World-News

http://groups.google.com/group/archive_news/t/d34894f951744293

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Hi-tech weapon killed Benazir: Report
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/hi-tech-weapon-killed-benazir-report_10011374.html

Hi-tech weapon killed Benazir: Postmortem Report
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/hitech-weapon-killed-benazir-postmortem-report/55676-2.html

Bhutto was targeted using laser beam
http://in.news.yahoo.com/080102/20/6p480.html



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0104-02.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/04/6175/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Helen+Thomas

Donna St. George, reporting for The Washington Post, writes: "The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire. Her case would become one in a litany of noncombat deaths in Iraq, which number more than 700, from crashes, suicides, illnesses and accidents that sometimes reveal messy truths about life in the war zone."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408H.shtml

Paul Krugman, writing for The New York Times, says: "On both Wednesday and Thursday, the price of oil briefly hit $100 a barrel. The new record made headlines, as well it should have. But what does it mean, aside from the obvious point that the economy is under extra pressure? Well, one thing it means is that we're having the wrong discussion about foreign policy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408B.shtml



Hooray for Oil at Over 100 Dollars?

Pascal Riche, writing for Rue89, and Le Monde's editorialist suggest why we cannot (yet) celebrate the high price of oil and what must be done to soften its uneven impact.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408G.shtml

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Vanity Trade Sent Oil Price to Record High
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4583341/



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

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26974/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pressefreiheit

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s08RJ2_o_MM


Informant: Patriot Steven



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

Kinder der Überflussgesellschaft in Not
http://www.wirtschaftsverbrechen.de/doc/mangelernaehrung-1-2008-7.pdf

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Deutsche so wohlhabend wie noch nie

Durchschnittlich soll jeder Deutsche fast 58.000 Euro auf dem Konto haben.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26990/1.html

Werner Rügemer
http://www.wirtschaftsverbrechen.de/doc/managergehaelter-1-2008-6.pdf



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neoliberal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kapitalismus

http://www.freitag.de/2008/01/08010402.php

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Chaos im Jobcenter: Gefrustete Mitarbeiter, wütende Arbeitslose

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2008/t_cid-4493724_.html
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2007/t_cid-4447578_mid-4456486_.html
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2008/t_cid-4493724_mid-4495266_typ-mshigh_loc-int.html

Robert Pear reports for The New York Times: "The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes who, the administration argues, may have access to private health insurance. The restrictions mirror those the administration placed on the State Children's Health Insurance Program in August after states tried to broaden eligibility for it as well."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=medicaid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+insurance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Pear

Andrew Clark reports for The Guardian UK, "A maverick oil trader in New York has aroused the ire of colleagues by enacting a 'vanity trade' which first pushed the price of a barrel of crude over the crucial benchmark of $100."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price

Bob Driehaus reports for The New York Times, "All 57 counties in Ohio that still use the touch-screen voting machines that were found to be unreliable in a statewide study must provide paper ballots to any voters who request them for the presidential primary in March." Kirk Johnson, of The New York Times, reports that in Colorado, "With less than year before the November balloting, and the current system mostly in shambles after testing by the secretary of state last month found problems in voting machines across the state, the legislature is braced for a fight over what to do next. County clerks, who administer the elections, are counting the days, and the dwindling options."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ohio
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kirk+Johnson

Greg Miller and Richard B. Schmitt report for the Los Angeles Times, "More than two years before the CIA destroyed interrogation videotapes, top officials were urged to preserve them by a senior lawmaker who warned that disposing of the recordings would 'reflect badly on the agency.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=videotapes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Miller
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+B.+Schmitt

The editors of The New York Times write: "Keeping this race alive so significant numbers of Americans in more populated states can participate would begin to make up for the ludicrous spectacle of the past year, which enriched the television networks and the political consultants (some $300 million already spent) far more than it enriched the political dialogue. We hope both parties will wake up and end the undemocratic system in which the choice of a new president rests far too heavily on nonbinding votes in January by voters that don't necessarily represent the rest of the country."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408M.shtml

600 Dollar für die Unsterblichkeit: Wenn Eitelkeit und Kurse kollidieren
http://www.tagesschau.de/schlusslicht/oelpreis38.html



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

http://www.netzeitung.de/deutschland/867850.html

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4. Januar 2008

DIE LINKE begrüßt Urteil des BGH

Der Bundesgerichtshof hat die Razzien gegen G8-Gegner für rechtswidrig erklärt. Dazu erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der Partei DIE LINKE, Dietmar Bartsch:

Nach der Niederlage der Bundesanwaltschaft und des BKA im Fall der "militanten Gruppe" und des Paragrafen 129a, weist der Bundesgerichtshof die Bundesanwaltschaft nun erneut in die Schranken geltenden Rechts. DIE LINKE begrüßt ausdrücklich die Erklärung des BGH, der die Razzien gegen G8-Gegner im Mai für rechtswidrig hält. Die, zum Teil gewaltsamen, Durchsuchungen bei Kritikern des G8-Gipfels hat DIE LINKE immer scharf verurteilt. Der Vorwurf einer organisierten terroristischen Vereinigung war und ist aus der Luft gegriffen und sollte im Vorfeld von Merkels Gipfelbegegnung ein Klima von Angst und Verunsicherung schaffen. Es wird zunehmend zu einem Problem, dass der BGH Entscheidungen der Bundesanwaltschaft kassieren muss, um Recht und Gerechtigkeit in Deutschland herzustellen. Diese Gesellschaft braucht viel mehr an außerparlamentarischem Protest.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-linke-begruesst-urteil-des-bgh/

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Was zu beweisen war: Razzien im Vorfeld des G-8-Gipfels waren unzulässig

Urteil im G-8-Prozess - Bundesrichter kassieren Terrorvorwurf

Die Razzien im Vorfeld des G-8-Gipfels waren unzulässig, entscheidet der Bundesgerichtshof - und attestiert damit Generalbundesanwältin Monika Harms handwerkliche Inkompetenz. Artikel von Christian Rath in der taz vom 04.01.2008 http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/bundesrichter-kassieren-terrorvorwurf/?src=MT&cHash=7349d7b309


Keine Bundeszuständigkeit für die Durchsuchungsaktion gegen Globalisierungsgegner im Vorfeld des Weltwirtschaftgipfels

„Für die Durchsuchung von Wohnräumen und weitere strafprozessuale Ermittlungsmaßnahmen, die in einem von der Bundesanwaltschaft geführten Verfahren am 9. Mai 2007 im Rahmen einer koordinierten Aktion gegen Gegner des Weltwirtschaftsgipfels und Dritte durchgeführt worden sind, waren die Strafverfolgungsorgane des Bundes nicht zuständig. Dies hat der 3. Strafsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs (Staatsschutzsenat) auf die Beschwerde eines der Beschuldigten festgestellt und zugleich den ihn betreffenden Durchsuchungs- und Beschlagnahmebeschluss aufgehoben…“ Mitteilung der Pressestelle des Bundesgerichtshofs vom 04.01.2008 http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2008&Sort=3&nr=42239&pos=0&anz=3


»Ohrfeige für die Karlsruher Ermittler«

Bundesgerichtshof verweist Bundesanwaltschaft in ihre Schranken. Ein Interview von Andreas Grünwald mit Carsten Gericke, Rechtsanwalt in Hamburg und Mitglied des Bundesvorstandes des Republikanischen Anwältinnen- und Anwältevereins (RAV) in der jungen Welt vom 05.01.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-05/013.php


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Januar 2008

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Das Ende des Interviews?

„Wer seine Persönlichkeitsrechte gegen die Presse schützen will, wendet sich gerne an das Hamburger Landgericht: Bei den Juristen der Zivilkammer 24 zieht die Pressefreiheit immer öfter den Kürzeren. Das jüngste Urteil der Hanseaten verordnet Zeitungen einen hanebüchenen Umgang mit Interviews…“ Artikel von Adrian Schimpf auf Spiegel-Online vom 08.05.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,552301,00.html


Terrorismusbekämpfung und Grundrechte > § 129a

"Ein Jahr nach den Durchsuchungen am 9. Mai - Bilanz der Überwachung"

Anläßlich des Jahrestages der bundesweiten Hausdurchsuchungen im Vorfeld des G8-Gipfels am 9. Mai 2007 forderten Katja Kipping (MdB Die Linke), Pedram Shahyar (Mitglied des Attac-Koordinationskreises) und die beiden RechtsanwältInnen Christina Clemm (Berlin) und Alexander Hoffmann (Kiel) die Einstellung der §129a-Verfahren gegen 40 linke Aktivisten. Eingeladen hatten zu der Pressekonferenz in Berlin Beschuldigte aus vier §129(a)-Verfahren. Siehe die Audio-Aufnahme der Pressekonferenz am 8.Mai 2008 http://einstellung.so36.net/de/983

Siehe dazu auch:

Vorwürfe gegen Bundesanwaltschaft. G8-Gegner fühlen sich gestalkt

„Der Bundesgerichtshof hat Ermittlungen nach Terrorparagraf 129a gegen G-8-Gegner zwar für unzulässig erklärt. Dennoch gingen die Überwachungen weiter, so Anwälte. Artikel von Lana Stille in der taz vom 09.05.2008 http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/polizei-trotzt-bgh-urteil/?src=AR&cHash=328635c626


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Mai 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Razzien
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G-8-Gegner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=129a

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119938649276665241.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cloned
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FDA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/04/sciencenews.biofuels


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

AlterNet
by Annalee Newitz

01/03/08

War changes everything, including technology. In the United States we are roughly six years into what the Bush Administration calls the ‘war on terror,’ and what hundreds of thousands of soldiers know as the occupation of Iraq. Gizmos that a decade ago would have been viewed entirely as communications tools and toys are now potential surveillance and killing machines. Don’t believe me? Consider how much the Web has changed. Referred to naively ten years ago by Bill Clinton and Co. as the friendly, welcoming ‘information superhighway,’ the Web is now the NSA’s surveillance playground...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/72523/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Liberty For All
by Rex Curry

01/03/08

I think that I shall never see a tree-law as beautiful as a tree and if the tree-laws do not fall I may not see a tree at all. As an attorney I am sometimes consulted by property owners who want to remove trees without fear of tree regulations. As an attorney I cannot advise my clients to ignore laws (though often tree laws seem easy to ignore). I can tell clients what a lot of people do: they don’t plant any tree that is covered by tree laws. And any tree protected by tree laws that is still small enough to be legally killed, is killed...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1105


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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

Telegraph [UK]
by Andrew O'Hagan

01/01/08

Surveillance cameras and lost data will prove minuscule problems next to ID cards, which will obliterate the fundamental right to walk around in society as an unknown...

http://tinyurl.com/26cjtp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CounterPunch
by Jacob Hornberger

01/03/08

Since an attack on Iran could result in heightened ‘war-on-terrorism’ emergencies here in the United States, this would be a good time to review the issue of ‘enemy combatants,’ especially as the concept applies to American citizens. To analyze the critical importance of the ‘enemy-combatant’ doctrine, we will examine the cases of two people who were incarcerated as ‘enemy combatants’ — Jose Padilla, an American citizen, and Ali al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar. Both were taken into custody on American soil, labeled ‘enemy combatants,’ and incarcerated by the U.S. military...

http://counterpunch.org/hornberger01032008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jose+Padilla
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ali+al-Marri
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy-combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+Hornberger

Asia Times
by Tom Engelhardt

01/03/08

When it came to news of the George W Bush administration’s torture, kidnapping and offshore imprisonment practices, 2007 ended in a deluge, not a trickle. Yet Americans have yet to come to grips with how centrally the administration has planted certain practices in the country’s midst — at the very heart of governmental practice, of the news, of everyday life...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA04Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Reason
by Brian Doherty

01/03/08

If news is the unexpected, Ron Paul’s rise was the news of the presidential campaign last fall. But Paul himself is not news. He’s been pushing his libertarian values, derived from his love of the U.S. Constitution and the Austrian school of free market economics, through all of his 10 terms in Congress and in between. (He has served in Congress three times: from 1976 to 1977, from 1979 to 1983, and from 1997 to the present. He ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988.) What’s news is the self-styled Ron Paul Revolution — his mass of self-coordinating supporters. The candidate’s critics invented the term ‘Paulistas’ to mock those supporters as wild-eyed radicals. Many of them then claimed the word for themselves, adopting it as a badge of honor. Four years ago, Howard Dean’s Democratic campaign offered an earlier example of a grassroots mass movement that came pretty much from nowhere, beholden to no power structure, decentralized in how it got information and in how it organized itself to act. But the Ron Paul Revolution adds a twist: This movement is passionately dedicated to a smaller, less activist government...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123905.html



Why Ron Paul matters

Liberty For All
by Roderick T. Beaman
01/03/08

Over the years, there have been numerous assertions that the political landscapes had changed or that the debates had been redefined by some event. Landscapes have changed over the years, especially with deaths or disasters like 9/11 but I really don’t recall anyone or thing that has redefined the political debates until now. Ron Paul, through simple persistence, has focused on The Constitution of the United States...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1106


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Doherty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Roderick+T.+Beaman

Austin American-Statesman

01/04/08

A federal judge next week plans to hear a lawsuit brought by U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and a famous Texas supporter, Willie Nelson, that questions the legality of a long-standing loyalty pledge required of Democrats running for president in Texas. Kucinich, of Ohio, is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. He applied last week to appear on the state primary ballot March 4 but scratched out a portion of the pledge on the application stating he’d support the party’s nominee for president, whoever it is. … The suit calls the refusal to put Kucinich’s name on the ballot a violation of the First and Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/28lyja


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/browse_frm/thread/d377290eaab9bc4f?hl=en


Informant: Teresa Binstock

The New York Times: "The case for providing health coverage for all Americans got even more compelling in the past week when two new studies presented the most comprehensive evidence yet that the lack of health insurance is seriously harmful to a patient's health. The studies found that uninsured people suffer significantly worse outcomes from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer than those who have coverage."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010308HB.shtml

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Democratic senators blocked the appointment of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission over concern about his tenure in the Justice Department's civil rights division, where he sided with efforts of Georgia Republicans to require that voters present a photo ID.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308T.shtml



Civil Rights Panel Faulted on Hiring Choice

Darryl Fears, The Washington Post: "Democratic critics say Hans A. von Spakovsky is an odd fit for his new job at the US Commission on Civil Rights. Von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who pushed for the approval of a Georgia voter identification law that critics claimed made it difficult for poor people and the elderly to vote, was hired in July as a special assistant for the commission."

http://www.truthout.org/article/civil-rights-panel-faulted-hiring-choice



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spakovsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darryl+Fears

Truthout's Maya Schenwar and Matt Renner report, "The Bush administration's veto of a broad-ranging defense policy bill Monday night will delay a long list of benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner

http://www.avaaz.org/en/kenya_free_and_fair/5.php/?cl=49352903

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Kibaki 'stole' Kenyan election through vote-rigging and fraud

Systematic electoral fraud including vote-rigging in a third of all constituencies, stuffed ballot boxes and election officials changing results had a decisive impact on the outcome of the Kenyan elections, an investigation by The Independent can reveal.

http://snipurl.com/1y3hf


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kenya
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stolen+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electoral+fraud

Congressman Mike Michaud, a conservative and Blue Dog Democrat from Maine sent a letter over the holiday break to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29765


From Information Clearing House



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

At least 10 anti-war demonstrators were arrested yesterday during protests in Des Moines over the lack of debate on the war on Iraq in the election campaign.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/story/0,,2234538,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Kim and Trevor Sparshott were ordered to stop taking photos because they were causing a security threat.

http://tinyurl.com/2wdkxq


From Information Clearing House

The CIA acknowledged last month that in 2005 it destroyed videos of officers using tough interrogation methods on two al-Qaida suspects. The revelation touched off a congressional inquiry and a preliminary investigation by the Justice Department into whether the CIA violated any laws or obstructed congressional inquiries such as the one led by the Sept. 11 Commission.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cia_videotapes


From Information Clearing House



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

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley told Keith Olbermann that as many as six criminal offenses could be involved in the 9/11 Commission charge alone, including obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice, perjury, and conspiracy.

http://tinyurl.com/2cqnn7


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Turley
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Olbermann

The West appears amazed to see the Russian-Iranian strategic partnership surviving and even strengthening.

http://tinyurl.com/278m4z


From Information Clearing House



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

The United States on Wednesday brushed aside calls for a UN investigation into the slaying of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, saying Britain's Scotland Yard now leads the probe and will get "the answers" Pakistan's people deserve.

http://tinyurl.com/2z33dm


From Information Clearing House



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

Democracy Now! - Audio and Transcript

Independent journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative correspondent Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discuss a little-addressed facet of the 2008 campaign: many of the top advisers to leading presidential candidates are ex-U.S. officials involved in atrocities around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18991.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=atrocity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+Beaucar+Vlahos

How American Democracy Relies on Fascism

By Ted Rall

What would you do if you learned that Bush Administration officials wanted to round up thousands of Americans and throw them into concentration camps?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18994.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=concentration+camps

By Ramzy Baroud

It seems odd that the bulk - if not the entirety - of reports on the improvement in security are predicated principally on information released by the US military, Iraqi official sources or willing collaborates of both (conformist Shia sources, tribal Sunni leaders).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18993.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ramzy+Baroud

By Gary Leupp

"Al-Qaeda is now as much a Pakistani phenomenon as it is an Arab or foreign element," declares Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan's Daily Times. It is not just the Arabs, Uzbeks and other foreigners who fled from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the wake of the U.S. invasion of late 2001. It draws in Pakistani tribesmen, Punjabis, Urdu speakers. What was once a group foreigners (numbers unknown) enjoying Pashtun hospitality under the Taliban in Afghanistan has struck roots in neighboring Pakistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18992.htm



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4a0ece6be30f2e80?hl=en



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

On a Soviet mentality
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/01/turbo-charged-idiocy-about-torture.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Norman+Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/horton1.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/volatile2.html

Antiwar Sailor
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/hutto1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Hutto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Donna+Volatile

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/235e3fbd140c79ae



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

Mother Jones' Michael Mechanic interviews William Poundstone about the mathematical impossibility of designing a perfectly fair plurality voting system.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308E.shtml

For AlterNet, Joshua Holland writes: "While it's true that the big three have similar stances on a number of issues, on Iraq - the one that Democrats and swing voters say is either their top concern, or No. 2 after the economy - the top candidates' differences couldn't be more significant. In fact, only John Edwards among the top three Dems would effectively end the occupation of Iraq within a year of taking office."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308D.shtml



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Leslie Thatcher reviews Dahr Jamail's book, "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq," and interviews him about viewing the US occupation through the eyes of Iraqis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308B.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leslie+Thatcher

Truthout's Jason Leopold reports, "When Congress returns from its winter break in mid-January and continues its probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, the lawmakers may be interested in speaking to Mary O. McCarthy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308A.shtml



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Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now...

http://www.newstarget.com/022434.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/

Source: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/030108Site.htm



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6989/


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From ufpj-news



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Being exposed to the microwave (2.45GHz) radiation constantly emitted by WiFi routers is as safe as being in the main beam from a phone mast. But is that safe? Comparing the levels with those emitted by a mobile phone is not very helpful since we do not know those are safe either! There is evidence in some studies of longer term users of increased brain tumour risk on the side of the head they hold the mobile. There are reports of cancer clusters around phone masts but the government refuse to investigate. However 2 scientific studies in other countries show a trebling of cancer risk for exposure under 10 years . It may be more informative to compare the levels of microwaves with those that naturally existed up until 15 years ago when this technology started. You would find the levels are up to trillions of times higher now because the background microwave level is virtually zero. Is it sensible to compare these with light or with what used to exist in the microwave part of the spectrum? The European wide REFLEX project found human DNA shattered after short exposure to the levels we are exposed to now. The radiation intensity in the main beam from a phone mast is the same order of magnitude as a few meters from a WiFi router. (You can hire measuring equipment and see for yourself) These levels are below guidelines which is why the HPA is so confident about its study. However the guidelines are only intended to protect from short term heat shocks and do not protect against long term lower levels of exposure where heating is not the issue. All the independent scientists are calling for a revision of these out of date guidelines.

If you must have WiFi rather than cables then I would advise turn it off when not in use and especially at night.

For more information and links to scientific research see http://www.mastsanity.org


Sarah



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0102-07.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6150/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6135/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6134/

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Alaska Oil Exploration to Begin

Warren Bull, BBC News: "The US government says it will offer exploration rights for oil and gas in a north-western region of Alaska.... But environmental groups fear the effects on wildlife in the region, including the polar bear population."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010308EA.shtml



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Wed Jan 2, 3:19 PM

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - If you're late for work, a driver using a cell phone may be to blame. U.S. researchers said on Wednesday that people who use cell phones while behind the wheel impede the flow of traffic, clog highways and extend commute times.

Read More...
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080102/tecnology/tech_usa_phones_traffic_col_1


Informant: Mark G.

David M. Herszenhorn reports for The New York Times: "Congressional Democrats like to boast that the rules, in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, will go a long way toward ending the influence-peddling that has become common in American politics. But writing a strong law does not necessarily mean that strict interpretation and robust enforcement will follow."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308O.shtml



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Mary Ann Akers and Paul Kane report for The Washington Post, "As if the House page scandal involving former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) hadn't done enough damage to Republicans, now we discover that legal bills arising from it landed former speaker J. Dennis Hastert's campaign committee in hot water with the Federal Election Commission."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308M.shtml



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Truthout's Scott Galindez writes: "The corporate media over the last couple of months has been pushing a notion that John Edwards sounds 'angry.' Are we witnessing another attempt to take down a candidate that threatens the corporate power structure? Do we have a repeat of four years ago when the media made a big deal about Howard Dean shouting over the crowd noise?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010308J.shtml



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Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Seeds of Destruction"
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman020108.htm


Informant: Speakingbear

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Agribusiness Giants seek to gain Worldwide Control over our Food Supply

I've noticed that you've got only the first part of Stephen Lendman's book review.

Here's the full article.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7735

Potential Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8148

Unleashing GMO Seeds: "Food is Power"
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction, Part 3.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7849


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=agribusiness
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=F.+William+Engdahl
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/03/conservationists_rap_arctic_drilling_plan/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arctic
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Immer mehr Staaten überwachen ihre Bürger
http://www.golem.de/0801/56777.html



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by Devvy Kidd

Today is the Iowa caucus. In five days the New Hampshire primary will take place. Candidates from the Republican and Democrat parties are attempting to get the vote, no matter how many lies and false promises they have to make. The exception is Congressman Ron Paul http://devvy.net/candidates/paul_final.html , whose voting record for 22 years and his absolute consistent stand on constitutional government cannot be disputed. No flip-flopping, no tarts in the back ground, no scandals and this man will never sell us out to any special interest group in this country or globally, i.e., the Bilderberg group of world totalitarian monsters........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd333.htm



The Secret of Ron Paul's Success

by Cliff Kincaid

Many in the media are intrigued by Rep. Ron Paul’s success in the presidential campaign but usually focus on how much money he is raising. In terms of issues, some think he is rising in the polls because of his opposition to the Iraq War. That may be a factor, but my research convinces me that he is doing well primarily because he has a traditional Republican message of returning to smaller and less expensive government. More than that, however, he is talking about the threat posed by global institutions........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff196.htm



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/92.html



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Christian Science Monitor
by Gail Russell Chaddock

01/02/08

Ron Paul still looks surprised when his calls to follow the Constitution and restore a sound currency set off whoops of approval at a campaign stop. The 10-term GOP congressman from Texas has been making these points for 30 years, with little to show for it beyond hundreds of House votes on the short end of 434 to 1. Critics called him a crank. But lately, his views and values — the product of a lifetime of intense, self-directed study — are finding an audience. His message is basic: freedom and limited government. Repeal the welfare-warfare state. Get out of Iraq, now. Abolish the income tax. End the war on drugs. Put the dollar back on a more solid footing...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0102/p01s08-uspo.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Dominick Armentano

01/02/08

Presidential election years usually are not recessionary but next year will be an exception. Several economic factors are colliding in an almost perfect storm to markedly slow the general economy and the stock market. The most important signal flashing recession is, of course, the subprime mortgage fiasco. After years of monetary inflation on the part of the Federal Reserve, individuals and families with poor credit were suckered into low-down-payment/low-interest adjustable mortgages that simply cannot be maintained or repaid under current conditions...

http://www.mises.org/story/2805


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

01/02/08

According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems, and archiving of private data. Driven by concern over immigration and border control, countries have been quick to implement database, identity, and fingerprinting systems, according to the 2007 International Privacy Ranking report...

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9838743-7.html?tag=newsmap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bloomington Pantagraph

01/02/08

U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration’s pledge to boost them to roughly 1,000 per month, according to State Department statistics obtained by The Associated Press. For the third straight month since the United States said it would improve processing and resettle 12,000 Iraqis by the end of the current budget year on Sept. 30., the number admitted has actually slid, the figures show...

http://tinyurl.com/25nyyt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dying Hegemons
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6667a18a-b888-11dc-893b-0000779fd2ac.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon33.html



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An Open Letter to Pastors and Church Leaders
http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell85.html

Don Garlits on 25 reasons he supports Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/garlits1.html

Read More Open Letters
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/open-letters.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone72.html



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

Joe Napsha of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports: "Americans are putting in more hours at work, about 42.5 hours in 2006, compared to about 37.5 hours in 2003, according to time-use surveys by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The extra hours are a result of fewer employees to do work, fears of job security, a need for overtime pay and a hope for advancement, experts say."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010208LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+workers

Kirk Johnson, The New York Times, says, "Sheltered for many years by federal species protection law, the gray wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes to an end early this year."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010208EB.shtml



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This week on Bill Moyers Journal, "On the Friday after the Iowa caucuses, Paul and Kucinich will give their perspectives on the results, the politics and the process as the field heads to New Hampshire."

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



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Margot Roosevelt of The Los Angeles Times reports: "California and 15 other states filed suit against the federal government today for denying them the right to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks, a major cause of global warming."

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



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US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

http://snipurl.com/1webl


From Information Clearing House



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Benazir Bhutto was poised to offer proof that Pakistan's election commission and shadowy spy agency were seeking to rig an upcoming general election the night she was assassinated, a top aide said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10485055



Bhutto Murder Theories Used as Political Tool
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,526141,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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US-LED coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group monitoring casualties in the war-ravaged country.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22999216-2,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Abid Ullah Jan

Alternative media is the West is falling prey to the ISI propaganda to save Musharraf.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18989.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/wopr



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



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Writing for Geneva's Le Temps, Jean-Jacques Roth posits that sane environmental policies will provide the only way through the globalization-induced polarizations of identity and income inequality that increasingly characterize our world.

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



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

The Bush Legacy

Conservative Courts Likely to Be Bush Legacy

David G. Savage, of The Los Angeles Times, writes, "After nearly seven years in the White House, President Bush has named 294 judges to the federal courts, giving Republican appointees a solid majority of the seats, including a 60%-to-40% edge over Democrats on the influential U.S. appeals courts."

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



The Bush Legacy (Take One)

Tom Engelhardt writes for TomDispatch, "If you don't mind thinking about the Bush legacy a year early, there are worse places to begin than with the case of Erla Osk Arnardottir Lilliendahl."

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



The Bush Legacy (Take Two)

Tom Engelhardt imagines what it would be like to rid ourselves of one legacy of the Bush administration - the "Global War on Terror."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010908I.shtml



The Legacy of Bush II

Robert Scheer writes for Truthdig: "Curb your enthusiasm. Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. If not, military spending will rise to a level exceeding any other year since the end of World War II, and there will be precious little left over to improve education and medical research, fight poverty, protect the environment or do anything else a decent person might care about." And, The New York Times editorial board writes: "President Bush's 2009 budget is a grim guided tour through his misplaced priorities, failed fiscal policies and the disastrous legacy that he will leave for the next president. And even that requires you to accept the White House's optimistic accounting, which seven years of experience tells us would be foolish in the extreme."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608G.shtml



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