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http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19826545.700-bluetooth-gives-spies-a-window-into-your-life.html


Informant: Doctor Plum



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by Chuck Baldwin

Take the war in Iraq. The only candidate among the top three who even hints at bringing our troops home is Obama. And if anyone believes that he is serious about it, I have a bridge I would like to sell you. Neither of the two major parties has any interest in bringing our troops home. No matter which party wins the White House, our troops will continue to be used for U.N. missions all over the world. We will continue to stick our nose wherever it does not belong. We will continue our utopian plans of nation-building, empire-building and international meddling.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin448.htm



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Gene Johnson, of The Associated Press: "A Justice Department team has traveled to Iraq to investigate the fatal shooting of an Iraqi guard by a security contractor, hastening the resolution of questions about whether US attorneys can prosecute him, an official said Thursday. The contractor, Andrew Moonen of Seattle, was fired by Blackwater USA but never prosecuted and eventually given an overseas job by another contractor. The shooting outraged Iraqis, who questioned how an American could go free under such circumstances."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608K.shtml



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

Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "At first glance, it seems like a shocking triumph for the antiwar movement: After five years of war, the House of Representatives finally voted down a war funding bill on Thursday afternoon, while simultaneously passing a provision to set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. The catch? The 'triumph' was engineered by House Republicans, most of whom voted 'present' on the funding bill, which would have provided $168.4 billion for operations for Iraq and Afghanistan. If the Republicans had voted for the funding, as they usually do, the 85 Democrats who voted 'yea' would've easily tipped the boat in the war funds' favor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608J.shtml



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The Associated Press reports: "The millions of dollars in assets reported by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynn, nearly triple those held by President Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, according to newly released financial disclosure forms."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608D.shtml



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Die UN-Konferenz zur biologischen Sicherheit hat sich auf eine Haftung bei Schäden durch gentechnisch veränderte Organismen geeinigt. Die Teilnehmer der Bonner Konferenz hätten sich "grundsätzlich" darauf verständigt, dass derjenige, der Schäden verursache, auch dafür haften müsse, sagte die Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin beim Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerium, Ursula Heinen (CDU), zum Abschluss der Konferenz am 16. Mai. Rechtsexperten sollen nun die "rechtlichen Einzelheiten" klären.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17978

Ärzte und Bürgerrechtler protestieren gegen elektronische Gesundheitskarte

Die Ärzteorganisation IPPNW und das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie haben dem Bundesgesundheitsministerium in Berlin am 16. Mai 8500 Protestunterschriften gegen die elektronische Gesundheitskarte übergeben. Nach Ansicht von IPPNW-Vorstand Matthias Jochheim verletzt die geplante Chipkarte das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Auch sei die ärztliche Schweigepflicht "in gravierender Weise bedroht". Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte sei "ein weiterer Baustein im Übergang vom Sozialstaat zum Kontrollstaat". Die zentrale Speicherung sämtlicher Gesundheitsdaten ermögliche die Überwachung sowohl der Behandlungsmethoden der Ärzte als auch der Lebensführung der Patienten. Das Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnis werde durch den Aufbau einer zentralen Gesundheitstelematikinfrastruktur schwer beschädigt, da die ärztliche Schweigepflicht in gravierender Weise bedroht sei. Zunächst würden die KassenpatientInnen schleichend auf eine "schöne neue Welt" der zentralen Datenspeicherung eingestimmt. Das Ministerium wies die Bedenken als nicht stichhaltig zurück.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17969



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Genutzt werden soll nun auch das jährliche Sonderbudget für die Kriege, um in neue Waffensysteme zu investieren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/107707

Pünktlich zum Wahlkampf in Bayern holt die CDU/CSU die Idee der Bürgerarbeit aus ihrem vorübergehenden Koma. Und schürt einmal öfter den Neid der Besitzenden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27928/1.html



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Dutch Embassy Deep-Sixes Bilderberg Information
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Informant: Teresa Binstock

by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

May 16 2008

CAMPAIGNERS have defeated plans for a mobile phone mast.

Councillors yesterday refused permission for the 18-metre structure off Station Road in Marsden.

Mobile phone operator Vodafone wanted to erect a 15.2 metre timber pole on land next to Marsden Railway Station’s overspill car park. Six antennae would have taken the total height to 18.4 metres.

More than 100 residents wrote to Kirklees Council to object to the proposal. Complaints included loss of visual amenity, possible health risks and the impact on tourism in the village.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/051608_rumsfeld_tape.htm

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Did Rumsfeld Calls for "Another Attack" of Terror to Bolster Support for Bush?

A newly released audiotape by the Department of Defense of a December 12th, 2006 Luncheon taped Rumsfeld telling a group of military analysts that the American public needs another 9/11 Attack to wake up.

http://www.nolanchart.com/article3806.html


From Information Clearing House

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Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9002


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Legal moves in the Rumsfeld torture cases
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7485/


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From ufpj-news



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Ex-Gewerkschafter Hansen spricht von Jobabbau bei der Bahn

„Kaum hat der Ex-Chef der Bahngewerkschaft Transnet, Norbert Hansen, seine neue Aufgabe als Arbeitsdirektor der Deutschen Bahn angetreten, kündigte er einen Stellenabbau an. Zudem sollen Lokführer auch mal in den Zugabteilen sauber machen. Bahn-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn widersprach…“ Artikel in der FTD vom 16.05.2008 http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/handel_dienstleister/:Ex%20Gewerkschafter%20Hansen%20Jobabbau%20Bahn/356237.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Wendehals mit Statusvorteil

„Frech und dreist - der einstige Gewerkschafter als Top-Manager und Topverdiener. Via "Bild" verkündet Norbert Hansen, wie er als Arbeitsdirektor Jobs einsparen will. Das ging selbst Bahn-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn zu schnell. Er dementiert…“ Ein Kommentar von Melanie Ahlemeierin der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 16.05.2008 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/489/174966/


„Ein Lokführer kann auch mal Abteile aufräumen“

„…BILD: Was heißt das konkret? Norbert Hansen: Ein Beispiel: Es gibt mittlerweile viele regionale Bahngesellschaft, die zeigen, wie es gehen kann. Da ist dann z.B. ein Lokführer nicht nur dafür verantwortlich, den Zug zu steuern – sondern kann in den Zugabteilen auch mal aufräumen oder auf einem kleinen Bahnhof mit anpacken. So was ist in einem großen Konzern wie der Bahn AG natürlich schwieriger. Aber in diese Richtung müssen wir langfristig denken. (…) BILD: Apropos Tarif – als Bahnvorstand werden Sie doch sicher ein Vielfaches verdienen im Vergleich zu ihrem früheren Job...? Norbert Hansen: Weniger wird es sicher nicht sein – aber darüber muss ich erst noch verhandeln. Die Verträge sind noch nicht unterschrieben. Eines kann ich aber sagen: Verglichen mit anderen großen Konzernen zahlt die Bahn deutlich weniger…“ Interview von Rolf Kleine und Oliver Santen in Bild vom 16.05.2008 http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/wirtschaft/2008/05/16/hansen/neuer-bahn-manager-exklusiv-in-bild,geo=4543882.html


Nach dem Hansen-Schock: Höchste Eisenbahn für einen Neuanfang

„Die Meldung über einen bevorstehenden Wechsel des TRANSNET-Vorsitzenden Norbert Hansen in den DB-Vorstand hat bei vielen Mitgliedern wie eine Bombe eingeschlagen und die Frage aufgeworfen: Hat sich Norbert Hansen nur deswegen – gegen den Willen der Mitglieder und die Beschlusslage unserer Gewerkschaft – gegenüber der Politik für die Teilprivatisierung der Transport-Holding stark gemacht, weil er da einen hochdotierten Posten als Arbeitsdirektor in Aussicht hat? Mit einem einfachen „Weiter so“ wird unsere Gewerkschaft aus ihrer Krise nicht herauskommen. Daher fordern wir einen konsequenten Neuanfang…“ Extrablatt von Bahn von unten vom 13.05.2008 (pdf) http://www.bahnvonunten.de/Extrablatt13Mai08.pdf


Erklärung der TRANSNET-Fraktion des Betriebsrates Railion Frankfurt

Wechsel des TRANSNET-Vorsitzenden zum DB-Vorstand oder: „Gerechter Lohn für gute Arbeit“?! Extrablatt Nr. 2 von Bahn von unten vom 13.05.2008 (pdf) http://www.bahnvonunten.de/Extrablatt13Mai08Railion.pdf


Weitere aktuelle Flugblätter und Informationen finden sich wie immer auf der Seite von Bahn von unten http://www.bahnvonunten.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 16. Mai 2008

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Norbert Hansens Seitenwechsel

Ich heiße Norbert Wendehals... ... und bin jetzt Arbeitsdirektor Hansen bei der Bahn: Ein Ex-Gewerkschafter macht sich unmöglich.

„…Hansen und die Bahn haben ein Problem: die Eisenbahner, für die der Mann als Arbeitsdirektor zuständig ist, werden kein Stück Brot mehr von ihm nehmen. Kaum angetreten, hat er sich also für seine Aufgabe diskreditiert. Hansen gilt den Eisenbahnern als Verräter, als Gewerkschafts-Judas, als einer, der sich verkauft hat. Er hat sich sehr beeilt, das zu beweisen; das ist gelungen. Mehdorn hatte den Gewerkschafter Norbert Hansen als nützlichen Idioten einstellen wollen. Nun ist er nicht einmal mehr nützlich…“ Ein Kommentar von Heribert Prantl in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 16.06.2008 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/meinung/695/175171/


Der Hansen im Gewerkschaftsdress

„Nun ist er Arbeitsdirektor! Seine Gesprächspartnerin bei den Tarifauseinandersetzungen im letzten Jahr, Margret Suckale, darf er rum kommandieren. Seine Gewerkschaftskumpel, die er vorgestern noch am Verhandlungstisch vertreten, aber schon während der Verhandlung mit dem Bahn AG Vorstand verlassen hat, konnte er in den letzten Jahren erfolgreich zu kleistern. Was denen wohl den Feierabend versüßt hat? Auf jeden Fall will Hansen nun, in seiner Stellung als Arbeitschef, Stellen abbauen, Arbeitsaufgaben massiv ausweiten und hält 49,9 Prozent Beteiligungen für durchaus annehmbar! Wat für’n Hansen!...“ Beitrag von Machnow im Blog Analyse, Kritik & Aktion - Berliner Assoziation für Theorie und Praxis – vom 16.05.2008 http://aka.blogsport.de/2008/05/16/der-hansen-im-gewerkschaftsdress/


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Mai 2008

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Hansens Scherbenhaufen

Der fliegende Wechsel ihres ehemaligen Vorsitzenden in den Bahn-Vorstand und sein Bekenntnis zu Kapitalinteressen stürzt die Gewerkschaft Transnet in eine schwere Krise. Artikel von Hans-Gerd Öfinger in der jungen Welt vom 20.05.2008 http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/05-20/006.php


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Mai 2008

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Vielen Dank, Herr Hansen, Sie haben uns die Augen geöffnet!

Die Gratulation zu Hansens Dienstantritt am 2.6. von Dieter Wegner, Jour Fixe Gewerkschaftslinke Hamburg (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/tw/bahn/wegner010608.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…Viele Basis-KollegInnen bei Transnet fühlen sich von Hansen verraten. Die Verratsbehauptung ist jedoch unangebracht, denn Hansen tut das gleiche wie immer. Er hat sich lediglich eine, wenn auch exorbitante Gehaltserhöhung genommen und kann als offizieller Kapitalsvertreter jetzt offener sprechen. Eigentlich müßten wir Herrn Hansen dankbar sein, hat er doch vielen Transnet und KollegInnen anderer Gewerkschaften die Augen geöffnet…“


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juni 2008

16. Mai 2008

Im Vorfeld der am Montag beginnenden 9. UNO-Vertragskonferenz des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt erklärt der umweltpolitische Sprecher des Parteivorstandes Wolfgang Methling:

Die Umsetzung der UN-Konvention zur Artenvielfalt ist äußerst mangelhaft, der Handlungsbedarf entsprechend groß. Täglich sterben weltweit rund 150 Tier- und Pflanzenarten aus, akut bedroht sind derzeit mindestens 16 000 Arten. Im Bundesdurchschnitt sind rund 30 Prozent aller Tier- und Pflanzenarten gefährdet. Dies zeigt, wie wenig ausgeprägt das Bewusstsein für den Erhalt unserer Lebensgrundlage ist. Die Bundes- und die Landesregierungen stehen in einer besonderen Verantwortung. Es mangelt an vielerlei Regelungen, ob für Importe von Holz, Papier und Futtermittel oder bei der Einführung von ökologischen Mindeststandards in der Forstwirtschaft. Deutschland und Europa müssen beim Schutz der Artenvielfalt voran gehen, denn hier wird der größte Nutzen aus der Natur gezogen. So sind etwa die hier verbrauchten Medikamente zu rund 50 Prozent pflanzlicher Herkunft und stammen zu einem großen Teil aus den gefährdeten Urwaldregionen. Beim Thema Biosprit verhält es sich nicht viel anders. Ein gerechter Vorteilsausgleich für die Nutzung der biologischen Vielfalt, ob in Deutschland oder in der Welt, ist zwar vereinbart, lässt aber bis heute auf sich warten.

http://www.die-linke.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/schutz-der-artenvielfalt-als-lebensgrundlage-muss-verstaerkt-werden/

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Dramatischer Verlust der Artenvielfalt

Nach einer WWF-Studie hat die Artenvielfalt in den letzten 30 Jahren um ein Viertel abgenommen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/107979



Kampf um die Artenvielfalt

Forschungslabors versus Kleinbauern
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27971/1.html

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Stirbt die Artenvielfalt?

Achtteilige Artenschutzserie zur Artenschutzkonferenz in Bonn: In dieser Serie geht es um die Zukunft des Lebens. Auf unserer Erde gibt es Millionen von Lebensarten – Pflanzen, Tiere, Menschen. Die Fülle des Lebens ist in Milliarden Jahren gewachsen. Millionen Arten haben wir bis heute noch gar nicht entdeckt – vor allem die Vielfalt des Lebens in den Regenwäldern und in den Meeren.

Teil 1: Wer ist schuld am Artensterben?
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683665ms101

Teil 2: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683666ms101

Teil 3: Erst sterben die Pflanzen, dann die Tiere und dann der Mensch
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683667ms101

Teil 4: Welche Tiere sind bedroht? Welche konnten gerettet werden?
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683702ms102

Teil 5: Warum braucht das Leben Vielfalt statt Einfalt?
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683703ms102

Teil 6: Artensterben heißt: Wir löschen die Daten der Natur von der Festplatte!
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683704ms102

Teil 7: Was muss die Politik – was kann jeder Einzelne tun?
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683744ms103

Teil 8: Das neue Zeitalter des Naturschutzes
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683745ms103



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AlterNet
by Tad Daley

05/15/08

‘Why can’t we have them when they can?’ That, for the ‘nuclear have-nots,’ has long been the essence of what some call the nuclear double standard, what others call nuclear narcissism, what others still call America’s nuclear hypocrisy. The bitterness about that double standard has steadily intensified for almost exactly four decades now (the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, was signed on July 1, 1968, and came into force in 1970). Why? Because in the basic bargain of the NPT, the non-nuclear weapon states promised forever to forego nuclear weapons, in exchange for a pair of promises from the nuclear weapon states. First, the nuclear weapon states conceded — quite explicitly, in Article IV — that the non-nuclear weapon states possess an ‘inalienable right’ to develop ‘nuclear energy for peaceful purposes’ and even promised ‘to facilitate’ their efforts to do so. Second, the nuclear weapon states promised — quite explicitly, in Article VI, and reiterated quite explicitly at the NPT Review Conferences in 1995 and 2000 — to negotiate the complete elimination of their own nuclear arsenals, and eventually to deliver to the human race a nuclear-weapon-free world...

http://www.alternet.org/story/85375/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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TruthDig
by Marie Cocco

For weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when images of twisted metal and smoldering debris still filled television screens and the wail of bagpipes at firefighters’ funerals sounded day after day, there was one face that seemed to embody the terror. It was that of Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the suicide hijackers, with his steely eyes and tight lips that appeared to reflect the evil within. Seven years later, if we were to seek a portrait that is emblematic of the way the United States has tried — and failed — to bring those responsible for the heinous plot to justice, we would have to produce a photograph of Mohammed al-Qahtani. If such a photo were made public, it would probably show a battered man with signs of diminished mental capacity, a man who authorities concede was so badly abused — those outside the Bush administration call his treatment torture — that he will not be tried by a military commission with other alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon has formally dropped charges in the case against Qahtani, conceding that most of the evidence it has came from Qahtani’s own coerced statements, made after abusive interrogations...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080514_the_face_of_torture/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

05/15/08

The George W Bush administration and General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, plotted a sequence of events that would sensationally build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran. Key to this was to be the display of a major cache of Iranian weapons for use by Shi’ite militias in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The weapons turned out to have nothing to do with Iran, and worse, the Iraq government suddenly distanced itself from the US’s plan...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE16Ak02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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The Nation
by Walden Bello

06/02/08

When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devoting more and more acreage to corn for ethanol than for food, which sparked a steep rise in corn prices. The diversion of corn from tortillas to biofuel was certainly one cause of skyrocketing prices, though speculation on biofuel demand by transnational middlemen may have played a bigger role. However, an intriguing question escaped many observers: how on earth did Mexicans, who live in the land where corn was domesticated, become dependent on US imports in the first place?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/bello


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Los Angeles Times

05/15/08

Republican John McCain, in a speech forecasting what the country would look like after his first term in office, said today that he expects the war in Iraq to be won and most troops to be home by January 2013. The prediction marks a major departure for McCain, who railed against rival Mitt Romney shortly before the Florida primary for his remark in April 2007 that he thought President Bush and Iraqi leaders should privately discuss a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. At the time, McCain suggested that the comment would embolden America’s foes in Iraq. The Arizona senator leveled the same criticism at Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, stating that their advocacy for withdrawing troops from Iraq amounted to setting a date for ’surrender’...

http://tinyurl.com/4sgpgf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Fascism, Corporate State's Achilles Heel

by Alan Stang

Last week we looked at a couple of the horrors of our fascist system. Of course there are many others. Monster corporations control that system, and they have long since proved that they will do anything they can get away with to maximize that control, even including the murders of millions around the world. Is there anything we can do to defeat concentrations of power so vast?.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan48.htm

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The corporate state & the subversion of democracy

TruthDig
by Chris Hedges

06/02/08
http://tinyurl.com/6fe3vv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Speaking at a news conference, European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, raised concerns over the European DNA Database, criticising its lack of safeguards to protect tourists and the public travelling around the EU.

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From Information Clearing House



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Some of the disastrous consequences of George W. Bush's foreign policy, and therefore Stephen Harper's, are on display this week in Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere.

http://www.thestar.com/article/425503


From Information Clearing House



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Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix hammers world powers for their 'hypocritical' approach to the Islamic Republic's nuclear issue.

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One of the documents is a list of "at least four prisoner deaths" that were investigated by the Navy, including one detainee at Abu Ghraib who died after "his head was beaten with a stove".

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From Information Clearing House



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A Interview With Gore Vidal - Audio and Text
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19930.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gore+Vidal

By Michael Sherry

Most Americans see their nation as essentially peace-loving, a reluctant warrior that fights only when fanatical enemies force it to. But measured by its actions rather than its self-image, the United States is a warrior nation more than any other major modern power is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19933.htm

By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver

Why would these elite American soldiers kill an unarmed prisoner in cold blood? The answer: pressure from their commanding officers to pump up a statistic straight out of America's last long war against an intractable insurgency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19928.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgency
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http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/b4214d0fc1105273?hl=en



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

http://www.slate.com/id/2191301/


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+trials
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Emily+Bazelon
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Why UC Berkeley should fire John Yoo, the legal scholar whose work led to Abu Ghraib and secret spying on Americans.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/the_torture_professor/Content?oid=727134


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt334.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/nicholas/nicholas48.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson214.html



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

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/14/8937/

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Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world

Tom Friedman is befuddled. He cannot understand "the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush" and is specifically upset about the fact that "China is now more popular in Asia than America and how few Europeans say they identify with the United States."

http://tinyurl.com/59n8hk


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Friedman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts246.html



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Analysis by Gareth Porter

Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19927.htm



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
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Ron Jacobs writes for Z Net, "Recently, more than 100 workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi, walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard last week to protest conditions similar to slavery. Also in Mississippi, beginning July 1st, 2008, it will become a felony for an undocumented worker to hold a job."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051508LA.shtml



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Will Bunch writes for The Philadelphia Daily News: "President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the US opposition party to appeasers of Nazi Germany - in the very nation that was carved out from the horrific calamity of the Holocaust. Bush's bizarre and beyond-appropriate detour into American presidential politics took place in the middle of what should have been an occasion for joy: a speech to Israeli's Knesset to honor that nation's 60th birthday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508R.shtml



The Bushes and Hitler's Appeasement

Robert Parry, of Consortium News: "To this day - as President Bush showed by mocking the long-forgotten Sen. Borah and then wielding the Nazi 'appeasement' club against Barack Obama and other Democrats - the assumption remains that the bubble will continue to protect the Bush family name. However, the evidence from dusty archives suggests that the Bush family went way beyond appeasement of Adolf Hitler to aiding and abetting the Nazis."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908M.shtml



George Bush, at Sea in the Desert

Michael Winship writes: "President Bush's recent speech before the Knesset, ostensibly to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, was not only a display of political cynicism at its worst - using a diplomatic occasion to perpetrate an unseemly attack on Barack Obama - but a microcosm for the disregard with which the president holds the rest of the world. And vice versa."

http://www.truthout.org/article/george-bush-sea-desert

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Democrats Outraged By Bush "Appeasement" Remark
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0839956720080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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Bush stirs up U.S. campaign with "appeasement" remark

U.S. President George W. Bush stirred up the campaign to replace him by suggesting on Thursday that Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to talk to Iran's leader amounted to "the false comfort of appeasement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080515/ts_nm/usa_politics_dc



All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined)

An Open Letter to Bush

By Larisa Alexandrovna
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19949.htm



Prescott Bush - The Nazi's American Banker

By William Bowles

What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden on and on it goes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm


From Information Clearing House

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'Appeasement' attack on Obama by Bush in Israel stirs widespread
outrage
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7456/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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President Bush's Despicable Attack
http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/president-bushs-despicable-attack/

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Bush Plays the Hitler Card
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan80.html

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Bush’s bizarro world

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

05/19/08

President Bush’s speech to the Israeli Knesset, in which he charged that people who advocate negotiating with ‘terrorists and radicals’ are the equivalent of craven Western leaders who sought to appease Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s, has created a political firestorm. Critics immediately accused Bush of smearing Barack Obama, who had previously indicated that he was willing to open a dialogue with such countries as Iran and Syria. More broadly, liberals asserted that Bush was smearing anyone who supported talking to repressive regimes as weak-kneed appeasers. Those criticisms are justified. Bush’s comments were a cheap shot, and as much as the White House and Republican leaders assert that they were not directed at Obama, it is doubtful if even Laura Bush believes that denial. The invocation of the shopworn ‘appeasement’ slur, however, is not the most-troubling aspect of Bush’s argument. There are three other, even-more-serious problems with his reasoning...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9412


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bush's 'War Crimes' and Misdemeanors
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052208.html


Informant: Duane Roberts



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(excerpt)

Overview of America

by John McManus

John McManus narrates a moving tribute to America and discusses the history of what makes America great and how only we, as informed citizens, can keep the timeless concepts of Americanism alive in our Constitutional Republic.

Part 4 completes the capitalism discussion started in Part 3 and explains differences between the monopolistic state-controlled economy and the competitive free enterprise system and how each aligns with a specific political system. Mr. McManus closes with questions of what type of America will we leave for future generations and whether or not we will return America to its Constitutional roots.

Overview of America 1 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTQQJOEn9yI

Overview of America 2 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6AKVyi6As&feature=related

Overview of America 3 0f 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JIFy8Vm6Q&feature=related

Overview of America 4 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16M-qH3SbU&feature=related

Overview of America in ONE segment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6732659166933078950&q=overview+of+america+site%3Avideo.google.com&total=81&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

We need to preserve this mass movement for the defense of liberty; which Ron Paul has created, without regard to what happens in the election. Ron Paul has created a mass movement for the defense of liberty Ron Paul has done what I, and many other people, have tried to do for forty years. This movement must NOT evaporate away after the election: without regard to how the campaign, or the election, goes. The election is just ONE BATTLE in the war for liberty. Even if Ron Paul WON the election this war for liberty will not be finished.

Thomas Jefferson said: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

I add to this: "The battle for freedom is never won, and is never lost. The battle for freedom always continues. It is never too late, and it is never soon enough, to defend freedom. No matter how enslaved we are, we always have hope. No matter how free we are we are never safe."

We could WIN the election, and still lose the battle for freedom, if we fail to maintain this mass movement for the defense of liberty. Ron Paul cannot do everything by himself. The masses, organized for the defense of liberty, will be needed to influence Congress to support President Paul.

We could lose the election, and still WIN the battle for freedom, if we maintain this mass movement for the defense of liberty. Our liberty is in our own hands. President Paul would inspire us... BUT it is still up to us!

The freedom message walks on water. Ron Paul is a human being, who puts his pants on one leg at a time. Ideas; not individuals, are the life force of lasting revolutions.

We must formalize the organization of the mass movement for the defense of liberty. We must DO THIS NOW, while the enthusiasm still survives.

Regardless to the phony polls and the vote fraud, WE ARE WINNING! visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT9RnvrJxc

Media Caught Lying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iW5kOB1pmg http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=7iW5kOB1pmg

5% of the people make things happen.
15% of the people watch things happen.
80% of the people never know what happened.

Find the FIVE PERCENTORS and get them organized. Please join http://ronpaul.meetup.com/195/

If you are in this group, we know that you are not one of those 80% of the people, who never know what happened. At the very LEAST you are watching things happen.

The question is whether you want to be one of the
15% of the people who watch things happen. OR one of the
5% of the people who MAKE things happen.

We want to live the rest of our lives in peace and freedom. To do that, we need to TAKE ACTION. We also need a lot MORE PEOPLE, who will TAKE ACTION.

John Perna



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

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/keep_the_heat_on_nestle/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nestle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stopcorporateabusenow.org

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8861


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Lies of Aggression
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19937.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chossudovsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

Keith Olbermann delivers a special comment on "MSNBC Countdown," addressing George Bush's policies and rhetoric.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508A.shtml



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

Die weltweiten Rüstungsausgaben haben nach Angaben des "Internationalen Konversionszentrums" die Rekordhöhe von 1,179 Billionen US-Dollar erreicht. Die globalen Militärausgaben hätten zwischen 2001 und 2006, dem letzten Jahr, für das umfassende Zahlen vorliegen, real um etwa 30 Prozent zugenommen, sagte der Direktor des Konversionszentrums, Peter Croll, am 15. Mai in Bonn. Abrüstungsverhandlungen seien zum Stillstand gekommen und vieles deute sogar auf ein neues Wettrüsten hin. Es müsse "gegen den Trend gehandelt werden, um die Abrüstung wieder in Gang zu bringen", sagte Croll.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17967

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0515-14.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Winter+Soldier
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/15/8986/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/15/8965/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Froomkin

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8952


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/05/fossil-fools.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/85271/


Informant: Dorothee Krien

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051308b.html


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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

David Ignatius, of The Washington Post: "Watching the news from Lebanon, it's poignant to read the title of a new memoir by Jordan's former foreign minister, Marwan Muasher, 'The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation.' The daily headlines tell us that centrist Arabs such as Muasher are becoming an endangered species. The center is under siege in Lebanon and across the Middle East as the region becomes more polarized between Iranian-backed extremists and US-backed forces."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebanon
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Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, of The New York Times: "The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves from President Bush to head off what could be heavy losses in the fall. The victory by Travis Childers, a conservative Democrat elected in a once-steadfast Republican district on Tuesday, was the third defeat of a Republican in a special Congressional race this year."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508L.shtml



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Tony Perry, of The Los Angeles Times: "Blackwater Worldwide, the global security firm whose conduct in Iraq has drawn criticism, is again trying to open a training facility in the face of local opposition. In March, the firm dropped plans to build a 220-acre training camp in rural Potrero, about 45 miles east of downtown San Diego. A coalition of rural property owners, environmentalists and antiwar activists opposed its effort to build a 'combat town.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508K.shtml



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

Christopher Kuttruff, of Truthout: "Last week, lawmakers proposed legislation on network neutrality that would open up the possibility for antitrust lawsuits against companies that violate the bill's regulations. The bill has fueled the ongoing debate about the implications of network regulation. On Thursday, May 8, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California) introduced the 'Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2008' (H.R. 5994) which seeks to prevent anti-competitive and discriminatory activity by broadband Internet service providers."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508J.shtml



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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/051508_step_closer.htm



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Beenden Sie den Walfang
http://newsletter.greenpeace.de/d/r/2674



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„Lügen haben kurze Beine", besagt eine Volksweisheit. Aber mehr als fünf Jahre - bis zum 7. Mai 2008 - hat es immerhin gedauert, die während des Irak-Krieges amtierende Bundesregierung einer schamlosen Täuschung der deutschen Öffentlichkeit zu überführen. Hatte Kanzler Schröder stets hoch und heilig versichert, man sei nicht an einem unter US-Kommando geführten Krieg gegen den Irak beteiligt, urteilte nunmehr das Bundesverfassungsgericht: "Mit der Luftraumüberwachung der Türkei in AWACS-Flugzeugen der NATO haben sich deutsche Soldaten an einem Militäreinsatz beteiligt, bei dem greifbare tatsächliche Anhaltspunkte für eine drohende Verstrickung in bewaffnete Auseinandersetzungen bestanden."..“ Artikel von Jürgen Rose in Freitag vom 16.5.08 http://www.freitag.de/2008/20/08200101.php

Siehe dazu auch:

Grundgesetz bindet die Bundeswehr an die Verteidigung des Landes. Das Verfassungsgericht bricht die Verfassung

“Merkel, Schäuble & Co. waren sicher nicht glücklich über das jüngste Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Ob aber die Entscheidung zum Awacs-Einsatz vor und während des Irak-Krieges im Jahr 2003 in der Türkei so „dankenswert“ war, wie der Verteidigungsexperte der LINKEN im Bundestag und der FDP-Sprecher nach dem Erfolg der Klage seiner Fraktion meinten, wird im folgenden Beitrag widerlegt…“ Artikel von Ulrich Sander in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer Nr. 146 vom 14.05.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12383


Krieg ist illegal - War is illegal

Internationale Erklärung, die in mehreren Sprachen verbreitet wird, auf der Aktionshomepage http://www.war-is-illegal.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Mai 2008

http://www.war-is-illegal.org/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

„Die Creme de la Creme der Kölner Beschäftigungsindustrie ließ sich zur feierlichen Eröffnung des ersten Kölner Armenkaufhaus' vorfahren. SELBSTorganisierte 'Ladendiebe' und KEAs (Kölner Erwerbslose in Aktion) ließen es sich nicht nehmen, sie zu begrüßen. Bürgermeister Josef Müller (CDU), der bereits seit Jahren den Einsatz von Arbeitslosen als 1-Euro-Jobber im eigenen Wohngebiet propagiert, ARGE-Geschäftsführer und ehemaliger Filialleiter des Internationalen Bunds
(IB) in Köln, Klaus Müller-Starmann, sowie die Chefetagen fast aller
1-Euro-Jobträger in Köln trafen sich zum Stelldichein im neuen „Sozialkaufhaus“ der Diakonie Michaelshoven in Köln Kalk. Wo die Lieblingsfeinde sich versammeln, lassen sich deren Gegner nicht lange bitten…“ Bericht von agenturschluss vom 14.05.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/05/217302.shtml

Darin auch der Flyer der KEAs (Die KEAs e.V.): „Sozialkaufhäuser sind Armut mit Pfefferminzgeschmack!“ und der Flyer der Shoplifters United Sektion Köln: „Alles Menschenmögliche - ?!? Konsum mit Armutszeugnis“ sowie viele Bilder von Arbeiterfotografie. Siehe dazu auch:


„Den Schweiß der Edlen wert". Sozialkaufhaus Köln-Kalk

Artikel von Hans-Dieter Hey in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer Nr. 146 vom 14.05.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12406


Homepage von Kölner Erwerbslose in Aktion
http://www.die-keas.de/


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Mai 2008



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

Salon
by Camille Paglia

05/14/08

Bulletin to all nations: help! Tornadoes, typhoons and earthquakes batter the globe, while the U.S. is teetering into recession and paralyzed by a stupid war it can neither win nor quit. But somehow we are locked at the hip to Hillary Clinton, who won’t stop her manic tarantella until her party whirls into ruins, like the run-amuck carousel in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train.’ … It’s what Hillary’s campaigning has come to: a monotonous exercise in showboating solipsism, like Shirley MacLaine as the geriatric mother in ‘Postcards from the Edge,’ hijacking her daughter’s party and kicking up her heels to sing ‘I’m Still Here!’

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/05/14/tarantella/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

A Shameless Barbarity

CounterPunch
by Reza Fiyouzat

05/14/08

For the past seven years — and especially since those ghastly pictures from your friendly security providers at Baghram, Abu Ghuraib and Guantanamo concentration camps, showing prisoners’ dignity, rights and minds shredded to smithereens — continents of ink and keystrokes have had a go at this ‘controversial’ topic. Yet, few commentaries have shed any real enlightenment upon the subject...

http://counterpunch.org/fiyouzat05142008.html



The way bullies think

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

05/13/08

It is nearly impossible these days to escape the bullies who are set to run everyone’s life. I thought I would visit friends on the Central California Coast to get away from it all for a day but no such luck. No sooner did I settle in with my friends to drink a glass or two of some very fine wine from their and some other cellars, I encountered yet another horror story about the demise of private property rights in the United States of America. This time it isn’t the eminent domain bullies who have been popping up everywhere, insisting on misconstruing the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution as authorizing transfer of private property by government edict to preferred private concerns. (That is what the outrageous Supreme Court Ruling in 2005, Kelo v. City of New London Connecticut sanctioned.) This time the excuse is a legal fiction called ‘Smart Growth,’” whereby powerful politicians everywhere are forcibly imposing their vision of how people should live and use their own land.

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!205.entry


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghram
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http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/why-the-us-has-gone-broke/



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Independent [UK]

05/15/08

“Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest. The departure of Marina Silva, who admitted she was losing the battle to get green voices heard amidst the rush for economic development, has been greeted with dismay by conservationists.”She was the environment’s guardian angel,” said Frank Guggenheim, executive director for Greenpeace in Brazil. “Now Brazil’s environment is orphaned.”

In a letter to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the “lungs of the planet” were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. “Your Excellency was a witness to the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society,” she wrote...

http://tinyurl.com/3mu4lo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rainforest
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San Francisco Chronicle

05/14/08

A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration’s plans today for logging three tracts in the northern Sierra and said the government has failed to justify a critical element in its plan for the forests — selling trees to lumber companies to pay for removing brush that increases the threat of fire. Preventing fires is important, ‘but are there no alternative ways of getting money to do the clearing?’asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The court said the U.S. Forest Service has not explored the obvious alternatives: finding the money elsewhere in its budget or asking Congress for more...

http://tinyurl.com/5gbtbx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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by Jon Christian Ryter

The home mortgage default and foreclosure figures are in for February. The Bush Administration was not anxious to release them. The figures don't look good. The home mortgage crisis has become contagious. It's spreading from the subprime home market into the prime loan market. Approximately 2.3% of the holders of prime rate mortgages were at least 60 days late. That number is up 1.4% from a year ago. It is the highest level of delinquencies from prime rate borrowers in a decade. Prime rate mortgages are given only to the "A" list of credit worthiness........

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon235.htm



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Writing for Foreign Policy in Focus, Hope Shand says, "First the biotech industry promised that its genetically engineered seeds would clean up the environment. Then they told us biotech crops would feed the world. Neither came to pass. Soon we'll hear that genetically engineered climate-hardy seeds are the essential adaptation strategy for crops to withstand drought, heat, cold, saline soils and more."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051408EA.shtml



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Truthout contributor Richard Heinberg writes: "On Tuesday, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would halt a US arms sale to Saudi Arabia worth $1.4 billion. The implication is clear: no more war toys for the Saudis unless they agree to up their oil output."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051408R.shtml



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Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman of The New York Times report: "John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina who bowed out of the presidential race in January, is expected to endorse Senator Barack Obama at a rally being held here tonight."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051408V.shtml



NARAL Pro-Choice Backs Obama

Beth Fouhy of The Associated Press says, "Democrat Barack Obama has won the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a leading abortion rights advocacy organization that has supported rival Hillary Rodham Clinton throughout her political career."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051408T.shtml



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