Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008

Environtmentalists Sue to Challenge EPA Ruling on Clean Cars

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0102-03.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency

Our Spring Break Will End the War

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6113/

Re-Create '68?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6112/

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1968: Always Something Next

Writing for Truthout, Michael Winship says, "Lately, much has been made of the fact that 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the tumultuous year 1968. A History Channel documentary by Tom Brokaw, Tuesday's New York Times column by Bob Herbert, various articles and media commentaries - all have made the point, that, as Herbert wrote, 'One of the astonishing things about 1968 was how quickly each shocking, consciousness-altering event succeeded the last, leaving no time for people to reorient themselves. The mind-boggling occurrences seemed to come out of nowhere.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Winship
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Who Do We Vote For This Time Around?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6108/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Moore

Anti-War Protesters Arrested At Huckabee's Iowa Office

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6121/

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End of the short road

The American Spectator
by Jennifer Rubin

01/21/08

Iowa showed the potential for Mike Huckabee and South Carolina demonstrated his limits. The pundits waxed lyrical after Huckabee’s win in Iowa. He had transformed GOP politics or redefined the Reagan coalition or signaled the revenge of social conservatives or ushered in a new ‘change’ storyline for the primary season. Well, perhaps it was something simpler and more limited. Huckabee beat Mitt Romney in perhaps the only setting he could win. In the highly personalized retail politics of Iowa, in caucuses in which neighbors bring neighbors (and church congregants bring their fellow congregants) out to vote, Huckabee’s engaging personality and brand of identity politics could flourish. … This in a nutshell was a vote for who Huckabee was — a congenial small state governor, populist, and Baptist minister — not for what policies he espoused...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12605


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iowa
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Justice Dept. Launches Criminal Probe of CIA Tapes

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6129/



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Mikkelsen

Move to Impeach Cheney Gains Support in Congress

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6125/



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Ron Paul Revolution: The Rebellion Of The Intelligent

http://rense.com/general79/rebel.htm


Informant: Good

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Ernest Hancock: Ron Paul Revolution

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/56af2dcda6786de0?hl=en



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYExyBqm1CE



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

Erlebt die deutsche Hochschullandschaft eine gezielte Kampagne gegen den Widerspruchsgeist unangepasster Zeitgenossen, oder gestattet der Bologna-Prozess einfach nur keine Störgeräusche? Ein Gespräch mit dem Bildungsjournalisten Karl-Heinz Heinemann.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26903/1.html

FCKW-Bomben für Afrika

Anders als in den USA ist der Umgang mit Elektroschrott in der EU gesetzlich geregelt. Trotzdem landen Millionen Tonnen auf heimischen Müllkippen oder werden exportiert.

Mehr unter...
http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-03/022.php

Power firms to pocket £6bn from carbon 'handouts' in new emissions regime

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3301065.ece



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

Top Democrats Ponder Changing NAFTA

Ian Swanson reports for The Hill, "All three favorites for the Democratic presidential nomination have said they will look into changing the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if elected president."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208O.shtml



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

Edwards Calls for Quick Pullout of Troops Training Iraqi Forces

Michael R. Gordon reports for The New York Times, "John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208N.shtml

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Edwards Breaks with Establishment Consensus on Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6116/



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A Tale of Political Dirty Tricks Makes the Case for Election Reform

Adam Cohen writes for The New York Times: "When Mr. Raymond opened a political telemarketing firm, he was hired by a Republican challenging a New Jersey Democratic congressman. Mr. Raymond's company - in a plan he says he hatched with the challenger's advisers - called liberal Democrats and urged them to vote for the Green Party candidate. Those same advisers, he says, gave Mr. Raymond another assignment: to call white households asking them to vote for the Democrat, using the voice of, as he puts it, a 'ghetto black guy.' He also called union households, using voices with thick Spanish accents." Meanwhile, David Espo reports for The Associated Press, "In the final days of a close campaign, likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa report receiving phone calls providing unflattering information about all three of the party's major presidential hopefuls."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adam+Cohen

Stonewalled by the CIA

Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the 9/11 commission, write in an op-ed for The New York Times: "the recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes - and did not tell us about them - obstructed our investigation."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010208J.shtml

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9/11 Commission Leaders Blast CIA on Interrogation Tapes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6114/

9/11 Commission: Our Investigation Was 'Obstructed'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6109/



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Ron Paul's very effective opposition to the NWO

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d5917495f6f03f86?hl=en



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

Geplante RFID-Identitätskarte weckt in den USA Sicherheitsbedenken

Heise Newsticker - Germany

Die US-Regierung will voraussichtlich im Frühjahr mit RFID-Chips bestückte Identitätskarten für den Grenzverkehr zwischen den USA und Kanada, Mexiko...

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101197



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http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

Krieg statt Hartz-IV

Bundeswehr: Armee der Arbeitslosen

„Die Bundeswehr bedient sich bei der Nachwuchsgewinnung gezielt aus dem Reservoir junger Arbeitsloser. Kooperationen mit Jobcentern machen es leichter…“ Artikel von Ralf Wurzbacher in der jungen Welt vom 28.12.2007 http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/12-28/045.php


20. Dezember 2007 Wuppertal: „Farbiges Weihnachtsgeschenk“ für das BIZ

„Gegen die Normalisierung von militärischen Auslandseinsätzen und gegen eine schleichende Militarisierung von Innenpolitik hat eine „AG Abrüstung jetzt“ mit Bezug auf die „aggressiven Werbekampagnen in Arbeitsämtern, Schulen und Universitäten“ in der Nacht (vor einem Bundeswehr-Werbetermin im BIZ) „ein kleines farbiges Weihnachtsgeschenk am Berufsinformationszentrum hinterlassen“. Die Werbeveranstaltung fand trotz „Farbschmierereien“ unter erhöhten Sicherheitsbedingungen statt…“ Siehe die Dokumentation bei „Bundeswehr wegtreten!“ http://www.bundeswehr-wegtreten.org/w_2007_12_20.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2008

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Bundeswehr: Armee der Arbeitslosen

Bundeswehr wegtreten - Videoclip
http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2009/03//243099.avi


Aus: LabourNet, 23. März 2009

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Köln: Werbeoffiziere ausgesperrt. "Wir müssen draußen bleiben"

„4. Mai: Kurz vor Eintreffen der Werbeoffiziere zum regelmäßigen Rekrutierungstermin der Bundeswehr am Kölner Arbeitsamt Mitte um 14 Uhr wurde der Veranstaltungsort per Fahrradschloss verschlossen…“ Bericht von Bundeswehr aussperren vom 05.05.2010 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2010/05/280360.shtml


»Bundeswehr hat sogar eigene Büros in Arbeitsämtern«

Gegen Kriegspropaganda und Rekrutenwerbung gibt es im Internet eine Landkarte für antimilitaristische Aktionen. Gespräch von Michael Schulze von Glaßer mit Markus Wiedermann von der antimilitaristischen Initiative »kehrt marsch – Den Bundeswehr-Werbefeldzug stoppen« in junge Welt vom 05.05.2010 http://www.jungewelt.de/2010/05-05/040.php


Antimilitaristische Initiative veröffentlicht Bundeswehr-Werbetermine

„Die Initiative „kehrt marsch“ hat Termine von Bundeswehr-Werbeauftritten im Internet veröffentlicht und ruft antimiltaristische und friedensbewegte Aktive zu Protestaktionen auf. Die Termine stammen zum Teil aus einer Bundestagsanfrage der Abgeordneten Ulla Jelpke (LINKE), zum Teil von Internetseiten der Bundeswehr und der Agentur für Arbeit. Sie werden auf der Seite www.kehrt-marsch.de in einer interaktiven Karte dargestellt…“ Pressemitteilung vom 26.04.2010 (pdf) http://www.kehrt-marsch.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pmkehrtmarsch2010.pdf

Siehe die Aktionsseite „kehrt marsch“ http://www.kehrt-marsch.de/


„DHL muss sich aus der Militär-Logistik zurückziehen“. Dachverband unterstützt die Initiative Zivile Post 2011

„Der Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre unterstützt den Vorschlag von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen für eine neue Unternehmensstrategie „Zivile Post 2011“. Damit kann die Deutsche Post und ihre Logistik-Sparte DHL den vollständigen Rückzug aus der Militär-Logistik erreichen. Wegen der zunehmenden Militarisierung des Unternehmens beantragen die Kritischen Aktionäre bei der Hauptversammlung am 28. April in Frankfurt, dem Vorstand die Entlastung zu verweigern…“ Pressemitteilung vom 27. April 2010 (pdf) http://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Pressemitteilungen_2010/Pm_Post_2010-04-27.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Mai 2010



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Hannover: Polizei behindert Montagsdemo

Wird die Montags-Demo in Hannover mit Stasi-Methoden observiert ?

„Die Montagsdemo in Hannover wurde am 05.02.2007 (vom Verfassungsschutz ?) gefilmt. Aus dem Fenster des Cafés der Buchhandlung Weiland filmte ein Observations-Team die Montagsdemo vom 05.02.2007. Als das Observations-Team auch noch den Pausenraum des Personals nutzen wollte, schritt die damalige Leiterin des Buchhandel-Kaufhauses Weiland ein, stimmte laut Zeugenaussage einer Ausweitung der Überwachung in ihrem Arbeitsbereich nicht zu. (…) Der Film könnte beweisen, dass die Demonstration friedlich war, aus den Reihen der Demonstranten keine Körperverletzungen ausgingen. Der Prozess gegen zwei der Angeklagten wird am 07.01.2008 im Amtsgericht Hannover um 9.00 Uhr in Saal 2219 (Altbau) Volgersweg fortgeführt.“ Aus der Pressemitteilung vom 26.12.07. Siehe dazu: „Fiese Tricks von Polizei und Justiz? Prozesse in Hannover !“ Alptraum beschreibt in der Januar-Ausgabe (Seite 1 und 5) das Gesamt-Geschehen, das Bestreben der Polizeidirektion Hannover, die Versammlungsfreiheit und die Meinungsfreiheit einzuschränken. (pdf) http://www.gegen-sozialabbau.de/downloads/012008.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2008



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Frontex und die toten Flüchtlinge

„Hilfsorganisationen gehen davon aus, dass durch den Einsatz der EU-Grenzschutzbehörde Frontex vor den Kanarischen Inseln mehr Flüchtlinge sterben, weil die Wege länger und gefährlicher werden. Im Laufe des Jahres haben 12.000 Menschen die Überfahrt von Westafrika auf die Kanarischen Inseln geschafft. Das sind deutlich weniger als im Vorjahr, trotz allem kann dies kaum als Erfolg der EU-Grenzschutzbehörde Frontex gewertet werten, die mit Luft- und Seeüberwachung versucht, die Urlaubsinseln abzuschotten. Wurde im Vorjahr von 6.000 Menschen gesprochen, welche die gefährliche Überfahrt nicht überlebten, gehen Hilfsorganisationen davon aus, dass diese Zahl deutlich gestiegen ist, weil die Wege immer länger und gefährlicher werden. Frontex dementiert mit merkwürdigen Zahlen, die selbst mit den den Angaben des spanischen Innenministeriums nicht übereinstimmen…“ Artikel von Ralf Streck in telepolis vom 25.12.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26912/1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2008

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Was ist FRONTEX?

Aufgaben und Strukturen der Europäischen Agentur für die operative Zusammenarbeit an den Außengrenzen

In der Reihe "Materialien gegen Krieg, Repression und für andere Verhältnisse" (Nr. 4) ist soeben eine Broschüre zur europäischen Grenzschutzagentur FRONTEX erschienen. In ihr werden Funktion, Tätigkeit und auch die Entstehungsgeschichte der Agentur umfassend beschrieben. Die 52-seitige Broschüre kann entweder kostenlos (gegen Porto) unter berlin@tobias-pflueger.de oder bei der IMI heruntergeladen werden (pdf): http://www.imi-online.de/download/FRONTEX-Broschuere.pdf

Siehe auch das Inhaltsverzeichnis bei der IMI http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1680


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Januar 2008

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Neue Berichte über Frontex: Bootsflüchtlinge werden abgedrängt - Menschenrechtliche Leitlinien fehlen noch immer - Deutsche Beamte nehmen Flüchtlingsbooten Treibstoff und Lebensmittel weg

„Die EU-Grenzschutzagentur hat neue Zahlen über die von ihr koordinierten Einsätze auf dem Mittelmeer und vor der westafrikanischen Küste vorgelegt. Diese belegen, dass die Zurückdrängung von Flüchtlingsbooten auf hohem Niveau weitergeht. Sie werden in Drittstaaten zurückgedrängt, ohne dass sie Asylanträge stellen können. Erstmals wurde durch eine ARD-Dokumentation bekannt, dass auch deutsche Beamte an den illegalen Praktiken, Flüchtlingsboote durch Wegnahme von Treibstoff und Lebensmittel zur Umkehr zu zwingen, beteiligt sein sollen. Diese illegale Praxis stellt einen Angriff auf das Leben der Betroffenen dar und steht zudem in eklatantem Widerspruch zu den menschenrechtlichen Verpflichtungen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten…“ Bericht vom 15.08.2008 auf der pro asyl-Kampagnenseite www.stoppt-das-sterben.eu http://www.stoppt-das-sterben.eu/de/news/detailansicht/news/frontex_illegale_praxis_geht_weiter/back/9/chash/70cf4422ce/index.html

Siehe dazu:

ARD: "FRONTEX-Einheiten zwingen Flüchtlinge ohne Nahrung und Treibstoff zur Umkehr"

„Einheiten der EU-Grenzschutzagentur Frontex entnehmen den Flüchtlingsschiffen im Mittelmeer Treibstoff und Nahrungsmittel, um sie zur Umkehr zu zwingen. Dies geht aus dem ARD-Radiofeature «Krieg im Mittelmeer» (Koproduktion NDR/SWR) des Dokumentarautors Roman Herzog hervor…“ Bericht bei borderline-europe - Menschenrechte ohne Grenzen e.V. http://borderline-europe.de/news/news.php?news_id=55

SWR2 Feature: Krieg im Mittelmeer. Von der Cap Anamur zu Frontex und Europas neuen Lagern

Infos und Text der Sendung von Roman Herzog (Produktion: NDR/SWR 2008) beim SWR http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/feature/-/id=659934/nid=659934/did=3510294/w8hs6t/index.html

Mit Flöten gegen Frontex. Aktionstag gegen die EU-Grenzschutzagentur in Lübeck

""Frontex zwingt Flüchtlinge und Migrantinnen auf immer gefährlichere Fluchtrouten, z.B. vor den Kanarischen Inseln. Der Tod derjenigen, die versuchen nach Europa zu gelangen, wird dabei bewusst in Kauf genommen", erklärt Christian Homuth vom Lübecker Flüchtlings-forum e.V. Verantwortlich für die Ausbildung von Frontex-Einheiten ist in Deutschland die Bundespolizeiakademie in Lübeck St.-Hubertus. Durch "mid-level courses" werden dort Grenzpolizeioffiziere der mittleren Befehlsebene in europäischer Zusammenarbeit geschult. 550 Menschen aus Lübeck und vom Antirassistischen Camp in Hamburg haben deshalb am 19. August vor der Bundespolizeiakademie demonstriert. Am Nachmittag gab es einen Umzug durch die Innenstadt…“ Bericht und Diaserie (27 Fotos) beim Umbruch-Bildarchiv http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/bildarchiv/ereignis/190808frontex.html


Aus: LabourNet, 26. August 2008



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Verfassungsbeschwerde und Eilantrag gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereicht

„Die vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung initiierte Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die sechsmonatige Speicherung aller Verbindungsdaten ist heute beim Bundesverfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe eingereicht worden. Erstmals in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik haben rund 30.000 Menschen einen Rechtsanwalt mit der Erhebung einer Verfassungsbeschwerde beauftragt. Der Arbeitskreis veröffentlicht zugleich Empfehlungen zum Schutz vor der ab 2008 geltenden „Totalprotokollierung der Telekommunikation“…“ Presseerklärung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 31.12.2007 http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/184/1/lang,de/


Trauerzug mit dem "Privatsphäre"-Sarg durch die Republik

“Guten Rutsch ins Jahr 1984!” Bericht: Demonstration gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Berlin

„Ein Großteil der Teilnehmer des 24. Chaos Communication Congresses (24c3) folgte am Abend des 29. Dezember dem spontanen Aufruf verschiedenster Organisationen, gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung zu protestieren…“ Bericht vom 29.12.2007 mit Bildern und Video http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/183/55/lang,de/


31.12.: Trauermarsch durch Hamburg wegen verlorener Privatsphäre

„In Hamburg wurde am Montag, den 31.12.2007 um die verlorene Privatsphäre der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Deutschland getrauert. Ein Trauerzug trug einen Sarg als Symbol für den Verlust von Privatsphäre, Grund- und Bürgerrechten durch die Innenstadt…“ Bericht vom 31.12.2007 mit Fotos und ZDF-Video http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/181/1/lang,de/


Der Sarg wird jetzt eine Woche lang durch Deutschland touren und am 6. Januar auf der Demo gegen den Schäuble-Auftritt in München ankommen.

Die Touren-Daten
https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Bundessarg

„Was zählt ist Freiheit“ – Infos zur Demo am 6. Januar 2008 um 12.30 Uhr an der Konferenzhalle Theresienhöhe anlässlich der Rede von Wolfgang Schäuble unter dem Motto „Was zählt ist Sicherheit“ http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Was_z%C3%A4hlt_ist_Freiheit


Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Big Brother darf loslegen

„Bundespräsident Horst Köhler hat das umstrittene Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung und zur Telekommunikationsüberwachung unterzeichnet. Sein Sprecher Martin Kothé sagte am Mittwoch, der Bundespräsident habe das Gesetz intensiv geprüft: "Es lagen keine durchgreifenden Gründe vor, die ihn an der Ausfertigung gehindert hätten." Artikel in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 27.12.2007 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?sid=544e0bb5360be3ce1b1d93dc315c1a51&em_cnt=1263609


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2008



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We must act not to stop a war on Iran

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=JIxzTUMJxazGqDcCakHjPQ..



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The White Rose and the Rose Parade

Common Dreams
by Cindy Sheehan

01/01/08

I rode from the Veteran’s for Peace Convention in Dallas on the “White Rose,” a bus that had a huge ‘IMPEACH’ written on the side of it. On the bus was a picture of Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans and some of the quotes of the series of 5 leaflets that the Society spread denouncing Hitler from June 1942 to February 1943, when they were caught and executed. …. Gold Star Families for Peace and the Camp Casey Peace Institute has joined a group called the “White Rose Coalition” that will be carrying a large copy of the Constitution at the end of the parade and the Backbone Campaign’s Chain Gang will be following the parade. Many activists will tag along with our “Impeachment” banners, signs and other means of protest to call national attention to the accountability issue. Being involved in this particular action has engendered the most hate mail for me since I left the Democratic Party!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/01/6102/



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Electronic passports raise privacy issues

Washington Post

01/01/08

The federal government will soon offer passport cards equipped with electronic data chips to U.S. citizens who travel frequently between the United States and Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean. The cards can be read wirelessly from 20 feet, offering convenience to travelers but raising security and privacy concerns about the possibility of data being intercepted...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/31/AR2007123101922.html?hpid=sec-tech


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+chips
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Military use of unmanned aircraft soars

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

01/01/08

The military’s reliance on unmanned aircraft that can watch, hunt and sometimes kill insurgents has soared to more than 500,000 hours in the air, largely in Iraq, The Associated Press has learned. And new Defense Department figures obtained by The AP show that the Air Force more than doubled its monthly use of drones between January and October, forcing it to take pilots out of the air and shift them to remote flying duty to meet part of the demand...

http://tinyurl.com/2cnczq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Legal voters thrown off rolls

USA Today

01/01/08

Five years after passage of a federal law to create electronic registration databases to deter voter fraud, the new technology is posing hurdles that could disenfranchise thousands of legal voters, a USA TODAY examination finds. From Florida to Washington, voters have been challenged because names or numbers on their registration forms did not exactly match other government databases, such as Social Security and motor vehicle agencies...

http://tinyurl.com/3ahyux


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Defaults on Insured Mortgages Rise 35% to Record

Defaults on privately insured U.S. mortgages rose 35 percent in November to a record, an industry report today showed, adding to evidence the U.S. housing slump is deepening.

http://snipurl.com/1wb09


From Information Clearing House



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TV networks winnowing field for debates

ABC and Fox News Channel are narrowing the field of presidential candidates invited to debates this weekend just before the New Hampshire primary, in Fox's case infuriating supporters of Republican Ron Paul.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071231/ap_en_tv/tv_debate_limits_1


From Information Clearing House



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

Mexico to track migrations with electronic chip

Mexico is going high tech to better track the movements of Central Americans who regularly cross the southern border to work or visit.

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=7551974&nav=0w0v


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+chip

The Benazir Bhutto dossier: 'Secret service was diverting US aid for fighting militants to rig the elections'

On the day she was assassinated, Benazir Bhutto was due to meet two senior American politicians to show them a confidential report alleging that Pakistan's intelligence service was using US money to rig parliamentary elections, officials in her party said yesterday.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3116090.ece



U.S. policy shown vulnerable to Qaeda strikes

An al Qaeda role in the murder of Benazir Bhutto would show that the militant group can dramatically thwart U.S. foreign policy more than six years after President George W. Bush set out to defeat it.

http://snipurl.com/1wazs


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bhutto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan

Welcome to Third World, U.S.A.

By Arthur Donner & Doug Peters

The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index that ranks countries in terms of life expectancy, literacy, education and standard of living. The latest published data were based on 2005 statistics. The U.S., despite its vast wealth and power, placed only in the 12th position among industrial countries. The top four countries were Iceland, Norway, Australia and Canada.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18982.htm

From Hyperpower To New World Disorder

By David Olive

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, America isn't alone on top.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18985.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=superpower
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Olive

Pakistan: The Beginning of the Storm

By S.M. Hussain

We believe that the fundamental battle taking place in Pakistan is between the secular and western-based educated pro-American elites, against the Islam-championing hard core religious types.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18983.htm



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

The Five Iraqs

By Scott Ritter

History will show that this period of relative "calm" we attribute to the surge is but the pause before the storm. Hillary Clinton is correct to label the surge a failed strategy. But her motivation for doing so rests more with her desire to position herself politically on the domestic front than it is a reflection of a thoughtful Iraq policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18981.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

Homeless Vet Organization

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/fb4449c2f372300f?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeless+veterans

The Municipal Joe Lieberman

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/31/bloomberg/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

On US intervention in Pakistan

The Failing Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan75.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/buchanan

On the business end of the police state

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts230.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/roberts

An Open Letter to the Black Community in Behalf of Ron Paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/wicks4.html



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

Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008

Critical Flaws Seen in Electronic Voting Machines

George Merritt, reporting for The Associated Press, writes: "With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000. In December alone, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that widely used voting equipment is unfit for elections."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010108L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+voting
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ohio
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Merritt

The Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR), aka, 'the Whopper'

O Little Town in Oregon

Truthout's Environmental Editor Kelpie Wilson describes how a small town in the state of Oregon, desperate to raise much needed funding is "casting their lot with the Bush administration by supporting what locals call 'the Whopper.' The 'Whopper' goes back to 2003, when the Bush administration decided not to fight a timber industry case against the Northwest Forest Plan. Even though the timber industry's case was seen as weak and headed for defeat in court, the federal government settled it by agreeing to a new forest plan for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Oregon. The new plan is called the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR), aka, 'the Whopper.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010108J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=timber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

Next-up news n°427

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/17ff39f517f999f1

Ships are a major source of global warming pollutants

http://www.topnews.in/ships-are-major-source-global-warming-pollutants-210630


Informant: Teresa Binstock

Against Dr Ben Goldacre

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=1780&end=1800&view=yes&id=2063#newspost

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Quackbuster Dr Ben Goldacre Busted

http://www.slingshotpublications.com/dwarfs.html

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism is yet another book triumph for award winning investigative writer Martin J Walker. Nowhere are Goldacre's sock puppet bad science morés more clearly displayed than in his close professional association with psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessely. Dr Charles Shepherd of the moribund ME Association charity quackbuster eviscerated. The Guardian UK national newspaper that has deliberately attempted to suppress the ethics and morality of science on a substantial scale to be held directly accountable for the Dr Ben Goldacre fiasco.

Jane Bryant, Director, The One Click Group



Bad Science DEBUNKED ­ High Noon for Ben Goldacre
http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=192&Itemid=1



From: Patrick Holford

Subject: QUACKBUSTING THE QUACKBUSTERS

QUACKBUSTING THE QUACKBUSTERS

Free e-book launched exploring anti-nutritional lobby groups

Have you ever wondered why there is so much opposition to nutritional approaches for today's major health issues? Is it really because the science is weak, or is it more to do with politics and money? I was fascinated to read the free e-book, published this month on the internet, by Martin Walker entitled Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism - Ben Goldacre, Quackbusting and Corporate Science. It explores the associations Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre, and other 'quackbusters' have with an organised anti-nutritional medicine agenda and organisations funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

Those familiar with Ben Goldacre's inability to expose the 'bad science' of drugs and antipathy towards nutritional medicine will not be surprised. Martin Walker, author of Dirty Medicine and Brave New World of Zero Risk, looks at the quackbusting work of Ben Goldacre and others, placing them in the context of the global lobby groups that support the chemical, pharmaceutical, medical and processed food industries. It's an intriguing read. For the first time Walker's work focuses on this lobby's attacks on independent nutritionists, including myself, and traces the history of quackbuster campaigns against vitamin and food supplements.

Walker is giving away this publication as an e-book, in the hope that it will help people organise in defence of nutritional medicine. Like all of Walker's work it is an erudite and detailed read that will certainly enlighten you to the darker side of those organising against non-pharmaceutically based medicine in general, and nutritional medicine in particular.

The e-book can be downloaded for free from http://www.slingshotpublications.com and Walker hopes that many will place it on their web sites to be accessed and downloaded.

I hope you do take the time to read this and let others know about it because literally tens of thousands of people die every year from prescription drugs when better alternatives already exist and millions more suffer unnecessarily and die prematurely from ignorance, some scared off from trying effective, safe, nutritional approaches by individuals like Ben Goldacre and his fellow quackbusters.

If this makes you angry do something about it - let others know about this book and, if you're concerned with the Guardian's one-sided view on medicine why not write to the editor of the Guardian at home@guardian.co.uk. Here's my letter. http://www.patrickholford.com/content.asp?id_Content=2183

You can also see excerpts of the book at http://www.holfordmyths.com , our new site for countering false allegations. Martin J. Walker, Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism: Ben Goldacre, quackbusting and corporate science. Slingshot Publications. January 2008. Available free from http://www.slingshotpublications.com



Quackbusting and WiFi

Long article by Martin Walker on UK media and corporate propaganda. Phone masts and WiFi are included.

http://quackbengoldacre.wordpress.com/the_placement/


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism: Ben Goldacre, quackbusters and corporate science

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=831

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Read it and Judge for Yourself

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism: Dr Ben Goldacre, Quackbusting and Corporate Science
http://www.whale.to/b/walker_gol.html
http://tinyurl.com/2fauax



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040986/
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http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1820313/

Bhutto Report: Musharraf Planned to Fix Elections

McClatchy Newspapers' Saeed Shah reports that on the "day she was assassinated, last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence agencies in rigging the country's upcoming elections, an aide said Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010108Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bhutto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Musharraf
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saeed+Shah

The Ron Paul legacy of freedom

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

12/27/07

Future historians will debate the point. Historians being what they are there will doubtless be as many opinions as there are historians. ‘If the Ron Paul Campaign had been competent would we still have taken back America?’ They may hold conferences to consider the points, assay the individuals involved; there will be no disagreement that it was through the candidacy of Ron Paul that the world of political campaigns changed forever, moving into networking, as opposed to hierarchy; The real question will be the motives of those in charge of the official campaign. That is natural; the Ron Paul Campaign overturned that political hierarchy first...

http://tinyurl.com/23duqj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melinda+Pillsbury-Foster

Timber Theft Is a Growing "Business"

According to The Associated Press, "Rogue loggers have long preyed on private properties from coast to coast, taking advantage of the elderly and the absent. And they traditionally had little to fear from law enforcement officials hesitant to pursue criminal charges, instead chalking up most complaints to property disputes. But as timber values have risen, so have the stakes for landowners - and the attitude of law enforcement is adjusting."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/123107EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=timber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging

Global Warming to Alter California Landscape

Noaki Schwartz, The Associated Press, reports: "California is defined by its scenery, from the mountains that enchanted John Muir to the wine country and beaches that define its culture around the world."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/123107EA.shtml

U.S. Stocks Decline, Poised for Worst Fourth Quarter Since 2000

U.S. stocks fell and were poised for their first fourth-quarter decline since 2000 after government reports on durable goods and unemployment reinforced speculation the housing-market collapse will push the economy into recession.

http://snipurl.com/1w8ku


From Information Clearing House



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

McCain's Unlikely Ties to K Street

Private schmooze sessions such as the gathering in Utah pose a particular dilemma for McCain, who has spent a long career decrying "special interests" and politicians who offer special access to them in order to raise money.

http://snipurl.com/1w8ko


From Information Clearing House



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

Iraqi refugees turn to sex trade in Syria

A score of young Iraqi women in tight, shimmering gowns shuffle across the nightclub dance floor under the hungry eyes of Gulf Arabs at nearby tables.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29661659.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

The worst, and saddest, job in Baghdad

It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq. It falls to Baghdad's street sweepers, who use their bare hands, to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh spattered around every bomb site in the Iraqi capital. They do it without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/30/africa/baghdad.php


From Information Clearing House

Now We Are Human Commodities

By Chris Maser

We are today so ensnared in the process of selling and buying things in the market place, that we cannot imagine human life being otherwise. Even our notion of well-being and of despair are wedded to the flow and ebb of the markets. Why is this so much a part of our lives?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18977.htm

The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis

By Richard K. Moore

In order to understand anything about American political affairs, it is necessary to have some understanding of who it is that really makes the decisions behind the scenes, and what their interests are. In this way we have some hope of identifying the hidden agendas being served by government actions and programs, and some hope of identifying the longer-term strategies that are in play.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18976.htm

US Mayors' Report: Hunger and Homelessness Intensify in US Cities

By Debra Watson

The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again in 2007, according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18980.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homeless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=billionaires

My Heart Bleeds For Pakistan

By Tariq Ali

Poor Pakistan. Poor People's Party supporters. Both deserve better than this disgusting, medieval charade.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18979.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bhutto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tariq+Ali

PROBLEMS AND ISSUES WITH THE IOWA CAUCUSES AND WHAT EVERY IOWAN CAN DO

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=5354&pst=1009774&archival=&posts=1

Japan Killing More Whales: Stop the Hunt!

http://go.care2.com/e/XMtN/soQd/n5lW



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

Temperature rises for the CIA

Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

01/03/08

Putting the Justice Department on the job may head off calls for an independent counsel who could, potentially, pursue an investigation further up the political food chain than the White House might like. That might allow the Bush administration to throw a few intelligence agents to the wolves before the political season occupies everybody’s attention and the scandal over torture and destroyed tapes simply fades from the public consciousness. But will the CIA play ball?

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/01/temperature-rises-for-cia.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

A Housing Depression for Years To Come

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3111659.ece


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

Conquering the World Through Anti-Terrorism

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004099311_pentvick30.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anti-terrorism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Scott+Tyson

Laws are for the masses, not the power elite

Oligarchical Decay
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/30/oligarchy/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

Ron Paul, the Thomas Jefferson of the 21st Century

David Gordon on Ron Paul and Freedom Under Siege.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon32.html



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