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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/30/9324/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/30/9299/



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ADHD increasingly common in older kids, CDC says
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/5903733.html


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Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) ruft für Samstag, den 31. Mai zu einem bundesweiten Aktionstag auf. Unter dem Motto "Freiheit statt Angst" erwarten die Veranstalter in mehr als 30 Städten insgesamt rund 20.000 Teilnehmer, sagte der Sprecher der Ortsgruppe Hamburg am 30. Mai. In der Hansestadt rechne man mit mindestens 500 Teilnehmern. Mit dem Aktionstag soll gegen die Protokollierung der Telekommunikation und andere Überwachungsmaßnahmen demonstriert werden. Die zunehmende elektronische Erfassung und Überwachung der gesamten Bevölkerung bringe keinen verbesserten Schutz vor Kriminalität, koste jedoch Millionen und gefährde die Privatsphäre aller Bürger.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18058

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Erpressbarkeit und Verhaltensänderungen

Interview mit Ricardo Cristof Remmert-Fontes vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28065/1.html



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"Der zweite Schornstein enthält einen Kern mit künstlichen Mineralfasern die im Verdacht steht, krebserregend zu sein und laut Emissionsschutzgesetz nicht in die Umwelt gelangen dürfen. Deshalb kann dieser Schornstein nicht gesprengt werden."

http://www.niederlausitz-aktuell.de/artikel_287_1833.php


Anmerkung von Dugi: Millionen von Dachgeschossen, Fertighäusern, Wärmedämmungen usw. usw. wurden in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten mit künstlichen Mineralfasern (KMF) „ausgerüstet“, die als KREBS-AUSLÖSEND eingestuft sind. Diese Quellen geben STÄNDIG Mineralfasern in die Umwelt ab !

Dipl.-Ing. Johann J. Fonfara, Ehem. Gerichtsgutachter f. Schadstoffe im Bauwesen, Ehem. Beratender Ingenieur der Ingenieurkammer Hessen, Freier Sachverständiger); Kontakt: johann.fonfara(at)dugi-ev.de ; http://www.dugi-ev.de

Marisa Taylor, of McClatchy Newspapers: "Twenty former US attorneys, both Republicans and Democrats, urged a federal judge Thursday to intervene in a constitutional battle over whether two White House officials should be forced to testify before Congress about the firings of nine US attorneys. The former top prosecutors, including two who served under President Bush, argue in court papers that the judge should reject the Bush administration's assertion of blanket immunity for presidential chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in the congressional investigation."

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Matt Renner, of Truthout: "A controversial plan to study and profile domestic terrorism was scrapped after popular push back, however, the spirit of the legislation lives on in Senator Joe Lieberman's office. HR 1955, 'The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' passed the House in October 2007 with almost unanimous support. The bill immediately came under fire from civil liberties watchdogs because of what many saw as a deliberate targeting of Muslims and Arabs and the possible chilling effect it might have on free speech."

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ISIS Press Release 30/05/08

Science in Society #38 Summer 2008

Letters to the Editor

Deadly gift from Monsanto to India

To follow up on your articles, Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India (SiS 27) and Message from Andra Predesh: Return to organic cotton & avoid the Bt cotton trap (SiS 29), I enclose photographs of mealy bugs infested cotton plants in the demonstration plots of different seed companies in Vidarbha: Ganga Kavari, Paras Bbhrahma, and Banny. All of the plots have the Bollgard label. These mealy bugs have never been in our region on any plants before Bt cotton was introduced. I learned about the devastation of cotton in China two years ago. This alerted me to photograph and video the demonstration plots regularly. So, anybody can say with confidence now that the mealy bug has entered Vidarbha cotton fields through the Bt cottonseed.

Now when the cotton plants have died, the mealy bug is shifting to nearby plants. By mid June, farmers will go for the new cotton crop or plant another crop. But before that, the bug will have multiplied like any thing. It has shifted to Congress weed nearby, and many other weeds and plants in gardens.

At the same time I am studying the sudden death of plants. The new generation cotton seeds, called ‘Research Hybrid seeds’; are all male sterile. In short, they are terminator seeds; and proven by the high-level government committee in1993. I have the report of it. The breeder then published an article advising farmers that they should not use the F2 seeds of such hybrids, as the plants coming out of them are
100 percent sterile. Your article, Killing Fields Near You (ISIS News7/8) confirmed this for me.

I am an organic farmer residing at Yavatmal in the state of Maharashtra. Our organisation, Vidarbha Organic Farmers Association, has been propagating organic farming since 1994. We have been helped a lot by Dr Vandana Shiva. She was the first person to tell us about about terminators. Right now, we are working for her organisation Navdanya.

Ram Kalaspurkar, organic farmer, Vidarbha Organic Farmers Association, Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

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Huffington Post
by Robert Weissman

05/29/08

Is Big Oil ripping off consumers? Are Wall Street speculators manipulating oil markets? What should be done? Whether or not Big Oil is improperly restricting refinery capacity, whether or not Wall Street traders are driving up the traded price of oil to heights completely disconnected from supply-and-demand fundamentals, a few things are clear about gas prices — and so is the most appropriate, immediate policy response. Current pricing arrangements are generating profit gushers for the large, integrated oil companies — ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and the like. While the price of oil is going up, these companies’ drilling expenses are not. Oil can trade at $40 a barrel, $90 a barrel, or $130 a barrel. It still costs ExxonMobil and the rest of Big Oil only about $20 to get a barrel of oil out of the ground...

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"Die Welt ist umgeben von Atomwaffen"

Parlamentarier für die Nichtverbreitung von Atomwaffen und Abrüstung lehnen den von Frankreich geplanten Präventiveinsatz von Atomwaffen ab.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28029/1.html



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CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative
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Martin Frost of Politico.com writes: "Voter suppression in the minority community has always been high on the Republican agenda. It's done in the name of protecting the sanctity of the ballot. It's really about keeping black, Hispanic and elderly voters away from the polls."

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Trains, Buses and Bikes, Oh My!

Bill Scher of The Campaign for America's Future writes, "Last week, Isaiah reported on the seven percent increase in mass transit ridership, and also how limited that increase is. Because the Bush administration did nothing to make mass transit more convenient and accessible, many Americans who want to quit paying for high-priced oil don't have that choice."

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For McCain, a Switch on Telecom Immunity?

The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Ellen Nakashima write: "A top lawyer for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign said telecommunications companies should be forced to explain their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program as a condition for legal immunity for past wiretapping, a statement that stands in marked contrast to positions taken by President Bush, McCain and other Republicans in Congress."

http://www.truthout.org/article/for-mccain-a-switch-telecom-immunity



McCain (Mis)Speaks

Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky write for TomDispatch: "The Iraq war was a disaster for Iraq, a disaster for the United States, a disaster for the Middle East, a disaster for the world community, but most of all, it was a disaster for the experts. They were wrong about its difficulty. (It was to be either 'a cakewalk' or 'a walk in the park' - take your pick.)"

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-misspeaks

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Immunity Likely For Phone Companies in Spy Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/19/9736/

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Put Congress on notice that the American people don’t want a "compromise" that sells out our rights. Act now

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=985&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr009=c3j7ie5nu2.app26a

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Congress Poised to Grant Telcoms Spying Immunity

Matt Renner reports for Truthout, "After months of negotiations behind closed doors, a supposed compromise has been reached on an extremely controversial spying bill. However, critics charge that the new bill is actually a capitulation by Democrats who had previously stood up against the Bush administration and members of their own party."

http://www.truthout.org/article/congress-poised-grant-telcoms-spying-immunity



FISA Overhaul Set to Clear Senate

In Congressional Quarterly, Tim Starks reports: "Despite a deep divide among Democrats, the Senate is expected to clear legislation this week overhauling electronic surveillance rules that would grant President Bush much of what he has sought in a lengthy struggle with Congress. With no senators threatening to hold up the bill (HR 6304), one of the last hopes for opponents faded June 20 when Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois announced he would vote for the legislation. Some civil liberties groups that oppose the measure had called on Obama to use his position in the party to derail it."

http://www.truthout.org/article/fisa-overhaul-set-clear-senate

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Bush’s latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/19/08

CQ reports (sub. req.) that ‘a final deal has been reached’ on FISA and telecom amnesty and ‘the House is likely to take up the legislation Friday.’ I’ve now just read a copy of the final ‘compromise’ bill. It’s even worse than expected. When you read it, it’s actually hard to believe that the Congress is about to make this into our law. Then again, this is the same Congress that abolished habeas corpus with the Military Commissions Act, and legalized George Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program with the ‘Protect America Act,’ so it shouldn’t be hard to believe at all...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/19/telecom/



FISA deal would shield telecom accomplices

CNN Money

06/19/08

Senior U.S. House and Senate Republicans said Thursday that civil court cases against phone companies that participated in the government’s warrantless surveillance program will be tossed out of court as a result of the deal struck between the House and White House. … The agreement announced earlier Thursday resolves a long-running dispute over whether companies like AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) could be sued for agreeing to let the government tap the phones and read the emails of customers in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...

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House Members Expand Federal Police Powers in Sweeping New Bill

by NWV News

According to law enforcement experts, no where within the police function is there more potential for abuse than search and seizure. This latest bill -- if made into law -- would expand the government's surveillance abilities and grant retroactive immunity to telecoms for their role in post-9/11 mass domestic wiretapping. The Act, known more formally as H.R. 6304 and born after months of negotiations, represents a "bipartisan compromise.".......

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news51.htm

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The Democrats Betray the Fourth Amendment

A bill essentially legalizing Bush's warrantless surveillance program just sailed through the Democratic House and is expected to sail through the Democratic Senate.

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2244


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by Chuck Baldwin

A bomb exploded inside Washington, D.C., this week, and, no, it was not the work of a Middle Eastern terrorist. It was the work of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. He, perhaps more than anyone else, was the face of President Bush's White House. He faithfully served President George W. Bush for close to a decade and served as Bush's Press Secretary for some three years, resigning on April 19, 2006. He was also regarded as one of the most loyal and tight-lipped of the Bush insiders. However, his new book.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin451.htm

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McClellan Blames Bush, Not Aides, for Disillusionment

Johanna Neuman, of The Los Angeles Times, reports: "Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan made clear today that it was President Bush - not the high-profile aides around him - who left him most disillusioned in the run-up to the Iraq War."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mcclellan-blames-bush-not-aides-disillusionment

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On killing the messenger instead of investigating the charges
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7534/


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The telecommunication industry in Kolkota will not be allowed to set up mobile towers in congested residential areas.

The Environment department has directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to implent its decision. Circulars have already been sent to various telecom service providers such as Bharti Mobile Limited (Airtel), Vodafone Essar East Limited, Tata Indicom and BSNL.

The decision is based on concerns regarding possible health hazards caused by the effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted from antennae on telecommunication towers.

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Josh White reports for The Washington Post, "The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay thinks the Defense Department has punished him for testifying publicly that he faced political pressure to speed up the cases and to use evidence derived from torture."

http://www.truthout.org/article/colonel-says-speaking-out-cost-a-medal



ACLU Sues Library of Congress Alleging Ex-Guantanamo Prosecutor Wrongfully Fired

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the Library of Congress on behalf of Col. Morris Davis, the former top prosecutor at Guantanamo and an outspoken critic of the military commissions system, alleging he was unfairly terminated from his position with the Library's Congressional Research Service (CRS)."

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According to Robert Burns of The Associated Press, "John McCain's nuclear proposals are largely in line with those of the unpopular President Bush, and even where the two disagree, the Republican presidential candidate has waffled."

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Oil Crisis Rage Spreads

According to Agence France-Presse, "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Wednesday that the world faced an era-defining oil 'shock' that required urgent action, as European leaders argued how best to contain protests over soaring fuel prices."

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The Rich Get Hungrier

Amartya Sen writes for The New York Times, "The recent rise in food prices has largely been caused by temporary problems like drought in Australia, Ukraine and elsewhere. Though the need for huge rescue operations is urgent, the present acute crisis will eventually end. But underlying it is a basic problem that will only intensify unless we recognize it and try to remedy it."

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ISIS Press Release 29/05/08

Julian Rose exposes the scandal of EU’s deliberate policy to get rid of family farms for the benefit of the corporations and gives a personal account of his battle with the GMO dragon that threatens to devastate rural Poland

Poland’s peasant farmers are the true trustees of its countryside

Poland is accustomed to fighting rearguard actions to throw off unwelcome invaders. Throughout the 19th century period of “The Partitians” - occupation by Russia and then Austria – the Poles kept in their hearts a longing for a day when they could be freed from the yoke of repression and find genuine independence. After finally succeeding in 1918 to rid themselves of the invaders, they were soon engulfed in conflict again, this time with the invading Nazi Germany. They responded with the 1939-45 resistance movement that sprouted up in the fields, small towns and main cities.

As many will know, the Poles fought alongside the British throughout the Second World War - a time when Poland’s government in exile had its head quarters in London. I remember quite well when I was a boy a Polish exile who lived in our village (Whitchurch-on-Thames) coming regularly to my family home and diligently cleaning the chimneys. He spoke little, but did a very thorough job.

It was only in 1989 that Poland finally threw off the last repressive regime of occupation in their land, the Russian communists. So, the last nineteen years of freedom have been been the longest historical period of non-occupation in a very long time.

The Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann, who fled Nazi Germany before World War Two, was reported to have remarked just before his death in 1969 that although the Nazis had been defeated, he feared that fascism had not: “I am concerned about the weak position of freedom in post world war Europe and North America,” he said.

We can surely identify with his concern. ‘The weak position of freedom’ is evident throughout our increasingly pacified Orwellian society, and has recently come to undermine the long standing traditions of the Polish countryside, particularly the independence of the peasant and family farms, and the huge biodiversity of the Polish countryside of which they are the prime trustees.

The communists failed to quell the small Polish peasant farmers into submission during their period of occupation, which left the Country with a rich, if rather confusing, legacy of approximately one and a half million small scale family farms (average size 18 acres) dotted around the Polish Provinces, but particularly prevalent in the south and east.

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

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Biotech companies seek hundreds of patents for genetically modified "climate-ready" seeds.

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Cato Institute
by David Boaz

05/28/08

On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut’s Wesleyan University to devote themselves to ‘collective service.’ This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address. But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds of nonprofit activism without ever mentioning the virtues of commerce or of individual achievement. … Or this year’s Republican nominee. John McCain also denounces ’self-indulgence’ and insists that Americans serve ‘a national purpose that is greater than our individual interests’...

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Die EU will die ENISA trotz eines weitgehend identischen Auftrags der NATO-Behörde NCSA ausbauen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28020/1.html



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Hohe Spritpreise ein Fall fürs Kartellamt

Das Amt will umfassend prüfen, ob "Kraftstoffmärkte in Deutschland ordnungsgemäß funktionieren".

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/108589



US-Amerikaner fahren weniger mit dem Auto

Aufgrund der hohen Spritpreise wurden in den USA im März 11 Milliarden Meilen weniger gefahren als im März 2007.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/108558

Zweierlei Grundrechtsschutz
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28017/1.html



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

Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times reports: "'Vote or Die,' exhorts the faded slogan on a roadway at Prairie View A&M University, where black students once marched for the right to vote here in the town where they attend school.... The students won that battle in 2004, long after the United States Supreme Court supposedly decided the issue in 1979. But disputes over minority voting rights - along with accusations of election fraud - continue to rouse Prairie View, home to one of the nation's leading historically black colleges."

http://www.truthout.org/article/two-voter-rights-cases-one-gripping-a-college-town-stir-texas



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+rights
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election+fraud

Writing for AlterNet, Scott Thill says, "Chew on this word, jargon lovers. Envirogee. It carries more 21st century buzz than its semi-official designation climate refugee, which is a displaced individual who has been forced to migrate because of environmental devastation. Maybe the buzzword will catch on faster and shed some much-needed light on what will become a serious problem, probably by the end of this or the next decade."

http://www.truthout.org/article/climate-destruction-will-produce-millions-envirogees



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Thill

http://mises.org/story/2969


Informant: Lew Rockwell



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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kramer/kramer15.html

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Ron Paul, Maybe This Country Will Wake up!

5/28/08 "The Charles Goyette Show" KFNX 1100 AM Phx Az
INTERVIEW: Ron Paul, Maybe This Country Will Wake up!
AUDIO: http://www.apfn.net/pogo85/A010I080528-514J.MP3

WaPo Slander of Rand Paul
Posted by Lew Rockwell at May 28, 2008 12:49 PM

Writes Rand Paul: "The Washington Post recently claimed that I was paid to be a surrogate speaker for my father, Ron Paul. This is an outright lie.

"I was never paid to speak for my father. In fact, the vast majority of the time, I was not even reiumbursed for expenses. I travelled to St. Louis, Paducah, Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Nashville, Louisville, Washington, DC, and New Hampshire (four times) at my own expense. I paid to transport my entire family to New Hampshire to go door-to-door for my father.

"I never received any salary from the campaign. The campaign did pay my air fare (coach) to Montana for two speeches.

"They say we should take solace in the fact that Ron Paul is still important enough to attack, but I'm still too mad to be mollified."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021233.html

Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 298,000 for Ron Paul "The Revolution".
http://tinyurl.com/5t2blx

Ron Paul Revolution - Phoenix March 21, 2007



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwRXp8ZMdNQ

MASTER VIDEO LIST: RON PAUL
http://www.apfn.net/videos.asp


From APFN daily update

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Interview With Congressman Ron Paul

William Rivers Pitt, of Truthout: "Despite what the mainstream news media choose to report, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not the last remaining Republican candidate for president today. Congressman Ron Paul of Texas never abandoned his run for the GOP nomination, and he fully intends to present himself before the Republican National Convention in September as a true conservative alternative to McCain's status-quo candidacy. In fact, according to a recent blog report published by The Los Angeles Times, Paul looks to do more than merely show up at the door."

http://www.truthout.org/article/interview-with-congressman-ron-paul



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul+Revolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kramer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt

http://tinyurl.com/49gke5

Percy Schmeiszer
http://www.umweltbund.de/deutsch/gentechnik.html
http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/radio.phtml?channel=wdr5

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Wir möchten Sie auf den TV Film "Monsanto, mit Gift und Genen" aufmerksam machen.

Der Dokumentarfilm erkundet das Reich des US-amerikanischen Konzerns "Monsanto Chemical Works", dem weltweiten Marktführer für Biotechnologie. Dem Engagement auf diesem Gebiet verdankt "Monsanto" auch, dass es zum umstrittensten Unternehmen des modernen Industriezeitalters wurde, stellte es doch das im Vietnamkrieg zu trauriger Berühmtheit gelangte Herbizid "Agent Orange" her. Heute sind 90 Prozent der angebauten gentechnisch veränderten Organismen "Monsanto"-Patente. Diesen Umstand halten viele für bedenklich.

ARTE Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 um 22.40 Uhr Wiederholungen: 09.01.2010 um 09:55 und 22.01.2010 um 10:00

Einige weitere TV Tipps für die nächsten Tage " Wildes Indonesien", "Kluge Pflanzen" und "Vietnams vermintes Paradies" finden sich auf unserer Webseite unter Termine:

http://www.regenwald.org/termine.php

Und falls Sie Freunde in Finnland haben: Es gibt jetzt auch einen Regenwald Report auf finnisch (Nr. 2 / 2009)

http://www.regenwald.org/news.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Percy+Schmeiser

Americans deep in debt are struggling more than ever amid the credit crisis and economic downturn.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/news/0805/gallery.real_people_debt/



Rising Prices Hit Home For Food Stamp Recipients

At a time when food prices are soaring, a growing number of Americans are struggling financially and local social service agencies are seeing record numbers of applicants, advocates are concerned that the purchasing power of food stamps has shrunk since 1996, when Congress recalculated benefit levels.

http://tinyurl.com/4pvmrn


From Information Clearing House

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Consumers getting poorer
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner348.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+downturn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=credit+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+prices
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+stamps
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bonner

Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/28/europe/29amnesty.php


From Information Clearing House



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

Pentagon to shift funds to pay for Iraq war

The Pentagon plans to shift $9.7 billion of its overall budget to pay for war operations but warned on Wednesday it will run out of money if the U.S. Congress does not approve more funding by mid-July.

http://tinyurl.com/4hzvhd



Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs Worldwide by a Staggering $6 Trillion

The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should. How are our lives going to change with oil heading toward $200 a barrel?

http://www.alternet.org/story/86515/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+costs

Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq "helps Al-Qaeda" and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke said Tuesday.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gUla04Uk5m19oX-RHiqjlT74bR6A


From Information Clearing House

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War Spending Furthers al-Qaeda Goal of Undermining US Economy

For the Billings Gazette, Robert Weiner and John Larmett write, "As the Congress takes up the latest Bush administration 'supplemental' appropriation of another $160 billion for the war in Iraq, the impact of the war on families has been enormous. Montana now has the highest number per capita of killed or wounded in the country - 26.09 per 100,000 population - and a total of 250 deaths or injuries as of May 10. In fact, the Congress should consider whether the funding - almost a trillion dollars to date - helps al-Qaida more than us."

http://www.truthout.org/article/war-spending-furthers-al-qaeda-goal-undermining-us-economy



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Clarke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Weiner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Larmett

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

The biggest political issue receiving no attention by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic inequality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19999.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=plutocracy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+inequality
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joel+S.+Hirschhorn

By Pepe Escobar

US corporate media put slant on report despite IAEA finding no proof of continued nuclear arms program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20002.htm



Iran slams US for meddling in IAEA-Tehran talks

Iran's new Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday said parliament would set limits on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the nuclear issue if the US continues to influence the UN nuclear watchdog's interaction with the government.

http://tinyurl.com/3o8ts8


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+corporate+media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

By Pepe Escobar

AP report says Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on verge of issuing fatwa against occupying US troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20000.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sistani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fatwa
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pepe+Escobar

Bill Moyers interviews former talk show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro in this rebroadcast about the true cost of war and the documentary, "Body of War," depicting the moving story of one veteran dealing with the aftermath of war. With extensive excerpts from the film, the filmmakers talk about Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, who was shot and paralyzed less than a week into his tour of duty. Three years in the making, "Body of War" tells the poignant tale of the young man's journey from joining the service after 9/11 to fight in Afghanistan, to living with devastating wounds after being deployed to Iraq instead.

http://www.truthout.org/article/bill-moyers-journal-casualty-war-1



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phil+Donahue
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ellen+Spiro
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Moyers

Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy Newspapers writes: "A growing number of prominent Republicans and Democrats, dismayed by what they charge has been a lapse in US leadership under President Bush, are urging his successor to jumpstart efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons."

http://www.truthout.org/article/bipartisan-consensus-grows-curb-nuclear-weapons



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spread+of+nuclear+weapons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+S.+Landay

Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times reports: "Democratic Party lawyers have determined that no more than half the delegates from Florida and Michigan can be seated at the party's August convention, dealing a blow to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to seat the full delegations from those states."

http://www.truthout.org/article/democrats-advised-seat-half-disputed-delegates



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Katharine+Q.+Seelye

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/364800_climate28.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock