World-News

Elizabeth Williamson, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups and lawyers representing the makers of products linked to consumer hazards."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207D.shtml

Mike Soraghan, reporting for The Hill, writes, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attacked President Bush's legacy Thursday, saying he'll be remembered for an unfair tax code and a failed war strategy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207B.shtml



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

Manu Raju, reporting for The Hill, writes, "Opposition in the Senate to President Bush's attorney general nominee continued to grow Thursday, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled the Senate would not consider the nomination if it does not clear a crucial vote next week in the Judiciary Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207A.shtml



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

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/021107_dollar_fall.htm



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/265d755f87206d23?hl=en



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

Ein Bündnis von Medienverbänden hat sich in einem Brief an die Abgeordneten des Bundestages für eine Ablehnung der Reform der Telekommunikationsüberwachung ausgesprochen. Diese enthalte für Journalisten einen geringeren Schutz vor Ermittlungsmaßnahmen als für andere Berufsgeheimnisträger. Während Abgeordnete und Strafverteidiger in ihrer Funktion kategorisch von einer Telekommunikationsüberwachung ausgeschlossen seien, sehe das Gesetz bei Journalisten eine Abwägung zwischen der Pressefreiheit und der Schwere der aufzuklärenden Straftat vor. "Diese Aufteilung in Berufsgeheimnisträger erster und zweiter Klasse ist unter grundrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten nicht tragbar", heisst es in dem Schreiben.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16879



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

Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) spricht sich für eine umfassende Nutzung von Geheimdienstinformationen durch die Polizeien von Bund und Ländern aus. "Ich sage mit großer Klarheit: Aus Sicht des Innenministers sind wir auf Information der Nachrichtendienste lebensnotwendig angewiesen", so Schäuble am 1. November auf einem Symposium des Bundesnachrichtendienstes in Berlin. Er verwies dabei auch auf Informationen ausländischer Geheimdienste, die zur Terrorbekämpfung in Deutschland schon hilfreich gewesen seien. Schäuble sagte, dass das oft zitierte "Trennungsgebot" von Polizei und Geheimdiensten keinen Verfassungsrang habe.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16884



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

Mother of Dead Marine, Nobel Laureate Call for Ban on U.S. Cluster Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1102-06.htm



Cluster Bombs and Teddy Bears

Bianca Jagger
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/05/5025



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cluster+bombs

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4986/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4968



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Medea+Benjamin

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4987/



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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpq16eGzqk


From Information Clearing House

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Impeachment 'Off the Table' Kucinich to Put It on the Floor
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4988/

Congressman Dennis Kucinich Will Introduce Privileged Resolution To Force Up Or Down Vote On Cheney Impeachment
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1102-01.htm



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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/c0c477a3a2f93f0c?hl=en



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Einblicke in die Denkweise des ehemaligen Pentagon-Chefs.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26530/1.html



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

Robert Pear, of The New York Times, reports, "Talks seeking a bipartisan compromise on health insurance for low-income children were cut short on Thursday, and the Senate then swiftly passed a bill to provide coverage for 10 million youngsters, fully expecting President Bush to veto it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=child+health
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Pear

Laurie Kellman reports for The Associated Press, "President Bush sought to save Michael Mukasey's troubled nomination for attorney general Thursday, defending the retired judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding torture and warning of a leaderless Justice Department if Democrats do not confirm him."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207K.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laurie+Kellman

Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "In the next few days, a Congressional conference committee will likely pass the largest defense spending bill in the history of the United States. Despite Democratic lawmakers' promises to stop issuing blank checks for war, the bill does not call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq or Afghanistan, nor does it prevent military action against Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110207J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdrawal
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http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv095.html



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By Lois Avery

MOBILE phone giant Orange has been given permission to put up a mast in Box to avoid the costs of an appeal.

The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Development Control Committee on Wednesday evening and councillors decided to give the mast the go-ahead.

The decision comes after the council received 11 letters of objection to the proposals from people living near by.

Read More...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1805742.0.phone_mast_plan_gets_goahead.php

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/c4b2d6d2f596d96a?hl=en



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

Antikriegsdemonstration in San Francisco und in anderen Orten der USA - Tausende marschieren

Artikel von Jim Doyle im San Francisco Chronicle/ZNet vom 28.10.2007 in einer Übersetzung von Andrea Noll. http://zmag.de/artikel/antikriegsdemonstration-in-san-francisco-und


Aus: LabourNet, 2. November 2007

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,514015,00.html



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

2. November 2007

Die Pläne von SPD und CDU für eine sechsmonatige Vorratsdatenspeicherung sind ein verfassungswidriger Generalangriff auf Bürgerrechte und Datenschutz. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die Planungen der Bundesregierung zur Neuordnung der Vorschriften über die Telekommunikationsüberwachung und zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung sind ein weitere Schritt hin zu mehr Überwachung und stellt jede und jeden in diesem Land unter Generalverdacht. Das ist mit rechtstaatlichen Prinzipien nicht vereinbar, die immerhin einen Anfangsverdacht für so massive Grundrechtseinschränkungen wie die Telekommunikationsüberwachung verlangen. Alle Nutzerinnen und Nutzer von Telefon oder Internet sind potentiell betroffen. Die Orwell'sche Horrorvision der Totalüberwachung rückt damit ein weiteres Stück näher. Ob Vollzugriff auf Passbilder und Fingerabdrücke oder verdachtsunabhängiges Speichern von Telefonaten, Mails und SMS - das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung ist in Deutschland ein Auslaufmodell. Bürgerliche Freiheitsrechte sind ein unveräußerliches Gut, deshalb unterstützen wir die verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken der Datenschützer gegen die Pläne der Koalition.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/orwell-ante-portas/

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Wir verwandeln uns in eine Misstrauensgesellschaft

„Seit diesem Donnerstag werden für jeden deutschen Reisepass Fingerabrücke genommen, kommende Woche entscheidet der Bundestag über die Vorratsdatenspreicherung. Peter Schaar, Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz, über die neue Sammelwut des Staates…“ Interview von Steffen Heinzelmann in der SZ vom 01.11.2007 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3m1/deutschland/artikel/82/140782/


Aus: LabourNet, 2. November 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
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Salon
by Mark Benjamin

11/02/07

The first fusillade at Hillary Clinton during the Democrats’ feisty debate on Tuesday night came, as expected, from Barack Obama. But it included an unexpected subject. Obama called Clinton a flip-flopper on torture. ‘She has taken one position on torture several months ago, and then most recently has taken a different position,’ he fired. At first blush it seemed like an odd attack on Clinton, who has emphasized her ‘clear’ opposition to torture. But while Clinton continues to inch closer to the rest of the Democratic pack in her positions on the subject, her stance on torture isn’t as ironclad as it appears...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/02/hillary/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/02/07

How do we account for the sudden rise of a new war hysteria, this time directed against Iran? While the administration has turned up the volume of its anti-Iranian rhetoric, and the mass media has duly — and largely uncritically — reported it, this is only part of the reason for the ominous uptick. The core reason is that we’re entering the political season, and none of the presidential candidates presented to us as ‘major’ will take war with Iran off the table: indeed, the Republicans — with one exception — seem to be competing with each other to see who can take the most ferociously provocative stance. When it comes to Iran, the Democrats are almost as bad — and, in the case of the putative frontrunner, perhaps even worse...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11846


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Raw Story

11/01/07

The Osama bin Laden video released this past September 7, just prior to the sixth anniversary of 9/11, has provoked widespread suspicions of fraud. In particular, bin Laden’s beard — which was grey and ragged in the video released just before the 2004 election — is thick, black, and neatly trimmed in the new footage. The video aroused widespread suspicions that bin Laden’s beard had been faked in some way, with former White House counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke even speculating that bin Laden had shaved in order to hide out in a country like Indonesia, where Muslim men do not wear beards, and had then pasted on a false beard for the video...

http://tinyurl.com/3xjl5p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden

http://rebellmarkt.blogger.de/stories/953455/



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

Media Consolidation

As Big Media is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules, Bill Moyers Journal reports on the real-world consequences of media policy through the lens of how it affects minority media ownership in America.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107U.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FCC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

John M. Broder and James Risen for The New York Times report on the legal, political and public relations attempts of Blackwater to save itself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+M.+Broder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Risen

A soaring number of U.S. homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments in the third quarter, with properties in some stage of foreclosure more than doubling from the same time last year, a mortgage data company said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_bi_ge/foreclosure_rates


From Information Clearing House



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

A region-wide shift could catch investors unawares after months of market speculation that the United Arab Emirates or Qatar would break ranks with their neighbors and unshackle their currencies from the dollar as Kuwait did this year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL3068734920071030


From Information Clearing House



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

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has defended the methods it uses to interrogate terror suspects.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7070483.stm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
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Oxfam warns poor farmers risk being forced off their land as industrial farmers cash in on the biofuel bonanza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7072386.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/60minutes/main3440577.shtml



Let there be doubt

I don't remember anyone questioning the intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. In hindsight we could have done with a heavy dose of scepticism.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_williams/2007/11/let_there_be_doubt.html


From Information Clearing House



Key Iraqi informant was 'crazy,' U.S. was told before war

Prewar claims by the United States that Iraq was producing biological weapons were based almost entirely on accounts from a defector who was described as "crazy" by his intelligence handlers and a "congenital liar" by his friends.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8425.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Curve+Ball

US troops could be in the Middle East for another 50 years, according to the longest serving commander of the Qatar-based US Central Command.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2203337,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

At least 887 Iraqis were killed in Iraq in October, ministry data showed on Thursday, slightly higher than September which saw a total of 840 people killed across the nation.

http://snipurl.com/1t148


From Information Clearing House

According to the VA, at least 283 combat veterans who left the military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and the end of 2005 took their own lives. In addition, 147 troops have killed themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began bringing the government count to 430.

http://snipurl.com/1t146


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18650.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joel+S.+Hirschhorn

Gov. Bill Richardson

It is a tragedy that in the midst of one failed war in Iraq, George Bush and Dick Cheney are pushing a second front of failure and gearing up to attack Iran. The "unilateral sanctions" recently imposed will hurt diplomatic progress in the region, and I find it disconcerting that so many Democrats supported President Bush in his saber-rattling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18649.htm



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

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18648.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld

By Robin Wright

In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18647.htm

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Memos Prove Rumsfeld Directed Psychological Terror Campaign
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/021107_terror_campaign.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robin+Wright

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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6784/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

RIPE residents who object to a scheme to build a 20-metre mobile phone mast in the village centre are staging a public meeting at the village hall at 7.30pm on Monday, November 5.

Operators O2 overturned Wealden planners' decision to refuse the scheme.
They won the right to build the mast on land at Church Farm on appeal, saying there was a need to plug a hole in the network.

Read More...
http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/509/Antiphone-mast-campaigners-to-hold.3433553.jp



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

by Jon Christian Ryter

What I find alarming in the hours of video footage I've viewed over the past four years, is how many cops used stun guns out of anger to punish people they were forced to chase on foot­not because the perp swung at them or resisted arrest, but simply because they had to chase them on foot and got winded. Stun guns are only slightly less dangerous than real guns. In the hands of an angry cop who thinks his "suspect" is still resisting because he's twisting in agony on the ground­and gives him another pulsating burst for good measure­a stun gun can be just as lethal as a gun.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon197.htm



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

Joseph L. Galloway, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, says, "There were some things far more frightening this week than Halloween's small ghouls and goblins - and the scariest of all is the Bush administration's seemingly inexorable march toward military confrontation with Iran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107C.shtml



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/c6a300f87db5e15e?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1101-14.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/01/4947/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stacy+Bannerman
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/01/4948



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/01/4963/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/01/4960/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/01/4952/



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The Associated Press reports, "A House committee chairman on Wednesday demanded that the White House turn over hundreds of pages of material about Jack Abramoff, the latest attempt by Congress to compel the Bush administration to detail its contacts with the disgraced lobbyist."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman
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Robert Weiner and John Larmett write for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "The oil industry uses the unrealized potential of small disruptions to implement huge price fluctuations. They are using the fear factor and war profiteering to repeat and increase what they had last year, the highest profits for any industry in American history."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
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Ian Munro reports for The Sydney Morning Herald: "The United States's willingness to resort to harsh interrogation techniques in its so-called war on terror undermined human rights and the international ban on torture, a United Nations spokesman says. Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, said the US's standing and importance meant it was a model to other countries which queried why they were subject to scrutiny when the US resorted to measures witnessed at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Manfred+Nowak
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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Dan Eggen and Paul Kane report for The Washington Post, "Democratic support for attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey dwindled further yesterday over his refusal to comment on the legality of a harsh CIA interrogation technique, setting the stage for an unexpectedly close vote next week by the Senate Judiciary Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107K.shtml



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01. Nov 10:45

Was soll's? RFID-Karten bei Karstadt

Mit Kaufhof und Karstadt machen nun zwei große Ketten erste Versuche mit der so genannten RFID-Technik. Die Konzerne wollen Zusatzinformationen weitergeben, Datenschützer sprechen von Überwachung.

http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/796471.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schnüffelchips
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
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By Katie Adams

PLANS for a controversial phone mast that will give train passengers coverage when travelling through Box Tunnel were approved last night.

The plans were submitted to North Wiltshire District Council by mobile phone giant Orange for the 12 metre high pole and two antennas.

The council had received 11 letters from people living nearby objecting to the mast, which is set be positioned on the hill over Brunel's famous tunnel.

Read More...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1801663.0.phone_mast_plans_approved.php

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/31/07

A perfect example of the integrated threat that U.S. foreign policy and federal domestic regulations pose to the freedom, privacy, and well-being of the American people is the current telecommunications controversy. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the feds approached various U.S. telephone companies and asked them to illegally share private information about their customers...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0710m.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

Cleveland Leader
by Julie

10/26/07

Andrew Feldman, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who’s currently a psychotherapist in Vancouver, was recently detained for four hours, fingerprinted, and then barred entry into the United States after Homeland Security googled him and found an article he wrote in a literary and scientific journal in which he talked about using LSD and various other drugs in the 1960’s. And even though he has no criminal record and says he hasn’t used drugs since the 1970’s, Feldmar must now get formal permission from the U.S. consul before entering the U.S...

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3380


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security

Strike the Root
by Robert L. Johnson

10/30/07

What we really need to do is to support our troops by awakening them. We need to awaken them to the realities the media and government either refuse to discuss or at best give only an inadequate amount of attention to. Nobody likes to be played for a fool. This is exactly what Bush and all the plutocrats in Congress are doing to America’s military members and their families...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/johnson/johnson3.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff

10/31/07

People who want more government income redistribution programs often sell their agenda by saying the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. But in reality, the rich are getting richer, and so are the poor, says Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University...

http://tinyurl.com/369ola


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bangor Daily News
by Pat LaMarche

10/31/07

I learned Friday that in the ‘Court of First Instance’ (Tribunal de Grande Instance) Donald Rumsfeld was charged with war crimes. Why Friday? Because Rumsfeld was in France and French law requires that the accused be in the country when charged. Hey, what’s Rumsfeld doing in France? I thought he didn’t like ‘Old Europe.’ This isn’t the first time either. He’s also been charged in five other countries including Germany. Since World War II, Germany’s had a zero tolerance policy on war crimes — so they get a jump on things, they don’t require that the accused be present. But the French charges could get real interesting. Some of the former prisoners of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib now live in France and they can testify...

http://tinyurl.com/2gmoqf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+LaMarche

CNN

10/31/07

Calling it ‘a potential death sentence,’ several hundred diplomats expressed their resentment Wednesday over a new State Department policy that could force them to serve in Iraq or risk losing their jobs. Some at the hourlong town hall-style meeting questioned why they were not told of the policy change directly, learning about it instead from news organizations last week...

http://tinyurl.com/yrcfjv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

New York Times

11/01/07

[Ali al-Marri] is the only person on the American mainland being held as an enemy combatant, at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. A citizen of Qatar legally in the United States, he was arrested in December 2001 in Peoria, Ill., where he was living with his family and studying computer science at Bradley University. The government contends that he is a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda. The central question before the nine judges hearing the case on Wednesday was whether the executive branch may capture people in the United States and subject them to indefinite military detention without charges...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/us/01combatant.html?ref=us


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Marri
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=combatant
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Agence France-Press

11/01/07

Japan on Thursday ordered home ships engaged on a refuelling mission in the Indian Ocean, halting the close US ally’s main role in the ‘war on terror’ due to domestic opposition. Japan, which has been officially pacifist since the end of World War II, has supplied fuel to US and other forces operating in Afghanistan under legislation first passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. But the government failed to extend the mission as the main opposition party, which controls one house of parliament, has vowed that Japan should not take part in ‘American wars’...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jW0dsG_KRuLh5t8ESScIuvEQGWBw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

In Mother Jones, Joan Hamilton writes: "There's a crisis in the labor movement: In the past half century, union membership in the United States has dropped from 35 percent to 13 percent of the work force. As homegrown employers such as Alcoa and Firestone have morphed and prospered in the global economy, American workers have stood pat and lost their shorts. More than 3 million US manufacturing jobs have been cut."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103107LA.shtml

Lee Jong-Heon, UPI Asia, writes that "Delegates from 136 countries, representing local governments, vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use renewable and clean energy sources to combat climate change, at the second World Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments. Some 2,000 mayors, councilors, and other officials of local autonomies from around the world attended the four-day Congress, in the South Korean resort island of Jeju, which concluded today."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103107EC.shtml

Jeff Tollefson, Nature News, reports: "The chief science adviser to President George W. Bush came under fire last week for his role in watering down Congressional testimony on the health effects of global warming."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103107EA.shtml

Because the U.S. Dollar Has Just Been Devalued by a Third Over the Past Five Years. And more devaluation is coming. Perhaps another 50 percent.

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/mchugh/2007/1029.html


From Information Clearing House

The increase in veterans lacking insurance coincides with Bush administration policies aimed at limiting the number of veterans eligible for VA coverage, according to the study published online Tuesday in the American Journal of Public Health.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-30-uninsuredvets_N.htm?csp=34


From Information Clearing House

Relations between Russia and the United States will be put to severe test in the coming weeks as there are growing signs that the US has decided, or has almost decided, to launch a military strike against Iran.

http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article392.html


From Information Clearing House



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

The United States or its allies would find themselves trapped in a "quagmire deeper than Iraq and Afghanistan" if it chose to attack the Islamic Republic, Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071031/ts_nm/iran_guards_dc


From Information Clearing House



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

Several Iraqi power plants are idle due to shortages in fuel supplies, exacerbating blackouts across the country.

http://snipurl.com/1szg6


From Information Clearing House

Polish Prime Minister-designate Donald Tusk said his future government would seek to end the nation's military mission in Iraq next year.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/10/31/ap4284646.html


From Information Clearing House

By Cindy Sheehan

We are a nation that was created by "the rich, white, male property owners" and specifically for "the rich, white, male property owners." Women and blacks, (who were counted as 3/5ths a person for representation purposes), were excluded from this self-proclaimed elitist establishment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18646.htm

Click:

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/e2381c1a28458062



http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Harriet+Nahanee&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6778/


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From ufpj-news



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

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=30784



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

By Kim Zetter
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/tell-the-feds-w.html

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by Devvy

I received one email from a real gentleman named David, who believes the government's fairy tale, but he's honest about it and I think does want the truth. However, like a whole lot of Americans, he doesn't want to believe anything other than the official story. Just like the families who lost loved ones. Just like former military who have served this country, some under Bush. No one wants to believe that rogue elements within this government would allow such a monstrous slaughter of humans and not lift a finger - or worse, have orchestrated events to allow it to happen for plausible deniability.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd319.htm



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

We must save this country’s existence as an independent, self-governing nation­by thwarting the North American Union (and turning back the invasion of illegal aliens which is aimed at promoting it). But, although necessary, that alone is not sufficient. We must also save the Constitution­by thwarting the national para-military police state being erected in the guise of “homeland security.” But, although also necessary, that alone is not sufficient, either........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin70.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=North+American+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeland+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Vieira

Oct 31 2007

by Chris Robinson, The Journal

TWO major mobile phone companies have been ordered to take down a phone mast in Gateshead after tireless campaigning by families.

O2 and Vodafone built the 20-metre mast at the Glebe Sports Ground in Whaggs Lane, Whickham, last year without the correct planning permission.

The companies appealed against an order for it to be removed but lost. Government planning inspectors decided the mast was a “dominant and overbearing structure”, particularly for those living nearby, and the companies have been given four months to take down the mast.

Read More...
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2007/10/31/campaign-victory-as-mast-must-go-61634-20035641/

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=2#cont


Informant: Bob Banner