World-News

The Associated Press's economics writer, Jeannine Aversa, reports, "The economy nearly sputtered out at the end of the year and is probably faring even worse now amid continuing housing, credit and financial crises."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708E.shtml



Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis

Vikas Bajaj, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "Little by little, millions of Americans surrendered equity in their homes in recent years. Lulled by good times, they borrowed - sometimes heavily - against the roofs over their heads. Now the bill is coming due."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=equity+loans
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0327-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+deaths

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/27/7912/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/27/7934/



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Für das Fortkommen der IKB muss vor allem der Steuerzahler bluten.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27593/1.html

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

The editors of The New York Times write, "With foreclosures surging, the last thing the nation needs is another government-hosted meeting where mortgage lenders pledge once again to do their utmost to help distressed borrowers stay in their homes - and then go back to the business of foreclosure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708P.shtml



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

Justine Sharrock reports for Mother Jones: "When I first set off to interview the rank-and-file guards and interrogators tasked with implementing the administration's torture guidelines, I thought they'd never talk openly. They would be embarrassed, wracked by guilt, living in silent shame in communities that would ostracize them if they knew of their histories. What I found instead were young men hiding their regrets from neighbors who wanted to celebrate them as war heroes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708N.shtml

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In Iraq, Was I a Torturer?

By Justine Sharrock

When 27-year-old Ben Allbright returned from Iraq, he was treated like a hero. But he is haunted by the "harsh interrogations" he oversaw.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19615.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+heroes

The Associated Press reports: "Behind the Pentagon's closed doors, US military leaders told President Bush Wednesday they are worried about the Iraq war's mounting strain on troops and their families. But they indicated they'd go along with a brief halt in pulling out troops this summer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=strain+on+troops

Declan Walsh reports for The Guardian UK: "The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan's new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment.... On Tuesday, senior coalition partner Nawaz Sharif gave the visiting Americans a public scolding for using Pakistan as a 'killing field' and relying too much on Musharraf."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708L.shtml

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Pakistanis' anger over U.S. 'meddling'

Pakistanis expressed growing outrage today over the timing of a visit by two senior U.S. envoys who landed even before foes of U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf could name a new Cabinet, decrying the visit as American "meddling."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5652337.html



A chill ushers in new diplomatic order in Pakistan

If it was not yet clear to Washington that a new political order prevailed here, the three-day visit this week by America's chief diplomat dealing with Pakistan should put any doubt to rest.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/28/asia/28pstan.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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Agence France-Presse reports: "Heavy fighting erupted in a bastion of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra on Thursday, witnesses said, as military operations against gunmen in the southern city entered a third day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708J.shtml



Thousands in Baghdad Protest Basra Assault

James Glanz and Graham Bowley for The New York Times report, "In direct confrontation with the American-backed government in Iraq, thousands of supporters of the powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia took to the streets of Baghdad on Thursday to protest the Iraqi Army's assault on the southern port city of Basra, as intense fighting continued there for a third day."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032708R.shtml



Stalled Assault on Basra Exposes the Iraqi Government's Shaky Authority

Patrick Cockburn, reporting for The Independent, writes: "Instead of being a show of strength, the government's stalled assault is demonstrating its shaky authority over much of Baghdad and southern Iraq. As the situation spins out of Mr. Maliki's control, saboteurs blew up one of the two main oil export pipelines near Basra, cutting by a third crude exports from the oilfields around the city."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032808B.shtml



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



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Council nets over £5,000 in rent

MOBILE phone masts located in Mexborough netted Doncaster Council more than £5,000 in rent last year.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that Orange paid DMBC £1,738 for its mast at Mexborough High School while T Mobile shelled out £3,500 for its masts at nurseries in the town.

Across the borough as a whole Doncaster Council made £72,871.75 from eleven masts.

Read More...
http://www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk/news/Profits-from-phone-masts-fuel.3914724.jp

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Phone masts net council £72,000

Campaigners raise fears about health

By Kate Liptrot

MOBILE phone masts in public areas such as schools, nurseries and council buildings netted Doncaster Council more that £70,000 in rent last year.
But campaigners remain concerned that the masts could cause long term health problems after claims of cancer clusters around masts in other parts of the country.

In total, Doncaster Council made £72,871.75 from the eleven masts located at Rossington High School, Mexborough High School, Mexborough Nurseries, Council House, Bentley ITEC and the racecourse.

Read More...
http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/free/Phone-masts-net-council-72000.3921785.jp

„Ein Besucher unserer Website, der ungenannt bleiben möchte, hat uns ein Papier zur Verfügung gestellt, in dem er nachweist, dass die Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit ihrem ausufernden Niedriglohnsektor eindeutig das in der Europäischen Sozialcharta festgeschriebene Recht auf ein gerechtes Arbeitsentgelt konterkariert. Wir übernehmen dieses Papier in redigierter Form…“ Artikel vom 20. März 2008 bei forced labour http://www.forced-labour.de/archives/706


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2008



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

„Wir die „Unabhängige Bürgerinitiative für ein Referendum über den EU – Vertrag !“ fordern Sie auf zur Mithilfe im Kampf, um die Demokratie in Europa. Ein Zusammenschluss von österreichischen Bürgerinitiativen und Organisationen veranstalten am 29.03.2008 in Wien eine Demonstration für ein Referendum über den EU – Vertrag. Wir als unabhängige Bürgerinitiative, ein Zusammenschluss von Studenten, die durch einen Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Schachtschneider aufmerksam geworden sind, haben beschlossen eine Unterstützungsdemonstration zu veranstalten und für ein Referendum in Deutschland zu kämpfen…“ Aus dem Aufruf von Unabhängige Bürgerinitiative "Für ein Referendum über den EU-Vertrag!"

Siehe dazu:

Demo in Berlin für ein Referendum über den EU-Vertrag!

Wir treffen uns um 13 Uhr an der Weltzeituhr, laufen dann eine kleine Runde. Um 14 Uhr gibt es eine Kundgebung. Ende ist gegen 15 Uhr. Siehe das Flugblatt zur Demo (pdf) http://eu-vertrag-stoppen.de/Bilder/demoberlin.pdf

Demo in Essen für ein Referendum über den EU-Vertrag!

Samstag, 29.03.2008. Start: Willy-Brandt-Platz (hinterm Bahnhof) um 11 Uhr, Abschlusskundgebung: 12.30 Uhr Kennedyplatz. Siehe das Flugblatt zur Demo (pdf) http://eu-vertrag-stoppen.de/Bilder/demoessen.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2008

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"Diese Ermächtigungsklauseln lassen schon an schlimmere Zeiten denken"

Ein Interview mit Professor Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider zum Lissabon-Vertrag, Teil 1.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28372/1.html



Aufrüstungsgebot, EuGH und Korruptionsanreize

Ein Interview von Peter Mühlbauer in telepolis vom 23.07.2008 mit
Professor Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider zum Lissabon-Vertrag, Teil 2.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28379/1.html



Weltwirtschaftliches Wirken der EU, Parteienstaat und Ethnogenese

Ein Interview mit Professor Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider zum Lissabon-Vertrag, Teil 3.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28391/1.html



Politiker, Journalisten und Wähler in der Authentizitätsfalle

Was für eine erfolgreiche Karriere in Politik und Wirtschaft unentbehrlich ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28396/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EU-Vertrag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lissabon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Schachtschneider

Artikel von Elmar Altvater in Freitag vom 28.03.2008 http://www.freitag.de/2008/13/08130101.php

Aus dem Text: „…Anders als beim Pokern kommt beim Börsenspiel die Zentralbank zum Zug und rüstet die Spieler mit neuem Spielgeld aus, so dass aus der Kredit- eine Preisinflation wird. Die Zentralbanken und die Aufsichtsbehörden konnten oder wollten das nicht verhindern. Ansonsten hätten sie den Zockern auf die Finger klopfen müssen - stattdessen verkünden sie harte Eingriffe gegen die Preisinflation. Lohnforderungen, um das Dahinschmelzen von Realeinkommen zu verhindern, will der EZB-Präsident unbedingt zinspolitisch unterbinden. Die Spekulationssuppe sollen also diejenigen auslöffeln, die am wenigsten dafür können, dass sie ungenießbar ist. Wenn die Steuerzahler für die Verluste gerade stehen, sollen sie auch die Institute kontrollieren dürfen, durch die Vergesellschaftung oder Verstaatlichung von Banken etwa…“


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2008



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

Ärzte wollen sich dem Einfluß der Konzerne entziehen und sich stärker am Wohl der Patienten orientieren. Ein Interview von Gitta Düperthal mit Eckhard Schreiber-Weber, Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin in Bad Salzuflen und Vorstandsmitglied der Initiative »Mein Essen zahl’ ich selbst« (MEZIS), in der jungen Welt vom 26.03.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/03-26/050.php

Siehe dazu:

»Mein Essen zahl’ ich selbst« (MEZIS)

Homepage der Initiative unbestechlicher Ärztinnen und Ärzte http://www.mezis.de/


Vier Konzerne beherrschen Klinikmarkt

„Nun hat Deutschland selbst die USA überrundet. In keinem anderen vergleichbaren Industrieland werden so viele und so große Krankenhäuser an private Investoren verkauft. Dies belegt eine aktuelle Erhebung der Gewerkschaft Verdi, die dem Tagesspiegel vorliegt. Der Marktanteil renditeorientierter Klinikkonzerne liegt hierzulande inzwischen bei 14,1 Prozent - in den Vereinigten Staaten sind es 14,0 Prozent. Höher ist die Rate nur noch in Frankreich, wo allerdings in den vergangenen zehn Jahren kein einziges Krankenhaus mehr privatisiert wurde. Außerdem gehörten die Häuser dort meist kleinen lokal verwurzelten Trägern, von denen die Hälfte gar keinen Erwerbscharakter habe, sagte Verdi-Experte Niko Stumpfögger. Kliniken mit mehr als 70 Betten befänden sich in Frankreich fast ausnahmslos in öffentlicher Trägerschaft…“ Artikel im Tagesspiegel vom 21.03.2008 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/Gesundheit-Klinken;art271,2498745


Aus: LabourNet, 27. März 2008



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

National Review
by the editors

03/26/08

Democrats have long been counting on the Iraq war being a big political bonus this fall, but that is by no means guaranteed. McCain is a staunch supporter of the war who is not associated with its initial failures because he was warning against them from the beginning. As early as November 2003 he gave a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations that identified the need for a surge in Iraq, even if no one was calling it that yet...

http://tinyurl.com/27w2d7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Council+on+Foreign+Relations
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Consortium News
by Nat Parry

03/26/08

Mainstream American journalists and politicians have a new excuse for why they were so oblivious to the Iraq War risks five years ago — that no one could have foreseen the likely disaster. But that simply isn’t true: many brave people spoke up but were ignored...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/032608b.html?menu=


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nat+Parry

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

03/26/08

Some workers are doing it at Dunkin’ Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure — information that is automatically reflected in payroll records...

http://tinyurl.com/24wms7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Hartford Courant's Monica Polanco reports: "AFSCME has filed a complaint against the Connecticut Bar Association, alleging that it fired an employee for union organizing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032608LB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AFSCME
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In The Albany Times Union, Ed Ludwig says, "The furious moans and groans about gasoline and heating oil prices have been met with a public-be-damned attitude from the oil industry - and nothing is being done to rectify the problem."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/032608EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
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This week, Bill Moyers Journal asks, "Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed?"

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



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

The Associated Press reports: "About 60 protesters opposed to the US Federal Reserve's help in bailing out Bear Stearns (BSC.N) entered the lobby of the investment bank's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday, demanding assistance for struggling homeowners."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bear+Stearns
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
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Truthout's Maya Schenwar and Christopher Kuttruff report: "As conflicts swell in Basra and Baghdad, the Maliki government, supported by the Bush administration, claims it is subduing terrorism and cracking down on militia violence. However, the attacks on the Sadr forces may be primarily motivated by electoral politics and oil control, according to policy experts following Iraq's civil conflict closely."

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

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Iraq ruling elite needs US troops to stay in power

Sabah al Nasseri: Gov. attack on Sadr movement meant to prevent their election victory.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1254&thisview=item

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Why al-Maliki Attacked Basra

By Juan Cole

The three reasons the Iraqi prime minister launched his ill-fated assault on the Sadrists of southern Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19666.htm



Who Is Iraq's "Firebrand Cleric"?

Veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn explains why Muqtada al-Sadr is no maverick.

By Justin Elliot

If there were elections tomorrow he would probably sweep Shia Baghdad and most of the south. He's not going to take over the whole of Iraq because Iraq is such a divided place these days. The Kurds are never going to let the Arabs take over their chunk, and the Sunni are going to fight like tigers to keep the Shia from taking over their areas.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19665.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Muqtada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadrists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militia+violence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadrists
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Kuttruff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Juan+Cole
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

The price of the average home was 11 per cent lower than a year ago, the S&P Case-Shiller index showed yesterday, as repossessed homes flood the market - and economists predict that the price adjustment may belittle more than half over.

http://tinyurl.com/3bppuy



Down day on Wall Street

Stocks tumbled Wednesday as weak economic news, spiking commodity prices and a bearish analyst note on investment firm earnings gave investors a reason to bail after the recent advance.

http://tinyurl.com/3yv5sr


From Information Clearing House



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

Hillary Clinton has been challenged over claims she came under sniper fire while visiting Bosnia.

http://tinyurl.com/39bhwn


From Information Clearing House



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

"Pakistan cannot be made a killing field for the interests of others,'' Sharif told reporters yesterday after meeting with U.S. government officials in Islamabad, the capital.

http://tinyurl.com/3bqnxx


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sharif
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The US blames the latest attacks on rogue Mahdi Army elements tied to Iran, but analysts say the spike in fighting with Shiite militants potentially opens a second front in the war when the American military is still doing battle with the Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0326/p01s13-woiq.html



Mahdi Army Stands Firm in its Basra Neighborhoods

By Juan Cole

The US faced a dilemma in Iraq. It needed to have new provincial elections in an attempt to mollify the Sunni Arabs, especially in Sunni-majority provinces like Diyala, which has nevertheless been ruled by the Shiite Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. But if they have provincial elections, their chief ally, the Islamic Supreme Council, might well lose southern provinces to the Sadr Movement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19625.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi+Army
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By M K Bhadrakumar

The coming few weeks are going to be critical in the standoff between the United States and Iran as the upheaval in the Middle East reaches a turning point. And all options do remain on the table, as the George W Bush administration likes to say, from military conflict to a de facto acceptance of Iran's standing as the region's dominant power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19610.htm



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/1b740a015a7e5d7d?hl=en



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

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Thompson_Files_The_US_Navy_and_Iran_999.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/26/iraq_debate/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind138.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard55.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north616.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff199.html



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

http://journal.telospress.com/cgi/reprint/2007/139/170.pdf


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hurricane+Katrina
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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Penny+Coleman

http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2008/260308Playas.htm



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/14a52ba31583ac72?hl=en



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

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



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

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



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

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.
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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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Report Of WTC Collapse Cover-Up Justifies Call For New Inquiry
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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/

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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?

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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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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...

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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)

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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...

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BASRA: SHIITE ELITES FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE

Pepe Escobar on fighting in Basra
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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."

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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.

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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.

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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/


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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.

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From Information Clearing House



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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.

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From Information Clearing House



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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.

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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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