World-News

A senior official in the Bush justice department said for the first time today that the controversial interrogation tactic is currently illegal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/14/terrorism.usa



London bombs justify 'torture', says Bush

President George Bush cited the London July 7 bombings in an interview broadcast last night to justify his support for waterboarding, an interrogation technique widely regarded as torture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/terrorism.usa1



Bush plans to veto waterboarding ban

US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23217392-5005961,00.html



Lieberman backs waterboarding

'It's not like we're burning people with hot coals'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lieberman_backs_waterboarding_Its_not_like_0215.html



More than 24 thousand of Guantanamo interrogations were taped: report

More than 24,000 interrogations of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo prison camp were videotaped, though the US military has not confirmed the videos exist, a report said Thursday.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jPWdlTVbuJ6dCEe_riDVcxewo2Fg



Bush Wants Limits on Access to Evidence

The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit judges' authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTl59qEocyaIm0Odovt293VWgzHwD8UQCRT80


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
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The Government has been branded a "disgrace" for continuing to be involved in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan on the fifth anniversary of the huge anti-war demonstration.

http://tinyurl.com/2l9l24


From Information Clearing House

There is no justification in international law for pre-emptive strikes of any nature.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/884/op1.htm


From Information Clearing House



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

The death rate in Iraq in the past 12 months has been the second highest in any year since the invasion, according to figures that appear to contradict American claims that the troop "surge" has dramatically reduced the level of violence across the country.

http://tinyurl.com/2kmj2q


From Information Clearing House

09:46, Feb 15 2008

by Michael Green, Ellesmere Port Pioneer

A DECISION by the borough council to refuse permission for a 12- metre mobile phone mast has led to an appeal.

The application was put forward by T-Mobile on land at the rear of Town Lane Autos at 9A Town Lane, Little Neston.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/2q94vj

And to do some geology, possibly

By Mark Ballard: Friday, 15 February 2008, 3:33 PM

NASA HAS backed a proposal for an unmanned UK space mission to test mobile phone masts on the moon.

Read More...
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/15/brit-robots-put-phone-mast-moon

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0215-02.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0215-01.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/15/7075/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/15/7092



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

Trotz der am 15. Februar vom Bundesrat bestätigten Novelle des Gentechnikgesetzes rät der Bauernverband vom Anbau gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen ab. Mit der weiterhin verschuldensunabhängigen Haftung seien Landwirte selbst bei gesetzeskonformen Verhalten "einem unkalkulierbaren Risiko ausgesetzt", teilte der Verband am 15. Febraur in Berlin mit. In der Novelle sei es versäumt worden, auch die Saatgutindustrie in die Verantwortung zu nehmen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17304



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gentechnisch+verändert

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31103



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neoliberalismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein

Nach Experimenten folgt die Mehrzahl automatisch einigen wenigen Anführern, die den Weg angeben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/103595

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/538/158115/

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Großteil der deutschen Führungselite könnte von Ermittlungen betroffen sein

Post-Chef Klaus Zumwinkel ist am 15. Februar zurückgetreten. Der vermögende Spitzenmanager hat inzwischen den Vorwurf der Steuerhinterziehung offenbar zugegeben. Zumwinkel soll mittels Geldanlagen in liechtensteinische Stiftungen Steuern in einer Größenordnung von rund einer Million Euro am Fiskus vorbeigeschleust zu haben. Laut "Financial Times Deutschland" sind möglicherweise Tausende Verdächtige ins Visier der Steuerfahnder geraten, weil sie Steuerhinterziehungen über Liechtenstein abgewickelt haben sollen. Damit könnte ein Großteil der deutschen Führungselite betroffen sein. Es handle sich um eine vierstellige Zahl, hieß es am 15. Februar aus Regierungskreisen in Berlin. Allein die Staatsanwaltschaft Bochum bestätigte, dass bei der Behörde mehrere hundert Steuerverfahren anhängig sind. Die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" will aus Justizkreisen erfahren haben, dass gegen 120 bis 150 Verdächtige wegen Steuerhinterziehung ermittelt werde. Etwa 900 Durchsuchungsbeschlüsse soll es geben . Nach Angaben von "Spiegel Online" sollen konservativen Schätzungen zufolge insgesamt mindestens 300 Mio. Euro an den Finanzämtern vorbei nach Liechtenstein geschleust worden sein, nach anderen Angaben allerdings bis zu 4 Mrd. Euro. Die Internet-Ausgabe der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung" (FAZ) hält bereits zahlreiche Verhaltens-Tipps für vermögende Steuerhinterzieher bereit.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17308

Business Week
by David H. Holtzman

02/12/08

While it’s easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of individual rights, I suspect it’s inevitable that in my lifetime we will all have some kind of computerized implants. My problem is not with the technology … My concern stems from my lack of trust in institutions and lack of belief that the technology will be forever restricted to beneficial, socially acceptable uses. … I can think of countless initiatives that could be launched to make use of a sufficiently large group of chipped people … outfitting firearms with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader and requiring gun owners to be chipped to fire their weapon (like existing thumbprint locks)...

http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080211_165324.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ID+chips

In These Times
by Doug Cassel

02/14/08

When on Jan. 22 a federal court judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years in prison for conspiracy to commit terrorism, it was a one-day story. But, in fact, the Padilla case goes on. Padilla, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, alleges that he was tortured during the more than three and a half years he spent behind bars at a Navy brig in South Carolina. He is now suing John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who reportedly devised the legal theories to justify the interrogation techniques used against him. While Padilla’s suit raises a number of constitutional claims — including that the military violated his rights to counsel and to exercise his Muslim religion — the heart of his argument is that Yoo gave legal advice to justify his torture, in violation of due process of law as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution...

http://tinyurl.com/2qstfn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
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USA Today

Democratic leaders allowed House members to leave town for a week-long recess Thursday without ending a dispute over a temporary electronic surveillance law that expires Saturday. President Bush warned that inaction ‘could reopen dangerous gaps in our intelligence,’ while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Bush of ‘fear-mongering’...

http://tinyurl.com/2kv49p



Bush criticizes Congress on terror bill

Waco Tribune-Herald

02/14/08

In a day of political brinkmanship, President Bush pressured the House on Thursday to finish a bill giving the government more leeway to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists. House Democrats didn’t budge and angry Republicans staged a walkout down the Capitol steps. From the White House, Bush argued that the House has plenty of time to pass a bill before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires at midnight Saturday....

http://tinyurl.com/yv3b94


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
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Tara Lohan, reporting for AlterNet, interviews Maude Barlow on her new book about the water crisis, which is a call to arms to protect a fundamental human right.

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



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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, writing in The Washington Post, says: "Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers."

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



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by Byron Richards, CCN

It now appears that the FDA Chief Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D. has committed perjury before Congress. Unlike Roger Clemens, who also seems to be putting his foot in his mouth before Congress, von Eschenbach’s actions appeared to have allowed unnecessary deaths to Americans – hardly the mission of the FDA. By contrast, Roger Clemens is simply causing death to his own reputation. Hopefully Congress can quit wasting taxpayer money on baseball and get to the bottom of what is really going on at the FDA........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron50.htm



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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/15/femtocell_economics/

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T-Mobile invests in 'home phone mast' technology
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/03/telecoms.mobilephones/print


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

In his Farewell Address, our first and greatest President, George Washington, eloquently lobbied the American people to guard against over-infatuation with political parties. Anyone reading his warnings today will be impressed with his insight and wisdom. Virtually everything he predicted has come to pass. Blind loyalty to political parties has corrupted our public institutions, blinded the hearts and minds of the American people, and opened wide the door to undue foreign influence........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin428.htm



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Informant: Richard

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt316.html

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The Lost Kristol Tapes

"This Is going To Be A Two Months War"

By Jonathan Schwarz

It's a masterpiece, a double album of smarm, horrifying ignorance, and bald-faced deceit. While you've heard him play those instruments before, he never again reached such heights. It's a performance for the history books - particularly that chapter about how the American Empire collapsed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19359.htm



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http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/243/ron-paul-statement-on-washington-louisiana-and-kansas-results


Informant: Gomez



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7176/


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From ufpj-news



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/276.html



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Here's something encouraging and thought-provoking. Some towns in the USA are starting to do something very practical and useful.

The story quoted below was brought to my attention by the environmental newsletter Rachel's News (see details at end). It refers to radioactive uranium, which means of course ionising radiation. This is different from (non-ionising) electro-magnetic radiation.

But the town ordinance described indicates two possible aims for EMF activism.

1. "Bodily trespass" could be a way to define what is wanted in anti-EMF ordinances or legislation.

2. The limitation of corporate rights where they infringe on ordinary people's rights, especially in health.


Lyn Milnes in New Zealand


Extract From: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Feb. 11, 2008

VIRGINIA TOWN BANS CHEMICAL AND RADIOACTIVE BODILY TRESPASS

On February 7, 2008, the Town Council of Halifax, Virginia, voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance banning corporate chemical and radioactive bodily trespass. Enacted to confront concerns about the proposed uranium mine in adjacent Pittsylvania County, the ordinance establishes strict liability and burden-of-proof standards for culpable corporations and government entities that permit and facilitate corporate bodily trespass.

The ordinance also strips corporations of constitutional protections within the town. The Town of Halifax thus becomes the 10th municipality in the nation to refuse to recognize corporate constitutional "rights," and to prohibit corporate rights from being used to override the rights of human and natural communities.

The ordinance adopted by the Halifax Town Council also recognizes the rights of natural communities and ecosystems to exist and flourish within the town and provides for the enforcement and defense of those rights, and prohibits corporations from interfering with the civil rights of residents, including residents' right to self-government. The ordinance was drafted for the Halifax Town Council by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund{1}, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit law firm.

Ben Price, Projects Director for the Legal Defense Fund commented that "The people of the Town of Halifax have determined that they do not consent to be irradiated, nor to be trespassed upon, by toxic substances that would be released by Virginia Uranium, Inc., or any other state-chartered corporation. The people have asserted their right and their duty to protect their families, environment, and future generations. In enacting this law, the community has gone on record as rejecting the legal theory behind Dillon's Rule, which erroneously asserts that there is no inherent right to local self- government. The American Revolution was about nothing less than the fundamental right of the people to be the decision-makers on issues directly affecting the communities in which they live. They understood that a central government, at some distance removed from those affected, acts beyond its authority in empowering a few powerful men -privileged with chartered immunities and rights superior to the people in the community -- to deny citizens' rights, impose harm, and refuse local self-determination. The people of the Town of Halifax have acted in the best tradition of liberty and freedom, and confronted injustice in the form of a state-permitted corporate assault against the consent of the sovereign people."

Shireen Parsons, the Legal Defense Fund's Virginia Organizer, commended the action of the Halifax Town Council, stating that, "The council members demonstrated courage and solidarity in their commitment to justice and their duty to govern in the interest of protecting and preserving the health, safety and wellbeing of the people from whom they derive their power. This is the beginning of something wonderful in Virginia."

Halifax Town Council member Jack Dunavant said of the decision, "This is an historic vote. We, the people, intend to protect our health and environment from corporate assault. It's time to invoke the Constitution and acknowledge the power of the people to protect our own destiny and end this era of corporate greed and pollution."


The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, has worked with communities resisting corporate assaults upon democratic self-governance since 1995. Among other programs, it has brought its unique Daniel Pennock Democracy Schools to communities in 26 states in which people seek to end destructive and rights-denying corporate acts routinely permitted by state and federal agencies. In Pennsylvania alone, more than 100 municipalities have enacted ordinances authored by the Legal Defense Fund.

{1} http://www.celdf.org


URL: http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/halifax_va_outlaws_chem_trespass.080211.htm

(Quoted by RACHEL'S DEMOCRACY & HEALTH NEWS #946 "Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?" Thursday, February 14, 2008)

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0213-12.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0214-06.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/14/7057/



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Re "Invisible fears" (Feb. 9) -
[ http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4691367/ ]

The residents of Valleyview Drive are right to be concerned about their health if a cell tower is erected near their homes. I live in the U.K. where the situation is becoming dangerous, especially for children, the sick, the elderly and animal life.

We have TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) police communications in the U.K. which seems to make things much worse, as does the introduction of wifi. Some people with electrical sensitivity are suffering terribly, especially around airports, flight paths, TV transmitters, radar, TETRA, upgraded 3G and wifi.

Read More...
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=902196

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Modern communication technology could be making you sick
http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/26455


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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

http://www.szon.de/news/gesundheit/200802141213.html



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

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=31094

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Kritik an "BILD"
"Mehr Lohn statt weniger ALG II"

"Die derzeit von einigen Medien und Politikern geführte Neidkampagne gegen Bezieher von Hartz IV-Leistungen ist unerträglich und muss schleunigst beendet werden", sagte der Präsident der Volkssolidarität, Professor Gunnar Winkler, bezogen auf eine Berichterstattung der "BILD"-Zeitung. "Diese interessengeleitete Debatte macht diejenigen zum Sündenbock, die am wenigsten für ihre Situation verantwortlich sind. Das verletzt auch ihr Grundrecht auf Menschenwürde als Bürger dieses Landes", so Winkler am 14. Februar in Berlin. Er bedauere es ausdrücklich, dass Politiker wie der Berliner Finanzsenator Thilo Sarrazin "diese Meinungsmache gegen Arbeitslose" mittrügen. Seriöse Studien hätten längst belegt, dass der ALG II-Regelsatz nicht ausreiche für eine ausgewogene und gesunde Ernährung, gerade für Kinder und Jugendliche. "Das Problem ist nicht, dass Arbeitslose vermeintlich zu hohe Leistungen bekommen, sondern dass immer mehr Menschen zu wenig Lohn für ihre Arbeit erhalten", meint Winkler.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17301



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitslose
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Die Anbauflächen für genveränderte Pflanzen sind 2007 um 12 Prozent gewachsen, ein Bericht der Umweltorganisation Friends of the Earth weist auf vermehrten Pestizideinsatz, resistente Unkräuter und fehlende Ertragssteigerung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27284/1.html

Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium muss dem Innenausschuss erklären, warum für alle Postsendungen in die USA vorab Daten erfasst und an die amerikanische Zoll- und Grenzschutzbehörde übermittelt werden dürfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27290/1.html

The editors of The New York Times write: "Alberto Gonzales may be out, but the country is still waiting for a full accounting of how he and his White House patrons cynically politicized the Justice Department. Congress is rightly asking questions about the actions of yet another United States attorney: New Jersey's Christopher J. Christie. The House also needs to stop procrastinating and vote to hold witnesses in contempt for refusing to testify in the wider scandal."

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



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Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will treat about 333,000 sick and injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2009, according to VA statistics released last week. That number is a 14 percent increase over this year's casualty total. Yet, despite the Bush administration's promises to prioritize the VA even as other domestic departments' funds are cut, its annual budget request for next year places more financial burdens than ever on many returning soldiers."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
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Quoting Pat Buchanan, Pepe Escobar predicts a new phase of militarism if McCain wins.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=969&thisview=item



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No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith

While do-gooders like to view such programs as benefits for our society, they deliberately wear blinders and make excuses for the real results. They applaud the few successes, with great, pompous, self-congratulatory celebrations, in order to blind themselves to the many others who suffered unnecessarily. When pressed, they take the escape of the ‘greater good’ and delude themselves that even those ‘broken eggs to make the omelet’ can be rescued if only we spend more money and use yet more FORCE. We’ve known for a long time that our Guantanamo prison was probably much like what we now can no longer ignore at Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi facilities. We’ve known that torture and abuse exist in our own civilian prisons. What is the difference? That we can no longer turn our heads and deny? That we can now see it rather than picture it in our minds? Or, is it that it was acceptable until we got caught? (originally published 2004; posted 02/13/08)

http://tinyurl.com/yvxjjl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abu+Ghraib
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The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson

02/13/08

At the surprising invitation of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin, I testified today to the Labor Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee (Obey chairs the subcommittee as well) on the long torm state of the economy, rising inequality, the dearth of good jobs in the middle of the economy, and America’s changing role in the world economy. What follows is an edited version of my written testimony. Mr. Chairman, over the past three decades, not the bottom, but the middle has fallen out of the American economy. The great social achievement of the United States in the 30 years after World War II — the creation of the world’s first majority middle-class, of a society that offered more economic stability to more people than any in human history — has been undone...

http://tinyurl.com/2ba4vy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=middle+class
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson

Fairfield County Weekly
by Phil Maymin

02/14/08

The next president will likely either be Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain. Isn’t it nice to finally have a choice? A middle-aged black man, an older white woman, and an even older white man. Liberals and conservatives. Left and right. Finally, we have some genuine differences in policy to debate. Right? Of course not. First, ignore skin color, gender, and age. They mean nothing. Second, discount the rhetoric. We all know the value of a politician’s word. Instead, look to their actions. What we have here is a race among three senators. So let’s compare their voting record...

http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=5832


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Richmond Palladium-Item

02/13/08

Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush’s threat to veto any measure that limits the agency’s interrogation techniques. The prohibition was contained in a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the current year, which the Senate approved on a 51-45 vote. It would restrict the CIA to the 19 interrogation techniques outlined in the Army field manual...

http://tinyurl.com/yo39yl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush Vows to Veto Interrogation Limits

David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "The Senate voted Wednesday to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods that have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects. The vote, following House passage of the measure in December, set up a confrontation with President Bush, who has threatened to veto it."

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



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Artikel von Reinhold Schramm vom 12.02.2008 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/fordern.pdf

Es handelt sich um eine Spezifizierung zum Beitrag „Fordern und praktisch im Kampf durchsetzen - mehr als (nur) die Reproduktionskosten“

Artikel von Reinhold Schramm vom 27.01.2008 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/fordern.html


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Februar 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Regelleistung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Menschenwürde

„Die Krankenkassen haben Pläne von Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt (SPD) zur Entlastung von Hartz-IV-Empfängern begrüßt. Mehr Steuermittel für die Krankenversicherung könnten diese rund 3 Millionen Beitragszahler um rund 1,8 Milliarden Euro entlasten, berichteten die Spitzenverbände der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. Schmidt hatte sich dafür ausgesprochen, die Beiträge für Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfänger um 50 Euro pro Monat auf etwa 160 bis 170 Euro zu erhöhen…“ dpa-Meldung vom 13. Februar 2008.

http://apotheke-adhoc.de/index.php?m=1&s=3&showPage=1&id=1972


Aus: LabourNet, 14. Februar 2008

Federal spending also rising at faster pace than last year
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23131149/



U.S. mortgage crisis spreads beyond subprime loans

As the world's largest economy grapples with the worst housing slump in two decades, people with good credit histories are falling behind on house payments, auto loans and credit cards at an accelerating pace.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/12/business/mortgage.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+deficit
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Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children. The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters.

http://tinyurl.com/2s2cs6


From Information Clearing House



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

McCain has chaired the International Republican Institute (IRI) since 1993. Ostensibly a non-partisan, democracy-building outfit, in reality the IRI serves as an instrument to advance and promote the most far right Republican foreign policy agenda.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff02132008.html


From Information Clearing House



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8905b3fcda473ea3?hl=en



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZYjaS6u2As


Informant: Bob Banner

The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Tuesday rejected Western suggestions it is being soft on Iran, denying that its chief was declaring questions about Tehran's atomic work resolved despite doubts of his inspectors.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1283850220080212


From Information Clearing House



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

So far 235 bodies have been recovered, 12 hours after the attacks at 0445 GMT and 0450 GMT.

http://snipurl.com/1znj5


From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi government set up a committee to decide how to bring legal action in the United States against American soldiers for causing 'unjustified' deaths of Iraqis, cabinet spokesman said Wednesday.

http://snipurl.com/1znj1


From Information Clearing House

Video

Hillsborough deputies dump, a quadriplegic man, out of his wheelchair.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19346.htm

By Bob Barr

If, as proposed in the law, a person must have a Real ID Act-compliant card in order to access a federal building, access any regulated or interstate mode of transportation, or obtain any federal benefit, then we have surrendered to the federal government (that is, federal bureaucrats) the power to deny citizens all manner of activities guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19349.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
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Maggie Mahar, AlterNet, reports: "The Center for Public Integrity, a public interest investigative journalism organization, has obtained copies of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of environmental and health data in eight Great Lakes states that was scheduled for publication in July 2007. The report, which pointed to elevated rates of lung, colon and breast cancer; low birth weight, and infant mortality in several of the geographical areas of concern has not yet been made public."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308HA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maggie+Mahar

http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39186574,00.htm?h

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Vorratsprotokollierung: Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries droht Ordnungsgeld oder Haft

Das Amtsgericht Berlin Mitte hat mit Beschluss vom 10. Januar 2008 ein Ordnungsgeld von bis zu 250.000 Euro, ersatzweise eine bis zu sechsmonatige Inhaftierung von Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries angedroht (Az. 5 C 314/06). Hintergrund ist ein Urteil vom 27. März 2007, demzufolge die personenbeziehbare Protokollierung des Internet-Nutzungsverhaltens auf dem Informationsportal http://www.bmj.bund.de gegen das Persönlichkeitsrecht der Nutzer verstieß. Eine Unterlassungserklärung wurde bislang nicht unterzeichnet. Die verbreitete Aufbewahrung der Kommunikationsspuren von Internetnutzern ermöglicht es, ihr Surf- und Suchverhalten detailliert nachzuvollziehen. In einer solchen Vorratsprotokollierung liege aber eine "Verletzung des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung" der Betroffenen, so das Gericht.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17295



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14. Februar 2008

Zur Initiative des Gesundheitsministeriums zur Rückkehr in die Krankenkassen erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst:

Hunderttausend Menschen ohne Krankenversicherung sind eine Bankrotterklärung des Sozialstaates. Das Taktieren der Bundesregierung im Zuge der Gesundheitsreform hat dazu geführt, dass eine allgemeine Versicherungspflicht nicht verbindlich festgelegt wurde. Hunderttausend Nichtversicherte können sich auch weiterhin keine Krankenversicherung leisten. Zumeist sind es Menschen in prekärer Lage: Sie arbeiten als Mini-Jobber, sind obdachlos, können als Selbstständige kaum Miete und Lebenshaltungskosten bezahlen. Verantwortlich dafür ist nicht zuletzt die fatale Hartz-IV-Politik, die Erwerbslose nicht selten in eine Pseudo-Selbständigkeit gezwungen hat und viele Betroffene ohne soziale Absicherung zurücklässt. Stattdessen behauptet Ulla Schmidt, dass jede und jeder durch die Gesundheitsreform Krankenversicherungsschutz genießen wird. Doch wer heute versucht, in seine alte Kasse zurückzukehren, muss erst einmal alle Beiträge von April 2007 an nachzahlen – das sind selbst bei der geringsten Beitragsstufe bereits 1700 Euro, die als "Eintrittsgeld" fällig werden. Und so bleiben in einem der reichsten Länder weiterhin hunderttausend Menschen ohne Versicherungsschutz, im Falle einer Krankheit müssen sie dann mit ihrer gesamten Habe für die entstehenden Kosten aufkommen. Eine grundsätzliche Lösung kann aus Sicht der Partei DIE LINKE nur sein, alle Menschen in einem Versicherungssystem zusammenzufassen und Beiträge auf alle Einkommensarten zu erheben. Nur durch die Einführung der von uns geforderten solidarischen Bürgerinnen- und Bürgerversicherung lässt sich dieses System auch für die Nichtversicherten zukunftsfest machen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/hunderttausend-ohne-krankenversicherung-sind-bankrotterklaerung-des-sozialstaates/

GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney Tortures Dog

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part4_main
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Politics/Story?id=3329017


Informant: bigraccoon



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

According to John Vidal of The Guardian UK, "The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EB.shtml



UN Security Council Urged to Punish CO2 Offenders

Haider Rizvi, Inter Press News, writes: "The world's small island nations are calling for the UN Security Council to help protect their lands and resources by using its authority to demand reductions of carbon dioxide emissions, and to penalize those nations that fail to comply."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EA.shtml



Lake Mead May Go Dry in a Few Years

Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, reports: "Lake Mead, the vast reservoir for the Colorado River water that sustains the fast-growing cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas, could lose water faster than previously thought and run dry within 13 years, according to a new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021308EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Felicity+Barringer

On the Bill Moyers Journal, "a reality check from Public Agenda's Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, co-authors of 'Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis.'"

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

James Risen of The New York Times writes: "Mary Beth Kineston, an Ohio resident who went to Iraq to drive trucks, thought she had endured the worst when her supply convoy was ambushed in April 2004. After car bombs exploded and insurgents began firing on the road between Baghdad and Balad, she and other military contractors were saved only when Army Black Hawk helicopters arrived."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Risen

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/275.html



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/a73415eaa562500b?hl=en



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

GovExec.com - Washington, DC, USA

Moseley also listed a number of technologies where potential enemies could make breakthroughs: cybernetics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, electromagnetic ...

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/021308g1.htm

http://www.alternet.org/rights/76388/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractors
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Rothschild

http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis108.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe84.html



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7171/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/14/why-vaccines-aren-t-safe.aspx



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Vaccination+-+Impfen/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/14/i-was-right-about-the-bird-flu-hoax.aspx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bird+flu
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justin021308b.html



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

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/02/theater-of-absurd.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarized+police
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=+William+Norman+Grigg

http://tinyurl.com/2l465l

Chaos Computer Club warnt vor unabsehbaren Risiken bei der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/eb2d299fd3b96da1?hl=en

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"Aufgezwungen und unnötig"

Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte kommt. Ärzte und Datenschützer bezweifeln ihren Nutzen und warnen vor totaler Transparenz.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27614/1.html

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Ist die elektronische Gesundheitskarte sicher?

„In einem Brief an die Abgeordneten des Bundestags (siehe Anlage) nimmt das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie Stellung zur Entwicklung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte. (…) Das Grundrechtekomitee listet in seinem Brief an die Abgeordneten , einige der grundlegenden Mängel auf. Diese fangen an bei den unterschätzten Datenschutzproblemen angesichts der Fülle zu erwartender weiterer Innovationen. Mit der eGK sollen Daten gerade nicht hochgesichert und unerreichbar unter Verschluss gebracht werden, sondern gemäß der vielfältigen Interessen gesammelt und genutzt werden…“ Presseinformation des Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie vom 3.4.08 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=268

und der Brief an die Abgeordneten des Bundestags vom Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie (pdf) http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/files/articles/egkdatenschutz.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 7. April 2008

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„Nein zur Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte!

Erste 5.000 Protestunterschriften werden dem Bundesgesundheitsministerium übergeben.

„Wenige Tage vor Beginn des deutschen Ärztetages übergeben die Ärzteorganisation IPPNW und die Bürgerrechtsorganisation Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie dem Bundesministerium für Gesundheit rund 5000 Unterschriften. Mit diesen protestieren Bürger, Patienten und Ärzte gegen die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK). Die Unterschriften sind ein erstes deutliches Zeichen einer zunehmenden Opposition gegen das Mammutprojekt eGK…“ Meldung des Grundrechtekomitee vom 13.5.08 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=276


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Mai 2008

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Elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Bitte nicht lächeln

„Einige Krankenkassen fordern derzeit ihre Mitglieder auf, Fotos zur Ausstellung der neuen elektronischen Gesundheitskarte einzusenden. Dabei sind wichtige Sicherheitsfragen des Systems nicht geklärt. Der Chaos Computer Club rät allen Versicherten kein Foto einzusenden…“ Meldung vom ccc vom 22. Juli 2008 http://www.ccc.de/updates/2008/egk-verzoegern?language=de

Aus dem Text: „… Das dem Chaos Computer Club bekannte Konzept für die elektronische Gesundheitskarte weist gravierende Mängel unter anderem bei der Umsetzung der sogenannten "freiwilligen Diensten" auf. Bei der elektronischen Patientenakte verlassen die sensiblen Daten den geschützten Bereich der Praxis und werden auf einem zentralen Server gespeichert. Laut Spezifikation werden diese Daten zwar vor der Übermittlung verschlüsselt, jedoch gibt es noch immer kein schlüssiges Konzept dafür, wer Zugriff auf die dazu benötigten Schlüssel haben wird…“


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Juli 2008

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Nein zum Umbau des Gesundheitssystems zu einem Kontrollsystem!

„Das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie ruft zum Protest gegen die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) auf. Es argumentiert, dass die eGK ein wichtiger Bautstein in der Neuordnung des Gesundheitssystems sei. Der Umgang mit Krankheiten solle gänzlich marktwirtschaftlichen Gesetzen unterworfen werden. Mit der Einführung der eGK werde eine Kontrolle des Verhaltens von Ärzten und Patienten möglich. Das Grundrechtekomitee ruft deshalb die Bürger und Bürgerinnen auf, ihren Protest gegen den Aufbau eines zentralen Informationsnetzes für Gesundheitsdaten den Krankenkassen mitzuteilen. Sie sollen den Krankenkassen die Fotos nicht zur Verfügung stellen, die für die neue eGK angefordert werden…“ Pressemitteilung des Grundrechtekomitees vom 15.09.2008 http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/ub_showarticle.php?articleID=294

Siehe dazu:

Nein zum Umbau des Gesundheitssystems zu einem Kontrollsystem! Keine Mitwirkung am Aufbau eines zentralen Informationsnetzes für Gesundheitsdaten!

Der Aufruf (pdf) http://www.grundrechtekomitee.de/files/articles/kein-foto.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 15. September 2008

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Ärzteorganisation IPPNW kritisiert Elektronische Gesundheitskarte

Die Ärzteorganisation IPPNW kritisiert die am 12. Dezember 2008 durchgeführte Erst-Installation eines Lesegerätes im nordrhein-westfälischen Düren für die neue "elektronische Gesundheitskarte". IPPNW-Vorstand Matthias Jochheim empfiehlt den ärztlichen Kolleginnen und Kollegen im Bereich der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Nordrhein, "dem Beispiel der Bremer Hausärzte zu folgen und die Anschaffung von Lesegeräten für diese aus datenschutzrechtlichen Gründen hochgefährliche Technologie abzulehnen." Es gebe keine rechtliche Handhabe, die Installation der neuen Lesegeräte in den Praxen zu erzwingen, meint Jochheim.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19081



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gesundheitskarte
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Überwachung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CCC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IPPNW

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/02/14/11325_opinion.html


From John Hallam, Nuclear Flashpoints



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+weapons

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7169/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crash