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EU-Justizkommissar Franco Frattini plant, europaweit Internet-Suchmaschinen und Provider zu verpflichten, bestimmte vermeintlich "gefährliche" Wörter wie "Bombe", "töten", "Völkermord" oder "Terrorismus" und den Zugang zu den entsprechenden Internetseiten sperren zu lassen. Konkrete Vorschläge will der Kommissar im November vorlegen. Nach Auffassung des medienpolitischen Sprechers der Linksfraktion, Lothar Bisky, verstoßen die Pläne "zur weiteren Zensur des Internets" sowohl gegen die Meinungsfreiheit als auch gegen das Recht auf Information.

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Reuters reports, "Medical experts and US senators accused the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday of failing to take seriously illnesses suffered by U.S. 1991 Gulf War veterans and doing too little to help them."

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

Sudarsan Raghavan and Thomas E. Ricks report for The Washington Post, "A confrontation between the US military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to US military and government officials."

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Truthout's Kelpie Wilson writes: "More than 80 heads of state met at the UN on Monday to discuss the launch of post-Kyoto climate negotiations. Although this was the most high-level UN meeting yet held on the global climate emergency, President Bush refused to attend. He did, however, assent to an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to attend a private dinner afterward.... While Bush was eating his dinner with Ban ki-Moon, a half-dozen American climate change activists continued a weeks-long fast to protest American inaction on climate, 'so that others might eat.'"

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William Rivers Pitt writes for Truthout: "The willful collusion between CBS management and the Bush administration, offered by Rather to frame his accusations, illuminate an insidious, grotesque, and altogether deadly alignment of circumstances hiding in plain sight before the entire American populace. An explanation for why the legitimate fears and anxious uncertainties of the people are never soothed or clarified by mainstream news outlets like CBS, but are instead methodically aggravated and intentionally amplified by those outlets, begins to take shape in light of Rather's inside-view revelations."

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Everything about the case of the so-called Toronto 18 is shrouded in mystery. Evidence raised in court, either at bail hearings or the preliminary hearing, is covered by a publication ban. But this hasn't prevented the public from knowing allegations against 14 adults and four juveniles that are so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable.

http://www.thestar.com/article/260191



US 'refuses to hand over agents'

US authorities have told Germany they will not hand over 13 suspected CIA agents sought over the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen in 2003, an official said.

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From Information Clearing House

U.S. Soldiers Create Military Base on Iraq-Iran Border to Halt Alledged Weapons Smuggling From Iran.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3649942


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A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq's government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25440506


From Information Clearing House



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The Emir of Qatar has said Iraq can no longer remain the responsibility of just one country and called for a strengthening of the United Nations' role there, in a speech that has been seen as a rare public criticism of US policy in Iraq.

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HUD Demolitions Draw Noose Tighter Around New Orleans

By Bill Quigley

Odessa Lewis is 62 years old. When I saw her last week, she was crying because she is being evicted. A long-time resident of the Lafitte public housing apartments, since Katrina she has been locked out of her apartment and forced to live in a 240 square foot FEMA trailer.

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By Stephen Lendman

What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. It has the highest homicide rate of all western nations and a passion for owning guns, yet the two seem oddly unconnected.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18462.htm



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By Agence France Presse

US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18459.htm

By Matthew Rothschild

At his speech to the UN, Bush had the audacity to invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights several times, despite the fact that he's been violating it over and over again.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Ironically, Bush's "war on terror" has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing US civil liberty and turning an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic.

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Keith Olbermann

The changes that were made last month to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were apparently made under false pretenses -- Congresswoman Jane Harman on that, in a moment. First. The Bush administration is tonight fighting to make those changes permanent... seemingly by scaring the Democratic majority into compliance. Hey, it has worked before.

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By Daniel Ellsberg

If there's another 9/11 under this regime ... it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18456.htm

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YES "A Coup has Occurred" & "The Answer is Blow'in in the Wind"

By Jim Kirwan

The war cannot be won militarily, yet the congressional stalemate cannot continue either--because with every hour that passes people are unnecessarily dying for no other reason than the inconvenience to a few self-interested politicians and a thoroughly disgusted public that can see no end in sight to this nightmare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18473.htm



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Thomas Ferraro reports for Reuters: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy blasted [spy chief] McConnell for suggesting some members of the Democratic-led Congress fail to appreciate the threat of attack. Leahy also criticized McConnell for telling Congress earlier this month that open debate about US surveillance endangered lives."

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Ryan J. Foley reports for The Associated Press: "Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He said he will do so during a protest scheduled for Wednesday."

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

The Associated Press reports that Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a letter about the muzzling of State Department officials in inquiries involving Blackwater USA and Iraq's government.

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Matt Renner reports for Truthout, "Peter Keisler, the acting US attorney general, covered up evidence of alleged widespread contracting fraud in Iraq by preventing whistleblowers' complaints from being investigated, according to a prominent fraud attorney."

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Common Dreams
by Akbar Ganji

09/25/07

The people of Iran are experiencing difficult times both internationally and domestically. Internationally, they face the threat of a military attack from the US and the imposition of extensive sanctions by the UN Security Council. Domestically, a despotic state has — through constant and organized repression — imprisoned them in a life-and-death situation. Far from helping the development of democracy, US policy over the past fifty years has consistently been to the detriment of the proponents of freedom and democracy in Iran...

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Iran reformist warns democracy at stake

Rocky Mountain News

09/26/07

One of Iran’s top reform politicians said Wednesday that demonizing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - such as in this week’s Columbia University forum - only strengthens hard-liners’ hand as Iranians rally around their otherwise unpopular leader. Even more damaging would be a military strike against Iran, which Mohsen Mirdamadi said would set back democracy a decade or more...

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The American Conservative
by Gregory Cochran

09/24/07

Politicians, for the most part, have accepted statements about withdrawal requiring anywhere from one to two years. They want to be ‘responsible’ — that’ll be the day. Some may have calculated that slow withdrawal might better disguise defeat and thus be more politically palatable, but I don’t think many are that Machiavellian. I think instead that, with a few honorable exceptions, they’re profoundly ignorant of war and thus have to blindly accept anything the professional military says. That ignorance is, of course, one of the reasons we got into this mess in the first place. That goes double for columnists: in pundit-land, a military expert is someone who thinks that the phalanx is cutting-edge technology. The bottom line is that we can get troops and war-fighting equipment out of Iraq rapidly and relatively safely, certainly in less than six months, probably in three...

http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_09_24/cover.html


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Slate
by John Dickerson

09/25/07

Clinton has consolidated her lead in the polls — she’s up by 17 points nationally and has big leads in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, and Florida. The new recognition that she’s pulling away may make this debate more interesting than the 384 that came before it, because the also-rans may decide they have to direct their fire on the front-runner, as trailing Democrats did when Howard Dean opened up a lead in the 2004 campaign. Of course, attacking is risky: Rick Lazio torpedoed his 2000 Senate campaign when he attacked Clinton and came off looking like a cheap thug. Iowa voters, in particular, tend to frown on uppercut politics. And Clinton is a tougher, more skilled, and more disciplined politician than any of her opponents. But she is not invincible...

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Salon
by Walter Shapiro

09/26/07

It is time to face the blunt truth: This Congress, despite its nominal Democratic majorities, is not going to hasten the end of the Iraq war. This is not defeatism on the home front nor is it a rant against the accommodationist tactics of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Rather, this inescapable conclusion is based on the coin of the realm on Capitol Hill — the stark arithmetic of head counts...

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Yahoo! News

09/25/07

About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly. They were among about 400 protesters opposing the Bush administration’s war in Iraq and its incarceration in Guantanamo Bay of more than 300 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many in the crowd wore orange jumpsuits in solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees. Police took the arrested demonstrators into custody … after they knelt on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch, said they were trying to serve an ‘arrest warrant’ on Bush for ‘high crimes against humanity.’ Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested...

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Writing for The New Republic, Jerry Coyne and Hopi E. Hoekstra state: "After the Great Dying, as the end-Permian extinction is called, Earth's biodiversity didn't bounce back for more than ten million years. Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all of which severely pruned life's diversity. Scientists agree that we're now in the midst of a sixth such episode. This new one, however, is different - and, in many ways, much worse. For, unlike earlier extinctions, this one results from the work of a single species, Homo sapiens."

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The Associated Press reports: "The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections."

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How the White House Worked to Scuttle California's Climate Law

The San Francisco Chronicle's Zachary Coile reports: "President Bush's transportation secretary, Mary Peters, with White House approval, personally directed a lobbying campaign to urge governors and two dozen House members to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to emails obtained by Congress."

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Nach über zwei Jahren Dauerprotest der Bürgerinitiative UMTS-Mast Hofherrnweiler ist es nun endlich soweit. Der Mobilfunk-Mast in der Weilerstraße ist vom Dach. Heute wurde der letzte Teil abmontiert und die Anwohnen können wieder aufatmen.

Angefangen hatte alles im April 2005, als plötzlich ein UMTS-Mast von o2 mitten in der Ortschaft stand.

Sofort regte sich erbitterter Widerstand in Form von Versammlungen, einer eigenen Homepage, Plakataktionen und vielen anderen Aktivitäten. Die rechtliche Lage wurde sondiert und die Bürgerinitiative UMTS-Mast Hofherrnweiler suchte die offene Diskussion mit der Stadt und dem Betreiber o2. Hier stieß man auf taube Ohren, denn alles hatte seine offizielle Ordnung, denn die Bestimmungen waren eingehalten - der Bürgerwille wurde ignoriert.

Welche Aktionen alle unternommen wurden, welche letztendlich zur Demontage der UMTS-Sendeanlage geführt haben, kann man auf der BI-Homepage http://www.umts-mast.de sehen.

"Wir haben immer fest daran geglaubt, diesen Masten weg zu bekommen." So der Initiator der Bürgerinitiative Wolfgang Dambacher. Doch ohne fundierte rechtliche Unterstützung wäre dies nicht möglich gewesen. Die BI hat einen Rechtsanwalt beauftragt, welcher die entsprechenden Schritte eingeleitet hat und die BI bei den vielen Anhörungen bestens vertreten hat.

Der Bürgerinitiative ist nicht bekannt, dass sich Bewohner von Hofherrnweiler offen für die Versorgung mit UMTS-Technologie ausgesprochen haben. Weder hat o2 seine Mobilfunklizenz verloren (50% von Deutschland muss versorgt werden), noch hat Hofherrnweiler den Anschluss an die Welt verpasst sondern seine Lebensqualität behalten.

Die Bürger von Hofherrnweiler freuen sich über Ihren Erfolg und hoffen, das noch viele Sendeanlagen fallen werden.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Aalen

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The population bomb has burst, the climate and biosphere are in tatters, and tyrannical, militaristic governments rule; yet there remains a path to global ecological sustainability

Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
September 26, 2007

The Earth is a living organism, which some call Gaia. Humanity is taking apart Gaia's life support systems in an orgy of procreation and consumption. Only radical social change and profound spiritual transformation can save us now.

Radical is not a dirty word. It means markedly new opinions and actions far beyond the norm, often is response to dilemmas that stymie conventional wisdom. Many times in Western history radical political ideas expanded human dignity and opportunity.

In this era of resource gluttony, tyranny and militarism, and post population bomb explosion; the Earth and her humanity are crying out for radical social and ecological change. From one billion to over 6.5 billion people in just over 125 years. Dying oceans, an end to ancient forests, water scarcity, unknown toxins interacting, over-consumption amongst grotesque inequity, and climate processes disintegrating -- all are the face of a dying Earth as humans eat, and shit on, their home.

How can humanity lighten its load upon, and restore, the biosphere's ecological systems; even as plagued by war, injustice, poverty, disease and ignorance?

This is the question of all remaining time, and I welcome all comprehensive, sufficient policy prescriptions. However, I am highly skeptical regarding the ability of liberal democratic capitalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Chinese market communism; nor any other existing religious, political or economic traditions' ability to equitably and justly feed 9 billion people on a failing Planet.

Sometimes radicalism and revolutionary thinking are the only way forward when liberal and conservative status quo responses have failed society and the Earth. Clearly this is now the case as over-population and inequitable over-consumption well beyond the carrying capacity of the Earth threaten the very biological basis of being. Radical political ecologism is the way forward.

Life, biological being, and ecological systems' very existences are threatened. Wanton death and suffering loom. Where to go to escape China's tyranny and America's imperialism, and their combined militaristic and ecocidal drain upon Gaia? Where to go into exile from a collapsing Earth? When and how will the liquidation of life end? Can we end it? How?

These are not my governments. I and my brethren are Earth citizens. This is not my economy. We imperfectly seek to live in a manner that the entire world could enjoy forever. These are not my wars upon the Earth and the poor. Tyrannical and imperialistic governments do not speak for me. This is not my ecological science, demonstrating plodding incautious caution in the face of global ecological collapse. Nor is this my environmental movement, with allegiance to what is in vogue and stylish half-measures rather than a commitment to sufficient truths.

I am repulsed by all their Gods and prophets of war and oppression. In all my life I have really only learned one unique thing: The Earth is Truth. Truth is God. Thus the Earth is God.

What do I mean by this simplistic, transitive statement of my youth? In all my early soul-searching and truth-seeking, the only demonstrably objective truth I could find is my and your utter dependence upon the Earth. We need water, air, land and other elements of good habitat to live. Thus the Earth is Truth.

God has been and is many things to many people, and I strongly suspect we are all pursuing alternative ways to the spirit(s) in the sky and Earth. Yet the idea that this spirit is best exemplified by what is truthful continues to resonate with me as I grow older. The truth found in a beautiful blooming spring flower, a laughing child and an intricate ecosystem is God.

And as every pre-algebra student knows, this leads us to the tautology that the Earth is God. There are many ways to this place of transcendent truth beauty -- philosophical, scientific and ecological intuitions are all equally valid paths to Gaia.

So what shall we do with this knowledge? If the Earth is truly God, which could be called Gaia, then she and all of her lively components are worthy of awe filled worship; and of unflinching, devotional protection at all costs.

Saving the Earth will require embracing Gaia spiritually, and pursuit of radical change on her behalf. We are called back to the land even as we engage the Earth destroying global growth machine. Certainly ending coal use, protecting ancient forests and flying less are worthy and necessary rituals of Gaia worship.


Dr. Barry is founder and President of Ecological Internet; provider of the largest, most used environmental portals on the Internet including the Climate Ark at http://www.climateark.org/ and http://EcoEarth.Info/ . Earth Meanders is a series of ecological essays that are written in his personal capacity. This essay may be reprinted granted it is properly credited to Dr. Barry and with a link to Earth Meanders. Emailed responses are public record and will be posted on the web site unless otherwise requested.



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by Alan Stang

As I write, the Canadian dollar is at par with our own, which hasn’t happened for more than thirty years. The Saudis for the first time are refusing to follow the Fed’s Bernanke down the chute and Communist-occupied China, which Washington created, is threatening to destroy the dollar by dumping it. The Euro, which started out as an experiment, now stands at an unbelievable $1.40, trending higher. The bond market could collapse. Talk about a possible collapse of the dollar is in the air, and.....

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The Canadian government is trying to block observation of the seal hunt, and we have very little time to stop it. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is proposing unconstitutional changes to the Marine Mammal Regulations -- amendments that would effectively block all independent observation of the commercial seal hunt.

Take action! Send your comments to the DFO today!
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by Bill Scher

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

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Bloggers Demand Health Insurance For Kids

by Bill Scher

Pressure builds against wavering conservative congresspeople.
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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.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund41.html


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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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...

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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



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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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Charles Firth asks the people of the U.S. their opinion.



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



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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



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



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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



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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



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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.

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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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Cynthia McKinney grills Rumsfeld



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


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