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Penny Coleman, writing for AlterNet, says the Pentagon holds thousands of Americans "prisoners of war." She says: "There are at least 60,000 of them, but they're not on the DOD's list of soldiers missing in action."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032608D.shtml



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Iraq: Numbers Game
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27580/1.html



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Irak: Ende der Ruhepause
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27585/1.html



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Lidl ließ seine Mitarbeiter widerrechtlich überwachen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27586/1.html

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Überwachungsskandal: Lidl ließ Mitarbeiter bespitzeln

„Stasi-Methoden bei Lidl: Monatelang haben Detektive im Auftrag des Discounters in Filialen Mitarbeiter ausspioniert und intimste Details aus deren Privatleben protokolliert. Der stern und stern.de deckten nun diesen Überwachungsskandal auf. Verdi und der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte üben heftige Kritik an Lidl…“ Artikel von Markus Grill und Malte Arnsperger im Stern vom 25.03.2008 http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/unternehmen/:%DCberwachungsskandal-Lidl-Mitarbeiter/615031.html


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2008

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»Da wird mit harten Bandagen gekämpft«

Einschüchterung und Bespitzelung bei Skandal-Discounter Lidl. Beschäftigte sprechen von Sektenmethoden. Ein Interview von Claudia Wangerin mit Björn Krings, Gewerkschaftssekretär im Fachbereich Handel der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di in München und Mitorganisator der Lidl-Kampagne von ver.di in Hamburg, in der jungen Welt vom 28.03.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/03-28/062.php


Nach Lidl-Skandal erhebt Verdi auch Vorwürfe gegen Schlecker

„Nach dem Überwachungsskandal bei Lidl hat die Gewerkschaft Verdi auch Vorwürfe gegen die Drogeriekette Schlecker erhoben. Dort spähten Detektive und Sicherheitskräfte durch Lochwände teils stundenlang in die Verkaufsräume, sagte der Handelssekretär des Verdi-Bezirks Berlin-Brandenburg, Achim Neumann, der "Bild am Sonntag". Mitarbeiter berichteten, dass sie sich in dadurch in ihrem Verhalten und ihrer Leistung "ausgespäht und überwacht" fühlten. Schlecker und Lidl seien keine Einzelfälle. "Viele Discounter überwachen ihre Mitarbeiter."..“ AFP-Meldung auf Yahoo-Nachrichten vom 30.03.2008 http://de.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080330/tbs-d-einzelhandel-unternehmen-gewerksch-f41e315_1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 31. März 2008

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Presserummel hilft

„Die Beschäftigten von Lidl haben Betriebsräte bitter nötig, um sich gegen die Machenschaften der Konzernspitze zu wehren. Das hat nicht zuletzt der Bespitzelungsskandal bei dem Discounter öffentlich demonstriert. Die entsprechende Schlußfolgerung haben auch die Angestellten der Filiale in Renningen bei Stuttgart gezogen, die in der vergangenen Woche erfolgreich eine Betriebsratswahl durchführten…“ Artikel von Sylvia Röhlk, Stuttgart, in der jungen Welt vom 06.05.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/05-06/034.php


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Mai 2008

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Der Spion, der aus der Wand kam - Aus dem Arbeitsleben eines Schlecker-Detektivs und der Beschäftigten

„Dank der Veröffentlichungen im Stern sind die Bespitzelungen der KundInnen und Beschäftigten im Einzelhandel wieder in die öffentliche und politische Diskussion geraten. Die technische Entwicklung hat zwar auch das Aus- und Hinterherspionieren im Einzelhandel verändert. Dennoch gibt es neben den High-Tech-Spionen auch heute immer noch den Detektiv in Menschengestalt. Davon können viele im Einzelhandel erzählen. Neben Beispielen, wie gegen die Menschenwürde und den Datenschutz der Beschäftigten verstoßen wurde, gibt es auch solche aus dem Arbeitsleben der Detektive. Und auch dieses Arbeitsleben ist nicht ohne!...“ Ein Beitrag von Anton Kobel http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/eh/kobel.html


Aus: LabourNet, 8. Mai 2008

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Keine Shakehands mit Herrn Dings

„Lidl macht mobil: Mit einer Interview-Offensive will der Discounter sein Schmuddel-Image loswerden, den Überwachungsskandal vergessen machen. Bei TV-Talker Kerner ging das nach hinten los – Aufsichtsratschef Gehrig zeigte sich selbstgerecht, arrogant, uneinsichtig…“ Artikel von Susanne Amann auf Spiegel-Online vom 07.05.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,551880,00.html


Lidl demonstriert: Dienstags demonstrierten ca 40 Menschen im Lidl Outfit über die Zeil in Frankfurt und zwar für Lidl

„Es gibt Demos, über die kann man sich schon wundern. Die Demo war für das Unternehmen und gegen Verdi gerichtet. man steckt ja nicht drin und fragt sich, waren das Lidl Beschäftigte? Wurden sie mit irgendwelchen Vergünstigungen für diese Demo motiviert oder, man hat ja schon von Mietdemonstranten gehört, waren das nur bezahlte Statisten? Hier drei Fotos und zur Doku, das bei der Demo verteilte Flugblatt. Bemerkenswert, der Flyer enthielt nicht mal ein Impressum. PS: Schiß um den Arbeitsplatz wenn Gesichter zu sehen sind? Ein neuerdings hier vorgetragenes Argument, hier sollte die Gesichtserkennung sicher keine Nachteile für die Beschäftigten darstellen.“ Beitrag von saul auf Indymedia vom 07.05.2008 http://de.indymedia.org/2008/05/216479.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Mai 2008

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Lidl is watching: 585 Filialen wurden überwacht

„Der Discounter Lidl hat in den vergangenen Jahren 585 Filialen in mehreren Bundesländern von Detekteien überwachen lassen. Dabei seien von 2006 bis Anfang 2008 zum Schutz vor Ladendiebstahl Verkaufsräume vor allem mit sichtbaren Kameraanlagen kontrolliert worden, sagte eine Lidl-Sprecherin der Deutschen Presse-Agentur dpa…“ Agenturmeldung in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 21.05.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1337421


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Mai 2008

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Stasi-Methoden: Lidl steht wegen Bespitzelung von Mitarbeitern unter Druck

Wie das Magazin "Stern" berichtete, hat der Lebensmittel-Discounter Lidl monatelang seine Mitarbeiter ausspioniert. Es habe schriftliche Aufzeichnungen auch über private Gepflogenheiten gegeben. Das Unternehmen hat den Einsatz von Detekteien zugegeben. Jetzt gerät der Lebensmittelriese unter Druck: Datenschützer in Schleswig-Holstein haben das Unternehmen um eine Stellungnahme gebeten, sagte eine Sprecherin zu stern.de. Politiker forderten harte Strafen für Lidl. Laut Bundesdatenschutzgesetz kann die unbefugte Erhebung und Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten mit einer Geldbuße von bis zu 250.000 Euro geahndet werden. Das Unternehmen wandte sich unterdessen an seine rund 48.000 Mitarbeiter. Die Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft Ver.di forderte bespitzelte Lidl-Mitarbeiter zu Schadenersatzklagen gegen das Unternehmen auf.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17577

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Das anonyme Gespräch: Ich werde bespitzelt!

Bedrängt, bespitzelt, ständig unter Verdacht: eine Verkäuferin der Drogeriekette "Schlecker". Jetzt redet sie über ihre Erlebnisse. Ihr Name muss geheim bleiben - denn sie braucht den Job... Das Gespräch bei Brigitte.de ohne Datum http://www.brigitte.de/job/karriere/spitzelei/index.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. August 2008

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«Klima der Angst« bei Schlecker

„ver.di erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Schlecker: Die Drogeriemarktkette setzt der Gewerkschaft zufolge die Beschäftigten mittels Abmahnungsflut und «psychologischer Keule« massiv unter Druck, um so Arbeitsplätze abzubauen und Personalkosten einzusparen. Ursache ist nach den Worten von Manfred Wages, Gewerkschaftssekretär bei ver.di Mittelfranken, die Konkurrenzsituation in der Branche: Rossmann und dm haben ihre Marktanteile ausgebaut, «der Discounter Lidl expandiert enorm im Drogeriebereich«. Das Unternehmen Schlecker, das zum 1. Januar 2008 den Konkurrenten «Ihr Platz« übernommen hat, sei «in ein tiefes Loch gefallen«…“ Artikel von Verena Litz in den Nürnberger Nachrichten vom 20.01.2009 http://www.nn-online.de/artikel.asp?art=953578&kat=5


Aus: LabourNet, 26. Januar 2009



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What McCain (and the Rest of Us) Should Learn From the Keating Scandal.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/26/7905/



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By Craig Manning

WIRRAL Conservatives accused the council of burying its head in the sand' in a row over the controversial siting of four mobile phone masts last night.

They want a change in the 56-day rule governing mobile phone company applications after a council delay in sending out paperwork notifying T-Mobile of a planning committee decision refusing permission to install masts in Pensby, Gayton, Moreton and Claughton resulted in the phone giant having deemed consent' to go ahead with its plan.

Following public outcry a report was compiled by the former Chief Executive of Bolton Council Bernard Knight which found that administrative error was to blame. Disciplinary action was later taken against staff from Wirral's technical services department.

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http://www.thisiswirral.co.uk/display.var.2148687.0.row_over_phone_mast_blunder_continues.php

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/032608_wtc_coverup.htm

Report Of WTC Collapse Cover-Up Justifies Call For New Inquiry
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/032608_justifies_call.htm



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26. März 2008

Arbeitgeberforderungen als Bedrohung für diese Gesellschaft

Zu der anhaltenden Diskussion um die geplante Rentenerhöhung erklärt Klaus Ernst, Vize-Vorsitzender der LINKEN:

Während die Unternehmen mit explodierenden Gewinnen rechnen können, wollen die Arbeitgeber den Rentnern und Rentnerinnen die sowieso schon viel zu niedrige Rentenerhöhung auch noch verwehren. Nach Forsa-Angaben gibt es für die geplante Rentenerhöhung eine breite Mehrheit in der Bevölkerung - der BDA verhält sich jedoch so, als würde es sich um einen finanziellen Weltuntergang handeln.

Die Forderung der Arbeitgeber nach noch geringeren Rentenerhöhungen ist für unsere Gesellschaft eine ernsthafte Bedrohung. Während die Rentenpolitik der letzten Jahre schon heute zu einem ständigen Kaufkraftverlust für Rentnerinnen und Rentner führt, wollen die Arbeitgeber mit ihrem Gezetere die eigenen Rentenbeiträge schonen und älteren Generationen gänzlich um einen würdigen Lebensabend bringen.

Dabei ist es durch den Druck zur privaten Vorsorge schon heute so, dass die Arbeitgeber einen viel geringeren Anteil an der Altersvorsorge leisten als die Beschäftigten – nach den Plänen der Bundesregierung soll die einseitige Mehrbelastung der Arbeitnehmer bis 2030 sechs Prozentpunkte betragen. Während die Unternehmen von sinkenden Beitragssätzen zur Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung profitieren, müssen die Beschäftigten privat vorsorgen, um das Sicherungsniveau zu halten.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/arbeitgeberforderungen-als-bedrohung-fuer-diese-gesellschaft/

http://tinyurl.com/22n2cm



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JANE SLAUGHTER

Labor Notes — Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company's business practices? Is it a "conspiracy" if advocates call for boycotts, organize rallies, or press for resolutions from elected bodies?

http://ga3.org/ct/fd20pgF1ZSsa/


From TomPaine.common sense



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At the start of the mobile phone boom, Rotherham Council opposed a number of applications for masts, including one next to the landmark Hoober Stand at Wentworth, which was eventually built nearer Rawmarsh.

There was also considerable opposition to a mast next to a school at Thrybergh after parents feared it would be a health risk and Rotherham currently has no masts sited on school premises.

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http://www.thestar.co.uk/rotherham/Phone-masts-policy-Uturn-boosts.3914050.jp

The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

03/25/08

Whether the next president is named Clinton, Obama, or McCain, the new chief executive will face an economic challenge unlike any since 1933. The new president will need to reject an entire failed paradigm of how the economy works and of government’s role in it. Since last summer, our private credit system has been unmasked as a series of interconnected Ponzi schemes. The reigning theory was that if government stepped aside, financial innovations would produce reliable, self-regulating prosperity. Instead, we got toxic financial bubbles, whose popping is now infecting our entire economy as credit contracts, while an administration still devoted to free markets watches helplessly...

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=new_president_new_crisis


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In These Times
by Susan J. Douglas

03/25/08

Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and pie charts about the dangers of deficit spending and the mounting national debt, Perot was especially outraged that the debt had gone from $1 trillion in 1980 to $4 trillion by 1992. He got people’s attention about mortgaging our children’s futures and won 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential race, the most for a third party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. … As we brace for the Swiftboating to come this summer, I find myself nostalgic for a Perot infomercial where he would make clear that my daughter, or my friend’s infant — all of us, as of now — each carries nearly $31,000 of this debt. And we don’t owe it only to each other...

http://tinyurl.com/24pr2j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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It’s a number

Truthout
by William Rivers Pitt

03/25/08

Clearly, there was branding to be done if Bush’s legacy and signature foreign policy program were to be salvaged. Thus, those same linguistic wizards from the White House who came up with the ‘Clear Skies Initiative’ label to disguise both the comprehensive deregulation of environmental protections and the carnival of unbridled pollution it produced; those same wizards who duped everyone including Teddy Kennedy into believing ‘No Child Left Behind’ was anything other than a bonfire lit beneath public education standards; those same wizards who deployed comments like ‘plastic sheeting and duct tape’ and ‘Islamofascist’ and ‘Bring ‘em on’ to make sure everyone was afraid, aggressive and ignorant in equal measure; those same wizards who convinced Americans things like privacy and liberty and rights and the Constitution were quaint and dangerous anachronisms we need to abandon before the terrorists use them to destroy America; those same wizards were also able to gloss over the escalation of a hopeless war with another vacant, vapid and now-ubiquitous euphemism known as ‘The Surge’...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508A.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fairfield County Weekly
by Phil Maymin

It’s a trap. Whenever a politician says, ‘Let’s be reasonable,’ the ghosts of the founding fathers reach for their guns. Who decides what is reasonable? If you allow the government to decide what is a reasonable violation of your rights, then you no longer have unalienable rights to be protected by your elected officials, you have privileges granted to you by your prison warden... (for publication 03/27/08)

http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=6794


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Intellectual Conservative

by Peter Morici

03/25/08

U.S. consumers borrow from mortgage companies, local banks and finance companies through mortgages, auto loans and credit cards. Those firms sell the loans to Wall Street banks, who bundle loans into bonds for sale to big fixed income investors. The Chinese government, Middle East royals and other foreign investors purchase huge sums of such U.S. interest-bearing securities. Last year, this scheme started coming unglued, because many homeowners borrowed more than their paychecks and home values could support...

http://tinyurl.com/28kkyc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Telegraph [UK]

03/25/08

Iraq was facing the prospect of nationwide revolt after followers of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rose up in anger against a government-led strike on militia strongholds in Basra. Violence spread across southern Iraq and into Baghdad after 12 were reported killed in Basra fighting. Major Tom Holloway, a spokesman for British forces at Basra Airbase, said that the Iraqi army had mounted a cordon around two districts of the city and the police were raiding known militia positions. Five districts of the central Iraqi city of Kut fell to Sadr followers during a demonstration. A police spokesman said the authorities had asked for US military intervention...

http://tinyurl.com/2x6tnj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BASRA: SHIITE ELITES FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE

Pepe Escobar on fighting in Basra
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1218&thisview=item



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How the open net closed its doors

BBC News [UK]

03/25/08

A new book details the extent to which countries across the globe are increasingly censoring online information they find strategically, politically or culturally threatening. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges the long-standing assumption that the internet is an unfettered space where citizens from around the world can freely communicate and mobilise. In fact, the book makes it clear that the scope, scale and sophistication of net censorship are growing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7312327.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Supreme Court backs Texas in dispute with President

Frankfort Times

03/25/08

President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered a Texas court to reopen the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and the death penalty, the court sided with Texas 6-3...

http://tinyurl.com/37rqez


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Supreme Court Rules Bush Exceeded His Powers

David G. Savage, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes: "The Supreme Court rebuffed President Bush on Tuesday for exceeding his powers under the law, ruling he does not have the 'unilateral authority' to force state officials to comply with an international treaty."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032608B.shtml



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In The Wall Street Journal, Stephen J. Rose and Anne Kim write, "The economy is either in or sliding toward recession, and according to media accounts, the middle class is getting hammered. The conventional wisdom is that the November elections will be a cakewalk for Democrats, who are perceived to be champions of the middle class."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032508LA.shtml



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According to Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press, "Environmentalists are suing the federal government, claiming promises to whittle down a backlog of plants and animals being considered for endangered species protection amount to 'smoke and mirrors.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032508EC.shtml



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In The New Scientist, Fred Pearce says, "Kevin Conrad was brought up in Papua New Guinea, the son of American missionaries. His name might not be familiar, but at the Bali climate conference last December he drew applause and worldwide TV coverage for taking on the US. If it wasn't willing to lead the world in combating climate change, said Conrad, head of the Papua New Guinea delegation, the US should 'get out of the way.'"

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032508EA.shtml



Soot May Play Big Role in Climate Change

Tami Abdollah of The Los Angeles Times reports: "Black carbon pollution, or soot, produced by burning wood, coal, cow dung and diesel fuel, may be a much greater contributor to global warming than previously suspected, according to a study released this week."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032508EB.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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The San Francisco Chronicle's David R. Baker writes: "Chevron Corp. and other international oil companies are negotiating with the Iraq Ministry of Oil to begin tapping into some of the country's largest oil fields, according to published reports."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508T.shtml



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Steven Lee Myers and Thom Shanker of The New York Times say: "Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as they have been through most of the five years of war there, under plans presented to President Bush on Monday by the senior American commander and the top American diplomat in Iraq, senior administration and military officials said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508S.shtml



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Standing along the edge of the Gaza Strip and flanked by a hero of the Israeli military, Sen. John McCain last week invoked the tough rhetoric of President Bush, warning of Iranian influence in the Middle East and cautioning against negotiations with terrorists.

http://arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=108189&d=25&m=3&y=2008


From Information Clearing House



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The odds of Bush bombing Iran have gone up dramatically this week. There's just no other way to rationally interpret the resignation of Admiral William Fallon as head of Centcom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19604.htm



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Pakistan's new government will review the country's role in the US-led "war on terror," former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday after holding talks with a top American envoy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080325/wl_afp/pakistanpoliticsusdiplomacy


From Information Clearing House

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US steps up unilateral strikes in Pakistan

MSNBC

03/26/08

The United States has escalated its unilateral strikes against al-Qaeda members and fighters operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, partly because of anxieties that the country’s new leaders will insist on a scaling back of military operations in that country, according to U.S. officials. Washington is worried that pro-Western President Pervez Musharraf, who has generally supported the U.S. strikes, will almost certainly have reduced powers in the months ahead, and so it wants to inflict as much damage as it can to al-Qaeda’s network now, the officials said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23820893/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Congressional Democrats, including presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, have insisted that any agreement with Iraq that obligates U.S. troops to defend the country would require congressional approval.

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From Information Clearing House



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There are now worrying signs that action against the militia in Basra and arrest raids in Baghdad are jeopardising the ceasefire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7313062.stm


From Information Clearing House



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

Six people have been killed in a US air strike near the Iraqi town of Samarra, with some reports suggesting they were US-allied anti-al-Qaeda Sunni fighters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7309292.stm


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By Charles Sullivan

Neoconservatives derive much of their political strength from the portrayal of big government as the enemy of the people: a belief that plays only too well in America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19603.htm



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by Tom DeWeese

Which do you choose? A way of life where you are the master of your destiny, or one where virtually all decisions are made for you by one ruling body or another? It's the classic struggle facing every human on earth. Freedom or control. Truth be known, there are many who actually choose control. It makes for a well-ordered society with few surprises. In a controlled society, one doesn't have to make complicated career choices, health care is provided........

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom108.htm



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http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/03/21/02286.html


Informant: Neo Mulder

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/258a97bf1d77139a?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind137.html



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

http://www.cio.de/knowledgecenter/scm/851629/



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/liechty/liechty19.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/potter1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0325-11.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0324-09.htm

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): "The Truth About Veteran Suicides"
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0506-26.htm

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VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day

In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency's own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week -- 6,552 veterans per year -- commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3204.shtml



US: Vets' Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care

"The suicide problem is out of control," said Gordon Erspamer, an attorney representing the groups Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). "Our veterans deserve better."

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42077


From Information Clearing House

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"VA Lying About Number of Veteran Suicides"

Writing for McClatchy Newspapers, Les Blumenthal writes: "The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who've attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042608A.shtml



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7878



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7874/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7872/



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US-amerikanisch und britsiche Wissenschaftler berichten vom Auseinanderbrechen eines gewaltigen Schelfeisblockes.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/105524

World Food Programm: Immer mehr Bedürftige werden über die hohen Preisanstiege von den Nahrungsmittel-Märkten ausgeschlossen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27581/1.html

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World Food Program Issues 'Emergency Appeal' For Funds
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7869/

Der Verband der Freien Ärzteschaft hat erneut seinen Aufruf zu vorübergehenden Praxisschließungen in der Woche nach Ostern aus Protest gegen die Gesundheitspolitik begründet. Mit der Aktion wolle man "darauf aufmerksam machen", dass in Deutschland "eine Industrialisierung und Amerikanisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung" bevorstehe, sagte der Präsident der Freien Ärzteschaft, Martin Grauduszus, am 25. März im Nachrichtensender n-tv. Die Gesundheitsversorgung werde "für die Patienten viel teurer werden, die Arztpraxen werden reihenweise verschwinden, die Versorgung wird anonym in medizinischen Versorgungszentren an Kliniken durchgeführt werden", sagte Grauduszus.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17561



Angeblich steigende Krankenkassen-Beiträge durch Gesundheitsfonds

Wenige Monate vor dem Start des Gesundheitsfonds wächst die Sorge vor steigenden Kassenbeiträgen in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV). Der Chef der Kaufmännischen Krankenkasse (KKH), Ingo Kailuweit, rechnet "spätestens zum 1. Juli mit einer neuen Beitragserhöhungswelle". Auch der Wirtschaftsweise Bert Rürup sagte: "Es spricht einiges dafür, dass es zu einem Anstieg kommt." Das Gesundheitsministerium warf am 25. März Kailuweit unseriöse Behauptungen vor und wies auch die Kritik Rürups am geplanten Gesundheitsfonds zurück.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17562

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/032508_torture_bracelet.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
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By Chloe Lambert

Two phone masts will be built in Southfields despite complaints from hundreds of residents.

Last summer mobile phone giant Orange sparked outrage when it applied to build eight masts in the area.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/yrlrmd

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1463/135/


Informant: a

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Worried Just a Bit? Bush Launches Economic 'Shock and
Awe' on Iran

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1465/135/


Informant: Kev Hall



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

Reuters reports: "Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anbar's second city of Falluja, a former insurgent stronghold and scene of fierce battles with US forces in 2004, markets and car workshops are re-opening for business. But many say that growing anger at a lack of jobs, basic services and political progress threatens to shatter peace in the western province, which makes up about a third of Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anbar
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Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook report for ABC News: "As the mortgage crisis continues to unfold, the FBI says incidents of suspicious financial activity banks reported to the bureau has skyrocketed, jumping from 28,000 cases in 2005 to 48,000 last year. Among the factors fueling this two-year, 71 percent increase is a spike in scams targeting citizens facing foreclosure, one of which is known as the 'home foreclosure rescue scam.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508N.shtml



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The Associated Press reports: "Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that 'we are succeeding' and said he wouldn't change course - even as the US death toll rose to 4,000 and the war entered its sixth year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032508L.shtml



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By Danielle Beeton

Council bosses are in talks with legal experts over a mobile phone mast which was put up after an administrative mix-up.

Phone giant O2 erected the 15-metre mast in Ashdown Road, Farringdon, last year after wrongly receiving an approval letter from Sunderland City Council.

Now the council is embroiled in a legal battle to pull the mast down.

Read More...
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Legal-moves-in-phone-mast.3908173.jp

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/03/18/0319moore_edit.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/ed1e2a80443c6b12



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Frontiers of Freedom
by Helen and Peter Evans

03/24/08

Grover Norquist has just published a new book. Its title is ‘Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives.’ The ever-surprising founder of Americans for Tax Reform has given us a brilliant analysis of American society that sheds a revealing new light on politics and is actually fairly encouraging to Republicans as we approach this November’s presidential election...

http://tinyurl.com/3y3a6o


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Nolan Chart
by Jake Morphonios

03/24/08

The result of all of these actions has been the deliberate, persistent, and unnecessary erosion of the basic rights that protect every citizen and non-citizen in the United States. A free society demands the rule of law. Without it, democracy is meaningless...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article3273.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In These Times
by David Sirota

03/24/08

The Federal Reserve Bank’s decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed credit to Wall Street banks was met with a stunned reaction typical of surprising events. But really, the move was the expression of longstanding isms that routinely package corruption as sound public policy. Some background: During the housing boom, banks doled out home loans to financially strapped borrowers, often on predatory terms. On the creditor side, these same banks packaged many of the loans as complex securities and sold them off to unwitting investors, generating a handsome profit on the paper transactions. At the same time, Wall Street used campaign contributions to coerce Congress into blocking anti-predatory-lending bills and repealing a landmark law regulating how banks could buy and sell securities...

http://tinyurl.com/2tkxry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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BBC News [UK]

03/24/08

Teachers are accusing the Ministry of Defence of using ’sophisticated’ methods to lure youngsters, often in deprived areas, into the armed forces. National Union of Teachers delegates in Manchester will debate a motion later calling for an end to ‘recruitment’ in schools in England and Wales. Teachers say pupils are not made fully aware of what they are signing up to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7311917.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.counterpunch.org/maher03242008.html


Informant: Cort Greene



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

Ann Wright, John Brown and Brady Kiesling, writing in The Huffington Post, say: "Five years ago this month, the three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats bound by our oath of loyalty to the US Constitution. Our job was to build effective relationships with key figures outside the United States. We used our language skills, respectful curiosity, and understanding of local politics to promote US national interests as our president and secretary of state directed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Wright
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anniversary

Matt Kelley, reporting in USA Today, writes, "Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of 'special interest lobbyists,' yet dozens of lobbyists have political and financial ties to his presidential campaign - particularly from telecommunications companies, an industry he helps oversee in the Senate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408C.shtml



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Dean Baker, writing for Truthout, says: "Progressives usually fight for the interests of those at the middle and bottom at the expense of those on top. However, during this period of unprecedented financial crisis, when the Wall Street rich are begging for the helping hand of the government, most progressives appear to be on the sidelines. Rather than taking advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to reduce inequality and educate the public about how the economy really works, progressive voices have been unusually quiet."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408A.shtml



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Using Twitter to coordinate a huge protest.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/san-francisco-a.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese439.html



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In The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris write: "All that the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, a Reserve unit out of Cresaptown, Maryland, knew about America's biggest military prison in Iraq, when they arrived there in early October of 2003, was that it was on the front lines. Its official name was Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib. Never mind that military doctrine and the Geneva Conventions forbid holding prisoners in a combat zone, and require that they be sped to the rear; you had to make the opposite sort of journey to get to Abu Ghraib."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408S.shtml



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