making issues: Can the damaged city be sustained — that is, can it survive not just the next few hurricane seasons, but the next 100? And as global climate change causes sea levels to rise and possibly fuels larger hurricanes, will other cities inevitably go under too? … Instead of addressing those questions, though, the national debate has stressed the idiosyncrasies of New Orleans...

http://tinyurl.com/ypsq42


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Protest of APA torture stance

Common Dreams
by Stephen Soldz

08/26/07

For several years, psychologist members of the American Psychological Association (APA) have been fighting to change the APA’s policies allowing psychologists to participate in interrogations widely reported to be abusive. As the association’s 2007 Convention opened last week, the American Civil Liberties Union called upon the APA to stop psychologists’ participating in abusive interrogations …. An even more dramatic development in the struggle occurred this week when psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Mary Pipher (author of Reviving Ophelia among many other books) decided to return her Presidential Citation award from the American Psychological Association in protest.”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/26/3414/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Mining Rove’s Katrina legacy

In These Times
by Amanda Terkel

08/24/07

Karl Rove isn’t called a ‘mastermind’ for nothing. He announced his resignation at the perfect time — right before the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. The media talked about his role in the CIA leak investigation, the U.S. attorney scandal, GOP election victories (and failures), and the Iraq war — all important topics. But they largely ignored his management of the administration’s bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. We all remember ‘Brownie,’ the incomprehensibly incompetent FEMA director Michael Brown, who had no idea evacuees were using the New Orleans convention center as an evacuation shelter. But Rove was the man President Bush quietly put in charge of overseeing the administration’s response plan. Rove had no expertise in homeland security or disaster relief. His role was to make sure that the reconstruction efforts enhanced Bush’s political image. By almost all accounts, Rove failed...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3316/mining_roves_katrina_legacy/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Katrina: Slow As Molasses

by Digby

Katrina may have been Karl Rove's biggest triumph.
http://ga3.org/ct/R120pgF14RKg/



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Outsourcing intelligence

Boston Globe
by James Carroll

08/27/07

The ways in which the Bush war has degraded the structures and culture of Iraq are obvious. Less so are its insidious effects on the United States, but President Bush is similarly destroying something essential to our own democracy. A signal of that was sounded last week when The Washington Post reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency is transferring ‘core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection’ to private contractors — up to a billion dollars worth. This raises the prospect that hired guns, instead of sworn officials, will be conducting covert operations, spying missions, interrogations, ‘renditions,’ surveillance — the whole dangerous complex of shadow activity that began as the government’s most sensitive responsibility...

http://tinyurl.com/2xgyq9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bush in Wonderland

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

08/27/07

The president ‘returned’ to his vacation on Thursday, while his spokesman claimed that a National Intelligence Estimate everyone else was reading as saying the administration’s Iraq policy was doomed in fact proved that the White House strategy was ‘headed in the right direction.’ That’s what White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe had to say, as the president resumed his vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. It must be nice to live in Wonderland, where we’re winning the war and vacation is the order of the day. Remember ’stay the course?’ Most people think it’s the punch line of a bad joke. This administration seems to believe it, still...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294648,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ready to rumble

The American Prospect
by Ronald Brownstein

08/25/07

Not since Watergate has the electoral landscape appeared as favorable for Democrats as it does today. All polls show gale-force discontent with the country’s direction under President Bush (he recently received the second highest disapproval rating Gallup has ever recorded in seven decades of measuring attitudes about presidential performance). From the 2008 presidential candidates to the party campaign committees, Democrats are consistently outraising Republicans...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=ready_to_rumble_2007


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US authorized Pakistan incursions

Salt Lake Tribune

08/23/07

Newly uncovered ‘rules of engagement’ show the U.S. military gave elite units broad authority more than three years ago to pursue suspected terrorists into Pakistan, with no mention of telling the Pakistanis in advance. The documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a detailed glimpse at what Army Rangers and other terrorist-hunting units were authorized to do earlier in the war on terror...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Police tear-gas farmers in clash over French GM crops

Independent [UK]

08/27/07

Growing tensions in France between opponents and supporters of genetically modified crops have led to violent confrontations. Gendarmes used tear gas and batons to prevent pro-GM farmers from invading a picnic for militant opponents of genetically modified maize at the town of Verdun-sur-Garonne in south-west France over the weekend. Hardly a day has gone by this summer without opponents of GM maize - both environmental campaigners and small farmers - invading fields and trampling or cutting down crops. The protesters, led by the small- farmers’ leader, José Bové, claim a citizens’ right to destroy crops which, they say, threaten ecological calamity and the subjection of farmers to the whims of agro-industrial, multinational companies...

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2898431.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Warner may back Dems’ bill on withdrawal

Naples Daily News

08/26/07

GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon. ‘I’m going to have to evaluate it,’ Warner said. ‘I don’t say that as a threat, but I say that is an option we all have to consider’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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UN nuke chief blasts US arms sale to Mideast

MSNBC

08/26/07

The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog criticized U.S. moves to assist in the supply of weapons to its allies in the Middle East, saying the money would be better spent on regional development projects. In an interview with the Austrian newsweekly Profil, to be published Monday, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said a U.S. strategy to support a weapons buildup in countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was not helpful for improving security in the Middle East...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20443987/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Iran threatens use of ’smart’ bomb

USA Today

08/26/07

Iran vowed Sunday to use a new 2,000-pound ’smart’ bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of the new weapon, state television reported. Tehran first announced development of the long-range guided bomb Thursday, saying it could be deployed by the country’s aging U.S.-made F-4 and F-5 fighter jets...

http://tinyurl.com/ywn5wp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

North American Union Threat

by Geoff Metcalf

The NAU ‘plan to create’ a regional government collective comprised of the United States, Canada and Mexico is inherently anti-American. The threat is not right wing sophistry but stated clearly and directly in a May 2005 task force report published by the Council on Foreign Relations…and apparently being implemented without debate or approval of we the people........

http://www.newswithviews.com/metcalf/metcalf227.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Council+on+Foreign+Relations
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/metcalf

Residents vow to fight mast plans for water tower

By Lynn Jackson

WORRIED Poole residents have pledged to fight plans for a mobile phone mast installation on an unique Victorian water tower.

Operator T-Mobile wants to put up three antennae and other base station equipment on top of the Grade II-listed water tower in Broadstone.

But campaigners say the plans will spoil the character of the historic building and also fear possible health risks to local residents and children at a nearby school.

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