World-News

by Bill Scher

To cover our kids with health insurance, Congress unites. To keep our kids sick, Bush divides.

http://ga3.org/ct/d720pgF1TRKs/



Bloggers Demand Health Insurance For Kids

by Bill Scher

Pressure builds against wavering conservative congresspeople.
http://ga3.org/ct/dd20pgF1TRKw/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+insurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Scher

By Staff reporter

CAMPAIGN: Esther McVey at the telephone mast site in Pensby

THE Wirral phone mast fiasco has exposed a fundamental flaw in the Telecommunications Act - and a prospective MP is seeking to get it changed.

Four T-Mobile masts are being built in Pensby, Moreton, Claughton and Heswall after a massive council default, despite fierce opposition from more than 600 residents.

Read More...
http://www.thisiswirral.co.uk/display.var.1712764.0.fight_to_close_mast_law_loopholes.php

http://tinyurl.com/3attl2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endangered+forests

Wie die New York Times (NYT) am 24. September berichtet, ist der deutsche Staatsbürger Aleem Nasir zwei Monate lang in pakistanischer Haft gewesen, wo er gefoltert und von westlichen Geheimdiensten "befragt" worden sein soll. Auch deutsche Behörden wussten offenbar Bescheid, jedoch ohne dem 45jährigen zu helfen. Die innenpolitische Sprecherin der Linksfraktion, Ulla Jelpke, kritisierte, de deutschen Behörden hätten "wieder einmal eng mit ausländischen Folterdiensten zusammengearbeitet. Im Namen des Antiterrorkampfes wurden dabei die Menschenrechte eines festgenommenen deutschen Staatsbürgers mit Füßen getreten".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16656

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III writes for Truthout, "When you compare the new strategy for going forward in Iraq as articulated by President Bush this past Thursday, September 13, with the old 'New Way Forward in Iraq' that he articulated on January 10, 2007, you can only conclude that both are failures on all fronts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

Bob Herbert writes for The New York Times: "I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week. But what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jena
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Der Spiegel reports, "German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to oppose French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran and is planning to back up his case with evidence of French and American hypocrisy over sanctions against Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507D.shtml



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

Logan Murphy writes for Crooks and Liars, "Keith Olbermann has been tracking the Bush Administration's use of trumped up terror alerts to manipulate the American people for the past two years, but in this latest Nexus of Politics and Terror report on Countdown, it appears the president stooped to a new low by using a bogus terror threat that specifically targeted Capitol Hill to manipulate members of Congress just hours before a crucial vote on the FISA bill last August."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund41.html


From Information Clearing House



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The US Senate is expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Bosnia-style plan to subdivide Iraq on ethnic lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife.

http://snipurl.com/1r86a



Now we have Article 41

They crossed the high seas; they poured out their billions; they sacrificed their sons .. to "liberate" Iraqis .. but what we, the women of Iraq got, is article 41.

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/2007/09/now-we-have-art.html



Iraq MPs oppose US division plan

Two Iraqi parliamentary blocs have enunciated opposition to a US plan aiming to subdivide Iraq on ethnic lines, notably Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. The US Senate was expected to vote as early as Tuesday on a Bosnia-style plan to subdivide Iraq on ethnic lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife.

http://snipurl.com/1ra12



Iraq VP dismisses subdivision plans

Visiting Iraqi Vice-President Adel Abdel-Mahdi here Thursday dismissed Iraq subdivision plans, saying the country has been united for 5,000 years.

http://snipurl.com/1rbv9



Arab League condemns U.S. Senate view to segregate Iraq

The Arab League condemned Thursday the U.S. Senate view to separate Iraq into several sectarian parts, saying that the decision was reflecting a grim vision for the future of the fellow Arab country.

http://snipurl.com/1rbvb



US in Iraq in 2013? Democrats say maybe

All three leading candidates conceded that they could not guarantee that all U.S. combat troops would be gone from Iraq by 2013, the end of the next president's first term in office.

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/1448626.html



US plans $2.3bn arms sale to Iraq

The US is ready to sell Iraq up to $2.3bn of weapons to help the Iraqi army grow and take over operations currently run by US and allied forces, the Pentagon has said.

http://snipurl.com/1rbvc



Iraq PM rejects U.S. Congress call for federalism

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday a U.S. Senate resolution calling for the creation of separate Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish federal regions in Iraq would be a disaster for his country.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28122016.htm



Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis reject US partition idea

Shiite and Sunni figures in Iraq dismissed Saturday a US Senate plan to split Iraq along ethnic and religious lines, while the Kurds welcomed it as the "only viable solution" to the present chaos.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22439



Let's Try Partitioning The US

By Linda S. Heard

Isn't Iraq supposed to be a sovereign nation with an elected government? If so, then why is the US Senate attempting to meddle in its affairs by overwhelmingly passing a resolution calling for the country's partition into three, which is tantamount to ethnic cleansing?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18493.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Senate Endorses Plan to Divide Iraq

Reporting for The Washington Post, Shailagh Murray says, "Showing rare bipartisan consensus over war policy, the Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a political settlement for Iraq that would divide the country into three semi-autonomous regions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607R.shtml



Iraq PM: Senate Proposal "a Catastrophe"

CBS News: "Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday rejected a US Senate proposal calling for the decentralization of Iraq's government and giving more control to the country's ethnically divided regions, calling it 'a catastrophe.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092807S.shtml



Senate Vote Unites Iraqis in Anger

Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, of The Los Angeles Times, report: "Iraq's political leadership, in a rare show of unity, skewered a nonbinding US Senate resolution passed last week that endorses the decentralization of Iraq through the establishment of semiautonomous regions. The measure, which calls for a relatively weak central government and strong regional authorities in Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish areas, has touched a nerve here, raising fears that the United States is planning to partition Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107P.shtml

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US embassy rips Senate’s Iraq partition plan

Arizona Republic

10/01/07

The U.S. embassy on Sunday criticized a U.S. Senate resolution that could lead to a division of Iraq into sectarian or ethnic territories, agreeing with many Iraqi leaders in saying the proposal ‘would produce extraordinary suffering and bloodshed.’ The statement came hours after representatives of Iraq’s major political parties denounced the proposal that calls for power to be given to Shiite, Sunni or Kurdish regions. ‘Our goal in Iraq remains the same: a united, democratic, federal Iraq that can govern, defend, and sustain itself,’ the statement said...

http://tinyurl.com/3d4dr5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shailagh+Murray
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Nach einer internationalen Umfrage in 21 Ländern führen 79 Prozent die Klimaerwärmung auf menschliche Aktivitäten zurück und sind 90 Prozent dafür, dass etwas dagegen getan werden muss.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26271/1.html



Australier demonstrieren für Klimaschutz

Downunder kommt die Regierung wegen ihrer Ablehnung von Klimaschutzverträgen unter Beschuss.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/98783

Noam N. Levey reports for The Los Angeles Times, "A lightning rod for international criticism, the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, not long ago appeared headed for closure.... But the latest attempt to shut it down is facing collapse: The detention facility has been embraced by many Republicans as a potent political symbol in their quest to seize the terrorism issue ahead of next year's elections."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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David Whitney reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "The White House approved a Transportation Department campaign to lobby against California's application for a waiver to combat global warming through auto emissions limits tougher than federal standards, a lawmaker charged Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092507N.shtml



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

Wider die Fortsetzung antidemokratischer und menschenrechtswidriger Politik im Namen der Europäischen Union

„Zum arglistigen Ersatz der an der französischen und niederländischen Bevölkerung gescheiterten „Verfassung für Europa“ durch einen von den Institutionen der EU abgesegneten „Reformvertrag“ (…) Die für Oktober 2007 geplante Regierungskonferenz der Mitgliedstaaten der EU soll einen so genannten Reformvertrag beschließen. Dieser Reformvertrag ist pure Tünche. Er soll erlauben das Monstrum einer „Verfassung für Europa", mit einem Sprachfilter versehen, durch die einschlägigen europäischen Institutionen zu pauken. Und er soll vermeiden lassen, dass europäische Regierungen, die nicht wie die Berliner dem nachdemokratischen repräsentativen Absolutismus frönen, den als „Reformvertrag" anscheinshaft unverbindlicheren Text erneut der Bevölkerung zur Abstimmung vorlegen. Damit ist der „Reformvertrag" in der Prozedur von vornherein noch weniger demokratisch als dies für den Verfassungsentwurf galt…“ Pressemitteilung des Grundrechtekomitees vom 25.09.2007 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=255

Siehe dazu auch die Anträge an den ver.di-Gewerkschaftstag zur EU-Verfassung unter F. Europäische und internationale Politik http://bundeskongress2007.verdi.de/antraege_beschluesse/antraege.html?cat=F


Aus: LabourNet, 25. September 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Verfassungsdebatte
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EU-Grundrechte-Charta

By Rob Devey

A MOBILE phone giant which erected a 40 foot mast refused planning permission by councillors has snubbed a request to rip down the structure.

A legal battle is looming between Bolton Council and T-Mobile over the mast at the Market Street precinct in Little Lever, which was levered into place on Sunday morning.

The move sparked fury among residents and workmen downed tools when police were called by local councillor Sean Hornby, who is also the council's planning committee chairman.

The committee had refused the mast permission in April and the authority says it will now take enforcement action to get the structure removed.

Read More...
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.1711430.0.battle_ahead_over_phone_mast.php

National Review
by William Yeatman

09/24/07

Would you believe that the weather in Indiana could trigger popular unrest in China? Global demand for fuel made out of food is growing so fast that grain supplies are becoming dangerously thin. In this market, a hiccup in agricultural production — like a drought in America’s Corn Belt — could cause food prices to skyrocket in countries like China that depend on food imports. When poor urbanites in developing nations suddenly cannot afford to eat, they just might take to the streets in anger...

http://tinyurl.com/2xbxrm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Yeatman

CounterPunch
by Mike Ferner

09/24/07

Free speech took a beating with another round of arrests September 18 in the nation’s capital. It was administered by the police at a rally sponsored by the most unlikely-sounding group to be involved in such a thing: Veterans for Freedom...

http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner09242007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

AlterNet
by Robert Kuttner

09/24/07

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, like Alan Greenspan before him, has acted to keep a credit crunch from turning into a depression. The stock market liked the Fed’s half-point rate cut, and experts have generally praised Bernanke’s determination to do whatever it takes to contain the crisis. But the turbulence is far from over, and in a sense the Fed is cleaning up its own mess. For more than two decades, the Federal Reserve has been prime enabler of a dangerously speculative economy. If we dodge this bullet without addressing the deeper threats, there will be more bullets to come. Here’s the basic problem: Since the late 1970s, financial institutions have invented exotic ways of extending credit and taking big speculative risks...

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/63399/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Tennessean

09/24/07

A Hendersonville native began grieving the loss of her soldier husband only one day after giving birth in Nashville to the couple’s first child, a son. Spc. Joshua Reeves, 26, of Watkinsville, Ga., died Sept. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan., according to the U.S. Department of Defense Website. His wife, Leslie Reeves, a 2001 graduate of Hendersonville High School and a graduate of the University of Georgia, had been living in Hendersonville since her husband’s deployment in January...

http://tinyurl.com/34kzmr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092407HA.shtml



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Global Warming Meetings Put Focus on US Role

Deborah Zabarenko of Reuters reports: "A trio of climate change meetings in the United States this week will focus attention on how Washington can deliver on its pledge to play a lead role in combating global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092407EA.shtml



Pope to Make Climate Action a Moral Obligation

The Independent UK's James Macintyre says, "The Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a 'moral' cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/092407EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Zabarenko

USA Today's Gregg Zoroya says, "Scientists trying to understand traumatic brain injury from bomb blasts are finding the wound more insidious than they once thought."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407S.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Krebs+Handy
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Charles Firth asks the people of the U.S. their opinion.



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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+Muslims

The dollar fell to a record low against the euro and declined versus the yen on speculation economic reports will show U.S. growth is losing momentum, adding to pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again.

http://snipurl.com/1r6sv



How the falling dollar affects Americans

US consumers' standard of living may drop as they pay more for foreign goods, but demand for American labor will rise, say economists.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0924/p01s05-usec.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dollar+fall

Should Congress pass a bill giving retroactive immunity to president Bush for possible war crimes?



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


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=retroactive
http://tinyurl.com/ypnajg

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/09/23/4519060-sun.html


From Information Clearing House



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Washington's proxy war inside Kurdish Iran

The chief responsibility for turning the northern Iran-Iraq region into a war zone rests with the Bush administration, which is cynically using the PJAK to undermine and destabilise the Kurdish areas as it draws up war plans for attacking Iran.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/iran-s20.shtml



Why the US granted 'protected' status to Iranian terrorists

"This will be interpreted in Iran as another link in the chain of the US determination to move onto Iran next" in the US war on terror.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0729/p07s01-wome.html



US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.

http://snipurl.com/1r6sm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=proxy+war
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If President George W. Bush's spending request is approved, 2008 will be the most expensive year of the Iraq war.

http://snipurl.com/1r6s7


From Information Clearing House

The forced migration, called "a human tragedy unprecedented in the country's history" in the latest Iraqi Red Crescent report, has uprooted communities from homes they have occupied for decades. In Baghdad, the focus of US military action, there are a million displaced people in a population of four million.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2993310.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=displaced
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US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22471872-2,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2452.shtml


Informant: shane_digital

CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW AND DEMAND THEY VOTE DOWN THE LIEBERMAN-KYL AMENDMENT

In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy last week when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran, just before the weekend he introduced an amendment to the defense bill to authorize exactly that.

No, we are not kidding. He has drafted language that any impartial observer would interpret as a DECLARATION OF WAR against Iran, and he is pressing for a vote as fast as possible.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php

Here is the language from the amendment:

(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.

The policy of the U.S should be to "combat" Iran with "all" "military instruments"?!? You can be absolutely certain that those are the ONLY words Dick Cheney and George Bush will see or care about.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php

We need every warm body we can muster to call and email their senators RIGHT NOW, before they pull another fast one and sneak this one through in the dead of the night. Call them toll free at 800
828-0498, 800 614 2803 or 866 340 9281, and the submit the action form below to make sure your message gets through.

Just yesterday, Newsweek reported that Cheney had recently made overtures to Israel to get them to launch an attack against Iran, to try to provoke an all out conflagration. It seems every day there is a new story leaked about their aggressive preparations for The Debacle, Part 2. And just as in the lead up to the Iraq invasion, they will keep lying, lying and lie some more about their intentions until they've shot off every cruise missile in the military inventory.

We need your voice, and the voices of everyone else you know, and we them now. We need to absolutely flood the Capitol with phone calls and email. Please believe your voice counts. Please believe that when enough of us raise our voices together at one time they do have an impact.

Cheney and his minions are absolutely not going to stop pushing for an even bigger disaster unless we stop them by speaking out with a louder voice. So we cannot let up ourselves even for an instant.

AND IF YOU LIKE KUCINICH ON THE ISSUES LET HIM KNOW

We would be remiss not to ask who other than Dennis Kucinich has shown more courage to speak out against the Iraq disaster before it even started? If you are asking yourself what you can do to encourage Dennis to continue to stand strong on the ISSUES, why not make a contribution, if you are so motivated.

DENNIS KUCINICH CONTRIBUTIONS: http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

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

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Webb: Lieberman And Kyl's Hawkish Iran Amendment Is 'Cheney's Fondest Pipe Dream'

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) made an impassioned appeal to his fellow senators, declaring that the Lieberman-Kyl amendment on Iran should be "withdrawn" because the "proposal is Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream." Webb cautioned that the "cleverly-worded sense of the Congress" could be "interpreted" to "declare war" on Iran.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/25/webb-kyl-lieb-iran/



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or
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Cynthia McKinney grills Rumsfeld



http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5170738633168637272


Informant: ranger116



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Deutschlandfunk - Cologne, Germany

Gerade in letzter Zeit sorgen Themen wie die Online-Durchsuchung für Sorgenfalten den Expertenstirnen, und auch RFID-Chips - Logistik-Funketiketten - werden ...

http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/673527/



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

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/128


Informant: John Perna

http://ga3.org/ct/tp20pgF1RRK-/


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Galbraith

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/24/4050



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thom+Hartmann

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/24/4069/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/24/4067/



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Die Äußerungen von Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Jung (CDU) zum Abschuss ziviler Flugzeuge im Entführungsfall haben ein parlamentarisches Nachspiel. Er habe zum Wochenende einen Missbilligungsantrag gegen Jungs Position im Bundestag eingebracht, sagte FDP-Chef Guido Westerwelle am 24. September im Deutschlandfunk. Über den Antrag werde das Parlament und damit auch die SPD abstimmen. "Dann werden wir ja sehen, wie ernst es auch der sozialdemokratische Koalitionspartner mit der Verfassung meint", sagte Westerwelle, der den Antrag bereits bei der Bundestagsdebatte vergangene Woche angekündigt hatte.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16651

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Feindliche Soldaten oder gewöhnliche Kriminelle?

Beim "war on terror" und Verteidigungsminister Jungs Überlegungen zum Abschuss von Passagierflugzeugen bleiben die Bürgerrechte auf der Strecke. Dabei weisen Argumente, die vor 30 Jahren gegen die "Rote Armee Fraktion" benutzt wurden, den rechtsstaatlich einwandfreien Weg.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26266/1.html





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

Steigende Preise, Sozialabgaben und Steuern

Die Nettoverdienste der Arbeitnehmer sind im vergangenen Jahr auf den niedrigsten Stand seit 20 Jahren gesunken. Wie die "Bild"-Zeitung unter Berufung auf eine Statistik des Bundesarbeitsministeriums berichtete, lag der sogenannte Nettorealverdienst nach Abzug von Steuern, Sozialbeiträgen und bei Berücksichtigung der Preisentwicklung im vergangenen Jahr im Schnitt bei 15.845 Euro im Jahr - etwa so hoch wie 1986 mit damals 15.785 Euro.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16647



Steinbrück gegen niedrigere Steuern für die Bevölkerung

Die milliardenschweren Steuersenkungen für Unternehmen hat Bundesfinanzminister Peer Steinbrück (SPD) unterstützt. Niedrigere Steuern für die Bevölkerung lehnt der Finanzminister hingegen unter Verweis auf die Staatsschulden ab. Steuersenkungen vor einem kompletten Abbau der Neuverschuldung seien ausgeschlossen. Es sei notwendig, "möglichst rasch" keine neuen Schulden mehr zu machen und parallel in wichtige "Zukunftsschwerpunkte" verstärkt zu investieren, sagte Steinbrück am 24. September in Stuttgart. "Diese Balance verlieren wir mit Sicherheit dann, wenn wir die Steuern wieder senken, bevor wir keine neuen Schulden mehr machen."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16646

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt

Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "the reality is that things haven't changed nearly as much as people think. Racial tension, especially in the South, has never gone away, and has never stopped being important. And race remains one of the defining factors in modern American politics."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407F.shtml



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

Uninsured Kids Are Protecting Bush's Ego

Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Another way to assess the importance of spending on the war is to compare it with other budget items that have been in the news. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) provides an obvious example. President Bush is threatening Congress with a veto if it appropriates more money than he has requested."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407E.shtml



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

Philip Shenon reports for The New York Times: "The 21-year-old Jordanian immigrant was in shackles when he was brought into the courtroom of Judge Michael B. Mukasey in Federal District Court in Manhattan.... Before the hearing, Mr. Awadallah told his lawyer that he had been beaten in the federal detention center in Manhattan, producing bruises that were hidden beneath his orange prison jumpsuit. But when his lawyer told this to Judge Mukasey, the judge seemed little concerned."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407C.shtml



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

Reuters reports, "Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407B.shtml



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

Sudarsan Raghavan and Steve Fainaru report for The Washington Post, "Senior Iraqi officials repeatedly complained to US officials about Blackwater USA's alleged involvement in the deaths of numerous Iraqis, but the Americans took little action to regulate the private security firm until 11 Iraqis were shot dead last Sunday, according to US and Iraqi officials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407A.shtml



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

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070924.wlakes24/BNStory/National/


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.attac.de/frankfurt/termin.html#Btagung

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Bertelsmann-kritische Tagung "Das Schattenkabinett aus Gütersloh"

„Am Samstag, 27.10. nahmen in Frankfurt/M. über 220 aus Gewerkschaften, Personalräten, sozialen Bewegungen, Studierendenschaften sowie Einzelpersonen aus ganz Deutschland an der bertelsmannkritischen Tagung "Das Schattenkabinett aus Gütersloh" teil. Über die Tätigkeiten der Bertelsmann-Stiftung und ihrer Ableger CHE und CAP, wurde informiert; diese wurden kritisch gewürdigt, politische Handlungsperspektiven entwickelt…“ Die Presseerklärung bei Attac-Frankfurt vom 28.10.2007 (Word-Dokument) http://www.attac.de/frankfurt/x_docs/281007.doc-


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Oktober 2007

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

Nach einer Analyse wurden bislang die Emissionen von Stickstoffoxid nicht realistisch berücksichtigt, besonders Biosprit aus Raps und Mais sind im Hinblick auf Klimaerwärmung kein Ersatz für fossile Brennstoffe.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26253/1.html



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

Die Bundesregierung leitet das Auslieferungsgesuch der Münchener Staatsanwaltschaft für die 13 CIA-Agenten, die El Masri verschleppt und misshandelt haben, vor allem auf Druck von Schäuble nicht weiter.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26265/1.html

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Nicht-Preisträger des Jahres 2007: Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble
http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/2007/.extra/


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Oktober 2007



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

http://quintessenz.at/d/000100003931



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+retention

The Associated Press reports on a speech made Saturday by retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez: "'My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?' After his speech, Sanchez wouldn't name names, but told The Associated Press he was referring to 'the most senior leadership in our nation.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407L.shtml



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

Alissa J. Rubin and Andrew E. Kramer report for The New York Times: "In an interview with The Associated Press in his New York hotel suite ahead of his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly, he [Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki] said: 'The Iraqi government is responsible for its citizens, and it cannot be accepted for a security company to carry out a killing. There are serious challenges to the sovereignty of Iraq.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407J.shtml



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

ISIS Press Release 24/09/07

Martin Khor stresses the need to link development and environment for developing countries and cooperation between North and South especially in the next period of the Kyoto Protocol

Now is the time to clarify the crucial issues for the Bali meetings this December, which we hope will launch a roadmap for global action to combat climate change, especially after 2012, when the first period of the Kyoto Protocol commitments expires.

For a climate regime that is equitable and fair, there are at least four important building blocks: targets based on a broad scientific consensus; fair North-South relations; linking development and environment; and coherent policies at national and international levels.

Targets based on a broad scientific consensus

Science has progressed to a point where there is broad consensus that climate change is real and serious, and that developing countries will be most affected.

There is a need to set targets for global action, such as to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade (in fact, well below that), and to prevent greenhouse gas concentration from exceeding 450 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide equivalent. Even at those levels, there will be great damage. At levels higher than that, scientists tell us that the damage will be catastrophic.

However, the establishment of such science-based targets has to be linked to agreement on “burden-sharing” principles, particularly between North and South.

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TWPClimateChange.php



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CounterPunch
by David Michael Green

09/22/07

One enters the horror house of regressive politics at one’s own great peril, though most of us and most of the rest of the world have been given little choice. Small wonder, then, that Americans have entered into a collective mental state which might best be described as disgruntled amnesia. This freakin’ thing is not going away, so why waste time on anger or action? Besides, those are perfectly good hours that can be used for watching the game or deriding the latest loser on American Idol. And then there are those bills to be worried about...

http://www.counterpunch.org/green09222007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

09/21/07

The Senate is debating the defense bill now, and the central fact about the proceedings is that nobody’s talking about money. Certainly this is strange. The military budget in question — not including any money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — totals $500 billion. This is roughly equal to the military budgets of all the rest of the world’s nations combined. Adjusting for inflation, it is larger than the U.S. military budget at the peak of the Cold War — in fact, larger than any budget since the Korean War. Again, this is true, apart from the money allocated for the current wars. Shouldn’t some legislators be asking about the ways the Pentagon is spending so much money and whether all those ways are necessary?

http://www.slate.com/id/2174398/



How much are we spending? Don’t ask the Pentagon

Mother Jones
by Winslow T. Wheeler

09/20/07

For the Pentagon, telling the American public how much has been spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is fundamental to its effort to garner (and maintain) public and congressional support for these ongoing military operations. It should be a simple question. It isn’t. In late July, for instance, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported to Congress that the war in Afghanistan had cost $78.1 billion; the seeming precision of the decimal point notwithstanding, the number is laughably inaccurate. Here’s why: The figure accounts for DOD ‘obligations’ as of May 2007, which doesn’t include congressional appropriations or the amount the Pentagon has actually spent...

http://tinyurl.com/2mwcfb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Winslow+T.+Wheeler

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

09/23/07

It must always be remembered that Iraq represented no serious threat to the United States, and that our national leaders knew that critical fact before the invasion began in 2003, just as many ‘ordinary’ citizens did. Thus, the invasion and the continuing occupation represent an unforgivable series of monstrous war crimes. Yet our national conversation discusses only American losses, American costs, and American deaths. When the costs to Iraq and to Iraqis are mentioned, they are given a distant second place, if that. As far as Americans are concerned, this is all about us, and only about us...

http://tinyurl.com/2gmuwo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber

By Rob Devey

WORKMEN sparked anger by installing a 40 foot mobile phone mast which was refused planning permission.

Police were called to the Market Street precinct in Little Lever after the T-Mobile mast went up at 10am yesterday today even though an application was refused by councillors in April.

Bolton Council's planning and highways committee had raised fears over the possible health impact because a certificate showing the mast met radiation guidelines had not been produced.

Read More...
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.1708729.0.fury_over_mast_erected_without_planning_permission.php

by Devvy Kidd

The Democrats have now been in "power" for nine months. Anyone watching events closely understands they are simply the same old Democrats out to further communism via social spending prohibited by Art. 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, and have done just about everything Bush has wanted to keep his endless wars up and running. They actually did one thing right in nine months: To their credit, the counterfeit U.S. Senate last week attempted to over turn Senator John Warner's piece of treason passed last year by the Republicans - elimination of habeas corpus.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd305.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Devvy

Video

How likely is a crash of the dollar and what circumstances could mitigate its effects?

http://www.economic-policy.org/videos/ECOP_PaulKrugman.html



Private Debt Much Higher Than During the Great Depression

America is frequently called the 'richest nation on earth', but the reality is that the American people are living on borrowed money.

http://snipurl.com/1r53u


From Information Clearing House



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

The Bush Administration has been collecting detailed records on the travel habits of Americans headed overseas, whether you fly, drive or take cruises abroad -- not simply your method of transit but the personal items you carry with you and the people you stay with, according to documents and statements obtained by the Washington Post.

http://snipurl.com/1r53t


From Information Clearing House



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

Detailed contingency planning for a possible attack on Iran has been carried out for more than two years by Centcom (US central command), according to defence sources.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2512097.ece



Attack on Iran: Morality Lost in the Garden of Deceits
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II22Ak01.html


From Information Clearing House

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Secret US Air Force Team to Perfect Plan for Iran Strike

Sarah Baxter reports for The Sunday Times UK: "The United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with 'fighting the next war' as tensions rise with Iran. Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War's air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Centcom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+Baxter

We need to follow the South African government's lead under former President Nelson Mandela by assembling a courtlike body after the Bush administration leaves office, calling on key administration officials and key staff within the CIA, State Department, Pentagon, etc., to give testimony on the run-up to the Iraq war. And, like South Africa, grant immunity to those who request it prior to their testimony.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_6977033

Blackwater and the Bush Legacy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20892483/site/newsweek/



Decadent perversity

No matter the horrors of Iraq, Bush clings to his faith in victory, and a new biography discloses how he releases his anxiety by humiliating his aides.

http://snipurl.com/1r53d


From Information Clearing House



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

Mitt Romney has remained mum on the alleged killing of 11 Iraqis by a company where one of his top advisers serves as vice chairman, even as the case has led to an uproar in Baghdad and Washington.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5968.html


From Information Clearing House

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Raising the bar on religious insanity
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/233.html



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

By Michael Parenti

There is a "mystery" we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world's population. What do we make of this?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17102.htm

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Wealth Creates Poverty?

Video: Dr. Michael Parenti:
"Terrorism, Globalization and Conspiracy"

Globalization is an attempt to extend corporate monopoly control over the whole globe. Over every national economy. Over every local economy Over every life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11635.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=globalization
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti

By Ramzy Baroud

Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded questions. Racists, in turn, come from all walks of life; their motivation and the root causes behind their contemptible views of others may differ, but the outcome of these views is predictably the same - racial discrimination, social and political oppression, religious persecution and war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18447.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=racism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramzy+Baroud

By Kim Sengupta

Six days ago, at least 28 civilians died in a shooting incident involving the US security company Blackwater. But what actually happened? Kim Sengupta reports from the scene of the massacre.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18448.htm

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Stop Blackwater: Nationwide Events Commemorate 17 Innocent Lives Lost in Blackwater's Nisour Square Massacre -- "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday"
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/09/11-24



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

HLV INFO 94/AT
23-09-2007

http://tinyurl.com/3xpxdl