World-News

The Associated Press reports: "The Justice Department lost one of its own to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal Tuesday as a former high-ranking department attorney pleaded guilty to conflict of interest."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042308L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbying+scandal

Mike Lillis reports for The Washington Independent, "The Bush administration has no immediate plans to rescind controversial guidelines restricting enrollment in a popular children's health-care program, despite a recent legal finding that they were administered illegally."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042308K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Lillis

http://afterdowningstreet.org/militarism


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stratcom
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Müssen wir uns von der Idee der "guten Arbeit" verabschieden?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27778/1.html

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Die Neuentdecker der Vollbeschäftigung müssen die Statistik großzügig auslegen

Artikel von Berthold Paetz in Freitag vom 25.04.2008 http://www.freitag.de/2008/17/08170602.php


Wir haben jetzt schon genug Niedriglöhne!

Arbeit um jeden Preis. Vollbeschäftigung zum Billiglohn: Müssen wir uns von der Idee der "guten Arbeit" verabschieden?

„Mehr als jeder fünfte abhängig Beschäftigte gehört mittlerweile zu den Geringverdienern. Ein Ende der Talfahrt ist nicht in Sicht, trotzdem kursiert das Zauberwort von der nahenden "Vollbeschäftigung"…“ Artikel von Thorsten Stegemann in telepolis vom 23.04.2008 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27778/1.html


Wer hätte das Recht, sie faul zu nennen?

„Vollbeschäftigung wäre möglich - wenn Phasen der Nichtarbeit ebenso normal sind wie Vierteltagsjobs. Für die soziale Sicherheit könnte ein Grundeinkommen sorgen. Die Vorstellung scheint absurd, der DGB könnte am 1. Mai mit der Forderung "Grundeinkommen für alle" aufmarschieren. In diesem Jahr wird es ihm sicher nicht einfallen. Viele wären ja froh, wenn er die Forderung wenigstens nur mild zurückwiese. Und doch hätte gerade der Dachverband der Arbeitenden guten Grund, die Sache noch einmal zu überdenken…“ Artikel von Michael Jäger in Freitag vom 25.4.08 http://www.freitag.de/2008/17/08170701.php


Aus: LabourNet, 28. April 2008

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Vollbeschäftigung um welchen Preis?

Während die SPD-Führung Vollbeschäftigung als Ziel der Politik formuliert, hat die Diskussion über Proteste gegen die zunehmenden prekären Arbeitsverhältnisse begonnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27844/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Billiglohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vollbeschäftigung
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geringverdiener
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grundeinkommen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=prekär

An estimated 9000 Americans have died since the beginning of the Iraq war because they lack health insurance.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/32935


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+insurance

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

http://tinyurl.com/4puefo


From Information Clearing House

Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the threats of extremism and changes happening around the world associated with energy and resources make the present day "the most uncertain and potentially the most dangerous time since I've been serving".

http://tinyurl.com/42j4a9


From Information Clearing House



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

The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/usa.somalia


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia

If confirmed by the Senate, Petraeus would replace Navy Adm. William Fallon, who abruptly stepped down in March after a magazine reported that he was at odds with President Bush over Iran policy.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139694


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
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The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran have reached an agreement on the process to look into allegations regarding Tehran's nuclear programs, IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Wednesday.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139564


From Information Clearing House



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

U.S. military commanders in Iraq say Shiite militants, believed to be linked to Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, have received training and equipment from Iranian military commandos. The militants are believed to be behind the recent upsurge in well-aimed rocket fire on the U.S.-protected green zone. Others say the threats from these elite Shiite fighters - and the role of Iran - have been exaggerated.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89850119


From Information Clearing House



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

An "emergency" request to the U.S. Congress for funds to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is strewn with money to buy military goods that cannot yet be used in either country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7478146


From Information Clearing House



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

By Steve Fraser

The myth of the "ownership society" confronts the reality of the "foreclosure society." The great silence of the second Gilded Age may give way to the great noise of the first.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19794.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ownership+society
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Fraser

By Jeremy Lovell in London

A "SILENT tsunami" unleashed by costlier food is threatening 100 million people, the United Nations has warned, revealing that its World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some of the world's poorest children as the global food-price crisis worsens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19791.htm



Food price rises are "mass murder"-UN envoy

Global food price rises are leading to "silent mass murder" and commodities markets have brought "horror" to the world, the United Nations' food envoy told an Austrian newspaper on Sunday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20698300.htm



The new face of hunger

Last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16% (see chart 1). These were some of the sharpest rises in food prices ever. But this year the speed of change has accelerated.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_ID=11049284



Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs

Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher. Meanwhile, some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high prices and shortages spreading from overseas.

http://tinyurl.com/5mntlc


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices

By Richard Silverstein

Hillary Clinton's pledge to 'obliterate' Iran if it attacks Israel is unnecessarily bellicose.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19788.htm



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

By Paul Craig Roberts

Bush invaded Iraq with the intent of turning Iraq into an American colony. The so-called government of Maliki is not a government. Maliki is the well paid front man for U.S. colonial rule. Maliki's government does not exist outside the protected Green Zone, the headquarters of the American occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19789.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

Mobile phone company O2 has failed in its attempts to put up a phone mast in Pevensey Bay. Wealden District Council dismissed an appeal by O2 after its original planning application was turned down in August 2007.

Planning inspector Elizabeth Lawrence made a visit to the site on Eastbourne Road and concluded the 12.5 metre mast would 'seriously and unacceptably harm the character and appearance of the area'.

Read More...
http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/Mast-bid-fails.4008489.jp

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/8441b6651922793?hl=en



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=primary+elections
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By Jill Harding

RESIDENTS of Campbell Road are celebrating after plans to erect a mobile phone mast in front of Leehurst Swan school were rejected by the council.

At a meeting last Thursday, Salisbury City Area Committee threw out the application for a 12-metre phone mast by mobile phone company Orange.

The decision has delighted people living in the area who staged a protest demonstrating against the plans, claiming there would be a health risk to children attending the schools nearby.

Read More...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2218477.0.phone_mast_victory_for_residents.php



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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/dove-palmoil-action



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USA Today
by Peter W. Fulham

04/22/08

Young people are tired of hearing about Iraq, and they gave up getting angry about its steep death toll and mounting costs a long time ago. There is indeed an unsettling absence of anger here in Middletown, Del., at least within the hallways of St. Andrew’s, the small boarding school I attend. Instead of fretting about the war, upperclassmen worry about this year’s record-low acceptance rates at Harvard and whether we’ll get custom T-shirts for the junior prom. Sad as all this is, it’s tough to blame anybody my age for this indifference. Why should we worry when we have no personal stake in the conflict?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/when-will-young.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=death+toll

DAVID BALE

23 April 2008 07:00

Residents of Lloyd Road and Fakenham Road in Taverham celebrating the T-Mobile mobile phone mast being taken down - 15 years after it was installed. Photo: Angela Sharpe.

Families who have been campaigning for more than a decade to rid a street near their homes of a mobile phone mast are celebrating after it was finally taken down.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/5ezbhf

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/32917


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news

The Washington Post's Michael Abramowitz writes, "With the North American Free Trade Agreement taking a pounding on the campaign trail, President Bush met here Monday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to defend the pact and to seek new ways to cooperate on border, economic and regulatory issues."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042208LA.shtml



Canada, US, Mexico Accused of Interference With NAFTA Watchdog

Environment News Service says: "An international coalition of academics, environmental, and conservation groups today called on the governments of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to 'stop interfering' with the tri-national Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), particularly its core citizen complaint procedure."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042508EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Abramowitz

Randolph E. Schmid of The Associated Press reports: "Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second-warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042208EB.shtml

Terrence McNally, AlterNet, says: "Of all the resources needed to build an economy that will sustain economic progress, none is more scarce than time. That is one of the key messages of 'Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization,' the newest book by Lester Brown."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Earth+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lester+Brown
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terrence+McNally

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu and Del Quentin Wilber write: "The US government today will order commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the country under a security initiative that the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208S.shtml

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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren't 'Personal Data'

In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in the U.S.), Chertoff made the startling statement that fingerprints are "not particularly private".

http://tinyurl.com/4jk6uy


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fingerprints
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Spencer+S.+Hsu

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=2756

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Help Protect Polar Bears
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1178



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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/307.html



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South Western Rural Advertiser - Sydney, NSW, Australia

"The concerns arise from possible adverse effects of electromagnetic fields
on human health, especially that of young children. ...

http://tinyurl.com/3uxh5p



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7375/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2008) — Carnegie Mellon University scientists have shown that just listening to a cell phone while driving is a significant distraction, and it causes drivers to commit some of the same types of driving errors that can occur under the influence of alcohol.

Read More...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305104905.htm


Informant: Martin Weatherall

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8763


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secrecy+policies

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/22/8462/

Murdoch's Newsday Deal Is Bad News for New York
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0422-12.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murdoch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Monbiot

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080422/a_pollbox22.art.htm


From Information Clearing House

Malcolm Nance, who trained hundreds of US servicemen and women to resist interrogation by putting them through "waterboarding" exercises, demanded an immediate end to the practice by all US personnel.

http://tinyurl.com/52luw6



Tortured Explanations

Never before in the modern history of the United States has there been an officially sanctioned, government-wide system of inflicting torture and abuse on detainees. Until now.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/tortured_explainations.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
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Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on "sensitive issues," including the right to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/3ztvhe


From Information Clearing House

By Bob Herbert

Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it's widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19786.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

Bruce Fein and former United States Congressman Bob Barr

On his say so alone he can identify anyone in the United States as creating a "significant risk of undermining reconstruction program in Iraq, or political reform by creating a risk that an act of violence might be committed." And when he identifies you, he doesn't inform you. But you are instantly subjected to a financial death penalty. All your assets are frozen; no one then can do any business with you.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19783.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Fein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Barr

By Steven Greenhut

Government officials are zealous about dealing with problems caused by average citizens, but they are far less interested in dealing with the excesses of fellow members of the privileged, government elite. There are rules for "us" and rules for "them" - us being the subjects and them being the rulers. Feel free to pound the table in anger now!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19784.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Greenhut

By Mike Whitney

The Fed's loose money policies have put the dollar at risk of losing its role as the world's reserve currency. If the dollar falls from its perch, the empire will soon follow. The macroeconomic impact of Greenspan's low interest rates will be seismic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19787.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
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http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/106879



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Lolita C. Baldor reports for The Associated Press, "Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208I.shtml



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Matt Apuzzo writes for The Associated Press: "A federal appeals court sought compromise yesterday between a liberal group demanding the names of White House visitors and the Bush administration, which says releasing the names would erode the president's power. If released, the documents would show how often prominent religious conservatives visited the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence, allowing a glimpse into how much influence they exerted on government policy."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208F.shtml



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Wallace J. Nichols, writing for Truthout, conveys his inspiration to take immediate action in response to global warming: "Today, we face [a] serious crises - loss of biodiversity, a warming planet, collapsing fisheries, looming food and water shortages, and pollution in every corner of the globe. Scientists forecast a '2050 Scenario' in which Earth is hotter, dirtier and overcrowded with nine billion people who are left to wage wars for what little remains."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208D.shtml

David D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Rutenberg, of The New York Times, write: "When Mr. Diamond wanted to buy land at the base, Fort Ord, Mr. McCain assigned an aide who set up a meeting at the Pentagon and later stepped in again to help speed up the sale, according to people involved and a deposition Mr. Diamond gave for a related lawsuit. When he appealed to a nearby city for the right to develop other property at the former base, Mr. Diamond submitted Mr. McCain’s endorsement as 'a close personal friend.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Rutenberg
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Writing for Truthout, Kelpie Wilson explains: "With food riots across the globe in the news, the immediate cause of food shortages is simply this: grain prices have doubled over the last year and poor people can no longer afford to buy enough food. There is no one single cause for the price rise; it is a combination of supply and demand."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

Tom from the emfrefugee group sent these two links:

"Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8450

German Translation:

Welche Ziele verfolgt die international operierende Finanzelite? http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/2008/nr16-vom-1442008/welche-ziele-verfolgt-die-international-operierende-finanzelite/

I might be wrong but we could just be at the beginning of this global genocide?"

Dorothee



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

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/80e7fa1a5b382fce?hl=en



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

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Behind Sadr's warning to the US lies an unavoidable fact: He holds critical cards in Iraq.

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?wc_mid=1664:886208&wc_rid=107480579

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Iraq's Sadr cannot be defeated by force: experts

Suddenly, after many months in which the news from Iraq has been mostly about falling violence, the country is reeling towards a rebellion by millions of Sadr's followers against a government crackdown on his black-masked Mehdi Army militia.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33157320080421


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Muqtada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moqtada
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http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04212008.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=costs+of+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff

http://www.demokratie-spiegel.de/deutschland/informativ/wirerlebenmassenaussterbenachimsteiner.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1927911/Clinton_droht_Iran_mit_Ausloeschung.html



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

Joby Warrick reports for The Washington Post, "Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208P.shtml

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Allegations of Drugging in US Interrogations
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0422-10.htm



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The Associated Press reports, "If the long-running Democratic presidential race were a play, Republicans would be clamoring for even more after the six-week intermission now giving way to the Pennsylvania primary."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208O.shtml

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Who won in Pennsylvania?

Pepe Escobar: They're fighting among themselves instead of fighting the Republicans.
http://tinyurl.com/4w4dk7



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CBS News reports: "The Department of Veterans Affairs came under fire again Monday, this time in California federal court where its facing a national lawsuit by veterans rights groups accusing the agency of not doing enough to stem a looming mental health crisis among veterans. As part of the lawsuit, internal e-mails raise questions as to whether top officials deliberately deceived the American public about the number of veterans attempting and committing suicide."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Affairs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
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Truthout's Maya Schenwar interviews "All the Shah's Men" author Stephen Kinzer on Iran and the mentality behind US "regime change" operations worldwide.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042208J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Kinzer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=regime+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8754


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haiti
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8761


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Bericht: Auf Widerstand gegen Arbeitsplatzüberwachung folgt Kündigung

„In einem Callcenter in Essen, das zum Elektronikkonzern Medion gehört, soll etlichen Mitarbeitern gekündigt worden sein, weil sie sich gegen eine geplante Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz gewehrt haben. Dies berichtet Spiegel Online am heutigen Montag. Die Maßnahmen – mitgehörte Gespräche, Überwachung des E-Mail-, Brief- und Faxverkehrs – sollten den Angaben zufolge auf Druck des Großkunden Aldi eingeführt werden. Die rund 150 Mitarbeiter von AMS (Allgemeine Multimedia Service GmbH) hätten eine Zusatzvereinbarung unterschreiben müssen, in der die "neuen Qualitätsmaßnahmen" als Mittel "zum Erhalt der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und wesentlicher Kundenbeziehungen" bezeichnet werden…“ Kurze Zusammenfassung des Spiegel-Online-Artikels auf Heise-Online vom 22.04.2008. Der Spiegel-Artikel ist dort verlinkt. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bericht-Auf-Widerstand-gegen-Arbeitsplatzueberwachung-folgt-Kuendigung--/meldung/106810


Aus: LabourNet, 22. April 2008

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Arbeitsbedingungen in Call-Centern

1OgLinks.de, die News und Info-Seite für Callcenter Agents in NRW

„Herzlich willkommen beim 1OgLinks.de, der Infoseite für CCA´s in NRW. Hier kann man sich Informationen zur Arbeit in Callcentern holen, oder sich über die Arbeitsbedingungen verschiedener Callcenter-Dienstleister informieren. Hier sollen jedoch nicht nur kritische Stimmen zu hören sein, es gibt sicherlich auch Callcenter, die faire Arbeitsbedingungen haben. Es ist jeder willkommen, der Hilfe sucht oder sich an Diskussionen beteiligen möchte...“ Zur Seite 1OgLinks.de http://www.1oglinks.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 9. April 2009



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Financial Times
by Clive Crook

04/13/08

Competition for ‘most damaging legacy of the Bush administration’ is lively. Iraq is the front-runner, of course, but bear in mind the wreckage of fiscal policy — although to use that term is to imply that the US even has a fiscal policy, when it does not. It would be more accurate to talk of fiscal consequences or fiscal footprint (an apt metaphor) than to imply anything as deliberate as ‘policy’... [free registration required]

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

04/21/08

At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — the first large suicide bombing to target Americans — the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ since 9/11 made Americans safer? Although the Bush administration regularly boasts that its war on terror has been effective because no large terrorists attacks on U.S. soil have occurred since 9/11, such terrorism in North America has historically been a rare event. It’s like bragging that efforts to prevent lightning strikes have succeeded because a dwelling has not been struck or burned...

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Senator Clinton should be careful where she throws bricks?
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The Bush administration's support for the Iraqi government crackdown on Shi'ite militias risks drawing the United States into a dangerous confrontation between rival Shi'ite sects, analysts warn.

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By Alexander Cockburn

McCain is probably the most unstable man ever to have got this close to the White House. He's one election away from it. Republican senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.

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From ufpj-news

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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

Gates: Iran Hell Bent on Getting Nukes

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes Iran is "hell bent" on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of the consequences of going to war over that.

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Clinton: If Tehran "nukes" Israel, U.S. could 'totally obliterate' Iran

Hillary Clinton, facing a crucial primary in Pennsylvania Tuesday, said that if she were in the White House and Tehran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the United States would be able to 'totally obliterate' Iran.

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India Rejects US Call For It To Pressure Iran On Nuclear Bid

India on Tuesday told Washington to mind its own business after a U.S. official said New Delhi should urge Iran to curtail its nuclear program during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Who Gets Totally Obliterated, Iran Or the US?
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Clinton: 'No Regrets' Concerning Threat to 'Obliterate Iran'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/05/8724/



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Douglas Quenqua, The New York Times, writes: "The Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a concerted way for the first time."

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According to Robert Pear of The New York Times, "The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states' ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday."

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Adrianne Appel of Inter Press Service reports: "US state governors say they are fed up with the George W. Bush administration's foot-dragging on climate change and will go ahead of - and around - the White House to reduce greenhouse gases."

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Truthout contributor Bill Quigley reports: "Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots worldwide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042108R.shtml

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Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family's reach

By Rory Carroll in Port-au-Prince

With little cash and import prices rocketing half the population faces starvation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20375.htm



Stuffed and Starved

By Ed Pilkington

Ed Pilkington meets the soothsayer of agro-economics and talks about what will happen when all the food finally runs out.

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Alert participation is down. When we as global citizens work together we frequently achieve conservation victories. Is the Patagonian wilderness worth a few moments of your time? Please respond to these alerts.

g.b.


ACTION ALERT
PLEASE PARTICIPATE AND FORWARD WIDELY!

For Earth Day, Protest Home Depot's Complicity in Destruction of Patagonian Wilderness by Proposed Chilean Dams

By Forests.org, project of Ecological Internet http://forests.org/ April 21, 2008

TAKE ACTION Patagonia's wild rivers to be dammed, destroying ancient temperate forests, for 50 years of electricity; please let supposedly environmentally responsible Home Depot know they should not be doing business with the project's primary Chilean advocate.

http://forests.org/alerts/send.asp?id=chile_patagonia_dam

One of Chile's last true pristine and intact wildernesses is to be dammed and logged to provide hydroelectricity. The dams -- two on the Baker River and three on the Pascua River -- would irretrievably damage Patagonia, one of the Earth's wildest and most beautiful places. The HidroAysén project will flood river valleys containing several thousand hectares of ancient primary forests. The project's transmission line would require extensive clearcutting of additional pristine Chilean native forests, clearing more than a 1,500-mile swath that will impact fourteen national parks and wilderness reserves.

Shockingly, the main Chilean project proponent -- the Matte Group -- does extensive business with U.S. mega-corp Home Depot, broadly perceived as being "green". In consultation with International Rivers, Ecological Internet is working to get the Matte Group to withdraw from the project by highlighting their business interests with Home Depot. Please challenge Home Depot to live up to their green image on Earth Day 2008, and refuse to participate in the greenwashing of Patagonian wild river and ancient forest destruction. Insist Home Depot cease doing business with Matte until they withdraw from HidroAysén.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/alerts/send.asp?id=chile_patagonia_dam

DISCUSS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/04/alert-on-earth-day-protest-hom.asp



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