Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2008

The Yazoo Pumps threatens to destroy 200,000 acres of Mississippi Delta wetlands

Right now a project called the Yazoo Pumps threatens to destroy 200,000 acres of Mississippi Delta wetlands – the home of the Louisiana black bear. The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a plan to stop the Yazoo Pumps, but we need your help to make sure there is a groundswell of public support for this plan. Write the EPA today to say how important this is to you! May 5th is the fast-approaching deadline to send your official public comment to the Environmental Protection Agency supporting its plan to stop the Yazoo Pumps. For the first time in nearly 20 years, the EPA is using its "veto authority" to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from constructing the environmentally destructive Yazoo Pumps project. But for the final veto to go through, the EPA needs to hear from you that you want this project gone. Just one minute of your time will help protect 200,000 acres of Mississippi Delta wetlands that would be drained and destroyed by the pumps. These are the same wetlands where Theodore Roosevelt famously refused to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree – an action that sparked the creation of the teddy bear. Stopping this project will also protect some of the best wildlife habitat in the heart of the Mississippi River Flyway, keep several wildlife refuges and national forests healthy and save taxpayers more than $220 million! On April 17th, hundreds of people came to the public hearing in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to support the EPA's plan to veto the pumps. Now YOU can help by personalizing and sending comments to the EPA to make sure it "Dumps the Pumps" to protect Mississippi's precious wetlands and wildlife. Send your message today before the May 5th deadline. Let's flood the EPA with messages urging it to protect this important wildlife habitat!

http://ga3.org/campaign/Yazoo_Pumps/


Michael Town
Campaign Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org



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ACLU: New Report Confirms Unprecedented Expansion Of Government Spying

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0501-01.htm



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Escalation of U.S. Air War

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0430-19.htm



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Congress Must Accomplish the Mission of Ending the War In Iraq

Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0501-04.htm



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Resident objects to cellphone towers in West End

A West End tenant has written to Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan to object to the installation of seven cellphone-transmission antennas on the roof of her building. In her April 24 letter to Sullivan, Tina Zanetti stated that she discovered that two separate permits had been issued to Mott Electric earlier this year without any notification to area residents about the “health hazards associated with electromagnetic radiation”.

Zanetti, a resident of 1395 Beach Avenue, noted in her letter that cellphone towers are regulated by the federal government. She accused the city of being “completely reckless” in its handling of this issue. Zanetti demanded that the mayor impose a stop-work order and immediately notify West End residents of this in writing. She also wants a notice published in a newspaper for the purpose of holding a public forum on the issue.

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http://www.straight.com/article-143887/resident-objects-cell-towers



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Strike Against War Shuts Down West Coast Ports

Peter Cole writes for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "On Thursday, May Day, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will declare an eight-hour strike to protest the war in Iraq. Since the ILWU controls every port along the U.S. Pacific Coast, including Seattle and Tacoma, this strike demonstrates the collective power of workers willing to use it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050108B.shtm
[ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/01/18482849.php ]



Union's War Protest Shuts Down West Coast Ports

William Yardley, for The New York Times: "West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their union leaders said was a one-day, one-shift protest against the war in Iraq. Cranes and forklifts stood still from Seattle to San Diego, and ships were stalled at sea as workers held rallies up and down the coast to blame the war for distracting public attention and money from domestic needs like health care and education."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050208L.shtml

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Thousands of Dockworkers Close Ports in War Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/01/8660/

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Dockworkers close ports in war protest

LA Times

05/01/08

Thousands of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, took the day off work today in what their union called a protest of the war in Iraq, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes.The action came two months before the contract expires between the dockworkers, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and the Pacific Maritime Assn., which represents port operators and large shippers, many of them foreign-owned.“We are supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it’s time to end the war in Iraq,” said union President Bob McEllrath...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ports2-2008may02,0,2955025,print.story


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran

Katie Couric and the Corporate Media Gear Up for Iran Attack
http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/Articles/May2008/010508Katie-Gearsup.html


Informant: shane_digital

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Iran seeking to keep Afghanistan unstable

US official: Iran is seeking to keep Afghanistan weak and unstable, delivering arms to the Taliban whilst ostensibly supporting Kabul's government, a senior US state department official said in Paris Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/5pvqf2



Iran a potential threat in Latin America: US

Isolated Iran sees Latin America as a place to push back US influence, from which it could maintain a 'terrorist threat' against the United States in the event of a conflict, a senior US official warned on Wednesday.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=111392



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Send your own “Citizens’ Subpoena” now

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Angry residents call for mast veto

Rebecca Connop Price reports

RESIDENTS living near a water tower decked out with dozens of mobile phone masts have demanded that the council throw out plans for two new masts.

A petition signed by 155 people living near the Cargate water pumping tower in Aldershot was submitted to Rushmoor Borough Council on Friday.

The petition called for the council to withdraw the application submitted last month by Orange Personal Communication Services.

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http://www.shstar.co.uk/news/2027/2027115/angry_residents_call_for_mast_veto

Email sent to European Parliamentarians: low energy light bulbs

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/d4934f33f87d412b



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White House Blocked Rule Issued to Shield Whales

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003189.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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US Plan to Protect Right Whale From Shipping Blocked by Cheney
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8669/



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Blue Dogs on Hoyer's FISA Leash

Alexander Bolton, of The Hill, reports "Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), the House Democrats' point man in negotiations on an overhaul of intelligence surveillance law, is keeping his eye on conservative Blue Dog Democrats who might defect on the issue under Republican pressure. The topic has reached a critical point because surveillance orders granted by the director of national intelligence and the attorney general under the authority of the Protect America Act begin to expire in August."

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



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ACLU: Torture of Detainees Continued After 2003 Directive

Adam Goldman, of The Associated Press, reports "the military continued to use abusive interrogation methods on detainees after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday after reviewing newly released documents. The Department of Defense documents shed light on the use of psychologists in military interrogations and the failure of medical workers to report abuse of detainees, the ACLU said. 'The documents reveal that psychologists and medical personnel played a key role in sustaining prisoner abuse - a clear violation of their ethical and legal obligations,' ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said."

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

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ACLU: Pentagon Documents Highlight Interrogation Methods
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/01/8639/

ACLU: Newly Unredacted Report Confirms Psychologists Supported Illegal Interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0430-15.htm

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New documents reveal military's use of psychologists and medical workers in abusive interrogations

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7406/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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The case for recession

The American Conservative
by Nelson Hulteberg

04/21/08

Bank of America economist Mickey Levy recently made one of the most astonishing comments heard in a long time, says Chicago financial commentator Bill King in his ‘King Report:’ ‘The Fed knows its credibility would be damaged if the economy slipped into recession.’ King’s response: ‘When did recession become an abhorrent, avoid-at-all- costs phenomenon?’ Recessions have been common throughout our history, and the country has always survived because our political and economic leaders understood that a periodic ‘riding out’ was necessary to cleanse the system of excesses and enable it to return to real growth. What is different this time that makes the Fed so desperate to avoid a healthy purging?

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_04_21/article.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The fourth pillar of the “new” economy: “Spend all you can”

Acton Institute
by Jordan Ballor

04/30/08

In early February President Bush signed into law a $150 billion dollar package of tax rebates touted as a ’stimulus’ for the flagging national economy. The purpose of the plan, which President Bush has called ‘a booster shot for our economy,’ is to quickly inject some money into the economy and spur consumer spending...

http://tinyurl.com/3ml6sw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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A new reason to go to war

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

04/30/08

President Bush acts like a teenager with a credit card and rich parents. He never sees the bill, so he just buys what he wants and charges it. The problem is that instead of rich parents, this president has debt-ridden taxpayers and a gutted military. A few days before Gen. David Petraeus confirmed for Congress how overworked the military is in Iraq — Bush has now promised to shorten the tours from 15 to 12 months — the president was in Croatia talking about the significance of that country’s and Albania’s invitations to join NATO...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0804b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The day I lost my innocence

CounterPunch
by WILLIAM P. O'CONNOR

04/30/08

[T]he generation of young men who fought the Viet Nam war trusted authority. We thought because people in authority are experienced, they usually know best. We were hopeful and idealistic, and the majority of us believed in our country. We were told that freedom has a price and we lived in a country that represented democracy and freedom around the globe. We also believed, as we know now erroneously, that our government was committed to this paradigm. Age has not blessed me with wisdom, but I do know old men make the wars, and I sincerely believe that they feel truth is just a game, a game for children and a game that must be played by young idealistic boys...

http://counterpunch.org/oconnor04302008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Climate Change Hitting Arctic Faster, Harder

According to the Environmental News Network, "Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought, according to a new study by the global conservation organization WWF."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/043008EC.shtml

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Arctic on thin ice this fall
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/30/arctic-thin-ice-fall/


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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What Nuclear Renaissance?

The Nation's Christian Parenti writes: "If you listen to the rhetoric, nuclear power is back. Smashing atoms will replace burning carbon-based coal, gas and oil. In the face of a disaster movie-like future of runaway climate change - bringing drought, floods, famine and social breakdown - carbon-free nukes are cast as the deus ex machina to save us at the last minute."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/043008EA.shtml



Rockefellers Call for Change at Exxon Mobil

Reuters reports: "Members of the Rockefeller family are calling on Exxon Mobil Corp to make corporate governance changes and adopt a renewable fuels strategy to help address the soaring cost of energy."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/043008EB.shtml

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Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7371645.stm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Health Care: Mission Accomplished

"Bill Moyers Journal profiles the fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal health care. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA. "We, as the public, pay for Dick Cheney's care ... Also on the program, five years after the president declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq, Bill Moyers interviews Victor S. Navasky and Christopher Cerf about their latest book, 'Mission Accomplished,' [and] Media and politics expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the latest from the presidential campaign."

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



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Dumb as We Wanna Be

In The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman says, "It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering."

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Did the US Supreme Court Just Elect John McCain?

According to Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman in The Free Press, "The US Supreme Court has just dealt a serious blow to voters' rights that could help put John McCain in the White House by eliminating tens of thousands of voters who generally vote Democratic."

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



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Next-up news N°561

- 30 04 2008 France 3: Historique THT Transpyrénéenne intégralement enfouie. (vidéo Fr)

http://www.next-up.org/pages/nouvellesdumonde_THT.php#1

The Housing Market is Nowhere Near Bottom

Housing is what started the current mess we are in. Thanks to record low interest rates from the Federal Reserve, the US consumer went on a debt-induced home buying binge. That binge is now coming home to roost. And it's not going to let up for the foreseeable future.

http://tinyurl.com/6lq7c8


From Information Clearing House



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How Daniel Pipes Destroyed a New York City Principal

The New York Times has a cautionary tale of how mainstream hate masquerading as patriotism can destroy projects designed to promote peace and understanding.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/28/75357/1269/743/504708


From Information Clearing House



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Sadr City attacks kill at least 925 Iraqis

Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to press the offensive to its conclusion.

http://tinyurl.com/54362s
[ http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080430/world/iraq_unrest_sadrcity_11]



Civilians among 28 killed as US bombs Sadr City

Photographs showed the dust-covered body of at least one child being pulled from a mountain of rubble after Tuesday's fighting.

http://tinyurl.com/3nhvzk



Another proud day in US military history

Pictures show destruction caused by US bombing of civilians.
http://tinyurl.com/4n8z3o



151 Congressmen Profit From War

More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.

http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/151-congressmen-profit-from-war/3283/



Shadowing Slaughter in Sadr City

As the first UK journalist to be embedded with the rebel Mahdi Army, Hala Jaber reports on its terrifying battle

By Hala Jaber

"Ya'mma, Ya'ba" ("Oh mother, oh father"), cried Amira Zaydan, a 45-year-old spinster, slapping her face and chest as she grieved for her parents Jaleel, 65, and Hanounah, 60, whose house had exploded after apparently being hit by an American rocket.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19864.htm



US troops battle militia in Baghdad despite deal

American troops fought street battles with Shiite militia in Baghdad's Sadr City, killing three people on the first full day of a deal to end fighting in the area, a military official said Monday.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ii2zdiL63_9iANv33PbpzQihMkDg



U.S. military hits a wall in Sadr City

In the glow of a full moon, a U.S. military convoy inched toward a strategic road in Sadr City. The goal: to add to a wall being built to carve out a haven in the Shiite Muslim militia stronghold.

http://tinyurl.com/4gyjbl


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq Civilians Reportedly Among Sadr City Dead

Tina Susman, of The Los Angeles Times, reports "the US Army said they were militants. Sadr City residents said at least some were civilians, and photographs showed a dust-covered child being pulled from a mountain of rubble after Tuesday's fighting. Whatever the facts, at least 28 people were dead after the four-hour battle, the latest killed in a showdown between US and Iraqi forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen over recent weeks."

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



The Insurgent as Counterinsurgent

Spencer Ackerman writes for The Washington Independent: "In early April, the tenuous security gains of 2007's surge by US troops in Iraq were jeopardized by an Iraqi government assault against hard-line Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr. In Basra and the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraqi security forces, backed by US troops, battled Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, leaving at least 925 dead and 2,600 wounded in a campaign that continues as of this writing."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050208E.shtml



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My Pastor Is Holier Than Yours

By Mary Pitt

The mainstream media is having a field day with this minutia while parading "experts" on both politics and religion across our screen. Hours of air time are spent on this trivia while the soldiers keep dying in Iraq, the criminality of the Pentagon policies, the brutal treatment, not only of our prisoners, but of our "all-volunteer" servicewomen, is conveniently swept under the rug and onto the back pages of the newspapers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19842.htm



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Driven To Starvation

By William A. Cohn

How the auto industry continues to destroy the environment and is now abetting global hunger and poverty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19841.htm

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Biofuels can't feed starving people

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0429/p09s01-coop.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0418/p01s01-usec.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p03s03-usec.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008

By James Petras

The dismantling of the military driven empire will not occur 'by choice' but by imposed circumstances, including the incapacity of domestic institutions to continue to finance it. The demise of the militarist governing class will follow the collapse of their domestic economic foundations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19843.htm

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Fastened to a Dying Animal

By Phil Rockstroh

Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American Republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19844.htm



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Blood Diamonds' 'Blood Oil' and 'Blood Food'

By Pablo Ouziel

True commitment to stopping the war in Iraq requires a global human rights strike, in which the working population of the world stops producing, until the governments and the corporations realize that the voice of the people does indeed matter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19840.htm

MORE FORCED TO STAY IN ARMY

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7400/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Incubator Electromagnetic Fields Alter Newborns’ Heart Rates

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/540206/

Incubators Affect Newborns' Heart Rates
http://www.dentalplans.com/articles/32504/

Incubator may alter a baby's heart rate: study
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080430/incubator_study_080430/20080430?hub=Health

Electromagnetic fields affect infant heart rate
http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINCOL16505920080501

Newborns’ Hearts Damaged by Incubator Electromagnetic Fields
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Newborns_Hearts_Damaged_by_Incubator_Electromagnetic_Fields_17061.html

Babies' hearts incubator warning
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iq93zAbTRYjRL4mfJMYFZdgTqUzw

Incubator Motor Affects Baby’s Heart Rate
http://medheadlines.com/2008/05/02/incubator-motor-affects-babys-heart-rate/

Worry over incubator 'emissions'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7375050.stm

Electromagnetic Fields in Incubators Affect Newborns' Heart Rates
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/tb/9298

Study: Incubator's Electromagnetic Fields May Affect Heart Rates
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010829095

Infant Hearts Beat to Electromagnetic Pulses
http://www.heartzine.com/news/772-Infant-Hearts-Beat-to-Electromagnetic-Pulses.html

Incubators may be linked to higher risk of cot death
http://tinyurl.com/6ocx8m

Incubators link with cot death - Denis Henshaw quoted
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/7950ecf4ac39ab5a?hl=en

Video report (Study): Incubators and EMF
Pr Carlo Bellieni
French version :
http://videos.next-up.org/France5/MagSante/MaternitesCouveusesChampsElectomagnetiques/02052008.html

Maternités : Alerte Santé Couveuses et CEM
http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/IncubatorsCouveuses.php#1



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Grain companies' profits soar as global food crisis mounts

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120949327146453423.html

As food prices surge, so could Amazon destruction
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48169/story.htm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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War and the Morality of Americans

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/potter5.html



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The Great Syrian Nuclear Menace

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis107.html

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Are these Syrian nuclear pictures faked?

The CIA published three aerial photographs last week purporting to show a Syrian nuclear reactor, bombed by Israel last September. But are the pictures all that they seem? Doubts about their authenticity have been raised by Professor William Beeman, head of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, who has had a long involvement with the Middle East.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/01/syria.nuclear


From Information Clearing House



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Der EU-Reformvertrag, Parallelen zur Sowjetunion?

Die ödp München lädt ein:

"Der EU-Reformvertrag - Parallelen zur Sowjetunion?"

Referent: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender

Donnerstag, 08. Mai 2008, 19.30 Uhr - Einlass 19:00 Uhr – Der Eintritt ist frei
Brienner Str. 46 / EG – Vortragssaal der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung
U 1 und Tram 20/21 Stiglmaierplatz (3 min zu Fuß) - U 2 Königsplatz (5 min zu Fuß)

Die Strukturen der EU haben nach dem Reformvertrag von Lissabon gewisse Ähnlichkeiten mit denen der früheren Sowjetunion. Ist das ein Zufall?

Im Vortrag von Prof. Buchner werden die Entscheidungsstrukturen der EU dargestellt, insbesondere der Abbau demokratischer Grundrechte, die Militarisierung und der Vorrang der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft vor den sozialen Rechten. Wesentliche Teile unseres Grundgesetzes werden außer Kraft gesetzt.


Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter, (V.i.S.d.P.)
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46/V, 80333 München
Fon 089/452 474 15 × Fax 089/550 699 86
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„Energievisionen für eine post-fossile Welt: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der
Sonnenenergie“
Referent: Josef Jenni, international anerkannter Solarpionier

Do.,10. Juli 2008, 19:30 Uhr
Wetterkatastrophen und Klimawandel: Wie lange sind die Schäden noch bezahl- und versicherbar?“
Referent: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Berz, LMU München, ehem. Leiter GeoRisikoForschung, Münchner Rück

Do., 14. Aug. 2008, 19:30 Uhr
„Wirtschaftsdemokratie mit menschlichem Maß – von E.F. Schumacher zu Peter Ulrich“
Referentin: Renate Börger, Journalistin, attac München

Do., 11. Sept. 2008, 19:30 Uhr
Volle Teller und volle Tanks, nachhaltig erzeugtes Pflanzenöl – ein Widerspruch?“
Referent: Prof. Dr. Schrimpff, Bundesverband Pflanzenöle

Do., 09. Okt. 2008, 19:30 Uhr
„Umweltbewußtes Marketing – nicht nur für die Ökobranche“
Referentin: Henrietta Lorko, Bioculture

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„Mediation statt Ehestreit vor Gericht – für eine menschliche Trennung ohne finanz. Ruin“
Referent: Rainer Köpnick, Mediator

Do., 11. Dez. 2008, 19:30 Uhr
Klimaschutzprozess: Stehen wir vor einer industriellen Revolution?“
Referentin: Dr. Michaela Homolka, Philosophin und Unternehmensberaterin


ödp.

In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil - weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

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ödp Veranstaltung-Nachbericht: ödp-Bundesvorsitzender: EU-Reformvertrag weist Parallelen zur Sowjetunion auf

Pressemitteilung des ödp Stadtverbands München

ödp-Bundesvorsitzender: EU-Reformvertrag weist Parallelen zur Sowjetunion auf

„Die Strukturen der Europäischen Union werden durch den sogenannten Lissabon- oder EU-Reform-Vertrag noch undemokratischer“, warnte Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, Bundesvorsitzender der Ökologisch-Demokratischen Partei (ödp), in einem Vortrag in München.

Unter dem provokanten Titel „ EU-Reformvertrag – Parallelen zur Sowjetunion?“ referierte Buchner zu den geplanten Änderungen in den Strukturen der Europäischen Union im vollbesetzten Saal der Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung. Durch den sogenannten Lissabon oder EU-Reform-Vertrag, der soeben vom Bundestag ratifiziert wurde, und 2009 in Kraft treten soll, wird eine weitere Kompetenzübertragung vom Bund auf die europäischen Institutionen in Brüssel zementiert. „Parallelen der EU-Regierungsstruktur zur Sowjetunion sind offensichtlich und kein Zufall.“, so der ödp-Bundesvorsitzende.

Prof. Buchner weiter: „Der EU Reformvertrag enthält zu über 95% den Text der gescheiterten EU-Verfassung. Jetzt wird also diese Verfassung, die auch über dem deutschen Grundgesetz stehen wird, am Volk vorbei eingeführt. Das demokratiefeindliche Ergebnis hat jetzt Verfassungsrang: Die überaus starke Machtbasis der EU-Kommission, die nur von den Mitgliedsregierungen ernannt wird, und die schwache Rolle des EU-Parlaments erinnern an die Machtstrukturen in der früheren Sowjetunion: Auch hier wurde der Oberste Sowjet als Pseudolegislative von einer starken Exekutive in Form des Politbüros vollständig dominiert.“

Laut ödp sind bereits heute 85% der im Bundestag verabschiedeten Gesetze lediglich die Umsetzung von entsprechenden EU-Verordnungen.

Mit dem neuen Vertragswerk wird nun zusätzlich auch die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik verstärkt an das „Politische und sicherheitspolitische Komitee“ (PSK) der EU übertragen. Dieses kann die Mitgliedstaaten in Zukunft auffordern „Missionen“ durchzuführen, was laut Prof. Buchner nichts anderes als die Umschreibung dafür ist, dass die EU in Zukunft Kriege ohne irgendwelche Parlamentsermächtigung führen kann. Prof. Buchners Hauptkritikpunkt am EU-Reformvertrag: Die EU-Strukturen werden sich weiter verselbständigen und ausweiten - trotzdem ist auch für die Zukunft keine ausgleichende parlamentarische Kontrolle vorgesehen. Die EU-Kommission ist den Bürgern zu keinerlei Rechenschaft verpflichtet und kann ihre eigenen Verordnungen ungestraft ignorieren.

Durch die über 15000 Lobbyisten der Industrie in Brüssel ist darüber hinaus, so Prof. Buchner, der Gesetzgebungsprozess in der europäischen Kommission schon heute maßgeblich zu Gunsten der Großkonzerne verzerrt. Und das EU-Parlament hat auch in Zukunft keine Möglichkeit zur eigenen Gesetzgebungsinitiative. Es darf de facto nur die in den Hinterzimmern der EU-Kommission abgestimmten Vorschläge abnicken.

Diese überaus starke Machtbasis der EU-Kommission, die nur von den Mitgliedstaaten ernannt wird, und die weiterhin schwache Rolle des EU-Parlaments veranlasste Prof. Buchner zu dem Vergleich mit den Machtstrukturen in der früheren Sowjetunion, wo der Oberste Sowjet als Pseudolegislative, von einer starke Exekutive in Form des Politbüros vollständig dominiert wurde.

In der abschließenden Diskussion, die von der Sorge darüber geprägt war, warum sowenig über dieses wichtige Thema diskutiert wird und was man eigentlich noch tun könne, wies Prof. Buchner auf die geplante Klage der ödp gegen den EU-Reformvertrag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht hin, die sofort nach der Ratifizierung des Vertrags durch den Bundesrat eingereicht werden soll.

Foto Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender: http://www.orange-waehlen.de/kandidaten/05g.jpg


Herbert Brunner Pressebeauftragter (V.i.S.d.P.)
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
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Does Driving a Hybrid Pose a Health Risk?

Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/automobiles/27EMF.html


Informant: Tim Campbell

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Does Driving a Hybrid Pose a Health Risk?
http://tinyurl.com/56c2nx

Hybrid vehicles may not be healthy for drivers
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Hybrid-vehicles-may-not-be-healthy-for-drivers/304604/

Do Hybrid Vehicles Pose an EMF Risk?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2293369,00.asp

Hidden Hybrid Automobile Dangers, What You Should Know About EMFs
http://consumerist.com/5008376/hidden-hybrid-automobile-dangers-what-you-should-know-about-emfs

HYBRID VEHICLE OWNERS REPORT ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=16683

Mittwoch, 30. April 2008

Arrest Bush

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/30/8611/

US Senator Russ Feingold Statement at Hearing on 'Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government'

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



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

AFL-CIO Working Families Mobilize to Counter McCain's Insurance Industry-Friendly Healthcare Plan

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



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

Peace Activists Protest War by Refusing Taxes

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0430-12.htm

No Country for Old Men

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer

Report: Chevron Complicit in Human Rights Abuses

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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McCain Health Plan Would Strip Millions of Coverage

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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Myriad Crises, but Inertia in Official Washington

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
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Kein Klimaschutz mit Kohlekraftwerken

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz
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Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars

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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Mass Protests against GM Crops in India

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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Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney

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


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Halliburton
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

Burger King filmte Betriebsratsgründung

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



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

Ikea: Videoüberwachung am Arbeitsplatz

„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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1. Mai: Startschuss Bündnisplattform gegen Regelsatzblockade

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/135aa89f807eca29?hl=en



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

Truth or Neo-Consequences

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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Next bubble: Food

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



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

Another damaging FBI inspector general report on the bureau’s abuse of its expanded authorities

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security+letter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Whitehouse
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Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits

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...

http://tinyurl.com/6nehlv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Gates: 2nd carrier in Gulf a ‘reminder’ to Iran

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


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Was death of 'depressed' ex-Iraq commander, 42, a suicide?

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7396/



Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

Obama vows to back Bush's war commander

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


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BP's first-quarter profit jumps 63 percent

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


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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
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Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Push by Pentagon on Detainees

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


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The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=starvation
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Neocons say: Pakistan, is threat to world peace

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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The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War

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



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

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

America's University of Imperialism

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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Dave Barry Explains the Tax Rebate

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north622.html



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But What About the Children?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/children.html



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Earth Day Preachin'

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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White House Undermines EPA on Cancer Risks

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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The Pentagon's "Monstrous Wrong"

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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Suit Filed to Stop Wolf Slaughter

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/suit-filed-to-stop-wolf-slaughter/



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