Freitag, 14. September 2007

A Surge, and Then a Stab

Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times, "To understand what's really happening in Iraq, follow the oil money, which already knows that the surge has failed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407B.shtml



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Next-up News n°306

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n306.htm

Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118972683557627104.html

Under the Influence? Drug companies, medical journals, and money
http://www.slate.com/id/2173652/fr/flyout


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Virtually all U.S. doctors accept money, freebies from drug companies

http://www.newstarget.com/022028.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Bush Won't Admit Wrong

by Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers

Leaving aside all the happy talk, the fact is Bush's war policy has failed utterly.
http://ga3.org/ct/2120pgF18RKj/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+L.+Galloway

Ethiopia: Cruel Poisoning of Street Dogs

Take action! Ask Addis Ababa's mayor to stop this cruel campaign and use humane alternatives instead.

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/ethiopia_dogs/



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Japan: Protest the Mass Slaughter of Dolphins

Take action! Learn how you can get involved
https://community.hsus.org/ct/LdA90DS17RkD/



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Whale Victim of Illegal Killing

Take action! Contact the U.S. government and the U.S. Embassy in your country
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_makah/



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Bush Troop Announcement=Fake Withdrawal

Congressman Dennis Kucinich
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0914-03.htm



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Barbara Lee: Exit Plan for Bush Comes at the Expense of Our Troops

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0914-08.htm



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Iraq, Deep In Your Bones

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3849



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Facts Belie Petraeus' Case, Say Humanitarian Groups

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3829/



The President Asserted Progress on Security and Political Issues. Recent Reports Weren?t Often So Upbeat.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3835/



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Die EU will das Unmögliche

Durch milliardenschwere Subventionen sollen Überwachungsprogramme mit "sozial akzeptablen Lösungen hinsichtlich Bürgerrechten und Privatsphäre" entwickelt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26192/1.html



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Versinkende Staaten: Im Südpazifik kämpfen ganze Nationen ums Überleben in einer wärmeren Welt

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/95988

Keine Gefährdung durch Mobilfunk?

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keine+Gefährdung+durch+Mobilfunk
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UN General Assembly Backs Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Gerard Aziakou reports for Agence France-Presse, "The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a non-binding declaration upholding the human, land and resources rights of the world's 370 million indigenous people, brushing off opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407P.shtml

Senate Committee Seeks CIA Nominee's Withdrawal

Joby Warrick reports for The Washington Post, "Members of the Senate intelligence committee have requested the withdrawal of the Bush administration's choice for CIA general counsel, acknowledging that John Rizzo's nomination has stalled because of concerns about his views on the treatment of terrorism suspects."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407O.shtml



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The Democrats have more than enough votes to end the Iraq War if they choose to do so

Media Misrepresent Democrats' Options on Iraq War

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting reports: "Following a pattern set when Congress passed supplemental funding for the Iraq War last May, major media outlets continued to 'explain' the politics of the war in incomplete and misleading ways.... Congress does not have to pass legislation to bring an end to the war in Iraq - it simply has to block passage of any bill that would continue to fund the war. This requires not 67 or 60 Senate votes, or even 51, but just 41 ... the Democrats have more than enough votes to end the Iraq War - if they choose to do so."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407N.shtml



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Bush Speech Full of Contradictions

Glenn Kessler reports for The Washington Post, "In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407J.shtml

Petraeus out of step with US top brass

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

09/13/07

As the highly public face of President George W Bush’s policy in Iraq, especially the ’surge,’ General David Petraeus has done his boss proud in following the White House script. This spokesman’s role, however, has created a deep rift between him and the nation’s highest military leaders. Most notably, he is on a collision course with Admiral William Fallon, chief of Central Command...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II14Ak02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Petraeus and the “Central Front” myth

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

09/12/07

Gen. David Petraeus echoed many of George W. Bush’s dubious arguments for fighting an open-ended war in Iraq, including the emotional appeal that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as the ‘central front’ in its global jihad and wants to drive the Americans out in humiliation. But the intelligence data actually points to a near-opposite conclusion: that al-Qaeda sees Iraq as a diversion for the United States and wants to keep American forces bogged down there for the foreseeable future...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091207.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Petraeus: GOP man on horseback?

AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11611


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Civilian death toll in Iraq may top 1 million

Los Angeles Times

09/14/07

A car bomb blew up in the capital’s Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City on Thursday, killing at least four people, as a new survey suggested that the civilian death toll from the war could be more than 1 million. … ORB said it drew its conclusion from responses to the question about those living under one roof: ‘How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003?’ Based on Iraq’s estimated number of households — 4,050,597 — it said the 1.2 million figure was reasonable. There was no way to verify the number, because the government does not provide a full count of civilian deaths. Neither does the U.S. military. Both, however, say that independent organizations greatly exaggerate estimates of civilian casualties...

http://tinyurl.com/2uwcvj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Civilian Death Toll in Iraq May Top 1 Million
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3839/



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Neue Studien stärken Mobilfunk?

http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/

Phone mast plan blocked

13 September 2007

A MOBILE phone mast will not be erected close to two schools after the landlord of the proposed plot rejected the proposal.

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation's (LGCHF) board of management has refused permission for mobile phone company O2 to erect a 15.6m high telecommunications column with a floodlight attachment on land at the Sports Centre, Whitethorn Lane in Letchworth GC.

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War Against Iran

http://groups.google.com/group/archive_news/t/dfd886d4f55cd0f8



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Handy-Strahlung keine gesundheitliche Gefahr?

Handy-Strahlung keine Gefahr?

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Handystrahlung
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Protesters win church mast battle

GARETH EDWARDS
(gedwards @edinburghnews.com)

CAMPAIGNERS have scored a victory after a move to put a mobile phone mast on a church tower was thrown out by councillors.

City planners had recommended the mast - which was to be disguised as a flagpole - be given the go-ahead.

But the council's planning committee yesterday turned down the application, saying it would damage the character of the area.

Read More...
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1464972007



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Nigeria: Are Base Stations Dangerous to Health?

This Day (Lagos)

13 September 2007
Posted to the web 13 September 2007

Lagos

Of recent, fears have been expressed in Nigeria about the safety or otherwise of citing of telecoms base stations and telecoms masts in residential areas especially with reports of alleged development of cancer amongst some residents in the United Kingdom. Efem Nkanga, in this report finds out if the fears are real or imagined.

Read More...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709130445.html

US Suffers Decline in Prestige

Stephen Fidler reports for The Financial Times, "The US has suffered a significant loss of power and prestige around the world in the years since George W. Bush came to power, limiting its ability to influence international crises, an annual survey from a well regarded British security think-tank concluded on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307P.shtml

The "Feel Good" Approach to Climate Distortion

Joe Brewer, of the Rockridge Institute, writes: "An article published today in the science section of the New York Times clearly demonstrates the importance of frames and narratives when discussing important political issues. John Tierney's article 'Findings: 'Feel Good" vs. 'Do Good' on Climate' is currently among the most popular articles of the day. This widely read article is filled with distortions, redirections, and spin designed specifically to undermine public acceptance of one of the gravest threats we face as a global community."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307N.shtml

Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace

Jimmy Carter writes for The Daily Times: "By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the United States has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran, and other nations with the technical knowledge to create nuclear weapons. Currently proposed agreements with India compound this quagmire and further undermine the global pact for peace represented by the nuclear nonproliferation regime."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307K.shtml



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Kürzung des ALG II wegen "Pflichtverletzung": die Rechtswidrigkeit des § 31 SGB II

Nach der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ist der Staat aus Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG i.V.m. dem Sozialstaatsgebot des Art. 20 Abs. 1 GG verpflichtet, dem mittellosen Bürger die Mindestvoraussetzungen für ein menschenwürdiges Dasein erforderlichenfalls durch Sozialleistungen zu sichern (vgl. nur BVerfG, Beschluss vom 29. Mai 1990 – Az.: 1 BvL 20/86 u.a. = BVerfGE 82, 60, 85).

Lesen Sie die ganze Meldung: http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/0344e199a91158801.php

Fears over phone mast near school

13 September 2007

TEACHERS and governors have strongly objected to plans to build a 15-metre high phone mast just yards from their school.

People living and working in the area around the site were notified about the planning application in a letter from Uttlesford District Council (UDC) dated Monday, September 3.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/27jhpo



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Ron Paul for President?

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1661290,00.html


Informant: Gomez



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

Weakness Dooms Dems

by Art Levine, The Huffington Post

The party faces long-term disaster without the will to effectively oppose the war.
http://ga3.org/ct/yp20pgF1hRVO/



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Life On The No-Fly List

by Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing

Activists are not being beaten. But they are sometimes intimidatingly detained and released.

http://ga3.org/ct/y720pgF1hRV6/

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Government terrorism lists are a holiday turkey

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

11/25/09

As the holiday travel season rolls around again, the government’s terrorism watch list and no-fly list get ever more bizarre. Of course, for starters, the list has always been unconstitutional, because the government does not have probable cause to believe the vast majority of those on the list have committed a crime (otherwise they could arrest them outright instead of just banning them from flying on airplanes). The FBI’s terrorism watch list, from which the smaller no fly-list is derived, has 1,000,000 people listed, but according to officials, only a mere 400,000 of them are real people — the rest are aliases. Whew, I was getting worried there for an instant. Wait a minute, 400,000 is still a whopping number. An amazing 1,600 people are added to the terrorism list per day, merely on the much lower standard that they present ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being terrorists...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2668


From Information Clearing House



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Failure of Energy Policy, Failure of Foreign Policy

by Bill Scher

Bush said in 2000 his foreign policy would get oil prices down. Now, oil prices are at a record high.

http://ga3.org/ct/Ud20pgF1hRVv/



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Do These 12 Republicans Want At Least 10 More Years In Iraq?

by Bill Scher

Do Senate GOPers want to tell their constituents they support the real Bush-Petraeus plan?

http://ga3.org/ct/Ep20pgF1hRVr/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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Rachel's News #924

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=2627

Rachel's News #923

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=2626

Rachel's News #922

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=2625

The Congressional "hearings" on Iraq and their implications for American democracy

A Strange Debate

Writing for Geneva's "Le Temps," Luis Lema deconstructs the Congressional "hearings" on Iraq and their implications for American democracy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307G.shtml



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Ex-Ney Aide Volz Gets Probation for Role in Abramoff Lobbying Scandal

Susan Crabtree, writing for The Hill, reports, "Neil Volz, the former chief of staff to ex-Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), walked out of court Wednesday without as much as an ankle bracelet."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307F.shtml



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Week of Antiwar Events to Start With a "Die-In"

The Washington Post's Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein report, "A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307E.shtml

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Protesters aim to inspire anti-war civil disobedience

Washington Post

09/13/07

A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person ‘die-in’ at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute. The die-in will be the culmination of a march and rally. Organizers hope the event will spur people in the antiwar movement to move from protesting to performing acts of civil disobedience that ‘get in the way of the war machine,’ said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, at a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club...

http://tinyurl.com/2ljavb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Key US Ally Killed in Iraq

The Associated Press reports, "The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President Bush, police and tribal leaders said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307B.shtml



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Phone mast fury erupts

by By Tracy-Ann Carmichael

Two controversial phone masts will be erected at sites in the Burgh after councillors gave the green light.

But the move left residents who protested against the plans outraged, and they say they will fight on.

Read More...
http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/article.php?sec=1&id=13224

Hysterie: Tierschutzbund kritisiert Massentötung von Geflügel

Der Deutsche Tierschutzbund fordert ein Ende der Massentötung von Geflügel zum Schutz gegen die Weiterverbreitung der Vogelgrippe. Die Tötung von 67.000 Enten in zwei niederbayerischen Betrieben sei völlig übertrieben. "Diese Tötungsserien sind mehr von Hysterie als von Augenmaß und verantwortlichem Handeln geprägt", kritisierte Tierschutzpräsident Wolfgang Apel am 13. September in Bonn. Er gab der Massentierhaltung eine Mitschuld an der Ausbreitung des Vogelgrippeerregers. "Statt endlich in Seuchenpräventionspolitik zu investieren, wird in Tötungsmaschinen investiert, die Tierleichenberge wachsen", beklagte Apel und forderte eine Rückkehr zu kleinbäuerlichen Strukturen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16594



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Nutzung der Terrorhysterie für innen- und außenpolitische Zuspitzungen

Während der Sondersitzung des Innenausschusses des Bundestages warnte die Linksabgeordnete Ulla Jelpke davor, "Terrorhysterie zu schüren und dann für weitere innen- und außenpolitische Zuspitzungen auszunutzen." Die "Szenerie" erinnere an vergangenes Jahr, "als Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble das gescheiterte Kofferbombenattentat nutzte, um den Widerstand der SPD gegen die Einrichtung der Antiterrordatei zu brechen", so die Abgeordnete. "Damit wurde die vom Grundgesetz gebotene Trennung von Polizei und Geheimdiensten faktisch aufgehoben."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16587



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Wieder keine Krebsgefahr durch Handys?

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Krebs+Handy
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Krebs+Handy

Hauseigentümerverband: Antennen unerwünscht

Jahrelang hatte der Hauseigentümerverband nicht das Geringste gegen Handyantennen auf Hausdächern. Doch nun findet der Verband auf einmal: Sendemasten gehören nicht in Wohnsiedlungen.

Mehr unter...
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How much coal will we turn to liquid?

Don't get ripped off - Sign the Petition!
http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12732



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10 Euro Regelsatzerhöhung für Kinder: Sinn oder Unsinn?

http://www.sozialticker.com/10-euro-regelsatzerhoehung-fuer-kinder-sinn-oder-unsinn_20070914.html

States Get Boost in Push to Make Fuel Economy Rules

Justin Hyde for The Detroit Free Press reports that "The US auto industry suffered a major legal setback Wednesday when a federal judge in Vermont rejected its attempt to block states from setting tough new fuel economy rules, saying the industry failed to show the rules were illegal, unsafe or unattainable."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091307EA.shtml



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9/11: For the Record

Six years later, a critical question continues to haunt America's national psyche: How could the most powerful nation on earth have been so utterly unprepared to protect its homeland? On Friday, September 14, 2007, on PBS, Bill Moyers Journal connects the dots of what happened that day and the warning signs leading up to it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307U.shtml

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9/11 Explains the Impotence of the Anti-war Movement
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18391.htm



September 11: The Epitome of American Arrogance

By Lucinda Marshall

In what can only be called the epitome of American arrogance, concern for the plight of the Iraqi people, particularly the 4 million of whom are now refugees is absent from the rhetoric, the clear implication being that that our suffering, which is the result of our own failed policies, is far more important than the suffering we have inflicted upon others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18387.htm



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Compromise on Iraq Oil Law Appears Collapsed

James Glanz for The New York Times reports that a carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields seems to have collapsed. The oil law is part of a list of benchmarks that the Bush administration has been pressing the Iraqis to meet.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307T.shtml



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The Next Attorney General

The New York Times editorial team writes about what they hope for in the next attorney general and say that the potential nominees that have surfaced do not meet their standards: "The Justice Department is a disaster zone. It should be the embodiment of America's commitment to the rule of law, but it has been contaminated by partisan politics.... To replace Alberto Gonzales, President Bush must appoint an attorney general who is above politics, and the Senate should only confirm a nonpolitical lawyer of unquestioned integrity."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307S.shtml



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Baghdad Residents Protest Wall Dividing Shia, Sunni

Ali Yussef for Agence France-Presse reports that "Hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis marched on Wednesday in protest at the building by US troops of a tall concrete wall separating their northwest Baghdad neighborhoods."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307R.shtml



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Thompson Surge Means Conservatives Are Desperate

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

President Bush has already made it clear that he intends for American troops to remain in Iraq for years--if not decades--to come. And it also seems clear that the GOP presidential candidates (except Ron Paul) plan to follow Bush's madness. Republicans need to wake up to reality: people are sick of George Bush, and they are sick of the Iraq war. Good grief! In less time than our troops have been in Iraq, our men and women in uniform defeated the combined forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy during World War II. In Iraq, we have not been able to secure the city of Baghdad........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin398.htm



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Poll: 54% Want Our Troops Home in 6 Months

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/3a17bec37f45ebd5?hl=en

Mobilfunkbedingte Mietzinsminderung

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/recht/024be297b11493d01/033ea299a8071e701.html

The party's over for American consumers

The new numbers on consumer confidence are out. They show American consumers very confident that the economy is going down the tubes.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003879888_harrop12.html



Pensions caught in credit crisis

Several funds, identified among `other' investors, could face short-term loss from commercial paper.

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/255122


From Information Clearing House

Rumsfeld Redeploys to Right-Wing Think Tank

He's heading down the familiar path well trod before him by other Bush officials, aides and advisors, defeated Republican candidates, and retired military officers; he's headed for a secure and well-funded post at a major right wing think tank.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39249


From Information Clearing House

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Stanford Faculty Protest Rumsfeld Selection to Think Tank
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/18/3932/



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Next-up News n°305

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/next_up_news_n305.htm

Japan: der modernisierte Kapitalismus produziert auch hier Armut

Wer seine Miete nicht bezahlen kann, obwohl er einen Job hat, muß nicht in der sozialdemokratischen Hartz-Republik leben: Das gibt es auch in Japan. Was schon immer galt - dass nämlich die Verhältnisse in Japan zumindest eines sind: nämlich ganz anders als in bundesdeutschen Medien dargestellt - gilt auch im Zeitalter des digitalen Kapitalismus. Aspekte der sozialen Lage im heutigen Japan in dem Überblick "Armut in Japan" vom 13. September 2007: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/jp/jparm.html


Aus: LabourNet, 14. September 2007



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Democracy is Dead, It's Movement Time

The rightwing seizure of power since 9/11 has effectively strangled the remaining institutions of American democracy. No alternative is left but mass movement, to confront the usurpers.

http://snipurl.com/1qor0


From Information Clearing House



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

Al-Jazeera man 'close to death' at Guantanamo Bay

An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2956428.ece



Algeria renews rejection for building US bases on its territories:

Algeria renewed refusal to building US military bases on its territories but said the rejection was not against Washington but any foreign presence in general.

http://snipurl.com/1qoqt


From Information Clearing House



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

Testy times seen for US-Japan ties

US-Japan ties face challenging times with the abrupt resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after an uphill battle to renew a law for providing military help to US-led forces in Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070913/pl_afp/usjapanpolitics_070913131229


From Information Clearing House

Brown faces domestic pressure over 'proxy war'

Gordon Brown faces anger over the deployment of UK troops to Iraq's border with Iran and warnings that the strategy could drag Britain into confrontation with Tehran.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2956421.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition

The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad, according to a senior Iraqi official who knew him at that time.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2956422.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge

Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235



Meet Gen. David Petraeus

His Militia Strategy Plunged Iraq Into a Civil War, And Now He's Back for More
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=13744


From Information Clearing House

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Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge

Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service: "Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant...Fallon was strongly opposed to Petraeus's role as pitch man for the surge policy in Iraq adopted by Bush in December as putting his own interests ahead of a sound military posture in the Middle East and Southwest Asia...The CENTCOM commander believed the United States should be withdrawing troops from Iraq urgently."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CENTCOM

More than 100,000 Iraqis in jail: U.S. troops hold 23,600 Iraqis almost all of them without trial

The U.S. has promised to release 50 of them every day throughout Ramadan. But the U.S. is not the only authority with the right to jail Iraqis. Iraqi armed forces and police can also imprison Iraqis without trail and informed sources say there are more than 82,000 Iraqis in government jails.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2007-09-13\\kurd.htm


From Information Clearing House

US troops who criticised Iraq war strategy killed in Baghdad

Staff Sergeant Yance Gray, 26, and Sergeant Omar Mora, 28, were among a group of seven soldiers serving in Iraq who wrote a piece excoriating America's conduct of the war. The piece was published in the New York Times last month.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2167858,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yance+Gray

How America is Losing Patience with a Failing System

By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington

Onus on workers to buy health insurance as rising costs force firms to end perk.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18377.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Suzanne+Goldenberg

Keith Olbermann's Top 9/11 Story

The Promotion Of Failure In Bush Administration.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18378.htm



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

The World's Ingredients: Injustice, Hypocrisy, and Hope

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18372.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Rothenberg

War Against Iran and the Logic of Dominance

By Gareth Porter

If the Bush administration launches an attack on Iran, the reason won't be that Iran was about to obtain a nuclear weapon. The real reason will be that United States, as the world's only superpower, wants to establish clearly that it -- not Iran -- is the dominant power in the Middle East. That would make us all less secure, but the insistence on asserting dominance in the Middle East is the essence of the Bush administration's policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18371.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dominance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=superpower
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

RFID-Träume der Konzerne

http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=116176&IDC=3

Bei Karstadt senden die Hosen RFID-Signale
http://www.searchnetworking.de/themenkanaele/drahtlosenetzwerke/implementierung/articles/92548



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

Bush im Irak: die gescheiterte Erfolgsstory

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=30430

Radikalisierungstendenzen bei Wolfgang Bosbach

http://www.pickings.de/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=11&postId=2394



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

Donnerstag, 13. September 2007

Worst Places on Earth Are Home to Millions

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3810/

The Charade of Letting The Generals Decide

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3826/



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

The War Party: Democrats Lie to Prolong Iraq; Reporters Go Along

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3806/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Rall

Testimony of The Tortured

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3816



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill

No Exit in Sight for Troops in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3819/

Für Gerechtigkeit, Frieden und Bewahrung der Natur. 2. Sozialforum in Deutschland am 18.-21. Oktober 2007 in Cottbus

„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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Montagsdemos: Ergänzung durch Klappern und Rasseln mit leeren Kasserollen

„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



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

Zahltag: Klagen über Schwierigkeiten mit den Arbeitsagenturen häufen sich

“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



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

Der Workfare State auf dem Vormarsch: Demagogie und Heuchelei

„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

Hartz IV: Mangelernährung und Isolation für Millionen

„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

Karnataka bans mobile phones for children

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.

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



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The General as Salesman

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


Informant: Kev Hall



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

Giuliani’s foreign policy

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



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

The dispensable man

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
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ezra+Klein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H.D.S.+Greenway
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When soldiers mutiny

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Against+the+War
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recruiting
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No exit from Iraq before Bush leaves

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
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The no-exit strategy

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
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Give the Earth a Sabbath Day

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

Democrats Vow to Block Ted Olson If Nominated

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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Senate Panel Okays $850 Billion Debt Increase

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

Majority Leader Reid Says Iraq Plan Unacceptable

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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Schäubles Argumente für Online-Durchsuchungen sind "Augenwischerei"

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,505322,00.html



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Mortgage Lender's Bankruptcy

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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Jose Padillas's Fate And Ours

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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MI5 and MI6 to be sued for first time over torture

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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Iran moves to ditch U.S. dollar

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



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

Lieberman asks for Iran invasion

"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



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AIPAC

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+pimp+alert
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Why failure is the new face of success

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


From Information Clearing House



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

9/11: The Big Cover-up?

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



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

The Coming U.S. Hard Landing

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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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nouriel+Roubin

Mobile phones don't cause cancer?

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

Japanese Schoolchildren To Get Even More Toxic Dolphin Meat

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



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FRANCE AT THE UN: STEP UP ON IRAQ!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/au_secours_iraq/i.php/?cl=18697391

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