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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/02/4269



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/02/4266



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/02/4255/



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


Informant: Dorothee Krien

What would happen after the first of these successful attacks would be oil trading at astronomical highs: $150 to $200 a barrel. Or roughly two to three times what is has been trading at during the Iraq war. Six to nine dollars a gallon at your local pump.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18489.htm



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

A plan by the Bush administration to launch surgical strikes on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has won the support of Gordon Brown, according to a US report, although a presidential "execute order" required for such an operation has yet to be issued.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3018375.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

The number of Iraqis driven from their homes by war and sectarian violence could be far larger than official estimates of the country's deepening humanitarian crisis, some experts say.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01324071.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Carolyn Baker

This parallel world remains unseen in the daily struggles of most of humanity, but, believe me, it is there: a cesspool of duplicity and lies and double-speak and innuendo and blackmail and bribery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18494.htm



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By Joel S. Hirschhorn

After many years of political disappointment, more progressives, liberals and conservatives - and certainly moderates and independents - know in their hearts that voting for Democrats or Republicans is a waste. Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting a broken and corrupt political system and rejecting what has become a delusional democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18489.htm



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Addressing the origins of the Whose-Your-Daddy Nation

By Phil Rockstroh

When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck power emanating from an insular and arrogant elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as holding a tea dance in a tsunami.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18491.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phil+Rockstroh

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Die Emissionen nehmen rasch zu, das arktische Eis noch schneller ab, aber Vattenfall will weiter die ostdeutsche Landschaft auf der Suche nach Braunkohle umpflügen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26316/1.html



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Der US-Senat hat die Iranische Revolutionäre Garde zur Terrororganisation erklärt, das iranische Parlament erklärte im Gegenzug die CIA und das US-Militär dazu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26318/1.html

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/556e027136c71b11?hl=en



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

„Ein Berliner Gericht hat dem Bundesjustizministerium in einem Grundsatzurteil untersagt, das Verhalten der Besucher des Internetportals des Ministeriums aufzuzeichnen. Ein Urteil mit Folgen für Internetbranche und Politik. (…) Das nunmehr rechtskräftige Urteil hat Signalwirkung für die gesamte Internetbranche, in der die personenbeziehbare Aufzeichnung des Nutzerverhaltens weithin üblich ist (sogenannte "Logfiles" oder "Clickstream"), etwa bei Großunternehmen wie Google, Amazon und eBay. Der Jurist Patrick Breyer, der das Verfahren initiiert hatte, stellt auf seiner Internetseite Daten-Speicherung.de eine Musterklage bereit, mit deren Hilfe sich jeder gegen die Protokollierung seiner Internetnutzung wehren kann…“ Pressemitteilung vom 01.10.2007 bei Daten-Speicherung.de mit den Urteilen und weiteren Informationen http://www.daten-speicherung.de/?p=197

Siehe dazu auch:
Die Musterklage: http://www.daten-speicherung.de/?page_id=198


Ermittlungen gegen alle, die die Internetseiten aufgerufen haben

„Während der Marsch der Mönche in Myanmar tagelang die Schlagzeilen prägte, wurde die Demonstration gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Berlin von Medien wie den großen Tageszeitungen und dem Spiegel weitgehend ignoriert. Mehr Erfolg hatte die Bürgerrechtsbewegung auf dem Rechtswege, wo das Amtsgericht Berlin Mitte die Speicherung von personenbezogenen Daten beim Besuch von Webseiten untersagte. Gestern wurde außerdem die Aufklärungskampagne "Wir speichern nicht" gestartet. Wir befragten Patrick Breyer, Jurist, Datenschützer und Mitbegründer des AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung zu den Ereignissen der letzten Wochen…“ Interview von Peter Mühlbauer in telepolis vom 02.10.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26314/1.html


Prinzip Honigeimer: BKA linkt Linke

„Das Bundeskriminalamt richtet eine Internetseite zu einer terroristischen Vereinigung ein, wartet dann auf Besucher dieser Website, registriert deren IP-Adresse und lässt die entsprechenden Personen dann vom Provider identifizieren. Ein Zukunftszenario? Mitnichten…“ Artikel von Mirjam Hauck in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 01.10.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,ra12l1/computer/artikel/902/135638/


Kampagne für anonymes Internet gestartet

„Mit einer Kampagne namens "Wir speichern nicht" klärt der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung Anbieter von Internetportalen darüber auf, wie sie ihren Nutzern ein vollständig anonymes Surferlebnis ermöglichen können. Zur Belohnung winkt ein Gütesiegel…“ Pressemitteilung vom 01.10.2007 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/146/1/lang,de/

Siehe dazu die Aktionsseite http://www.wirspeichernnicht.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Oktober 2007

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2. Oktober 2007

Wir speichern nicht!

Zum jetzt bekannt gewordenen Urteil eines Berliner Amtsgerichtes, welches Webseiten-Betreibern das Speichern von personenbezogenen Daten verbietet, und zur Kampagne "Wir speichern nicht" des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Das Urteil eines Berliner Amtsgerichts, das es dem Bundesjustizministerium untersagt, die Zugriffe auf seine Internetseite in einer Weise zu protokollieren, die eine Identifizierung von Besuchern ermöglicht, ist eine schallende Ohrfeige für die Pläne der Bundesregierung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Das Gericht geht davon aus, dass über die Aufbewahrung von Kommunikationsspuren wie IP-Adressen das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung verletzt wird. Das Urteil stützt die Position der LINKEN gegen die vom Justizministerium geplante allgemeine und verdachtsunabhängige sechsmonatige Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Im Gegensatz zu Websites des Bundes und der Länder verzichtet DIE LINKE auf derlei Aufzeichnungsverfahren, so dass sich Interessenten und Nutzer unseres Internetauftritts unbeschwert über die Arbeit der Partei informieren können. DIE LINKE hat sich deshalb mit ihrer Interseite http://www.die-linke.de um das Gütesiegel "Wir speichern nicht!" des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) beworben und fordert alle Gliederungen der Partei auf, sich dieser Initiative anzuschließen. Generalverdacht statt Unschuldsvermutung ist die verfassungswidrige Kurzform der von der Koalition unter dem Vorwand der Terrorbekämpfung vorangetriebenen rigiden Einschränkungen des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Bürgerliche Freiheitsrechte sind ein unveräußerliches Gut, deshalb unterstützen wir die verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken der Datenschützer gegen die Pläne der Koalition.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/wir-speichern-nicht/



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Toronto Star
by Craig and Marc Kielburger

10/01/07

Inspired by Gandhi, millions of men and women have joined forces to win rights for the brutally oppressed, end wars, defeat communism and topple empires. But the movement is changing. Technology has begun putting non-violence at our fingertips. With a few mouse clicks, citizens can find out about human rights abuses around the world, connect with others to sign online petitions, write blogs and contact their local politicians. That’s made the movement more personal, convenient and accessible...

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/262141

AntiWar.Com
by John Taylor

10/02/07

History will not be kind to Condi Rice. The United States has had a number of distinguished secretaries of state since World War II, but she will not be counted among them. Although it would be unfair to compare Rice to George Marshall, the architect of the Marshall Plan, which began economic integration in Western Europe, her performance pales in comparison to the independence, integrity, and leadership of a Dean Acheson or a James Baker. Condi Rice will be remembered chiefly for her unswerving personal loyalty to George Bush and her unstinting efforts to sell the neocons’ dysfunctional foreign policy to an increasingly skeptical nation and hostile world...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jtaylor.php?articleid=11699



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CBS News

10/01/07

Democratic aides on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are experts at framing a hearing, and they didn’t pull any punches for Blackwater USA. The committee released a 15-page memo Monday afternoon, on the eve of a Tuesday hearing about Blackwater, chronicling a string of alleged abuses by the security firm in its work for the State Department since 2003. Blackwater has been involved in 195 ‘escalation of force’ incidents since 2005 in which guards for the firm fired shots, according to the report. Contractors for the firm fired the first shots in an overwhelming majority of those incidents. Documents released by the State Department also suggest the agency allowed Blackwater to fly a contractor out of Iraq shortly after that contractor, during a drunken episode, shot a guard for the Iraqi vice president...

http://tinyurl.com/2wkhqw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Writing for The New York Times, Peter Applebome says, "Once upon a time, the question was plastic or paper, which had its own somewhat uncertain calculus of virtue and waste. Now, it has begun to dawn on people that you don't need either. Most supermarkets these days sell sturdy, reusable bags for 99 cents that people can use instead of plastic ones. Except almost no one does."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/100107EC.shtml

Reuters reports: "Cutting emissions from deforestation will be key to curbing climate change and should be agreed upon in December's climate talks in Bali, a leading Indonesian forestry researcher said on Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/100107EB.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/



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

The New York Times's David Stout and John M. Broder say, "Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilians and have sought to cover up the incidents, sometimes with the help of the State Department, a report prepared for a Congressional committee said today."

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



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Stout
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Anne Flaherty, The Associated Press, writes: "Powerless in their effort to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats were on track Monday to help pass a defense policy bill that would authorize another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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



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http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20070926.C02


Informant: Andy



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http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article1225719/Innensenator_rstet_Berlins_Polizei_auf.html



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Congress raised the limit once again as U.S. debt nears $10 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every U.S. resident.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/256336.html


From Information Clearing House



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

US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain moved Sunday to calm controversy over an interview in which he said he would prefer to have the US president be Christian rather than Muslim.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071001/ts_alt_afp/usvote2008religionmccain


From Information Clearing House



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

Australia, Britain and Israel have "expressed interest" in a US campaign to launch "surgical" bombing raids on Iran targetting the Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities, according to one of America's leading investigative reporters, Seymour Hersh.

http://snipurl.com/1rmaf


From Information Clearing House

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White House Intensifying Plans to Attack Iran
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84471


Informant: Bob Banner



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Revolutionary+Guard
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh

The U.S. government quietly gave a $485 mln security contract for Iraq to a private British firm within the week that U.S. contractors were accused of opening fire on and killing Iraqi civilians.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01380420.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
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By Harold Meyerson

The American middle class has toppled into a world of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, and retirement without security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18487.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson

By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are content with whatever crimes their government commits as long as the justification is Americans' safety.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18485.htm



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David Rose

Published 27 September 2007

British intelligence has long used clandestine "deniable briefings" to release information real and false to tame hacks including David Rose...

http://www.newstatesman.com/200709270026


Informant: mr_tjsmith

From ufpj-news



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All Constitutional Rights are Your Legal Tools

by Nancy Levant

All executive orders and signing statements must be dissolved as they are illegal having DESTROYED the Constitutional rights of every American citizen. The Federal Reserve Corporation must be dissolved and the gold standard reinstated. The entire taxation system must be dissolved and constitutionally reinstated.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy109.htm



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Is humanity so resistant to change that we will tamper with the biosphere's workings to construct a "Frankensphere"; rather than reducing population, consumption and emissions?

Earth Meanders, http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ By Dr. Glen Barry

October 2, 2007

It is being widely suggested that humanity can "geo-engineer" a global solution to climate change; that is, modify the Earth's biosphere at a planetary scale. Many methods are suggested. Most include either reflecting additional solar radiation away from the Earth, or using the ocean to store more carbon.

Radical geo-engineering proposals emerge largely from a sense of desperation as the world fails to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, and an unwillingness to make necessary societal and personal changes in response to deadly climate change. To some the extreme action of taking the Earth's ecological systems into techno-human hands seems sensible given indications that global heating is proceeding more rapidly than thought, as shown by unexpectedly quick melting of Arctic sea ice.

Risky climate geo-engineering schemes include giant vertical pipes in the ocean to increase ocean circulation and thus marine carbon sequestration, similarly growing vast blooms of ocean plankton by fertilizing with iron, erecting giant mirrors above the earth to reflect the sun's energy, and dropping sulfur particles from balloons at high altitude to do the same.

Two rogue US companies are moving forward with plans to fertilize the ocean with iron to create plankton blooms to suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They are motivated by profits from the growing carbon credit market, rising public demands for action, and politicians eager to avoid painful reductions in emissions. There is little that can be done to stop them, as no applicable laws or treaties exist.

Such efforts to "manage" Gaia are absolute madness – betting the planet and humanity on something as complex as artificially regulating a biosphere. Radical geo-engineering proposals could just as easily worsen the situation if these projects fail or are suddenly halted. And it is highly likely that unintended consequences of widespread implementation of such schemes would outweigh possible benefits. Failure could destroy the Earth.

There has been little research on the potential impacts upon marine ecosystems. The powerful greenhouse gas nitrous oxide may be released as marine organic matter decomposes. Oxygen may become depleted in the deep ocean, killing fish and throwing already troubled marine ecosystems into further turmoil. Even James Lovelock, the British scientist that first conceived of Gaia as a self-regulating organism, has fallen victim to favoring human technology over proven Earth processes.

Gaia, the Earth System, is a finely honed creature with unbelievably complex and ancient existing systems of planetary regulation. Messing with ocean carbon storage and solar radiation levels will affect ocean currents and acidity, atmospheric circulation and weather. Almost certainly there will be a whole host of follow-on effects, and dependable climatic patterns are likely to be further seriously diminished.

It is unfathomable to me that after millennia of ecological ignorance and unconstrained global ecological change leading to our current ecological crises, that a handful of scientists and business people could be so egotistical as to suppose they can play God and refashion a planet. Once geo-engineering is embraced, we could never stop, or the carbon would be re- released. Again, to propose human management of the biosphere is so egoistical and dangerous; and wrong on so many levels.

These may be desperate times, but governments have not even acted yet to set mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The skeptics have only just gone from denying the problem to minimizing its importance. Rather than embracing known sufficient policies that could solve the problem by transforming our energy and transportation systems, it is human nature to seek the easy way out. Yet reducing emissions of CO2, population, and consumption; and restoring global ecological systems, is so much more likely to be effective.

So much nature remains -- that could be enlarged, reconnected and regenerated -- that it is wrong to give up on natural ecosystems' processes to embrace a techno-industrial "Frankensphere". A failing biosphere can never be managed in any real sense to mimic a healthy biosphere. It is simply too complex.

If SUVs and coal plants are still spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, clearly risky geo-engineering is unjustified. Humanity is unable to eliminate exotic species, live peacefully, end deforestation, or stop having so many babies; yet it is going to take the global ecosystem into its management? Geo-engineering cannot succeed and it is terribly misguided to suggest it can.

Geo-engineering represents the shameless extreme nature of societal refusal to cut energy use and emissions. We have not even really tried in earnest as a human family to do so through conservation, efficiency and alternatives. Yet, before we have even begun, we are going to bet the human family's future on technological fixes that we hope will allow us to continue consuming, and pumping out babies and emissions, without end?

I am furious; absolutely certain with every thread of my ecological knowledge, intuition and being that no good and a large amount of harm will come from geo-engineering. Proposed global scale experimental environmental fixes will be disastrous. Under no circumstances may untested planetary manipulations commence until all other options have failed. The seeds of an operable biosphere remain, they must be given time and space to reestablish themselves; and humanity challenged and aided by all means to embrace necessary radical change.

The biosphere belongs to all people and tribes, and should it come to wild once off experiments with the Earth, the decision must be made by United Nations consensus. Until then, government prohibitions on unsanctioned activities must be implemented with all haste. Given the lack of regulation against such planetary scale climate experiments, direct action to stop arbitrary and capricious geo-engineering implementation is warranted and necessary.


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://www.EcoEarth.Info/ . Earth Meanders is a series of ecological essays that are written entirely 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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TAKE ACTION: Protect Sharks!
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Anlässlich des Welttierschutztages am 4. Oktober fordert der Bundesverband Menschen für Tierrechte ein gesetzliches Verbot von Affenversuchen. Dieses sei aus ethischen und wissenschaftlichen Gründen überfällig, meint die Organisation. In Deutschland würden jährlich über 2000 Affen in Tierexperimenten eingesetzt, in der gesamten EU etwa 10.000. Bis zu 80 Prozent der Primaten müssten noch immer für qualvolle Giftigkeitstests verschiedenster Substanzen ihr Leben lassen, kritisieren die Tierschützer.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16692

October 3: Heliberto Chi, TX
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=13727

October 16: Jack Harold Jones Jr., AR
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12500

October 17: Christopher Emmett, VA
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=13769

October 25: Daniel Siebert, AL
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=13770

Nick Turse writes for TomDispatch.com: "I am one of the demonstrators who was illegally arrested by the New York City Police Department during the protests against the 2004 Republican National Convention. My crime had been -- in an effort to call attention to the human toll of America's wars -- to ride the subway, dressed in black with the pallor of death about me (thanks to cornstarch and cold cream), and an expression to match, sporting a placard around my neck that read: WAR DEAD."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse

Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "The latest Bush story is the cry that Social Security is going bankrupt and will impose an unbearable burden on our children and grandchildren. Of course, this is not the first time President Bush has gone after Social Security."

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



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

Walter Pincus reports for The Washington Post: "It costs the US government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops. It comes down to the simple business equation of every transaction requiring a profit."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Pincus

Ros Taylor, of The Guardian UK, reports, "John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates today that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country." Sarah Baxter reports for The Times UK: "One of the founding fathers of neoconservatism has privately urged President George W Bush to bomb Iran rather than allow it to acquire nuclear weapons." Simon Walters reports for The Daily Mail UK: "British MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior ... officials: 'I hate all Iranians.'"

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



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

Kevin Peraino reports for Newsweek: "Since the fatal Sept. 16 Blackwater USA shooting in Baghdad's Nasoor Square, officials from the private security company have insisted that their guards were responding to fire from 'armed enemies.' Yet an extensive evidence file put together by the Iraqi National Police and obtained by NEWSWEEK - including documents, maps, sworn witness statements and police video footage - appears to contradict the contractors' version of events."

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



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/01/4243/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/01/4233



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Niedersächsisches Polizeigesetz auf dem Prüfstand
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26306/1.html



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

Nach einem Bericht von Seymour Hersh plane die US-Regierung nun keine Angriffe mehr auf die iranischen Atomanlagen, sondern "chirurgische Schläge" auf die Revolutionäre Garde, die als Selbstverteidigung dargestellt werden sollen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26310/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh

US-Präsident Bush hat es mit seiner Klimakonferenz geschafft, bereits sehr weit nach unten geschraubte Erwartungen noch zu unterlaufen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/96770

Edmund Sanders, of The Los Angeles Times, reports: "women wait as long as three days for water, using jerrycans to save their places in perpetual lines that snake around pumps. A year ago, residents could fill a 5-gallon plastic can in a few minutes, but lately the flow is so slow it takes half an hour. 'The water is running out,' said a breathless Mariam Ahmed Mohammed, 35, sweating at the pump with an infant strapped to her back. 'As soon as I fill one jerrycan, I put another at the back of the line.' Water isn't the only endangered resource. Forests were chopped down long ago, and the roots were dug up for firewood. Thousands of displaced families are living atop prime agricultural land, preventing nearby farmers from growing food."

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

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UN's most expensive mission exposed as farcical shambles

Almost six months after the United Nations launched its largest, most expensive and most hyped peacekeeping mission, promising to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, the operation is failing to protect the people it was sent to save.

http://tinyurl.com/5hvq4y


From Information Clearing House



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New York Times's reporter Linda Greenhouse reports: "the Supreme Court has so many polarizing cases on the docket for its new term that the deep ideological divisions that characterized the last term are all but certain to remain on display after justices reconvene on Monday. The conservative majority under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. drove the court to the right in a series of high-profile rulings during the term that ended in June. That performance, as well as a series of books and articles by and about justices, has placed the court in an unusually bright spotlight as the new term opens."

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



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+G.+Roberts
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Paul Shanker, of The New York Times, reports "the United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers. The global arms market is highly competitive, with manufacturing nations seeking both to increase profits and to expand political influence through weapons sales to developing nations, which reached nearly $28.8 billion in 2006."

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

1. Oktober 2007

Zur heutigen "Berliner Rede" von Bundespräsident Köhler zur Globalisierung erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Wenn Horst Köhler dazu aufruft, die Vorteile des globalen Wandels zu nutzen und jeden daran teilhaben zu lassen, ist das ein hehrer Anspruch. Die Realität in Deutschland sieht jedoch anders aus. Doch - wie Horst Köhler selber sagte - der Test für Glaubwürdigkeit beginnt zu Hause. Insofern hat Deutschland den Glaubwürdigkeitstest nicht bestanden. Globalisierung ist für die Menschen in diesem Lande in erster Linie mit dem Abbau von sozialen Rechten und Arbeitsstandards sowie mit Deregulierung verbunden. Wenn Horst Köhler heute die mutigen Reformen der vergangenen Jahre lobt und die Ablösung des "betreuend fürsorglichen" durch den "ertüchtigend vorsorglichen" Staat fordert, liefert er die ideologische Begleitmusik für den Abbau des Sozialstaates. Statt der Beteiligung einiger Beschäftigten am Kapital der Unternehmen bedarf es guter Löhne für alle. Wer möchte, dass die Beschäftigten mehr in der Tasche haben, muss den gesetzliche Mindestlohn einführen. Die viel beschworenen gleichen Zugangschancen für Bildung bleiben ohne Erfolg, wenn Kinder von Hartz-IV-Beziehenden und aus sozial benachteiligten Familien weder die notwendigen Schulmaterialien noch ein warmes Schulessen bekommen. Und wer Anstrengungen zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels predigt, muss sich zu Hause aktiv dem geplanten Börsengang der Bahn entgegenstellen. Die heutige "Berliner Rede" von Horst Köhler ist voller freundlicher Worte. Hinter seinem eigenen Anspruch, dass der Test für Glaubwürdigkeit zu Hause beginnt, bleibt er jedoch selbst zurück.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/deutschland-hat-glaubwuerdigkeitstest-nicht-bestanden/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Globalisierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deregulierung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sozialstaat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mindestlohn

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

09/27/07

In their attempt to subvert our Iraq war effort and malign those who support it, antiwar demagogues repeatedly disparage it as a ‘war of choice,’ as opposed to the illusory ‘war of necessity.’ This is a false and pernicious dichotomy, one that misstates history and ignores logic...

http://tinyurl.com/2qglr5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Karen Kwiatkowski

09/29/07

The republic is dead. Not sick, not dying, not failing, or in a gradual decline, not waiting to be resuscitated, but already stone cold dead. This death probably occurred as we began to win the Cold War, but long before we realized we had prevailed. The professionalization of politics, of military and bureaucratic service to the state, of foreign policy making, and of business seems to have completely done in the old ideas...

http://tinyurl.com/ys6mcs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.bdwi.de/show/564228.html



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

Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post report that five "eyewitnesses to a September 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving the private security firm Blackwater USA insisted that company guards fired without provocation, forcing civilians and Iraqi police to run for cover, and that the Iraqi officers did not return fire."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093007Y.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sudarsan+Raghavan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karen+DeYoung

by Dr. Edwin Vieira, Ph.D., JD

Recently, you have probably read a spate of justifiably angry Internet commentaries and watched some truly shocking and sickening videos reporting on and recording the scandal of the ever-increasing instances of senseless, sadistic rogue police brutality throughout the United States. Being provided with a badge, a gun, and a para-military uniform has apparently become a license for their holders to run amok­intimidating, threatening, terrorizing, assaulting, even killing innocent citizens........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin67.htm



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

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3252642434022358005

http://www.reachingtruth.com/themic.html
http://www.reachingtruth.com/pnacosp.html


Informant: eyeodneedle



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

In einem Bericht äußert der UN-Berichterstatter für das Recht auf Nahrung seine "große Besorgnis, dass der Biosprit einen Hungersog" führt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26297/1.html



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

USA: Eine Abstimmung im Senat zur Aufteilung des Irak und warum von Bushs Nachfolgern keine bessere Irak-Politik zu erwarten ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26304/1.html

Warum schlagen Asylbehörden, Ärzte und Gerichte immer wieder begründete Warnungen in den Wind, die auf das gefährdete Leben eines Flüchtlings hinweisen?

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26307/1.html



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/29/4200/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katrina+Vanden+Heuvel

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/30/4214

Tough Luck, Kids: The President Wants to Veto Your Care
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/30/4216/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=No+Child+Left+Behind
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Clint+Talbot

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/29/4206/



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

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/168.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election+fraud
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

Soaring food prices, driven in part by demand for ethanol made from corn, have helped slash the amount of food aid the government buys to its lowest level in a decade, possibly resulting in more hungry people around the world this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/world/29food.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


From Information Clearing House



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

The French president longs to play the newly vacant, thankless role of Washington's sidekick on the world stage.

http://snipurl.com/1rkej


From Information Clearing House



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

The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion -- from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion -- and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush White House at least $9 billion in new funding for its war in Iraq.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=237751



Iraq: We'll Negotiate Long-Term Presence

Officials said Iraq would seek a long-term, bilateral security agreement with the United States like the ones Washington has with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/29/iraq/main3311545.shtml


From Information Clearing House

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethnic+cleansing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+Hersh

It is the first time the Bush Administration had made such data public and comes as Blackwater - the State Department's prime security force - faces new scrutiny for its role this month in the killing of up to 11 Iraqis.

http://snipurl.com/1rke3


From Information Clearing House



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

Seven men were killed, Sayyid Malik Abadi, the head of the district security committee, who arrived at the scene shortly after the episode, said Friday. He said perhaps an eighth man had died as well, but too many body parts were scattered about to be certain exactly how many were killed.

http://snipurl.com/1rke2


From Information Clearing House

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/63632



How the World Views U.S.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlMnf7t4t4


From Information Clearing House

He can't keep a job, pay his bills, or chase thoughts of suicide from his tortured brain. In a few weeks, he may lose his house, too.

http://snipurl.com/1rkdn


From Information Clearing House

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Returning From Iraq, Wounded Vets Now Suffer Financial Woes

Jeff Donn and Kimberly Hefling, The Associated Press, write: "He was one of America's first defenders on September 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq. Today, he can't keep a job, pay his bills, or chase thoughts of suicide from his tortured brain."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093007F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Vets
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kimberly+Hefling

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18477.htm



Death From All Sides

An extensive evidence file assembled by the Iraqi National Police after the controversial Blackwater shooting suggests that the private contractors opened fire unprovoked from the ground and the sky.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21064094/site/newsweek/?from=rss


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercenaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neil+Mackay

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18479.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charley+Reese

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh


From Supreme Law Firm

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US Trains Gulf Air Forces For War With Iran

By Tim Shipman in Washington

The American air force is working with military leaders from the Gulf to train and prepare Arab air forces for a possible war with Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18482.htm



The Hidden Iranian Offer To Bush

By Peter W. Galbraith

"In May 2003, the Iranian authorities sent a proposal through the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, Tim Guldimann, for negotiations on a package deal in which Iran would freeze its nuclear program in exchange for an end to US hostility".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18780.htm



So What About Iran?

By Uri Avnery

A RESPECTED American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will respond by launching missiles at Israel, and this will serve as a pretext for an American attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18478.htm



The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

By Democracy Now

We speak with Trita Parsi, author of "Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States" and Baruch professor Ervand Abrahamian, co-author of "Targeting Iran."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18476.htm



Neocons seek to justify action against Teheran

American diplomats have been ordered to compile a dossier detailing Iran's violations of international law that some fear could be used to justify military strikes against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.

http://snipurl.com/1rkdq



Neocon 'godfather' Norman Podhoretz tells Bush: bomb Iran

Norman Podhoretz, an intellectual guru of the neoconservative movement who has joined Rudolph Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser, held an unpublicised meeting with Bush late last spring at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

http://snipurl.com/1rkdt



Bolton calls for bombing of Iran

John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates today that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country.

http://snipurl.com/1rkdu



Senate Urges Bush to Attack Iran

Yesterday, Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton (NY), Chuck Schumer (NY), Bob Menendez (NJ), Barbara Mikulski (MD), and Ben Cardin (MD) all voted in favor of the "Kyl-Lieberman Iran Amendment." This piece of legislation actually encourages the practitioner of cowboy diplomacy, George W. Bush, to be even more belligerent in his foreign policy. The Kyl-Lieberman Amendment passed by a vote of 76 to 22. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden voted against it, and Barack Obama missed the vote.

http://snipurl.com/1rkdv



"I hate all Iranians", US aide tells MPs

Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior women officials: "I hate all Iranians."

http://snipurl.com/1rkdw


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Podhoretz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bolton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pre-emptive+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seymour+M.+Hersh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Shipman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Galbraith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uri+Avnery

Stand with the People of Burma
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/972303571?z00m=10257662

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Have you heard about the crisis in Burma?

Burma is ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world. This week Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call for democracy. The protests spread and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people joined in -- they've been brutally attacked by the military regime, but still the protests are spreading.

I just signed a petition calling on Burma's powerful ally China and the UN security council to step in and pressure Burma's rulers to stop the killing. The petition has exploded to over 200,000 signatures in a few days and is being advertised in newspapers around the world, delivered to the UN secretary general, and broadcast to the Burmese people by radio. We're trying to get to 1 million signatures this week, please sign below and tell everyone!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php?cl=21704424

Thank you for your help!

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Bloggers Risked All to Reveal Brutal Burma Crackdown

Kenneth Denby, of the Times UK, reports: "since last month Ko Latt, 28, his friends Arca, Eye, Sun and Superman, and scores of others like them have been the third pillar of Burma's Saffron Revolution. While the veteran democracy activists, and then the Buddhist monks, marched in their tens of thousands against the military regime, it is the country's amateur bloggers and internet enthusiasts who have brought the images to the outside world. Armed with small digital cameras, they have documented the spectacular growth of the demonstrations from crowds of a few hundred to as many as 100,000."

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



Groups Struggle to Tally Burma's Dead

Michael Casey of The Associated Press reports: "One hundred shot dead outside a Myanmar school. Activists burned alive at government crematoriums. Buddhist monks floating face down in rivers."

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



Burma: UN Getting Nowhere With the Generals

Marwaan Macan-Markar reports for Inter Press Service, "Few foreigners are as qualified to talk about the mind and the manner of Burma's dictatorship as Razali Ismail, a Malaysian diplomat who served five years as special United Nations envoy charged with facilitating political reform in that military-ruled country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100207A.shtml



Burma Citizens Launch Silent Protest

The Associated Press reports: "a growing number of citizens in Burma's largest city are shutting off the government-run nightly newscast, trying to send the subtle message to authorities that they are tired of listening to their propaganda, residents said Tuesday. Most are switching off the news for the first 15 minutes of the hour-long broadcast, while some also are shutting off all the lights in their homes. It was unclear how many people participated in the protest, which spread by word of mouth."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100307L.shtml



Chevron's Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime's Lifeline

On Truthdig, Amy Goodman says, "Chevron's role in propping up the brutal regime in Burma is clear. According to Marco Simons, US legal director at EarthRights International: 'Sanctions haven't worked because gas is the lifeline of the regime.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100307S.shtml



Protesters Stay Put to Battle Junta as World Waits on Burmese Border

Peter Popham, of The Independent UK, reports: "at the Moei river in Thailand there is sticky sunshine, jungle and the world's media in waiting. Yet there is no flood of refugees from across the border in Burma. From Rangoon there are disturbing reports of monks fleeing the city; of thousands more locked up in windowless improvised prisons with little to eat or drink."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100407K.shtml



Monks Defended by Power of the People

Kenneth Denby reports for The Times UK: "To the handful of monks still remaining at Ngwe Kya Yan monastery - bruised, scared and in shock - it must have seemed that everything was over. The soldiers and police made their first swoop in the early hours, cracking skulls, firing rubber bullets and dragging away more than 70 monks to secret detention centres."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100407C.shtml



Monks Flee Crackdown in Burma

The Christian Science Monitor's Simon Montlake writes: "A violent crackdown in military-run Burma (Myanmar) is continuing, one week after security forces broke up peaceful monk-led protests on the streets of Rangoon, sending shock waves around the world. Predawn raids on houses and temples in the former capital, which is under nighttime curfew, have netted truckloads of people suspected of joining the biggest antigovernment outpouring since 1988."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100607D.shtml



Burma's Saffron Revolution: Goodbye, Generals

Writing for Truthout, Cynthia Boaz and Shaazka Beyerle say, "Just because we can't see protestors any longer doesn't mean they aren't there. The Burmese regime wants us to believe their claims that they have 'restored normalcy' to the country. They want us to conclude that the repression was successful and that the resistance has been crushed. But that's not the real story from Burma."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100707A.shtml

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Burma: British Paper Reporting 'Thousands Are Dead'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/01/4236/

Chevron’s Links to Burma Stir Critics to Demand It Pull Out
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/04/4303/

The Martyrdom of Burma’s Marching Monks
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/04/4308

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Burma: Monks vanish as troops step up presence

Independent [UK]

10/02/07

The gates were open at Rangoon’s glittering Shwedagon temple yesterday but soldiers, not monks, wandered its marble-floored shrines and pavilions. Five days after Burma’s military leaders began a crackdown on protesting monks and their civilian supporters, the red-robed Buddhist clergy, normally seen in their thousands around the city, have vanished. And the UN’s special envoy sent to confront the military junta was stalled for yet another day. ‘The monks are gone. We are worried about them. We don’t know where they are,’ said a young guide at the temple. … ‘It is strange now,’ said the guide, out of the earshot of soldiers. ‘We don’t think the army should be at the temple. We think the monks have been taken away. We think they are in jail.’ A senior monk told The Independent at the weekend he believed 3,000 monks had been detained by Burmese security forces, and were being held in police and military camps...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3018349.ece



Monks ‘trying to escape Rangoon’

BBC News

10/03/07

Scores of monks are trying to leave Burma’s main city, Rangoon, following the military’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, reports say.Monks were seen at the railway station and bus drivers were reportedly refusing to take them, out of fear they would not be allowed petrol. Curfews and night-time police raids are continuing in Rangoon. Correspondents describe a climate of fear there. …. The correspondent described how a middle-aged man in one of the city’s tea shops whispered: “I really want change - but they have guns and we don’t, so they’ll always win...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7025357.stm



Soldiers hunt dissidents in Burma

Yahoo! News

10/03/07

After crushing the democracy uprising with guns, Myanmar’s junta switched to an intimidation campaign Wednesday, sending troops to drag people from their homes in the middle of the night and letting others know they were marked for arrest. People living near the Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar’s most revered shrine and a flash point of unrest during the protests, reported that police swept through several dozen homes about 3 a.m., dragging away many men for questioning...

http://tinyurl.com/2xdfy2



Burma, Chevron and Total: If I were on a jury…

BradSpangler.Com
by Brad Spangler

10/04/07

As you’re no doubt aware, the Burmese state has been bloodily cracking down on popular unrest — massacring pacifist monks, dragging people out of their homes in the middle of the night and so forth. What you might not be aware of is that oil companies Chevron and Total are business partners with the Burmese state. These enterprises are complicit in propping up a tyrannical regime. Agorists recognize that, like most of the corporate dominated ‘white market’ economy, the source of their wealth is not really production and exchange but subsidies, sweetheart deals and generally cozy relationships with the bandit gangs more commonly referred to as ‘governments’...

http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/811


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Burma in Turmoil
http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=071003A&i=483

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How the U.S. tied its hands in dealing with the human rights crisis in Burma
http://ga3.org/ct/Ad20pgF1qEaG/

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My Last Conversation With Aung San Suu Kyi

By John Pilger

As the people of Burma rise up again, we have had a rare sighting of Aung San Suu Kyi. There she stood, at the back gate of her lakeside home in Rangoon, where she is under house arrest. She looked very thin. For years, people would brave the roadblocks just to pass by her house and be reassured by the sound of her playing the piano.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18502.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Burma
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1300003.stm
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/
http://www.burmanet.org/news/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chevron
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sally+Kohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

by Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D

According to the North American Forum on Integration (NAFINA), on November 17, 1979 when Ronald Reagan officially declared his presidential candidacy, he proposed a "North American Agreement" in which "the goods and people of the three countries will cross boundaries more freely." Then as his presidency began in January 1981, he proposed a North American common market. By the last year of his presidency.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis111.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Cuddy

Sunday, September 30, 2007

The police and the Government can now access details of every phone call made

Details of every phone call made in Britain will be available to the police and the Government from on Monday.

A law is now in force requiring telephone companies to keep information about landline and mobile communications for up to a year.

Read More...
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=68143&in_page_id=34

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Phonecalls and texts to be logged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7021647.stm

Government logs calls and texts
http://www.itpro.co.uk/wireless/news/126685/government-logs-calls-and-texts.html