World-News

Peak Oil, Klimawandel, Finanzkrise etc. - Wie kann man sich vor dem Schlimmsten retten?

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/107513

Der Pharmakonzern Eli Lilly hat eine Liste veröffentlicht die genau aufgeschlüsselt, welche finanzielle Unterstützung verschiedene Institutionen in den USA im ersten Quartal 2008 durch Lilly erhalten haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/107459



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eli+Lilly

Steve Bloomfield, reporting for The Independent UK. writes: "Amnesty International has called for the role of the United States in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708F.shtml



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

BBC Reporter Clive Myrie writes: "The authorities in Baghdad say they are preparing for an exodus of thousands of people from eastern parts of the city. The government has warned of an imminent push to clear the areas of members of the Mehdi Army, loyal to the anti-American cleric, Moqtada Sadr."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708D.shtml

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Iraqi government prepares for 'big push' into Shiite enclave

"Iraqi and US military preparations are underway to move into Sadr City," Asma al-Musawi, a member of al-Sadr Bloc, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

http://tinyurl.com/3wr46x



Baghdad's Coming Refugee Crisis

U.S.-back Iraqi forces are gearing up for a new push deeper into Sadr City that could worsen fighting and displace hundreds, a government spokesman in Baghdad said. "There will be a big offensive soon," said Iraqi government spokesman Tahseen al-Sheikhly.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738431,00.html



Thousands Of Iraqi Troops Flood Into Sadr City

Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad's Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

http://tinyurl.com/4dclcq



Sadrists: Iraqi Military Breaking Ceasefire

We are demanding normal rights of citizenship in Al-Sadr City, and this is what many Iraqis want in other governorates as well.

http://tinyurl.com/4x9eo5


From Information Clearing House

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Relief Urged for Sadr City; Reports of a Pending Assault
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/08/8796/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mehdi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mahdi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moqtada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Muqtada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+refugees

Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "A late-night court filing by the White House on Monday revealed that official administration emails about the run up to the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation may never be recovered."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708A.shtml

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White House tells court of missing emails from beginning of Iraq war

The White House has admitted in court that it has lost three months of email backups from the initial days of the Iraq war, raising questions about the possible deletion of politically sensitive records.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/07/usa.usforeignpolicy


From Information Clearing House

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Lost e-mails obscure Plame-gate

Consortium News
by Jason Leopold

05/09/08

The White House now admits it can’t recover lost e-mails from emergency backup tapes for key dates in 2003, meaning some early Iraq War history may be lost. Two gaps also could obscure what senior Bush advisers were saying about early stages of the ‘Plame-gate’ scandal...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/050908a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=missing+emails
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Plame
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Renner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

Die CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion hat am 6. Mai eine "Sicherheitsstrategie für Deutschland" beschlossen. Das Papier benennt "deutsche Interessen" im Rahmen einer europäischen Sicherheitsstrategie. Gewissermaßen als Leitmotiv stellt die Union ihrem Strategiepapier ein Zitat der Europäischen Sicherheitsstrategie vom 12. Dezember 2003 voran: "Wir müssen eine Strategie-Kultur entwickeln, die ein frühzeitiges, rasches und wenn nötig robustes Eingreifen fördert." Robustes Eingreifen, ein Synonym für Angriffskriege, kommen für die Union beispielsweise für die Terrorismusbekämpfung in Betracht. Ein anderes strategisches Ziel ist die Sicherung der Energie- und Rohstoffversorgung. "Wir streben eine europäische Energiesicherheitsunion an, die bei Versorgungsproblemen eines Mitglieds solidarisch füreinander einsteht", heißt es in dem Papier. Und: "Die Herstellung von Energiesicherheit und Rohstoffversorgung kann auch den Einsatz militärischer Mittel notwendig machen, zum Beispiel zur Sicherung von anfälligen Seehandelswegen oder von Infrastruktur wie Häfen, Pipelines, Förderanlagen etc." Bereits heute werde die Bundeswehr eingesetzt - beispielsweise mit der Beteiligung an OEF am Horn von Afrika oder an Active Endeavour im Mittelmeer. In die "Sicherung der globalen Energieversorgungskette" müssen nach Auffassung der Union auch China und Indien integriert werden, "die als große Verbraucher ebenso ein Interesse an stabilen Lieferbedingungen haben wie wir".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17924



Union will Energiesicherheit der EU auch militärisch schützen

Die Union will die Energieversorgung der EU durch eine Kooperation mit der NATO schützen. Die "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" berichtete, die Union fordere in einem Zehn-Punkte-Papier, auf diese Weise solle die Energieversorgung militärisch gesichert werden. Nach Ansicht von CDU und CSU brauche die EU in Kooperation mit der NATO eine Strategie, um anfällige Seehandelswege und Infrastrukturen wie Häfen, Öl- und Gasleitungen sowie Förderanlagen besser zu sichern als bislang.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Angriffskrieg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Energieversorgung

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/07/8781/



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http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=41065

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Hundreds protest proposed US missile defense installation, demand referendum
http://www.pr-inside.com/hundreds-protest-proposed-us-missile-defense-r572653.htm


Informant: Kev Hall



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

Mobile Today - London, UK

Clark said: ‘Roaming and mast sharing would transform mobile phone coverage. Fewer phone conversations would be cut off, and fewer parts of the country ...

http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/MP_oparators_masts_share.html

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/business-bankruptcies-increase/



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

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/outright-barbarism-vs-the-civil-society/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson

http://tinyurl.com/5a8wk5

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Überflüssige Kohle

Studie belegt erneut das Potenzial regnerativer Energieträger und stellt Kohlepläne in Frage.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28798/1.html



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

William Glaberson, of The New York Times: "One lawyer for Guantanamo detainees said he replaced his office telephone in Washington because of sounds that convinced him it had been bugged. Another lawyer who represents detainees said he sometimes had other lawyers call his corporate clients to foil any government eavesdroppers. In interviews and a court filing Tuesday, lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo said they believed government agents had monitored their conversations. The assertions are the most specific to date by Guantanamo lawyers that officials may be violating legal principles that have generally kept government agents from eavesdropping on lawyers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708L.shtml



Judge Drops General From Detainee Trial

William Glaberson, The New York Times, writes: "In a new blow to the Bush administration's troubled military commission system, a military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been centrally involved in overseeing Guantanamo war crimes tribunals from any role in the first case headed for trial."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051008C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Glaberson

Simona Perry, for Truthout: "For 15 years, the non-profit PEER has been working on behalf of employees from federal, state and local governments in cases of whistleblower retaliation, scientific fraud and political malfeasance. Jeff Ruch explained to me that the politically charged workplace that government scientists are currently in is not new with the George W. Bush administration. However, Jeff pointed out during our conversation, what PEER has seen in the past seven years under Bush is an increase in the career level of federal employees who are calling for help. In the past, the typical request for assistance would come from a National Park biologist; today they field calls from National Park superintendents."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Simona+Perry

May 7 2008

by Belinda Ryan, Crewe Chronicle

PROTESTERS have won the first round in their fight to stop a mobile phone mast being sited near four schools in Crewe.

Mobile phone giant O2 applied to Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council for planning permission to erect the 12.5-metre high mast at the junction of Readesdale Avenue and Valley Road.

But local councillors and residents objected claiming there was huge uncertainty as to how safe phone masts were.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/6q9wbs

Heute im ZDF um 22.15 Uhr:

Abenteuer Wissen

Wie ernst sind die Meldungen über das Aussterben der Bienen zu nehmen?
[ http://www.tvinfo.de/exe.php3?target=popup&sidnr=62439735 ]

(Wir sind gespannt, ob der Einfluss der Mobilfunkstrahlung thematisiert wird….)

i. V. http://www.mobilfunk-erlenbach.ch



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Fox News
by Radley Balko

05/05/08

I spent an afternoon last week at the American Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. The museum is built around the Lorraine Motel, where just outside room 306, Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago. It’s an emotionally draining experience. The museum begins with a look at slavery in America, starting with the first importation of slaves in the 1600s, then continuing up through the Civil War and the period of reconstruction in the south. The institution of slavery is of course an abomination. And though parts of America’s founding on the principles of equality before the law will always be tainted by our early reliance upon the forced labor of other human beings, there’s nothing uniquely shameful about slavery’s role in early America that couldn’t also be said about its presence in other parts of the world, and throughout most of human history...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354203,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slavery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Radley+Balko

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/02/08

I can predict the winner of the presidential election even now: the government. In a one-party system, that’s how things work. One-party system? Yes. The American political scene makes much more sense if you think of the two parties as two divisions of the same party...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0805a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Kel Kelly

05/06/08

First, the underlying cause of any shortage is the lack of a free market, since genuine shortages cannot appear in a free market. Instead, while prices of goods would likely rise at the onset of reduced supplies, the goods in question would always be available at some price — and the higher the price, the more the supply would increase to meet demand, which would then of course reduce the price. If we had free world markets, food would be exported from some countries, such as the United States and Europe, where food is plentiful, to countries where it is needed.

http://mises.org/story/2958


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Reuters

05/06/08

Gunmen killed Ayad Hamza, the deputy director of Nahrain University in charge of sciences, and wounded his two sons in a drive-by shooting on Sunday …. Iraqi special forces and U.S. troops killed seven militiamen and detained two others in two battles in Baghdad on Monday and Tuesday …. Iraqi and U.S. forces detained 15 militants in operations against al Qaeda in different parts of the country …. Three people were killed, including a female college student, and nine wounded in clashes between police and militants in Abu Dsheer district …. A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded seven others on Monday in Kirkuk …. Two mortar bombs killed three people and wounded 10 others, including four officers from the Facility Protection Services …. A Katyusha missile wounded five people, some of them students, when it landed near the privately owned Al-Mansour University College …

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL0429338120080506


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

According to Teresa Cerojano in The Associated Press, "More than 200 million children worldwide under age five do not get basic health care, leading to nearly ten million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a US-based charity said Wednesday."

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



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

In an assault on globally accepted restrictions against attacking civilians, the Pentagon this week launched a bombing campaign against an eight-square-mile area in the middle of Baghdad. After constructing a wall around key portions of Sadr City, home to some 3 million people, the United States widened its bombing of the poorest and most densely populated part of Iraq's largest city.

http://action.fcnl.org/r/11812/11836/


Informant: Gary the Grouch

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Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Baghdad militia stronghold

Miami Herald

05/06/08

A rocket slammed into Baghdad’s city hall and another hit a downtown park Tuesday as more frightened civilians fled a Shiite militia stronghold where U.S.-led forces are locked in fierce street battles. The American push in the Sadr City district - launched after an Iraqi government crackdown on armed Shiite groups began in late March - is trying to weaken the militia grip in a key corner of Baghdad and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes on the U.S.-protected Green Zone...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/522711.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Green+Zone

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US central bank, has said that the rising cases of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures pose considerable dangers to the US economy.

http://tinyurl.com/5o8335


From Information Clearing House

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Federal Reserve freakout

The Nation
by Nicholas von Hoffman

05/09/08

The other day Ben Bernanke came as close as a chairman of the Federal Reserve will come to a public freakout. Call it a subdued, bankerly freakout. In a speech at Columbia University’s Business School he used the word ‘crisis’ as in ‘the foreclosure crisis.’ Fed chairmen do not generally use words like ‘crisis’; they use words such as vanilla, cream sauce, custard and tapioca. What’s got Bernanke scared is that ‘about one quarter of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages are currently 90 days or more delinquent or in foreclosure. Delinquency rates also have increased in the prime and near-prime segments of the mortgage market. … Foreclosure proceedings were initiated on some 1.5 million U.S. homes during 2007, up 53 percent from 2006, and the rate of foreclosure starts looks likely to be yet higher in 2008...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080526/howl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nicholas+von+Hoffman

Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn05062008.html



Report Confirms Psychologists Supported Illegal Interrogations In Iraq and Afghanistan

Uncensored documents from the Church Report, obtained as a result of the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, include new details exposing the role of psychologists in military interrogations.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/35111prs20080430.html


From Information Clearing House

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Executive or imperial branch?

Consortium News
by Ivan Eland

05/07/08

More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — the man who gave us the administration’s horrifyingly narrow definition of torture. As difficult as it is to believe, the recently released memos are even scarier than the original torture memo.Yoo boldly asserts that the president’s power during wartime is nearly unlimited. For example, he argues that Congress has no right to pass laws governing the interrogations of enemy combatants and the commander in chief can ignore such laws if passed, and can, without constraint, seize oceangoing ships...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/050608a.html



Tortured justification

Guardian [UK]
by Michael Washburn

05/06/08

The Bush administration hopes that the intentionality of its interrogators actions will diminish the criminal nature of the acts should any CIA operative ever be called into court. This is a vigorous, pre-emptive washing of hands — a rhetorical exculpation and mitigation of responsibility. Given the crooked timber of international law, this may fly, legally. Morally, logically, though, it’s corrupt.The confusion here lies between the intended action and desired result. Torture isn’t incidental, and you can’t torture by accident. Interrogators fully intend the infliction of emotional and physical anguish, but they maintain that what they hope to glean from such barbarity isn’t merely the satisfaction of pain and anguish. In addition to this perverse surplus value, the US government relentlessly stresses that knowledge gained through pain is useful and nobly obtained.The efficacy of torture is, of course, doubtful. In fact, most experts in the field claim that information gained through physical or emotional coercion fails to provide much actionable intelligence. Despite this evidence, however, the seduction of “ticking bomb” scenarios persists, and not merely as a plot device in second-rate films...

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_washburn/2008/05/tortured_justification.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/08/8801/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Administration+lawyer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=psychologists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

I had complained at the time that this diction is monstrous. I mean, it is surreal to have Democrats discussing whether it is appropriate for the US to "totally obliterate" another country.

http://tinyurl.com/3hrmkn



Russia, China Criticize Britain Over Remarks On Iran

The British ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, John Duncan, came in for some sharp criticism from Russia and China for distorting reports about the decisions of G5 plus Germany on Iran's nuclear program.

http://tinyurl.com/4cjymm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=obliterate
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In 2003, Lawrence Kaplan, a leading neoconservative, helped deliver arguments that justified the invasion of Iraq. Afterwards, he spent two years in the war zone. It changed his view.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,551828,00.html


From Information Clearing House



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

Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the U.S. for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a rebel group warned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurdish_rebels


From Information Clearing House



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

New weapon penetrates pricey vehicle, kills 2 GIs: The deaths of two U.S. soldiers in western Baghdad last week have sparked concerns that Iraqi insurgents have developed a new weapon capable of striking what the U.S. military considers its most explosive-resistant vehicle.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5756202.html


From Information Clearing House

By MARK KUKIS AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER/BAGHDAD

For years, U.S. officials have aired accusations against Iran, insisting that Tehran is stoking Iraq's violence by keeping up a flow of money, weapons and trained fighters into the country. The Iraqi government, however, remains unconvinced - with good reason.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19876.htm



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/wittner/wittner35.html

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New Report Calls For Halt To Production of New Nuclear Warheads

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0507-10.htm



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http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12784


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs80.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/scheuer9.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker97.html



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This book will shock anyone who still believes that 'science' and 'integrity' are soulmates.

Worth a letter to the editor of Newsweek and the author of this article .... especially since she is a woman and women are far more sensitive to EMF/EMR than men!

For the whole article see this website:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/135408


Informant: James B. Beal

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Whitewashing Long-Term Hazardous Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields

To all who share concerns about living in our indoor and outdoor environment:

The following email has been sent to webeditors@newsweek.com based on the article by Sharon Begley "Whitewashing Toxic Chemicals" in the May 12th Newsweek issue, pg 39. The article may be reviewed on the following website:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/135408


Sharon Begley:

Your article, in the May 12th Newsweek, fits exactly the hazardous health situation which has existed for over 40 years with long-term exposure to uncontrolled artificial electromagnetic fields (EMFs). It used to be various health effects by close proximity to power lines, transformers, substations and switching circuits. Now the situation has been magnified by the proximity of wireless microwave frequencies and waveforms from cell phone antennas/towers and in the home (and home office), primarily wireless home phones, wi-fi routers, and cell phones, all of which operate 24/7 unless plugs are pulled or batteries removed. This health-affecting situation is becoming more serious with the wireless home invasion. The bedroom and home office are two areas where people spend a lot of time in one place and thus can receive long-term exposure in what used to be an environment where one could rest and recuperate and be free of external environment stresses encounted during the day. Best to have all computers and phones hard wired and no wireless in the home at all. Remember that all computers and laptops that can use wi-fi are broadcasting their own microwave finder frequencies any time they are on.....you have to switch them off, or remove a circuit board, if you want to use them without exposing yourself to their built-in automatic microwave transmitter!

Uncontrolled artificial EMF spectrum exposures, electric, magnetic and microwave, are just more biological stress factors to add to the toxic chemical load in our food, air, water, and environment, which are already affecting our immune systems. All living systems utilize chemical and electrical energies in life processes., and react to extremely low concentrations and intensities. Our artificial chemicals and EMF spectrum energies (information-carrying frequencies and waveforms) are swamping the information-processes and immune systems of other living creatures (including humans).....this appears to be one of the big problems now with, for example, birds, bees, and frogs, ......and now the rapidly growing costs of health care in developed nations is becoming an overwhelming budget problem..

I am a retired areo-space engineer, who has been collecting and networking information about the hazardous (and healing stimulation) aspects of EMFs since 1965. I have over 4,000 references about biological effects of EMFs from 1961 through 1988 and, to date, several thousand more. Most of these references are to papers and books which have been created by independent researchers.

As indicated in your excellent article, it is easy to skew the test results to produce "no effects" if your paycheck comes from an industry whose bottom line would be affected by finding any health effects! At the present time the pharmaceutical companies are raking in the billions, treating the multitude of inter-related illnesses and allergies which have developed in our culture, and which started to gradually increase about 1996. The increase in health costs seem to arise from the additional environmental EMF stresses and microwave wireless systems impacting synergistically with the everyday-ingested toxic chemicals in our environment.

For additional information of high quality you may be interested in checking out the following websites, including my own.

http://www.bioinitiative.org/
http://www.microwavenews.com/
http://www.emfacts.com/
http://www.sarvalues.com/
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/
http://www.feb.se/articles

Also, it may be of interest to you that women are several times (some say
4X) more sensitive than men to long-term EMF exposures which may create electrical hypersensitivity (EHS) and aggravate fibromialgia, chronic fatigue, allergies, rashes, and sleep. I have been doing home, business and property assessments for the past 8 years; 98% of my clients are women who have EHS (and chemical sensitivity) problems... most of them have figured out their problem, read available literature, and purchased their own magnetic field measuring Gaussmeters. There are a lot of women's sensitivities associated with estrogen-mimic chemicals (the bisphenol-a situation), cosmetic inert ingredients, pesticides in the garden, and home cleaning products...all of these toxic elements have been accumulated, long-term, one molecule at a time until the immune system crashes about mid-life.

Enough for now. Just want you to know I very much appreciate your article on toxic chemicals and the problems associated with vested interest research which are still very much with us. When will we ever learn??

Thank You,

James B. Beal



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=toxic+chemicals
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic
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http://www.afsc.org/iraq/refugee-crisis.htm

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Americans 'stole my life from me'

Sitting in his Damascus flat, where he now lives as a refugee, he speaks of humiliation, of casual inhumanity.

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ACTION ALERT UPDATE

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!

Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities

By Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/ May 6, 2008

TAKE ACTION

It is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels by allowing land to be stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities; and at the expense of Colombia's ancient primary rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate

http://www.rainforestportal.com/alerts/send.asp?id=colombia_biofuel

Plantation expansion for agrofuels remains a major threat to the lives, livelihoods and the environment of Afro-Colombian and other peasant communities in Chocó, Colombia. This is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, with large areas of rainforest now facing destruction. The Chocó rainforests are home to 7,000 to 8,000 species, including 2,000 endemic plant species and 100 endemic bird species. Even before the current palm oil and agrofuel expansion, 66% had been destroyed. Communities and rainforests are under threat from palm oil and sugar cane expansion for agrofuels in other parts of Colombia, too, for example around Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, in Santander and in Magdalena. If agrofuels -- growing food for fuel -- continue to expand in Colombia, food prices are bound to rise and the nation's food security erode as is happening around the world. Please ask the government to stop and reverse those policies and to protect Colombia's communities and rich environment from further destruction for agrofuels.

TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.rainforestportal.com/alerts/send.asp?id=colombia_biofuel

DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.rainforestportal.com/issues/2008/05/alert_agrofuels_on_stolen_land.asp



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As House and Justice Department Have Showdown Over Interrogation Techniques, Human Rights Activists Mobilize Against Torture.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0506-03.htm



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House Panel Subpoenas Top Cheney Aide

Pamela Hess, The Associated Press, writes: "The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee about the Bush administration's interrogation practices."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050608R.shtml



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We Can Stop The Latest War Funding Cave In, But You Have To Know Who To Call

We all know the routine by now. The Democratic so-called leadership makes a feeble attempt to attach something else to the latest emergency war appropriation, like a half-hearted stipulation for a withdrawal date, or some crumbs of a desperately needed social program, like this time.

And the President stomps his feet demanding a "clean" bill, clean of any kind of assertion of Congressional power or meaningful oversight, that is. And the Democrats end up caving in, out of fear of being accused of not supporting the troops, if "supporting" really means leaving them in mortal harm's way for no justifiable strategic reason, that is.

Should we call Congress yet again, to send them the same message again . . . stop the funding, bring our troops home now. We'll make our calls. Here are the toll free numbers yet again 800 828-0498, 800
614 2803 and 866 340 9281. And of course you should call too. Never let them be able to honestly say they didn't hear from you.

But we need a back up plan, folks. And we've got one. This is all just one big game of "what'cha gonna do?" What will we do if they completely ignore us again, because they think they are esconced in safe districts where they can never be seriously challenged? We have to challenge them in those districts in contested primaries . . . and win. At some point we must understand that is the only message they are actually going to take seriously.

And that is exactly what is happening in San Francisco right now, where a political miracle is taking place in the primary challenge against Nancy Pelosi June 3. Thanks to you, Shirley Golub's "Rubber Chicken" TV ad started running on all 3 major network TV stations this very morning. And before the end of the day at least one of their news departments was clamoring to interview her for the evening news. Here is that amazingly powerful TV spot.

Rubber Chicken TV Spot: http://www.shirley08.com/rubber_chicken.php

So call Congress again, please do it, and tell them to bring the troops home. It costs you nothing. But then help to send the most powerful message of all, by donating whatever you can to empower Shirley Golub to put more and more spots like these on the air, to send Nancy Pelosi herself, the queen of the cave in, packing before even the general election.

Or maybe you like the radio spot where Shirley also calls Pelosi a political coward, with sound clips of Pelosi saying "I'm afraid" over and over.

Pelosi Afraid Spot: http://www.shirley08.com/pelosi_afraid.php

So pick up the phone and call your member of Congress again. Only this time tell them you are making the most generous donation you possibly can from the page above, to defeat Nancy Pelosi herself, and that they will be next if they don't start listening to the people quick, fast and in a hurry. Tell them that what they do now will determine whether they will lose to a primary challenger of their own the very next chance the people get.

It all comes back to the same thing. With exception of a handful of valiant souls, most politicians only consider the voice of the people if they are actually afraid it will cost them their own seats. Only defeating Pelosi, and doing it now, can send a message that they can no longer ignore.

More and more primary challengers are springing up all over the country, like Mark Welyczko (OR-01), Joe Walsh (OR-03) and Nancy Moran (OR-05), who are running at a team in the Portland, OR area on an impeachment now platform.

We need more of these valiant souls, and we surely have one in Shirley Golub, who has worked her heart out for other progressive candidates for years. Check out the rest of her site from one of pages above. Cindy Sheehan is also one of those valiant souls, but Cindy cannot defeat Pelosi on June 3, because she is not running until the general election in November. Only Shirley Golub can do that. And with your courageous help, she surely will.

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Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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Parteienkritiker Arnim wirft der politischen Klasse Wählertäuschung vor

Deutschland ist ein demokratisch regiertes Land? Alle Macht geht vom Volk aus? Das Volk hat sich kraft seiner verfassungsgebenden Gewalt sein Grundgesetz gegeben? Alles richtig? Alles falsch, behauptet der Verfassungsrechtler und Parteienkritiker Hans Herbert von Arnim. Sein neues Buch "Die Deutschlandakte - was Politiker und Wirtschaftsbosse unserem Land antun" stellte er am Dienstag in Berlin vor. Glaubt man dem Autor, dann ist in Parlamenten, Ministerien und Ämtern nichts, wie es scheint - und nichts, wie es sein sollte. Arnim sieht eine "politische Klasse" an der Macht, die vor allem eines tut: den Wähler täuschen. Damit rührt sie nach seiner Meinung an die Grundfeste der Verfassung.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17910



Regierungs-Koalition verteidigt neuerliche Diätenerhöhung

Die große Koalition hat die geplante neuerliche Anhebung der Diäten um knapp 500 Euro ("rund 490 Euro") in den nächsten zwei Jahren verteidigt. Der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Unions-Fraktion, Norbert Röttgen (CDU), sagte am 6. Mai in Berlin, der Maßstab, die Diäten an die Einkommensentwicklung im öffentlichen Dienst zu koppeln, sei richtig. SPD-Generalsekretär Hubertus Heil nannte die Regelung "vernünftig". Er räumte allerdings ein: "Populär ist das nicht. Das ist klar." Auch SPD-Fraktionschef Peter Struck verteidigte die "ganz normale Anpassung". Ihm sei allerdings bewusst, dass dies bei den Bürgern nicht ankomme.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17911



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Greg Rislin reports for The Associated Press: "An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a bed frame and kept him naked and handcuffed in his cell beginning in September 2003."

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Norman Solomon writes for Truthout: "When The New York Times published its explosive 'Pentagon Pundits' story on April 20, the result was a wave of criticism directed at the Defense Department for manipulating TV news coverage of the Iraq war. Critics also faulted the networks for failing to scrutinize the conflicts of interest of the 'military analysts' who went on the air. Many of those retired military officers were being coached by the Pentagon to mislead the public, and many had personal financial stakes in corporations with major Pentagon contracts."

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Residents in Llanidloes have vowed to keep monitoring emissions from a mobile phone mast in the town.

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Hold Blackwater accountable!

Demand an explanation from the State Department as to why it renewed Blackwater's contract, and call for the contract's suspension.

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Alexander Bolton, of The Hill: "Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) will launch a new push Tuesday to ingratiate himself with social conservatives who mistrust him but whose support is vital to his hopes of winning the White House. Right-wing leaders, who know he needs their backing, are working on a list of demands to pin him down on choosing judges with a conservative philosophy. The two sides are engaged in a minuet that will determine the shape of this year’s Republican presidential platform."

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Josh White, of The Washington Post: "At the end of a tattered, sunbaked runway dotted with large green tents here is a building aptly called the Expeditionary Legal Complex Courtroom, surrounded by coils of concertina wire, where the most notorious alleged terrorists in US custody are supposed to face charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Nearly seven years later, however, not one of the approximately 775 terrorism suspects who have been held on this island has faced a jury trial inside the new complex, and US officials think it is highly unlikely that any of the Sept. 11 suspects will before the Bush administration ends."

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Reuters: "The US 'war on drugs' disproportionately targets urban minority neighborhoods with African Americans being arrested and imprisoned on drug charges at much higher rates, according to a pair of reports released on Monday by rights groups. New York-based Human Rights Watch said a review of new statistics across 34 states found persistent racial disparities among drug offenders sent to prison. The 67-page report concludes that a black man is 11.8 times more likely than a white man to be sent to prison on drug charges."

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Cyberwar: A Conflict without Footsoldiers, Guns, or Missiles
http://act.commondreams.org/go/359?akid=33.124981.jnZ9sr&t=16

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By Simon Carr

PENSIONERS are protesting against a new phone mast being built just outside their windows.

They say they have been kept in the dark about two O2 masts and only found out when they spotted workmen outside.

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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0503johnson03.html


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Das kooperative Jobcenter

Neuorganisation von ‚Hartz IV’: Erwerbsloseninitiativen fordern „Leistungen aus einer Hand“

„Unabhängige Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen aus dem Bundesgebiet haben auf ihrem Bundestreffen am vergangenen Wochenende in Bad Hersfeld notwendige Forderungen für eine organisatorische Umgestaltung der ‚Hartz IV’-Verwaltung verabschiedet. Die Forderungen sollen in die am 9. Mai stattfindende Sonderkonferenz der Arbeits- und Sozialministern der Bundesländer zur Neuorganisation der ‚Hartz IV’-Verwaltung eingebracht werden.(…) Die in der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. BAG-SHI zusammengeschlossenen Initiativen fordern die bundeseinheitliche Aufgabenwahrnehmung im Rahmen des Sozialgesetzbuch II (‚Hartz IV’) unter Trägerschaft der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Den Vorschlag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales zur Einrichtung ‚Kooperativer Jobcenter’ lehnen die in der BAG-SHI zusammengeschlossenen Initiativen und Organisationen ab…“ BAG-SHI-Pressemitteilung vom 05.05.2008 http://aktionboss.de/hartz-iv-umgestalten


Hartz IV - vorsätzliche Kürzungen bei Schulkindern! Schluss mit dem empörenden Zustand, Kinder für ihr Wachstum und ihren Schulbesuch zu bestrafen!

Flugblatt der Bündnisplattform gegen Regelsatzblockade um das Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste (ABSP)(pdf) http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de/2008/regelsatzerhoehung_jetzt/materialien/Schulkinder_1-Mai-2008.pdf


Betteln für Kommunal-Kombi: Beschäftigungsprojekt für Langzeitarbeitslose läuft nur schleppend

„Seit Jahresbeginn ist das Bundesprogramm für den »Kommunal-Kombi« in Kraft. Mit diesem Projekt sollen 100 000 Langzeitarbeitslose bis 2009 für drei Jahre in Beschäftigung gebracht werden. Trotz der mit dem Vorhaben verbundenen Hoffnung kommt die Umsetzung des Projektes nur schleppend in Gang…“ Artikel von Dieter Janke im Neues Deutschland vom 02.05.2008 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/128063.html


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Mai 2008

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Bundesanstalt für Arbeit - Agentur wofür?

"Kooperative Jobcenter" vom Tisch - Betreuung aus einer Hand muss dank Verfassungsänderung nicht besser werden…

Jobcenter-Streit beendet: Verfassungsänderung angestrebt

„Langzeitarbeitslose sollen auch künftig eine Betreuung aus einer Hand erhalten. Damit dies möglich bleibt, wollen Bund und Länder das Grundgesetz ändern. Dies nicht ohne Kritik...“ dpa-Meldung vom 15.07.2008 http://www.haufe.de/SID21.IFqh2Uh8hdY/sozialversicherung/newsDetails?newsID=1216102833.61&portal=SGB&d_start:int=0&


Jobcenter wichtiger als Verfassung

„Für den Arbeitsminister ist es ein "großer Durchbruch": Über eine Verfassungsänderung soll nach dem Urteil aus Karlsruhe einer der Kernpunkte der Hartz-IV-Reformen beibehalten werden. Doch dafür brauchen Bund und Länder die Unterstützung der kleinen Parteien…“ Dossier von Birgit Marschall in der FTD vom 15.07.2008 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Bund%20L%E4nder%20Streit%20Jobcenter%20Verfassung/385572.html


DGB kritisiert Pläne für Verfassungsänderung zu Jobcentern

„Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) hat die Entscheidung für eine Grundgesetzänderung als rechtliche Grundlage für die Zusammenarbeit von Arbeitsagenturen und Kommunen bei der Betreuung Langzeitarbeitsloser scharf kritisiert. "Wir erwarten, dass nicht unsere bewährte Verfassung an die schlechte Praxis angepasst wird, sondern umgekehrt", kommentierte DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach in der "Passauer Neuen Presse" den Beschluss der Arbeitsminister von Bund und Ländern…“ AFP-Meldung vom
15.7.08 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJ7yhLpqy96-xhSIZp2Dlxf5ophw


Jobcenter: Kritik an geplanter Verfassungsänderung

„In einem sind sich Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschaften einig: Die geplante Rettung des Jobcentermodells dürfe nicht die derzeit herrschende schlechte Praxis zementieren. Wie die Zusammenarbeit künftig funktionieren soll, ist jedoch umstritten…“ Artikel in der FTD.de vom 15.07.2008 http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:Jobcenter%20Kritik%20Verfassungs%E4nderung/385979.html


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Juli 2008

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Massiver Missbrauch mit Ein-Euro-Jobs

„Die Jobcenter lassen die Vermittlung von langzeitarbeitslosen Hartz- IV-Empfängern vielfach schleifen. Die Arbeitssuchenden werden nicht beraten, und mit den Ein-Euro-Jobs wird in großem Stil Missbrauch getrieben. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine erneute Prüfung des Bundesrechnungshofes über die „Durchführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende“ im Jahr 2007. Der Bericht an den Arbeits- und Sozialausschuss des Bundestages liegt dieser Zeitung vor…“ Artikel von Bernd Knebel in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung vom 24.07.2008 http://www.haz.de/newsroom/politik/zentral/politik/deutschland/art667,645212

Aus dem Text: „… Extremen Missbrauch stellten die Prüfer bei den Ein-Euro-Jobs fest, für die „mehr als eine Milliarde Euro“ ausgegeben wurden: Bei zwei Dritteln der geprüften Maßnahmen war mindestens eine Fördervoraussetzung nicht erfüllt. In acht von zehn Fällen waren die Arbeiten nicht zusätzlich. „Meist betrafen sie reguläre Aufgaben eines öffentlichen Trägers (etwa Reinigungsarbeiten in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln und Gebäuden oder leichte Bürotätigkeiten) und sollten normale Arbeitskräfte einsparen oder einen haushaltsbedingten Personalmangel ausgleichen.“…“


Wozu 1-Euro-Jobs? Hintergründe einer fragwürdigen "Förder"-Maßnahme

Artikel von Jan Gehrken in Forum Recht vom Juni 2008 http://www.linksnet.de/de/artikel/21218


Aus: LabourNet, 25. Juli 2008

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25. Juli 2008

Missbrauch durch die Behörden bekämpfen

Zum Kritik des Bundesrechnungshofes an der Arbeit der Jobcenter erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Extreme Unzulänglichkeiten bescheinigt der Bundesrechnungshof der Bundesregierung bei der Umsetzung von Hartz IV durch die Jobcenter und kommunalen Träger: Bei zwei Dritteln der geprüften Ein-Euro-Jobs war mindestens eine Fördervoraussetzung nicht erfüllt. Acht von zehn Ein-Euro-Jobs waren nicht zusätzlich - stattdessen werden mit diesen reguläre öffentliche Aufgaben wie Reinigungsarbeiten in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln und Gebäuden durchgeführt. Mit Ein-Euro-Jobs werden reguläre Arbeitskräfte eingespart und haushaltsbedingter Personalmangel in den Kommunen ausgeglichen. Drei Viertel der Ein-Euro-Jobber helfen diese "Jobs" nicht in den Arbeitsmarkt. Außerdem müssen Langzeiterwerbslose bis zu vier Monaten auf eine Erstberatung warten. Amtlich bescheinigt steht mal wieder fest: Mit Hartz IV wird durch die Behörden extremer Missbrauch getrieben. Statt Sozialdetektive auf Erwerbslose zu hetzen, statt die Betroffenen mit sogenannten Sofortangeboten von Ein-Euro-Jobs zu drangsalieren und abzuschrecken, sollte lieber der Einsatz der Fördermittel durch die Jobcenter geprüft werden. Ein-Euro-Jobs gehören prinzipiell abgeschafft, das Fachpersonal für Beratung personell aufgestockt und qualifiziert sowie unabhängige Beratungsstellen für Erwerbslose finanziert - damit diese sich gegen den Missbrauch der Ämter wehren können. Grundsätzlich fordern wir: Hartz IV muss weg - sozialversicherungspflichtige und freiwillige Beschäftigungsangebote sowie eine repressionsfreie soziale Grundsicherung müssen her.

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Cato Institute
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.

05/05/08

The U.S. economy is in the midst of an old-style credit crunch brought on by a combination of bad policies and incredibly lax underwriting standards at financial institutions. The biggest policy failure was the decision by Alan Greenspan’s Federal Reserve to hold interest rates too low for too long. That led to a tsunami of credit that inundated the economy with cheap money. Mortgage lenders in particular were flush with funds and searched for deals wherever they could be found. Heretofore unqualified borrowers suddenly ‘qualified’ as underwriting standards relaxed and then disappeared. Egged on by statements from Chairman Greenspan, market participants came to believe the era of low interest rates would last indefinitely. But the era did come to an end as the Fed was forced to begin raising interest rates. Faced with the prospect of paying higher rates on their mortgages in the future, borrowers began defaulting. First home prices stopped rising, and then home prices began dropping — precipitously in some overheated housing markets. Now we are approximately six months into a new cycle of lower interest rates, but with no end in sight to the crunch...

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Independent Institute
by Stephen Baskerville

05/04/08

It’s not called the welfare ’state’ for nothing. Even more serious than the economic effects has been the quiet metamorphosis of welfare from a system of public assistance into a miniature penal apparatus, replete with its own tribunals, prosecutors, police, and jails. The subsidy on single-mother homes was never really curtailed. Reformers largely replaced welfare with child support. The consequences were profound: this change transformed welfare from public assistance into law enforcement, creating yet another federal plainclothes police force without constitutional justification. Like any bureaucracy, this one found rationalizations to expand. During the 1980s and 1990s — without explanation or public debate — enforcement machinery created for children in poverty was dramatically expanded to cover all child-support cases, including those not receiving welfare...

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by Mary Ruwart

05/05/08

Our troops cannot effectively defend our shores by guarding the 38th Parallel, patrolling the Mediterranean, or flying sorties over Kurdistan. While we must naturally maintain the ability to project force ‘over the horizon’ versus aggressors, our first line of defense is in keeping on our own side of that horizon — in our own yard — as a matter of course. What should we have done after 9/11? Clearly, we had not only the right but the responsibility to track down and punish the aggressors behind the attacks and destroy their ability to conduct further attacks. We had the tools at hand to do so — the Rewards for Justice Program had previously been successful in bringing terrorists, including 1993 World Trade Center bombing architect, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, to justice. Bounties work, as we learned in our own history with the use of privateers and letters of marque and reprisal. Instead, we invaded Afghanistan to pursue ‘regime change’ and ‘nation-building’...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ruwart.php?articleid=12782


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=regime+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nation-building

Downsize DC
by James Leroy Wilson

05/05/08

Politicians tell us that government protects the people from the cut-throat practices of Big Business. But in truth, Big Government is in bed with Big Business. If I were CEO of a major corporation — let’s call it the Big Widget Corporation — I would love Big Government. That’s because I could: * lobby Congress to subsidize the widget industry, explaining how vital widgets are to the economy. * lobby for tariff protection against imported widgets. This will allow my company to gouge American consumers with higher prices. * lobby for regulations that would drive my smaller competitors out of business. But what is good for the Big Widget Corporation’s shareholders isn’t necessarily good for the American taxpayers, who must pay for this special treatment...

http://tinyurl.com/6y2kpq



Why have governments?

from Reason to Freedom
by Peter Namtvedt

05/05/08

For what reason do cities, states and nations each require leaders with special powers to rule over them? It matters not how they are selected, by popular vote or an electoral college, whether the national leader is chosen by the people or by parliament. Why do we keep letting them restrict our liberties? Why do we put up with the huge burden they impose, economically, through taxes, the cost of regulations and harassment?

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_have_governments.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=big+business
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=big+government
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Leroy+Wilson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Namtvedt

Independent [UK]
by Robert Verkaik

05/05/08

Sami Faleh Mohammed was one of thousands of exiled Iraqis who after the invasion of Iraq decided to give his country another chance. In September 2004 he led his wife and three children from the safety of Jordan to Basra, where he found work as a translator for the British Army. Two years later he was dead, murdered by members of the Shia militias who have targeted Iraqis who risk their own lives to help the British try to bring stability to the region. His case is now one of 12 test claims being brought in the High Court by Iraqi translators and other workers who believe they have been betrayed by Britain. Many more are still in hiding, under sentence of death after being branded ‘collaborators and spies’ by the militias...

http://tinyurl.com/6frbxl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Verkaik

Nina Bernstein, of The New York Times: "Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an ambulance had taken him away more dead than alive. But outside, for five days, no official notified the family of the detainee, Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old tailor from Guinea who had overstayed a tourist visa. When frantic relatives located him at University Hospital in Newark on Feb. 5, 2007, he was in a coma after emergency surgery for a skull fracture and multiple brain hemorrhages. He died there four months later without ever waking up, leaving family members on two continents trying to find out why."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508O.shtml

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Too much secrecy

Las Vegas Sun
by staff

05/06/08

The deaths of U.S. immigration detainees are lost in a patchwork process in which they can be dead for days or even weeks before their families are notified. …. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials review cases of detainee deaths internally but are not required to investigate them or report them to the public...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/06/too-much-secrecy/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals

Mr. Jiménez was deported - not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and "forcibly returned him to his home country," as one hospital administrator described it.

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/5859.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=immigrant
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The New York Times: "Americans don't have to wait for the statistics to know these are very hard times. For the fourth month in a row, the economy lost jobs in April. The economists said the contraction was not as bad as expected - 20,000 jobs were shed versus an anticipated loss of 75,000. Not as bad as expected is cold comfort. The latest employment report shows other deepening problems for American workers, including slower wage growth, cutbacks in hours, a sharp increase in the number of part-timers who would prefer full-time work and lengthening spells of unemployment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lost+jobs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployment

Klaus Marre, of The Hill: "Howard Dean argued that the use of Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) former pastor Jeremiah Wright in GOP ads in local races is 'race baiting.' 'When you start bringing up things that have nothing to do with the candidate and nothing to do with the issues, that's race baiting,' Dean said on Fox News Sunday in response to a question whether the Wright issue and his ties to Obama hurt Democrats down ticket."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508N.shtml



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Borzou Daragahi and Raheem Salman, of The Los Angeles Times: "He refused to take the Americans' blood money. Mohammed Hafidh Abdul-Razzaq had been summoned by US Embassy officials who wanted to make amends for the killing of his 10-year-old son. The boy died during a shooting involving employees of Blackwater Worldwide, the US security firm. Deputy Chief of Mission Patricia A. Butenis told him that she was sorry for what had happened, Abdul-Razzaq recalled. She gave him a sealed envelope. It had his name written on it. Abdul-Razzaq pushed it away."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Raheem+Salman

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/fa8d35cd4716114d?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying

Annen kritisiert Reisepläne Merkels für Lateinamerika

Der SPD-Außenpolitiker Niels Annen hat die Lateinamerika-Reisepläne von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) kritisiert. "Die Kanzlerin sollte die neue politische Realität Lateinamerikas zur Kenntnis nehmen, die aus der Ablehnung von entfesselten kapitalistischen Märkten und dem Scheitern des neoliberalen Projektes entstanden ist", sagte der SPD-Politiker dem "Tagesspiegel". Er bemängelte, dass Merkel nach dem EU-Lateinamerika-Gipfel in Peru neben den zwei einzigen noch konservativ regierten Länder des Kontinents, Kolumbien und Mexiko, nur Brasilien besuchen wolle. Die Kanzlerin reist Mitte Mai erstmals in ihrer Amtszeit nach Lateinamerika.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17903



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

Militärische Mittel zur Sicherung der Rohstoffversorgung

Mit ihrer Forderung nach einem Nationalen Sicherheitsrat stößt die Union parteiübergreifend auf scharfe Kritik. Nach dem Willen von CDU/CSU soll ein im Kanzleramt angesiedeltes Gremium mit einem "eigenen handlungsfähigen Stab" künftig auf mögliche Bedrohungen in Deutschland reagieren. Ein Strategiepapier dazu will die Fraktion am 6. Mai beschließen. Medienberichten zufolge soll der Sicherheitsrat nach US-Vorbild ressortübergreifend mögliche Bedrohungen für die innere und äußere Sicherheit analysieren, präventive Maßnahmen einleiten sowie die zivil-militärische Krisenbewältigung und -prävention im In- und Ausland koordinieren.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17897

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5. Mai 2008

Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik darf nicht der parlamentarischen Kontrolle entzogen werden

Zu den Plänen von Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) für einen beschleunigten Aufbau von gemeinsamen europäischen Streitkräften erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Helmut Scholz:

Mit der Schaffung einer europäischen Armee besteht die Gefahr, dass die parlamentarische Kontrolle der Streitkräfte auf nationaler Ebene zunehmend ausgehöhlt wird, während das Europäische Parlament dabei gar keine Rolle spielt. Entscheidungen fallen dann künftig nur noch auf Regierungsebene. Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik wird so zur Spielwiese von Staats- und Regierungschefs. Das darf nicht sein. Diese Pläne des Außenministers sind die konsequente Umsetzung des Vertrages von Lissabon, der eine Zusammenlegung von militärischen Kapazitäten festschreibt. Auch deshalb hat DIE LINKE den Reformvertrag abgelehnt. DIE Linke sieht keine Notwendigkeit für den Aufbau einer europäischen Armee. Nicht eine Zusammenlegung von militärischen Kapazitäten schafft mehr Sicherheit, sondern eine friedenspolitische Ausrichtung der Europäischen Union. Selbst wenn die von Steinmeier berechtigt hinterfragte Vergeudung von enormen finanziellen und materiellen Mitteln für die Verteidigungs- und Angriffsfähigkeit von 27 nationalen Armeen zutrifft, so weist die jetzt von ihm gegebe Antwort in die falsche Richtung: Nicht um den weiteren Aufbau von EU-battle-groups und Armee-Strukturen der EU darf es gehen, sondern um die strukturelle Nichtangriffsfähigkeit der existierenden Strukturen und eine entsprechende Umwandlung der nationalen Kontingente. Eine weitere Vermengung von politischen Entscheidungsstrukturen der EU mit der NATO ist der falsche Weg - ebenso falsch wie die Geheimdiplomatie, mit der die Außenminister Deutschlands und Frankreichs den Motor der EU wieder anwerfen wollen: Die Abschaffung der französischen Atomwaffen wäre ein überzeugenderer gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt für eine sicherheitspolitische Initiative im Rahmen der EU-GASP.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/aussen-und-sicherheitspolitik-darf-nicht-der-parlamentarischen-kontrolle-entzogen-werden/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steinmeier
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EU-Reformvertrag

Satyam Khanna, of ThinkProgress.org, reports: "The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has 'no desire for permanent bases' in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking to leave its footprint on Iraq through other means. The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to 'transform the US-protected Green Zone' into a 'centerpiece for Baghdad's future,' resulting in 'big paydays for early investors.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Green+Zone

Dean Baker writes for Truthout, "Last month, a bipartisan group of prominent budget experts had a press event at the Brookings Institution where they argued that ... major cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ... were necessary in order to prevent the explosion in the budget deficit that is projected if these programs stay on their current course. While these experts are right to point to the long-term fiscal problems facing the country, the real problem is not the budget and these key programs on which tens of millions of people depend. The real problem is the United States has a broken health care system, which is projected to get progressively more inefficient through time."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget+deficit
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=medicare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=medicaid
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Reuters writes: "U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new regional war. 'I actually am very hopeful that we don't get into a position where we have to get into a conflict,' Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Israel's Channel Ten television..."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508B.shtml



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

http://tinyurl.com/3glqmo



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=flu+season
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Vaccination+-+Impfen/

Across the country there are 5.3 million Americans who are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction in their past. Nearly 4 million of these people are not in prison; they live, work, pay taxes, and raise families in our communities, but remain disenfranchised for years, often for decades, and sometimes for life.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/82457/?page=entire


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections

Mercenary

If you learned that the man in this photo -- a professional assassin -- was the head of security at one of our nation's most vulnerable nuclear facilities, would it trouble you? Or would it sound like one hell of a story?

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/features/mercenary0607


From Information Clearing House

Iran on Monday dismissed any prospect of new talks with the United States on Iraq, accusing U.S.-led forces on Monday of a "massacre" of the Iraqi people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/iran_iraq_dc



Iran will not hold talks with U.S. on Iraq

Iran does not intend to hold talks with the United States on Iraq while American forces are fighting Shiite militias in Sadr City, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported on its Web site on Monday.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/05/africa/iraq.php



Iraq: No Evidence Iran Is Arming Shiites

A top Iraqi official said Sunday there was no "conclusive" evidence that Shiite extremists have been directly supplied with some Iranian arms as alleged by the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/04/iraq/main4069224.shtml



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

US: Hezbollah training Iraqi Shiite extremists in Iran

Iraqi Shiite extremists are being trained by members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in camps near Tehran, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/4c595d



Selling war:

Breakthrough reached in intel on Iran

Mossad chief Meir Dagan is expected to brief Britain's MI6 head Sir John Scarlett, who is slated to visit Israel later this month, on an intelligence breakthrough regarding the Iranian nuclear program, London's Sunday Times reported.

http://tinyurl.com/5whqxw



Nir Rosen: Selling the War with Iran

When the American media, which, in the build up to the American attack on Iraq abdicated its duty to challenge those in power and inform the public, continues to demonstrate the same lack of skepticism, it is very distressing.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/05/selling_the_war/



Former UN weapons inspector says attack on Iran 'virtual guarantee'

I would say that it's a virtual guarantee that there will be a limited aerial strike against Iran in the not-so-near future-or not-so-distant future, that focuses on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command".

http://tinyurl.com/3mwx2l



Iran Set To Reject Nuclear Incentives Offer By World Powers

Iran was quick to pour cold water on the offer, which reportedly outlined possibilities of technical assistance if Iran gave up its uranium enrichment program.

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1042.html



Iran offers major breakthrough for ending world crises Tehran

Hosseini added that Tehran's proposed package "can help international peace, stability and security" and are based on "respecting rights of all nations and their territorial integrity."

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0805053250145306.htm



Iran says U.S. aids rebels at its borders

The violence may be driving Tehran's efforts to back its own allies in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/3fynpd



John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps

While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American's overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be "far higher" if Washington took no action.

http://tinyurl.com/5wxxcv


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=manufacturing+consent
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=uranium+enrichment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Bolton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nir+Rosen

By Christopher Ketcham

For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention under martial law?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorist+attack
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Writing for Labor Notes, Tiffany Ten Eyck says, "Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have exposed Burger King for its role in attempts to infiltrate and spy on the inner workings of a CIW-allied organization, the Student/Farmworker Alliance."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050508LB.shtml

The Chicago Tribune's Alex Rodriguez writes: "Sergei Zimov waded through knee-deep snow to reach a frozen lake where so much methane belches out of the melting permafrost that it spews out from the ice like small geysers."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050508EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permafrost
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=methane

Truthout contributor Ann Wright says, "After the end of World War II, the Japanese Constitution, written by the United States for the defeated Japanese, rejected war as a solution for conflict. Article Nine states: 'Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Wright

Christopher Kuttruff, Truthout, reports: "The Federal Communications Commission has recently encountered mounting scrutiny in response to its broad deregulatory practices. Public frustration regarding the FCC has peaked at a time of fierce debate on net neutrality."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=net+neutrality
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=FCC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Kuttruff

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n09/mack01_.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/global_elite_gather_135.html
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8914

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They manage the world
http://www.peacereporter.net/dettaglio_articolo.php?idc=0&idart=10960


Informant: Doctor Plum



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Trilateral+Commission
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Trilateral+Commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=power+elite

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article3856764.ece


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt333.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=perpetual+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan78.html



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance141.html



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

By Betsy Pisik

The U.S. political system is, at best, "a work in progress" according to an evaluation from the pro-democracy group Freedom House, which finds significant flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, counterterrorism strategies and the treatment of minorities and immigrants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19870.htm