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13-02-2008

Die deutschsprachigen Medien haben nach Meinung der "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung" auch 2007 gesellschaftlich brisante Themen unter den Tisch fallen lassen ...

... Gleichzeitig litten sie unter dem Druck von Anzeigenkunden oder auch von Unternehmen und Lobbyisten, die die Berichterstattung über heikle Nachrichten mit Prozessandrohungen (!!!!!) verhinderten.

Die am Institut für Journalistik an der Technischen Universität Dortmund ansässige Initiative recherchiert seit 1997 solche vernachlässigten Themen, um sie in die öffentliche Diskussion einzubringen. Partner sind derzeit die Hochschule Darmstadt und die Universität Bonn. Aus den Vorschlägen wählt eine Jury einmal jährlich besonders relevante Themen aus. "Wir betreiben keine Journalisten-Schelte wegen vergessener Nachrichten, sondern hoffen, dass die Themen durch unsere Arbeit doch noch an die Öffentlichkeit gelangen", sagte Jakob. (dpa) / (jk/c't)

Laut Homepage unter http://www.nachrichtenaufklaerung.de können Themenvorschläge eingreicht werden

http://act.credomobile.com/campaign/fisa_house/i3nee68r28i8txk?


Informant: Romi Elnagar



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Peter Wallsten and Peter Nicholas report for The Los Angeles Times that it is likely that if neither Clinton nor Obama have enough delegates to clinch the nomination, then the victory would come from the votes of super delegates. But, debate is intensifying over their powerful role in the decision making process.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021308C.shtml

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Lieberman Stripped Of Superdelegate Status
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4688485/



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The Constitution Project
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0213-01.htm



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Union of Concerned Scientists: New Report Recommends Unilateral Steps for the Next US President to Reduce Threat of Nuclear Weapons, Lead World to Eventual Ban.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0213-09.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0212-19.htm



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Aboard the Condoleezza Rice
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/13/7020/

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Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL 19th) grills Rice, Mukasey
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7170/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Wexler Grills Rice on Pre-War Lies
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/849a118f713988dd?hl=en

Rice covers lies with more lies
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/178efae989d1d332?hl=en

Senator Boxer Proves Conde Rice a Liar
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/eb1106f5c6d45d85?hl=en



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/13/7039/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/13/7027/



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The ominous new "Homegrown Terrorism" Act is all about ramping up assaults on radicals, strikers, antiwar protesters and others opposing U.S. policies. Some timely ideas on how to fight back.

http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol29no1/homegrown_terrorism_prevention_act29101.html



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Robert B. Reich writes for The New York Times: "We're sliding into recession, or worse, and Washington is turning to the normal remedies for economic downturns. But the normal remedies are not likely to work this time, because this isn’t a normal downturn. The problem lies deeper."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021308O.shtml



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Josh White, Walter Pincus and Julie Tate report for The Washington Post: "The cadre of civilian lawyers representing terrorism suspects held by the military at Guantanamo Bay are not allowed to meet their clients in private, without video surveillance. All their mail and notes must be turned over to the military. Classified information cannot be shared with their clients. They are not entitled to everything the government knows about their clients."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021308M.shtml

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Defendants' Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay

Josh White, of The Washington Post, reports, "Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years' worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021408N.shtml



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Dan Eggen reports for The Washington Post, "After years of refusing public comment on a particularly harsh CIA interrogation method, top Bush administration officials have suddenly begun pressing a controversial argument that it was legal for the CIA to strap prisoners to a board and pour water over their face to make them believe they were being drowned."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021308L.shtml



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In diesem Jahr sollen mehr genmanipulierte Pflanzen in Deutschland angebaut werden als 2007. Bislang wurde Genmais des Monsanto-Konzerns auf rund 4350 Hektar angemeldet. Über 96 Prozent dieser registrierten Anbaufläche befinden sich in den neuen Bundesländern, dort vor allem in Brandenburg, Sachsen und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In den alten Bundesländern soll Genmais fast ausschließlich in Bayern wachsen. Das Umweltinstitut München veröffentlicht täglich aktualisierte Zahlen und Hintergrundinformationen über den Umfang des geplanten Gentechnikanbaus. Erstmals werden dabei auch die zurückgezogenen Flächen berücksichtigt, die über erfolgreiche Proteste vor Ort Aufschluss geben. In den Vorjahren waren rund 1000 Hektar Bt-Mais weniger angebaut worden als ursprünglich angemeldet - oft aufgrund des massiven Widerstands von betroffenen Landwirten, Verbrauchern oder Grundstückseigentümern. Auch 2008 wird der Anbau genmanipulierter Pflanzen auf Widerstand stoßen.

http://umweltinstitut.org/genmais2008


Die Universität Rostock will ab diesem Frühjahr in Ostdeutschland ein Freilandexperiment mit genmanipuliertem Weizen durchführen. Die Pflanzen sollen durch den Einbau eines so bezeichneten Killerproteins gegen eine Pilzerkrankung resistent sein. Die von Wissenschaftlern der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich entwickelten Gen-Pflanzen waren in der Schweiz schon 2004 in einem Freilandversuch erfolglos getestet worden. Da der Weizen auch riskante Antibiotikaresistenzgene enthält, wäre der beantragte Versuch in der Schweiz heute nicht mehr genehmigungsfähig. Unsere aktuelle Pressemitteilung dazu finden Sie hier: http://umweltinstitut.org/pressemitteilungen/2008/2008_02_11-579.html


Bitte unterstützen Sie aktuell auch unseren Protest gegen einen geplanten Freisetzungsversuch mit genmanipulierten Zuckerrüben durch den Saatgutkonzern KWS.

http://umweltinstitut.org/genruebe



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by Edwin Vieira

In the face of this looming catastrophe, have Americans nothing to say save “Out, out, brief candle”­goodbye to the Constitution, the Republic, the Nation itself, and with them all hope of future freedom and prosperity? Are Americans willing to abide in meek resignation the torrent of terrible troubles that “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” will surely pour down upon their heads? Or will they stop “Creep[ing] in [their] petty pace from day to day” and instead seize control over their own collective destiny?........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin75.htm



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Rob Rogers

Article Launched: 02/12/2008 11:12:47 PM PST

Despite the protests of neighboring Forest Knolls, Lagunitas and San Geronimo Valley residents, Marin supervisors agreed to allow the construction of a 60-foot cellular telephone tower disguised as a tree on Mount Barnabe.

Read More...
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_8246035

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

02/12/08

With the withdrawal of Romney, Washington pundits unanimously agree that John McCain will defeat Huckabee to become the Republican nominee. McCain is the neocons’ anointed choice for president of the United States, and has been so for many years. He was their candidate when he ran against George Bush in the primaries in 2000 and again when he announced his candidacy for 2008. When McCain’s campaign underachieved last summer and it appeared that Rudy Giuliani would be the Republican candidate, many leading neocons, including Norman Podhoretz and Daniel Pipes, joined the New Yorker’s campaign. Now that Giuliani has withdrawn, they will presumably return home again, rejoining Robert Kagan and James Woolsey, both of whom have been with McCain since early 2007. That McCain is no traditional conservative if measured by his views on cultural and fiscal issues matters not at all...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=12345


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Salon
by Gary Kamiya

02/12/08

John McCain’s Achilles’ heel should be Iraq. He is an unapologetic hawk at a time when only right-wing die-hards cling to that position. His hard-line insistence that U.S. troops must remain there until ‘victory,’ whatever that is, puts him at odds with a clear majority of the American people, who want the troops withdrawn soon. On the most critical issue facing the country, McCain’s position is indistinguishable from that of President Bush, whose 30 percent approval rating in a recent Associated Press-Ipso poll is at its lowest ever. With Rush Limbaugh and his ilk sulking, conservatives divided and demoralized, the war tab up to $2 trillion, and Democratic voters energized by their candidates and flocking to the polls in record numbers, McCain’s stance on Iraq should doom him in November. Yet the major polls — admittedly far from reliable this far in advance of the election — show a virtual dead heat in a hypothetical general election matchup, with McCain narrowly leading Hillary Clinton and narrowly trailing Barack Obama...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/02/12/mccain_iraq_war/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Hillsboro Times-Gazette
by Gary Barnett

02/12/08

It looks like the term ‘thought police’ just might take on a whole new and real meaning. This depends on what happens in the U.S. Senate after receiving House bill H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This act (now S-1959 — Senate version) is now being considered by Senate committees and, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, will become law. Common sense would indicate that something this vague and dangerous would not make it out of committee, but considering that the House passed it on Oct. 23 with 404 ayes, six nays, and 22 present/not voting, I’m not holding my breath...

http://tinyurl.com/3xgv63


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/021208.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fosters

02/12/08

Rights advocates called on European Union officials to reconsider proposals to be released Wednesday that foresee fingerprinting and electronically recording all foreigners who visit the EU.Franco Frattini, the EU’s justice and interior affairs commissioner is scheduled to present plans for an overhaul of security at the union’s borders that would replicate many U.S. border checks.

Some civil rights groups called Tuesday for the European Union to scrap similar ideas, saying they would do little to fight crime or terrorism.”You dehumanize foreigners and you collect their personal and sensitive information with no clear personal gains whatsoever,” said Gus Hosein, from Privacy International. He likened the EU plans to building a “fortress Europe” to keep foreigners out.

Hosein said he expected complaints from many visitors if EU governments adopt a U.S.-style fingerprinting system. In the United States, the program has not affected U.S. citizens, who do not have to have their fingers scanned when leaving or entering the country...

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/GJLIFESTYLES_01/475552713


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Knoxville News Sentinel

02/12/08

If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday. Any executions would probably add to international outrage over Guantanamo, since capital punishment is banned in 130 countries, including the 27-nation European Union...

http://tinyurl.com/23h6uy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Diplomats told to defend seeking death penalty for 9/11 detainees
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5536432.html


From Information Clearing House



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Feb 13 2008 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

SENIOR council officials in Wirral will face tough questions next week after opposition parties forced a special meeting to examine how the authority blundered over planning permission for four phone masts.

It is almost a year since the planning permission for four T-Mobile masts were refused by the council’s planning committee, but “administrative errors” meant the company was not informed.

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We have sent countless emails, faxes and made phone calls beyond measure, demanding that Congress actually stand up for itself and for us, and confront the runaway Constitutional train wreck that is the Cheney/Bush administration. But there comes a time in the course of human events when we ourselves have to stand up to those who we trusted to fight for us, but who have failed us, and challenge them for their own primary nominations in their own party.

Yet and still, first a brave candidate must step forward to make that challenge a reality, and in the 8th Congressional district of California, Shirley Golub has answered the call of destiny in her heart to make that happen. And Shirley has posted the most amazing video you ever saw to throw down that challenge, and you can see it at this page.

Shirley Golub "I'm On The Table" Video: http://www.shirley08.com

What Shirley is doing is leading a weekly demonstration in front of Nancy Pelosi's district office, every Thursday at noon, at 450 Golden Gate Ave, to literally put herself on the table and say, "I'm on the table, Nancy, and as long as I am, impeachment is too.". And so too with every other issue we expected action on at least a year ago, ending the indefensible occupation of Iraq, and every other issue on which Congress seems incapable of confronting the most unpopular administration in American history.

By inviting all her fellow constituents to join her in demonstration that grows week by week, Shirley Golub is looking to demonstrate that we the people have the numbers to replace ANY member of Congress who thinks they can long ignore the voices of their constituents. Please watch Shirley's kickoff mobilization video:

Shirley Golub "I'm On The Table" Video: http://www.shirley08.com

And then won't you consider making a contribution from the same page above to support this brave lady in her mission of destiny. But even if you can't make a contribution, please do all you can to spread the word about this video clip, both through the link above and on YouTube itself.

Shirley is also hoping to inspire others all around the country to mount their own primary challenges to other incumbents who don't get it. Because in most jurisdictions there is still time to do that for this election cycle.

And let there be more and more people at 450 Golden Gate Ave, at noon every week, and at like demonstrations all over the country, until Congress finally gets the message, that their own seats, which they thought were so safe, are now in real jeopardy because they would not do the people's business.

If you want to do more than just show up, if you want to make signs, help collect petition signatures, if you are a street artist, if you are progressive activist on any issue, let it all come together. Let a spontaneous people's movement self-assemble itself. And be part of it by bring there.

Paid for by Shirley Golub for Congress

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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While Clinton and Obama are focused on winning the nomination, we have a job to do.

http://lessjobsmorewars.com/?utm_source=rgemail


From Information Clearing House



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The US economy relies upon asset price inflation and rising indebtedness to fuel growth - and this contradiction has global implications.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/thomas_palley/2008/02/the_debt_delusion.html


From Information Clearing House

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rejected the notion that US courts have any control over the actions of American troops at Guantanamo Bay, argued that torture of terror detainees is not banned under the US Constitution and insisted that the high court has no obligation to act as a moral beacon for other nations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/law_in_action/7238665.stm


From Information Clearing House

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Scalia Accepts Infliction of Pain to Get Key Information
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/13/7038/



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The United States hopes to put a third major antimissile component in Europe along with those under negotiation with Poland and the Czech Republic to counter Iran, the general building a multibillion-dollar shield said Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/1zlao



Join Nato and we'll target missiles at Kiev, Putin warns Ukraine

The president said he would be forced to target Russian rockets at Ukraine in response to a possible deployment of a US missile shield in the eastern European country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/12/russia.ukraine


From Information Clearing House



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The mothers of two teenage soldiers killed in Iraq accused Tony Blair's government of going to war "on a lie" as they took their fight for a public inquiry into the conflict to the House of Lords.

http://snipurl.com/1zl9n



Brown under pressure to set up Iraq inquiry

Some allies have warned the Prime Minister that Labour will not win back disaffected supporters who deserted the party over the 2003 invasion unless he draws a line under the affair. They argue a public inquiry would enable him to bring "closure" to an episode which divided the nation.

http://snipurl.com/1zl9s


From Information Clearing House



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By Reuters

Four million Iraqis are struggling to feed themselves, and 40 per cent of the country's 27 million people have no safe water, the UN said today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19342.htm

By Gwynne Dyer

"Terrorist assaults and skirmishes with Iran or some other rogue state are more likely on the curve of probability, and the military is geared to fight these kind of regional skirmishes ... But when they talk about the greatest threats that they might have to face, for which they have to allocate their largest sums and acquire their most potent weapons, it's the China-Russia alliance that they're preparing for and asking Congress to allocate the largest sums of money for."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19341.htm



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By Jeffrey Kaplan

Two of three judges ruled the men -- because they are not U.S. citizens and, technically, were not imprisoned in the U.S. -- were not legally "persons" and, therefore, had no rights to violate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19340.htm

By Mark A. Goldman
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19336.htm



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I just saw a video that showed how cell towers are being disguised - necessary viewing for anyone concerned about this issue the link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQYan_-CTQ

Karen

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/274.html



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According to Jack Chang of McClatchy Newspapers, "As deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest declined over the past three years, the country's leaders crowed that they'd found the recipe for stopping the destruction of the world's most diverse ecosystem."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021208EC.shtml

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ACTION ALERT UPDATE

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Global Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping Soybeans Out of Amazon Rainforest

Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet http://www.rainforestportal.org/

February 12, 2008


TAKE ACTION

Only soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures, will be tolerated in international markets

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel

The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized, soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to produce agrofuel and livestock feed. The soya industry wipes out biodiversity, destroys soil fertility, pollutes freshwater and displaces communities. Soybean production expands the agricultural frontier not only through fire and deforestation to clear ancient rainforests, but more importantly by pushing cattle ranches and displacing forest peoples further into natural rainforest ecosystems.

With rising soy and other agricultural commodity prices, there has been a marked increase in fires and Amazonian deforestation to clear new agricultural lands from primary rainforests. In reaction Brazil has again announced increased agricultural deforestation enforcement. Amazon rainforest sustainability critically depends upon new soybean production being kept out of ancient primary rainforest ecosystems. Let's continue the commitment of Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network to strongly speak ecological truth to intransigent power.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/02/global_ecological_emergency_br.asp



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Writing for The Nation, David Roberts says, "Though recession and war are probably higher on the public's immediate priority list, there is no challenge of greater historical consequence facing the next US president than the climate crisis. It is vitally important that the next chief executive enter the Oval Office committed to decisive and sustained action."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021208EB.shtml



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Martin Crutsinger of The Associated Press reports: "The federal budget deficit is running at a pace that is more than double last year's imbalance through the first four months of the budget year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208T.shtml



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ABC News' Maddy Sauer writes: "A Houston, Texas woman, who says she was gang-raped by her co-workers at a Halliburton/KBR camp in Baghdad, says 38 women have come forward through her foundation to report their own tragic stories to her, but that many cannot speak publicly due to arbitration agreements in their employment contracts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208S.shtml



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By David Swanson
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2/12/08 - SEN CHRIS DODD RE: FISA... THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

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Senate OKs new rules on eavesdropping

Defiance Crescent News

02/12/08

The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Protection for the telecom companies is the most prominent feature of the legislation, something President Bush had insisted on as essential to getting private sector cooperation in spying on foreign terrorists and other targets...

http://tinyurl.com/2azz74


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FISA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Dodd
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080212.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=endless+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chuck+Baldwin

On fluoridation
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/is-fluoride-safe-780948.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://tinyurl.com/2oafcs


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein183.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Animal+Identification+System
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/hein

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis100.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Margolis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/margolis

http://www.bollyn.com/index/?id=10767


Informant: Romi Elnagar



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=WTC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Bollyn

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?dce62002-dd58-4b18-80da-eaacf187588e



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

By Mark A. Goldman

Warning: This Article Contains Very Disturbing Video!

They say that the difference between how democracy in Europe has evolved compared to that of the United States is that in Europe the government is afraid of the People whereas in the United States the People are afraid of the government. That's a dangerous state of affairs and it looks like it's going to get worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19334.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+A.+Goldman

Charles R. Morris, writing for The Washington Independent, says: "One can pity Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. No other federal reserve chairman ever cut interest rates by a full 1.25% within just eight days, as Bernanke has done. But the monetary skies remain as leaden and thunder-clouded as ever. The stock market keeps quivering downward, crowds thin at the malls, jobless queues grow. Wal-Mart reports that customers are using their Christmas gift cards for groceries."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208H.shtml



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

Steven Lee Myers, reporting for The International Herald Tribune, writes: "Harsh interrogations and Guantanamo Bay, secret prisons and warrantless eavesdropping, the war against Al Qaeda and the one in Iraq. On issue after issue, President George W. Bush has shown little indication that he will shrink from the most controversial decisions of his tenure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogations
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Lee+Myers

http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=182



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/12/6994/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/12/7010/



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/12/7008/



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

http://tinyurl.com/38ofds



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

Überwachungspraxis in Bayern. Ein Gespräch mit der Landtagsabgeordneten Christine Stahl.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27265/1.html



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/1950b128bfdfc603?hl=en



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

Vikas Bajaj and Louise Story report for The New York Times, "The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem. As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime, credit histories are falling behind on their payments...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subprime+loans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Louise+Story

Andrew Gumbel reports for The Independent UK, "The decision to use Mohammed and the others as guinea-pigs in a constitutionally dubious legal proceeding is likely to trigger a firestorm of anti-American sentiment in the Islamic world and spark a fractious domestic debate in an already highly charged presidential election year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208J.shtml

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US Accused of Hypocrisy for 9/11 'Kangaroo Courts'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/12/6998/

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Unnecessary Harm

The New York Times's editorial team comments: "The Bush administration's decision to put six detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on trial before military tribunals and to seek the death penalty is both a betrayal of American ideals and simply bad strategy. Instead of being what they could and should be - a model of justice dispensed impartially, surely and dispassionately - the trials will proceed under deeply flawed procedures that violate this country's basic fairness. The intense negative attention they will receive will do enormous damage to what is left of America's standing in world opinion."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021308D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=kangaroo+court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+penalty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Gumbel

MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT
http://www.myaspartameexperiment.com/index.php?page=1


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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The aspartame experiment is very convincing: http://myaspartameexperiment.com/

D.


One Woman's Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame

A picture is worth a thousand words -- see the effects of this deadly neurotoxin for yourself!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/11/one-woman-s-astonishing-experiment-with-aspartame.aspx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aspartame
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neurotoxin

When ISIS organised its briefing at European Parliament in June 2007 (Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe, SiS 35), we already knew that one of our scientist speakers, Dr. Irina Ermakova, had had her funding withdrawn because the results of her experiments (GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33) challenged the claims of the biotech industry that GM food is safe. She has since been the victim of a scandalous attempt to discredit her work by the mainstream journal, Nature Biotechnology (Science and Scientist Abused, SiS 36), and no satisfactory redress has yet been forthcoming (see Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed, and Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Prepublication Review Yes, But Review Panel Must be Balanced, SiS 37). A second member of the panel, Dr. Christian Vélot, has lost his funding. There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have organised a petition that has attracted 9288 signatures as of 26 January 2008. You can sign it on line by going to:

http://sciencescitoyennes.org/spip.php?article1638

Please also send the link to your friends. The biotech industry is working very hard to suppress independent science and scientists; working through the very academic institutions that are supposed to defend them. We must do all we can to show our support as citizens and fellow scientists, and to send a clear message to the University administration that their action will not be tolerated.


Petition (translated from French)

Christian Vélot is a lecturer and researcher in molecular genetics at the Université Paris-Sud. Since 2002 he has led a research group in the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology (a joint CNRS-University institute) at the Orsay Scientific Centre. In addition to carrying out his teaching and research, he has devoted some of his own time to meetings on GMOs. These meetings, one of which in particular served as a working document for the GMO activists at the Grenelle de l'Environnement [a series of meetings in October 2007 in which representatives from government, professional associations and NGOs discussed environmental issues]. He has frequently appeared as a witness in the trials of people charged with destroying GM crops. Christian Vélot has been one of those who have been calling attention to the risks and promoting democratic debate on an issue that is largely concealed from the public. As a result, his Institute has brought considerable pressure to bear upon him, including cutting off all his research money for 2008, taking away his research students, and threatening to remove him by force. They have now announced that his group will be shut down at the end of 2009. We demand that Christian Vélot and his group must be allowed to continue their independent research. In particular, his entire research funding must be restored and he must be permitted to remain in his laboratory at least until the end of his current contract, i.e. until the end of 2009. We also demand that the authorities pay serious attention to threats to the freedom of expression of scientists and we demand that there should be legal protection for whistle blowers, as has been agreed in principle at the Grenelle de l'Environnement. This petition will be sent to the authorities of the Université Paris-Sud, to the Head of the Department of Life Sciences of the CNRS, and also to Valérie Pécresse, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of Ecology, Development and Sustainable Management, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary of State for Ecology at the Ministry of Ecology, Development and Sustainable Management.

This article can be found on the I-SIS website at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SupportFrenchScientist.php



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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7240456.stm


Informant: Margaret E White

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BBC website is doing a story about the decline in bees: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7240456.stm

I have sent is a comment but it hasn’t been used. Maybe someone would like to direct them to the research that links microwaves with declining bee numbers…


Simon


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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

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



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

Kampagne zum Stopp der drohenden Überwachung von Flugreisenden. Fordern Sie Ihren Ministerpräsidenten zur strikten Ablehnung jeder verdachtslosen Protokollierung ihres Reiseverhaltens auf!

„Im Vorfeld des am Freitag im Bundesrat zur Abstimmung stehenden EU-Plans zur massenhaften staatlichen Aufzeichnung und Überwachung von Flugreisenden ruft der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger dazu auf, ihre Ministerpräsidenten zur strikten Ablehnung jeder verdachtslosen Protokollierung ihres Reiseverhaltens aufzufordern. (…) Um die EU-Pläne diesmal rechtzeitig aufzuhalten, veröffentlicht der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung eine Liste der Faxnummern der Ministerpräsidenten und bittet besorgte Bürger, von ihrer Landesregierung den endgültigen Stopp des monströsen Vorhabens zu verlangen…“ Pressemitteilung des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung vom 12.02.2008 mit Hintergründen und weiter führenden Links http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/194/79/

Die Kontaktdaten und ein Musterbrief finden sich auf der Aktionsseite: http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/PNR-Briefe


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008



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

Zweifel an Tariffähigkeit von CGZP – DGB-Tarifierung überflüssig?

Tariffähigkeit der Tarifgemeinschaft Christlicher Gewerkschaften für Zeitarbeit

„Das Arbeitsgericht Berlin hat heute seine Entscheidung im Verfahren zur Feststellung der Tariffähigkeit der Tarifgemeinschaft Christlicher Gewerkschaften für Zeitarbeit verkündet. Es hat den Antrag des Arbeitnehmers A, der die fehlende Tariffähigkeit feststellen lassen wollte, aus formellen Gründen zurückgewiesen…“ Pressemitteilung vom 5. Februar 2008 (Az: 54 BV 13961/06) http://www.berlin.de/sen/arbeit/gerichte/presse/index.html


DGB sieht Zweifel an der Tariffähigkeit der Christlichen Gewerkschaften durch Gericht bestätigt

„Das Arbeitsgericht Berlin hat am Dienstag seine Entscheidung zur Feststellung der Tariffähigkeit der CGZP (Christliche Gewerkschaften Zeitarbeit und PSA) verkündet. Dazu sagte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Claus Matecki: "Der DGB sieht seine Zweifel an der Tariffähigkeit der Tarifgemeinschaft Christlicher Gewerkschaften durch das Gericht bestätigt. Wir sind der Auffassung, dass es ihnen an einer ausreichenden Zahl von Mitgliedern, also an der so genannten Mächtigkeit mangelt, Tarifverträge abschließen zu können…“ Pressemitteilung vom 05.02.2008 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=3136


Christliche Gewerkschaften vor Gericht. Die Zweifel bleiben

„Sie stehen seit Jahren unter Verdacht, Tarifverträge vor allem im Sinne der Arbeitgeber abzuschließen: Jetzt hat das Arbeitsgericht Berlin den christlichen Gewerkschaften notgedrungen noch einmal Luft gegeben…“ Artikel von Thorsten Denkler in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 05.02.2008 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/691/156279/


Tarifgemeinschaft Christlicher Gewerkschaften für Zeitarbeit und Personal-Service-Agenturen bei Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarifgemeinschaft_Christlicher_Gewerkschaften_f%C3%BCr_Zeitarbeit_und_Personal-Service-Agenturen


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008

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Metall-Arbeitgeber kämpfen um Zeitarbeiter

„In der Metallbranche spitzt sich der Kampf um die Zeitarbeit zu. Denn nur allzu gerne setzen die Arbeitgeber auf die billigeren und flexibleren Arbeitskräfte auf Zeitarbeitsbasis. Damit geraten auch die regulären Löhne unter Druck. Die IG Metall hat eine Kapagne gegen Leiharbeit angekündigt – die Arbeitgeber wehren sich… Artikel von Stefan von Borstel in Die Welt vom 12. März 2008 http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article1793065/Metall-Arbeitgeber_kaempfen_um_Zeitarbeiter.html

Aus dem Text: „… Der Gesamtmetall-Hauptgeschäftsführer warf der Gewerkschaft vor, die Kampagne in erster Linie aus egoistischen organisationspolitischen Interessen zu führen. Ihr ginge es dabei um Mitgliederwerbung. Bislang ließen die Zeitarbeiter die Gewerkschaften links liegen, meinte Brocker. Die IG Metall habe die Zeitarbeit immer in eine Schmuddelecke gedrängt und sich nicht bemüht, in der Branche ernsthaft Fuß zu fassen, fügte er hinzu…“


Wie DGB, SPD und Bundesminister Scholz den LeiharbeiterInnen einen Bärendienst erwiesen haben

„Deutsche LeiharbeiterInnen könnten endlich verbindlich - gemäß dem alten völkerrechtlichen Grundsatz - “gleichen Lohn für gleiche Arbeit” erhalten, hätte der Bundesarbeitsminister Scholz dies nicht am 05. Dezember 2007 auf der Tagung des Ministerrates der Europäischen Union verhindert. Die DGB-Gewerkschaften waren schon einige Zeit zuvor gehorsamst voraus geeilt…“ Artikel von Thomas Meese vom 7. März 2008 bei forced labour http://www.forced-labour.de/archives/689


Studie: Leiharbeiter lassen sich fast alles gefallen

„Zeitarbeiter lassen sich in Betrieben oft unterbuttern und in den Firmen zu viel gefallen. Das behauptet eine Studie der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Zum Teil sind die Leiharbeiter aber auch selbst schuld an ihrem Schicksal: So wenden sie sich beispielsweise nicht an den Betriebsrat, wenn es Probleme mit dem Chef oder mit Kollegen gibt…“ Artikel in Die Welt vom 11. März 2008 http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article1785400/Leiharbeiter_lassen_sich_fast_alles_gefallen.html

Siehe dazu:

Studie untersucht Betriebe mit hohem Zeitarbeiter-Anteil. Betriebsräte und Leiharbeit: Mehr Aufgaben, weniger Ressourcen

Pressemitteilung der HBS vom 10.03.2008 http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D0AB75D-88775DDD/hbs/hs.xsl/320_90282.html


Leiharbeit als Gegenstand betrieblicher Mitbestimmung

Die Studie von Wolfram Wassermann und Wolfgang Rudolph (pdf) http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_arbp_148.pdf


Transfergesellschaften: Qualitätsstandards für Personalabbau

„Die Entlassungen bei Nokia, BenQ & Co. bringen gehörig Schwung in den Markt der Transfergesellschaften. Sie sollen künftig nach messbaren Qualitätskriterien arbeiten. Ein neu gegründeter Branchenverband will einen Effizienzvorteil gegenüber den Arbeitsagenturen sichern…“ Artikel von Sven Prange im Handelsblatt vom 11. März 2008 http://www.handelsblatt.com/News/printpage.aspx?_p=200050&_t=ftprint&_b=1402383

Aus dem Text: „… Allein in Nordrhein-Westfalen werden derzeit 10 000 Menschen von Transfergesellschaften betreut. Unter den Anbietern - darunter gewerkschaftsnahe Institute, private Personaldienstleister und Sozialverbände - herrscht ein harter Wettbewerb. Das Prinzip hat aber Schönheitsfehler: Es kostet viel öffentliches Geld - allein die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) zahlt über 200 Mill. Euro jährlich - und es ist nicht immer erfolgreich. Hilmar Schneider, Direktor Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Bonner Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (ZA), hat die Erfolge der Transfergesellschaften evaluiert und ist wenig euphorisch…“


Aus: LabourNet, 13. März 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zeitarbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leiharbeit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Transfergesellschaften
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Personalabbau

BAG-SHI-Stellungnahme zu "Dezentralisierung" oder "Kommunalisierung" sozialer Leistungen

„Die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. BAG-SHI lehnt eine "Dezentralisierung" oder "Kommunalisierung" sozialer Leistungen, wie sie von verschiedenen Parteien und Interessenvertretungen gefordert wird, ab. Gegen eine Dezentralisierung der Aufgabenwahrnehmung nach dem Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) spricht aus Sicht der BAG-SHI als seit 1991 bestehender bundesweiter Vertretung der auf Leistungen nach den Sozialgesetzbüchern II und XII angewiesenen Menschen in erster Linie die für Betroffene sich daraus ergebende verstärkte Rechtsunsicherheit und die sich hierdurch ergebende massive Verschlechterung ihrer Rechtsposition...“ Stellungnahme im auszugsweisen Vorabdruck vom 2.2.08 http://www.bag-shi.de/sozialpolitik/arbeitslosengeld2/vorabdruck-stellungnahme-dezentralisierung/view


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008

IAQ-Report 2008-1 von Thorsten Kalina und Claudia Weinkopf (pdf) http://www.iaq.uni-due.de/iaq-report/2008/report2008-01.pdf

siehe dazu auch:

Jeder Fünfte ist laut einer IAQ-Studie betroffen. 6,5 Millionen arbeiten für Niedriglohn

„Der Anteil der Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Deutschland ist seit 1995 um gut 43 Prozent gestiegen. 6,5 Millionen Menschen, das sind 22 Prozent aller abhängig Beschäftigten, arbeiten für wenig Geld. Das zeigen aktuelle Untersuchungen des Instituts Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) der Universität Duisburg-Essen auf Grundlage der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) von 2006. Das SOEP ist eine repräsentative Wiederholungsbefragung von 12.000 Privathaushalten in Deutschland, die das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung alljährlich durchführt…“ Pressemeldung vom 31.01.2008 http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/studien/bericht-102387.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008



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

Warum eigentlich lügt die Arbeitslosenstatistik? Eine Analyse von WirtschaftsWoche-Redakteur Rolf Ackermann vom 01.02.2008 http://www.wiwo.de/politik/die-arbeitslosigkeit-in-deutschland-ist-viel-hoeher-als-offiziell-ausgewiesen-263397/


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitslosenstatistik
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitslosigkeit

Verhandlung vor dem Bundesarbeitsgericht in Erfurt am 20. Februar, 11 Uhr.

„Darf mit dem Sozialgesetzbuch und staatlich geförderten „Zusatz-Jobs“ reguläre Arbeit verdrängt und das Arbeitsrecht ausgehebelt werden? Mit diesen und damit zusammenhängenden Fragen hat sich der Fünfte Senat des Bundesarbeitsgerichts Erfurt am 20. Februar 2008, 11 Uhr, in einer Revisionsverhandlung (Az.: 5 AZR 290/07) auseinander zu setzen. Klage führt ein erwerbsloser ver.di-Kollege gegen die Arbeiterwohlfahrt Karlsruhe-Stadt e.V. (AWO), bei der er als Kraftfahrer zum Ausfahren von AWO-Menü bzw. Essen-auf-Rädern eingesetzt wurde. Als Essens-Ausfahrer arbeitete der Kollege Schulter an Schulter mit Normal-Arbeitsbeschäftigten in genau der gleichen Tätigkeit. Die Essens-Ausfahrten waren weder zusätzlich noch gemeinnützig, da dieser Zweig kommerziell und in Konkurrenz zu anderen kommerziellen Einrichtungen betrieben wird. Der Kläger möchte erreichen, dass das Bundesarbeitsgericht in seiner Entscheidung das Vorliegen eines regulären Arbeitsverhältnisses feststellt…“ Pressemitteilung des Betroffenen vom 11. Februar 2008 als Flugblatt der ver.di-Erwerbslosen im Bezirk Mittelbaden-Nordschwarzwald (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/awokabag.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008

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Streit um Ein-Euro-Jobs: Bundesarbeitsgericht gibt AWO erneut Recht

„Das Bundesarbeitsgericht (BAG) hat am gestrigen Mittwoch die Urteile des Arbeitsgerichts (AG) Karlsruhe und des Landesarbeitsgerichts (LAG) Baden-Württemberg aus den Jahren 2006 und 2007 bestätigt. Und damit zu Gunsten der AWO Karlsruhe-Stadt bewertet..“ ka-news- Meldung vom 21. Februar 2008 http://www.ka-news.de/karlsruhe/news.php4?show=ian2008220-254K


Arbeitskraft zum Nulltarif. Ehemaliger Ein-Euro-Jobber scheitert mit Klage gegen Arbeiterwohlfahrt. Anwalt prüft Gang vor das Sozialgericht. Erfolgsaussichten nicht schlecht.

„Wer sich juristisch gegen den Mißbrauch von Ein-Euro-Jobs zur Wehr setzen will, hat an deutschen Arbeitsgerichten schlechte Karten. Das ist die Quintessenz eines am Mittwoch vor dem Fünften Senat des Bundesarbeitsgerichts in Erfurt ergangenen Beschlusses im Rechtsstreit zwischen einem erwerbslosen Groß- und Außenhandelskaufmann und der Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Karlsruhe-Stadt. Dabei ist der Kläger Peter Zalewski mit dem Antrag gescheitert, seine auf Basis eines Ein-Euro-Jobs geleisteten Dienste für den Wohlfahrtsverband als reguläres Arbeitsverhältnis anerkennen zu lassen. Statt dessen bestätigten die Bundesrichter die Vorinstanzurteile des Arbeitsgerichts Karlsruhe sowie des Landesarbeitsgerichtes (LAG) Baden-Württemberg. Beide hatten den Vorwurf, der freie Träger wolle durch den Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Jobbern gezielt seine Lohnkosten drücken, als unhaltbar zurückgewiesen…“ Artikel von Ralf Wurzbacher in der jungen Welt vom 22.02.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/02-22/020.php

Wir erwarten eine Stellungnahme des Anwalts!


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Februar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ein-Euro-Jobber

by Alan Stang

I have just returned from a monster Ron Paul rally in Lake Jackson, Texas. The hall held about 1,000 people and was so full they had to close the doors. The crowd outside was almost as big, so Dr. Ron had to speak both inside and outside. He assured us that he is not – is not – is not quitting the national race. Of course the enemy is trying to persuade you that he is, trying to discourage you. If you discourage yourself, you are doing exactly what they want.......

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Hold the Line for America

by Lynn Stuter

What has happened is that Ron Paul has had to address a serious threat to his congressional seat in his district. While Ron Paul was assured that a run against his seat would not be made while he was campaigning for president, that assurance proved false. Quite obviously, the individual seeking to unseat Ron Paul in his congressional district was put up to declaring his candidacy because Ron Paul’s candidacy for president is being far too successful and a need existed to divert Ron Paul’s attention away from his presidential bid. That the declaration to run for Ron Paul’s congressional seat was made so close to Romney’s announcement that he was suspending his campaign, is beyond coincidence.......

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12. Februar 2008

Zu der Veröffentlichung des Institutes für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) über die Wirksamkeit der so genannten Ein-Euro-Jobs erklärt die stellvertretende Vorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Nun ist es amtlich: Die so genannten Ein-Euro-Jobs verbessern kaum oder gar nicht die Chancen der Erwerbslosen, wieder in eine reguläre Beschäftigung zu gelangen. Sehr wohl aber, so die Forscher vom IAB, würden sie genutzt, um die "Arbeitsbereitschaft" der Erwerbslosen zu prüfen. Wo diese Zielstellung besteht, sollen sie weiterhin genutzt werden. Damit ist klar: Ein-Euro-Jobs werden als Repressionsinstrument genutzt – auch um Leistungskürzungen bei Hartz IV herbeizuführen. Selbstverständlich brauchen Erwerbslose Arbeitsangebote, um mehr Geld in der Tasche zu haben, als ihnen die Armutsleistung Hartz IV gewährt. Sinnvoller wäre es also, einen Arbeitsmarkt von unten zu fördern, der Erwerbslosen die Möglichkeit gibt, selbst organisierter und frei gewählter sozialversicherungspflichtiger Erwerbsarbeit nachzugehen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/arbeitsmarkt-von-unten-statt-repressionen/

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Wirkungen von Ein-Euro-Jobs: Für ein paar Euro mehr

„…Die vorliegende Studie zu den Eingliederungswirkungen von Zusatzjobs zeigt, dass sie nur einigen Gruppen von Teilnehmern helfen, ihre Beschäftigungsaussichten zu verbessern. Hierzu gehören insbesondere westdeutsche Frauen und Personen, die lange nicht beschäftigt waren…“ Ergebnisse der Untersuchung von Joachim Wolff und Katrin Hohmeyer als IAB-Kurzbericht 2/2008 (pdf) http://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2008/kb0208.pdf

Siehe dazu auch:

Ein-Euro-Jobs verschlechtern Berufsaussichten

„Ein-Euro-Jobs helfen kaum einem Arbeitslosen dabei, einen regulären Job zu finden. Und selbst wer eine neue Beschäftigung findet, ist oft weiter auf Hartz IV angewiesen, weil er eine schlecht bezahlte Stelle annehmen und seinen Lohn aufstocken muss…“ Dossier von Maike Rademaker (Berlin) in FTD vom 12.02.2008 http://ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Ein%20Euro%20Jobs%20Berufsaussichten/315762.html


Erfolglose Ein-Euro-Jobs

„Die Zwischenbilanz über die Wirksamkeit der Ein-Euro-Jobs fällt außerordentlich bescheiden aus - man kann auch niederschmetternd sagen. Denn auf den Kern reduziert, lautet das Ergebnis: Ein-Euro-Jobs verbessern kaum oder gar nicht die Chancen, wieder in eine reguläre Beschäftigung zu gelangen, sie verbessern auch nicht die Chancen, von der staatlich alimentierten Bedürftigkeit wegzukommen. Das ist für ein Programm, in dem aktuell weit über 200 000 Teilnehmer mehr oder weniger sinnvoll beschäftigt werden, schlicht zu wenig, es ist ein arbeitsmarktpolitischer Offenbarungseid…“ Artikel von Matthias Loke in Berliner Zeitung vom 12.02.2008 http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/wirtschaft/724469.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. Februar 2008

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Der 3. Arbeitsmarkt

Von den Ein-Euro-Jobs zum «Dritten Arbeitsmarkt»

Die Dienstpflicht zu gemeinnütziger Arbeit als Allheilmittel für den Arbeitsmarkt und für die fiskalische Krise der Kommunen? Bericht über einen Kongress am 8. September 2007 in Dortmund In der von Wolfgang Richter und Irina Vellay herausgegebenen Dokumentation analysieren neun AutorInnen die schleichende Etablierung eines «dritten Arbeitsmarktes» für «marktferne» und als «zusätzlich» qualifizierte Beschäftigungsformen für die «Überflüssigen» der Arbeitsgesellschaft. Siehe die Kongressdokumentation vom 08.09.2007 (pdf) http://www.arbeitnehmerkammer.de/sozialpolitik/doku/01_aktuell/ticker/2008/2007_09_08%20Dokumentation%20Workfare.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Juni 2008



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Survival
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02/08

The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forced from their ancestral lands in a wave of evictions by the Botswana government. In 2006 they won an historic legal victory when Botswana’s High Court ruled that their eviction was ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’...

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Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

02/11/08

How’s the Iraq war doing? As wars go, this has become a back-burner war now. It is still the war a majority of Americans love to hate, but we are understandably more worried about our pocketbooks now, and our borders. Besides, the surge, we tell ourselves, is working, is it not? Which kind of lets us off the hook from thinking too much about the war. Meanwhile, a weird kind of codependence has sprung up between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration — the latter doesn’t want to leave Iraq, and the former wants our troops there until 2018. On another note, it makes for some sad commentary that the Democratic-led Congress hasn’t shown much interest in holding hearings to investigate prewar intelligence. It is universally believed that the Iraq war was started and perpetuated by lies, but those who have the power to investigate are basically saying, ‘Let bygones be bygones. Now that we are in Iraq, let’s move forward’...

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Guardian [UK]

02/11/08

The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as “blackmail” and “troublesome”, and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington’s requirements...

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It's been over seven years since the US had real or competent leadership and now a neo-ape man may precipitate our return to the cave! Iran's planned oil bourse threatens not only Bush's simplistic view of the world, it strikes at the the coffers of "big oil".

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"Get Ready For A Real Hosing"

By Mike Whitney

Trillions of dollars have been lost, the financial system is reeling, and the nation is headed into recession.

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By Nick Davies

Shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion - and that the media simply swallow it wholesale.

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By Eric Margolis

If impassioned claims by U.S. and Canadian politicians that the little Afghanistan war must by won at all costs, then why don't they stop orating, impose conscription, and send 400,000 soldiers, including their own sons, to fight in Afghanistan?

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Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"

By Michel Chossudovsky

The controversial NATO sponsored report entitled "Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership". calls for a first strike use of nuclear weapons. The preemptive use of nukes would also be used to undermine an "increasingly brutal World" as a means to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.

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By Matt Taibbi

Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends.

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The Costly Compromises of Oil From Sand
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The Associated Press and East Oregonian report that "President Bush's 2009 budget plan would slash money for fire prevention and preparedness in the wake of last fall's devastating wildfires in California, prompting an outcry from Democratic lawmakers who warned of massive layoffs at the Forest Service."

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According to Ashok B. Sharma of The Financial Express, "The United Nations, apprehending that climate change can take a toll on agriculture, water resources, fisheries, forestry, public health and may increase the frequency of natural disasters ... has geared up to formulate appropriate support systems for the countries facing these challenges."

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David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson of The Washington Post report: "A federal appeals court yesterday threw out the Environmental Protection Agency's approach to limiting mercury emitted from power-plant smokestacks, saying the agency ignored laws and twisted logic when it imposed new standards that were favorable to plant owners."

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The Associated Press reports: "A Fort Carson soldier who says he was in treatment at Cedar Springs Hospital for bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse was released early and ordered to deploy to the Middle East with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team."

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Suicide by Guard, Reserve Troops Studied

The Associated Press reports, "National Guard and Reserve troops who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan make up more than half of veterans who committed suicide after returning home from those wars, according to new government data obtained by The Associated Press."

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Ron Paul Calls For March On Washington DC
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