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Friends of the Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0416-02.htm

Wissenschaftlerin warnt vor den Folgen schmelzender Gletscher.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/106545



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Fell kritisiert Gabriel wegen Kohlepolitik

Der Grünen-Politiker Hans-Josef Fell kritisierte am 16. April das vehemente Eintreten von Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) für neue Kohlekraftwerke. "Was wir bei Gabriel beobachten können, ist die Wandlung vom Klimaschutz- zum Kohleschutzminister", so Fell. "Minister Gabriel, von Umweltminister traut man sich ja gar nicht mehr zu reden, wird mehr und mehr Erfüllungsgehilfe der Interessen der Konzerne. E.On, Vattenfall, RWE und EnBW betreiben allesamt Atom- und Kohlekraftwerke." Wer für neue, zentrale Kohlekraftwerke spricht, vertrete automatisch auch die Interessen der Atomkonzerne. "Der aggressive, einseitige und für einen Umweltminister unwürdige Einsatz für Kohlekraftwerke lässt schlimme Erinnerungen hochkommen. Die ehemaligen Minister Werner Müller, Wolfgang Clement und selbst Ex-Kanzler Schröder erhielten nach ihrem politischen Einsatz für die Interessen großer Energiekonzerne von diesen hinterher als Dank hochdotierte Posten", so Fell.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17759



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Kevin G. Hall reports for McClatchy Newspapers, "With an eye toward shoring up shaky financial markets, Treasury Department officials unveiled a plan Tuesday to provide greater transparency and management of risk in hedge funds. However, the Bush administration's 'best practices' proposal is voluntary, and less than two dozen of the more than 8,000 registered hedge funds signed onto the plan." In related news, Jenny Anderson reports for The New York Times, "Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street's rarefied realms. One manager, John Paulson, made $3.7 billion last year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041608P.shtml



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Stephen Labaton and David M. Herszenhorn report for The New York Times, "The Senate proclaimed a fierce bipartisan resolve two weeks ago to help American homeowners in danger of foreclosure. But while a bill that senators approved last week would take modest steps toward that goal, it would also provide billions of dollars in tax breaks - for automakers, airlines, alternative energy producers and other struggling industries, as well as home builders."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041608L.shtml



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ISIS Press Release 16/04/08

The GM industry has been ailing at least as far back as
2005, but kept alive by an aggressive campaign of disinformation. GM Watch ( http://www.gmwatch.org ) brings you the latest GM failures 2007-2008

GM cotton debacle in India

GM cotton has been failing in India and elsewhere for years [1] (Broken Promises, SiS 22), escalating the epidemic of farmers’ suicides [2] (Stem Farmers’ Suicides with Organic Farming, SiS 32). Unfortunately, the Indian government has allowed the commercial planting to continue with drastic consequences.

BT cotton failed in Vidarbha

A study on the introduction of Bt cotton in India’s cotton- growing belt of Vidarbha revealed that it failed in the region. Suman Sahai, director of Gene Campaign, which conducted the study, said that despite knowing that Bt cotton would not work in rainfed areas, the state government introduced it. The high input costs of Bt cotton increased indebtedness, and the study showed that 70 per cent of small farmers lost their landholdings as collateral for loans that they could never repay.

The study also showed that farmers who adopted Bt cotton had a net lower income than non-Bt cotton farmers. Seed dealers had promised farmers that they would get 12–15 quintals per acre when the actual yields were 3–5 quintals [3]

In February 2007, five districts of Vidarbha where Bt cotton was widely adopted reported nearly 1 500 farmers committing suicide in the previous 20 months [4].

More livestock deaths from grazing Bt cotton

With reports of deaths of livestock that had grazed on Bt cotton in 2006 still fresh [5] (Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton, SiS 30), more deaths and illnesses in sheep and goats were seen in the early months of 2007. Symptoms included bloating of the stomach, black patches on the intestines, lung congestion, green and red mucus flow from nostrils, reddish urine, sneezing, and skin allergies. Women cotton pickers also reported skin allergies [6], another problem with Bt cotton reported widely in 2006 [7] (More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops, SiS 30).

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HLV-Info-080415-027-kb
15.04.2008

10.04.2008

Weg mit "akustischer Verschmutzung"

Die Beschwerden häufen sich. Das Telefonieren mit dem Handy ist nicht überall gern gesehen. Besonders in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln kann das Telefonieren der anderen zu einer regelrechten Qual nicht nur zu den Stoßzeiten werden. Von Kochrezepten, Liebesschwüren, hastig durchgegebenen Einkaufslisten und dergleichen fühlt sich so mancher Fahrgast belästigt. Kritiker sehen darin eine Lärmbelästigung und eine "akustische Umweltverschmutzung"...

http://orf.at/080410-23844/index.html

http://www.schritte-zur-abruestung.de/2008/eu-email.php

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Die Linke will im Bundestag gegen neuen EU-Vertrag stimmen

Die Linke wird nach den Worten ihres Parteivorsitzenden Lothar Bisky am 24. April im Bundestag den EU-Reformvertrag ablehnen. Dieser Vertrag von Lissabon richte sich letztlich gegen ein soziales und friedliches Europa, sagte Bisky am 21. April in Berlin zur Begründung. Er räumte zwar ein, dass mit dem Vertragswerk die Europäische Union demokratischer und die Abstimmungen transparenter würden. Doch überwögen die Nachteile im Vertrag die Vorteile, was auch von Gewerkschaften und Friedensbewegung so gesehen werde. "Wir stehen mit unserer Kritik nicht allein da", betonte Bisky. Daher sollten die Bürger selbst über den EU-Vertrag abstimmen können und Deutschland nicht nur im parlamentarischen Verfahren dem europäischen Grundlagenvertrag seine Zustimmung erteilen. Für ein entsprechendes Referendum habe die Linke bislang mehr als 10.000 Unterschriften gesammelt.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17799

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Friedensbewegung und Attac kritisieren EU-Reformvertrag

Wie schon sein Vorgänger, die EU-Verfassung, sei auch der Reformvertrag "undemokratisch, neoliberal und militaristisch", heißt es in dem Aufruf, der derzeit innerhalb friedensbewegter und globalisierungskritischer Gruppen kursiert. Er fordert dazu auf, über die Inhalte des Reformvertrages zu informieren und Druck auf die jeweiligen Abgeordneten auszuüben, am 25. April im Bundestag und am 23. Mai im Bundesrat gegen dessen Ratifikation zu stimmen. Die Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft hat hierfür eine Internetseite eingerichtet, mit der eine ausführliche Argumentation "gegen die Neuorganisation politischer Herrschaft in Europa" an die Vertreter aus den jeweiligen Wahlkreisen geschickt werden kann.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17808



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Fauler Kompromiss

16. April 2008

Zur jetzt vorliegenden Einigung des Innenministers und der Justizministerin auf ein Prozedere für Online-Durchsuchungen erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Die gute Nachricht: Die Polizei darf nicht heimlich in Wohnungen einbrechen, auch nicht zur Installation von Spähprogrammen für heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen. Das beunruhigende an dieser Nachricht ist, dass sich der Innenminister diesen Verfassungsbruch durchaus vorstellen konnte und erst durch die Justizministerin auf den Pfad der Verfassung zurückgeführt werden musste. Die schlechte Nachricht: Das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung wird auch bei Online-Durchsuchungen unter strengen Auflagen verletzt. Es bleibt abzuwarten, ob das vom Bundesverfassungsgericht geschaffene Grundrecht auf "Gewährleistung der Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme" dem immer massiver werdenden Drang der Sicherheitsbehörden nach Telefon- und Telekommunikationsüberwachung standhalten kann. Dieser Beweis steht noch aus. DIE LINKE bleibt dabei: Der Schutz von Bürgerrechten muss Priorität haben. Alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger müssen das Recht haben, über persönliche Daten zu bestimmen. Deshalb bleiben wir bei unserer prinzipiellen Ablehnung von Online-Durchsuchungen.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/fauler-kompromiss-1/

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Akustische und optische Überwachung von Wohnungen

Schäuble und Zypries wollen heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen privater Computer

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat Online-Durchsuchungen weitestgehend verboten und in nur eng begrenztem Rahmen zugelassen. Jetzt haben sich Innenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) und Justizministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) auf vorläufige Modalitäten zur Einführung von heimlichen Online-Durchsuchungen privater Computer geeinigt. Über den Inhalt der Einigung ist bislang nicht viel zu erfahren. Nur so viel: Zur Installation von Spähprogrammen solle die entsprechende Wohnung vorher nicht betreten werden. Und: Das Vorhaben stehe in Einklang mit dem Verfassungsgerichtsurteil. Der frühere Bundesinnenminister Baum bleibt skeptisch: Er werde "am Ende des Gesetzgebungsprozesses" entscheiden, ob er noch einmal vor das Bundesverfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe ziehen müsse, kündigte er an. Baum hatte dort zu Jahresbeginn mit anderen Klägern gegen die nordrhein-westfälische Regelung zu Online-Durchsuchungen geklagt und Recht bekommen. Die Richter hatten die Ausspähung auf Baums Klage hin für grundgesetzwidrig erklärt und hohe Hürden für dieses Ermittlungsinstrument errichtet. Die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion meldete möglichen Widerstand an. Die Union warnte die SPD vor einer Bremserrolle. Die Opposition wandte sich gegen eine zu starken Überwachung der Bürger. Grund: Der Entwurf des BKA-Gesetzes sieht offenbar unter anderem auch eine akustische und optische Überwachung von Wohnungen vor.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17750



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Common Dreams
by Stacey Warde

04/15/08

For nearly eight years, I’ve tried without success to describe the radical shift that has taken place in our government. Each time I’ve approached the task, I’ve had to throw up my hands in frustration because the only model that makes sense to me is the one called fascism. But that word doesn’t go over too well in polite conversation. It evokes horrors too horrible to imagine. The reality, however, is that fascism isn’t just about jackbooted thugs and state-sponsored industry built on slavery and death to one’s enemies. The danger of fascism is its seemingly benign mechanisms of control - fear, conformity, the state’s intermingling with religion and corporate enterprise - for keeping a populace in check, for making its people feel content with the way things are and never quick to protest occasional violations of human rights and infringements on their or another’s liberties...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/15/8315/


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What I heard at the Petraeus-Crocker hearings

Center For Individual Freedom
by John Cornyn

04/10/08

America’s top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday that we are making significant progress there. They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve. But was anybody really listening? Just this morning, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said the following on the Senate floor: ‘Is the war in Iraq making America safer? By all accounts, the answer…is ‘no’’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

04/15/08

U.S. diplomats may be forced to serve in Iraq next year if enough qualified candidates do not apply for certain jobs, the State Department warned employees Tuesday. A similar threat to call up diplomats last year drew fire among foreign service officers. Many of them objected to being forced to work in a war zone, even though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iraq was the department’s priority...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing," with ensuing store closures "expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country," writes Michael Barbaro for the Times.

http://tinyurl.com/5u6e8y


From Information Clearing House



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The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.

http://tinyurl.com/42hm4f



Your Internet provider is watching you

Fine print reveals that you have fewer rights than you might realize.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23957172


From Information Clearing House



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"When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip," Biden, a Democrat, said in excerpts of remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at Georgetown University.

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Nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of more than 4,000 respondents in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said they held a "very unfavourable" attitude of the United States, up from 57 percent in late 2006.

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From Information Clearing House

The announcement Monday on the ministry's Web site is a major move that could bring foreign oil companies en masse into Iraq since the third-largest oil sector in the world was nationalized three decades ago.

http://tinyurl.com/63bs4c



Iraq May Be Required To Pay For Its Own Destruction: Iraq's financial free ride may end

From the fiercest foes of the war to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq's surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up more of the tab.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_free_ride_over


From Information Clearing House



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By Debnath Guharoy

Systemic deception has become acceptable culture in too many boardrooms, with nothing more than a wink and a nod required down the chain of command. When it gets to a point that an accountant is unable to explain complex new financial instruments and their equally befuddling acronyms, disaster cannot be far away.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19750.htm



Credit Crunch? The Real Crisis is Global Hunger

By George Monbiot

A food recession is under way. Biofuels are a crime against humanity, but - take it from a flesh eater - flesh eating is worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19751.htm

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Hunger Hypocrites

Le Monde's editorialist points out "those who are the most generous today [in alleviating poor countries' hunger] are those perhaps the most responsible for this planetary malfunction."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041808G.shtml



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By Jim Meyers

"Israel is preparing for heavy casualties," the source said, suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19746.htm



Iran would 'eliminate Israel' if attacked

"We are not worried by Israeli manoeuvres, but if Israel takes such action against the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will eliminate it from the global arena," Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

http://tinyurl.com/4dfn45


From Information Clearing House



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From ufpj-news

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Biofuel: The Burning Question

Cahal Milmo of The Independent UK says, "A formidable coalition of campaigners is warning that, far from helping to reverse climate change, the UK's biofuel revolution will speed up global warming and the loss of vital habitat worldwide."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041508EC.shtml



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Steven Rosenfeld, in an excerpt from his new book "Loser Take All," states: "The GOP may have committed massive vote fraud in plain sight by encouraging widespread voter purges and restricting registration campaigns ... Since the 2004 election, activist lawyers with ties to the Republican Party and its presidential campaigns, Republican legislators, and even the Supreme Court - in a largely unnoticed ruling in 2006 - have been aggressively regulating most aspects of the voting process."

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Lynn Adler reports for Reuters: "Home foreclosure filings surged 57 percent in the 12 month-period ended in March and bank repossessions soared 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday. For the month of March, foreclosure filings, default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions rose 5 percent, led by Nevada, California and Florida, RealtyTrac said."

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Michael T. Klare writing for TomDispatch.com observes: "Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels. Jet fuel so expensive that three low-cost airlines stopped flying in the past few weeks. This is just a taste of the latest energy news, signaling a profound change in how all of us, in this country and around the world, are going to live..."

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- France 5 Magazine de la Santé 15 04 2008: "le Sommeil . . . " (vidéo HD)
http://www.next-up.org/pages/SommeilEtCemSleepAndEmf.php#2

IWF und die Weltbank warnen, die steigende Zahl von Hungernden gefährde schon jetzt die politische Stabilität vieler Länder.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27729/1.html

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Biosprit gefährdet auch Biodiversität

Besonders warme Regionen von eingeführten Pflanzen bedroht. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683725ms102



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Mercury: a common cause of chronic conditions
http://www.flcv.com/leakyghg.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism

Dear Dorothee: Thank you for this email and the other two I received this morning. These are important studies and as you know, the issue re thimerosol is finally gaining more attention.

The same is true for virtually any medication or even supplements. Vitamins A, B, C, E and ohers are reported as becoming toxic -- intolerances are occuring even with relatively small doses.

One prescription medication after another is causing serious adverse effects -- doesn't seem to matter whether the drug is for depression, bi-polar, etc., arthritis, cholesterol-lowering or even an antibiotic. I just dealt with serious changes in Bud re pneumonia when he developed hallucinations after he began taking Doxycycline. Magnetic field readings averaged 6.5 mg in his bedroom -- I do not know electric field measurement. He has no appliances, telephone equipment, waterpipes or improper wiring close to the head of his bed although the gas meter's electric field may still be too close to his bed. I use the gaussmeter as "an investigative tool" only. No electric or telephone equipment should be closer to one's bed than a minimum of 3 ft., regardless of the magnetic field measurement in or on one's bed..

These are all reasons why the sort of studies Olle and his colleagues are willing to conduct if and when funding comes their way, are so vital.

As with most of today's studies, almost no "focused attention" is directed toward evaluating electric and telephone bed exposures. The infant/toddler who develops autism may have a monitor in or under their crib. The child may be sleeping close to an electric meter or gas meter or other chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR source. The child may have an "EMF friendly bedroom" but may spend most of the night in bed with his or her parents.

As with the overall EMF issue, studies and claims re the amount of thimerosol in vaccines continue to be ambiguous and/or largely inconclusive in conjunction with proving causality.

We know that EMF/EMR appears to exacerbate the function of metals in humans and animals in a uniquely harmful way. In our family, my guinea pig studies, as well as some of my research, that applies whether natural, injected or consumed.

You may recall that the veterinarian/pathologist at the University of Minnesota was looking for some sort of metal overload in my guinea pig, Kelley -- the one who developed Reactive Renal Amyloidosis (considered to be "rare") after about 2-1/2 years living in our basement where milligauss readings ranged between 3.5 mg and 4.5 mg on average. There is a sewer pipe in the floor right under the desk that held the cage. I do not know the corresponding electric field reading.

None of what I write means we should be any less concerned about the mercury itself, it is just that I believe the numbers of autism-spectrum disorders would be significantly higher if the thimeosol is the only culprit. I commend you and ohers for your efforts to bring attention to the dangers of mercury but believe we must also emphasize the urgent need to study the probable exacerbated effects of thimerosol injection in animals under exposures simulating chronic, close nighttime exposures versus animals and/or cells not similarly exposed.

I hope you are enjoying spring -- best wishes and take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com ( 4-20-08 )

WEBSITE: http://guineapigsrus.org

ARE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN GUINEA PIGS? Letter 7-22-04 by Joanne Mueller
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/

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Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/4f015eeb778b66ea?hl=en



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Melting Mountains Called a Water "Time Bomb"

Reuters reports that: "Glaciers and mountain snow are melting earlier in the year than usual, meaning the water has already gone when millions of people need it during the summer when rainfall is lower, scientists warned on Monday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041608EA.shtml



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Out-Law.com - London, England, UK

Ofcom has failed to prevent the publication of its searchable database of
mobile phone mast locations after the High Court backed a ruling by the ...
http://www.out-law.com/page-9048



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EU-Kommission will europaweit Handy-Telefonate im Flugzeug ermöglichen
http://www.netzeitung.de/reise/965439.html

Österreicher gegen Handy-Telefonieren im Flugzeug
http://derstandard.at/?id=3302788

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Heise 8-04-08

Luftraum über Europa wird eine große Mobilfunkzone

Die EU-Kommission hat Bestimmungen für den Betrieb von Mobilfunkdiensten an Bord von Flugzeugen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft erlassen. Ziel sei der Aufbau eines "ersten echten europaweiten Telekommunikationsdienstes".

Mehr... http://www.heise.de/mobil/Luftraum-ueber-Europa-wird-eine-grosse-Mobilfunkzone--/newsticker/meldung/106135

By Pepe Escobar

Happy Days are here again. It's as if the George W Bush years in Afghanistan had never left, with Washington still wallowing in an intelligence-free environment. A surge is coming to town - just like the one General David Petraeus engineered in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22681.htm



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Margaret Kriz reports for The National Journal, "The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to live up to its name these days, its legions of critics agree. At a time when the nation's top environmental regulators face increasingly complex pollution problems, President Bush is pushing for dramatic cuts in EPA's budget, his administration's strained, pro-industry interpretations of environmental laws have repeatedly been laughed out of court, and the White House is widely perceived to be running roughshod over agency scientists and lawyers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041508J.shtml



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The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

04/14/08

With the threat of their citizens not being able to board an airplane or enter a federal building, New Hampshire, Maine, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, and Montana have enacted laws that basically tell the federal government to pound sand because we will never comply with the Real ID requirement. Other States are also contemplating noncompliance. For those Americans who still have the ability to think and reason, this legislation and the defiance by the States should trigger some questions...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/08/04/14/greenslade.htm


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CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

04/14/08

Last week’s congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran….. According to the neocon propaganda, the “special groups” (have you ever heard of them before?) are breakaway elements of al Sadr’s militia.Nonsensical on its face, the Petraeus/Crocker testimony is just another ploy in the macabre theatre of lies that the Bush regime has told in order to justify its wars of naked aggression against Muslims...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts04142008.html


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Seattly Post-Intelligencer
by staff

04/14/08

The image of CIA officers demonstrating and detailing torture techniques considered for use during detainee interrogations in the White House is one most Americans could probably never conceive. And yet, ABC News reported last week that senior Bush administration officials were privy to such presentations in the Situation Room as they discussed and approved the brutal treatment (such as waterboarding) of terror suspects. They also approved combining various techniques to be used on a suspect...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/358752_tortureed.html


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Fred On Everything
by Fred Reed

04/14/08

Whenever I see that some dismal general will testify to Congress regarding the war against Iraq, I imagine the first paragraph of his Power Point presentation:“All metrics show a downsurge in the violence in Iraq, and a continuing improvement in indicators of the production of a better life. Next slide. The Iranians are aiding the enemies of America, and must be bombed. This is a recording.”

What solemn, fraudulent, emetic mummery. Congressmen will—do—ask the General puffball questions, after which they will do whatever the President tells them to do. I can make no criticism of this. It is the American way. Still, may I suggest a few questions I would like to see the General, any general, asked?

http://fredoneverything.net/TestifyingGenerals.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

04/14/08

One of the few positive developments from the housing bubble is that many mainstream economists have recognized the pernicious role played by the Federal Reserve. Indeed, some analysts on CNBC have discussed the outright abolition of the Fed. The case against the Fed is straightforward: In an attempt to jumpstart the economy out of recession, Greenspan slashed the federal funds target from 6.5% in January 2001 down to a ridiculous 1% by June 2003...

http://mises.org/story/2936


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Miami Herald

04/14/08

Media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi won a decisive victory Monday in Italy’s parliamentary election, setting the colorful conservative and staunch U.S. ally on course to his third stint as premier. The victory in voting Sunday and Monday by parties supporting the 71-year-old Berlusconi avenged his loss two years ago to a center-left coalition...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/495101.html


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MSNBC

04/14/08

The Red Cross criticized the way the U.S. handles prisoners at the highly secretive Bagram military base, urging reforms Monday that would allow detainees to introduce testimony in their defense. The criticism of the prison, which few outsiders have seen, goes to the heart of the system the Bush administration uses to justify holding detainees outside the U.S. ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24113371/


From Information Clearing House



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Friends of U.S. Democracy,

Congress votes tomorrow on funding paper ballots and paper ballot voting systems for November. Tell them "Vote Yes!"

http://tinyurl.com/6by9w5

Tell Your Congressional Representative to Vote for HR 5036 "The Emergency Election Assistance for Secure Elections Act"

You can contact your Representative's office directly also. See http://www.house.gov

On Tuesday, April 15 the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bill that will help ensure election integrity in time for the November 2008 election.

HR 5036 will provide funding for states to put in place voter-verified paper ballots and provide funding for post-election audits in time for the 2008 general election.

-- Kathy Dopp

The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at P.O. Box 680192 Park City, UT 84068 phone 435-658-4657
http://utahcountvotes.org
http://electionmathematics.org
http://electionarchive.org

History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of Election Auditing Fundamentals http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf

Vote Yes on HR5036 http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/legislation/SummaryFlyer5036.pdf

Voters Have Reason to Worry http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816



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The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices down from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even in parts of India.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/13/business/housing.php


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At the low end of estimates of the cost of the war - $120 billion a year - the money would cover the projected cost of Clinton's universal health care plan. It could pay for Obama's less inclusive health care plan and his proposal to bail out homeowners with troubled mortgages.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/14/america/14warcosts.php


From Information Clearing House

There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-trained mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there are many who believe the events of September 11, 2001 dictate the need for a new paradigm.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2549


From Information Clearing House



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"You cannot superimpose the human rights and democracy environment of a Western country onto other countries," he said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-04/14/content_6613318.htm



US seeks direct access to Pakistan's N-arsenal

The United States has sought direct access to the body controlling the country's nuclear assets for an American official to be posted at its embassy in Islamabad.

http://ia.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/14pak.htm


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And it won't be "A time of our choosing"

By Mike Whitney

The Iraq War signals the end of US interventionism for at least a generation; maybe longer. The ideological foundation for the war (preemption/regime change) has been exposed as a baseless justification for unprovoked aggression. Someone will have to be held accountable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19742.htm



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

America is currently facing the most serious threat to its national independence and sovereignty since the War of 1812. The forces of globalism have declared an all-out war against our country's independence. Illegal immigration, the NAFTA superhighway, the North American Community, a regional currency called the Amero, and "free trade" deals are just a few of the weapons in their arsenal. And John McCain will use every bit of his power as President to facilitate all of this chicanery. And, because McCain is a Republican, conservatives and Christians will sit back and let it happen without even the slightest whimper of resistance. If Obama or Clinton were sitting in the Oval Office, however, massive numbers of conservatives and Christians would rise in protest over every inch of ground ceded to these nefarious nabobs. So, tell me, who is the greater evil? I say it is John McCain.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin443.htm



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David Adam and John Vidal of The Guardian UK report: "Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate change pact to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012 because the rich world has failed to set a clear example on cutting carbon emissions, according to the UN's top climate official."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041408EB.shtml



Financing Crucial to Next Climate Change Pact

According to Louise Egan, Reuters, "The global fight against climate change after the Kyoto pact expires will fail unless rich countries can come up with creative ways to finance clean development by poorer nations, a UN official said on Saturday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041408EC.shtml



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In The Telegraph UK, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes: "We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041408EA.shtml



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NOW goes to Alabama "to document the personal impact of regressive tax policies on three very different families. They include a working mom who shows us how a ten percent sales tax on groceries makes a significant difference in what her family eats; a couple living in a ramshackle house in the backwoods, who've always held jobs but still face hunger, and a well-to-do suburban couple who benefit from huge tax breaks."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408U.shtml

According to CBS News's Pia Malbran, "The Department of Defense has released its latest American military casualty numbers for those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the figures reveal non-fatal casualties that go well beyond the more than 4,000 US troops who have died so far."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408S.shtml



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