World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0429-03.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8598/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8605

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Says Trials Tainted

Reuters reports "the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals testified on Monday that the tribunals were tainted by political influence and evidence obtained through prisoner abuse. Air Force Col. Moe Davis, who quit the war court last year, said political appointees and higher-ranking officers pushed prosecutors to file charges before trial rules were even written."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050108M.shtml



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8595/

Groups Begin to Tackle Hunger Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8604/



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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/042908_nevada_gop.htm



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Unter dem Schutz von rund 70 Polizisten haben mehrere Hundert Mitarbeiter des Saatgutkonzerns KWS Saat AG am 29. April auf einem seit zweieinhalb Wochen besetzten Versuchsfeld in der Nähe des niedersächsischen Northeim gentechnisch veränderte Rüben ausgesät. Die Besetzer seien aufgefordert worden, das Feld zu verlassen, sagte KWS-Vorstandssprecher Philip von dem Bussche. Das Saatgut sei im Labor gegen das Pflanzenschutzmittel Roundup des US-Chemie- und Saatgutkonzerns Monsanto resistent gemacht worden, so Bussche. Die zuständigen Behörden hatten den Freilandversuch trotz Protesten und Einsprüchen aus der Bevölkerung genehmigt.

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Elana Schor, of The Guardian UK, writes: "The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job. The exception claimed by Cheney's counsel came in response to requests from congressional Democrats that David Addington, the vice-president's chief of staff, testify about his involvement in the approval of interrogation tactics used at Guantanamo Bay."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908B.shtml



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http://omeganews.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/foreclosures-still-rising/

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Foreclosures Spike 112 Percent - No End in Sight

Les Christie of CNN Money reports: "Foreclosure filings in the first three months of 2008 rose more than 112 percent over last year, according to a study released Tuesday."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042908LA.shtml



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Susan Kinzie, of The Washington Post, reports: "two years after a rocket-propelled grenade hit Nathan Toews during an ambush in southern Afghanistan, sending shrapnel shooting into his skull and spiderwebbing through his brain, he has recovered enough to ask: What now? Like so many leaving the military, after years of taking orders, he's facing an almost infinite number of choices about his future."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908P.shtml



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Paul Krugman, of The New York Times, writes: "if truth be told, the McCain tax plan doesn't seem to embody any coherent policy agenda. Instead, it looks like a giant exercise in pandering - an attempt to mollify the GOP's right wing, and never mind if it makes any sense. The impression that Mr. McCain's tax talk is all about pandering is reinforced by his proposal for a summer gas tax holiday - a measure that would, in fact, do little to help consumers, although it would boost oil industry profits."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908L.shtml



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OpEdNews, PA - Apr 8, 2008

General Petraeus will testify before Congress laying out the pretext for war with IRAN. McCain will support him and Obama and Clinton will have to acquiesce...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__080408_countdown_to_attack_.htm



Bomb Bomb Iran by Summer's End?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908J.shtml

Steve Weissman writes for Truthout: "when Senator John McCain serenaded reporters last April with his 'Bomb Bomb Iran,' I had to wonder. Was this a taste of his aging flyboy humor? Or was he telling us what to expect should he ever become president? We may never find out. If Vice President Dick Cheney has his way, he will beat McCain to the punch, possibly as soon as late May, after President George W. Bush returns from celebrating the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation."

Excerpt:

On February 25 of this year, Cheney made a surprise visit to the Sultanate of Oman, a longtime military ally just across the Strait of Hormuz from Iran. He had come, an Omani official told The Associated Press, "to discuss regional security issues, including the US standoff with Iran over its nuclear program."

A little over three weeks later, Cheney returned to Oman as part of a ten-day visit to several countries in the region, including Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. While in Oman, he gave an interview to Martha Raddatz of ABC News. "Can you foresee any point where military action would be taken?" Raddatz asked. Cheney tried to downplay the question, but Raddatz persisted, asking specifically about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concluded that Iran had shut down its nuclear arms program five years ago.

Cheney read the NIE differently. The Iranians definitely had a program to develop a nuclear warhead, which they apparently stopped in 2003, he insisted. "We don't know whether or not they've restarted." Cheney emphasized that the Iranians were continuing with their uranium enrichment, which - he said - would give them the fissile material to make nuclear weapons. He offered no evidence that the Iranian program would or could produce the highly enriched uranium they would need to make a bomb.

"VP: Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program," the headlines ran. "Cheney: Iran might be next US target." The Israeli web site DEBKA added that Cheney was specifically talking about possible US military action in the region to shut down Iran's nuclear program.

More on line: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908J.shtml


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos



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The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

04/28/08

The collapse of the George W. Bush-era Republican Party is a multifaceted story, but no chapter stands out as clearly as the war in Iraq. As the occupation has dragged on and the U.S. casualties have mounted, Bush has watched his public approval ratings spiral downward. By the time the contested GOP primaries came around, even a healthy proportion of Republican voters were saying that they strongly or somewhat disapproved of the war in Iraq. Under the circumstances, it’s not surprising that the GOP is poised to nominate a presidential candidate who will appeal to its anti-war base. What is surprising is that the candidate is Sen. John McCain...

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


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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McCain vs. McCain

Fareed Zakaria writes for Newsweek: "Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential race-you know, John McCain. McCain is said to be benefiting from this politically because his rivals are tearing each other apart. In fact, few people are paying much attention to what the Republican nominee is saying, or subjecting it to any serious scrutiny."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908E.shtml



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Seattle Times

04/28/08

The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to state laws that require voters to show a photo identification before casting a ballot on Election Day. The 6-3 ruling to uphold Indiana’s voter-ID law is a clear victory for Republicans, who have pushed for such laws to combat election fraud, and comes over the objections of Democrats, who say the requirements make it too difficult for some people to vote...

http://tinyurl.com/3jqjsh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Court Fumbles on Voting Rights

In a Tuesday editorial, The New York Times writes: "Democracy was the big loser in the Supreme Court on Monday. The court upheld Indiana's voter identification law, which solves a nearly nonexistent problem by putting major barriers between voters - particularly minorities - and the ballot box. Worse, the court set out a standard that clears the way for other states to adopt rules that discourage disadvantaged groups from voting."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042908D.shtml



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Associated Press

04/28/08

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration’s interrogation policies if they don’t agree to testify. If the three — including John C. Yoo, the former assistant deputy attorney general, and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff — do not reply by Friday, ‘I will have no choice but to consider the use of compulsory process,’ Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., wrote in letters to them...

http://tinyurl.com/3hyp4u


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Conyers Subpoenas Addington in Torture Probe

Reuters reports: "US Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify in a congressional probe of the administration's treatment and possible torture of enemy combatants."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050908B.shtml



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Die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion plant eine parlamentarische Initiative für eine Verschärfung der EU-Regelungen zur grünen Gentechnik. Damit solle der Druck auf Bundesagrarminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) erhöht werden, sich für weitreichende Änderungen des Gentechnikrechts einzusetzen, sagte SPD-Fraktionsvize Ulrich Kelber der "Passauer Neuen Presse".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17860



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A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR gas pipeline project linking Iran, Pakistan and India that is bitterly opposed by Washington is set to go ahead after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a historic first visit to meet leaders of the new coalition government in Islamabad.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23612814-25837,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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Kislyak said there is no threat from Iran. The Russian military, notably Chief of Staff Yury Baluyevsky, view the Iranian missile threat as hypothetical, unlike the very tangible U.S. interceptor missiles to be deployed in Poland.

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080428/106110339.html



Conservatives' win is a lesson for US

The effects left by the relentless attacks of the US administration against Iran have brought the conservatives closer together in a united stand. It could not be denied that external factors have played a role in the final results.

http://tinyurl.com/4qvtg6


From Information Clearing House



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By Anthony Lewis

I grew up believing that Americans did not torture prisoners, as Hitler's and Stalin's agents did. There were rogue episodes of American brutality, but to make torture a national policy? Unthinkable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19823.htm



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By Mike Whitney

The media IS doing its job. It's cheerleading the country to war, it is diverting attention from the main political and economic issues of the day, and it is destroying its political enemies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19826.htm



Who Is Rev Jeremiah Wright?

Bill Moyer's - Video and Transcript

Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19825.htm



The Jeremiah Wright You Won't Hear on FOX News

By Mike Whitney

Jeremiah Wright is 5' 10 '' of tightly-packed explosives. He may be the best public speaker since Martin Luther King. He is bright, passionate, insightful and erudite. When he speaks; the sparks fly and the ground shakes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19837.htm



Rev.Wright: Telling It Like It Is!

Video

Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19836.htm



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By Peter Chamberlin

The Cheney wing of the co-presidency continues to pursue every possible avenue for expanding the failed war into a regional conflagration, which could only be settled with nuclear weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19829.htm



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Scrubbing King Coal

In Mother Jones, James Ridgeway writes: "Across the board, the companies that control fossil fuels have begun to respond to rising concern about global warming with what amounts to a three-point strategy: First, make small overtures toward developing renewable energy, and milk them for maximum PR value. Second, invest more generously in carbon-based 'alternative energy' that gets passed off as green. Third, invoke the goal of energy independence to pump, mine, transport, and sell more and more of the same old fuels to an ever-hungrier market."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042808EA.shtml

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The Solar Revolution and the End of Big Energy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/schembrie7.html



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Philip Shenon of The New York Times reports: "Thomas Nelson, an Oregon lawyer, has lived in a state of perpetual jet lag for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East to meet with a high-profile Saudi client who cannot enter the United States because he faces charges here of financing terrorism. Mr. Nelson says he does not dare to phone this client or send him e-mail messages because of what many prominent criminal defense lawyers say is a well-founded fear that all of their contacts are being monitored by the United States government."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808S.shtml



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Truthout contributor Jeff Cohen writes: "In the fall of 2002, week after week in debates televised on MSNBC, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers - no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808R.shtml



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Hillary Strangelove
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/27/hillary_strangelove/?page=full


Informant: Duane J. Roberts

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Clinton exchanges threats with Iranian cleric

Iranian cleric responds to Clinton's warning with a warning of his own.
http://therealnews.com/web/videoframeworksjsauto.php?currentid=1436&thisautoplay=true



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http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/Articles/April2008/280408JoneswarnsFalseFlag.html


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Forests.org and Rainforest Portal projects of Ecological Internet, Inc.

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April 28, 2008 OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet

It is easy to rail against "illegal" logging, when in fact typical "legal" commercial logging is far more extensive and destructive in total to the world's biodiversity, climate, water and biosphere. Both liquidate life giving natural habitats, and more people are realizing they are mostly ecologically indistinguishable. Ancient primary forests industrially harvested for the first time are in fact destroyed -- in terms of being a fully intact ecological system with a unique, unimpaired evolutionary trajectory -- regardless if society considers it legal or illegal. Natural and planted secondary forest ecosystems managed industrially as tree farms become further ecologically diminished with each successive harvest including continued toxification, soil diminishment, species and genetic loss, reduced carbon and water holding potential, and so many other symptoms of ongoing biological homogenization.

Humanity's relationship with all forests must be transformed if we are to stop the hemorrhaging of lost species and halt transformation of the atmosphere. Industrial forestry [search] is incompatible with sustaining the full range of natural forest values -- from species to genes, from soil microbes to local microclimates, from a forest stand to the Earth system and everything in between. Solving the biodiversity, climate and water crises requires a new forest protection paradigm that optimizes ecosystem, biodiversity and climate values while ecologically sustainably harvesting the annual growth increment (minus ecological restoration of natural capital to account in the future for past damage).

To maintain an operable biosphere while achieving equitable and just global ecological sustainability, the forest protection movement must unite behind a rigorous set of goals know to be actually sufficient to stop forest and climate decline. This includes ending ancient forest logging and all industrial destruction of relatively intact natural ecosystems, gaining permanent protections for all remaining primary and old-growth forests (with appropriate compensation and continued small scale use for local peoples), promoting the ecological restoration and certified management of regenerating and planted natural forest ecosystems, and assisting local peoples with small-scaled, community-based eco-forestry projects based upon regenerating secondary and standing ancient forests.

Ecological Internet's network and partners are committed to this sufficient, ecology and people based forest protection agenda. This ecologically sufficient forest vision is the only way forward for forests including rainforests, species including humans, and ecosystems including Gaia. To work for anything less is to acquiesce to the powers of ecological simplification, accepting ecological diminishment and collapse as inevitable, while pursuing tokenistic responses that by legitimizing current trends impede global forest sustainability. You know who I am talking about, and if it is you, I urge you to reexamine your motivations and strategies. Otherwise, your apologist reform efforts causing continued forest destruction remains a legitimate target for protest. g.b.

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* Illegal Logging http://forests.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=illegal%20logging
* Industrial Forestry http://forests.org/shared/search/welcome.aspx?searchtext=industrial%20forestry
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Title: Legal logging decimates forests - group Source: Copyright 2008, Philippine Sun Star Date: April 26, 2008

Legal, not illegal, large-scale logging is the major culprit in deforestation.

Lisa Ito of the Kalikasan-Philippine Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE), during her presentation on the Philippine environmental situation for the Southern Mindanao Conference on the Environment held at the Holy Cross of Davao College Friday, said that in the 1900s, forest cover was estimated at 21 million hectares of 70 percent of the total land area.

Yet a few decades of "development aggression" wiped out two- thirds of the forests.

By 1999, forest cover was reduced to 18.3 percent of 800,000 hectares and is still decreasing at present.

"Europe, Japan, and the United states demanded and encouraged the export of cheap and plentiful logs from underdeveloped countries in Asia and Latin America and the conversion of deforested areas into agricultural plantations for export crops," Ito said.

She said FAO's State of the World's Forests 2007 reports a net forest loss of 20,000 hectares per day globally.

In the Philippines, Ito said deforestation was a result of "colonial plunder of natural resources."

"Since the American occupation, corporate and large-scale logging for exports and massive forest conversion were carried out as a government policy through Timber Licensing Agreements
(TLAs)," Ito said.

From 1920's to the late 1930's, the Philippines became a major exporter of tropical wood to the US and Japan. Forty-seven percent or 9.9 million hectares of original forests were destroyed in the period alone.

"Philippine forests were nearly wiped out under the Marcos dictatorship under an unregulated logging industry caused by a combination of corruption, greed, and weak political institution. TLAs were liberally dispensed to Marcos cronies, relatives, military allies, and elite interests," Ito said.

By the late 1980's, the Philippine was one of the most severely deforested areas in Asia but Ito said this state has worsened under the Arroyo administration.

"The government has yet to implement a genuine and comprehensive reforestation program. It has one by one lifted log bans and farmed out commercial logging permits - TLAs and 23 Integrated Forest Management Agreement (Ifma) contracts from January 2001 to 2004," Ito said.

Ito explained that Ifmas cover a total land area of 191,250.60 hectares and an Ifma contract allows the holder not just the right to timber but to all other forest products within the concession area.

Ito added that as of their last check, the government has issued 201 Ifmas as of 2003 covering around 714,000 hectares of forestland.



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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Demands Release of Homeland Security Report on Rendition Victim.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0428-16.htm



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ACLU Resumes Vigilant Watch As Unconstitutional Guantánamo Hearings Continue This Week

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0428-15.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/28/8569/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/28/8562/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/28/8566/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/28/8568/

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House Democrats work on huge Iraq money bill

House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure that is expected to fund the war through the end of the Bush presidency and for nearly six months into the next president's term.

http://tinyurl.com/63vu9y


From Information Clearing House



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Eherne Notenbank-Prinzipien wurden bis zum "Point of no Return" durchbrochen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27803/1.html



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Ben Adler, of The Politico, writes: "Voting rights activists who hoped the federal government would help local governments pay for paper trails and audits for electronic voting machines have gone from elation to frustration as they watched Republicans who supported such a proposal in committee vote against bringing it to the House floor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808H.shtml



Supreme Court Upholds Photo ID Law for Voters in Indiana

Mark Sherman reports for The Associated Press: "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808E.shtml



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The Associated Press writes: "Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808F.shtml



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In a New York Times editorial, former President Jimmy Carter discusses US diplomacy: "A counterproductive Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates. This policy makes difficult the possibility that such leaders might moderate their policies."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808D.shtml



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Ann Wright reports for Truthout: "The Department of Defense statistics are alarming - one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. The warnings to women should begin above the doors of the military recruiting stations, as that is where assaults on women in the military begin - before they are even recruited. But, now, even more alarming, are deaths of women soldiers in Iraq and in the United States following rape."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808A.shtml



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Apr 28 2008 by Audrey Barton, The Journal

FAMILIES who won a campaign to remove a phone mast are outraged after two mobile phone giants re-applied for planning permission.

The mobile phone companies, O2 and Vodafone have re-submitted a joint planning application to Gateshead Council for a 20-metre phone mast to be built at the Glebe Sports Club in Rectory Lane, Whickham.

Several members of the local community launched a campaign when a mast was first installed there in February 2006 and after nearly two years of fighting they won their battle.

Read More...
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/04/28/mast-fight-flares-again-61634-20828478/

http://www.earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/wolf-delisting.html

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Off Endangered List, Wolves Face New Pressure From Hunters

The Associated Press reports: "Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and shot the wolf twice from 30 yards away."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042808EC.shtml



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Hope Yen, of The Associated Press, reports: "Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say. The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808N.shtml



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Frank Rich, of The New York Times, writes: "When the Pennsylvania returns rained down Tuesday night, the narrative became clear fast. The Democrats' exit polls spelled disaster: Some 25 percent of the primary voters said they would defect to Mr. McCain or not vote at all if Barack Obama were the nominee. How could the party possibly survive this bitter, perhaps race-based civil war? But as the doomsday alarm grew shrill, few noticed that on this same day in Pennsylvania, 27 percent of Republican primary voters didn't just tell pollsters they would defect from their party's standard-bearer; they went to the polls, gas prices be damned, to vote against Mr. McCain."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808L.shtml



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Hussein Kadhim and Raviya H. Ismail, of McClatchy Newspapers, report: "About 50 leaders representing a variety of Iraqi political blocs took to Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a stronghold of fiery religious leader Muqtada al Sadr, to protest the U.S.-led siege of that area. The leaders promised to work together with Sadrists to remove insurgents and weapons in the area. But they also had six other demands of the government, including that it immediately suspend military activity in the city, supply basic services to residents and prioritize peaceful solutions over military conflicts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808J.shtml



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http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_9076674


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080427/sc_afp/asiaenvironmentrainforestslogging


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Making a killing from hunger
http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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ISIS Press Release 28/04/08

Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?

Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins

CDC launch investigation on Morgellons’ Disease

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States announced the launch of an investigation on ‘Morgellons Disease’ in January 2008 [1], after receiving thousands of complaints from people with this bewildering condition, which it describes as follows [2]: “Persons who suffer from this unexplained skin condition report a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads, fibers, or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin, and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). In addition to skin manifestations, some sufferers also report fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in visions.”

Morgellons Disease first became known in 2001, when Mary Leitao created a web site describing the illness in her young son, which she named after a 17th century medical study in France describing similar symptoms [3]. Until then, people with Morgellons Disease have been diagnosed as cases of “delusional parasitosis”, in which the symptoms are deemed entirely imaginary, and lesions allegedly due to self-inflicted wounds.

Indeed, the debate over Morgellons Disease has continued in the pages of medical and scientific journals right up to the CDC’s announcement [4-7]

Dr. Michele Pearson, principal investigator for the CDC said [1] that the primary goals of the study are “to learn more about who may be affected with this condition, the symptoms they experience and to look for clues about factors that might contribute to the condition,” adding that the condition is “complex”, and “may be due to multiple factors.”

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/agrobacteriumAndMorgellons.php

Or read other articles about GM and public health http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GE-publichealth.php



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Boston Globe

04/27/08

Republican John McCain’s campaign appears to have violated its own stated policy of not using the aircraft of companies with lobbying interests in Washington for campaign travel, according to a Boston Globe review. The practice is legal, and the campaign of McCain, long an advocate of campaign finance reform, has changed its policy over the past year on use of private planes — from banning such corporate-jet travel to allowing limited use. McCain is the only remaining candidate who has flown on corporate jets during the campaign. Neither of the Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, uses private jets, and both have flown on commercial charter flights since the outset of the campaign...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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by Devvy Kidd

Let me repeat myself: If you keep funding your enemy, you continue to give them the power to destroy you. I'm sorry about my fellow Americans who work for propaganda rags like the Denver Post, the Sacramento Bee, the NY Times, etc., but we cannot falter or waver in our quest for the truth because lives of Americans depend on forcing these mass mediums to either tell the truth or close their doors. It's as simple as that. If you cut your enemy slack, they will kill you.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd357.htm



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Botschaft aus dem Villenviertel „Zur Mißgunst“: „Das Grundrecht auf Dummheit“. Ex-Bundespräsident verhöhnt Menschen, die Mindestlohn fordern

„Der famose Ex-Bundespräsident Roman Herzog, der mit seiner „Ruck-Rede“ 1997 erheblich dazu beigetragen hat, daß seither Deutschlands Sozial-, Arbeits- und Wirtschaftspolitik unter permanenten epileptischen Anfällen leidet – unter einer Störung, die neben unkontrollierten Körperzuckungen vor allem gekennzeichnet ist durch totalen Bewußtseinsausfall -, dieser großartige Ex-Bundesverfassungsrichter mit einem Monatseinkommen von rund 25.000 Euro hat vor einigen Tagen die Öffentlichkeit mit einer besonders freudigen Botschaft überrascht: Befragt, wieso wohl die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung Mindestlöhne befürworte, reagierte dieser Doppel-Ex-Prominente mit dem Satz: „Es gibt auch ein Grundrecht auf Dummheit.“…“ Glosse von Holdger Platta (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/kombilohn/mindestplatta.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 28. April 2008

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Altpolitiker Herzog und Clement beklagen mangelnden Reformwillen in Deutschland

Alt-Bundespräsident Roman Herzog und der frühere SPD-Wirtschaftsminister Wolfgang Clement, heute Aufsichtsratsmitglied der RWE Power AG, haben einen mangelnden Reformwillen in Deutschland beklagt. Bei der Vorstellung des Buches "Mut zum Handeln. Wie Deutschland wieder reformfähig wird" am 30. April in Berlin verlangten beide verstärkte Anstrengungen von Politik und Gesellschaft. Clement sagte, das Buch solle ein "Weckruf" sein, um Deutschland aus der von ihm postulierten Reformstarre zu befreien. Herzog verwies auf ein "Arsenal von Ideen".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17880



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Gulf Daily News - Manama, Bahrain

However, they have agreed not to remove existing mobile phone masts in
Muharraq on the grounds that the legal process would be too lengthy and
could drag on ...

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=215841&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31039

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by Ivan Eland

Not only has America failed to confront these Shiite militias, the Bush administration has been enabling them. The congressional hearings failed to bring out, because of administration intention and Democratic ignorance, that Maliki’s security forces are infested with Shiite Badr Brigade militias that Iran prefers over the Iraqi nationalist Mahdi Army. The confused milieu of Iraq, an administration with no coherent strategy to improve the conditions in that country, has always tried to......

http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest117.htm



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Autism and Mercury
http://www.flcv.com/autismgc.html

Mercury, Hypothyroidism and developmental disorders
http://www.flcv.com/ASDendo.html

Neurological and Immune reactions
http://www.flcv.com/kidshg.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Chernobyl: The Great Cover-Up

Making YOU Pay for the Next Chernobyls, in Advance!
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/26/8542/

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Chernobyl: The Great Cover-Up

The World Health Organisation and Nuclear Power.
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2008/WHO-Chernobyl-CoverUp1apr08.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/26



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