World-News

Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/426781


From Information Clearing House

The attorney general's evasions on waterboarding are repugnant, and set a dangerous global precedent.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0074.html


From Information Clearing House



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

ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said a military strike to settle the Iranian nuclear issue would complicate the situation and send the Middle East region into a vicious cycle of violence.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/05/content_7572483.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ElBaradei
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East

The current military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan will have long-term implications for US defence strategy as Washington will find it increasingly difficult to recruit allies for extended campaigns, a key defence analysis report said Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/1z4ld


From Information Clearing House

Amos said that many Iraqis capable of transforming the country have left. "Two million people have fled Iraq,'' which she described as "still in shambles.

http://snipurl.com/1z4l5


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. commander in Iraq's central province of Diyala has said he has witnessed no hostile act from the Iranian side in the region over the past 10 months, a French weekly reported on Monday.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=162746


From Information Clearing House



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

Republican White House hopeful John McCain yesterday insisted the US must maintain a long-term presence in Iraq and accused Democratic rivals of caving in to the forces of "evil".

http://snipurl.com/1z4l1



McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire.

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


From Information Clearing House



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

The Iraqi government is inviting major oil multinationals to participate for the first time in the development of the oil industry, without waiting for the passage of crucial but controversial hydrocarbons legislation.

http://snipurl.com/1z4ky


From Information Clearing House



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

By Leon Hadar

President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons - and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran before the November election could constitute another failure of imagination. Cato's Leon Hadar suggests questions the press should ask the presidential candidates about what they think the American response should be to various scenarios in the region - including a Gulf-of-Tonkin-like alleged provocation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19296.htm



Iran General Staff fear U.S. attack while Bush in power

"While Bush is in power, that is throughout 2008, U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic is still likely," Gholamali Rashid said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080206/98564293.html


From Information Clearing House



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0206-12.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0206-08.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6868/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6877/

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The Machine Gun of Capitalism

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new home sales across the nation are plummeting faster than Britney Spears' serotonin levels. A nasty recession is either creeping or flooding in, depending on your perspective and how recently you purchased your home and/or tried to dump your Google stock.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19298.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Morford

Bad Boys, Nasty Boys
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6869/

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Some Grim Statistics
http://www.michaelparenti.org/HiddenHolocaust.html

The Stolen Presidential Elections
http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html

Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy
http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/dr-michael-parenti-terrorism-globalism-and-conspiracy/

Michael Parenti Discusses Contrary Notions
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7301033851356115963&q=michael+parenti&ei=5EQ7SKO8AoGkigKglIFU


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6872/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+LaMarche

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6882/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6886/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/06/6871/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture+flights
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Egelko

From In These Times, Chris Toensing writes: "Quick: Who is the strategic victor, to date, of the war in Iraq? Nearly everyone outside the Bush administration (and perhaps some within it) would answer: the Islamic Republic of Iran."

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



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

For Truthout, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III writes: "On January 28, 2008, President Bush gave his final State of the Union Address in which he was long on articulating issues and problems facing America but short on real solutions. He talked about difficult decisions between peace and war, keeping America competitive in the global economy, providing healthcare for all Americans and the overall welfare of American citizens. Unfortunately, very little, if anything that the President has done or proposed has made the average American safer, more competitive, or improved their long term health and financial well being."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon

Paul Elias, writing for The Associated Press, reports, "Bush administration lawyers cited national security concerns Tuesday in urging a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Boeing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Elias

Die Bundespolizei wird Presseangaben zufolge künftig automatisch Zugriff auf die Daten von 29 Millionen Schiffspassagieren haben, die pro Jahr einen deutschen Hafen ansteuern oder von dort abreisen. Das sehe das Gesetz "zur Änderung seeverkehrsrechtlicher, verkehrsrechtlicher und anderer Vorschriften mit Bezug zum Seerecht" vor, dem der Bundestag jüngst zugestimmt hat, so die "Frankfurter Rundschau".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17238

http://tinyurl.com/3bancg

HLV INFO 10/AT
6-02-2008

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/ct/m7AJ1Fs14zQq/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=World+Bank

Neil Irwin and Tomoeh Murakami Tse, of The Washington Post, report: "the stock market plummeted yesterday after a report that businesses that account for a vast portion of the US economy are shrinking. A key index of activity at non-manufacturing businesses fell in January to its lowest level since the 2001 recession, as a downturn that began in the housing and financial markets spread to industries including hospitality, banking, insurance, telecom and retail."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stock+market
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing

Anne Flaherty, of The Associated Press, reports: "the military's top uniformed officer says U.S. forces are 'significantly stressed' by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan while simultaneously trying to stem the tide of violent extremism elsewhere. 'The pace of ongoing operations has prevented our forces from fully training for the full spectrum of operations and impacts our ability to be ready to counter future threats,' Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mullen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anne+Flaherty

Richard Simon, of The Los Angeles Times, writes: "scores of climate change bills are stacking up in the legislative queue. Numerous hearings, the most recent on the polar bear, are highlighting the issue. And some regulation-averse corporate executives have even called on Congress to step in. But despite the dramatic shift in the Capitol in favor of doing something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming legislation remains a long shot for this year."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=greenhouse+gas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Simon

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020608_gook_comments.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+establishment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warmonger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

6. Februar 2008

Wie jetzt gemeldet wurde, sind die Sanktionen gegen Hartz IV-Beziehende binnen eines Jahres um fast 60 Prozent gestiegen. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Hartz IV ist nicht nur Armut per Gesetz, sondern auch Repression und Schikane gegen Erwerbslose und muss daher überwunden werden. Arbeitslosigkeit ist kein individuelles Problem, sondern ein gesellschaftliches. Wenn die Bundesregierung durch ihr Konzept des Förderns und Forderns dieses zum Motivationsproblem der einzelnen Erwerbslosen erklärt, schiebt sie die Verantwortung dafür ab. Sie zwingt Erwerbslose in Armutslöhne und prekäre Beschäftigung, was nicht nur den Druck auf die Erwerbslosen, sondern auch auf die Beschäftigten in diesen Bereichen weiter erhöht. Durch die von der großen Koalition unternommenen Verschärfungen des Sanktionsregimes bei Hartz IV verstärkt sich diese Spirale aus Druck, Schikane und Armut. Die Bundesregierung kann sich nicht damit herausreden, dass die Sanktionen eine Entscheidung der Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen der ARGEN sind. Die Beschäftigten werden von der Bundesebene zum Einsparen verpflichtet – koste es was es wolle an menschlichem Leid. Schuld sind die Zielvereinbarungen, die die Bundesagentur für Arbeit mit den Jobcentern abschließt und die vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit mit erarbeitet werden. Diese sehen Einsparungen von bis zu acht Prozent vor. Diese Zielvereinbarungen müssen daher dringend geändert werden. Die Bundesagentur hat zu aller erst einen sozialpolitischen Auftrag. Statt Erwerbslose mit immer drakonischeren Sanktionen zu traktieren, muss endlich eine Politik gemacht werden, die die Arbeitslosigkeit an ihren Wurzeln packt und die Würde von Erwerblosen wie Beschäftigten respektiert. DIE LINKE fordert deshalb eine repressionsfreie, bedarfsorientierte soziale Grundsicherung, eine Politik für gute Arbeit und einen öffentlichen Beschäftigungssektor.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bessere-arbeitsmarktpolitik-statt-repressionen-und-schikane-gegen-erwerbslose/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grundsicherung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sanktion

National Animal Identification System: Update

by Doreen Hannes

To help get all animals (and your real estate) into the program, the USDA will be focusing on having all the breed registries roll their identification into NAIS beginning in March of 2008. I have checked out the American Dairy Goat Association site and on the USDA link it will show a beautiful placement of AIN USAXXXXXXXXXXXX (it is indeed 15 characters) for your registered dairy goats. Also of note, membership numbers are conveniently seven digit numbers. I guess it's a good thing all of my registered goats died in a horrible barn fire........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hannes/doreen6.htm



Most People Don't Want to Hear the Truth

by Doreen Hannes

Finally there are people who don't want to look at the elephant even though it's standing on their foot. We all have plenty of these people in our lives. When told about something like the NAIS with all of its effects on choice for consumers, loss of rural jobs and businesses, privacy issues, consolidation of agriculture and effects on property rights, they say things like "I want to be sure my burger is free from terrorism." These people will trade your real liberty for their false sense of security in a heartbeat. They think they get the truth from the evening news, believe that you can't understand issues without a doctorate, and that the government gives us rights. They are absolutely sure there are no absolutes.........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hannes/doreen7.htm



Doreen Hannes on the National Animal Identification System

Doreen with Carl Wilson discussing how government wants to control the food
http://www.kajo.com/features/talk_shows/programs/kajo080213.mp3


From NewsWithViews.com



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Animal+Identification+System
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=USDA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carl+Wilson

America’s Gulag and the good war

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

02/05/08

The long-running ‘progressive’ stance on America’s 21st century imperial adventures can be reduced to this simple dichotomy: Afghan war good, Iraq war bad. And for all progressives who want to be regarded as ’serious,’ the Iraq war is bad because it has distracted us from the real war, the good war, in Afghanistan. This theme has been sounded over and over by the ‘progressive’ candidates throughout the presidential campaign. It is the opinion of a sizable majority of the U.S. population, which has clearly repudiated the Iraq war but still supports the Afghan war...

http://counterpunch.org/floyd02052008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gulag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Floyd

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

02/05/08

High rentals and purchase prices for commercial real estate increases costs for enterprise, which reduces its profits, and thus results in less economic investment. In a global economy, many enterprises cannot raise prices by as much as the increase in costs. Furthermore, even though the Fed has lowered short-term interest rates, the huge mortgage loan losses has drained banks of loanable funds, and borrowing has become riskier, which reduces credit availability. All these elements point to a crumbling of the commercial real estate market in 2008. Even in the booming Manhattan real estate market, the rise in office rentals has slowed, and the credit contraction has made it more difficult to obtain loans for purchasing condominium offices. Apartment rentals have risen as folks who now can’t buy a house are renting instead. But as unemployment rises, then those laid off will move to more crowded and less expensive dwellings, vacancies will rise, and the price of apartment buildings will fall. Less business will also result in less hotel use. Lower sales volumes will reduce rentals and prices for shopping centers...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003219.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+slowdown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=real+estate
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+E.+Foldvary

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

02/05/08

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!147.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan

MSNBC

02/05/08

President Bush will veto terrorist surveillance legislation pushed by Senate Democrats that doesn’t give retroactive legal protections to telecommunication providers who let the government spy on e-mails and phone calls involving people in the U.S., officials said Tuesday. The veto threat, detailed in a 12-page letter from Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, was sent to the Senate as lawmakers grapple with how to update a 1978 surveillance law without violating privacy rights...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23012645/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush veto threatened for US surveillance bills that do not protect telecommunications companies

President George W. Bush issued a veto threat Tuesday in the debate to update terrorist surveillance laws, rebuking Democratic plans to deny retroactive legal protections for telecommunications providers that let the government spy on U.S. residents after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://snipurl.com/1z4mj


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+McConnell

USA Today

02/05/08

Cases of racial harassment filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission increased 24% last year, a time of racial turmoil that included the Jena Six controversy and an outbreak of noose displays. At the same time, state and city lawmakers have stepped up efforts to make it a crime to intimidate someone with a noose. And the Justice Department, which set up a network to link investigators reviewing noose incidents, has indicted a Louisiana teen on hate crime charges for dangling a noose from his pickup and driving past demonstrators after a protest in Jena, La., in September...

http://tinyurl.com/274ygd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jena+Six
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hate+crime

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/270.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+jails

According to CNN's Chris Isidore, "A growing number of top economists believe that the US economy has now toppled into recession."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508S.shtml



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2540a4460a15ba50?hl=en



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

https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=19340598



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7141/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli11.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north601.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs74.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Higgs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/higgs

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7145/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/d65891385cd6df23?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Diebold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp

Das US-Maut-System dient auch der Überwachung.
http://tinyurl.com/2p7xy8



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/af0c9f3f443b5620?hl=en

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US acknowledges use of waterboarding

Cañon City Daily Record

02/05/08

Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators. Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects. In congressional testimony Tuesday, CIA Director Michael Hayden became the first administration official to publicly acknowledge the agency used waterboarding on detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...

http://tinyurl.com/26ksd6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees

http://tinyurl.com/327wn8



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

In a sharp departure from U.S. policy, a leading French diplomat has called on the international coalition sponsoring U.N. sanctions against Iran to support a larger Iranian role in the Middle East.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41064


From Information Clearing House



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

Bush asked for $70 billion as an "emergency allowance" for war costs for the first part of the budget year, which begins Oct. 1. The White House said it would request more - probably at least another $100 billion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7280577


From Information Clearing House

By Seymour M. Hersh

"'You are aware of the recent Israeli statements about Syria. The Israelis are extremely serious about Iran and its nuclear program, and I believe that, if the United States government is unsuccessful in its diplomatic dealings with Iran, the Israelis will take it out militarily.' He then told the envoy that he wanted him to convey this to his government-that the Israelis were serious.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19294.htm



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

Does This Video Confirm That Bush Intends To Attack Iran?



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19293.htm



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

By Stephen Soldz

Congress should demand access to these documents to determine the extent to which attacks resulting in civilian casualties were authorized, potentially providing insight into who was responsible for possible war crimes committed in the course of the occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19290.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Soldz

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

When Saad Tawfiq watched then-US Secretary of state Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, he shed bitter tears as he realized he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19291.htm



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

http://tinyurl.com/2nrwup



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5AKnLeDmMw


Informant: Frank



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

Patrick Cockburn, reporting for The Independent UK, writes, "Reconciliation between Sunni and Shia, seen by the US as essential for political progress in Iraq, is not happening."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30768


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



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

Vor dem Hintergrund neuer Pannen im schleswig-holsteinischen Atomkraftwerk Krümmel kritisiert Grünen-Bundestagsfraktionschefin Renate Künast die deutschen Betreiber. "Der Brand im Pannenreaktor Krümmel entlarvt die falsche Werbekampagne der Atomlobby", sagte Künast der "Berliner Zeitung". Atomkraft sei ein unkalkulierbares Risiko und kein Klimaschutz. "Die Vorstände von Vattenfall, RWE, E.ON und EnBW können sich ihre Charmeoffensive sparen: Wir sind doch nicht blöd", sagte Künast.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17224



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Krümmel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomlobby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraft

UNINFORMED CONSENT, Washington DC.

Rep. Dan Burton, Chair of Gov Reform Committee comments on vaccines and mercury showing a video of an autistic child in full melt down. - Followed by Dr. Andrew Wakefield MD UK, well-respected scientist, whose discovery of the vaccine strain measles virus in the gut of autistic children set off an international frenzy from public health authorities attempting to marginalize Wakefield for their own irresponsibility in refusing to address these issues with vaccines. Many believe public health authorities have become fronts for big pharma who profit unlimited amounts from the illnesses produced by the delivery of contaminants contained in vaccines like mercury
(thimerosal).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1VTYzLYy4


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mercury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=autism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=thimerosal

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0205-07.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0205-02.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6859/

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The Boom Was a Bust for Ordinary People

In The Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich says: "It begins to sound a bit naughty - all this talk about the need to 'stimulate' the economy, as if we were discussing how to make a porn film. I don't mean to trivialize our economic difficulties or the need for effective government intervention, but we have to face a disconcerting fact: For years now, that strange stimulus-crazed beast, the economy, has been going its own way, increasingly disconnected from the toils and troubles of ordinary Americans."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608LA.shtml



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6843/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6864/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6863/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6866/

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CIA Admits Waterboarding Three Detainees

Randall Mikkelsen of Reuters reports: "The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Mikkelsen

Carlotta Gall and Andy Worthington, of The New York Times, report: "Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999. But in 2003, Mr. Hekmati was arrested by American forces in southern Afghanistan when, senior Afghan officials here contend, he was falsely accused by his enemies of being a Taliban commander himself. For the next five years he was held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he died of cancer on December 30th."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carlotta+Gall
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington

In an Associated Press report, we learn "President Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws banning sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, a federal judge ruled Monday. Navy officials did not immediately respond to the ruling by US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper. Mark Matsunaga, spokesman for the Navy's Pacific Fleet, headquartered in Hawaii, said officials needed time to review it before commenting."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508O.shtml

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Navy Must Comply With No-Sonar Rule

According to The Associated Press, "Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020508EC.shtml



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

Kevin G. Hall, of McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "President Bush took office in 2001 with a budget surplus, but his final budget proposal envisions federal deficits of more than $400 billion a year for the next two years. As big as those numbers are, experts think that the administration is lowballing the deficits, and they put little stock in Bush's vow to balance the budget by 2012. 'I think the promise that it will be balanced by 2012 is ridiculous,' said Chris Edwards, the director of tax policy for the Cato Institute, a libertarian policy research group."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+deficits
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+G.+Hall

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, writes: "after California ordered a switch to paper ballots from touch-screen voting machines for Tuesday's primary, election officials in the sprawling, 7,200-square-mile Riverside County had to decide the best way to pick up the ballots so they could be centrally counted on time: helicopter or truck? They chose land rather than air, because the last time the helicopter had been grounded by fog. But then they encountered another problem: 60,000 absentee ballots had begun to fall apart at the fold lines."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020508L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=paper+ballots
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machines
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ian+Urbina

Global warming crisis
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=888842


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amazon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deforestation

International Herald Tribune — With jobs shrinking, housing prices plummeting and debt levels swelling, the same nation that pioneered the no-money-down mortgage suddenly confronts an unfamiliar imperative: More Americans must live within their means.

http://www.ourfuture.org/news-headline/credit-crunch-changing-life


From TomPaine.com



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

by Lynn Stuter

Our elected representatives are so elected to carry out the business of the people of the United States within the construct of their oath of office: to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The United States Constitution is a short but well-written document enumerating the powers and responsibilities of the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, establishing the God-given rights of the people as the masters of the elected, not as the servants of the government. Yet what we.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter117.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Stuter

By Alex Ross

VILLAGERS in Coalpit Heath are celebrating after winning a hard fought campaign against plans for a new mobile phone mast.

Hundreds of people in the village had shown opposition to plans by Vodafone to erect a 12 metre high mast at the junction of Badminton Road and Woodside Road.

Residents claimed it would be "an eyesore" too close to their homes and had raised concerns about the possible impact on their health.

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

IMI-Mitteilung vom 1.2.2008 als Flyer:
http://www.imi-online.de/2008.php3?id=1692


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Februar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Reformvertrag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Militarisierung

Los Angeles Times
by Matt Welch

02/01/08

It’s no mystery why independents gravitate toward McCain. He’s a country-first, party-second kind of guy who speaks bluntly and delights in poking fellow Republicans in the eye on issues such as campaign finance reform and global warming. But there’s a bizarre disconnect in the warm embrace between McCain and the electorate’s mavericks. They hate the Iraq war, while he’s willing to fight it for another century. The most pro-war presidential candidate in a decade is winning the 2008 GOP nomination thanks to the antiwar vote...

http://tinyurl.com/22qoc9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Welch

BBC

02/05/08

MPs and human rights campaigners have warned that the government is proposing to remove juries from some inquests and keep key evidence secret. …. When the Counter Terrorism Bill was unveiled in Parliament last month the focus naturally fell on the government’s plans to hold suspects for 42 days. Few noticed a clause in the bill which would allow the home secretary to create special inquests, without juries, for “reasons of national security” or “otherwise in the public interest”...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7225830.stm



Is something bugging you?

Independent [UK]
by staff

02/05/08

A much-needed public debate about covert surveillance has begun, thanks to the allegation that counter-terrorism police officers secretly recorded discussions between the Tooting MP, Sadiq Khan, and a constituent, Babar Ahmad. Mr Khan was visiting Mr Ahmad in Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes, where his constituent is awaiting extradition to the US on charges of supporting terrorism. If their conversation was recorded, this was a breach of the so-called “Wilson Doctrine” which forbids the secret surveillance of MPs without explicit ministerial approval. So was it a cock-up or a conspiracy?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-is-something-bugging-you-778040.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

CNN

02/04/08

The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. But it’s an issue that raises major privacy concerns — what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans...

http://tinyurl.com/35gwc7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020408_election_cancelled.htm


Informant: shane_digital

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Dam Breaks, ABC News Covers Willie Nelson 9/11 Story
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020508_dam_breaks.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Willie+Nelson

AlterNet's Joshua Holland says, "According to the latest Washington Post poll, there's been a dramatic shift towards John McCain following his victory in the Florida GOP primary, and he now leads Mitt Romney by 24 points nationwide. With a number of winner-take-all primaries on the Republican side, he has a very good shot at wrapping up the nomination on February 5. It looks like conservatives - with a few raving-mad, mouth-breathing exceptions - have gone through denial, anger, bargaining and depression and come finally to accept their insubordinate nominee."


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020408S.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Romney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=primaries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joshua+Holland

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ef9210dd6a9b2ef?hl=en


Informant: Gomez



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

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/271.html



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

Famed investor Jim Rogers sees hard times ahead for the United States - and a big opportunity looming in China.

http://snipurl.com/1yzga



House Of Cards

Steve Kroft reports on how the U.S. sub-prime mortgage meltdown, in which risky loans drove a housing boom that went bust, is now roiling capital markets worldwide.

http://snipurl.com/1yzgc From Information Clearing House http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Rogers http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Kroft

Does it herald the dissolution of these United States of America?
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/illusionofchoice/


From Information Clearing House

McCain's little ditty about "bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran" - not to mention his willingness to maintain U.S. troops in Iraq for decades, if not centuries - must also appeal to the neo-cons' neo-imperial agenda.

http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=102


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Washington has rejected responsibility for the millions of people Vietnam says have suffered direct or second-generation disabilities due to Agent Orange, with US officials pointing to a lack of mutually agreed data.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/01/6791/


From Information Clearing House

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US “Agent Orange” Ruling Disappoints Vietnamese; Pleases Monsanto, Dow Chemical
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/23/7252/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Agent+Orange
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

Russia's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Sunday warned of a new confrontation between Warsaw and Moscow in connection with plans by the United States to base a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=31463


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missile+shield

An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel.

http://snipurl.com/1yzf9


From Information Clearing House



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

Iran was scheduled to inaugurate its Oil Bourse this coming week. That probably isn't going to happen because all internet access in Iran was cut over the weekend (the undersea cables were chopped).

http://www.energybulletin.net/39844.html



Internet cable cut in Middle East: Should Iran be worried?

There has been some concern that the undersea internet cables, that have been cut recently, are perhaps no accident?

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51085


From Information Clearing House



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

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday he was making progress in finishing an inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by those powers mulling new sanctions.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=31533


From Information Clearing House



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

When the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday for the next fiscal year, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago -- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to cost.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0071.html


From Information Clearing House

By Patrick J. Buchanan

It was to be the year of change, of new ideas, a new politics. Yet, as of today, it appears the Republican Party will be led into the future by a Beltway favorite of the media and Washington insider who has spent the last quarter of a century on Capitol Hill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19285.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan

By Manuel Valenzuela

If you are not angered, indeed enraged, by the current state of the United States, then you have not been paying attention, or you just do not care enough about the future your children will inherit, and have to live in.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19279.htm



An Absence of Will

By Manuel Valenzuela

The Year of Living Dangerously is upon us. The sorrows of empire have arrived. In this struggle, America entire is Ground Zero. The clock is ticking, the time is wasting. Would we rather live in tyranny, or fight for freedom? Live in our America, or the corporatist Amerika? In this fight for our way of life, which citizenry will show up: yesterday's version of the People, or today's? The choice, as always, is ours.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19295.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tyranny
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Manuel+Valenzuela

By Joseph Nevins

The death of Suharto, the strongman who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, is cause for reflection in the United States, particularly as Americans choose our next president and wrestle with the question of our nation's proper role in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19281.htm



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

By Patrick J. Buchanan

McCain says we may be in Iraq a hundred years and warns, "there's going to be other wars." Take the man at his word.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19286.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan

By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON

American military forces in Iraq were authorized to pursue former members of Saddam Hussein's government and terrorists across Iraq's borders into Iran and Syria, according to a classified 2005 document that has been made public by an independent Web site.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19276.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Schmitt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+R.+Gordon

By Pam Martens

With Wall Street capital disappearing as fast as foreclosures are climbing, one foreign head of state had an epiphany. French President Nicholas Sarkozy advanced the idea recently that the global financial system is "out of its mind."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19283.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarkozy

By Mike Whitney

In the last two weeks, the Gulf leaders have watched nervously while the Federal Reserve has slashed rates by a whopping 125 basis points. The cuts are steadily eroding the $1 trillion of capital they have invested in US Treasuries and securities. Indeed, the price of friendship is quite high.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19280.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/6f3d36119880e478?hl=en



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2c89dd3f24228e8b?hl=en



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind135.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kenny/kenny71.html



http://www.google.com/search?q=Bob+Dole
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kenny

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger143.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/hornberger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski199.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul433.html



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

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02042008.html


Informant: Gomez



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

DOUGLAS BICKFORD



http://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/626565
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6knBCfezLWw
http://tinyurl.com/2h7ckh

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/59a80952ef907650



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

http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/hintergrund/287864



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