Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007

SIGN POLAR BEAR SOS CARD

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/upLvOrd1eq9e/



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Government is subsidizing nuclear disaster

http://cjonline.com/stories/113007/opi_221630487.shtml


Informant: MoJo

People power wins mast row

By Chris Kearney

St Andrew's School pupil Oliver Rainbird, seven, with Andrew Smith MP, Peter Rainbird and Kati Jambor

A community is celebrating victory after a communications company decided not install a mobile phone mast - despite winning planning permission.

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http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.1884350.0.people_power_wins_mast_row.php

ACLU Calls for Release of Three Secret Torture Memos

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1205-19.htm

Guantánamo Attorneys to Justices: Restore the Constitution
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1205-10.htm

Amnesty International Urges the U.S. Supreme Court to Reject Administration's Arguments
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1205-20.htm



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Empire and Nuclear Weapons

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/05/5628/



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US Intelligence Review Directly Contradicts Bush's Line On Iran

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/05/5629/

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Iran Intelligence Report: Another Psychological Warfare?

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Under the current administration, it is increasingly difficult to know who the enemy is, but what is certain is that the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is a brilliantly executed psychological warfare by way of misinformation. This dastardly plan is so devious that even the anti-war groups are jubilant at its release, and they are naively sharing its contents. Perhaps non are as enthusiastic about the report as the most powerful lobby group in America hostile to Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18837.htm



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Villagers ask: 'mast you put it here 3G?'

By Jonny Muir

Deeping Gate residents will renew their battle against a 25-metre phone mast at a High Court hearing next week.

Mobile phone company 3G wants to erect the mast 800 metres from the front door of Deeping Gate resident Pam Harris, even though she is allergic to the electro-magnetic emissions given off by masts.

Pam Harris' condition is so severe she has to be hooked up to a machine for 17 hours every other day so essential nutrients can be pumped into her body.

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http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Villagers-ask-39mast-you-put.3554067.jp

PHONE MAST FEARS OF NOTTS PARENTS

09:00 - 05 December 2007

When T-Mobile erected a mobile phone mast 100 metres from his daughter's school, Rob Macklam felt he had no choice but to move her.

Although six-year-old Evie was happy at the highly rated Orston Primary School, Mr and Mrs Macklam were not prepared to run any risks.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2l4e2a

Largest Civil Disobedience Movement in U.S. History Underway

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29133


Informant: David Swanson
From ufpj-news



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Tribunal Rejected Intelligence on Detainee

Carol D. Leonnig, of The Washington Post, writes: "Just months after US Army troops whisked a German man from Pakistan to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002, his American captors concluded that he was not a terrorist. 'USA considers Murat Kurnaz's innocence to be proven,' a German intelligence officer wrote that year in a memo to his colleagues. 'He is to be released in approximately six to eight weeks.' But the 19-year-old student was not freed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507O.shtml



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Senate Judiciary Democrats Push Contempt Motion

Susan Crabtree, of The Hill, reports: "Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are pushing forward with a resolution holding the White House in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with their subpoenas for information and testimony related to the firings of several US attorneys. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Tuesday put the contempt resolutions on the committee's agenda for Thursday's meeting. The move comes after Leahy issued a ruling last week calling the White House's claims of executive privilege and immunity 'overbroad, unsubstantiated and not legally valid.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507M.shtml

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Leahy Plans Contempt of Congress Vote for Bush Officials
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/05/5620/



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Democrats Seeking Answers About Report on Iran

Roxana Tiron, of The Hill, reports: "Congressional Democrats are capitalizing on the latest intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons development to question President Bush's credibility amid an angry stalemate with the White House over funding government operations and the war in Iraq. While many Democrats said they remain cautious about the National Intelligence Estimate's (NIE) conclusion that Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in 2003, several said that Congress should investigate the discrepancy between the Bush administration's recent doomsday rhetoric on Iran and the NIE's judgments."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roxana+Tiron

Enduring an Occupation for Oil

Ann Wright, for Truthout, writes: "Last week Iraq's Maliki government 'asked' President Bush for an 'enduring' strategic security relationship with the United States that will have 50,000 US military and probably 50,000-75,000 US contractors/mercenaries in Iraq for decades. Reportedly these 100,000-plus Americans will be primarily confined to the fourteen permanent bases built by the US. Their role, according to Bush's point person on Iraq, retired US Army Gen. Douglas Lute, will be to backstop, perhaps for the next 50 years, newly trained Iraqi military and police forces. Iraq's new strategic security relationship also contains an agreement for preferential treatment from the Iraqi government to American corporations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507K.shtml



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Waxman, Mukasey and Ten Million Missing Emails

Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "a government watchdog group now says that ten to twenty million White House emails which may contain information about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA status, have been destroyed by the Bush administration. In a report from April, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) detailed a massive hole in the White House email records. The report, titled 'Without a Trace: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act,' accused the Bush administration of destroying 'more than 5 million' emails and failing to attempt to recover them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507J.shtml



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Climate Change: The Looming Humanitarian Disaster

http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/climatechange

Why Bush’s troop surge won’t save Iraq

Salon
by Juan Cole

12/04/07

The current ‘good news’ campaign from the Bush administration regarding the troop surge is only the latest in a long history of whitewashing the war since the 2003 invasion. First, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld denied that there was massive looting following the fall of Baghdad. Then he denied that there was a rising guerrilla war. Then … the victory of Shiite fundamentalists close to Iran was obscured by the ‘purple thumb’ good news campaign. That is, the administration focused on the democratic process and relative success of the voting, diverting attention from the bad news that the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq had taken over. Later, it was good news when the Iraqi parliament produced a theocratic constitution …. The Bush administration has heralded any number of such ‘milestones’ reached, but not whether they led to worthwhile results. Obscured by these ‘milestones’ is that the orgy of violence in Iraq has displaced 2 million persons abroad and another 2 million internally, and left tens of thousands dead. But now the ‘good news’ is that the guerrillas appear not to have been able to keep up the pace of violence characteristic of 2006 and early 2007, even if the pace they maintain today is horrific...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/04/iraq/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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New Reports Undercut Claims that Surge Is Working

New reporting from Baghdad and Washington has called into question the frequently asserted claim that the military surge in Iraq is working.

http://snipurl.com/1vsyp


From Information Clearing House



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

No Iran attack? Don’t be so sure …

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/05/07

The NIE seems to have unhinged the lesser neocons, who are reduced to the sort of noises a small mammal makes when cornered. Norman Podhoretz, however, is quite a different story: his contribution to the ‘debate’ is a perfect gem of the purest nihilism, a textbook example of Bizarro World logic. According to Podhoretz, since the last NIE was wrong, this one cannot be right. They were wrong then, he wails, so how can we trust them now? This principle, applied to, say, the realm of science, would ensure that no progress, no advance on the road to truth, no technological or theoretical innovation would ever be possible, because, after all, scientists have been wrong before. But truth is not Podhoretz’s concern: he’s already determined, a priori, that the truth is whatever he says it is...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12005


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

The Democrats got it wrong

Liberty For All
by BetteRose Ryan

12/04/07

Here we go again. The Democrats are still feeling the glow of the new power they received after the vote last year. Great things were planned for the first hundred days. But you know, the agenda those powerful Democrats revealed proves one thing. The Democrats still have it wrong...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1062


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=BetteRose+Ryan

It takes a Taser to raise a child

The Price of Liberty
by Doug Newman

12/03/07

Tasering is harsh and extremely painful. In each of the above cases, tasering constituted ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’ Tasering is a form of ‘pain compliance,’ which is just a euphemism for torture. Tasering has killed people. In each case, police claimed they tasered these kids for their own good. This is all too reminiscent of the army officer during Vietnam who claimed that it was necessary to destroy a village in order to save it...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/12/03/newman.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taser
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Newman

Torture and the nation

TCS Daily
by Raphael C. Rosen

12/04/07

The US government naturally wants to do everything in its power to save its citizens’ lives. Whether, day-to-day, torture helps achieve this goal is beyond my expertise. What is certain, however, is that the willingness to employ any method transforms the nature of America’s struggle against Islamist terrorism from a solemn commitment into an obsession. And victory will not come from obsessively thwarting attacks (excellent though that is in the short-term) but from the successful discrediting of a poisonous, fascistic ideology that al-Qaeda and others seek to inject into the minds of Muslim youth across the globe. The relevant question is whether torture, despite its noxious nature, helps the long-term campaign against this ideology. It does not. A nation like America, whose lifeblood is its citizens’ enjoyment of broad Lockean ideals, dilutes its character when it commits inhuman acts for the sake of humanitarian ends. And America’s character, backed up by its armed forces, is the fountain of its strength...

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=120407D


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Bei Anruf Abzocke: Wallraff undercover im Call-Center

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/6/0,1872,1404038_idDispatch:7232185,00.html

Pläne der Arbeitsagentur durchkreuzt

„Mehr als 200 Menschen haben am vergangenen Samstag (01.12.2007) eine geplante Leiharbeitsmesse der Schweinfurter Arbeitsagentur verhindert. Verantwortliche Mitarbeiter der Behörde hatten für diesen Tag eine Veranstaltung angekündigt, bei der Leiharbeitsfirmen in den Räumen der Arbeitsagentur ähnlich wie bei antiken Tagelöhnermärkten Arbeiter für Leiharbeit rekrutieren wollten…“ Bericht von print vom 02.12.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/12/201186.shtml


Die neue Waffe der Arbeitsagenturen: Sperren

Sanktionen auf den Grund gehen. Anti-Hartz-Kampagne befragt Erwerbslose nach ihren Erfahrungen in Jobcentern

„In der nächsten Zeit werden Erwerbslosen vor Berliner Jobcentern von freundlichen Frauen und Männern Fragebögen angeboten. Dabei handelt es sich allerdings nicht um einen neuen Service der Jobcenter, sondern um eine Initiative der „Berliner Kampagne gegen Hartz IV“…“ Langfassung des Artikels von Peter Nowak, der am 30.11. nur unwesentlich gekürzt im ND erschien http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/sperreberlin.html

Die Fragebögen können u.a. bei der Berliner Mietergemeinschaft sowie in einem separaten Briefkasten im Haus der Demokratie sowie in verschiedenen Stadtteiläden abgegeben werden. Sie können im Internet herunterladen werden (pdf) http://www.hartzkampagne.de/pdfs/langfassung_final_2007_10_09_jf_m_extra.pdf


Entkoppelt euch!

„Kapitalismuskritik gibt es heute an jeder Ecke. Ein radikaler, emanzipatorischer Antikapitalismus muss sich vom Größenwahn revolutionärer Subjekte befreien und das System, das Menschen und ihre Bedürfnisse für überflüssig erklärt, selbst als überflüssig entlarven…“ Artikel von Ernst Lohoff in der Jungle World vom 29. November 2007 http://jungle-world.com/seiten/2007/48/11070.php


2. „Zahltag!“ an der ARGE Köln erfolgreich

„Heute fand zum zweiten Mal in Köln der Aktionstag „Zahltag!“ gegen ARGE-Schikanen der Intitiative „agenturschluss“ statt. Bereits um 7.00h in der Frühe fanden sich zahlreiche AgenturschließerInnen ein, um den systematischen schikanösen Praktiken der ARGE gegen BezieherInnen von ALGII mit dem Aktionstag entschlossen entgegenzutreten. Ein inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt lag auf den entwürdigenden Praktiken vor Ort, z.B. im Kölner Modellprojekt „DiMa“. Unter Rückgriff auf die Erfahrungen des letzten „Zahltags!“ im Oktober wurden durch gegenseitige und entschlossene Begleitungen von durch ARGE-Schikanen Betroffenen bislang vorenthaltene Rechte und Forderungen gegenüber der ARGE unmittelbar durchgesetzt…“ Pressemitteilung von "agenturschluss" vom 03.12.2007 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2007/12/201329.shtml


Neues zu den Aktionstagen Hartzboykott am 02.01.08 und dem Agenturschluss 3 in Hamburg am 03.01.08

Der Hartzboykott am 02.01.2008, lädt Erwerbslose in Arbeitsgelegenheiten herzlich dazu ein, an einer Informationsveranstaltung der ganz anderen Art teilzunehmen. Dazu findet eine Versammlung vor der HAB am Strohause 2, nähe Berliner Tor von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr statt. Themeninhalte dazu sind Probleme mit ALG II, Arbeitsgelegenheiten und Jobperspektiven. Anschließend ist eine Diskussionsrunde im Hause des Kreuzweg 7 geplant. Weitere Infos folgen noch und dieser Tag ist angelehnt an den Bundesweiten Aufruf von „Hartzboykott 2008!“ http://www.hartzboykott.de/

Einen Tag später folgt der Agenturschluss 3, an dem schon mehere Einzelaktivisten und Gruppen Interesse bekundet haben. Hierzu ist noch alles in Planung: Die zweite Vorbereitungsversammlung des Agenturschluss 3 findet am Sonntag den 09.12.2007 von 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr im Butt-Club auf der Hafenstraße 126 statt.

Siehe dazu den Vorbereitungsflyer (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/as3_hamburg2.pdf

Weitere Infos in Kürze auf der Aktionspage http://www.arge-schluss.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Dezember 2007

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Agenturschluss 3 in Hamburg: Dem ARGE-Terror das Handwerk legen! (3. Januar 2008)

Einladung zur Interessensversammlung von Teilnehmern an Arbeitsgelegenheiten am 2. Januar 2008

„Im Januar 2008 ist die Anwendung des "Vierten Gesetz zu modernen Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt", besser bekannt als Hartz 4 - Gesetz drei Jahre alt. Ab den Januar 2008 werden die Ein Euro Jobs in einer neuen Mogelpackung verpackt. Diese Schachtel heißt dann zynisch 3. Arbeitsmarkt. Damit werden neue Handlungsfreiräume für Arbeitgeber mit Ausbeuterischen Interessen von Erwerbslosen geschaffen. Viele Beschäftigungsträger von Ein Euro Jobs halten sich nicht an das Kriterium der Zusätzlichkeit. Diese Machenschaften werden ab 2008 ganz legal.. Erwerbslose machen dann einen öffentlich bezahlten Job, der nicht viel mehr als Hartz 4 Bezug und der Mehraufwandsentschädigung für Ein Euro JobberInnen einbringt und diese ArbeiterInnen sind weiter ohne Einschränkungen und Rechte auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt einsetzbar. SCHLUSS mit LUSTIG !! Folglich ist es richtig, sich mit dem Gedanken betraut zu machen, das nicht jedes Gesetz auch folglich richtig ist. Am 2. Januar findet eine Kundgebung mit Informationsveranstaltung der anderen Art statt. Themeninhalte sind Wege aus diesem Dilemma und der Abwehr von Maßnahmen, die in einem Hungerlohn und totaler Fremdbestimmung münden. Dazu laden wir am 02.01.2008 zur Kundgebung vor der HAB - Zentrale (hamburger arbeit) am Strohause 2, Nähe Berliner Tor von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr ein.“ Der Flyer zur Aktion (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/as3_hamburg3.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 18. Dezember 2007



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Aufstocker: bedürftig trotz Arbeit

„Viele Menschen beziehen gleichzeitig Erwerbseinkommen und Sozialleistungen, vor allem geringfügig Beschäftigte – Vollzeitbeschäftigte können ihre Bedürftigkeit meist schnell überwinden…“ IAB-Kurzbericht Nr. 22 vom 30.11.2007 (pdf) http://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2007/kb2207.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Dezember 2007

Reformen am Arbeitsmarkt bringen keine Arbeitsplätze: Wirtschaftsministerium verschweigt eigene Studie

„Die Studie des Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituts Prognos hat es in sich: Deregulierungen am Arbeitsmarkt zeigen im internationalen Vergleich von 20 OECD-Ländern keinen Effekt hinsichtlich der Beschäftigung. Ein hoher gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad dagegen schon. Und eine antizyklische Fiskalpolitik haben Großbritannien und den USA geholfen, ihre Wirtschaftsprobleme zu meistern. Kurz: Diese Ergebnisse der Studie widersprechen massiv der Wirtschaftspolitik der deutschen Bundesregierungen in den vergangenen zehn Jahren. Vielleicht mit ein Grund, warum das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium als Auftraggeber der Studie diese bislang nicht an die Öffentlichkeit gebracht hat. Dort heißt es, eine Veröffentlichung durch das Ministerium hänge von der politischen Aktualität der Studie ab. Was aber könnte aktueller sein, als Hinweise, dass Hartz IV und die Agenda 2010 beschäftigungspolitisch nur Humbug sind?..“ Artikel von Rudolf Stumberger in telepolis vom 04.12.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26746/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Dezember 2007

Gründung eines EU-weiten Verbandes zur Stärkung der Kriegsbereitschaft

„Deutsch-französische Militärkreise leiten in diesen Tagen die Gründung eines EU-weiten Verbandes zur Stärkung der Kriegsbereitschaft in der Bevölkerung ein. Grundlage ist eine Übereinkunft zwischen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Wehr- und Sicherheitspolitik (GfW) und der französischen Organisation CiDAN (Civisme Défense Armée Nation). Beide sind bislang in nationalem Rahmen mit der Werbung für militärpolitische Anliegen in der Öffentlichkeit befasst. Die aktuellen Planungen sehen vor, besonders Journalisten und Lehrer ("Multiplikatoren") in ganz Europa "von der Notwendigkeit" zu überzeugen, "die Anstrengungen auf dem Gebiet der Sicherheit und der Verteidigung zu bündeln". Ziel sei "die Behauptung des Ranges" der EU "in der Welt" mit Hilfe einer EU-Armee…“ Bericht von und bei german-foreign-policy.com vom 04.12.2007 http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57089


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Dezember 2007

Guildwood residents angry about proposed tower on church property

Dec 05, 2007 04:30 AM

Jack Lakey
Staff Reporter

An information meeting about a Bell Canada cellphone tower to be built on church property in Guildwood left area residents with as many questions as answers about health concerns and how the deal was made.

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http://www.thestar.com/News/article/282716



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Next-up news n°400

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/a6fd26b2561304a1

US Human Rights Activists To Be Deported Pakistan

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1204-08.htm



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

Our Serious Foreign Policy Geniuses Strike Again

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5600/



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

Win Without War

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5606/



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

Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5117/



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

'Possible Abuse of Power' Cited As House Panel Calls Out FCC

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5612/



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White House Signals That It Might Veto Energy Bill

The Washington Post's Steven Mufson reports: "Efforts by members of Congress to pass an energy bill hit another bump yesterday when the White House suggested that President Bush might veto the bill, but Democratic leaders said they would not alter the package assembled last week after intense negotiating over fuel efficiency standards."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120407EA.shtml



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

Peace Group Barred From Florida Schools

Mark Weisenmiller, Inter Press Service, reports, "Public school districts in two Florida counties are refusing to allow members of a peace organization to counter the presence of military recruiters by talking with high school students about options other than joining the service, according to a spokesperson for the group."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407T.shtml



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

Manual Details Abuses of Guantanamo Detainees

The Washington Post's Josh White reports: "As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this week on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the public is getting another peek at how detainees have been treated there."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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Cimetière profané, Eglise défigurée

France 3 (4 Décembre 2007) "Cimetière profané, Eglise défigurée " : Mobile apparent. (vidéo)
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/PressReviewRevuePresse042007.php#1

The dollar's perfect storm worsens

Europe's inflation is likely to prompt its central bank to raise interest rates -- five days before the Fed is expected to lower them here. That's bad news for the buck.

http://snipurl.com/1unb1



The making of a mess

How bad is it? Well, I've never seen financial insiders this spooked - not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98, when economic dominoes seemed to be falling all around the world.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/opinion/edkrugman.php



U.S. debt: $30,000 per American

Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day - or nearly $1 million a minute.

http://snipurl.com/1unb3



The world's ever-increasing grocery bill

The world's grocery bill has jumped by 21% this year; Russian bread prices have doubled; and three people have been killed in a cooking-oil stampede in China.

http://snipurl.com/1unb5


From Information Clearing House



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

The Lies at the End of the American Dream

The Shortage Myth

By Paul Craig Roberts

Integrity is so lacking in America that the shortage myth serves the interests of universities, funding agencies, employers, and immigration attorneys at the expense of American students who naively pursue professions in which their prospects are dim. Initially it was blue-collar factory workers who were abandoned by US corporations and politicians. Now it is white-collar employees and Americans trained in science and technology.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18830.htm



America Is Going Fascist

By Michael Nenonen

The signs are all there for anyone to see, and time is getting short for action.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18832.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Dream
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Annapolis: "The Tumult And The Shouting Dies..."

By Uri Avnery

King George departed even before the tumult had died. His helicopter carried him away over the horizon, just as his trusty steed carries the cowboy into the sunset at the end of the movie. At that moment, the speeches in the assembly hall were still going ahead at full blast. This summed up the whole event.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18829.htm



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A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes

By Ray McGovern

For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued, and its "Key Judgments" were made public.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18828.htm



Despite Knowledge That Iran Halted Nuke Program:
White House Continued To Warn Of False Threat

By Think Progress

The White House isn't yet ready to give up its spin. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley will be speaking to the press at 3:15 PM EST today, and has already claimed that the NIE "confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18831.htm



Bush Calls for Continued Pressure on Iran

President Bush says there will be no change in U.S. policy on Iran following the release of a new U.S. intelligence assessment of Tehran's nuclear capabilities and ambitions.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-04-voa50.cfm?rss=united%20states



China Questions New UN Sanctions Against Iran After US Report

China's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that a new U.S. intelligence finding that Iran halted development of a nuclear bomb four years ago raises questions about new U.N. sanctions against Tehran. But the U.S. and its European allies said they are still pushing for new punitive measures.

http://snipurl.com/1unar



Iran welcomes U.S. move to 'correct' nuke claim

A U.S. intelligence assessment released Monday reversed earlier claims that Iran had restarted its weapons program in 2005 after suspending it in 2003 because of international pressure.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22094067/



IAEA says US report on Iran 'consistent' with its own findings

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the U.S. report on Iran's nuclear weapons program is consistent with the findings of his agency.

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=7447817&nav=menu32_2



World reaction to Iran nuclear report

A report by US intelligence agencies has contradicted Washington's claims that Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, concluding instead that such work stopped four years ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2221754,00.html



How Did a 2005 Estimate on Iran Go Awry?

In the summer of 2005, senior American intelligence officials began traveling the world with a secret slide show drawn from thousands of pages that they said were downloaded from a stolen Iranian laptop computer, trying to prove that Iran was lying when it said it had no interest in building a nuclear weapon.

http://snipurl.com/1unas



Iran demands compensation for U.S. nuclear program 'lies'

Washington should compensate Iran for the damage caused by years of lies about its nuclear weapons program, a senior government official in Tehran said on Tuesday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20071204/90876475.html



'The Iran Agenda'

Top Democratic and Republican leaders absolutely believe that Iran is planning to develop nuclear weapons. And one of their seemingly strongest arguments involves a process of deduction. Since Iran has so much oil, they argue, why develop nuclear power?

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/print/20071203_the_iran_agenda/



Lavrov: 'No proof Iran had nuke program'

Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday there was no proof that Iran has ever run a nuclear weapons program, and praised Teheran for its readiness to cooperate with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.

http://snipurl.com/1utma


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iran+nukes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

http://www.energybulletin.net/38091.html


Informant: Scott Munson

Cyborg Soldier Technology



http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/211.html

Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation around the World

Google Groups
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Diese Gruppe besuchen

Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007

Planners approve Sarum Road mast

CITY planners signalled their approval for a fourth mobile operator to use phone masts at Sarum Road reservoir, Winchester, today (December 4).

Winchester City Council's telecommunications sub-committee has given mobile giant Vodafone permission to install antennae and satellite dishes on an existing 20-metre mast, which the company will share with O2.

A decision was due on the application at the beginning of November, but it was deferred when agents for the telecom operator failed to attend a meeting.

Read More...
http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/hampshirechroniclenews/display.var.1880319.0.planners_approve_sarum_road_mast.php

Mandatory Cell Phones a hit in Montclair

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/250.1/popup/index.php?cl=5305564


Informant: gotemf

Atomwaffenprogramm Irans entspringt Bush Kriegskalkül

"Nun haben die eigenen Geheimdienste Bush die Legitimation für seine Kriegsphantasien entzogen", meint der außenpolitische Sprecher der Linksfraktion, Norman Paech. Ihren Berichten zufolge habe der Iran bereits 2003 sein Atomwaffenprogramm eingestellt. Dies habe die US-Regierung also bereits in der Phase ihrer schärfsten Drohgebärden und Sanktionsforderungen gegen Iran gewusst, kritisiert Paech. Dennoch würden weitere Sanktionen gegen den Iran gefordert.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17078



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

Our Troops Must Leave Iraq

Walter Cronkite and David Krieger, writing for CommonDreams.org, say: "The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407B.shtml



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Oppose Telecom Immunity, Uphold the Constitution

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=kgIfaAx05oSa73nEBhhC-g..



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

Urge the members of the Environment and Public Works Committee to pass our global warming bill

http://ga6.org/boxer2010/gw_calls.html


http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Boxer

Toll Of Climate Change On World Food Supply Could Be Worse Than Thought

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Toll_Of_Climate_Change_On_World_Food_Supply_Could_Be_Worse_Than_Thought_999.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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World Faces Food Shortages
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/04/5597/

Water shortages are likely to be trigger for wars, says UN chief Ban Ki Moon

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2994650.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Klimaschutz ist Menschenrecht

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: In Bali verhandeln die Regierungen über den Klimaschutz, während im Saarland Bürger die Sache in die eigenen Hände nehmen und ein RWE-Kohlekraftwerk per Referendum ablehnen. Derweil will Schweden Windräder bauen und US-Wissenschaftler empfehlen die Verknüpfung von Windparks, damit diese zur Grundlast beitragen können.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26755/1.html



Globaler Klimaschutz - was geht auf Bali?

Der Geschäftsführer des Bundes für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) berichtet für Telepolis vom Weltklimagipfel

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26751/1.html



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Urgent Action Needed Against Pro-GM Abuse of Science and Scientist

ISIS Press Release 04/12/07

When ISIS organised its briefing at European Parliament in June (Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe, SiS 35), we already knew that one of our speakers, Irina Ermakova, has had her funding withdrawn because the results of her experiments (GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33) challenged the claims of the biotech industry that GM food is safe. She has since been the victim of a scandalous attempt to discredit her work by the mainstream journal, Nature Biotechnology (Science and Scientist Abused, SiS 36).

We have now learned that a second member of our panel of scientists, Christian Vélot, has lost his funding.

There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have organised a petition that has already attracted 6000 signatures. You can sign it on line by going to http://sciencescitoyennes.org/spip.php?article1638

Please sign the petition and send the link to your friends. The biotech industry is working very hard to suppress independent science and scientists; we must do all we can to fight it.

A list of the members of the committee is available at http://sciencescitoyennes.org/IMG/pdf/CSvelot3.pdf

Translation of the petition:

Christian Vélot is a lecturer and researcher in molecular genetics at the Université Paris-Sud. Since 2002 he has led a research group in the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology (a joint CNRS-University institute) at the Orsay Scientific Centre. In addition to carrying out his teaching and research, he has devoted some of his own time to meetings on GMOs. These meetings, one of which in particular served as a working document for the GMO activists at the Grenelle de l'Environnement [a series of meetings in October 2007 in which representatives from government, professional associations and NGOs discussed environmental issues].

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/abuseOfScience.php

Hacking Democracy

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4ff34deb6a59dad7?hl=en


Informant: John Perna



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4463776866669054201



Hacking Democracy
http://tinyurl.com/ytd8cc

Controling the Vote
http://tinyurl.com/ywatu5



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Why Audit & Recount Laws Must be Legislated

Connecticut provides a new example of why election audit and recount procedures need to be legislated.

Connecticut races that are to be recounted are exempt by law from manual audits. Yet the CT Secretary of State apparently plans to do recounts by machine, not manually.

Connecticut: Bysiewicz To Consider Elimination Of Manual Recounts http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2671&Itemid=113

Recounts in any state would be unnecessary if elections were manually audited using scientific sample sizes that give probability of at most
5% for certifying an incorrect election outcome caused by the most well-hidden vote fraud. The need to recount close races is eliminated entirely with scientific manual election auditing because 100% manual counts automatically occur whenever necessary in close races.

2. The National Election Data Archive Releases a Model Legislative Election Auditing Proposal

Unfortunately, federal election audit legislation is not likely to pass in time to protect the November 2008 elections because Democratic House leaders, Representative Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi, have been persuaded by groups funded in part by voting machine vendors such as The Election Center and the National Association of Counties, not to pass the federal election reform legislation (HR811 and S2295) that would require independent manual audits of machine counts and require that paperless electronic-ballot voting systems in states like MD, GA, DE, NJ, SC, and other states be replaced with less costly, more reliable, less susceptible, voter-verified paper ballot systems. That leaves the upcoming primaries and the 2008 November elections susceptible to undetected vote miscount - again.

Manual audits could ensure that at most 5% of incorrect election outcomes were certified (assuming the most difficult to detect vote fraud), by requiring manually auditing on average, over time, a mere 2% to 3% of precincts in federal (US House and Senate) and in statewide (Governor) races - more auditing for close races and less (1%) for wide-margin races.

For state-level legislative races, prior election data could be analyzed to know on average over time how many vote counts would need to be manually audited to ensure that no more than 5% of incorrect outcomes produced in ways that are difficult to detect would be certified.

The costs for auditing elections is minimal in comparison to the budgets that winners of elections control. New Mexico audits 2% of its election results for only $200,000 per election; and CT uses volunteers to manually audit 10% of its precincts.

This is model election auditing legislation:
Mandatory Vote Count Audit proposal
http://utahcountvotes.org/legislature/ElectionAudits4Utah.pdf

Please work with your own state legislators (call and ask to meet with your own State Senator, Representative or Assembly Person) to sponsor legislation to require routine scientific independent manual election audits.

Although US HR811, S2295, and an election audit bill for NJ, S507, are better than any states' current election auditing procedures and should be supported, they contain some loopholes which would allow vote fraud to be undetected in some specific situations.

This model legislation, written for Utah, closes the loopholes in other election auditing bills -

Mandatory Vote Count Audit proposal
http://utahcountvotes.org/legislature/ElectionAudits4Utah.pdf

The Technical Guidelines Committee of the US Election Assistance Commission, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology recommend "software independent" voting systems where a mistake in the software cannot translate to a mistake in the election results. However, no voting system is software independent without manual auditing, or full hand counts, of voter-verified ballot records. Paperless voting systems cannot be software independent and it is difficult, although not impossible, for paper roll DRE voting systems to be software independent (although no state which currently uses paper roll DRE systems employs procedures that make their DRE voting systems "software independent").

This 16 page model election auditing proposal is written for general use with any type of voting system for any state. Drop references to paper roll canisters for states not using paper roll DREs; as appropriate replace "Lt. Governor" by "Secretary of State" or "State Election Director"; and review its definitions and text for consistency with particular state election statutes.

As citizens, we are supposed to control our government. We are entitled to statistically sufficient audits of the invisibly-counted election results produced by machines, not just some ad hock percentage audits that may certify incorrect election outcomes.

I want to thank the experts who helped write this election auditing legislative proposal such as activist Joycelynn Straight, LWV Member, Idaho, and recent reviewers such as Philip Stark, Ph.D., U.CAL at Berkeley, and Ronald Rivest, Ph.D. M.I.T.; and thank the legislators in Utah who have encouraged me to pursue this.

Mandatory Vote Count Audit - legislative proposal
http://utahcountvotes.org/legislature/ElectionAudits4Utah.pdf


Kathy Dopp
Executive Director, National Election Data Archive
http://electionarchive.org
phone 435-658-4657

History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of Election Auditing Fundamentals http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf

Vote Yes on HR811 and S2295
http://electionmathematics.org/VoteYesHR811.pdf

Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf


"Truth comes as a conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a friend." --Rabindranath Tagore



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US Seeks Alliance with China and India to Block Climate Protection

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,521153,00.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

"I Will Never Leave Guantanamo"

Sabin Willett, of The Boston Globe, writes: "for two years and three months he'd been asking the federal judiciary to hear a few simple facts. No judge ever has. 'I also have something important to tell you,' Joseph said. 'About my wife. I want you to tell her that it is time for her .... to move on.' 'You mean ...?' 'Yes. I will never leave Guantanamo.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407P.shtml



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Iraq, Now and Forever

Bob Hebert writes for The New York Times: "Most of the time we pretend it’s not there: The staggering financial cost of the war in Iraq, which continues to soar, unchecked, like a rocket headed toward the moon and beyond. Early last year, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated that the "true" cost of the war would ultimately exceed $1 trillion, and maybe even $2 trillion. Incredibly, that estimate may have been low."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407M.shtml

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Now and Forever

By Bob Herbert

Seriously. How long do we want this madness to last?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18846.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

Waxman Taps Mukasey in CIA Leak Probe

The Associated Press reports: "a House committee chairman looking into the leak of a CIA operative's identity asked for Attorney General Michael Mukasey's help in getting transcripts of investigators' interviews with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and five White House aides. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said the White House is blocking Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from providing the transcripts, which are among the material the congressman wants from the criminal investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407K.shtml



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Report Refutes "Urgency" of War Funding

Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "despite the Bush administration's warnings renewed Iraq funding is immediately necessary, a November Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, obtained by Truthout, states preexisting funds can easily finance the war through February, and probably beyond. While the Army cites January as the deadline for replenishing funding for the 'global war on terror,' the CRS notes the Department of Defense could reasonably slow its 'non-readiness-related spending,' stretching money transferred from the general defense budget to last another month."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407J.shtml



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Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/120407_common_knowledge.htm



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America Cannot Afford Bush's "Success"

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/c2999f3f6ed27839?hl=en

Auf vier Rädern in den Überwachungsstaat

http://tinyurl.com/26dhey



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Merkels Mitte ist ein Trugbild

4. Dezember 2007

Zum Parteitag der CDU erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer Dietmar Bartsch:

Damit es keine Missverständnisse gibt: Wenn ich von einem Mitte-Links-Bündnis spreche, meine ich ausdrücklich nicht die CDU. Denn Merkels Mitte liegt im Ungefähren. Ihr politischer Standpunkt ist überall und nirgends. Bei der Politik der Union gibt es nur eine Konstante: Die Umverteilung von unten nach oben. Die Union will den Abbau von Arbeitnehmerrechten, den Ausbau des Überwachungsstaates, eine Leitkultur, die Migrantinnen und Migranten ausgrenzt. Wer angesichts von 1,3 Millionen Menschen, die nicht von ihrer Arbeit leben können und deshalb mit Hartz IV ihr Einkommen aufstocken müssen, einen flächendeckenden Mindestlohn ablehnt, nimmt die Steuerzahlerinnen und Steuerzahler in Haftung, damit die Unternehmen weiter Lohndumping betreiben können. Wer angesichts von 2,5 Millionen Kindern in Armut den großen Banken und Konzernen Milliarden-Geschenke macht, statt das Kindergeld zu erhöhen, geht skandalös mit der Zukunft unseres Landes um. Das hat mit Mitte nichts zu tun. Das ist neoliberal, konservativ, rechts. Merkel hat versucht, der CDU ein wenig soziale Tünche und ein moderneres Image zu verpassen. Darunter aber steckt die alte Partei der großen Banken und Konzerne und der sozialen Ausgrenzung.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/merkels-mitte-ist-ein-trugbild/

Oil company: business as usual

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/212.html



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Why the telecoms shouldn’t get immunity

The American Prospect

by Robert B. Reich

12/03/07

You’d think anyone who remembered J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and Nixon’s CIA, the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 — let alone the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution — might be concerned about the government illegally snooping on Americans. But executives at the nation’s biggest telecoms — AT&T, Verizon, and others — didn’t blink an eye when the National Security Agency came knocking. You want records of domestic phone calls? Sure, help yourself! Emails? Yeah, we got tons. They’re yours! When word of this leaked out and the companies got sued by Americans who didn’t particularly like the idea of government rummaging through everything they said or wrote, the telecoms went to Congress and complained it wasn’t their fault. They deserve immunity from such lawsuits, they argue. They were only following orders. Congress is about to decide whether their argument holds water. It doesn’t...

http://tinyurl.com/3ax7cl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Why The Right Loves a Disaster

By Naomi Klein

Over the last four years, I have been researching a little-explored area of economic history: the way that crises have paved the way for the march of the right-wing economic revolution across the globe. A crisis hits, panic spreads and the ideologues fill the breach, rapidly reengineering societies in the interests of large corporate players. It's a maneuver I call "disaster capitalism."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19217.htm



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Forests, the Great Green Hope?

Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service, reports: "Expanding European forests absorbed 126 million tons of carbon dioxide from 1990 to 2005 - equivalent to 11 percent of European Union emissions from human activities - while a UN target to plant one billion trees mainly in Africa has been surpassed."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml

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



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

Lack of clean water by 2025?

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view_article.php?article_id=104535


Informant: Teresa Binstock

100 object but council blunder gives mobile phone mast the go-ahead

Anger: residents who objected, with MP Chris McCafferty, front centre

By Brian Coates

A COUNCIL bungle means a mobile phone company can put up a mast – despite a massive campaign of objection.

Nearly 100 letters and a petition were sent to Calderdale Council over Vodafone's plan for a mast in Granny Hall Lane, Brighouse.

Read More...
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/100-object-but-council-blunder.3550244.jp

Recession Hits U.S. Profits; Economy Might Be Next

U.S. corporate profits are in a recession, and the entire economy may not be far behind.

http://snipurl.com/1ul8x


From Information Clearing House



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

9/11 and Skepticism

How Americans are continually being asked to accept the opposite of what they know to be true.

http://www.americanbuddhist.net/9-11-and-skepticism


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

'Clarifying' the Geneva Conventions: A Ploy to Limit US Culpability

Official US calls for "clarifying" the Geneva Conventions are part of a ploy to limit their application and enable prisoners to be treated outside the law without inviting culpability for war crimes and torture.

http://snipurl.com/1ul8t


From Information Clearing House



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US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat

The disclosure makes it harder for President George Bush and the vice-president, Dick Cheney, to make a case for a military strike against Iran next year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2221408,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12



Russia finds US intelligence report on Iran''s nuclear weapons abilities

Russia on Monday found credible the content of a US intelligence report which stated that Iran won't be able to enrich enough uranium for a nuclear weapons until late 2009 and even then, is "very unlikely" to produce a nuclear bomb until the next decade.

http://snipurl.com/1ul86


From Information Clearing House



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

Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day

With U.S. forces stretched thin in Iraq, private security companies have swept in to fill the void. But abuses of third-world security workers abound. And in many cases, those helping to fight our wars can't even cross our borders.

http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_7614726


From Information Clearing House



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US admissions of Iraqi refugees drop again despite vows to boost numbers

The United States admitted only 362 Iraqi refugees in November, almost 100 fewer than in October, and far less than half the number it needs per month to meet a goal of 12,000 by the end of this budget year.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/03/america/US-Iraq-Refugees.php


From Information Clearing House



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Time to Mount Up and Ride

By Vincent L. Guarisco

Haven't you noticed the pillars shaking, the foundation cracking, and debris falling everywhere? I certainly hope so, because the Bush administration's wrecking ball hasn't quite finished swinging yet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18823.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vincent+L.+Guarisco

Henry Thoreau and the Patrons of Virtue

By Charles Sullivan

Far from a government of the people, for the people and by the people, we now have a government that is the exclusive domain of the rich and powerful and has the same level of exclusivity as an expensive country club or resort. The poor and disenfranchised are barred from entry and are thus marginalized.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18826.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charles+Sullivan

Parents Told "Get Kids Vaccinated Or Go To Jail"

http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2007/141107vaccines.htm

Wage Peace

Where To Begin

By William Sumner Scott, J.D.

By change of focus from the current wars in the Middle East to this violent past, it will be possible to get the majority of Americans to understand that we have never been a peaceful people. And, if we are to become peaceful, we must begin by making peace with the American Indian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18822.htm



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

Operation Iraqi Freedom Exposed

Bush Negotiates Permanent Presence in Iraq

By Marjorie Cohn

The revelation that Bush will sign an agreement for a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq before his term is up confirms the real reason he invaded Iraq and changed its regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18820.htm



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

North American Union Agenda Exists

http://infowars.net/articles/december2007/031207NAU.htm



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My Most Important Message Of The Year

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

This video address just might be the most important message I have ever delivered. Thanks to notable personalities such as President George W. Bush, countless numbers of both Christians and nonbelievers have been duped as to who God is--and isn't. I urge you to obtain this video address.......

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