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„In enger Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedensten zivilgesellschaftlichen Gruppen, mit Attac und der Friedensbewegung, mit großen DGB-Gewerkschaften und den regionalen Gewerkschaftsorganisa­tionen hat die Initiative Sozialforum alle organisatorischen Voraussetzungen für ein erfolgreiches Forum geschaffen. Auch mit der Stadtverwaltung von Cottbus gibt es eine enge Kooperation. Die zentral gelegenen Veranstaltungsorte – Stadthalle, Universität, Oberstufenzentrum – bieten die Gewähr, dass die Bevölkerung der Stadt und der Umgebung an den zahlreichen Veranstaltungen teilnehmen kann. Die geografische Nähe zu Polen und Tschechien schafft die Voraussetzungen für eine umfängliche Teilnahme aus diesen Nachbarländern. Auch die Gestaltung des Programms ist weit gediehen. Es ist jetzt Zeit, die selbstorganisierten Seminare und Workshops anzumelden, um eine reibungslose und rechtzeitige Organisation des Gesamtprogramms zu gewährleisten. Wir bitten alle Interessierten Gruppen und Initiativen, ihre Veranstaltungswünsche so bald wie möglich über http://www.sozialforum2007.de und dort über den Punkt „Anmelden“ zu registrieren…“ Aus der Pressemitteilung der Initiative vom 3.9.07


Aus: LabourNet, 13. September 2007



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„Vielleicht erinnert ihr Euch an den Wirtschaftscrash 2001/02 in Argentinen, wo die Banken nach einem Ansturm ohne Geld blieben und über Nacht ein Dekret erlassen wurde, dass die Leute kein Geld mehr aus ihrem Giro-Konto abheben konnten (bis auf einen wöchentlichen Trinkgeldbetrag pro Person)? In Verzweiflung einigte sich die Bevölkerung und ging mit leeren Töpfen, Pfannen, Löffeln, Deckeln und weiterem Lärm verursachenden Geschirr auf die Strasse: Mama, Papa, Kinder, Oma, Opa, und selbst zahme Hunde mit Chappi-Dosen um den Hals. Es wurde gerasselt, gescheppert, geklopft. Es symbolisierte: "Unsere Töpfe sind leer", "Wir haben nichts zu essen", "Jetzt werdet doch endlich wach!". Sie zogen durch die Straßen der Vororte, stellten sich auf Marktplätze, in allen Städten, und wer nicht mitgehen wollte, klapperte aus dem Fenster seiner Wohnung. Das hat richtig Spass gemacht. Der Kasserollenumzug, der 1971 in Chile während einer riesigen Versorgungskrise, die die Regierung Allende durch Preissenkung und Lohnerhöhung verursachte, entstand, ist die Protestmethode von armen Ländern. In Argentinien brachte er 2 Präsidenten zum Sturz. Wie peinlich dürfte es unseren deutschen Politikern sein, wenn eine 3.-Welt-Methode gegen Hunger hier in Deutschland angewandt wird! Ich glaube, die Montagsdemos hätten damit endlich Erfolg!“ So die Zuschrift einer LabourNet-Leserin. Siehe dazu auch:

Der Kasserollenumzug (el cacerolazo) – die wirksamste Demo-Waffe in der Argentinien-Krise 2001/02, die zwei Präsidenten stürzte

Darstellung der Protestform auf der Homepage der bundesweiten Montagsdemo http://www.bundesweite-montagsdemo.com/1f023d968a12beb0d/53492597e1013410c/53492599980a93d09.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. September 2007



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“Am 8. September haben Hartz-IV-Betroffene und Vertreter von Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen darüber beraten, wie sie sich gegen die zunehmenden Probleme mit Arbeitsagenturen künftig besser zur Wehr setzen können. Die Situation Erwerbsloser habe sich – so die Teilnehmer – inzwischen dramatisch verschlechtert. Und damit wächst auch der Zorn…“ Artikel von Hans-Dieter Hey in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer vom 12.09.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=11450

Aus dem Text: „…Berichtet wird über teilweise hahnebüchende Vorgänge. Und dies klingt im Originalton dann so: "Sie müssen Ihren Widerspruch zurücknehmen, dann erhalten Sie wieder Geld". Aus nichtigen Anlässen wird das Arbeitslosengeld II um 30 Prozent gekürzt. Anfang Februar protestierten 100 Hartz-IV-Empfänger in der Arbeitsagentur Herne so lange ziemlich heftig, bis ihnen endlich das Geld ausgezahlt wurde. In einem weiteren Fall musste ein Erwerbsloser die Polizei rufen, damit er endlich das zustehende Arbeitslosengeld bekam. Am 5. September nahm eine 49jährige Frau mit einer Waffe zwei ARGE-Mitarbeiterinnen zur Durchsetzung ihrer Forderungen als Geisel, weil sie sich nicht anders zu wehren wusste. Inzwischen wurde auch der eine oder andere Schreibtisch in einer ARGE umgekippt…“

Siehe dazu auch „Zahltag: Schluss mit den ARGE(n)-Schikanen! Überregionales Aktionskamp 1. und 2. Oktober ARGE Köln“ unter „Sozialpolitische Aktionen und Proteste 2007“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/2007/2007.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. September 2007

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Der erste Zahltag am Montag, 1. Oktober 2007

Besetzung der Kölner Arge (Arbeitsagentur). Erwerbslose setzen Zahltag in Kölner ARGE durch.

„Das Motto lautete „Zahltag – Schluss mit den ARGE(n) Schikanen. Deshalb versammelten sich heute (01.Oktober) rund 160 Erwerbslose und Hartz IV-Gegner/Innen an der Kölner ARGE und besetzten das Foyer der Arbeitsagentur Köln trotz eines massiven Polizeiaufgebots. Dazu hatte das Bündnis „Agentur-Schluss“ aufgerufen, um die Auszahlung verweigerter Leistungen zu erzwingen. Trotz anfänglicher Übergriffe der Polizei mit anschließenden Festnahmen konnte der selbst organisierte Begleitschutz in allen Fällen die Auszahlung erzwingen…“ Bericht von Agentur-Schluss vom 02.10.2007 http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/195789.shtml

Aus dem Text: „… Zu Beginn verhinderte die Polizei die Vorsprache von Hartz IV-Empfänger, die für diesen Tag keinen Termin hatten, indem sie nicht zu den Sachbearbeiter/Innen vorgelassen wurden. Zudem wurde bekannt, dass offenbar einige Betroffene kurzfristig eine Terminabsage für den 1. und 2. Oktober bekamen. „Agentur-Schluss“ sah dies im Rahmen des angekündigten Aktions-Camp. Erst durch den massiven Druck der Besetzer, bei der es auch zu Übergriffen und Verhaftungen durch die Polizei kam, beugte sich Polizei und ARGE-Leitung der wütenden Menge. (…) Die Besetzer verließen gegen Dienstschluss (18:00) das Foyer der Kölner ARGE. Dennoch wird vor ARGE auch heute, bei Musik und Stimmung campiert, während das Gebäude heute Nacht durch mehrere Züge der Kölner Bereitschaftspolizei besetzt bleibt, die sich darin verbarrikadiert haben. Insgesamt wurde der erste Tag durch das Bündnis „Agentur-Schluss“ als Erfolg bewertet. Für Dienstag sind ebenfalls zahlreiche Aktionen, Beratungen und Überraschungen geplant. Man wünscht sich, dass diese Aktion auch auf andere Städte und ARGEN überschwappt.“

Zudem wurde ein ARGE-Mitarbeiter mit dem goldenen „A“ für besonders schikanösen Eifer gegen Hartz IV-Empfänger ausgezeichnet – siehe dazu:

Die Auszeichnung (pdf) http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/arge_koeln.pdf

Die Laudatio zum goldenen „A“ (pdf) http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/a_laudatio_kln_1_okt.pdf

Bilder vom ersten Tag der Proteste am Kölner Arbeitsamt bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/195823.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Oktober 2007

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Zahltag! Widerstand gegen ARGE-Schikanen in Köln.

„Die Stimmung war wie erwartet – aufgeheizt. Wie immer zu Monatsanfang laufen hunderte von zornigen „KundInnen“ der ARGE auch am 1. Oktober auf den Fluren ihrem Arbeitslosengeld II hinterher. Dem Geld, das ihnen zum Monatsende gar nicht oder nur zum Teil überwiesen wurde. Die Kürzungen und Streichungen, die wiederholt falschen Leistungsbescheide und das Ignorieren von Anträgen und Widersprüchen haben System. Dies sind keine Kinderkrankheiten einer komplexen Systemumstellung unter Hartz IV, das ist ausgereifte, komplexe Schikane eines kranken Systems, das versucht, Leute aus dem Bezug von menschenunwürdig niedriger Sozialleistungen herauszugängeln. - Beileibe keine neue Erkenntnis sondern alltäglich erlebte Praxis für die Erwerbslosen, die hier heute Morgen Schlange stehen. Sie haben schon lange die Schnauze voll. Und doch ist es heute anders als sonst…“ Agenturschluss-Bericht vom 4.10.07 mit einigen Bildern der Aktion von der Arbeiterfotografie – wir danken unserem Kooperationspartner! http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/agenturzahltag2.html

Siehe auch:

Erfolgreicher Widerstand von „Agenturschluss". Zahltag für die ARGE Köln

Bericht und Video von Hans-Dieter Hey bei Neue Rheinische Zeitung http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=11551

Bilder vom AktionsCamp im Erwerbslosenforum http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/21_022007021002_217_1.htm

Das erste Video vom AktionsCamp in Köln im Erwerbslosenforum http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/nachrichten/31_032007031003_218_1.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 4. Oktober 2007



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„Mehr als hundert Expertinnen und Experten aus Wissenschaft und Forschung, aus Gewerkschaften und aus den Sozialen Bewegungen trafen sich mit Erwerbslosen am 8. September in der Fachhochschule Dortmund zu einem eintägigen Kongress. Thema war der von Politik, Kommunen und Wirtschaft gleichermaßen applaudierte Weg von den Ein-Euro-Jobs hin zum sogenannten „Dritten Arbeitsmarkt". Wer das System der „Ein-Euro-Jobs" begriffen und seine arbeitsmarktpolitische Wirkungslosigkeit und seine sozialpolitische Lüge hinter aller offiziellen Demagogie und Heuchelei erfasst hat, applaudiert indessen nicht mehr – meinen die Veranstalter…“ Artikel von Hans-Dieter Hey in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer vom
12.09.2007 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=11459

Die Materialien des Kongresses sollen in absehbarer Zeit veröffentlicht werden. Die Studie kann als Heft 1 der Reihe "Workfare-Dienstpflicht-Hausarbeit" unter dritter.arbeitsmarkt @gmx.de bestellt werden.


Aus: LabourNet, 13. September 2007

„Das Hauptproblem von Hartz IV sind nicht die Preise, sondern die chronische Mangelversorgung in allen Bereichen, vor allem bei Ernährung und Teilnahme am Leben in der Gesellschaft…“ Flugblatt von Rainer Roth für BAG-SHI, Tacheles, Rhein-Main-Bündnis gegen Sozialabbau und Billiglöhne (RMB) u.a. (pdf) http://www.alg-2.info/info/normal/regelleistung.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. September 2007

The Karnataka government has proposed a ban on the use of cell phones in schools. This follows a clarification last week by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology that reports on the same were “factually incorrect” and there were no such considerations.

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http://indiainteracts.com/members/2007/09/13/Karnataka-bans-mobile-phones-for-children/



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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20712196/site/newsweek/page/0/


Informant: Kev Hall



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Intellectual Conservative
by George Ajjan

09/12/07

The foreign policy of a Rudy Giuliani presidency would further jeopardize American sovereignty in an unrealistic attempt to project American values on the rest of the world’s nations...

http://tinyurl.com/2ugy3a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Prospect
by Ezra Klein

09/12/07

It’s right there in the name: ‘The Petraeus Report.’ Not ‘The Petraeus Report on Iraq’ or the ‘Military Assessment of the Surge,’ but ‘The Petraeus Report.’ The testimonies, the white papers, the MoveOn ads, and the presidential affirmations — none of them are about Iraq. They are about David Petraeus. This is the White House’s political strategy: Make the continuation of the war a referendum on David Petraeus, and it will continue, because he’s really dreamy. Make it a referendum on the state of the country (blown up), and the status of the political reconciliation (unreconciled), and the war will inch closer to its end...

http://tinyurl.com/2tmlc8



Team Bush’s false optimism

Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway

09/11/07

Nations find it infinitely more difficult to get out of wars and military occupations than to get into them. The British stayed in Palestine trying to bring political reconciliation for years after it was clear that nobody wanted to reconcile. The French clung on to Algeria long after it became hopeless. It took the Americans five years to clear their troops out of Vietnam after they had decided to throw in the towel. Today, President Bush clings to David Petraeus as if the general were the administration’s rabbit foot. ‘Buying time for Iraqis to reconcile,’ was the way Petraeus originally described his mission, and according to that measure there has been no progress at all...

http://tinyurl.com/2qauz8



More false optimism on Iraq

Human Events
by Steve Chapman

09/13/07

Petraeus is, by all accounts, an experienced, capable and intelligent commander. So when he says that ‘the security situation in Iraq is improving,’ the natural impulse is to trust his battle-seasoned judgment. The Bush administration encourages this notion by suggesting that the opinions of military commanders are the only sound guide to policy. But if high-ranking military officers are a good barometer of the future, I have a question: Where are the generals who told Americans when things were about to get worse in Iraq, as they have over and over? Which of them warned that insurgent attacks would steadily proliferate in 2005, after elections that were supposed to quell violence? What guy with stars on his shoulders forecast that Iraqi civilian deaths would double over the course of 2006?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22381



“The war as we saw it”

Salon
by Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray and Jeremy A. Murphy

(09/12/07)

Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. (Obviously, these are our personal views and should not be seen as official within our chain of command.)...

http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2007/09/12/times_soldiers/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterinsurgency
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CounterPunch
by William Blum

09/12/07

Only those fighting the war can end it. By laying down their arms and refusing to kill anymore, including themselves. Some American soldiers in Iraq have already refused to go on very dangerous combat missions. Iraq Veterans Against the War, last month at their annual meeting, in St. Louis, voted to launch a campaign encouraging American troops to refuse to fight. ‘Iraq Veterans Against the War decided to make support of war resisters a major part of what we do,’ said Garrett Rappenhagen, a former U.S. Army sniper who served in Iraq from February 2004 to February 2005. The veterans’ group has begun organizing among active duty soldiers on military bases. Veterans have toured the country in busses holding barbeques outside the base gates. They also plan to step up efforts to undermine military recruiting efforts...

http://www.counterpunch.org/blum09122007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Jim Lobe

09/13/07

After two days of Congressional testimony by Washington’s top two officials in Iraq, prospects for a substantial withdrawal of US military forces there before the end of President George W. Bush’s tenure at the White House look as remote as ever. Bush himself is expected to take to the airwaves Thursday evening to endorse the recommendations made here this week by Gen. David Petraeus, Washington’s commander in Iraq, to reduce US troop levels by some 30,000 — or only about 20 percent — by August next year. That would leave at least 135,000 US soldiers and marines in place — roughly the same number of troops deployed to Iraq before Bush’s ’surge’ strategy was initiated last February — thus passing along to his successor, who will take office in January 2009, the problem of extricating the US from its bloodiest and most costly overseas adventure since the Vietnam War...

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=11608


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Reason
by Jacob Sullum

09/12/07

One problem with ‘you break it, you own it’ is the ambiguity of the pronoun. As Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) noted in his exchange with Huckabee during the debate, ‘you’ did not invade Iraq; neither did ‘we.’ The president and his men made that disastrous decision, based on a ridiculously broad understanding of self-defense and willful blindness to the inevitability of unintended consequences. Huckabee, who seems to agree the invasion was a mistake, urges us to save ‘the honor of this country’ by trusting the same people who made this mess to clean it up. ‘We can’t leave until we’ve left with honor,’ he insists. And what if that’s not possible? What if all that Bush has left us to choose from is different degrees of dishonor?

http://www.reason.com/news/show/122422.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Writing for The Christian Science Monitor, Christopher D. Ringwald says: "As religious leaders and their congregations go green, they've neglected one Judeo-Christian teaching that could cut energy consumption and pollution by 14.2857 percent."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091207EC.shtml

The Associated Press reports: "Senate Democrats will block Ted Olson from succeeding Alberto Gonzales as attorney general if President Bush nominates him, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207V.shtml



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Reuters says, "The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved an $850 billion increase in US borrowing authority to $9.815 trillion in order to avoid a default as the government nears its credit limit of $8.965 trillion."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207T.shtml

Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press reports: "Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday rejected the call by the top US general in Iraq for a reduction of up to 30,000 US troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it does not go far enough."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207R.shtml



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Thousands of homeowners face an "imminent risk" of losing their homes because of clashes between American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. and its former financial backers, according to Freddie Mac, a government-chartered housing financier.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118955540976824460.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


From Information Clearing House



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The treatment of Jose Padilla, an American citizen, following his initial arrest in June, 2002, was totally alien to the American legal system. It was more in tune with Nazi and Soviet practice - with the treatment of Winston Smith in George Orwell's 1984, and of Rubashov in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon.

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays7p/padilla.htm


From Information Clearing House



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The suit has been brought by Tarek Dergoul, 29, who claims he was repeatedly tortured while he was held by the US, and that British agents who had also questioned him were aware of the mistreatment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2167204,00.html



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Faced with U.S. economic sanctions and a weak dollar, Tehran is demanding foreign energy companies do business in yen and euros, despite increasingly desperate need for investment.

http://snipurl.com/1qmsa


From Information Clearing House



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"Is it time to give you authority, in pursuit of your mission in Iraq, to pursue those Iranian Quds Force operations in Iranian territory, in order to protect American troops in Iraq," Lieberman asked at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

http://snipurl.com/1qms3



AIPAC lobbies for Iran sanctions

About 100 top AIPAC activists lobbied Congress to pass Iran sanctions bills.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104119.html


From Information Clearing House



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A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296450,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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It may have been the military that invaded but, with Iraq completely dismantled, the reconstruction was to be the preserve of US corporations ... Thus was born 'disaster capitalism', where oil companies profit from a broken country and private security firms grow rich on political chaos.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/story/0,,2167229,00.html


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By Peter Tatchell

Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18369.htm



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By Nouriel Roubin

The utterly ugly employment figures for August (a fall in jobs for the first time in four years, downward revisions to previous months' data, a fall in the labor participation rate, and an even weaker employment picture based on the household survey compared to the establishments survey) confirm what few of us have been predicting since the beginning of 2007: the U.S. is headed towards a hard landing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18368.htm



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Reminder: Worldwide Japan Dolphin Day Demonstrations on Sept. 25th
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/marine/feature_070912.html



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Agence France-Presse reports, "The best way of tackling greenhouse gas emissions is for countries to pass laws that enforce the use of existing energy-efficient technology, a UN climate change expert said Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207P.shtml

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207H.shtml



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Steven Rosenfeld writes for Alternet, "The Department of Justice's Voting Section is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207D.shtml



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Peter Baker reports for The Washington Post: "The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks US forces need to stay in Iraq.... Every investigation has shown that Iraq did not, in fact, have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. But the ad, part of a new $15 million media blitz launched by an advocacy group allied with the White House, may be the most overt attempt during the current debate in Congress over the war to link the attacks with Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207B.shtml



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Rev. Yearwood Released, Charged With Assault - Part of Increasing Capitol Hill Crackdown On Voices of Dissent.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0912-03.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3780/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3803



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3801/



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Demnächst will Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble seine "Leitlinien für die Innere Sicherheit" als innenpolitisches Weißbuch der Öffentlichkeit präsentieren, erneut die Forderung zu erheben, die Bundeswehr im Innern einzusetzen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26136/1.html



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Während die Finanzmärkte im August US-Staatsanleihen als sicheren Hafen genutzt haben, warfen ausländische Notenbanken Treasuries im Wert von
46,1 Milliarden US-Dollar auf den Markt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26179/1.html

Jonathan E. Kaplan reports for The Hill, "Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is encouraging anti-war activists to find challengers to centrist Democrats, with the aim of moving the party to the left and ramping up opposition to the war in Iraq, to the chagrin of top Democratic aides."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207O.shtml



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

Warren P. Strobel reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "Much to the frustration of the senators - mostly Democrats, but including a few Republicans - who grilled them Tuesday, neither the general nor the diplomat outlined a strategy for putting Iraq back together or a timetable for bringing US troops home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207N.shtml



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Gary Hart writes for Huffington Post: "This administration stands indicted for incompetence and mendacity. That it still commands the loyalty of even a quarter of our fellow citizens is testament to the persistence of willful ignorance. Against all the facts assembled in this indictment, that the administration's operatives can still make claims on strength, security, and determination is chutzpah on stilts. That the media still treat these operatives and spokespersons, and indeed the president himself, seriously is witness to their desire for 'access' and 'sources' rather than their commitment to the truth."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207M.shtml



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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6990958.stm



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Kim Sengupta reports for The Independent UK: "British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a 'proxy war.' In signs of a fast-developing confrontation, the Iranians have threatened military action in response to attacks launched from Iraqi territory while the Pentagon has announced the building of a US base and fortified checkpoints at the frontier.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091207K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=proxy+war
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PETER WALSH

12 September 2007 09:28

Families, clubbers, and pub goers face a fight if they want to stop mobile phone antennae being added to an office block in the heart of the city's clubland.

Telecommunications giant Vodafone has applied to Norwich City Council for permission to install six antennae and four dishes to the Grosvenor House on Prince of Wales Road.

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HLV INFO 87/AT

12-09-2007

RA Frank Sommer 11-09-07

Auf die Räumungsklage einer Grundstückseigentümerin hin hat sich ein Mobilfunkbetreiber im Wege des gerichtlichen Vergleichs verpflichtet, eine von ihm betriebene Mobilfunkanlage auf einem Schreinereigebäude in Uffing am Staffelsee bis spätestens 31.12.2008 und damit weit vor Ende der ursprünglich vorgesehenen Vertragslaufzeit abzubauen. Die Klägerin konnte den Vertrag wegen eines Schriftformmangels damit erfolgreich vorzeitig beenden.

(LG München I - Az. 23 O 5241/07)

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Nachricht von Pesché Jeannot



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Christian Science Monitor
by Andy Zelleke

09/11/07

Gen. David Petraeus’s report of some ’surge’-driven success on the ground does not change the reality that invading Iraq has proved disastrous, and that nothing plausibly salvageable there is worth thousands more GI lives, or hundreds of billions more dollars. So our soldiers should come home. But President Bush is right to remind the nation that humanitarian horrors followed closely on the heels of America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, and that a horrific scenario could unfold in Iraq if US forces leave abruptly. Unconscionable as it may have been to stand by during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, consider how much greater the moral culpability when the slaughter would flow from a sequence of events that America’s own war of choice set in motion...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0911/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent Institute
by Charles Pena

09/10/07

Trying to understand how Sept. 11 might have been averted requires more than a post-mortem on CIA procedures and a second look at the government’s nonexistent strategy for dealing with al- Qaida. Ultimately, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are inextricably linked to U.S. foreign policy. The Sept. 11 Commission concluded that the rising tide of anti-American Muslim hatred is fueled more by what we do — that is, by U.S. policies — than by who we are. Our values, culture and way of life are not the problem; our actions are the problem. Yet while the Sept. 11 Commission understood that point, it did not prescribe any real change in America’s post-Cold War foreign policy. If we are unable to admit that some of our policy choices are wrong, how can we hope to correct them?

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2025


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Pena

Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

09/10/07

As court challenges go, this is relatively fast work–only half a decade, give or take, for the courts to find (for the second time) that the Patriot Act’s national security letters are an outrageous invasion of our rights. That really is about as fast as the judicial system is capable of moving — which is not a particularly encouraging thought as we tally up the tens of thousands of national security letters the FBI issued every year after the passage of the Patriot Act. If you’re looking for quick solutions to civil liberties violations, lawsuits are probably not the way to go. Even now, the federal government is expected to appeal Marrero’s decision and further drag out the process...

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/09/justice-bit-delayed.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JD+Tuccille

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

09/11/07

Public finance and economics textbooks tell us that markets fail to provide adequate public goods such as security, which is why governments provide it. Yet if we look at Iraq in 2007, its government has failed to secure the country, and even the mighty US army has not stopped the slaughter. Instead of being protected by the corrupt state police, Iraqis look to militias for defense against crime and terror. There is in Iraq massive government failure. American politicians blame the current government chiefs and the members of parliament for not reconciling their differences and for the lack of progress in providing security and utilities. But we have to look beneath the current personae to the structure of governance that the American presence created. If the current structure is the best that political science has come up with, then the field of political science has to admit to intellectual failure...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002971.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+E.+Foldvary

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

09/11/07

Assessing our vulnerability to terrorist attack remains difficult in part because the events surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001, have not been thoroughly explained. In its investigation into them, the 9/11 Commission slid past many important questions, leaving them unanswered, and did not adequately challenge the Bush administration when it refused to cooperate or obfuscated its own actions. This has naturally spurred the various conspiracy theories that have set out to unravel what happened. Some address legitimate issues, such as the as-yet-unexplained fact that American intelligence had been tracking lead hijacker Mohammad Atta since the late 1990s but did nothing to stop him. But most theories run the gamut from the preposterous (the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were drones) to the improbable (the WTC buildings collapsed due to a demolition charge). The prevailing theory is summed up by a bumper sticker: ‘9/11 Was an Inside Job’...

http://tinyurl.com/24edhc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Ridgeway

Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

09/11/07

In November 2006, Republicans were voted out of power in the Congress and Democrats installed to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq. The war had been going on as long as America’s war on Nazi Germany. No end was in sight. U.S. casualties and costs were rising. Bush’s approval rating had sunk to record lows. The day after the GOP rout, Bush cashiered his war minister, Donald Rumsfeld. In December, the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush I Secretary of State James Baker, released its report. … Next April is the date when the Iraq Study Group said all U.S. combat brigades should be out of Iraq. By then, Bush and Petraeus will have tens of thousands more troops in Iraq than when the Democrats were elected and the ISG reported. The lame duck is not all that lame. What happened to the party of Speaker Pelosi and Reid, which was going to end U.S. involvement in the war and not permit Bush to pursue victory the way Richard Nixon pursued it in Vietnam for four years? Answer: Terrified of the possible consequences of the policies they recommend, Democrats lack the courage to impose those policies...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22325


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Strike the Root
by Glenn Allport

09/11/07

Six years ago, on September 11, 2001, America’s staggeringly expensive defense system failed catastrophically. Four airliners were hijacked and then used as weapons; three were flown into buildings and the fourth crashed on the way to an unknown target …. This disaster should have been prevented, but was not. The people and organizations charged with detecting and thwarting such an attack failed. Warnings were in fact given, but as is typical of government action, even the sincere efforts of dedicated individuals were not enough to prevent the organization as a whole from failing, in this case with horrific consequences...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/allport/allport11.html

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The real lessons of 9/11

Salon
by Gary Kamiya

09/11/07

Six years ago, Islamist terrorists attacked the United States, killing almost 3,000 people. President Bush used the attacks to justify his 2003 invasion of Iraq. And he has been using 9/11 ever since to scare Americans into supporting his “war on terror.” He has incessantly linked the words ‘al-Qaida’ and ‘Iraq,’ a Pavlovian device to make us whimper with fear at the mere idea of withdrawing. In a recent speech about Iraq, he mentioned al-Qaida 95 times. No matter that jihadists in Iraq are not the same group that attacked the U.S., or that their numbers and effectiveness have been greatly exaggerated. It’s no surprise that Gen. David Petraeus’ ‘anxiously awaited’ evaluation of the war is to be given on the 10th and 11th of September. The not-so-subliminal message: We must do what Bush and Petraeus say or risk another 9/11. Petraeus’ evaluation can only be ‘anxiously awaited’ by people who are still anxiously waiting for Godot. We know what will happen next because we’ve been watching this movie for eight months...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/09/11/911_lessons/



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+Kamiya

Liberty For All
by Jessi Winchester

09/11/07

If anyone ever doubted the secrecy in which the George W. Bush presidency operates, the opening of the NAFTA super-highway on August 30, 2007 should attest to just how much the American people are prevented from learning. Barely a whisper was heard regarding this monumental event. Mainstream media has done a good job of not reporting subject matter the Bush administration wants kept secret. What is this highway and why does Bush want it kept secret?

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=925


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/12/07

Petraeus continually points the finger at Tehran as an explanation for the lack of ‘progress’ in Iraq. … The ‘ethno-sectarian competition,’ Petraeus avers, is being pushed toward violence, in part because of ‘malign actions by Syria and, especially, by Iran.’ What actions? No answer is given: not that anyone is asking, at least not in the Congress or among the presidential candidates of either party. Prior accusations that IEDs found in Iraq were manufactured in Iran have proved sketchy, at best, and pure invention, at worst. Yet Petraeus’ words are simply taken as gospel, much as Colin Powell’s peroration of Scooter Libby-produced lies performed in front of the UN was hailed as a home run. Years from now, will we look back on the Petraeus-Crocker dog-and-pony show with the same bitter regret that nobody — or almost nobody — doubted them? You can bet the ranch on it...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11599


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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LewRockwell.Com
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

09/12/07

Estimates of the cost of the Iraq war continue to escalate to levels well beyond what its optimistic architects once promised. Most notable, perhaps, has been the estimate of Columbia University’s Joseph Stiglitz, who, in a January 2006 paper with Harvard’s Linda Bilmes, put the full cost at around $2 trillion. By the end of the year, the two had grown even more pessimistic. … Assessing the full costs of war, direct and indirect, as opposed to the immediate and obvious ones, is a crucial task for those who favor nonintervention. But at least as important is assessing the costs of the warfare state itself, whether or not it is currently engaged in actual fighting. The public is inclined to think of the costs of the military establishment in terms of the annual defense budget. The true costs, however, are much greater, although usually hidden...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods81.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Chillicothe Gazette

09/11/07

Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts obtained by The Associated Press. These rare detainee accounts of life inside the razor wire at the remote U.S. military base in Cuba emerged during Administrative Review Board hearings aimed at deciding whether prisoners suspected of links with the Taliban or al-Qaida should continue to be held or be sent away from Guantanamo...

http://tinyurl.com/37hrqe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

09/11/07

The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia’s state television reported Tuesday. It was the latest show of Russia’s military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States. Channel One television said the new weapon, nicknamed the ‘dad of all bombs,’ is four times more powerful than the U.S. ‘mother of all bombs’...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20730691/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

09/11/07

In an interview with GQ magazine, former secretary of State and one-time potential presidential candidate Colin Powell has this to say about terrorism and the threat it poses to the USA: ‘What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?’ Powell adds, in an interview with Walter Isaacson, that to improve its image in the world, the USA should focus on welcoming newcomers...

http://tinyurl.com/2ar4jw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Associated Press reports, "The lawyer whom the FBI wrongly accused in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings was in court Monday to urge a judge to strike down provisions of the USA Patriot Act that helped investigators conduct what he says were unconstitutional searches of his home and office."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USA+Patriot+Act
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Helen Fessenden reports for The Hill, "Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee aim to have a new foreign-intelligence surveillance bill ready by early October, or at least early enough that the Bush administration will not be able to use the pre-recess ticking clock as a pressuring tactic this time around."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107L.shtml



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...In addition, there will be high-frequency electromagnetic radiation pollution. Some sources of EMR around large commercial airports include radar, approach-control high-frequency EMR, transponders, high-frequency weather information emitters, and ground-based EMR emitters. Together, all this radiation reaches a dangerous level. People with money who know about the radiation don't live near large commercial airports.

America is at the top of the list in cancer problems for industrialized nations. It is our job as adults to protect the children from all forms of pollution as they have no legal way to fight for themselves.

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by Rick Perlstein

Folks for staying in Iraq so we don't precipitate some fresh disaster are making the same argument that the British made about keeping their colonies forever.

http://ga3.org/ct/0p20pgF1EXCe/



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The videos on Monosodium glutamate are very informative.

Dorothee


The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don't Know

Video

You probably already knew that MSG could damage your brain cells, but that is only the tip of the iceberg.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/28/dangers-of-msg.aspx

Jean-Luc Goudet, writing for Futura-Sciences, interviews French pollination specialist Bernard Vaissiere on the state of research on colony collapse disorder.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107G.shtml



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Eugene Robinson writes for The Washington Post: "The next six months in Iraq are crucial - and always will be. That noise you heard yesterday on Capitol Hill was the can being kicked further down the road leading to January 2009, when George W. Bush gets to hand off his Iraq fiasco to somebody else."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0911-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0911-03.htm

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9/11: How Bush Has Betrayed Us

by Rick Perlstein

Once a spur to the most profound solidarity America has known, our president has turned 9/11 into a sickening political prop.

http://ga3.org/ct/lp20pgF1EXCw/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rick+Perlstein

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3772/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3761/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3779/



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Aaron Glantz, Inter Press Service, says, "Brian Rand never had a chance to see a psychiatrist. Instead of giving him the help he needed, the Army deployed him to Iraq a second time."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091107HA.shtml



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On her web site, Barbara Ehrenreich says, "Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn them into full-fledged citizens of our economy, meaning, of course, debtors."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091107LB.shtml



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Allison Hoffman of The Associated Press reports that Rod Coronado, spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, "is going to trial in federal court on a single count of distributing information on explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction with the intent that his listeners commit illegal acts of violence, a charge that could land him in prison for up to 20 years under post-September 11 legislation."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091107EA.shtml



http://tinyurl.com/ysgpf9

The Associated Press's Hope Yen reports: "The Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly understated wait times for injured veterans seeking medical care and in many serious cases forced them to wait more than 30 days, counter to department policy, an internal investigation shows."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=injured+veterans
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes: "When Gen. David Petraeus testified to Congress, there was talk about ethno-sectarian violence levels. That's official language for Iraqis' civil war deaths."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091107S.shtml



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http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/09/08/a3.nat.for.0908.p1.php?section=nation_world


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The Hero Who Exposed The Nuclear Bombs Flight
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/721a6ab5a1a71240?hl=en

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9-11-2007- WHAT'S GOING ON?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_carol_wo_070911_9_11_2007__what_s_go.htm

Was That Nuclear-Armed B-52 Flight Destined for Iran?
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=23648


Informant: Bob Banner

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No flights available to New York City Sept. 13-15-EL AL Israel Airlines
http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/no_flights_available_to_new_yo.shtml

Return of Papa Bear?
http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/return_of_papa_bear.shtml


Informant: Millennium Twain

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US NUCLEAR DETONATION FOR SEPTEMBER 14TH?
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/afd4eeb7f18c353b?hl=en

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ACC orders commandwide standdown Friday
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/09/airforce_aircombatcommand_standdown_070807/


Informant: Eric

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Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?

By Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D.

There will be a need for continued public awareness of the true events behind the B-52 incident in order to expose the actual role of Mr. Cheney. Only in that way can Cheney be held accountable for his actions, and other government figures that supported his neo-conservative agenda be exposed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18374.htm



ACC orders commandwide standdown Friday

The entire command - about 100,000 active-duty airmen - is standing down training flights and many other operations as part of a command-wide safety day. Command boss Gen. Ronald Keys ordered the Sept. 14 safety standdown in the wake of the Aug. 30 nuclear incident at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.

http://snipurl.com/1qqds


From Information Clearing House

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Micro to Maxi - Nuke Damage Information - 6 AWOL 150 kt Nukes - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f07_1189363531

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html

(Get up close and personal with Hiroshima and Nagisaki - http://www.nukefix.org/weapon.html )

100 MT (99999 kt max input = 99.9 MT) (Mega Ton/MegaTonne = 1,000,000 tons/tonnes = 2 Billion Pounds of TNT) - (The largest nuke exploded to date was a 50 MT in 1961.

15 psi: 7.1 miles
5 psi: 13.04 miles
2 psi: 22.84 miles
1 psi: 33.65 miles
0.25 psi: 86.33 miles
0.1 psi: 176.84 miles


10 Mt

15 psi: 3.3 miles
5 psi: 6.05 miles
2 psi: 10.6 miles
1 psi: 15.62 miles
0.25 psi: 40.07 miles
0.1 psi: 82.08 miles


1 M

15 psi: 1.53 miles
5 psi: 2.81 miles
2 psi: 4.92 miles
1 psi: 7.25 miles
0.25 psi: 18.6 miles
0.1 psi: 38.1 miles


150 kt (kiloton = 1,000 tons) - 6 little lost nukes that have lost their way. How does one go about making a 'mistake' by transporting 6 150 kiloton nukes to the wrong destination. There is no situation in which 6 nuclear bombs going to the wrong destination is acceptable.

15 psi: 0.81 miles
5 psi: 1.49 miles
2 psi: 2.61 miles
1 psi: 3.85 miles
0.25 psi: 9.88 miles
0.1 psi: 20.24 miles


10 kt (20 kt nuke used on Nagisaki)

15 psi: 0.33 miles
5 psi: 0.61 miles
2 psi: 1.06 miles
1 psi: 1.56 miles
0.25 psi: 4.01 miles
0.1 psi: 8.21 miles


1.0 kt (last I heard information about nukes below 1 kt was classified)

15 psi: 0.15 miles
5 psi: 0.28 miles
2 psi: 0.49 miles
1 psi: 0.73 miles
0.25 psi: 1.86 miles
0.1 psi: 3.81 miles


0.3 kt

15 psi: 0.1 miles
5 psi: 0.19 miles
2 psi: 0.33 miles
1 psi: 0.49 miles
0.25 psi: 1.25 miles
0.1 psi: 2.55 miles

0.2 kt

15 psi: 0.09 miles
5 psi: 0.16 miles
2 psi: 0.29 miles
1 psi: 0.42 miles
0.25 psi: 1.09 miles
0.1 psi: 2.23 miles


0.1 kt

15 psi: 0.07 miles
5 psi: 0.13 miles
2 psi: 0.23 miles
1 psi: 0.34 miles
0.25 psi: 0.86 miles
0.1 psi: 1.77 miles


.01 kt - Sized estimated for the destruction of WTC towers by TCN&911WIJ

15 psi: 0.03 miles
5 psi: 0.06 miles
2 psi: 0.11 miles
1 psi: 0.16 miles
0.25 psi: 0.4 miles
0.1 psi: 0.82 miles


.001 kt

15 psi: 0.01 miles
5 psi: 0.02 miles
2 psi: 0.03 miles
1 psi: 0.05 miles
0.25 psi: 0.12 miles
0.1 psi: 0.26 miles


.0001kt

15 psi: 0.01 miles
5 psi: 0.01 miles
2 psi: 0.02 miles
1 psi: 0.03 miles
0.25 psi: 0.09 miles
0.1 psi: 0.18 miles

.0002 kt
15 psi: 0.01 miles
5 psi: 0.02 miles
2 psi: 0.03 miles
1 psi: 0.04 miles
0.25 psi: 0.11 miles
0.1 psi: 0.22 miles

.0003 kt
15 psi: 0.01 miles
5 psi: 0.02 miles
2 psi: 0.03 miles
1 psi: 0.05 miles
0.25 psi: 0.12 miles
0.1 psi: 0.26 miles

TCN&911WIJ - A 1 Year Investigative Anniversary - August 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdWard-MD/message/216

DrEd

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NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise
http://groups.google.com/group/archive_news/t/2ec3ba013d7ef70e

A nuclear "mistake" and possible "terrorist" attack
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/d70a8d0aace4cd04?hl=en

ADDITIONAL NEWS inferring "terrorism" or *war* imminent
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/50708f5e4a322965?hl=en

Feds Commandeer NORAD For Continuity Of Govt
http://freeworldsurvey.blogspot.com/2007/09/feds-commandeer-norad-for-continuity-of.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=B-52
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=derivatives
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NORTHCOM
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NORAD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kennebunkport
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hiroshima
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nagasaki

The dollar fell to a fresh 15-year low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as the greenback continued to suffer from the prospect of a cut in US interest rates.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1281bc8-604c-11dc-8ec0-0000779fd2ac.html


From Information Clearing House

Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

An 80-page study written by two British security analysts and released on August 28 makes a chilling estimation of the overwhelming force that the US would use in the event of any attack on Iran.

http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=166&a=3484

Full report: PDF file
http://www.rawstory.com/images/other/IranStudy082807a.pdf



Iran warns over 'US weak points' in Iraq, Afghanistan

The new head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the United States Tuesday that Tehran has identified its "weak points" in Iraq and Afghanistan and would launch a crushing response to any attack.

http://tinyurl.com/3avwpp


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=shock+and+awe

NEWSWEEK has learned that a separate internal report being prepared by a Pentagon working group will "differ substantially" from Petraeus's recommendations.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/newsweek-internal-pentagon-report.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker defended U.S. war strategy on Tuesday in the face of criticism from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11411172.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Dead Dogs, Dead Ponies: The Petraeus Show
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3760

Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3774

The Problem With a “War” Strategy
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3754/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ryan+Crocker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arianna+Huffington
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thom+Hartmann

Iran accused the US last week of supporting the terrorists against Tehran. Similarly the Turkish media blamed the Americans of being supporter of the PKK terrorism although the PKK is a terrorist organization according to the US laws.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48368


From Information Clearing House

In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, American military historian Gabriel Kolko argues that the situation in Iraq is worse than ever and that the artificial nation, created after World War I, is breaking up. The "surge," he says, is also failing.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504865,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Soup Kitchen U.S.A.

By Mike Whitney

The days of the dollar as the world's "reserve currency" may be drawing to a close. In August, foreign central banks and governments dumped a whopping 3.8% of their holdings of US debt. Rising unemployment and the ongoing housing slump have triggered fears of a recession sending wary foreign investors running for the exits. China, Japan and Taiwan have been leading the sell off which has caused the steepest decline since 1992.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18360.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

Video Report From Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18358.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sectarian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgents
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Qaeda

By Patrick McElwee and Robert Naiman

Just Foreign Policy

Unfortunately, the debate over whether the U.S. military should end its occupation of Iraq remains largely uninformed by accurate estimates of Iraqi deaths, at least here in the United States. Worse, there seems to be a lack of interest in how many Iraqis have been killed even as many who oppose withdrawal warn of the deaths that would ensue if the troops left.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18363.htm



Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 2007 More Deadly Than 2006

Comparing each month's death toll in 2007 to the death toll from that same month in 2006, the numbers show that surge has not made Iraq safer for the civilian population. By some measurements, Iraqis are in greater danger than a year ago.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004116.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+toll
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+McElwee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman

By Brian Bogart
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18364.htm



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

by Nancy Levant
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy106.htm



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

by NWV News

Political strategist Mike Baker believes the national ID cards will eventually lead to the micro chipped society, since the ID cards can be lost, forged or stolen. The National ID cards are being touted as a security measure against terrorism and organized crime. It will eventually become necessary to have the implant if one wishes to open a bank account, enter a federal building, buy an airline ticket or travel on Amtrack, just to name a few. Will Christians who refuse to take their RFID microchip be the new terrorist in this Brave New World?........

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive120.htm

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Microchip implants cause fast-growing, malignant tumors in lab animals

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070915.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=microchip
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=implant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Verichip
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Baker

By Paul Craig Roberts
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/9-11-six-years-later-by-paul-craig-roberts/


Informant: Bob Banner



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

Alan G Jamieson
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II12Ak02.html


Informant: John Stroebel



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

http://consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html


Informant: Gomez



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