World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0430-10.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0429-18.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/30/8619/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/30/8613/

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Environmental Group: Chevron Complicit in Burma Human Rights Abuses

Inter Press Service's Marwaan Macan-Markar reports, "An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma or face legal proceedings where the multinational's links to gross human rights violations in the military-ruled country could be exposed."

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



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Roger Hickey writes for Campaign for America's Future, "Today Arizona Senator John McCain will deliver what his handlers are hyping as a major address on health care. McCain's plan is a dangerous fraud."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008F.shtml



How to Talk About Health Care

Bernie Horn, of The Campaign for America's Future, writes: "John McCain will be spending the week promoting his health care scheme. The crux of the plan is to abolish employer-based health insurance and throw middle class working Americans to the wolves. It is market fundamentalism at its worst."

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



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Carl Hulse, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "Americans are pumping their paychecks into their gas tanks, and the economy is in a stall. Food scarcities threaten governments overseas and spur hoarding at home. Foreclosures are up, home sales are down. Progress in Iraq and Afghanistan is halting. Despite this confluence of crises on the nation's doorstep, official Washington is beset by election-year inertia."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008E.shtml



Six Crises That Jostle the World

Writing for Paris's Le Monde, Marie-Beatrice Baudet highlights the unique conjunction of the interdependent financial, monetary, food, energy, economic and environmental crises, as well as the disparate interests of the actors involved.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008G.shtml



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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27833/1.html



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Steven Mufson, of The Washington Post, reports: "across the country, ethanol plants are swallowing more and more of the nation's corn crop. This year, about a quarter of US corn will go to feeding ethanol plants instead of poultry or livestock. That has helped farmers like Johnson, but it has boosted demand - and prices - for corn at the same time global grain demand is growing. And it has linked food and fuel prices just as oil is rising to new records, pulling up the price of anything that can be poured into a gasoline tank."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008N.shtml



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ISIS Press Release 30/04/08

Kavitha Kurunganti reports from Tarnaka, India

India-wide coalition against GM Brinjal in the wake of toxic GM cotton

As India edges closer to what is probably the last year of field trials for Bt Brinjal (eggplant, aubergine) before commercial approval may be granted, large scale resistance has been building up all over the country.

Bt Brinjal, if allowed in India, would be the first food crop in the world with the Bt gene inserted into it that is to be directly consumed by human beings. Indians feel that they are about to be made guinea pigs by USAID, and by Monsanto and Cornell University that have developed this crop.

For the past six years, Indian farmers have experienced the stark realities of GM crop cultivation in the country in the form of Bt cotton. Reports continue to pour in from various districts of Andhra Pradesh including Adilabad, Warangal and Nalgonda on animal illnesses and deaths after grazing on Bt cotton fields. Farmers and shepherds have been reporting the toxic effects of Bt cotton on livestock since 2003 (see Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton, SiS 30). But the regulators continue to rubbish the reports. Farmers and workers experience allergic reactions during harvest of Bt cotton, with scores of victims in different states (see More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops, SiS 30). However, the governments have not even begun to acknowledge that.

To make matters worse, the ecology of cotton pests has altered drastically and Bt cotton farmers are dealing with newer pests and diseases. Last season’s infestation of mealy bug, a sucking pest, has resulted in pesticides sales shooting up steeply in several states including Punjab.

For farmers who wish to remain GM-free or organic, they find it almost impossible to get non-GM seed. Hundreds of organic farmers are placing special orders directly with seed companies for non-transgenic seed, as it is not readily available from retailers.

It is at this juncture that farmers’ unions, consumer organizations, environmental groups, development organizations and concerned scientists have stepped up their protests against Bt Brinjal, realizing that the experience with Bt cotton cannot be allowed to be repeated, especially with a vegetable crop that is directly consumed by people.

A large informal network called “Coalition for GM Free India” was formed in 2006, representing organizations and individuals from more than 15 states of India. The Coalition has been active since then in raising awareness among civil society groups, media and the general public, and in creating an informed debate on GMOs. The Coalition also sees resistance to GM crops in a larger framework of democratization of policy-making in science and technology for the country. Members believe that farmers’ science and knowledge, especially with regard to ecological farming, is the only sustainable way forward for farming in India.

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



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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042908b.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Überwachung in der Fast-Food-Firma: Burger King hat in München die Gründung eines Betriebsrates auf Video aufgezeichnet. Die Gewerkschaft NGG ist entsetzt und will klagen - das Unternehmen rechtfertigt die Aufnahmen mit Sicherheitsgründen. Artikel in Spiegel-Online vom 29.04.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,550416,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 30. April 2008

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Burger King feuert zwei Mitarbeiter

„Ärger nach der Betriebsratswahl: Ein Streit zwischen Mitarbeitern und Management von Burger King spitzt sich zu. Die Fastfood-Kette soll eine Betriebsratswahl auf Video aufgezeichnet haben - zwei Wahlvorstände eigneten sich das Band an. Jetzt wurden sie fristlos entlassen…“ Artikel auf Spiegel-Online vom 09.05.2008 http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,552640,00.html

Siehe dazu:

NGG: Burger King hat den Boden der Rechtsstaatlichkeit verlassen - Burger King kündigt fristlos 2 Wahlvorstandsmitglieder

„Unanständig, moralisch verwerflich und rechtsmissbräuchlich! So bezeichnet die Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten die Vorgehensweise der Geschäftsführung der Burger King Deutschland GmbH. Am gestrigen Donnerstagabend erhielten 2 Wahlvorstandsmitglieder ihre fristlose Kündigung, die Burger King durch einen Boten zustellen ließ. Des Weiteren wurde ein Hausverbot ausgesprochen, damit sie als Wahlvorstand die Betriebsratswahl nicht weiter durchführen können…“ Pressemitteilung der NGG-Bayern vom 09.05.2008 http://www.ngg-bayern.net/presse/2008-05-09-1.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Mai 2008



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„Das Möbelkaufhaus Ikea hat einem Fernsehbericht zufolge seine Mitarbeiter überwacht. Sie seien ohne Zustimmung des Betriebsrates mit Hilfe von Kameras beobachtet worden, teilte das ZDF-Magazin "Frontal 21" am Dienstag in einem Vorabbericht mit. Zudem seien illegale Protokolle über den Gesundheitszustand von Mitarbeitern angefertigt worden. Auf die Betriebsräte wird dem Bericht zufolge massiver Druck seitens ihrer Vorgesetzten ausgeübt. "Wer Betriebsrat geworden ist, der hat seine Karriere vermiest, der kann eigentlich darauf warten, dass er irgendwann mal zur Aufgabe seines Arbeitsplatzes gezwungen wird", sagte die ver.di-Sekretärin im Bezirk Baden-Württemberg, Christina Frank, dem Magazin…“ Artikel in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 29.04.2008 http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?em_cnt=1326967

Siehe dazu:

Ausbeutung bei IKEA: Die Wahrheit über ein "unmögliches Möbelhaus"

Kranke, ältere und allein erziehende Mitarbeiter werden unter Druck gesetzt, Betriebsräte massiv behindert. Mitarbeiter und Gewerkschaft erheben schwere Vorwürfe gegen den Möbelkonzern IKEA. Beitrag von Christian Esser im ZDF-Magazin Frontal21. http://frontal21.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/28/0,1872,7229148,00.html


"Sie haben da Ausbeutung pur"

Interview von Christian Esser mit Christina Frank im ZDF-Magazin Frontal21 http://frontal21.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/25/0,1872,7229177,00.html


Ausbeutung bei IKEA

Das Video der Sendung Frontal21 vom 29.04.2008 http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/080429_ikea_f21.asx


Aus: LabourNet, 30. April 2008



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Consortium News
by Morgan Strong

04/29/08

Neoconservatives, who helped push the United States into war in Iraq, have found a new target — law-abiding Muslims and Arab-Americans who are trying to build careers in academia. A case in point was the tenure battle over a Barnard anthropology professor...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042908a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Unknown News
by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein

04/27/08

Because governments no longer back their currencies with gold, increases in money supplies have resulted over the past several decades, which greatly exceed the growth in planetary production. Therefore, in the years following the implosion of the internet stock bubble and the real estate bubble, both of which had global reach, another bubble was “needed” by the “investors” managing the excess trillions of dollars...

http://www.unknownnews.org/080427a-Mahdi.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Heat-seeking missives

In These Times
by Brian Beutler

04/29/08

There’s a move afoot on Capitol Hill to rein in some of the vast powers conferred upon government investigators by the USA PATRIOT Act, the infamous, hastily crafted law written in response to the September 11th attacks. New legislation has been introduced in both Houses of Congress intended to curb the FBI’s ability to collect private data on virtually anybody using a tool called a national security letter (NSL). The bills come in the wake of yet another damaging FBI inspector general report on the bureau’s abuse of its expanded authorities. ‘The privacy of American citizens is a core value in our society,’ said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a former federal prosecutor and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an April 23 hearing on the FBI’s use of NSLs. ‘I think this is our next really big civil liberties issue’...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3662/heat_seeking_missives/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Powering Down the Patriot Act
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2008/04/national-security-letters-patriot-act.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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CNN

04/29/08

Cheated. Baited and switched. That’s how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them. Soldiers, Marines and airmen, speaking at a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday, said they are not given enough funds from the bill to cover college expenses as they were promised...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

04/29/08

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a ‘reminder’ to Iran, but he said it’s not an escalation of force. Speaking to reporters after meeting with Mexican leaders, Gates said heightening U.S. criticism of Iran and its support for terror groups is not a signal that the administration is laying the groundwork for a strike against Tehran...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24377396/



Not so by the way …
The Power of Narrative

by Arthur Silber

04/29/08

One last point about the attack on Iran that will very likely come before Bush leaves office, and probably sometime this summer at the latest, a point that no one discusses: in the unfolding, bloody chaos following such an attack, chaos that will extend through the fall and long after, just exactly who do you think will be most helped by the hysteria that will engulf us, fueled by the always helpful mainstream media that will faithfully regurgitate and amplify the government propaganda? McCain — or the Democratic presidential candidate, whether it be Obama or Clinton? If you think the Democrat will be helped the most, I suggest you do your best to wake up from that coma...

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/04/not-so-by-way.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Navy Adds Carrier in Gulf as "Reminder" to Iran

David Morgan, of Reuters, reports: "the US Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a 'reminder' to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Mexico, Gates flatly denied a suggestion that the presence of two US carriers in the Gulf could be a precursor to military action against Tehran."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043008J.shtml

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Presstitute and war pimp alert:

"Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan

"What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and -women inside Iraq," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/29/eveningnews/main4056941.shtml



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

US Report: Iran World's Most Significant Terrorism Sponsor

The report identified Iran as the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism with support for hard-line Palestinian factions opposed to U.S.-led peace efforts, Lebanese Hezbollah militants, and Iraqi insurgents.

http://tinyurl.com/54kmtw



US Denies Report It Is Ramping Up Military Plans Vs Iran

"I'm not aware of any ramping up or revision of war plans for Iran," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters traveling with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates

http://tinyurl.com/3kzfrt



White House downplays arrival of second U.S. aircraft carrier in Gulf

"They reinforce that the U.S. has an enduring commitment to the region and to our allies, and we continue to protect our allies and interests wherever necessary," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino during a White House briefing.

http://tinyurl.com/4z246e



Waships 'to remind Iran of US power'

The decision to send a second US aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf should be a "reminder" to Iran of Washington's military might but was not an escalation of force in the region, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23623738-15084,00.html



Top Russian official says Iran's nuclear program is strictly peaceful

A senior Russian government official said on Wednesday after talks with the Iranian leadership that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080430/106309079.html



Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the depreciating dollar a "worthless piece of paper" at a rare summit last year in Saudi Arabia attended by state leaders from OPEC countries.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/30/iran.oil.ap/index.html


From Information Clearing House



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From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Greg+Mitchell

Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Barack Obama said on Sunday he would endorse Bush's nominee to direct US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout a region extending from North Africa to Central Asia.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/obam-a29.shtml



Candidates' plans would increase defict

Plans outlined by the three main U.S. presidential contenders will increase the federal deficit, adding to the national debt significantly, budget experts say.

http://tinyurl.com/4q8h6j


From Information Clearing House



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The oil company on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.6 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2007.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/29/britishpetroleum.profit.ap/



Shell profits up 25 pct on record high oil prices

Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that first-quarter net profits leapt 25 percent to 4.58 billion pounds because of record-breaking crude oil prices.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iftQ-7-T9grM4N1CDCNwSxyYla7Q



Exxon Mobil reports $11B in quarterly profits

Exxon Mobil Corp.'s first-quarter profit rose 17 percent from a year ago, as soaring crude oil prices helped the company reach its second-largest U.S. quarterly profit ever.

http://tinyurl.com/5mfxpd


From Information Clearing House

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BP and Shell post big profits in era of record oil prices
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_oil;_ylt=AjPUwmuuCRZhw4IeObzclKKs0NUE


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Shell Firms Shielded US Contractor From Taxes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/04/8709/

It's the Profits Stupid! The Rise and Rise of Exxon's Take From America
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/05/8722/

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It's the Profits Stupid!

Nomi Prins writes in The Women's International Perspective, "How sad. Exxon Mobil, the universe's largest publicly traded company, which also happens to be enjoying some of its biggest profits ever thanks to the almost doubled price of oil during the past year, didn't quite live up to Wall Street expectations this week. In fact, its stock fell nearly four percent the day it announced its first quarter of 2008 earnings."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050608EA.shtml



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The former chief prosecutor here took the witness stand on Monday on behalf of a detainee and testified that top Pentagon officials had pressured him in deciding which cases to prosecute and what evidence to use.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washington/29gitmo.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Glen Ford

Having crushed the planet's peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord's of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat - no, certainty - of mass starvation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19835.htm



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Try 'Pakistan First'

By Jim Hoagland

The war in Afghanistan will not be won or lost in Afghanistan alone. It must also be won inside Pakistan, where things go from bad to worse for U.S. policy, which has been a set of forlorn wishes that seem to boomerang.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19830.htm



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By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19839.htm



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In The Washington Post, Dan Morgan writes: "Wheat's fall from favor, little noticed when it was cheap, has been long coming. Though still an iconic symbol of American abundance - engraved on currency and praised in song - the nation's amber waves of wheat have been increasingly shoved aside by other crops. The 'breadbasket of the world,' which had alleviated hunger and famine since World War I, now generally supplies only a quarter of world wheat exports."

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

A Litany of Horrors

The RAND Corporation and the Rise of Imperialism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt331.html

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Chalmers Johnson reviews a new history of the RAND Corporation
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7401/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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America's University of Imperialism
Soldiers of Reason by Alex Abella

Reviewed by Chalmers Johnson

Wohlstetter's activism on behalf of American imperialism and militarism lasted well into the 1990s. According to Abella, the rise to prominence of Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi exile and endless source of false intelligence to the Pentagon, "in Washington circles came about at the instigation of Albert Wohlstetter, who met Chalabi in Paul Wolfowitz's office". (In the incestuous world of the neo-cons, Wolfowitz had been Wohlstetter's student at the University of Chicago.)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19952.htm



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According to Ken Ward in Grist, "We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public."

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



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According to H. Josef Hebert of The Associated Press, "The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals, by letting nonscientists have a bigger - often secret - role."

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

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White House blocked EPA studies, GAO reports
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/30/MN9A10DOR1.DTL


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Writing for AlterNet, Penny Coleman says, "The silverbacks are grooming and posturing at the microphones. Camo and khaki, wall to wall. Bob Ireland, an Air Force psychiatrist and consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, welcomes the audience to the Department of Defense's sixth annual Suicide Prevention Conference and makes jokes about how suicide prevention has been the DOD's bastard child, homeless and parentless."

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



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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.infowars.net/articles/april2008/290408Johnson.htm



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http://www.alternet.org/story/83548/


Informant: Bob Banner



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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.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17863



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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27826/1.html



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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/710bf72f636a7d61?hl=en



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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



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

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



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

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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http://www.bnd.com/285/story/323799.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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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



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



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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+rights

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoena
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yoo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Addington
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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grüne+Gentechnik
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Seehofer

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wright
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ec18130d8660009?hl=en



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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fossil+fuels
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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=monitoring
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Shenon

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+propaganda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen

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



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy132.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/reading-list4.html



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7391/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

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


Informant: shane_digital



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