World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4770/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4782/

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The Edge of Oblivion: Conservationists Name 25 Primates About to Disappear

James Randerson for The Guardian UK reports that a report commissioned by three leading conservation charities names the top 25 species most in need of help and concludes that 114 primate species are also close to extinction.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102607EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extinction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Randerson

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4784/

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California's Age of Megafires

The Christian Science Monitor's Daniel B. Wood writes: "There's a reason fire squads now battling more than a dozen blazes in southern California are having such difficulty containing the flames, despite better preparedness than ever and decades of experience fighting fires fanned by the notorious Santa Ana winds. The wildfires themselves, experts say, generally are hotter, move faster, and spread more erratically than in the past."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102407EA.shtml

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Don't Let Burn California
http://www.FOE.org/Free_California

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The California fires should rally us to hold leaders accountable for global warming
http://ga3.org/ct/j120pgF1OEaQ/


From TomPaine.com



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=megafire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman

http://tinyurl.com/2v4c4k



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

Le Figaro's Renaud Girard, French Ambassador Jacques Andreani and Marc Ullmann, writing for Le Monde, and Mohamed ElBaradei in an interview with Natalie Nougayrede at Le Monde all fear the rush to use force with Iran and argue it would be extremely premature.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407G.shtml



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

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, writing for The Free Press, say: "With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP's neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our long national nightmare? Think again - the mighty election theft machine Karl Rove used to steal the US presidency in 2000 and 2004 may be under attack, but it is still in place for the upcoming 2008 election."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Fitrakis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman

Jack Miles writing for TomDispatch.com, says: "The oil game in Iraq may be almost up. On September 29th, like a landlord serving notice, the government of Iraq announced that the next annual renewal of the United Nations Security Council mandate for a multinational force in Iraq - the only legal basis for a continuation of the American occupation - will be the last. That was, it seems, the first shoe to fall. The second may be an announcement terminating the little-noticed, but crucial companion Security Council mandate governing the disposition of Iraq's oil revenues."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407E.shtml



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

Leonard Doyle, reporting for The Independent, writes, "President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+Doyle

Andrew Taylor, reporting for The Associated Press, writes, "Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush's first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Taylor

John H. Richardson, reporting for Esquire, writes: "Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the US has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It'll be Iraq all over again."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407B.shtml



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

Maya Schenwar, reporting for Truthout, writes: "The Bush administration's $196.4 billion war supplemental spending request, released Monday, has Democrats reeling. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd called the supplemental 'short-sighted at best,' while House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey remarked in a statement, 'It's amazing to me that the president expects to be taken seriously.' Yet beyond the request's mind-boggling size, its open-ended aims point to the potentially vast scope of the 'war on terror' for years to come - including an undiminished presence in Iraq and the possibility of action against Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Byrd
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Oct 24, 9:43 am

The outcome on the row over a propose Pettigo phone mast hangs in the balance this week as mobile phone company Vodafone prepare to carry out a suitability test on a site suggested by the town's residents.

The corporation want to erect three antennae on an existing Garda mast just 200 yards away from the town's primary school.

The Pettigo Action Group met again at St Mary's National School last night and were told Vodafone would be carrying out the suitability test this Tuesday.

Speaking to Ocean FM News, Pettigo Group Action member Geraldine Britton said the group will not give up their search for alternative sites.

http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/donegalnews.php?articleid=000001960



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast

Das Papier der CDC-Direktorin über gesundheitliche Folgen der Klimaerwärmung für eine Anhörung im Senat wurde massiv überarbeitet.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26476/1.html

Philip Shenon reports for The New York Times, "All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday for a clear-cut statement that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been used by the CIA against terrorism suspects, is illegal."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Shenon

Philip Shenon, of The New York Times, reports, "Richard L. Thornburgh, attorney general in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, charged Tuesday that political reasons motivated the Justice Department to open corruption investigations against Democrats in Mr. Thornburgh's home state, Pennsylvania."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+L.+Thornburgh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Shenon

H. Josef Herbert reports for The Associated Press, "The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407L.shtml

Andrew E. Kramer reports for The New York Times: "Gunfire from an American helicopter killed 11 people, including women and children, after it came under fire north of Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a statement by the military. The episode was the second this week in which multiple Iraqi deaths resulted from a United States combat action."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraqi+civilians
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+E.+Kramer

http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/650/650_05_NewLie.shtml


Informant: Ashley Smith

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endless+war

Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

10/23/07

A large number of people have indicated their fear that we will soon be living in a police state and under martial law. However, if one investigates the matter, the only conclusion best represented by facts is that we already live in a police state. We are under martial law even without the ominous appearance of US military people on every street corner. Here are some interesting facts taken from the Justice Policy Institute: There are presently 2 million Americans in jail, mostly for non-violent ‘offenses’...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1000


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=martial+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state

Orange County Register
by Mark Steyn

10/20/07

http://tinyurl.com/2bsfpx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=S-CHIP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare

The American Prospect
by Amanda Terkel

10/23/07

There was no shortage of chest-thumping last week at the White House. When House conservatives voted to sustain President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), White House spokeswoman Dana Perino gleefully told reporters, ‘We won this round on S-CHIP.’ Earlier in the week, Bush justified denying health insurance to four million children by claiming that vetoes show he is still ‘relevant.’ ‘That’s one way to ensure that I’m in the process,’ he said during a press conference. The media happily joined this celebration, picking up the White House’s talking points...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bushs_last_resort


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=S-CHIP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dana+Perino
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+nsurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amanda+Terkel

Daytona Beach News Journal
by Pierre Tristam

10/23/07

This time around, besides a servile judiciary, the Bush administration is enjoying a groveling Congress, too — neo-Democrats who think adopting Republicans’ contempt for the Constitution is the only way to look tough on terrorists. Democrats had a chance to stop the Bush administration’s domestic spying. Twice. In June they surrendered to a law that lets secret, warrantless spying continue, sidelining a special court’s oversight role. They promised the measure would be temporary. But they’re about to do it again...

http://www.news-journalonline.com/ColEssays.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pierre+Tristam

Salon
by Juan Cole

10/24/07

The Bush administration once imagined that its presence in Afghanistan and Iraq would be anchored by friendly neighbors, Turkey to the west and Pakistan to the east. Last week, as the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan continued to deteriorate, the anchors themselves also came loose. On Sunday, just days after the Turkish Parliament authorized an invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish guerrillas ambushed and killed 17 Turkish soldiers inside Turkey. In Karachi, Pakistan, a massive bomb nearly killed U.S.-backed Benazir Bhutto, who was supposed to help stabilize the country. The Bush administration’s entire Middle East policy is coming undone — if it even has a policy left, other than just sticking its fingers in the multiple, and multiplying, holes in the dike...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/24/kurds/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/24/07

We keep hearing about the ‘liberal,’ ‘antiwar’ media, which is supposedly spinning the ’success’ of the administration’s ’surge’ in Iraq into a defeat. The stab-in-the-back thesis is being run up the flagpole by the neocons, in the hopes that at least some of their base — the most deluded of the Kool-Aid drinkers — will swallow it. Yet it was this supposedly liberal media that led us down the primrose path to war and occupation and immersed us in what Gen. William E. Odom calls the biggest strategic disaster in American military history — and they did it by instilling fear...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11803


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Odom
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

Scott Pelley, CBS News, reports: "Every year you can count on forest fires in the West like hurricanes in the East, but recently there has been an enormous change in Western fires. In truth, we've never seen anything like them in recorded history. It appears we're living in a new age of megafires - forest infernos ten times bigger than the fires we're used to seeing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102307EC.shtml

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Creating Our Own Hell on Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/25/4792



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

According to Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press, because of rising waters caused by climate change, "In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102307EB.shtml



Study Says Steep Decline in Oil Output Risks War

The Guardian UK's Ashley Seager reports: "World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102307EA.shtml

The Hill's Alexander Bolton reports: "President Bush has taken a much more personal role in opposing Congress in disagreements over legislation this year than any other year of his presidency, a tactic that government experts say is necessary because of his weakened approval ratings."

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



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

Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of The New York Times report: "Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Lichtblau
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Shane

Congress will be considering several versions of bills that will, one way or another, expand government access to phone calls and e-mails.

http://snipurl.com/1sm5p


From Information Clearing House



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

Overall this blatant destruction of evidence only reinforces the widespread belief that the 2004 election was stolen.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00300.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ohio+ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stolen+election

"I kept thinking: this is the sort of thing that used to go on behind the Iron Curtain, not in America. "And then it struck me how much this entire process had disintegrated into a political charade. It's demoralising for all of us."

http://www.bigpond.com/news/topstories/content/20071023/2067496.asp



The Jose Padilla case

Scott Horton (audio) Interviews Warren Richey on Padilla's $1.00 lawsuit against the Government, the government's claim that none of his "clearly established rights" were violated, and the damage to Padilla's psyche as the result of the torture he suffered at the hands of the U.S. military.

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/23/warren-richey-4/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Horton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Warren+Richey

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book.

http://snipurl.com/1sm5l



Intelligence knew of terrorist transports

Comments from former high-ranking CIA members to Politiken newspaper suggest that Denmark's intelligence service was aware of private planes seizing suspected terrorists in Europe and taking them to countries where torture and execution were sanctioned.

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/104002.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22450778.htm


From Information Clearing House

The air strike was the third resulting in civilian deaths in two weeks and comes as the U.S. military's reliance on airpower to target militants is under increased scrutiny from the Iraqi government and the United Nations mission in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/1sm4z



Iraqis weigh limits on U.S. military

Leaders in the Iraqi parliament said Monday that they were taking steps to examine the U.S. 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://snipurl.com/1sm50


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths

By Stephen Lendman

The September and October United Auto Workers (UAW) GM and Chrysler agreements are just the latest examples of union leadership, surrender and betrayal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18608.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=UAW
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

Time To Choose

By Charley Reese

Most politicians, when they talk about reducing spending, chatter on about cutting waste and fraud. That's OK, but it's a mere nick on the federal budget. If you really want to reduce spending, you must dismantle the overseas empire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18610.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6751/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/military_commisions_act_new_bill_to_repeal_in_house.htm


Informant: shane_digital



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

http://www.rense.com/general78/riots.htm


Informant: Useful I.

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14547564


Informant: shane_digital



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=weak+dollar

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6753/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/?Page=Module&ModuleID=38


Informant: MoJo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBzLTjVMhY

Norman Pohoretz is one of the signatories of the PNAC document among holding many other nefarious titles. He advocates bombing Iran in his new book.


Informant: Bob Banner

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Neo-Con Podhoretz Tells Audience To "Shut Up" After Tough Questions
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/82a1a060cf7072ff?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PNAC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons

http://www.alternet.org/story/65847/


Informant: Bob Banner

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Hightower

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



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Plamegate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Valerie+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armitage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Corn

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



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kiely

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/23/4767/



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CO2+Konzentration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=peak+oil

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/97816



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

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



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

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.

http://ga3.org/ct/0d20pgF1gEzR/


From TomPaine.com



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Isaiah+J.+Poole

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christian+Berthelsen

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections

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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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...

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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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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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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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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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."

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news13.htm



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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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