Samstag, 3. Mai 2008

Contractors Gone Wild

In Mother Jones, Bruce Falconer writes: "Allegations of widespread mismanagement and corruption among private contractors in Iraq are nothing new; if anything, tales of cronyism, over-billing, and embezzlement have become so frequent that our national tolerance for them seems only to have increased as the Iraq War has drawn on. Even so, the testimony earlier this week of three whistleblowers before the Senate's Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) stands out for the sheer outrageousness of their accusations - namely that US private contractors looted Iraqi palaces and ministries, stole military equipment, fenced supplies destined for US troops, and even operated a prostitution ring that may have contributed to the death of fellow contractor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050308B.shtml



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Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_080502_bush_s_conspiracy_to.htm

Government Itself Won't Swear To Official Theory of 9/11
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_george_w_080503_government_itself_wo.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=false+flag+attacks
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11

A Global Clarion Call to Bold Action

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_michael__080501_a_global_clarion_cal.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

Pentagon setzt auf Online-Nachrichten

Die vom Pentagon finanzierten Nachrichten-Websites sollen die Menschen beeinflussen und die gegnerische Propaganda bekämpfen - natürlich nur durch die reine Wahrheit.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27852/1.html



US Army sucht autonome Insektenroboter

Den Soldaten sollen intelligente Schwärme von kriechenden, kletternden, fliegenden oder schwimmenden Mini-Robotern helfen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/107338

US-Dollar: The (not so) long Goodby

Es häufen sich die Anzeichen, dass die globale Dominanz des Dollars schneller vorüber sein könnte als bislang angenommen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27853/1.html

Voting Rights Are Too Important

Two editorials, one from Adam Cohen of The New York Times and the other from The Boston Globe editorial staff, explore the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision this week that upheld a voter ID law in the state of Indiana that will require voters to show photo identification at the polls. Adam Cohen calls for Congress to uphold the Constitution and act to regulate federal elections, while The Boston Globe scolds: "Voting is a fundamental right. ID rules should be no more stringent than is necessary to keep the voting process secure and orderly. That's what Indiana had - until partisan legislators saw an opening and exploited it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050308Y.shtml



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GMO: A Dangerous Experiment

http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_barbara__080429_gmo__96_a_dangerous_ex.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Dawn of an Energy Famine

Jeremy Leggett, for The Guardian UK, reports, "This week the shape of the global energy crisis came into its sharpest focus yet. The world needs renewable energy fast, but as BP and Shell announced record profits, they also demonstrated that they are in essence retreating from renewables, perhaps with the exception of biofuels. They intend to focus their record billions on expanding production of what remains of traditional oil and gas, plus tar sands and liquid fuels from coal - ruinous in their effect on the climate."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050208EA.shtml



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US Rejects Canadian's Child Soldier Defense

Jane Sutton reports for Reuters: "A Canadian captured in Afghanistan at age 15 can be tried for murder in the Guantanamo war crimes court, a US military judge ruled in rejecting claims that he was a child soldier who should be rehabilitated rather than prosecuted."

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



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Next-up news N°562

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/3a55a75c5579894d

U.S DECLARES WAR ON IRAN OFFICIAL, READ LINKS



http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlk3yHTJwY&NR=1


Informant: Charles Connolly



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

The War Party's Strategy: Divert, Distract, and Demonize

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j050208b.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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Bernanke, the Illusionist

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north623.html



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Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?

Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/83301/


From Information Clearing House



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Warships In The Persian Gulf Are Empty Exercises Of Power

American warships, do not in the slightest meet the Iranian "threat" head on. They do the reverse: They strengthen the most radical mentalities of ancient Persia that remain locked in the memories of the country's history. In fact, they only strengthen perfervid anti-Western feelings.

http://tinyurl.com/3uhzko


From Information Clearing House



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Bush details $70 billion war request for 2009

President's request raises war, terror bill to $875 billion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24428337/


From Information Clearing House

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Bush's $70 Billion War Funding Request for 2009

Andrew Taylor reports for The Associated Press: "President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy. Friday's request fills in the details of the $70 billion placeholder that the White House asked for when it sent its budget to Congress in February."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050308Z.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Taylor

Somalia: A Victim of Bush's Recklessness

How the West ended Somalia's brief flirtation with stability

By Matthew Carr

The violence that is currently ripping Somalia apart is a direct consequence of the Bush administration's reckless military adventurism and the Manichean fantasy world of the 21st century's terror wars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19859.htm



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

Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran

Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops

By Andrew Cockburn

Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19858.htm



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Elite Policy And The "Axis of Evil"

By Noam Chomsky

The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities, North Korea is again trying to evade its commitments in its usual devious way-"good news" for superhawks like John Bolton, who have held all along that the North Koreans understand only the mailed fist and will exploit negotiations only to trick us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19856.htm



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Human Rights First Supports Senate Bill on Ending Secret Prisons

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0501-19.htm

Amnesty International Urges the Bush Administration to Release or Provide Fair Trials to All Remaining Guantanamo Detainees

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0502-01.htm



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Bush, Congress Must Hold Oil Industry, Speculators Accountable for High Gas Prices

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0501-26.htm



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US Government Admits It Destroyed Videotape in Enemy Combatant Case

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0502-02.htm



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Freitag, 2. Mai 2008

Big Pharma Digs In

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8664/



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Bush Admits He Approved Torture

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8671/



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War of the future: Robot versus Robot

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8665/

Hinweis Fernsehsendung Mona Lisa 4.5., 18.00

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/a9a34598594ff5ef

The Return of Limited Nuclear War?

http://counterpunch.org/isenberg05022008.html


Informant: Kev Hall



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Iran: Tabubruch von innen und von außen erneute Kriegsgefahr

"Das unabwendbare Schicksal ungerechter Regierungen ist der Sturz" http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27819/1.html



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

Making a Killing From Hunger

From the April issue of GRAIN: "For some time now the rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm. The price of wheat has gone up by 130% over the last year. Rice has doubled in price in Asia in the first three months of 2008 alone, and just last week it hit record highs on the Chicago futures market ... In fear of political turmoil, world leaders have been calling for more food aid, as well as for more funds and technology to boost agricultural production. Cereal exporting countries, meanwhile, are closing their borders to protect their domestic markets, while other countries have been forced into panic buying. Is this a price blip? No. A food shortage? Not that either. We are in a structural meltdown, the direct result of three decades of neoliberal globalisation."

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



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Stealth Campaigns

The Center for Public Integrity's Sara Fritz, in a five-part examination of how independent committees shape the presidential race, writes: "Their names roll off the tongue with a patriotic cadence: Freedom’s Watch, Democracy Alliance, Citizens United, Progress for America, Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America. These are the new giants of American politics, the well-funded groups organized behind a veil of secrecy to influence the voters’ choice for president of the United States in 2008."

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



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US Navy Resuscitates South Atlantic Fourth Fleet

Writing from Rio for Le Figaro, Lamia Oualalou writes that the United States, "choosing to confront the rise in power of left-leaning governments in its backyard," is recreating the Fourth Fleet - dissolved since 1950 - to patrol Latin American and Caribbean waters.

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

The New Geopolitics of Energy

Michael T. Klare writes for The Nation: "While the day-to-day focus of US military planning remains Iraq and Afghanistan, American strategists are increasingly looking beyond these two conflicts to envision the global combat environment of the emerging period - and the world they see is one where the struggle over vital resources, rather than ideology or balance-of-power politics, dominates the martial landscape."

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



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What's McCain Thinking When He Says Boot Russia From G-8?

Matt Stearns and Warren P. Strobel report for McClatchy Newspapers: "John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies."

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



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Arbeitslosenstatistik nicht aussagefähig: Immer mehr Ältere sind offenbar auf "Hartz IV" angewiesen

Das Armutsrisiko für ältere Menschen in Deutschland hat nach einer Studie des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB) deutlich zugenommen. Seit der Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II ("Hartz IV") im Januar 2005 sei die Zahl der älteren Hilfebedürftigen bis Ende vergangenen Jahres um mehr als 22 Prozent und damit fast doppelt so stark gestiegen wie bei den anderen Altersgruppen, berichtet der "Tagesspiegel" unter Berufung auf die DGB-Erhebung. "Das ist ein bedrückendes Ergebnis, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels", sagte der Leiter der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik im DGB-Bundesvorstand, Wilhelm Adamy.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17894

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3. Mai 2008

Sie wissen nicht, was sie tun ...

Am Montag will sich der CDU-Vorstand mit dem Thema Rente beschäftigen. Dazu erklärt der stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Klaus Ernst:

Der gegenwärtige Streit innerhalb der CDU zeigt vor allem eines: In der Rentenpolitik wissen Union und SPD längst nicht mehr, was sie tun. Es ist unerträglich mit welcher Ignoranz CDU-Fraktionschef Volker Kauder das Problem der Altersarmut leugnet und auf diesem Weg versucht, die Vorschläge seines Unions-Kollegen Rüttgers vom Tisch zu wischen. Dabei gebietet es schon der klare Menschenverstand, dass Arbeitsnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer mit Beschäftigungszeiten von 35 Jahren und mehr, nicht auf Grundsicherungsniveau abrutschen dürfen. DIE LINKE will, dass die Rente wieder den Lebensstandard ohne gravierende Abstriche sichert. Um vermehrter Altersarmut vorzubeugen, muss das stete Absinken der gesetzlichen Nettorenten, das mit der rot-grünen Rentenreform eingeleitet wurde, rückgängig gemacht werden. Hier liegt der Hauptgrund, warum trotz jahrelanger Beitragsleistung immer mehr Menschen im Alter auf Grundsicherung angewiesen sind. DIE LINKE fordert die Rücknahme aller Kürzungsfaktoren, die dazu führen, dass das Rentenniveau in den nächsten Jahren dramatisch sinkt. Wir wollen in die Richtung einer Erwerbstätigenversicherung gehen, in der alle Erwerbseinkommen berücksichtigt werden. Das bedeutet, dass alle, die Erwerbseinkommen beziehen, in einer Versicherung sind. Das betrifft dann die Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages ebenso wie auch alle anderen Erwerbstätigen wie Beamte oder auch Selbständige.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/sie-wissen-nicht-was-sie-tun/



Rentenpolitik ist Armutszeugnis

Als ein Armutszeugnis für die Rentenpolitik von Rot-Grün und der Großen Koalition bezeichnete Klaus Ernst, stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Partei DIE LINKE. die vorläufigen Zahlen des statistischen Bundesamtes zum Anstieg der Altersarmut:

Die Zunahme der Kosten für die Grundsicherung im Alter um 12,7 Prozent im letzten Jahr stellt eine krasse Zunahme von Altersarmut dar. Die Rentenkürzungspolitik von Rot-Grün bis zur Großen Koalition zeigt damit ihr wahres Gesicht: Senioren und Seniorinnen, die von ihrer Rente nicht leben können und im Alter den Weg zum Sozialamt antreten müssen. Wenn die in den letzten Jahren politisch verursachte, millionenfache Altersarmut noch aufgehalten werden soll, muss die gesetzliche Rente gestärkt und solidarisch umgebaut werden: die Dämpfungsfaktoren müssen abgeschafft werden, damit die Renten wieder mit der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Schritt halten können. Beiträge für Zeiten der Kindererziehung und niedrigen Einkommens müssen höher bewertet werden – Solidarität statt privater Vorsorge muss das Motto der Rentenpolitik sein.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/rentenpolitik-ist-armutszeugnis/




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This Company May Be the Biggest Threat to Your Future Health

http://tinyurl.com/5m3jfg

Is New Terrifying Disease the Cause of Genetically Modified Foods?
Have you ever heard of "Morgellon's Disease?"

Dorothee Krien

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Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele write for Vanity Fair, "Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics - ruthless legal battles against small farmers - is its decades-long history of toxic contamination."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050208EC.shtml

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Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Fuel, and Big Fascism

by Alan Stang

Big Food includes companies like Monsanto Chemical, a monster straight out of science fiction alien horror. With help from the government, Monsanto is literally trying to monopolize agricultural seeds. If it succeeds, it will control food. It is presently conducting a reign of terror against the world’s farmers, many of whom are committing suicide. The Monsanto monster will not stop until it kills us.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan47.htm



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US Bullies Africa on GM Labeling, Africa's Had Enough

http://www.prweb.com/releases/GM_Labeling/Codex/prweb909004.htm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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37 Wolves Dead: NRDC Races to Rescue the Rest

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/bf14a0ca967f89f9?hl=en



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EPA Official Ousted While Fighting Dow

Michael Hawthorne, of The Chicago Tribune: "The battle over dioxin contamination in this economically stressed region had been raging for years when a top Bush administration official turned up the pressure on Dow Chemical to clean it up. On Thursday, following months of internal bickering over Mary Gade's interactions with Dow, the administration forced her to quit as head of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office, based in Chicago. Gade told the Tribune she resigned after two aides to national EPA administrator Stephen Johnson took away her powers as regional administrator and told her to quit or be fired by June 1."

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



Dems Rip EPA for Axing Official

Jennifer A. Dlouhy writes for Hearst Newspapers, "Democratic senators lambasted the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for ousting its top administrator in the Midwest after she pressured Dow Chemical to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil in Michigan."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050808EA.shtml



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Defection of Longtime Super Delegate Jolts Clinton

The Associated Press: "Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her longtime super delegate supporters, a former national party chairman who urged fellow Democrats to 'reject the old negative politics' and unify behind Barack Obama. 'A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue' a long, self-destructive Democratic campaign, Joe Andrew added in a letter designed to have an impact on the turbulent race nationally as well as in his home state of Indiana, site of a primary next week. 'A vote to continue this process is a vote that assists John McCain,' Andrew wrote."

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



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The Right's America-Hating Preacher

Robert Parry, for Consortium News: "While Sen. Obama has to explain what he knew and when he knew it about Wright's angry sermons, the Bush Family floats above its financial and political associations with the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a South Korean theocrat who had denounced the United States as 'Satan’s harvest' and likened American women to 'prostitutes.' In his angry sermons, Moon has gone further than saying 'G.d.A.' - as Wright did - to vowing to sweep aside American democracy and individualism as he builds a one-world state."

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



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The Housing Crisis and The Plague of Potomac Fever

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/the-housing-crisis-and-the-plague-of-potomac-fever/



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Stand with Iraqi Refugees

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/90230ebfc89a2bab?hl=en



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Marsden, the village that mast towers are now taking over

May 2 2008 by Our Correspondent, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

I WONDER if Marsden is rapidly becoming the Communications Mast Capital of Yorkshire?

This semi-rural village sits in a natural amphitheatre in what was once a ‘box canyon’ until the arrival of the canal and railway in the early to middle years of the 19th century. It was previously cut off from Lancashire (let alone the world) except for a tortuous and dangerous packhorse trail to Rochdale.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/4t89hd

Mobile phone mast plans withdrawn

02 May 2008 | 06:38

RICHARD SMITH

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a mobile telephone mast in a Suffolk village were withdrawn just before a decision was due to be made.

Nearly 200 campaigners wanted Suffolk Coastal District Council to refuse permission for O2 to erect a mast on land off Valley Farm Road, Melton, near Woodbridge.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/4t6fbf

25.000 Hafenarbeiter im Proteststreik gegen Irakkrieg

Obwohl noch am Mittwoch eine gerichtliche Verfügung die Belegschaften aller 29 Häfen der Westküste dazu verpflichten sollte, am 1. Mai zur Arbeit zu erscheinen, waren die Docks am Pazifik am geplanten Protesttag verwaist. Die Belegschaften haben ihre Rechte wahrgenommen - darunter dieses, einmal im Monat einen Tag für gewerkschaftliche Angelegenheiten frei zu haben. In der Pressemitteilung der ILWU "Longshore workers are standing down at West Coast ports" vom 1. Mai 2008 wird der Erfolg ebenso unterstrichen, wie die Position, mit dieser Aktion stünde die Gewerkschaft auf der Seite Amerikas und der Truppe..: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/mai08pm.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Mai 2008

Bürgerbewegung für Kryo-Recycling und Kreislaufwirtschaft

http://www.total-recycling.org/de/

Scratch torture from US rule book

Miami Herald
by staff

05/01/08

When it comes to torture, the Bush administration wants the United States to have it both ways. President Bush believes America can be a country governed by laws, even though it may break the law under special circumstances. This is a morally bankrupt position that diminishes America’s stature in the world, and puts U.S. citizens and soldiers at risk. Moreover, it is not necessary. The United States can protect itself without breaking U.S. or international law...

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/513280.html



Stop obliterating yourself

CounterPunch
by Reza Fiyouzat

05/01/08

When a person running for a U.S. national office, any person, supports the ‘war on terror’, that person is also supporting the loss of civil liberties for the citizens of the U.S. He or she supports the suspension of habeas corpus (have you heard a single comment on that topic this election year? Not likely!). The same person supports the exorbitant theft of people’s money (taxes) and the hand-over of the same money to the financial-military-oil complex currently running the major levers of power in the U.S. ...

http://counterpunch.org/fiyouzat05012008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Do you realize the extent of the housing collapse?

The fire bell in the night

Common Dreams
by Danny Schechter

05/01/08

Do you realize the extent of the housing collapse? The number of vacant homes reached a record high of 18.6 million units, which was a 1 million increase in the past 12 months with a record 4.1 million vacant homes for rent, and the rental vacancy rate rising to 10.1%. 1 out of 194 US households are now in foreclosure. Housing prices are falling with expectations in some quarters that they will drop a further 20%. Translation for a society in which realty is considered reality: This is an ongoing disaster with worse to come...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/01/8636/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=housing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Danny+Schechter

The myth of Green McCain

The American Prospect
by Kate Sheppard

05/01/08

If the hype is to be believed, Sen. John McCain is practically the second coming of Sierra Club founder John Muir. ‘I will clean up the planet,’ McCain told a New Hampshire crowd in January, a promise he has made at dozens of campaign stops since then. ‘I will make global warming a priority.’ But while McCain maintains that global warming will be one of his top three issues as president, he has not articulated a plan of action, nor has he updated his policy positions to reflect changing scientific understanding. Despite all the kudos he gets for acknowledging the threat of climate change, both his record and policy reveal a candidate who is confused about what he’s supposed to advocate, and lacks true conviction about environmental protection...

http://tinyurl.com/56229o


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Dangerous delusions

National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff

05/01/08

Have you ever wondered why so many people see higher taxes and more government as the solution to every problem, despite the empirical evidence that more government reduces economic efficiency and growth and diminishes our liberties? The arguments from big government advocates are usually based on a combination of economic and historical ignorance, including an inability to think beyond Stage 1, envy and just plain delusional thinking, says Richard W. Rahn, a chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth...

http://tinyurl.com/5gvz9y


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+W.+Rahn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Center+for+Policy+Analysis

"We Are Workers, Not Criminals"

David Bacon writes for Truthout, "Millions of people have come to this country to work, not to break its laws. Some have come with visas, and others without them. But they are all contributors to the society they've found here, not people who mean it harm. Again this May Day, immigrant workers are filling the streets, making the same point."

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

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Thousands rally in May Day effort for immigration reform

Hannibal Courier-Post

05/01/08

Thousands of chanting, flag-waving activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage. From Washington to Miami to Los Angeles, activists demanded citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and an end to raids and deportations...

http://tinyurl.com/5ddcne


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=immigrant+workers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Bacon

Americans are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates

Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet

Struggling with mounting debt and rising prices, faced with the toughest economic times since the early 1990s, Americans are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates.

http://tinyurl.com/67wdbb


From Information Clearing House

Telecoms and the Bush administration talked about how to keep their surveillance program under wraps

Just Between Us
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134930


From Information Clearing House

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Bush Administration Keeps Communications With Telecoms Secret

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, of Newsweek: "The Bush administration is refusing to disclose internal e-mails, letters and notes showing contacts with major telecommunications companies over how to persuade Congress to back a controversial surveillance bill, according to recently disclosed court documents. The existence of these documents surfaced only in recent days as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by a privacy group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation."

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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Electronic+Frontier+Foundation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Isikoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Hosenball

Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says

Gulf states are considering dropping their pegs to the dollar after the U.S. currency's decline stoked inflation across the region, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al- Shimali said.

http://tinyurl.com/554k77


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dollar+pegs

Torture techniques taught at Chicksands

The Joint Committee on Human Rights heard on Tuesday from leading human rights solicitor Phil Shiner that the soldiers carrying out these torture methods were trained at the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre at Chicksands. (DISC).

http://tinyurl.com/4g4a4a


From Information Clearing House



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

Bluff and Bloodshed

The Persian Gulf is more dangerous than ever. Will the U.S. and Iran go to war at sea?: In April 1988 the American and Iranian navies fought the biggest air-sea battle waged since World War II. By the time it was over, carrier-based U.S. attack planes had sunk the frigate Sahand and disabled the frigate Sabalan, the pride of the Iranian navy.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134988


From Information Clearing House



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

Sense of injustice drives Iraqi women bombers

Experts link recent increase in female suicide bombers to desire for revenge against US military policies in Iraq.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=25663


From Information Clearing House

None of them are qualified to be President of the United States

Unqualified

By Mark A. Goldman

Winning the election is more important than telling the truth for the other two front- runners too. That's why none of them are qualified to be President of the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19854.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+A.+Goldman

Since I Gave Up Hope, I Feel Better

By William Blum

Food riots, in dozens of countries, in the 21st century. Is this what we envisioned during the post-World War Two, moon-landing 20th century as humankind's glorious future? It's not the end of the world, but you can almost see it from here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19855.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+riot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum

CIA Director Says Iran Wants to Kill Americans in Iraq

By John Milburn

CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19849.htm



US officials: Decision On Confronting Iran Up To Iraq

By The Associated Press

Iraqi leaders have been given the latest U.S. evidence of Iranian support for militias inside Iraq, and Baghdad will decide what to do about it, two senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19851.htm



Is War With Iran Imminent?

This time, it's more than a rumor...

By Justin Raimondo

The indications of an imminent attack - the latest incident, the steady stream of accusations coming from the U.S. regarding Iranian influence in Iraq, the nuclear charade, etc. - have suddenly taken a more ominous turn with the recent statement of America's top military officer that the U.S. is weighing military action against Iran. The Washington Post reports.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19852.htm



Presstitute and war pimp alert:
US Cites New Evidence of Iranian Support for Taliban

The Pentagon said Wednesday Iran is continuing to provide weapons and other material to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, in addition to its alleged continuing support for Shiite militias in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/53lpwq



Mullen Cites U.S. 'Vulnerability'

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, said the U.S. political transition will be "extraordinarily challenging," particularly as the military is engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan and faces interference in both countries from Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/4hp3eh


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hayden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Mullen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+pimp+alert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Justin+Raimondo

Global Climate Change and the Oceans

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/5a9e376f39ed91ea?hl=en

Will Cheney Attack Asia? That is how aggression against Iran will be seen

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt332.html

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The Iranian Chessboard

Pepe Escobar writes for TomDispatch.com about the perspective from Iran as this week the US floats a second aircraft carrier battle group into the Persian Gulf: "What does the world look like from Tehran? Here are five ways to think about Iran under the gun and to better decode the Iranian chessboard."

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

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How Under-the-Gun Iran Plays it Cool

By Pepe Escobar

This year, Iran finally becomes a natural gas-exporting country. The framework for the $7.6 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, also known as the "peace" pipeline, is a go. Both these key South Asian US allies are ignoring Bush administration desires and rapidly bolstering their economic, political, cultural, and - crucially - geostrategic connections with Iran. An attack on Iran would now inevitably be viewed as an attack against Asia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19857.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=aircraft+carrier
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Persian+Gulf
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

Mortgages for Guaranteed Defaulters

http://mises.org/story/2963


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+DiLorenzo

Why We Need Ron Paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

War and Decision: Doug Feith Explains

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski202.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Feith
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

Legal letter to Bell dated April 28, 2008

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/669934463fb99fb1



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