World-News

Amy Goodman writes for Truthdig: "On December 18, the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission met in Washington, DC, and, by a three to two vote, passed new regulations that would allow more media consolidation. This, despite the US public's increasing concern over the nation's media being controlled by a few giant corporations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122607H.shtml



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Klaus Marre, writing for The Hill, reports: "Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (R), a co-chairman of the commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, criticized the CIA Monday for impeding the panel's work."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122607B.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Kean
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3095435.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/bf66c0882e7cd7a4?hl=en

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Ron Paul gaining, Neocons weakened
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=729&thisview=item

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Trilateral Commission: World Shadow Government
http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/nwo/enemies-without/trilateral-commission-world-shadow-government/

The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
http://www.mega.nu/ampp/bilderberg.html


Informant: John Fitz



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
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By Nic Fildes

Published: 24 December 2007

Snazzy new mobile phones like the iPhone and other must-have electronic gadgets, such as the latest laptops and iPod models, will fill many stockings this Christmas. But disposing of the older devices will not be at the forefront of most people's minds.

Around 11,000 tons of unused phones already sit dormant in drawers across the UK, and that figure is likely to rise this Christmas as people upgrade to better devices. Factoring in old laptops, games consoles and portable music players, the environmental implications of celebrating Christmas with a new digital toy start to look ominous, as most of the older electronic products will end up in landfill sites, leaking dangerous chemicals into the earth.

Read More...
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3280480.ece


Informant: Mark G.

by Deanna Spingola

Part 6

U.S. foreign policy consistently thwarted any independence movements in Southeast Asia by claiming that it endangered our "national security." Meanwhile they backed governments and armies that engaged in profitable drug trafficking. In addition to U.S. interference in Viet Nam as early as 1945, top brass at the Pentagon suggested that soldiers and bombers be sent to western Laos in 1959. Secret military plans stated that the U.S. government was prepared to use nuclear weapons for these military operations. Perhaps this is the reason the U.S. refused to sign the Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Thermo-Nuclear Weapons in 1961......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna82.htm



The Power Elite Playbook: Killing the Competitors

by Deanna Spingola

Part 7

Communism was created and is controlled by the gluttonous Power Elite. Russia, because it was a treasure trove of untapped oil resources, needed a revolution (a political coup). The Czar and his family were murdered; it was planned and financed by the Schiffs, the Warburgs and the Rothschilds who directed the activities of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. The Power Elite have, through their machinations, secretly sponsors a majority of the world's tyrants. The autocrats Hitler and Mussolini were financed during the 1920-1930s by international bankers, including the.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna83.htm



The Power Elite Playbook Part 1-7 http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/40b3dcda83000941?hl=en



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The editors of The New York Times write, "It has been nearly a year since the United States attorneys scandal broke, and much has changed. Many people at the center of the scandal have fled Washington, and new laws and rules have been put in place making it harder to use prosecutors' offices to win elections. Much, however, remains to be done, starting with a full investigation into the misconduct that may have occurred - something the American people have been denied."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122607O.shtml



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The Associated Press reports, "Democrats running Congress for the first time in more than a decade faltered at key points this year as they grudgingly passed important bills opposed by many, or even most, of their House members. When Republicans were in charge, they generally avoided a similar fate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122607M.shtml

Craig Unger, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, garnered national attention with his previous book, "House of Bush, House of Saud." In "The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future," Unger turns his attention to neoconservative officials and theorists. Truthout's Jason Leopold recently sat down with Unger and discussed the influence of the religious right on our current government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122607J.shtml



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Tennessean
by Rev. David Harkness

12/25/07

In an insightful article in the Dec. 16 Tennessean … authors Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye spoke a universal truth that has echoed down through the corridors of history with a power that challenges us as Americans to take a serious look at the dangerous course we have been following for the past six years. This truth has not only been spoken by numerous heroes of the higher human self, but also demonstrated in their lives, some literally losing their lives to defend the efficacy of the truth. … How we, as a nation, have deviated so far from this truth by practicing the principle that military power will provide the solution for all our insecurities, and by the demonstration of most of our presidential candidates that saving our lives is the utmost issue of importance. And all because the elevation of this issue to the highest pinnacle of our value system has been sold to the American people in the past six years...

http://tinyurl.com/yvckr2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

12/22/07

SWAT teams and raids, originally limited to situations when police expected to face serious armed conflict, have become commonly used to serve search warrants, usually where drug activities are suspected. Most police departments are now equipped and staffed with SWAT capabilities. Such raids often employ officers in full battle gear, often with black hoods, and they strike with little or no warning or identification. They employ flash grenades, which sometimes ignite fires or seriously stun people inside the building. They smash doors and rush in with huge bluster and noise, brandishing semi-automatic weapons, manhandling anyone they find, and often tear up the house seeking evidence. Some 47 innocent people have been killed during such raids, and another 22 non-violent offenders have been killed. 15 police officers have been killed … at least one by shots from other police...

http://tinyurl.com/3xod8d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fox News

12/25/07

San Francisco Republicans reaching out to voters in overwhelmingly Democratic Bay Area districts may sound like a losing strategy for GOP presidential candidates. But supporters of White House hopeful Ron Paul say they know better. They’re taking advantage of a rule change in February’s California GOP primary under which the previous ‘winner-take-all’ system has been replaced by one that awards three primary delegates for every congressional district a candidate wins — no matter how many or how few Republicans live there. … Democratic strongholds in Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Oakland may be fertile ground for second-tier Republican candidates who can’t compete with rivals’ money and organization in traditionally conservative enclaves like San Diego or Orange County. In San Francisco, for example, volunteers need to reach only a couple thousand Republicans to win the district and pick up three delegate votes...

http://tinyurl.com/32g9gf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/240.html



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"There is nothing left to the Monroe Doctrine.," lamented Chang, suggesting that the Bush administration is "abandon[ing] Latin America to Iran and that country's terrorist allies".

http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=88


From Information Clearing House



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A doomsday war between nuclear-armed adversaries Iran and Israel would kill up to 28 million Iranians and destroy their nation, but the Jewish state might survive, according to a prestigious US think tank.

http://snipurl.com/1vsyr


From Information Clearing House



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By Cindy Sheehan

So many families marked 2007 as the year that their families were destroyed by the Bush-Pelosi pas de deux of violence and pain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18946.htm



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http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/12/ron-paul-smearbund-hates-what-it-cant.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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Kevin Sack, reporting for The New York Times from Sacramento, California, writes: "A year that began with great ambition for major expansions of health insurance here and in other state capitals is ending with considerable uncertainty, as a second wave of change runs headlong into a darkening economy and political divisions over how to apportion the cost."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122507Z.shtml



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Referent: Gerd Zeitler, Sachbuchautor

Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008, um 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19.00

in der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung in der Brienner Str. 46, U 1/7 und Tram 20/21 Stiglmaierplatz (3 min zu Fuß) U 2/8 Königsplatz (5 min zu Fuß)

Wir sind Zeitzeugen einer historisch beispiellosen Gefahr: dem gleichzeitigen Auftreten einer sozialen und einer ökologischen Krise. Beide sind ökonomisch bedingt. Ihre gemeinsame Ursache ist der "freie" Wettbewerb auf "liberalisierten" globalen Märkten, der mit Preisdumping ausgetragen wird und verheerende Folgen nach sich zieht: vor allem eine Abwärtsspirale sozialer und ökologischer Standards, eine Konzentration unternehmerischer Macht und nicht zuletzt eine Geringschätzung demokratischer Entscheidungen.

Die ökonomischen Ursachen müssen im Lichte politischer Defizite gesehen werden. Von ihren Protagonisten und Nutznießern wird die Entwicklung als historisch zwingend, alternativlos und der allgemeinen Wohlfahrt verpflichtet dargestellt. Ihrer Indoktrination ist es zuzuschreiben, dass sich bisher keine wirkungsvolle Opposition formiert hat, obwohl das Unbehagen in der Bevölkerung täglich zunimmt. Darum gilt es, Anstöße für die politische Meinungsbildung zu geben.

Vor diesem Hintergrund wird der Referent die "neoliberale" Entwicklung im ersten Teil des Vortrags zunächst analysieren, um dann im zweiten Teil Grundsätze für eine zukunftsfähige regionale und globale Wirtschaftsordnung zu formulieren und konkrete Schritte für deren Umsetzung vorzuschlagen. Zwei Veränderungen sind für die im Titel postulierte Zukunftsfähigkeit der wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung konstitutiv: dezentralisierte Binnenstrukturen und geregelter Außenhandel.

Gerd Zeitler, geb. 1940, hat nach dem Ingenieurstudium seit den siebziger Jahren internationale Unternehmensallianzen mit gestaltet, war im fachlichen Austausch zwischen Industrie und Wirtschaftswissenschaft engagiert und als Gastdozent für strategisches Unternehmens- und Technologiemanagement tätig. Zur Frankfurter Buchmesse 2006 wurde sein Buch "Der Freihandelskrieg" veröffentlicht.


Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Fon 089/452 474 15 × Fax 089/550 699 86
E-Mail presse@oedp-muenchen.de
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Sally Quinn, writing in The Washington Post, says last week's ill-conceived House resolution heralding Christianity relegated millions of non-Christian Americans to second-class citizens.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122507F.shtml

David Zucchino of The Los Angeles Times reports: "On their own in a strange town, Carletta Davis' husband and sons had been waiting for December 2008, when she'd be coming home from her third Mideast deployment. Now they're not sure what happens next."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122507E.shtml

An editorial Tuesday in The Los Angeles Times says, "On a day when American Christians celebrate one of their most cherished holidays, the rest of our citizens cherish their freedom instead to rejoice in a day free of toil, traffic or the tyranny of 24/7 connectivity. This year, it is clear that protecting the freedom of belief - and the freedom not to believe - will require not merely a vigorous defense but a good offense. Religious intolerance is flourishing around the globe, and in 2007, the world witnessed fierce outbreaks of repression and violence, hatred and bigotry."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122507C.shtml



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Adrianne Appel of Inter Press Service reports: "The massive wildfires that roared and twisted their way through southern California in 2007 are a glimpse of what a future of global warming may hold, scientists say."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122407EB.shtml



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According to Agence France-Presse, "The US Senate is holding special one-man sessions throughout Christmas and the New Year to prevent President George W. Bush from making appointments without the approval of the Democratic majority."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122407T.shtml



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This is a very alarming story about the Canadian milkitary's role in the depletion of the world's whale population because of increasingly lethal sonar activity.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/11/WhaleKilling/

David


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12102


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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