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Erik Leaver, reporting for AlterNet, writes: "When the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was released noting that Iran gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003, the council moved into action. Unanimously, it passed a resolution ensuring that no preemptive military attack by the United States against Iran takes place."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407F.shtml



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Der Chef der SPD-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen, Ottmar Schreiner, sieht in der Diskussion um "Hartz IV"-Empfänger eine massive Stigmatisierung von Langzeitarbeitslosen. "Die Diskriminierung ist die Folge der gesamten 'Hartz IV'-Debatte", sagte Schreiner der "Frankfurter Rundschau". "Die war von Anfang an so ausgelegt, dass Druck auf die Menschen ausgeübt wurde."

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17135



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1214-02.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5833/

What Is Probably in the Missing Tapes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5824/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5826/

Scientists worry as oceans grow more acidic
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/405417.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5841/

A Case for Impeachment Hearings
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5839/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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Damit es zu keiner Abstimmung kommen kann, hören manche Gegner der Erneuerbaren im US-Kongress einfach nicht auf zu reden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/100599



Klimaschutzkonferenz droht zu scheitern

Die USA, Japan und Kanada verhindern die Aufnahme von verbindlichen Zielen der Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen für die Industriestaaten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/100580



Das letzte Jahrzehnt war das bislang wärmste

2007 war global das siebtwärmste Jahr seit 1850.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/100568

Hillary Clinton on Iraq
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4802

Hillary Clinton on International Law
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4803

Hillary Clinton on Military Policy
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4811


Informant: Duane J. Roberts



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Joseph L. Galloway writes for McClatchy Newspapers: "The same people who don't blink at spending $3 billion a week on their war of choice in Iraq were the ones who cut the VA budget and privatized maintenance at Walter Reed Army Hospital and opposed every attempt to expand benefits for veterans old and young. They're the same people who turned a blind eye as their corporate sponsors and private donors looted billions of dollars from the Treasury with no-compete contracts and bloated bills for everything from food for the troops to fuel for their tanks and trucks."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407N.shtml



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Robin Wright reports for The Washington Post, "employee allegations have prompted four government probes into the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), including an investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors into the agency's financial practices and claims of e-mail monitoring, according to law enforcement sources and SIGIR staff members."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407L.shtml



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The editors of The New York Times write: "During the presidential campaign, candidates from both parties will warn of the risk of another terrorist attack on this country. Americans should insist that they also explain how they will repair the damage President Bush has done to America's intelligence-gathering capabilities in the name of fighting terrorism."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407K.shtml

Elana Schor reports for The Guardian UK, "A US senator came forward today on behalf of the second woman in a week to allege rape by private contractors in Iraq, worsening a controversy that has already sparked a congressional hearing."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
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Poor regulation, risky securitized loans and greed have led to a very high-risk situation.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=676&thisview=item



NYC protesters demand freeze on home foreclosures

Wall Street rally wants more help for victims of subprime mortgage meltdown.
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=678&thisview=item



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Don't Buy Bush's War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/14/5840/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/232.html



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Human Events
by John Stossel

12/12/07

[Stossel] What should government do? Ron Paul: Protect our freedoms. Have a strong national defense. Look at and take care of our borders. Have a sound currency. That was the responsibility of the federal government, not to run our lives and run everything in the economy and extend the interstate-commerce clause and the general-welfare clause to do anything they want to do...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23929


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

12/13/07

For Congressional Democrats, the ‘victory’ they are touting is that they are only giving Bush $70 billion for the war now, and they won’t give him the other $130 billion he is demanding until they return in a few weeks. They really showed him. But all of these complaints are extremely naive and unsophisticated. You see, all of this behavior by the Democrats is absolutely necessary. They have no choice. Otherwise, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News will attack them for being weak (as though there is some circumstance under which they wouldn’t) and that would be terrible...

http://tinyurl.com/34rva2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

12/13/07

Sometimes we reach a moment in time that calls us to question the framing of ideas that we have always accepted. That can be frightening. But necessary. This is such a moment. Peace is not the absence of war. Peace will only happen when we discard the initiation of deceit, coercion, and violence as individuals or through such human tools as government. Ron Paul is not just anti-war, he is a peace activist who can bring us together in a new frame for all human action. The campaign spontaneously taking place for him is an authentic shock and awe moment...

http://tinyurl.com/2jnb7f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Strike the Root
by Wes Bertrand

12/13/07

Most people in the Middle East and elsewhere really like America …. It represents, in theory at least, a great land of opportunities for anyone wanting to flourish and willing to be productive — ‘a shining city on a hill.’ They just detest the depraved institution that casts a shadow on our city and the rest of the world. The U.S. government’s empire might be one of the worst kinds, because its citizens tend to view themselves as free and, hence, its coercive actions as benevolent...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/bertrand/bertrand1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CounterPunch
by Sandy Mayes

12/13/07

The US military will have to think twice before it ever again tries to use Olympia, WA as a launching point for war. For 13 unforgettable days in November, people in this small community engaged in a courageous and spirited campaign of resistance to the war in Iraq. Sixty-six arrests were made and untold numbers were assaulted by police during a campaign which made national and international news. Day after day, and night after night, people put their lives on hold and their bodies on the line to prevent movement of military equipment from the Port of Olympia to nearby Fort Lewis...

http://counterpunch.org/mayes12132007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Independent [UK]
by Robert Verkaik

12/14/07

At the turn of the year, Government forces, led by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, then Lord Chancellor, appeared determined to press ahead with new rules that would stop the media and campaign groups from making costly and embarrassing requests for information. By mid-spring there was strong cross-party opposition to the plans but Falconer and his ministerial colleagues showed no appetite for compromise. But then Jack Straw, the new Justice Secretary, seemed to lose his will for the fight. By October the whole debate had been turned on its head, with Gordon Brown suggesting that Freedom of Information laws could be extended to cover some private firms. New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act now provide a clearer understanding of why the Government got cold feet.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article3249843.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14821&printsafe=1


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
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http://www.war-is-illegal.org


Informant: Scott Munson

Mark Lattimer, The Guardian UK: "After the invasion of Iraq, the US government claimed that women there had 'new rights and new hopes.' In fact their lives have become immeasurably worse, with rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307WA.shtml

Lewis Krauskopf reports for Reuters: "Rev. Jesse Jackson and other US civil rights leaders converged on Wall Street on Monday to demand the government and the financial community step up aid to stem a home-loan foreclosure crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307LA.shtml



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Jacques Leslie, Mother Jones, reports on the environmental effects of China's emergence as an economic power. Leslie writes, "The catch is that China has become not just the world's manufacturer but also its despoiler, on a scale as monumental as its economic expansion."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307EB.shtml

John M. Broder, The New York Times: "A federal judge in Sacramento on Wednesday upheld a California law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, another in a string of legal defeats for the auto industry this year."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121307EA.shtml



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The Washington Post's Steven Mufson reports, "By a narrow margin, the Senate today failed again to block a Republican-led filibuster on an energy bill as GOP leaders made a stand against a $21.8 billion, 10-year tax package that would have extended incentives for wind and solar energy and reduced some tax breaks for oil companies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307R.shtml



Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes

John M. Broder, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "Pared-down energy legislation cleared the Senate on Thursday by a wide margin after the oil industry and utilities succeeded in stripping out provisions that would have cost them billions of dollars."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407B.shtml



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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1213/p17s01-sten.html


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http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2007/12/global-guerrill.html



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It's a sign of the home-loan crisis' uneven impact: light in some areas, heavy in others - often those populated by minorities or the lower-middle class.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071211/ts_csm/ahousetwo


From Information Clearing House



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Negative news coverage may have cost former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his job, but it won him a dubious honor Wednesday from a magazine published by the American Bar Association: Lawyer of the Year.

http://snipurl.com/1v8t6


From Information Clearing House



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

The current front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president shares much of President Bush's dangerous attitudes toward international law and human rights.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4803


From Information Clearing House



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Former President Jimmy Carter has said current US human rights practices are an embarrassment.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=34787&sectionid=3510203


From Information Clearing House



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The possibility that Egypt and other countries to which the CIA has "rendered" suspected terrorists made audio or videotapes of their interrogations prompted Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to say he will ask CIA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday whether that agency requested copies of such recordings, "and what has happened to those tapes."

http://snipurl.com/1v8t4


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogations
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If we are to have a serious debate about what to do about torture, all these facts need to be taken into consideration.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/12/the-witnessing.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1322100420071213



Congress to CIA Torturers: 'If Only You'd Told Us'

If there was ever a parable about the futility of Congressional "oversight," it's surely the uproar over the CIA's secret destruction of the videotapes of its torture sessions with the Al Qaeda men Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20071231&s=cockburn


From Information Clearing House

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House Votes to Ban Harsh CIA Methods

The Associated Press: "The House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307S.shtml



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The deaths occur as soldiers serve longer combat deployments and the Army spends $100 million on support programs.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-12-12-Army-suicides_N.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on and are ignoring the public's priorities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7150964,00.html



House Passes $696B "Defense" Policy Bill

Final action on the bill comes as Democrats struggle for a way to pay for combat operations overseas without appearing to support Bush's policies in Iraq.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/12/12/ap4433640.html


From Information Clearing House



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

By Paul Craig Roberts

The US media has no investigative capability and serves up the lies that serve short-term corporate and political interests. If it were not for the Internet that provides Americans with access to foreign news sources, Americans would live in a world of perfect disinformation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18882.htm



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By Stephanie Nebehay

A United Nations investigator said on Thursday he strongly suspected the CIA of using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18884.htm



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

What possible reason would Iran have for attacking the United States or Israel other than an irresistible desire for mass national suicide?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18879.htm



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6913/


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From ufpj-news



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

William L. Anderson on legally living a life of crime.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson203.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Duke+case
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+L.+Anderson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson

Anthony Gregory on A Foreign Policy of Freedom, by Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory152.html



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

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1017865420071210


Informant: Bob Banner



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

Is junk media making you sick?



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

And if you're fed up with junk news: please stand shoulder to shoulder with us against the FCC's Big Media giveaway.
http://www.stopbigmedia.com

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5801/

Katrina Vanden Heuvel: On the Media
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5813/

Martin Evades Tough Questions on Media Ownership
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1213-09.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5802/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5796/



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1213-12.htm

Demolition of New Orleans Public Housing Starts
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5819/

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Housing demolition protests gear up

Associated Press

12/13/07

In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to demolish about 4,500 public housing units at four of the city’s largest complexes and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods. Protesters have marched on Mayor Ray Nagin’s home and disrupted City Council proceedings with chants. At least two protesters apparently occupied one of the buildings scheduled to be bulldozed, draping two handmade banners from he side Thursday. One read, ‘Reopen now,’ and the other, ‘No demolition.’ Protesters kept up the pressure with a march at the HUD offices in Washington...

http://tinyurl.com/ynn9ky


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Dozens Protest Razing of New Orleans Public Housing

Cain Burdeau reports for The Associated Press, "Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122107M.shtml

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New Orleans to Demolish Thousands of 'Poor' Homes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/21/5948/

The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/21/5956/



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1213-06.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5817/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bottled+water

William Glaberson, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "Back in 2002, a master's degree candidate at the Naval War College wrote a paper on the Bush administration's plan to use military commissions to try Guantanamo suspects, concluding that 'even a good military tribunal is a bad idea.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307B.shtml



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

Thomas Ferraro, from Reuters, reports, "The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bolten
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Lasten, Chancen oder beides durch Klimaschutz?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26846/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
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Rückkehr zur Realität: Die Neokonservativen nach dem Geheimdienstbericht über Irans Nuklearprogramm.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26832/1.html



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

Campact-News 29/07 Donnerstag, den 13. Dezember 2007

Im Bundestag gehen die Beratungen über das Gentechnik-Gesetz in die heiße Phase. Machen Sie der Gentechnik-Lobby einen Strich durch die Rechnung: Belagern Sie mit uns den Bundestag! Rund um das Parlament versehen wir möglichst viele Großplakate mit den besten Argumenten gegen Gentechnik in der Landwirtschaft. Steuern Sie Ihr Argument bei und bewerten Sie die Argumente anderer!

Zur Aktion: http://www.campact.de/gentec/sg1/home

Unsere Belagerung wird stark: Die Spenden von über 600 Campact-Aktiven haben uns bereits 40 Großplakate rund um den Bundestag ermöglicht. Herzlichen Dank!


Stefanie Hundsdorfer

Alexander Bolton, of The Hill, reports, "Senate and House Democrats backed down Wednesday from a spending showdown with President Bush....Democratic leaders said Wednesday that they would keep total spending at the strict $933 billion limit set by the White House."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alexander+Bolton

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/121307_wiped_out.htm



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

13. Dezember 2007

Zur aktuellen Studie des Deutschen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung über die Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II erklärt sie stellvertretende Vorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Nun haben es CDU/CSU, FDP, Bündnis90/Die Grünen und SPD auch von einem Wirtschaftsinstitut bestätigt bekommen: Die Armutsquote bei Bezieherinnen und Beziehern von sozialen Transfers hat sich mit der Einführung von Hartz IV von ca. 50 Prozent auf nunmehr 66 Prozent erhöht. Hartz IV macht arm, ist Armut und Ausgrenzung per Gesetz. Insbesondere ostdeutsche Haushalte zählen zu den Verlierern der Hartz-IV-Gesetzgebung, da aufgrund der höheren Frauenerwerbstätigkeit nunmehr öfter Partnereinkommen angerechnet wird. Das war vor Hartz IV anders. Wir brauchen endlich eine Politik gegen Armut und Ausgrenzung. Dazu gehört die sofortige Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes und einer bedarfsorientierten, repressionsfreien Grundsicherung.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/hartz-iv-macht-arm/



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DIW-Wochenbericht vom 12. Dezember 2007 (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/01_aktuell/ticker/2007/2007_12_12_diw-hartz%204.pdf


Keine Arbeit ohne Lohn!

„In Deutschland, und nicht nur dort, erleben wir derzeit einen beispiellosen Angriff auf die regulären Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Einst hart erkämpfte Arbeitsstandards werden untergraben, Löhne nach unten geschraubt, das Arbeitsrecht aufgeweicht, Arbeit generell „flexibilisiert“, wie sie es nennen. Gerade die allgemeine Herabsetzung der Löhne spüren wir, als lohnabhängige Bevölkerung, am härtesten. Der krasseste Ausdruck dieses Lohnverfalls liegt, logischerweise, dann vor, wenn Menschen ohne Lohn schuften…“ Aufruf zur Kampagne der Lokalföderation Berlin vom 06.12.07 http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_071206-011619

Eine Aktionshomepage befindet sich im Aufbau http://www.keine-arbeit-ohne-lohn.de

Input und Diskussion zum Auftakt der Kampagne "Keine Arbeit ohne Lohn" am Di. 15.01.2008 [20.00Uhr] in Berlin, Veranstaltungsort: FAU-Lokal, Straßburger Str. 38, Berlin-P'berg, U2 Senefelderplatz


“Koblenz von unten”. Befragung zur sozialen Lage von Hartz-IV-Betroffenen und zur Praxis der Arbeitsämter

Anlässlich einer Pressekonferenz am 10.12.07 wurden die Ergebnisse der Befragung (Kurzfassung) vorgestellt (pdf) http://akhartz4-koblenz.de/Report.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Dezember 2007

13 December 2007
EDITORIAL - herts.advertiser@archant.co.uk

A FORMAL complaint has been made about a council's U-turn over allowing a mobile phone mast in a park.

St Albans District Council had originally resisted attempts by Orange to install a mast in Clarence Park but agreed to it when the phone firm instead submitted applications for a number of smaller masts in surrounding streets to improve their coverage.

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Christian Science Monitor

12/12/07

At least since 2003, and especially after hurricane Katrina hit, the White House has broadly attempted to control which climate scientists could speak with reporters, as well as editing scientists’ congressional testimony on climate science and key legal opinions, according to a new report by a House committee. ‘The Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policy makers and the public about the dangers of global warming,’ said the report, which is the result of a 16-month probe by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ‘The White House exerted unusual control over the public statements of federal scientists on climate change issues’...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1212/p03s03-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

13. Dezember 2007

Zu Ankündigungen von SPD-Chef Beck, sich für europaweite Standards zur Leiharbeit stark zu machen, erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst:

Kurt Becks Gedächtnis ist offenbar nicht das Beste. Es ist gerade erst eine Woche her, dass sein Genosse und Arbeitsminister Scholz in Brüssel eine europäische Einigung zur Leiharbeit verhindert hat. Europaweit geltende Höchstarbeitszeiten und Mindeststandards für Leiharbeiter scheitern derzeit vor allem an der deutschen Sozialdemokratie. An Lippenbekenntnissen zur sozialen Gerechtigkeit mangelt es der Beck-SPD nicht. Auf Taten warten die Menschen aber bisher vergeblich. Unsere Forderung lautet klar und deutlich: gleiches Geld für gleiche Arbeit! An der Durchsetzung dieses Prinzips muss sich Beck messen lassen, wenn er nicht als Dampfplauderer in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen will.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/vorweihnachtliche-heuchelei/



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EARTH MEANDERS

Paying nations to be green diverts attention from necessary resolute actions based upon what is right and sufficient to minimize climate change

Earth Meanders, http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ By Dr. Glen Barry November 12th, 2007

I have been an obstinate supporter of the Kyoto process; whose weaknesses, including non-universal participation and inadequate emission targets, are well known. Short of revolution, I do not believe alternative international political processes exist at this late date to enable nations to cooperatively and successfully reduce emissions. Kyoto and a possible successor beginning to be negotiated now in Bali provide the basis and mechanisms for binding emission cuts that can be tightened.

I do not see how emissions can be cut by the necessary amount
(> 80%) in the requisite period of time (ASAP, for sure by
2050) other than through difficult international negotiations. If Kyoto were abandoned, any successor international negotiating process would be equally hobbled by competing political and economic interests, and decades more wasted.

This assumes a certain level of goodwill and commitment to address the climate crisis through adequate solutions exists on the part of all parties. Sadly, this may be lacking, as there are serious deficiencies in policies being promoted at Bali.

This essay discusses how increasingly the international climate focus has become financial trickery rather than achieving shared, binding and adequate commitments to reduce emissions. The climate conference in Bali appears to be mostly about money and growth and development and not about meeting the needs of the Earth, ecosystems and most vulnerable citizens.

The Bali meetings seem far more interested in establishing markets for carbon and rainforests than committing to climate policy that is truthful and scientifically merited. Yes, there is some fine rhetoric from the United Nations, Europe and (gulp) Australia regarding the extent of the crisis and need for urgent actions as a solution. Yet a sad denial permeates the negotiations, as an emphasis upon growth -- including building new carbon reduction and rainforest protection markets -- shrouds the need to respect the biosphere's limits.

Huge and misguided efforts are going into creating the illusion that climate and rainforests can be saved even as we continue their destruction to grow our economies, population and consumption. There are many things that must be done to protect the environment that do not contribute to national development and do not make money for the elites.

Rainforests and their species, and of course an operable atmosphere, have value and a right to exist other than for carbon profits. Their protection is about way more than money.

The focus of the Kyoto process has gone from establishing binding commitments to reduce emissions to making money from looking like you are doing so. Very few leaders appear willing to push for binding emission targets as their priority because it is the just and necessary thing to do. Policies receive national support only if it benefits narrow definitions of their economic interests. This by definition is lack of leadership, as failure means global ecological collapse and an end to economies and society.

Doesn’t anybody do anything anymore because it is the right thing? Both rich and poor nations want to eat their cake and have it too – to continue polluting and cutting while being paid for not doing so, or doing it more carefully. What is next? Paying nations to not go to war? Not wage genocide? Educate and provide health care to their citizens?

Cutting carbon is a requirement for survival of the Earth, humanity and all creatures -- this should be payment enough. The whole effort to craft international climate change policy, and recent efforts to attach rainforest protection to the issue, is beginning to look more like a business opportunity and less like setting limits upon the human endeavor in order to maintain natural global ecosystem processes; thus ensuring a just, equitable human future.

There are moral and ecological obligations to protect all rainforests and end all fossil fuel emissions that go well beyond getting paid to do so. Rainforest and climate policy making should not primarily and foremost be about making money. Harnessing markets and providing business incentives may be part of the strategy for addressing these climate and other global eco-crises, but it cannot be the main focus if it is to be successful.

As long as economic growth is the measure of humanity meeting its aspirations, as long as fossil fuels are burned rather than left in the ground, as long as cutting ancient rainforests for any reason is seen as desirable, there is no hope for the Earth. Some element of policy to maintain a livable biosphere is going to have to be for non-monetary reasons, because it is right and necessary to do so. This implies shared sacrifice at the national and personal levels.

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Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits

Daphne Wysham writes for The Nation: "When money is on the table, there can be plenty to fight about. And right now there is a hefty wad of cash being dangled before governments and NGOs that comes with a catch: accept carbon trading as the deal or get nothing at all. Even so-called adaptation funding, arguably the largest piece of the pie, if done correctly, is being proffered to cash-poor countries--but only as a percentage of the carbon-trading budget. The message: accept carbon trading or your poor will starve."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307N.shtml



Bitter Divisions Exposed at Climate Talks

Thomas Fuller and Elisabeth Rosenthal, writing for The New York Times, report, "Amid growing frustration with the United States in deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks proposed by the Bush administration in Hawaii next month."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307D.shtml



Biofuels Scarce on Bali Menu

Marwaan Macan-Markar reports for Inter Press Service that "Green groups hoping that the social and environmental cost of biofuels would get an airing at the United Nations climate change conference here are a disappointed lot."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121407EC.shtml

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Al Gore Lambasts US Climate Obstructions
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/13/5810/

U.S. and Canada obstruct Bali talks
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=694&thisview=item

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Climate Deal Runs Straight Into Trouble With US

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse, reports: "A hard-fought deal fixing a 2009 deadline for a new treaty to tackle global warming ran straight into trouble Sunday with the United States voicing 'serious concerns' over its provisions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121607F.shtml

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Tragic Truth from Bali

by Andrew Light, Grist

The U.S. could have showed the world that we are serious about climate change. Instead, we drew an unnecessary line in the Bali sand.

http://ga3.org/ct/Ep20pgF18Y_w/


From TomPaine.com

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We've Been Suckered Again by the US. So Far the Bali Deal Is Worse than Kyoto
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/17/5859/

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US Pours Cold Water on Bali Optimism

John Vidal, The Guardian UK, reports: "The US backtracked yesterday on the climate change agreement reached after marathon talks in Bali, saying it had 'serious concerns' about the new global consensus and that developing countries had to do far more if there was to be any pact in two years' time."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121707EA.shtml



The Bali Meeting, and the Lessons Learned

Tom Athanasiou of Grist writes: "It's important, this time, to draw conclusions, and to do so publicly. Because Bali has taken us - barely and painfully - over a line and into a new and even more difficult level in the climate game we'll be playing for the rest of our lives. In fact, it's not too much to say that, with the realizations of the last year and their culmination at the 13th Conference of Parties, the game has, finally, belatedly, begun in earnest."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121807EA.shtml

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Who cares if the world drowns?
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=722&thisview=item



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Writing for In These Times, David Moberg says, "With its celebrity patina, highly literate and occasionally well-paid strikers, high-tech controversies, and mobilization of support via the Internet, the strike by 10,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (both East and West) is unusual - and not only because strikes themselves are rare these days. But for all its distinctiveness, the strike revolves around issues familiar to most American workers: management's use of new technology to disempower and underpay workers; executives' avoidance of unions through legal finagling; corporations' increasing concentration of power; a "winner-take-all" system of compensation that is grossly unequal; and corporate strategies that try to divide workers on minor issues to win on the bigger ones."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121207LB.shtml



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According to Mark Schoeff Jr., Workforce.com, "In the global economy, goods and services aren't the only products that US multinational corporations sell to other countries. They're also exporting anti-union attitudes that threaten collective bargaining around the world."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121207LA.shtml



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The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports: "US officials at UN climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific US commitments until a new administration assumes power in 2009, according to several participants."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121207EA.shtml



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The Associated Press says that "President Bush on Wednesday was ready to veto legislation that passed with bipartisan support to dramatically expand government-provided health insurance for children."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121207T.shtml

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Bush Veto Torpedoes Bipartisan Effort to Provide Health Coverage for Uninsured Kids
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1213-05.htm



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H. Josef Hebert, reporting for The Associated Press, says Congressional auditors have concluded that "The White House pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken requirements that companies annually disclose releases of toxic chemicals."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121207S.shtml



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by Devvy Kidd

It is no secret Ron Paul has been blacked out by the corrupted "mainstream" media with FAUX (FOX) News leading the way. The amount of air time given to anything about Ron Paul's run for the White House by other than the Internet is unlike anything I've ever seen in my adult life. What all network channels have done to this decent man has really been shameful to their profession. These pitiful moderators at the debates have shown anyone with the ability to see, a cut and slash job each and every time, deliberately cutting Ron Paul off and squashing his response time down to mere minutes for the entire debate........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd328.htm



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by Alan Stang

Look at the record of the Religious Wrong. In the 1860s, they called themselves Abolitionists. The issue they used as a cloak for their true purpose was slavery; it could have been something else. Their motive was to destroy our republican system, a union of independent states. They provoked Lincoln’s Communist War to Destroy the Union for the purpose. That war destroyed the system the Founding Fathers bequeathed us and replaced it with an incipient Empire. They tricked us into many more wars........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan19.htm



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Waterboarding is Torture



http://nz.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Waterboarding&search=Search

In defense of torture:

Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri: Some forms of waterboarding 'like swimming

"What the CIA is doing is not torture. It conforms to the Detainee Treatment Act, the Geneva Convention, the Convention against Torture. None of these things that are being used, by any stretch of the imagination, could be described as torture," Bond told interviewer Gwen Ifill.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/senator-some-fo.html



Alan M. Dershowitz: Want to torture? Get a warrant

The warrant would limit the torture to nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain without endangering life.

http://snipurl.com/1v6od



CIA chief knew about interrogation tapes

CIA chief Michael Hayden said Wednesday he knew of the existence of secret interrogation tapes but not that they had been destroyed, as the agency battled accusations that it was covering up torture.

http://snipurl.com/1v6oe



Evidence From Torture Could Be Used in Military Trials

The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, a tactic that simulates drowning.

http://snipurl.com/1v6og



Cindy Sheehan Calls on Pelosi to Explain Silence on Torture Briefing

"This is the smoking that makes it obvious why Nancy Pelosi 'took impeachment off the table.' It is more urgent now than ever that she is removed from office & I am even more determined to win her seat in 2008."

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29250



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For better or worse, big chunks of the Western financial system are falling like ripe fruit into the laps of petrodollar sheikdoms and well-heeled Asian governments.

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China tells US to fix its own economic problems

China told the United States Wednesday to fix its own economic problems rather than deliver lectures, as the two sides warned at top-level talks here that protectionism threatened their trade ties.

http://snipurl.com/1v6ol



Subprime hotline has 45,000 calls in three days

A hotline for a program that aims to help about 1.2 million subprime borrowers received 45,000 calls in the three days after President George W. Bush announced the program, the HOPE NOW alliance said on Tuesday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071211/usa_subprime_plan_response.html?.v=1



Bank of America shutting $12 billion cash fund

Cash withdrawals halted; investor redemptions paid 'in kind'
http://snipurl.com/1v6om


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Plans to extend pre-trial detention have sparked opposition - yet many are already locked up for months without charge.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2224832,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Doesn't believe report they stopped making WMD in '03
http://www.torontosun.com/News/World/2007/12/12/4720395-sun.html



Mullen: Israel not alone against Iran

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen wrapped up his lightning trip to Israel on Monday, leaving the IDF with a feeling that Israel does not stand alone in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat, despite a recent American intelligence report.

http://snipurl.com/1v6nu



Israel keeps up pressure on Iran

The Israeli government does not like the US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - and for the most part, is not buying it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7138506.stm



'France worried by Iran-Israel tension'

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Wednesday that there is a danger of war erupting over Iran's nuclear program if "the Israelis consider their security truly threatened."

http://snipurl.com/1v6nw



Report on Iran may scupper future sanctions

A draft Security Council resolution being discussed yesterday by officials from the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany would extend punitive measures - including travel bans and the seizure of assets - to the 15,000-strong Quds force, as well as dozens of named individuals.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3037599.ece



US admits 'tactical differences' with Russia, China on Iran

The United States has "tactical differences" with Russia and China on adopting new UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

http://www.afxnews.com/about488/index.php?lg=en&c=00.00&story=2221181



American Jews oppose attack on Iran

Regarding Iran's nuclear program, 92 percent of American Jews are concerned about the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Still, a majority - 57 percent - oppose US military action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

http://snipurl.com/1v6o4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Army chief: Israeli Military Preparing For Nuclear Iran Scenario

By Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Israel's army chief of staff hinted Wednesday that the Israeli military may have to act itself to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, if the international community was unsuccessful in doing so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18883.htm



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By The Associated Press

A federal appeals court has struck down portions of a law that makes it a crime to provide "material support or resources" to organizations classified as terrorist by the State Department.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18872.htm

By Patrick Cockburn
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18871.htm



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By Charles Sullivan

If we Americans are nothing more than hopelessly addicted consumers who think of ourselves as an exceptional people with special entitlements; if we see ourselves as god's morally superior chosen people; if we are selfish and greedy beyond redemption-then we are complicit in all of the horrible crimes that government commits in our name.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18876.htm



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From ufpj-news



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by Kurt Nimmo
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7603



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/boyack1.html

An Open Letter to Democrats
http://www.lewrockwell.com/nicholas/nicholas43.html

National Review's Weird Endorsement of Mitt Romney
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/seiler5.html

Only Ron Paul
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2225984,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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Die Nebeneinkünfte des früheren Bundesinnenministers Otto Schily sind nach einem Pressebericht Thema im Präsidium des Deutschen Bundestages. Die "Passauer Neue Presse" berichtete, Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert werde mit seinen Stellvertretern über das weitere Vorgehen im Fall des früheren Ministers beraten. Schily weigere sich auch nach mehrmaliger Aufforderung, Nebeneinkünfte aus seiner Tätigkeit als Rechtsanwalt detailliert offenzulegen, obwohl die Parlamentarier nach einem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts dazu verpflichtet seien. Medienberichten zufolge soll Schily als anwaltlicher Berater des Siemens-Konzerns zwischen März und September 2007 etwa 140.000 Euro eingenommen haben.

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