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Kein Herz für Robben?
http://tinyurl.com/37jxpr

Unter dem Titel "Gute Arbeit - Gutes Leben" hat die Linksraktion im Deutschen Bundestag am 23. Oktober ein Manifest für eine gerechte Arbeitswelt vorgelegt. Immer weniger Menschen hätten eine "Gute Arbeit", meinen die Linken. "Millionen haben gar keine Arbeit, Millionen arbeiten zu Hungerlöhnen, Millionen arbeiten in unsicheren 'Jobs', Millionen arbeiten sich kaputt vor lauter Überstunden und Arbeitshetze." An dieser Entwicklung habe die Politik von Rot-Grün und Schwarz-Rot einen erheblichen Anteil. Mit der Liberalisierung der Finanzmärkte, der Privatisierung öffentlicher Unternehmen und den Hartz-Gesetzen hätten die Regierungen Schröder und Merkel der Ausbreitung "schlechter Arbeit" den Weg geebnet. "Unsicher, gering bezahlt, ohne ausreichende Sozialversicherung, nicht mitbestimmt", dies seien die Markenzeichen der schlechten Arbeit.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16827

Jim Hightower, writing for the Hightower Lowdown, says: "Where is Congress? It's way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being trampled, the very form of our government is being perverted, and nothing less than American democracy itself is endangered - a presidential coup is taking place."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307E.shtml



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Jed Rubenfeld, in an op-ed for The New York Times, writes: "I practiced before Judge Mukasey when I was an assistant United States attorney, and I saw his fairness, conscientiousness and legal acumen. But before voting to confirm him as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, the Senate should demand that he retract this statement. It is a dangerous confusion and distortion of the single most fundamental principle of the Constitution - that everyone, including the president, is subject to the rule of law."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307C.shtml



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David Corn, writing his final column for The Nation, says: "So is anyone apologizing? For ruining Valerie Wilson's career? For perhaps endangering operations and agents? For lying about the leak? For misleading the public about Rove's role? For placing spin above the truth? Armitage did apologize (via a media interview) to the Wilsons. But no one else involved has. And no one - not Bush, not Cheney, not their aides, not their neocon confederates - has admitted any wrongdoing in this saga."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307B.shtml



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Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801434.html


Informant: Informant: bigraccoon

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Robobugs maybe next wartime tool

Fox News
05/04/08

It looks like something out of the latest science-fiction movie, but it could be the next line of defense for U.S. soldiers fighting on the front lines. The British defense and aerospace company BAE Systems is creating small electronic insects, spiders and snakes that have the ability to enter places before combat soldiers and electronically report back what’s inside, the U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper reported. BAE just signed a multi-million dollar contract to develop the robots for the U.S. Army, the newspaper reported. Some of the insect-like robots will have small cameras, while others will have sensors able to detect chemical, biological or radioactive weapons...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354107,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/23/4745/



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Nach den Berechnungen eines internationalen Wissenschaftlerteams steigen seit 2000 die CO2-Emissionen steil an, während die Aufnahmefähigkeit der natürlichen Senken stark zurückgeht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26467/1.html



Peak-Oil in 2006?

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: EnBW will Kohlekraftwerke bauen und lässt Al Gore für den Klimaschutz werben, die Arktis friert, aber nicht schnell genug, und deutsche Wissenschaftler sehen Peak-Oil bereits gekommen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26465/1.html



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All According to Plan
http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/all_according_plan?tx=3



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by Isaiah J. Poole

The Bush administration wants Congress to throw more dollars into the Iraq war furnace while fighting over dimes for domestic needs.

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From TomPaine.com



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Holiday Extras - Dartford, England, UK

Several airlines are believed to be planning to introduce mobile phone use in the future, but the survey suggests they may be wasting their money...

http://www.holidayextras.co.uk/news/hx-travel/mobile-phones-128.html



Business travellers say no to mobiles on planes

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

A spokesman for Flybe confirmed that it had encountered "little demand" for mobile phone usage in-flight. The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) told...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/10/23/et-mobiles-123.xml

Christian Berthelsen reports for The Los Angeles Times, "Leaders in the Iraqi parliament said Monday that they were taking steps to examine the US military presence in Iraq with an eye toward possibly restricting the force's activities, in a continuing backlash over an American raid that Iraqi officials say killed 13 civilians."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307N.shtml



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Dan Morain and Joe Mathews report for The Los Angeles Times, "Veteran GOP consultants said Monday that they were relaunching a drive to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes, aimed at helping the 2008 Republican presidential nominee capture the White House."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307L.shtml



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In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout's Matt Renner, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey shared her views about many current issues facing Congress including attempts to reinstate Congressional oversight of the Bush administration's surveillance programs, the unpopular military occupation of Iraq, the ongoing fight over Congressional subpoenas and the prospect of impeachment proceedings.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102307J.shtml



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http://www.pdsonoma.org/article/sonoma-county-stands-up-to-end-the-iraq-occupation-and-impeach-the-president


Informant: Peter Phillips



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They buy time for conspicuous energy consumption; yet are untested and far off, may cause further environmental damage and consolidate global ecological overshoot

Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
October 22, 2007

These essays have been silent on proposals for a nuclear energy revival and clean coal carbon sequestration as climate change solutions. I remain deeply uncertain and even ambivalent regarding their desirability and ultimate effectiveness. Nuclear and clean coal energies are the logical next technological steps in the progression of human dominance of the Earth. Yet at best they will only delay energy shortages while contributing little to climate change mitigation.

Nuclear energy and clean coal may need to be pursued, but let us at least be honest regarding the full range of choices and their implications. Their pursuit may well keep the lights on for awhile longer. Yet key elements of both remain untested, it is doubtful they can be ramped up fast enough to levels required to mitigate climate change, and both carry risks of serious long-term environmental damage of their own.

What is missing in the promotion of industrial responses to climate change and other eco-crises is an honest assessment whether our efforts -- in a world that has already overshot global ecological carrying capacity -- are best placed in further global scale technological manipulation, or support for resurgent nature and a powering down of industrial society.

There are well known concerns with nuclear proliferation and waste disposal. Future generations for tens of thousands of years will have to look after our nuclear waste, while not making weapons from it, even as they face potential cataclysmic nuclear accidents. Uranium itself is becoming scarce, the full process from mining to waste burial does release appreciable greenhouse gases, building the number of nuclear plants needed would be unprecedented if not impossible, and nuclear plants require large amounts of water for cooling -- which climate change may make unavailable.

Commercial scaled sequestration of carbon underground from coal burning power plants remains untested both technologically and economically. There have been no large-scale demonstrations of the feasibility of burying carbon from coal on land, or that it will stay underground once buried. Building new clean coal plants and retrofitting existing ones would take decades, which we do not have to address climate change. One earthquake or leak could in the future release huge amounts of "sequestered" carbon at once with devastating impact. Coal based energy devastates land, mountains and water worldwide; which would continue.

The primary benefit of both new nuclear and clean coal energy is that they would allow for continued profligate and even wasteful energy use, putting off difficult changes in energy policy. Their embrace would allow energy conservation and efficiency measures, that some suggest would lead to a less fulfilling life for the energy rich, to be postponed. Energy shortages and ecological collapse would be put off a decade or two, allowing perhaps one more generation in over-developed countries to enjoy McMansions, hummers, plasma TVs and other benefits of energy misuse.

It is quite possible that embracing new nuclear and coal energy will put off the pathologies stalking the human race for awhile, but at the expense of distracting from real solutions, and further entrenching trends that threaten the biosphere and humanity. Assuming they work, they would buy time on climate change, yet over- population and consumption will continue apace. The lights will be kept on a bit longer as we lose the Amazon, go from 6.5 to 9 billion people, destroy vital water resources, and the entire world strives for a western consumptive lifestyle.

Perhaps nuclear energy and clean coal could be pursued as one component in a vast program to save humanity and our habitat. This would include programs to reduce human population; pursue energy alternatives, conservation and efficiency; preserve and restore ancient forests; and reduce conspicuous and inequitable consumption. Their energy could be used to tool a renewable energy infrastructure. But this is not what is proposed. Rather the key selling point is that both make it possible to continue consuming electricity excessively for longer.

Humanity has a fundamental choice to make whether we are going to primarily pursue technological, or nature based, remedies to climate change and other ecological crises. Will we seek to engineer a biosphere, or will we again embrace living within the Earth and biosphere's natural limits?

If we embrace natural responses; such as powering down our economy, preserving and restoring ecosystems, and reducing our population and consumption; we could still pull back and avoid ecological collapse resulting from exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity. We can also try to do so by taking the Earth into human control, though at greater risk and with grave uncertainties, for all of our remaining time.


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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Buch von Naomi Klein, erschienen im S. Fischer Verlag und aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Hartmut Schickert und Michael Bischoff und Karl Heinz Siber (Preis € (D) 22,90/Preis SFR 40,40 (UVP), 768 Seiten, gebunden, ISBN 978-3-10-039611-2). Siehe dazu:

Informationen und Bestellmöglichkeit beim Fischerverlag http://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/9783100396112

sowie Infos zur Autorin und weitere Hinweise ebd. http://www.fischerverlage.de/microsite/autor/www.naomiklein.de/home


Blank is beautiful. Drei Jahrzehnte des weltweiten Plattmachens und Wiederaufbauens

Inhaltsverzeichnis und Einleitung von Naomi Klein (pdf) – exklusiv im LabourNet Germany http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/allg/schock.pdf


Naomi Klein deckt die „Meister-Erzählung“ und die Gewalt des Neoliberalismus auf. Doch „Die Schock-Strategie“ missfällt besonders deutschen Medienmännern.

Rezension der Rezensionen von Brigitta Huhnke vom 21.10.2007 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/allg/schock.html


The Shock Doctrine Short Film http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film


Homepage von Naomi Klein http://www.naomiklein.org/main

Interviews mit und ein Beitrag von Naomi Klein - Übersetzung und Einführung durch Brigitta Huhnke bei NachDenkSeiten http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/wp-print.php?p=2662


Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush's Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More Monday

Interview von Amy Goodman vom September 24th, 2007 bei Democracy now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/1412226&mode=thread&tid=25


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Oktober 2007



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from Reason to Freedom
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

10/21/07

A few months back, I wrote back-to-back weekly messages regarding globalism and isolationism. In writing those columns, I focused on the fact that our nation’s interventionist foreign policy was precisely what was isolating us from other countries. Turkey’s recall of their U.S. ambassador in the wake of last week’s resolution, passed in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in condemnation of Turkey, is a perfect example of what I wrote in those columns, as well as what I have been saying for years. The House has passed similar resolutions for years, praising some foreign countries or political groups while chastising others. It is my policy to vote against resolutions of this sort whenever they have the impact of placing our country in the middle of an internal political problem of some other nation, or involving us in some regional conflict...

http://tinyurl.com/3ce5zt


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Strike the Root
by Glen Allport

10/22/07

Without the United States federal government, the Fed would not exist and the money used by Americans would be gold and silver — things which could not be counterfeited constantly to supply ‘money’ for war, for special interests, and for other groups and purposes opposed to the interests of the average American. Nor would Americans be forced to literally borrow money — money created from thin air — from a privately-owned central bank (as our government does now) and then pay interest on it as part of the national debt. What a scam!...


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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Greg James

10/21/07

You have to wonder if the whole conservative movement in the U.S. is living in a weird alternate reality in which the only thing that matters is what you say, and facts, consistency and honor mean nothing. The recent remarks by Rush Limbaugh in which he called military men who opposed the Iraq war ‘phony soldiers’ is another example of the strange world in which he (and a lot of neocons) exist. The reason: Limbaugh could be the poster boy of a group of war cheerleaders (including Dick Cheney, Mike Medved, Sean Hannity, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Mike Savage, et al.) who chose to avoid military service when it was their turn. Now that the coast is clear, they’ve all morphed into self-righteous war boosters sitting in comfortable offices lecturing the rest of us about patriotism and duty...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/336152_firstperson22.html


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Christian Science Monitor
by staff

10/23/07

Corn. There’s nothing like eating it right off the cob at a picnic. It’s also great as flakes, fritters, or a muffin. And it’s feed for livestock. But there’s one thing corn should not be: A solution for global warming or a way to reduce America’s dependency on foreign oil. Corn-based ethanol fuel has been growing wildly in recent years. According to the Renewable Fuels Association, the US now has 129 ethanol plants, with more than 50 online since just 2005. In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Bush called for the US to make 35 billion gallons of ethanol annually by 2017, about 15 percent of its total liquid fuels. Today, half the gasoline sold in the US contains some ethanol. But the problems of mass-producing this type of ethanol are beginning to crop up. One problem, according to a report this month from the National Research Council, is that the projected increases in the use of corn to produce ethanol could cause considerable harm to water quality and supply...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1023/p08s02-comv.html


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Huffington Post
by Dan Brown

10/22/0

George W. Bush explained his recent veto of the bipartisan-supported Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, because he says he wants to put ‘poor kids first.’ … He contends that only kids born into the most desperate poverty should get help outside of private, market-priced insurance — whether they can afford it or not. And now he wants to cut government-subsidized heat to low-income households. … Using the pathetic trick of releasing the mean-spirited announcement on a Friday evening, the week’s lowest-buzzing moment of news coverage, the Bush Administration wants to cut the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), a move which will literally leave 30 million low-income households in the cold this winter”...

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AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

10/23/07

The issue of torture as a reliable interrogation tool aside, torture brutalizes and degrades the individual carrying it out, the organization he or she represents, and the government that approves of the practice. Even people who support many of the excesses resulting from the so-called War on Terror frequently understand that there are lines that should not be crossed, and torture is one of them. There have been reports that the CIA has had difficulty in recruiting people willing to carry out ‘extreme interrogation.’ That attorney general-designate Michael Mukasey, who is almost certain to be confirmed by Congress, claims not to know whether water-boarding amounts to torture or not is outrageous. That the president of the United States has not been challenged by the public and press when he explains that ‘we do not torture’ — while he refuses to make public secret memos contradicting his words — marks a sad day for those who revere our liberties...

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Fox News

10/22/07

Rep. Henry Waxman has leveled new accusations against embattled Iraq security contractor Blackwater USA, saying the firm appears to be conducting a ‘tax scheme’ to avoid paying millions of dollars to the federal government in payroll taxes, Social Security and Medicare benefits. Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, also alleges the company is trying to hide its actions — a claim the Moyock, N.C.-based firm vehemently denies. Blackwater is the largest private security contractor working for the State Department in Iraq, and has been under heavy political fire from Waxman’s committee for much of the past year for its conduct in Iraq...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304221,00.html


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USA Today

10/22/07

The State Department so badly managed a $1.2 billion contract for Iraqi police training that it can’t tell what it got for the money spent, a new report says. Because of disarray in invoices and records on the project — and because the government is trying to recoup money paid inappropriately to contractor DynCorp International, LLC — auditors have temporarily suspended their effort to review the contract’s implementation, said Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen Jr. ...

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by Darren Weeks

Americans continue to send their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren, with hugs and kisses, overseas to the killing fields, believing the lie that they are sacrificing their lives for freedom. How it grieves this writer to see the faces of America’s finest plastered on the TV screen, having given their lives for the lie. It kills me to see their weeping mothers, with broken and empty hearts, clinging to their sole source of comfort ­ the belief that their baby died “doing what he loved.”........

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by NWV News

For instance, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and its affiliated state organizations such as the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police have recently formulated in their 2007 Legislative Report an emergency plan for police agencies in the event of a pandemic involving the so-called Bird Flu. Prior to a pandemic event, the plan urges that local leaders prepare their communities for implementation of pandemic influenza containment measures that may be called into play during the emergency. Community disease control measures range from "individual containment measures to community-based containment measures."

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Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071022/A_NEWS/710220310


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The dollar fell to a new all-time low against the euro Monday after a weekend meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers ended without a clear statement about weakness in the U.S. currency.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071022/dollar.html?.v=2



Fear of global slowdown as oil price soars

Opec under fire as US crude nears $100 a barrel
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195697,00.html



IMF warns of decline in global economy

Stock markets around the world were braced for fresh falls today despite attempts by the G7 leading industrial nations and the International Monetary Fund to boost confidence after Friday's plunge in share prices on Wall Street.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/imf/story/0,,2196604,00.html



US subprime crisis "an accident waiting to happen": Greenspan

"Credit spreads across all global asset classes had become compressed to clearly unsustainable levels," Greenspan told an audience at the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071021230406.ugwgbk5m.html



Southern California to ration water next year

Farmers will see supply cut by a third; homeowners to see price hikes in '09.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21246419


From Information Clearing House

The figure, which Bush was expected to announce later Monday at the White House, brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for the budget year that started Oct. 1.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/world/us_world_article.aspx?storyid=132336


From Information Clearing House

The new chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview published Monday that the prolonged military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan may have undermined the military's ability to fight wars against major adversaries - including Iran.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/915742.html



The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran

That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/iranbriefing1107


From Information Clearing House



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The US government should prepare a "contingency plan" for Pakistan in case Pervez Musharraf regime falls because of presence of nuclear weapons, a top opposition lawmaker has said while warning that the Islamic country was in for "a very rough period".

http://snipurl.com/1sibu


From Information Clearing House



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Iraqi nationalism is the only political force capable of uniting Sunni and Shiite Arabs and ending the sectarian civil war, but for the past four years the United States has systematically worked to suppress it.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/65797/


From Information Clearing House



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By Charles Sullivan

We need to develop a holistic world view in place of that which was born of hubris and economic self interest. That view will not be born of capitalism, or any repressive religious theology. It can only come from healthful interaction with the organic world, in the big outside.

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By Mike Whitney

Friday's bloodbath on Wall Street proved that the troubles in the credit markets have not been relieved by the Fed's rate cuts. The Dow Jones slipped 367 points on the 20th anniversary of Black Monday, the stock market's biggest one-day loss in history. Since Friday, Asian markets have plunged; stocks are down sharply in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.

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Riverbend - Iraqi Girl Blog

It is estimated that there are at least 1.5 million Iraqis in Syria today. I believe it. Walking down the streets of Damascus, you can hear the Iraqi accent everywhere. There are areas like Geramana and Qudsiya that are packed full of Iraqi refugees. Syrians are few and far between in these areas. Even the public schools in the areas are full of Iraqi children. A cousin of mine is now attending a school in Qudsiya and his class is composed of 26 Iraqi children, and 5 Syrian children.

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By Cordula Meyer in Washington

More than 30,000 foreign troops are enlisted in the US Army, many of them serving in Iraq. Their reward for risking their lives for their adopted country is US citizenship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18603.htm

Chalmers Johnson, writing for TomDispatch.com, says: "Stephen Homes is a law professor at New York University. In 'The Matador's Cape', he sets out to forge an understanding - in an intellectual and historical sense, not as a matter of journalism or of partisan politics - of the Iraq War, which he calls 'one of the worst (and least comprehensible) blunders in the history of American foreign policy.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson

Steven Rosenfeld reporting for AlterNet.org, writes: "Earlier this month, the Department of Justice's top official overseeing voting rights, John Tanner, made some insensitive comments about elderly and minority voters at a Latino forum in Los Angeles, raising eyebrows in the voting rights community and prompting Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to call for his ouster on Friday. But the greater outrage, according to civil rights lawyers across the country, is how the Department's Voting Section has turned away from defending minorities that are seen as supporting Democrats - African Americans and Native Americans - while instead focusing on another minority that is seen as a Republican swing vote - Latinos."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Rosenfeld

Dean Baker, writing for Truthout, says: "There is little public support for using taxpayer dollars for protecting the richest people in the country from bad investment decisions. For this reason, when the government goes to help out those rich investors who cannot fend for themselves, it must come up with some alternative explanation."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207D.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/22/4734/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Holly+Sklar

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/22/4730



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/22/4736



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/22/4743/

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No War No Warming

Growing collection of reports, photos, and lots of videos please send along any that are missing.

http://afterdowningstreet.org/polarbears


David Swanson
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Pete Yost reports for The Associated Press: "During an investigation of his conduct last year, President Bush's housing secretary defiantly defended his dealings with federal contractors doing business with the department. Alphonso Jackson survived that investigation, but now faces a new one stemming from the same forceful style that got him in trouble the first time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alphonso+Jackson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pete+Yost

Steven R. Weisman reports for The New York Times, "The semiannual meetings of the world's top finance and banking officials are predictable in one sense: Europeans and Americans often use them to lecture leaders of poor countries about the need to modernize their capital markets, promote transparency and adhere to sound investment standards. What a difference a subprime mortgage crisis can make. Now developing countries are lecturing the West."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207O.shtml



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

Dan Eggen of The Washington Post reports: "When previous Republican administrations were accused of illegality in the FBI and CIA spying abuses of the 1970s or the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, Democrats in Congress launched investigations or pushed for legislative reforms. But last week, faced with admissions by several telecommunication companies that they assisted the Bush administration in warrantless spying on Americans, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee took a much different tack - proposing legislation that would grant those companies retroactive immunity from prosecution or lawsuits."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207M.shtml



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Christian Berthelsen of The Los Angeles Times reports, "US forces engaged in an hours-long gun battle with militants during an early-morning raid in the Iraqi capital's Shiite Muslim district of Sadr City on Sunday. American officials said as many as 49 people were killed in the fighting. The Iraqi government said many of the victims were civilians and protested the action."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207K.shtml



Iraqi gov't protests deadly U.S. raid in Baghdad

Associated Press photos showed the bodies of two toddlers, one with a gouged face, swaddled in blankets on a morgue floor. Their shirts were pulled up, exposing their abdomens, and a diaper showed above the waistband of one boy's shorts. Relatives said the children were killed when helicopter gunfire hit their house as they slept.

http://snipurl.com/1sib8



Photo Gallery: Scores killed in US Iraq raid

Women and children among victims of air strike targeting "criminals" in Sadr City.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m37424&hd=&size=1&l=e



From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+raid

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=30652



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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102100761.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1022/p02s01-ussc.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

10/19/07

They can’t stop the war or override the president’s veto on S-CHIP. Harry Reid is less popular in his home state of Nevada than the president is in the country, and, if you listen to the pollsters and the pundits, the Democrats are about to choose one of the most divisive political figures in the Republic’s history to be their 2008 presidential nominee. Which begs the question: When should Democrats begin to panic? The answer is ‘not yet.’ But the truth is that unless they can re-establish some of their 2006 momentum, Democrats may find themselves going into the next election tagged as the party that couldn’t stop Bush when given a chance, or as the party that did not try hard enough...

http://tinyurl.com/28s75v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terence+Samuel

FPIC
by Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker

10/20/07

’We have to decide, as a nation, whether our need for Middle Eastern oil is more important to our future than our conduct as a moral and ethical people.’ Which brave presidential candidate would lay it on the line so clearly? None yet. And that’s the problem with the national debate on the war in Iraq, and possibly, our foray into Iran as well...

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4656


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+oil

Reason
by Radley Balko

10/19/07

For seven years, the left has been up in arms about President Bush’s aggressive foreign policy, his secrecy, his partisanship, and his expansive claims on executive power. It’s odd, then, that they’re prepared to nominate Hillary Clinton to carry the party into the 2008 elections. The problem with Hillary Clinton is two-fold: First, she’s likely to be as bad or worse than Bush on all of those issues, and second, she’s the one Democrat the Republicans still have a chance to beat...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123103.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/22/07

The ongoing hara-kiri of the GOP proceeds apace, with the latest being a concerted effort by the party’s neoconservative wing to oust sitting Republican members of Congress who oppose the war. The latest examples: Walter B. Jones of North Carolina and Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland. Rep. Jones attracted national attention when, at the height of the pre-invasion war hysteria, he led an effort (with now-jailed Rep. Bob Ney) to rename the French fries on the menu in the House cafeteria ‘Freedom Fries’ — and then attracted more serious attention when he turned against the war he had championed, and began to denounce the president’s war policies in no uncertain terms. … There have been rumors that Jones — who started out a Democrat, like his father, who once represented the district — might return to the party of his youth, yet nothing has come of that so far. Local Republicans are rallying to his cause, and the veterans whom he has stood by so steadfastly — especially the wounded, who have been the worst victims of government incompetence in this war — have come to his aid, even as party officials have abandoned him...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11796


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
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08:00 - 22 October 2007

Plans to put up extra mobile phone antennae near city schools have sparked protests.

Mobile phone giant O2 wants to put an extra three mobile phone antennae on an industrial site in Clayton Road, off Newark Road, Lincoln.

The equipment would be added to a 79m high mast, which already has similar machinery on it, on the site.

Nearby Bracebridge Infant and Nursery School, in Francis Street, off Newark Road, has formally objected to the plans on safety grounds.

And the Priory LSST School, in Cross O'Cliff Hill, has asked the council for a written assurance that the additions will have no detrimental effects on pupils or staff.

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http://tinyurl.com/2c9qgg



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- Nouveau Dossier d'analyse de l'impact du WiFi (France) :
- Nouvelle étude AFSSET 2007, la réponse du Pr Jean-François Veil, les photos HD,
- Next-up la réalité des mesures, les analyses, les centaines de commentaires des internautes.
- Next-up Impact WiFi : New Study (2007 France), comments with photos.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Affset2007.php#1



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Der Chaos Computer Club informiert als Mitglied des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung:

„Bundesweiter Demonstrationsaufruf zum Stopp der Vorratsdatenspeicherung“

Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung ruft unter dem Motto „Freiheit statt Angst - Für die Grundrechte!“ zu bundesweiten Demonstrationen am 6. November 2007 auf, um die von der Koalition geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung noch in letzter Minute zu stoppen.

Anlass für die Demonstrationen ist die Abstimmung des Deutschen Bundestags am 9. November über den Gesetzesentwurf zur Neugestaltung der Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Das Gesetz soll ab 2008 für Sicherheitsbehörden rückblickend über 6 Monate nachvollziehbar machen, wer wann mit welchen Adressen das Internet genutzt hat und wer mit wem per Telefon oder E-Mail Kontakt hatte, bei Handy-Nutzung einschließlich des Standorts. Diese Pläne der Regierungskoalition zur Aufzeichnung von Informationen über die Kommunikation, Beziehungen, Bewegung und Mediennutzung jedes Bürgers stellen die bislang größte Gefahr für unser Recht auf ein furchtloses, selbstbestimmtes und privates Leben dar. Wir fordern die Abkehr von diesem verfassungswidrigen Generalangriff auf Bürgerrechte und Datenschutz in Deutschland.

Deshalb rufen wir alle Bürger auf, am 6. November von 17:00 bis 19:00 Uhr mit friedlichen Protesten vor Rathäusern und Regierungsgebäuden für unsere Grundrechte einzutreten. Die Kundgebungen knüpfen an die Berliner Großdemonstration vom 22. September an, welche mit 15.000 Teilnehmern die größte Bürgerrechtsdemonstration seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung war.

Wir wollen die Unverhältnismäßigkeit einer totalen Protokollierung jeglicher Telekommunikation nun in vielen deutschen Städten deutlich machen und appellieren an die Bevölkerung, mit ideenreichen Aktionen, Reden und schweigenden Mahnwachen die Einhaltung des Grundgesetzes von unserer Regierung einzufordern.

Demonstrationen sind bereits in Planung in Berlin, Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Bonn, Köln, Leipzig, Karlsruhe, München und Münster. Weitere Städte sowie Einzelheiten werden auf der Internetplattform des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung abrufbar sein. Wir rufen die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an den Kundgebungen auf, Grundgesetze, Kerzen, Fackeln oder Grablichter mitzubringen.

Argumente:

Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung halten wir aus den folgenden Gründen für inakzeptabel:

1. Eine derart weitreichende Registrierung des Kommunikations-, Bewegungs- und Internetnutzungsverhaltens greift unverhältnismäßig in die persönliche Privatsphäre ein.

2. Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung hebt den Schutz besonderer Vertrauensbeziehungen auf und beeinträchtigt dadurch berufliche Aktivitäten.

3. Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung verhindert Terrorismus und Kriminalität nicht.

4. Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung belastet Wirtschaft und Verbraucher mit hohen Kosten und schränkt Zugangsmöglichkeiten zum Internet ein.

5. Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung diskriminiert Nutzer von Telefon, Handy und Internet gegenüber anderen Kommunikationsformen wie der Post und unmittelbaren Gesprächen.

6. Die geplante Vorratsdatenspeicherung verletzt das Menschenrecht auf Privatsphäre und informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Sie ist daher verfassungswidrig.

7. Wegen offensichtlicher Rechtsverstöße ist der deutsche Gesetzgeber nicht zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung verpflichtet.



Eine Pressekonferenz ist für den 02.11. angesetzt, weitere Informationen hierzu unter:

http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/151/1/

Informationen zum Organisationsstand der für den 06. November geplanten Demonstrationen und Kundgebunden in den verschiedenen Städten gibt es unter

https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Endspurt

Hier finden sich auch Hinweise zum mitmachen.

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Gegner der Vorratsdatenspeicherung planen größte Verfassungsbeschwerde in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik

„Fast 7000 Bürger wollen sich in Karlsruhe gegen die von der großen Koalition geplante verdachtslose Erfassung von Kommunikationsdaten wehren. Der Präsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, Hans-Jürgen Papier, kommentierte im Deutschlandradio die größte Verfassungsbeschwerde in der Geschichte des Gerichts…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 30.10.2007: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/155/79/


Bundesregierung will deutsche Kommunikationsprofile an 52 ausländische Staaten weiter geben

„Unter dem Schlagwort „Cybercrime-Konvention“ will die Bundesregierung sensible Daten über unsere Kommunikation, Handystandorte und Internetnutzung an ausländische Staaten wie Azerbaijan, Russland und die USA weiter geben. Bürgerrechtler schlagen Alarm und fordern einen „Stopp der geplanten Datenhalden mit weltweitem Lagerverkauf“…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 25.10.2007 mit weiteren Informationen zu Cybercrime-Konvention http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/154/79/


Not braucht viel Gebot. Terrorgefahr in Deutschland – eine Produktivkraft für den Rechtsstaat

Artikel aus dem GegenStandpunkt 3-07 http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/gs/07/3/Notstand.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Oktober 2007



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

The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCH2701.html


From Information Clearing House

Many reluctantly leave safe-havens of Syria, Jordan to return to 'death row'.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21387023/


From Information Clearing House



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

In a speech last night Britain's ex-prime minister launched an attack on Iran that should cause all of us to shudder.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/2007/10/blairs_war_of_words_1.html



Jaw-jawing to war-war

Tony Blair's incontinent rhetoric in New York, comparing militant Islamism with 1920s fascism, only takes us closer to the abyss of war with Iran.

http://snipurl.com/1sgq0


From Information Clearing House



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

For some answers we turn to a one-man truth squad who has been reporting on Blackwater and Erik Prince's influence.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/watch.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
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What she hadn't taken into account was Musharraf's unpopularity. He is regarded in Pakistan as an American stooge. And the US war on terror, which he supports, is now perceived as a war against Islam.

http://snipurl.com/1sgpv



Tariq Ali: Bhutto's Bloody Return: A Massacre Foretold

The government pleaded with her to delay her return. Jihadi leaders, angered by her slavish support of US foreign policy, had publicly threatened to kill her. She survived but a few hundred people have been killed without reason.

http://counterpunch.org/tariq10202007.html



Backstage, U.S. nurtured Pakistan rivals' deal

To lay the groundwork for Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan, some of the highest ranking officials in the Bush administration lavished attention on her as they worked to broker a power-sharing arrangement between Bhutto and her longtime rival, President Pervez Musharraf.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/20/asia/20bhutto.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Musharraf
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tariq+Ali

Cheney, in a speech to a think tank, also accused Tehran of practicing "delay and deception" regarding its nuclear program and warned of consequences if it did not comply with the West's demands that it halt sensitive nuclear work.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3757301



Cheney: U.S. will not let Iran go nuclear

If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific reference to military action.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-21-cheney-iran_N.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2691726.ece


From Information Clearing House



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

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKCOL53898220071021?rpc=401


From Information Clearing House

Housing Flameout: California Falls Into The Sea

By Mike Whitney
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18595.htm



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

By Bill Berkowitz

After successfully holding the line on Congressional support for the surge in Iraq, wealthy Bush backers are turning their attention and money to drumming up support for military action against Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18596.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Freedom's+Watch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Berkowitz

It's The Resistance, Stupid

By Pepe Escobar

The ultimate nightmare for White House/Pentagon designs on Middle East energy resources is not Iran after all: it's a unified Iraqi resistance, comprising not only Sunnis but also Shi'ites.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18597.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

by Devvy Kidd

The State of Georgia is drying up along with several other states because of extreme drought conditions. While the political squabbling has gone on, at the heart of the matter is whether or not Georgia has the right to control their own water, its allocation and the fish in its lakes and rivers........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd316.htm



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

22. Oktober 2007

Gemeinsames Nachdenken

Die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping hat am Streitgespräch "Soziale Bewegungen und politische Parteien - Ein Dialog über Widersprüche und Gemeinsamkeiten“ auf dem 2. Sozialforum in Deutschland teilgenommen. Im folgenden einige Auszüge aus Ihrem Diskussionsbeitrag:

Die Chronik der Zusammenarbeit zwischen sozialen Bewegungen und linken Parteien verzeichnet so manchen Konflikt und so manche herbe Enttäuschung. Ursächlich dafür waren sowohl Vereinnahmungsversuche durch Parteimitglieder als auch umgekehrt die Ablehnung von Parteien durch sozial Bewegte. Aus diesen Fehlern sollten wir lernen.

Fakt ist, Parteien und soziale Bewegungen folgen unterschiedlichen eigenen Gesetzlichkeiten und haben ihre spezifischen Stärken und Schwächen. Erst das Zusammenwirken der unterschiedlichen Kräfte bringt Gesellschaftsveränderung hervor. Grundlage hierfür ist die gegenseitige Anerkennung sowie der Verzicht auf Dominanzansprüche.

Während der Gipfelproteste im Juni 2007 hat sich zwischen sozialen Bewegungen und der LINKEN eine Form der Zusammenarbeit jenseits von devoter Unsichtbarkeit der Partei einerseits und jenseits der Vereinnahmung der Bewegungen durch die Partei anderseits entwickelt.

Davon profitierten beide Seiten. Diese Zusammenarbeit gilt es fortzusetzen, um gesellschaftliche Kräfteverhältnisse zu verändern und Spielräume für linke Politik auszuweiten.

Das Sozialforum nun ist ein Ort der vor allem der Bewegungsinternen Verständigung dient. DIE LINKE wird dem Rechnung tragen. In Cottbus geht es nicht um die Sichtbarkeit der Partei. In Cottbus geht es um das gemeinsame Nachdenken.

Auf Sozialforen der vorangegangenen Jahre konnte man beobachten, wie auch die Kräfte des Widerstandes die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Hierarchien in sich reproduzieren. So waren die Podien zu oft vor allem mit lebenserfahrenen Männern aus westlichen Ländern besetzt.

Vor dem Sozialforum in Deutschland steht die Herausforderung, sich stärker gegen die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Hierarchien zu immunisieren. Es gilt Methoden zu entwickeln und anzuwenden, die mit patriarchalen Mustern brechen.

Nach den erfolgreichen Gipfelprotesten geht es in Cottbus auch um die Frage, wie weiter. Es kommt darauf an, gemeinsame inhaltliche Klammern zu finden, die die Kämpfe verschiedener Gruppen verbinden können. Das Thema globale soziale Rechte hat womöglich das Potential dazu, die Kämpfe der Beschäftigten für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen zu verbinden mit den Kämpfen der Erwerbslosen für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe sowie mit Kämpfen gegen Privatisierungen weltweit.

DIE LINKE bereitet gegenwärtig eine Kampagne gegen die Privatisierung der öffentlichen Daseinsvorsorge vor. Diese Kampagne soll Herbst/Winter
2007 beginnen. Damit macht DIE LINKE den Kampf gegen den Ausverkaufs des öffentlichen Eigentums und die Demokratisierung der öffentlichen Unternehmen zu einem ihrer politischen Schwerpunkte. Diese Kampagne kann einen Beitrag zur Untersetzung des Themas globale soziale Rechte liefern."

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/hier-ist-die-linke/

Grenelle J-4 : Message à NKM Secrétaire d'État chargé de l'Écologie (vidéo reportage Flash)

http://videos.next-up.org/France3Ouest1/GrenelleNKMpropositionDeLoi06VmFrance.html

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/a6aeb7731139038b?hl=en



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

Lisa W. Foderaro of The New York Times reports: "In a grim marker of the longevity of the war, children who were infants or toddlers when they lost a parent in action are growing up. In the process, they are coming to grips with death in new, more mature and at times more painful ways — pondering a parent they barely knew, asking pointed questions about the circumstances of the death and experiencing a kind of delayed grief."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102107E.shtml

The San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Egelko writes: "California will sue the Bush administration next week to demand action on a long-stalled request to let the state limit auto emissions of gases linked to global warming, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Friday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102107B.shtml

David Cho of The Washington Post reports: "One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse - and, according to a congressional investigation, higher gas bills for homeowners."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102107A.shtml